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Ep. 84 Today's Peep Toasts the NFL Draft, Was William Shakespeare Chosen in the First NFL Draft? What's on TV from a 1998 TV Guide, and an Atypical Hit from this Musical Artist
As I settled into my newly renovated kitchen, I couldn't help but remember the wild journey here and the community that's been with me every step of the way. Welcome back to Pat's Peeps, where I, Pat Walsh, commemorate our 84th episode with tales from Italian escape to the wild frontier of my weed-ridden backyard. With the NFL Draft on the horizon, we'll also chuckle at the thought of William Shakespeare donning a helmet and diving into some rich sports history.
Who knew a slice of pizza and a good burger could spark a movement? This episode spotlights the heartbeat of our neighborhoods: the local businesses that keep us thriving. Sharing success stories from American River Flooring to Roseville Numismatics, I extend a warm invitation to proprietors looking for a spotlight. And let's not forget about Alexis, whose sports logo creativity left an imprint, reminding us it's the people behind these enterprises that truly weave our community fabric.
But wait, there's a plot twist – not all NFL Draft tales end with a Lombardi trophy. We rewind to a time when a Heisman Trophy winner sold foam rubber instead of playing ball. Fast forward to today, where we dissect the intricacies of the modern draft, the celebrations, and the heartbreaks. Join us as we close with a sentimental journey through TV land circa 1998 and dust off an Alice Cooper ballad that deserves a second listen. It's all here, an eclectic mix of personal anecdotes, community cheerleading, and a stroll down memory lane.
one of my friends, the pats peeps podcast. Thank you for coming back and checking us out again. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it, but I'm going to, anyhow, I'm going to try. I appreciate you very much, thank you. Number 84, pat's Peeps podcast, number 84. I am, by the way, pat, which is appropriate for Pat's Peeps Pat Walsh, also the host of the Pat Walsh Show, heard everywhere live, I tell you, on the free iHeart app and locally in Sacramento on KFPK radio. But here we are with Pat's Peeps, number 84, making our way to 100 podcasts and today is April the 25th, 2024.
Speaker 1:And as I look out of my studio window, the beautiful foothills of Northern California. It's once again. It's one of those days Very breezy, there was a little bit of sunshine, but it's a very breezy, overcast day. Igor's working, how you doing over there, igor? Good, you've been out here for two days from American River Flooring man Putting in this brick stuff. I'm trying to get used to it. To be honest, he's very skillful. I'm trying to get used to my new kitchen. Look I he's very skullful. I'm trying to get used to my new kitchen. Look, I don't want it to look like a dungeon. I hope I picked the right thing Anyhow. But Igor's out here and he's going to be out here probably today, tomorrow, working. He's also doing some of my stuff in the bathroom American River Flooring. Also today, on this kind of windy, kind of somewhat dreary day, I've got a guy up here, my buddy JT. I hire him every year. He's a landscaper. If you need landscaping stuff done, just talk to me. This guy will help you.
Speaker 1:Man, I hate the weed eating. I'm not a big fan of the weed. I love working, I love getting out there. I've been doing it all morning, starting to feel better, got over the jet lag. I'm coming back from Italy and now I'm feeling better again, feeling like myself. So I'm out there working. I love it. I love getting out there and doing some things. So, yeah, mowing, but by the weeds geez, the weeds are like four feet tall the two weeks I was gone. These things are out of control. Out of control, man. So JT is out there weed eating. I just I despise weed eating. I mean, I can't believe how high this stuff grew in like just two weeks. But so that's kind of what's happening here at the old Walsh Rancheria in the hills.
Speaker 1:Hope you're having a good day. It's a Thursday and, yeah, I got back to my show last night, which was very, very nice. I did enjoy finally getting back into the groove just a little bit. We'll be there again tonight and, of course, I invite you to join us on my radio show, the Pat Walsh Show, again on KFBK Radio 7 to 10 pm, monday through Friday, and live everywhere on your free iHeart app so you can check that out.
Speaker 1:But today, let's see what do we have going on? Well, today is the NFL Draft. Anyone out there a draftnik for the NFL Draft? The NFL was very smart. The draft is very exciting if you're an NFL fan, but I do know that there's a lot of people, even NFL fans, who go. Yeah, I didn't really watch the draft. Some people watch a little bit of it. Some people watch only to their team's chosen. Others they watch every single round, pay attention to every little tidbitbit, but it's really become something over the years. This has really become a big deal over the years and so, yeah, that's going on today.
Speaker 1:I'm I'm excited about I always get excited about the NFL draft and I mean I'm not once one of these guys are going to sit there and watch one of those pro days and all this stuff, the combine and all of that. I'm not like that. To me that's boring, but to me it is very exciting to see where your team is going to pick. You know, unlike the other sports, you only have what 17 games when it comes to the NFL, and so you know who's going to come fight with your group during those 17 games. So to me I find it very interesting. By the way, just a little tidbit for you to impress your friends if you're ever talking about the NFL draft, you can tell them. You know, did you realize that William Shakespeare was chosen in the first? One of the first players ever, one of the first people ever chosen in the draft for the National Football League, was William Shakespeare. That's true. That's a factoid for you, factoid for your Thursday everybody.
Speaker 1:By the way, before I get into some of the draft stuff, I want to mention that we're now entering into phase two of the Pat's Peeps. It's not only a podcast, but we are right now looking for a business, businesses that we can promote and help your local business. If you're listening to me and if there is a business and if you own a business, a local mom and pop. That's what we support. Local business could be anywhere from, you know, auburn to it could be Yuba City, marysville could be Clarksburg we have people in Clarksburg Newcastle, stockton, hello, stockton, anywhere in the area, sacramento, of course, fair Oaks, carmichael, citrus Heights, you name it. If you have a business and I'm talking about things like whether it's hamburgers, like Scotty's burgers over in Franklin, okay, whether you are a pesticide, you know, maybe you do you know you come out and spray houses for pests, whatever it is, olive oil, whatever it is. If you have a good business and it's a family-owned local business, we want to support you here on Pat's Peeps. So please do us a favor. You know, become a Pat's Peep. I tell you you're going to love what we have to offer and how we want to promote your business.
Speaker 1:You know I built my part of my reputation doing my show on supporting local businesses and that's why in the background you hear Igor from American River Flooring. I endorse American River Flooring and I've endorsed them for going on six years now and they have been a loyal partner of mine for six years. We bring them business. They do great work in my home. I can tell you all about them and I go right down the line whether it's Roseville Numismatics and CoinShop who are really struggling in 2020. During a pandemic, they were afraid. You know that maybe they were going to even have to call it quits. Well, now, guess what? They have so much business and it's not to brag or anything, but I try to be a straight shooter when it comes to these businesses when I speak to you. Okay, roseville News Magazine, coin Shop they're doing very well, as John Shook will always tell me the owner. He's like Pat. I cannot believe how many people come in and mention it.
Speaker 1:Bridgehaven Homes another business of mine that sell locally. They buy and sell homes locally. This is a great local business. Stones there's just Southgate Glass. They've been around since 1961. They've been around as long as I have and they're from the South area and we support them. They put in my new French doors. They're also in Carmichael now because they are successful, because these businesses they treat you right and we have so many other businesses.
Speaker 1:So, if you are interested, I'm going to give you my other email right now and then we're going to get into the. Then I'll start giving you my business email. Pat at sign the Pat Walsh show. Just reach out to me, please, pat Walsh Show, just reach out to me, please Say, pat, I'd like to explore at least finding out what it would take for you and for Pat's Peeps to promote my business. It is effective and it is affordable.
Speaker 1:And we have a dream team, dan Knapp of Red Hot Media Productions, who I've been telling you about. This guy's been a friend of mine since college and he's going to help you with the website, maintain it and it's cost effective, which is the whole idea Promote your business and do it at a rate that people can actually deal with. I also have John Pyron If you're looking for a. He's a business doctor. If you need assistance in terms of how do I go, what direction, how can I do this with my business, john's the guy, suenio. I have all these people in place. I have Robbie. If you're looking to get on social media and you need to have that exposure, please talk to us. Talk to us about our dream team, all right, so that's the other thing we're very excited about when it comes to you and your business. Pat at sign the pat wall showcom and I will get back to you Now, as I was mentioning today the is and you know.
Speaker 1:And one other thing. I didn't need to mention this because this will kind of tie together All right. So, speaking of of local Pat's Peeps businesses, get a drink of water here, pardon me, these businesses. So today I went to have lunch and there was a place I was interested in. I had just seen the sign. It's called Brewster Burger. Now this is in Auburn and this is. And there's another sign right there. It's off the little, right off the highway in Auburn there's another sign that says Pizza Factory, and I'd seen that before. But then I saw this Brewster Burger.
Speaker 1:I thought, well, you know what, I'm going to take a break from my work here, go grab something to eat. And so I go to Brewster Burger. Then I find out that Brewster Burger and the pizza factory are under the same ownership. I go into the burger place and it just walks right into the pizza place. It's in the same building. You don't even have to leave the building to go to the pizza place versus the burger place. And the way it's set up it is so nice and you can tell right away that it's family friendly.
Speaker 1:And I want them as a Pat's Peeps business because I met today with Alexis who is working there, just a delightful down-to-earth person who, by the way, the food down-to-earth person who, by the way, the food. There was a lunch buffet going on, so I went with a pizza, because that's where I met Alexis there working, and I just went with a pizza buffet. So you get all you can eat salad, all you can eat pizza, and really good. I mean, the pizza was excellent, so I recommend it. Now I haven't tried the Brewster Burger yet, but I'm going to go do that this week, maybe tomorrow, but tying all that in because I want them as a Pat's Peeps. I've already vetted them and I already can tell you that they're going to treat you right when you go in there. They were super, super nice and that's the kind of people I'm looking for.
Speaker 1:But in talking to Alexis, so I go in there today being draft day day, turning it back into the draft a little bit so I go in there and I'm supporting my Rams. So I'm wearing my Rams cap, my old school Rams cap, and Alexis who is? She told me she was going to be 21 coming up soon. She says, oh, I see you're a Rams fan. So yeah, and she begins to tell me about this Rams logo that she had created, along with several other teams that she had come up with.
Speaker 1:She had created these logos out of nowhere. She that she had come up with, she had created these logos out of nowhere. She just thought of them and she said that they're hanging on the other side of the wall in the restaurant. I hadn't seen them when I came in. So I made my order for the brunch or the buffet and I said I'd like to see your Rams logo and your other logos. So she takes me over there and I'm telling you and I'm very critical when it comes to anyone trying to design anything representing the Rams and, as a matter of fact, I can tell you, when they released that new logo the Rams because I always thought the Rams had the coolest uniforms in the NFL but then they released that clip art logo they came out with a couple years ago and put that split in the horn. I'm like are you crazy? What are you doing? What is this clip art you're using for my team? Come on, man. Well, she created logos. Alexis created these logos and the RAM she created is awesome, and I'm not just saying that. I told her I'd buy a hat, I'd buy a jacket. I wish this was our team logo. And then she had the Buffalo Bills up there and she created this Bills.
Speaker 1:This young gal designed NFL logos, for the most part, that look better than the logos these teams are using right now. I'm going to take a picture. I should have taken a picture today but I was kind of in a hurry because I needed to get back here and do the podcast and do some more stuff. But I'm going to take some good pictures of her logos or have her send these designs to me that she created. But absolutely, really, really cool. Even the Texans, in just my opinion, the Houston Texans I never really cared for that and, speaking of clipart logos, I always thought the logo they had was like I think you could have done better than that. Well, she did. She used, utilized the logo they currently have, but she put it on a full bowl, who was kicking up dirt and snorting, and it just looked really really cool. So, way to go, alexis, a nice job. And hey, you know, I will display the logo so people can see your artwork and the creative flow that you have, all the stuff that you've come up with.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it is the 2024 draft. Like I said, a lot of people look forward to that. It's taking place in Detroit tonight. One of the things that always happens with the draft is going to be trades things. Everyone. You know it's always mock drafts. Mock draft one, 1.0. Then you've got a mock draft, final mock draft, 4.0. And then it's the. You know it's just, everyone's got a mock draft. I don't even try, I don't even try. I don't even try because I just I don't know A lot of these people. They're experts but they don't get it right.
Speaker 1:And it's always about these quarterbacks and, let's face it, I mean the success rate of these quarterbacks that are supposed to be so good. I mean, how often do they turn out to be that great? The success rate is not and even overall, really for the higher picks, it's not that great. Then you got a guy like Brock Purdy, mr Irrelevant, who comes in and I think he's anything but irrelevant. So it's not an exact science, but certainly you know. Here you have the city of Detroit, whose team finally looked good last year. They're in the playoffs, they look strong, so that city's certainly reinvigorated when it comes to football. Now they're hosting the draft, so that's a big deal.
Speaker 1:The number one pick this year goes to the Bears. It's probably I will say that the experts probably have this right. They generally can get the top pick right anyhow, but that's pretty much an overall consensus. And this time it's Caleb Williams. Uh, the quarterback out of USC who, uh, everyone expects the bears will take him. And, uh, if they don't make that happen, then then that would be pretty stunning. I would say, uh, the number two pick going to the Washington Commanders, and I think you're going to see all quarterbacks. How many of these quarterbacks will pan out, who knows? Again, it's a crapshoot. But Jaden Daniels, some people might have it.
Speaker 1:And you go into the mock draft. I'm not going to get bogged down into their draft picks, uh, into the mock drafts, but there's's names like Drake May, you know, bo Nix is in there, jj McCarthy, and these are all quarterbacks. Michael Penix, these are all the guys. But then you have other players to look at, top 10 prospects like Joe Alton, or maybe Marvin Harrison Jr, guys like this, malik Navers, you know. So Byron Murphy might squeak into there, you know, out of Texas, the tackle, but without getting into the X's and O's, because that's not really what this show is all about. That's just kind of what we're looking at.
Speaker 1:The Vikings could be very, the Vikings and the Broncos could be very interesting because both of those teams are in desperate need of quarterback. Of course, kirk Cousins leaves Minnesota, goes to Atlanta, the Broncos, I mean, you know, russell Wilson leaves and he ends up in Pittsburgh, so who knows what's going to happen there. That's an interesting one. So there's a lot and it could be some trades. I even think my team, I, you know, I think the Rams, they always will do something. They'll be very aggressive. I wouldn't even it wouldn't surprise me to see, because they got a lot of draft picks to maybe try to trade up. Some people say they would trade back. It may try it up to go get a guy like Joe Alt out of Notre Dame to protect Stafford. But we'll see.
Speaker 1:Again, here I am with my, my stupid mock draft. Whatever, those are just some of the players, all right, that are in this year's draft. But yeah, I mean, like I say, the draft is a big thing. Now you know after, how did this all start? When did the NFL draft? Do you know when the draft started, the NFL draft, and who was the first picks ever Like who had the first pick ever in the NFL draft and who was that pick?
Speaker 1:So you have the NFL instituting their waiver system in 1934. What that did is it allowed teams to then pick up available players and at that particular time you had the Philadelphia Eagles. They had a co-owner. Bert Bell thought his team was maybe at a perhaps at a disadvantage in signing these, the bigger players, the top players that might've been available. They didn't have the money, the monetary advantage that the other teams had, money, the monetary advantage that the other teams had. So the Eagles and these other teams that had fewer resources, less money to deal with, didn't have much of a chance of signing these impact players or even attracting them to their franchise. Why go there when other teams had more money?
Speaker 1:So then, in a meeting in 1935, a league meeting, burt Bell proposes that the NFL holds an annual player draft to level the playing field for these teams, make sure that each team, every franchise, remain financially viable and able to select some of this top talent financially viable and able to select some of these top, some of this top talent. And the league owners voted unanimously to adopt that proposal. So that ends up setting up the inaugural NFL draft, which took place in 1936, according to the to football operations, nflcom, citing them. And you know, now the draft is a big deal. Like I said Back then, no, it was not. Baseball was the big sport and still is in my book the Big Sport. I love baseball, but I do love football as well, obviously. So the first draft not even close to what we see now. Now it's a big old spectacle and the fans show up in mass and they're wearing their jerseys and they're cheering and some people, like the Jets fans, are booing every selection. They're booing the commissioner.
Speaker 1:But the first draft was held February 8th of 36 in Philadelphia at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the teams at that time they selected from a pool of just 90 players. Imagine that, 90 players that were available. And back in those days there were no scouting departments. They didn't. They weren't, you know, didn't send out scouts. Of course. There were no agents. There was. Now we have the media coverage 24-7. That's why you see all these mock drafts and all the speculation and the players who were available, the eligible players, the list was compiled from newspaper reports or when the teams went to visit local colleges. The team executives would visit these colleges, you had front office personnel who would recommend players, and for many years, scouting was just an afterthought for the NFL teams.
Speaker 1:But with the first pick ever in the NFL draft, bells Eagles selected Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago. University of Chicago, jay Berwanger was the first ever player selected in the National Football League draft. Here's the story about Jay, though Rather than playing football, he was a star halfback and he opted for a career as a foam rubber salesman. That's right, didn't do the football but sold foam rubber which, by the way, in case you think that's an unusual choice, it really wasn't for the times. Matter of fact, only 24 of the 81 players chosen in the first NFL draft went on to play in the NFL, and most of the players opted for more secure and stable professions, many of which paid better than they were going to make in the NFL. So Jay Berwanger, he was one of those players.
Speaker 1:With a second pick, the Giants the New York Giants selected fullback Alphonse Tuffy Lehmans. They didn't have any scouts the Giants either but they did benefit from the informal analysis of a high school student, wellington Mara, son of the team's owner, tim Mara, who'd seen this guy Lehman star in college and in fact in his third seasons he led the Giants to the 1938 championship game. Yeah, to the championship game. Then you had limited resources for the scouts. You had thousands of collegiate players. As you move forward in the evolution of the draft, nfl teams began to enter into these partnerships to share the cost, the labor and then the expense for all the equipment, et cetera, and two of the partnerships began in 1963. The Lions, the Eagles, the Steelers. Then the National Football Scouting formed the Baltimore Colts, the Cleveland Browns, the Packers and the St Louis Cardinals, and then the following year, the Cowboys, my Rams, the 49ers and the expansion New Orleans Saints created a group that would become known as Quadra Scouting, and so those services allowed teams to focus on scouting and better evaluate players that they were considering for the draft.
Speaker 1:Now, going back to the first NFL draft, here are the players that were taken in the first round of the 1936 NFL draft. As I mentioned, since we've already given it away at number one, jay Berwanger, who was a running back out of Chicago, went to the Philadelphia Eagles. The second pick in the first NFL draft went to the Boston Redskins. Now think about how these teams have changed. No more Redskins. Now they're the commanders and they're in Washington. Boston doesn't have a team. I mean you can say the Patriots, but they are the New England Patriots, which, by the way, used to be the Boston Patriots when they were in the AFL before they joined and became part of the NFL. But at number two in 1936, the Boston Redskins chose Riley Smith, again a back out of Alabama. Backs were the big deal then. They were grinding it out. They needed running backs back in those days.
Speaker 1:As I mentioned to begin this show that this gentleman was taken in the first ever NFL draft. I mentioned that William Shakespeare was taken in the first NFL draft in 1936. The pick is in Do-do-do-do-do. I think that was a news thing I just did. Anyhow, they got the little sound.
Speaker 1:The number three selection of the first round 1936 NFL draft, to the Pittsburgh Pirates, of course, which is now a baseball team. Bill Shakespeare, that's right, everybody. Bill Shakespeare. If it went to the Jets they would have booed him. William Shakespeare, boo. Bill Shakespeare was back out of Notre Dame Go Fighting Irish. Second most NFL draft picks, right behind SC.
Speaker 1:Number four in 1936, to the speaking of baseball teams the Brooklyn Dodgers. That's right, that's what they were the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dick Crane, another running back, all running backs, first four, first five picks were running backs in 36. That's how big that position was. Dick Crane, out of Iowa, went to the Brooklyn Dodgers at number five in 1936. The Chicago Cardinals, all these baseball themes. Jim Lawrence, another running back. Tcu went to the Cardinals. The Bears picked at number six in 1936 and took Joe Stettier, a tackle out of West Virginia. The Packers, at seven went with Russ Letlow, guard out of San Francisco. The Lions picked at eight. Sid Wagner, guard. Michigan State went to Detroit and the New York Giants back. When you really kind of had to say, because everyone still says it is somehow we're confusing this with the somehow New York baseball Giants. The New York football Giants. Art Lewis, tackle Ohio U went in number nine to the Giants.
Speaker 1:Now, in terms of Hall of Famers taken in the first NFL draft Joe Stenahar, like I said, tackle first round, sixth overall by the Bears. Hall of Famer. Tuffy Lehmans back. George Washington, second round, giants Hall of Famer. Wayne Milner and Notre Dame go Irish, eighth round, 65th overall. Boston Redskins Hall of Famer. Dan Fortman, guard Colgate, ninth round, 78th overall by the Bears, a Hall of Famer on the other end of that, you have people who were supposed to be good and ended up being the biggest draft busts of all time. The biggest draft bust. They're going to be great. All the experts, your Mel Kuypers and everyone giving you the biggest, giving them the best grades, and then they're a bust.
Speaker 1:And just to name a few, well, how about this? Let's go with. How about? Well, vernon Goldston comes to mind 2008 to the Jets Sixth overall pick. The Jets drafted him, thinking he might be able to bolster their pass rush. Unfortunately, the only thing he bolstered was his bank account $18 million. They paid him, signed a contract, paid him 18 mil. Never recorded one single sack in his entire career Never For 18 million dollars no sacks. Justin Gilbert a cornerback for the Browns. 2014, eighth overall pick. I mean, you had Johnny Manziel, but you know, when it comes to the Browns, justin Gilbert may have been even a worse pick. Browns went into the draft, fourth overall pick, traded down to the number nine pick. Another deal followed, made him a number eight, left him with the eighth pick overall. They ended up with Gilbert played 23 games for two years and they traded him just before the 2016 season. Excuse me Saying man, we're done with you. He made $10, $11 million during that time.
Speaker 2:Oh God, whatever they're cutting right now is choking me out.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, that's tough. Oh my gosh man, that is oh my gosh. Oh Whoo man, that is. Oh, whatever he's cutting right now. Something hasn't cut yet. It's like I think it's marble. Oh, I can barely breathe. Well, this is a first for the podcast. Oh, wow, wow.
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Speaker 1:I think he forgot the window was open out there. I'd open the window. Oh, my goodness, I don't know if I can get through this. Justin Blackman, white receiver 2012. Wow, I'm choking up, he was a bust. Steve Entman, colts, 1992. First overall pick, whew, had a lot of injuries. Three seasons with the Colts Missed a total of 30 games, multiple injuries. I wonder if I've ever had to breathe any of this stuff in he's Shuler.
Speaker 1:The quarterback that went to Washington you get the Lawrence Phillips. Now there's one that I take personally 1996, sixth overall pick. I'll never forget he was on the team with the Rams. Well, I remember with Tony Banks as a quarterback out of Michigan State. That tested my patience as a Ram fan. I'll tell you this guy, lawrence Phillips, was a bum Accused of multiple crimes.
Speaker 1:He was suspended while he was in Nebraska and the Rams decided to take this dude. I couldn't believe it. Who was? I think that was who was coaching at the time. I think Brooks might have been coaching. Man, I can't breathe, wow. But once he gets into the NFL so he had all this trouble in college in Nebraska Gets into the NFL, guy couldn't stay out of trouble, so they ended up releasing him. I remember he was late for games and he would threaten people. The Rams released him before he even finished his second season. And the worst, the thing that makes it worse for the Rams is they were so confident that this guy was going to be good that they traded away their starting running back Jerome Bettis. They were so confident that this guy was going to be good that they traded away their starting running back Jerome Bettis On the day of the 96 draft. Wasn't that for Wayne Gandy? If memory serves me, it seems like they traded Bettis to Pittsburgh for Wayne Gandy. You might call me on that if I have that one wrong, but that seems to come to mind for me, but that was on the day of the draft. Can you imagine a trade, this dude, for Bettis? So how did I mean? It's just amazing. Lawrence Phillips sentenced to 31 years in prison in 08 for convictions that included domestic violence, spousal abuse, false imprisonment, vehicle theft, and I remember he threatened some kids on like a high school playground, tried to run them down or something, and then he ended up taking his own life in January of 2016. What a sad story.
Speaker 1:Wide receiver Charles Rogers to the Lions, second overall pick, a bust. Niner fans Trey Lance Lance 2021 third overall pick thought they'd found their quarterback in the future. They draft Trey Lance but now he's gone. They gave up on him before he even got us to his third year with the team. He lasted two seasons in San Francisco. That's bad enough, but then they gave up three firstround picks to get the guy Three picks, three first-rounders, going to the 2021 draft. The Niners had the 12th overall pick. They changed after they pulled a blockbuster trade with the Dolphins get the number three overall pick to move up nine spots. So they sent three first-round picks to Miami for Trey Lance. That's one of the worst I've ever seen. You gave up three first-rounders for that, along with the 2020 second third-round pick. He started four games for the 49ers before being traded to the Cowboys. For all of that, for three first-round picks he played. He started four games. Then you have Brock Purdy, who ends up the final pick in the NFL draft. Again, this is not an exact science by any stretch, no matter what people think. 2022 NFL draft. And here he is taking his team to the championship game and then into the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Akeely Smith Bengals 1999, third overall pick a bust. Ryan Leaf one of the more famous busts in NFL draft history. You can't even talk about the guy, even with this topic, without mentioning yep, ryan Leaf Right there at the top. Ryan Leaf Maybe only one guy people talk about as much or more than Ryan Leaf, and if you know what it is, I'll tell you what that is in a minute. But they made him the second pick in 98. He's yelling at the reporter in the locker room. We all remember that Shut up, leave me alone or screw you. Whatever he said. I'm paraphrasing there, man, I can't breathe. It's hard to paraphrase when you can't breathe, but it was a disaster.
Speaker 1:Three years with the Bolts started 18 games. Three years went four and 14. Missed an entire season. That was due to injury in 99. Year of the Rams, thank you. By the end of the 2000 season the Chargers said yeah, they don't want you, we don't want you. They released him and they traded up to get him in the 98 draft, traded the third overall pick to move up to the second spot. They gave Arizona the third overall pick. They gave a second round pick and a third overall, a second round and a first round pick in 99. And the Chargers had to give the Cardinals two players and the Chargers got stuck with Ryan Leaf when Peyton Manning went number one overall to the Colts.
Speaker 1:But is Leaf at the top of the list? Maybe not, although he could be, but you know what? A lot of teams would have picked Ryan Leaf. It's easy to bash the Bulls for that, but a lot of teams would have picked him. I mean, he was viewed as a consensus top two quarterback going into the draft, so he was going to get picked no matter what. Again, that's why he was having to pick these quarterbacks. All right, so a lot of teams would have taken him, but they may not have taken the top person on the list.
Speaker 1:A lot of teams may not have been in consensus there when, in 2007, the first overall pick went to the Raiders, who have themselves to blame as they ignored every red flag in selecting quarterback Jamarcus Russell with the first pick in 07. Nfc general manager told the Raiders owner, al Davis, that taking Russell would be a very bad idea. It was also known that Russell hated studying Russell Wilson and they found that out. They drafted the guy. He hated conditioning. He couldn't stay in shape. He got huge. His shit hurt like stay in shape. He got huge. He got big man.
Speaker 1:After drafting him, the quarterback thanked the Raiders by holding out for all of training camp during his rookie year, didn't make his first start until the Raiders regular season finale in December. Three years with the team Started, 25 games went 7-18. They cut him in 2010. And when the straw that broke the camel's back when he showed up in minicamp 290 pounds, 20 pounds over his playing weight. He did, by the way, earn nearly $40 million for his time there with the Raiders $40 million. And there was a story about giving him a playbook or something or maybe it was a DVD, I can't remember what the story was and they put something in there that he would notice that. And then they said oh, I see, I shouldn't even tell this story, but something about the playbook. It was obvious that he didn't study. I should have brought that up because I can't really remember the exact story. But they really found out that the guy did not study at all.
Speaker 1:And, as we mentioned, there's Mr Irrelevant, which is the last player taken in the draft, and there's been some great ones there. One of the great ones is Brock Purdy for the 49ers. I mean, the guy was the last person taken Iowa State and taken in 2022. And Brock Purdy all he has done is lead the team to a championship game and a Super Bowl appearance. So I mean, yeah, and there's been a number of guys who have been Mr Irrelevant and went on to really great careers Jack McKinnon, michael Green, there's Matt Elliott, ryan Suckup, the kicker, kansas City, trey Quinn. There's been a few of these guys who have really made it John Tuggle, some others that have made a pretty good career after being relegated to Mr Irrelevant.
Speaker 1:Hey, it's a throwback Thursday, just for fun. As I move off of football here, I thought what time is it here? It's 3.8 on a Thursday, 328, so let's say 330. What else would be on TV at this time? I have a TV guide. Anyone else have a TV guide from back in the day? I have a television guide in front of me.
Speaker 1:I've saved several of my TV guides. I'm not sure what year this is from. It's from May 9th through the 15th. What year are we at here? Let me see what year is this. Oh, 1998. I have a TV guide from 1998. Jerry Seinfeld is on the cover. A fond farewell to Seinfeld.
Speaker 1:I thought, well, let me go in and see what would have been on TV on Thursday at 3.30 in 1998. Let me see here what would have been here Thursday. Let me see I haven't looked in a TV guide in so long, thursday 3.30. Let me see, oh, here we go, thursday 3.30, 1998. Let's see Spider-Man Cartoon. We've been on Channel 40. We're looking for Sacramento stations. Days of Our Lives on Channel 3. Wishbone for children I don't know what that is. Mash on Channel 12.
Speaker 1:Animaniacs were on at this time. Dalmatians, mummies Alive. Gayle King what was Gayle King? Was that like a talk show host or something? I don't remember? I don't really remember. Oh, yeah, I think it was a talk show host. Goof, troop, kate and Allie. Sportscenter, according to the TV Guide, shopping Spree, designers, landscape, tiny Toon, adventures, saved by the Bell there you go. Wgn, family Matters was on it on TBS and Going South Wasn't that a wasn't Going South? Wasn't that like a John Belushi movie with John Candy in it and Jack Nicholson? Do I have that right? Is that the one where they had the clogged nose? Because they were, well, you know, I think that's the one where they were. Yes, a little suburb, cold snort. Anyhow, I think that's the right one. Well, so that's what would have been on in 1998 instead of the NFL draft which is coming up.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to wrap this thing up, as we always do with some music, as I pulled a record from my record collection my Rare 45 collection, oh and just dropped my bottle of water. Luckily it has a cap on it, so we're good. Today is a. I really like this song. It doesn't go along with football. Maybe it does, I don't know. Maybe there's a way it goes along with football, but it really doesn't at all. But this is the one I chose.
Speaker 1:Now, in this particular case, there are two of these records in the sleeve and it's on Atlantic, and these are two very different records though. So this one is a blue label on Atlantic, on the other side, no, I guess they're exactly the same. I was looking at one side. It's light blue, the other side is red and white on Atlantic. So here's the difference though the blue side is in stereo, the red and white side is in mono. It's got a stamp on here that says April 1975, not for sale. Plug side 45 RPM.
Speaker 1:So there's a song by and it's a surprise by this artist, because this artist doesn't usually do songs like this that I can recall he had a couple like this, but this was a little unusual for this artist. Written by the artist along with Dick Wagner. It was a second single from this particular album, which is you'll know it as soon as I tell you the from this particular album, which is a you'll know it as soon as I tell you the name of the album more than likely Welcome to my Nightmare, and it's a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage. This song often mistakenly presumed to be about menstruation. Did I say that right? I hope, and that has limited its play on radio because of that. But it's not about that. It's not about. It's not about that. Did I say it right? Menstruation? Did I get that right? I should ask Igor.
Speaker 1:But that limited its play on the radio and in other public forums as a single by the artist and it was released, and even on this record, as Only Women as a name, but it's also under another name. Prior to the release of Welcome Into my Nightmare in the US, a shortened version of the song was released as a single, alternatively titled Only Women. Again, that's what this record is by Atlantic Records. Due to protests by feminist groups, the album version of the song features more orchestral movements than the single and also runs longer than the 45 at 5 minutes and 49 seconds, and according to the co-writer, dick Wagner, the song's musical riff and the vocal melody were developed several years earlier during his tenure with the late 60s Michigan-based band the Frost, but he didn't like the lyrics and the song was never recorded. He played the riff for the artist that made the song. You probably guessed who it is by now.
Speaker 1:Maybe you have it, I don't know, and then the two developed the new lyrics for the eventual Welcome to my Nightmare recording. So this song went to number one in Canada, went to number 10, us Cashbox put it on the turntable. This is a song called. This is by Alice Cooper. Only Women Bleed. Only women bleed.
Speaker 2:Man got his woman To take his seat. He got the power. Oh, she got the need. She spends her life through Pleasing up her man To feed some dinner oh, anything she can. Through pleasing up a man to feed some dinner oh anything she can. She cries alone at night too often. He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed. Only women bleed. Only women bleed. Only women bleed. Man makes your hair gray. He's your life's mistake.
Speaker 1:All you're really looking for Is an even break. Billboard staff responded warmly to the single. The lyric of it was described as stunning. Record World called it a ballad with a surprisingly international flavor, saying that Alice's new sound should prove a soft touch for reaching his widest audience. Yet.
Speaker 2:He cries alone at night too often. He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed. Only women bleed, only women bleed.
Speaker 1:And for anyone wondering, I don't have rights to this song. I'm doing it for exposure, to educate and musically just turn people on to music they may or may not have heard and perhaps even download it, who knows, sometime Make the artist some money. That's what we're trying to do, Pat's Peeps. We want to support your business. Remember pat at sign thepatwalshowcom. Thanks for listening, Pat's Peeps 84. We'll see you for number 85.
