RE-RELEASE: Return to Football and the Super Bowl

**Discussion begins at 8:00**

The National Football League is an American football league composed of 32 teams, representing a multitude of states and cities.  It was founded in 1920, originally named the American Professional Football Association, but was quickly renamed to the NFL that we know it as now.  Original seasons run form September to early January, with each team playing 17 games with 1 bye week.  Mid-January starts playoffs which is a single elimination tournament for the ultimate goal of winning it all in the Super Bowl.  Last year we covered some conspiracy theories about if the games were rigged and staged.  This year we are going to cover some smaller theories that you may not know of.  

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Hey guys, welcome back. This is part two of our re-releases of our favorite episodes. And this week, it's my favorite episode of the year.
And I am also picking another one of myself.
That's OK. I think I picked my own last year. So, I mean, yeah, you can't help it if you've just had a couple of excellent episodes.
Right.
Or this was a fun one. This was COVID was heavy last week and we love COVID. But I really enjoyed researching that one.
So thanks, Maggie, for picking that one. But this one is in the spirit of football season. We're going Super Bowl part two.
Oh, yeah. Those are really fun conspiracies to listen to. And let's just like get ready for the football season.
It's my favorite season.
Yeah. Timing.
Yeah. Go birds.
And let's get ready to see Taylor Swift in more men's spaces. And yeah.
Yeah. So yeah, my favorite was just that episode because it was super fun. It was fun to just, you know, talk a little bit of sports.
It's one of my favorite things.
So we have high expectations this year for the Eagles and the Commanders.
Yeah. I think I think the Eagles have a target on their back. We never have high expectations for the Eagles.
Okay, we're, we keep the bar low.
It's so hard being an Eagles fan.
It's so hard being an Eagles fan. But the Commanders were good last year. So we'll see.
We'll see.
Yep.
All right.
Well, if you want to hear more of Kait's opinion on football, yeah, stay tuned.
Here we go.
Thank you for that interlude.
Yeah, welcome.
Welcome to our football Super Bowl special.
Yeah.
It's no question that if you guys listen to our Super Bowl episode that I love football, and this is my favorite time of the year, it's playoff season. Yeah.
It's been an interesting football season this year, I feel like.
Yeah, why?
I mean, like the Commanders are good.
Oh, yeah. Well, I'm trying to think about the Commanders right now. So we will have known when the episode comes out, who won the game.
But Sunday at 3 p.m., they play the Eagles, which fly Eagles fly. You know what I mean? Go Birds.
Right. And yeah, I'm a little worried about it.
Something popped up in my Instagram this morning, and it was another podcast. And they were like talking about the four teams that are left.
Yeah.
And they were like, the the Commanders are like our dog. No, they said the Commanders are like Gabriella from High School Musical. Oh, you think she's weird, but she's pretty good.
But then she's pretty good. And then it's like, they were like, the Eagles are like the Regina Georgians. They're just a bunch of loud bullies.
What I thought about you.
Wait, what are the Chiefs then?
Yeah, they know they said the Chiefs are like the jock. They always get the girl and they're like, and they never have to really stress about anything.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. And then they said the Bills are just like, everyone likes the Bills.
If there's anything that you like the Bills. To be clear, right, the Eagles are not the bullies.
Yeah, they're just loud.
And Kait, you can't tell me that you don't get passionate and loud about a lot of things in your life.
Yeah, I'm Italian.
Yeah.
What?
I said, grease the polls.
Grease the polls?
Every time the Eagles win a big game, they have to grease the lamp posts.
Oh, so they can't take down the field goals. Yeah. I would like to say that Commander's fans are worse than Eagles fans.
I would say someone who grew up in DC.
I've never met a Commander's fan that's crazy.
Yeah, I've met a lot of crazy Eagles fans.
I don't think they're that, because we've never been good.
Yeah, I think they're old men who have been watching football for decades and their team has never won.
No, and everyone's always like, oh, the fucking Commanders blew it again.
I'm just so excited for the community to have a winning football team.
Can you stop with the winning football teams, please? There's an Eagles fan right here.
Well, I meant winning as in a good season.
But you know what?
Because they're putting money into the stadium.
They're putting money into the stadium is terrible.
They're redoing it now. And I just think this is really exciting because this area.
You know what? None of this positivity for the Commanders. You know what?
I will say, though, that living in DC during the Nationals.
Right.
Winning.
And then during the Nationals World Championship, the Caps winning, Mermaid Girl and Birdman and I were were screaming on top of the table. You know, like it's it is exciting.
Yeah, it's good for when you don't when you don't come from, like Philly or New England, where, like, you know what it's like to win. Yeah, it is.
I'm sorry. Hold on a second.
Hold on. Start winning till 2016, Megan. They were not good until.
No, no.
Hold on. No, there was a run when I was in high school where they were. It went to the NFC Championship every year and lost.
And then and then they went to the Super Bowl once, lost to the Patriots. And then they finally won their first Super Bowl as a franchise in February.
Crazy.
It was insane.
It was also the same time. You guys probably didn't experience this. But like the Eagles won.
And then there was like videos of clowns on college campuses. Did you guys see that in the news? No, like creepy people were dressing up as clowns to threaten like college students.
No, that's weird.
I never saw that. But you were in college at that time.
I associate Phillies winning with the clowns.
Oh, well, I associate Phillies winning with me being pregnant with Joey. And I felt her move for the first time during the Super Bowl.
Oh, always the Phillies girl.
Yeah.
Or like the Eagles girl.
Go Birds. Every time we turn on an Eagles or any type of football game, she's like, I don't like football. I'm like, who are you?
Well, how would I birth you?
Anyway, it's fine.
You know what? She's very much like my mom. My mom sews during the Eagles games.
And every time we lose, we go, Grandma, are you sewing? And she's like, I'm up in my room. So I come from a long line of Birds fans.
So anyway, big, big game this Sunday. And, you know, if the Eagles lose, I'm cheering for the bills no matter what.
So is it time for our drink check?
Drink check. It's a little early this morning, 10 o'clock in the morning. And we don't usually, you know, have our recording sessions this early, but we did back in the day.
One time we did because you were like, oh my God, the CrossFitters were running.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. When I went to your house, I saw a running club. Yeah, I hate running clubs.
And I also hate running clubs because I'm like, what do you do?
Just run next to each other.
That's weird.
Well, also runners are so annoying.
Yeah.
All they do is talk about their splits.
But not CrossFitters. I like CrossFitters.
CrossFitters are also annoying.
I like CrossFitters, to be clear. Anything that's competitive, I like.
So it's more running.
It's not competitive. It's boring.
And we're drinking coffee, guys.
Yeah. Drinking coffee.
I'm sorry. Not just coffee.
Really? What are you drinking?
Kait rolled up with her Nespresso frother.
Yeah.
And what kind of?
Frosted milk now.
What kind of cream do we use?
So I got people who can tolerate dairy.
Oh, yeah.
Some Chobani sweet cream.
What flavored nut pod did you bring?
And for the toasted marshmallow.
Anyway, luxurious.
It's luxurious. You know what?
It was a real treat.
It's a slow morning. We've got a fire going that Megan built herself.
You guys saw this one morning.
We have snow on the ground with onyx storm ready to be devoured.
We've got an oatmeal bake in the oven.
Yes, and it smells so good.
And we're waiting for the rest of our crew to show up.
So anyway.
What's the conspiracy today?
There's lots. It's just like mini. It's the it's the it's like a mini episode where we talk about lots of different conspiracy theories.
So and I don't even know if these are like it's it's like a Colleen thing. Like is this is this a conspiracy or it's just like, you know, the mystery is weird.
Yeah, I just talk about mysteries more than I do conspiracies.
But that's OK, because, you know, whatever. So, yeah, let's get into it, guys. So the National Football League is an American Football League composed of 32 teams representing a multitude of states and cities.
It was founded in 1920, originally named American Professional Football Association, but was quickly renamed to the NFL that we know it as now. Original seasons run from September to early January, each team playing 17 games with one by week.
Mid-January starts playoff, which is a single elimination tournament for the ultimate goal of winning it all in the Super Bowl. Last year, we covered some conspiracies about if the games were rigged and staged.
This year, we're going to cover some smaller theories that you may not know of. But to be clear, the Chiefs pull more flags and penalties than any other team. And I'm 100% a believer that the refs are rigged.
Let's get into it. First conspiracy that we are... This is like the Curse of the Bambino, you guys know what I'm talking about?
You guys don't know the Curse of the Bambino?
Yes, it was before Colleen was alive.
Before all of us were alive.
I know that, but that's the only one.
Do you know who the Bambino is?
No.
Oh, Babe Ruth?
I know Babe Ruth.
So, Babe Ruth was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees, and then the Red Sox did not win a World Series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh wait, maybe the Bambino.
Maybe the second Red Sox curse, when they won and then didn't win for decades.
No, are you talking about the Cubs?
The Cubs also had a curse.
I think they all did, but.
So anyway, this is like a curse, right?
Okay.
So, before, so you guys know that Arizona, the Arizona Cardinals, right? Everybody sort of had like, before they were in the NFL, these teams had different names.
Okay.
Okay. And then some, they like transitioned into the NFL, and then some of these names like kept from before they became like a collective NFL, and then they changed their names later. Kind of like the Commanders, and yeah, anything like that.
The Redskins.
The Redskins.
I mean, isn't there like a lawsuit happening with the Redskins?
Yeah, the Native Americans who felt that they were represented, now feel like they have not. We talked about this last year, I think, because we talked about how the Chiefs did it differently.
Right. Yeah.
So we don't need to repeat that. Go back and listen to our episode from last year.
Right. Superb Owl.
Yep.
Okay. So the Arizona Cardinals were named the Potsville Maroons. So Potsville Maroons won the 1925 NFL Championship, but were later stripped of it after they played an exhibition game in Philadelphia without proper approval.
So Potsville is in Pennsylvania.
That seems a little bit dramatic.
That is very dramatic, right? So the Yellow Jackets claimed that they had exclusive rights to play in the city, which then led to the Maroon suspension. So because of that, the Maroons never regained their previous success.
And in 1963, the NFL officially ruled that the Cardinals were actually the 1925 champions and the Maroons' claims were dismissed.
So what you're telling me is the Super Bowl has been rigged for a century.
I mean, that's what they're saying. Whoa. Yeah.
Seems a little sus, huh?
Yeah, a little sus.
So anyway, now there are no longer the Puzzle Maroons and the Cardinals are still struggling. So yeah, so that was like one of that. I don't really know much about this one because I just feel like they don't really have a following.
So there's not a lot of people talking about this one. But here you go. This is an interesting one because you know what?
I'm from North Carolina and I don't know if you guys know this, but I went to the very first Carolina Panthers game and they played at Clemson. I mean, I feel like everyone still thinks this is the Panther.
They haven't grown this incredible fan base, whatever.
I haven't really heard of them since Cam Newton.
I hate Cam Newton.
I always hated Cam Newton. I hated Cam Newton in his college days. He was just a little over the top.
Just as like, he thinks his don't stank, you're just like, and he wears the weirdest outfits, and he's like so moody.
I just, I could, no.
No. And didn't he, and he was, I mean, he also, again, talk about rewarding people who blow temper tantrums. Break laws.
He didn't go back to like his college career.
Yeah.
How did this guy make it into the NFL? It's like not fair.
But I mean, I'm telling you, if you watch, if you watch Kim Newton, he is good. He, but he chokes and his attitude, I'm just telling you, like his attitude is so poor. I don't know how you can like, I mean, say what you want about Patrick Mahone.
He's freaking annoying. He's got a froggy voice. He does.
But he's got, he doesn't have this crazy attitude.
And he went to like University of Florida. He was suspended because he was like burglary, larceny and obstruction of justice. I think he was like stealing laptops.
There was some story. And then he went and played at like Blinn Junior College before transferring to Auburn. And then he like wins the Heisman.
Like we're rewarding, SEC Offensive Player of the Year in 2010, AP Player of the Year 2010. I'm like, we're just rewarding this bad behavior. And then he went on to behave poorly in the NFL.
Right.
Yeah.
Especially after they lost the Super Bowl and he just like sat there with the towel over his head.
I can't sit. I can't sit. Yeah.
And Bourbon Boy had a Cam Newton jersey. Like he loved Cam Newton.
Well, Bourbon Boy can do no wrong in my eyes, but that's...
Draw the line.
I would have judged him.
It's embarrassing.
I knew him back then. That is so embarrassing.
So anyway, the Panthers have not had like... They had one like really good season where they went to the Super Bowl. I actually will talk about that later, but they had a 15-1 season and went to the Super Bowl and lost to the Broncos.
I think it was 2017? 2016. It was the year Patch was born.
So anyway, they had like one stellar season, right? And then pretty much every other season has been like mid or really poor, like this year, very poor. Poorly performing team.
In 2018, David Tepper bought the Carolina Panthers, and it's been theorized that he's like tanked every season because he doesn't want the team based in Charlotte anymore, and he wants to make them like more profitable and then like be bought and
So he's sabotaging them so he can move them, rebuild them.
Right, exactly.
That sucks if you're an employee of his.
Yeah, but I mean, this is like living in Charlotte, and they just talk about this all the time, like how ever since Tepper bought the team, it's just been like downhill.
So is he actually sabotaging the team? I could see it. But my question is like, why would he want to move it out of Charlotte?
Like, I mean, I feel like it's a pretty good location. I don't know. Like, it just seems like a weird thing.
Like, where does he want to go?
There's not any football teams in like...
Well, I always say that the South, they, if you go to South, it's all about college football.
Agreed. If we ignore the Redskins, technically like Virginia doesn't have a football team. North Carolina would not...
Like, it's the only North Carolina team. There's no one in South Carolina. It's really from like DC to Atlanta.
Right.
It's just the only team.
And so, you would think that that would be a good place to have a team when there's not... It's not like LA or something, right? Yeah.
And why do they need two teams?
Who knows? Or even like San Francisco. It's like San Francisco and then Oakland, like right across the tracks.
LA has the Rams and the Chargers.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
And like, again, why? Why did they move San Diego? Why did they move the Rams?
The Rams were in St. Louis. Like what?
What's going on? Anyway, where would he want to move them? That's my question.
It's just, it's like, yeah, why are you tanking them? Is there, yeah, whatever. So that would be really interesting to see how that plays out.
Because this year is just so bad. But then they had like enough wins to like not get all these draft picks this year. So I don't know, it's very, I could believe it, I could not believe it.
You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, it's not like the Lions, when the Lions had a change, literally, the Lions had a change in ownership, and she like rebuilt the team, and the Lions had like their first, they were number one in the NFC this year.
They were just beat by the commanders. But she like rebuilt the program after the change of leadership, and she was like, I mean, a couple of years ago, she's like, you have to trust the process, and like the process is good.
So, like he is not even coming out saying anything like that. So, it's just like kind of interesting, you know?
Okay.
You guys, now this one. Did you guys ever, like when you were kids, like, do you ever go out in the woods and, you know, be like, is this a Native American burial ground?
That might have been a North Carolina thing.
That's true, because there's a lot of Native American heritage in North Carolina.
I mean, there is in Massachusetts too, but I just never saw it though.
Oh. I felt like every ghost story I, like, heard as a kid had to do with Native American burial grounds and curses.
And so, the Miami Dolphins, they used to be like good and they recent, not recently, but when they relocated to their Hard Rock Stadium, it was theorized that it was built on the Tequesta Native American burial ground, leading to the belief that the
I'm kind of surprised, again, given all this chatter about the Redskins and the Chief, that that was even allowed to happen, that there weren't protesters out there.
Interesting.
I know. I'm surprised that, well, maybe it will now suddenly gain, but also it's in Florida, so they don't care. They're like, well, OK, so Miami Dolphins, they used to be good, you know, they had Dan Marino, the star quarterback.
Yeah, I remember Dan Marino.
I remember like, we were young. Yeah, I remember like Ace Ventura, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I just remember like going to school and everybody had his jersey, Dan Marino. So anyway, after the team had relocated there, they just like have never been as good.
The Dolphins in the past couple years have been mid, but not good. Haven't made it to the Super Bowl or haven't made it to the playoffs.
Tua. Isn't Tua play for?
He does. He does. And he is a good player.
And you know, you want him on your fantasy team.
Yeah.
Yeah. Anyway, so they haven't had any playoff appearances and it's like, is this another curse? Well, is there, are these Native American spirit?
Yeah. Like interfering with the teams. Do you guys follow Kickball Dad?
Colleen, you would love Kickball Dad. He's on TikTok. He's on Instagram.
He is so funny and he loves the Dolphins. I've sent you a couple of those. He has like the, he like, they mic him up while he like cuts the grass.
Oh, I love that. He like is an avid bird watcher.
Why is he on a bird watch so bad?
And you know, he's the king of look it up. He's like, look it up. Look it up.
Oh, I know him.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love that. He is so wholesome. And I just think it's like anyway, if you guys don't follow Kickball, I don't follow him because it's really funny.
And his kids just want to be around him. And I think that's wholesome.
He's hysterical.
Yeah. And he doesn't care that like I feel like most boomers are like, oh, tick tock. He like totally embraces it.
And like, I feel like he does it for his kids. And I just think it's really cute. Anyway, he's really funny to follow him.
And but he's an avid every time I hear about the Dolphins. He is the guy I think about. Okay, then there's another.
This is like a lot of ownership, like, you know, ownership where the where the so there's another curse about Virginia McCasky and the Chicago Bears. You guys like the Bears? The Bears, you know, the Bulls.
I know, but you know what I will say is that I was really invested a couple years ago in Jay Cutler's hunt for what was taking out his chickens.
Jay Cutler?
You guys watch New Girl? That's how he says it. No, it's Schmitt.
Cutler?
Oh, Schmitt. Yeah. No, and he had like some something was taking out his his chickens and he did this like week long investigation.
And and he had like he set up like a hunting perch and he was like staying up all night and watching and I was invested.
But anyway, you really do need to marry a country boy.
I'm kind of annoyed because when this was happening, I set up the alerts on Instagram. So every time he went live, it would be like Jay Cutler's gone live. And now I can't figure out how to turn it off.
I don't need to know every time Jay Cutler posts now. Thank you. It's like he's just in Montana.
Just keep notifying him.
Oh, that's so funny.
Okay. So anyway, Virginia McCasky and the Chicago Bears curse. Virginia McCasky inherited the team after the death of her brother, George Hollis Jr.
And some theorized that because of this, it was linked to a family curse. A lot of these is like, oh, there's a curse and that's why the team isn't doing well. And they've always underperformed since Hollis Jr.'s untimely death.
Although, they have had one Super Bowl win. So I just feel like this can't be real. This is like not a real curse.
No, no, I don't believe in this curse because, like, I could, I could see, like, the Dolphins are not good. Like, I could see that being, you know, yeah, some spiritual interference, OK?
But this just seems like maybe you need to be better about your, your business plan and like because the Bears should be good. They have like they had like the number one defense a couple years ago anyway, and the Eagles beat them.
So anyway, the Bears, my dad had a Bears sweatshirt when I was growing up. And I'd always be like, why do you have a Bears sweatshirt? And he's like, I like the Bears because he did a lot of.
Business in Chicago and his his bestie was in Chicago.
Do you like Bears? That's Jordan's team are the Bears. Yeah, I don't hate the Bears.
The Bears, the Bulls.
You guys know that it is illegal to like tank your season.
On purpose?
On purpose. It's illegal. Why?
Illegal as far as.
For gambling or?
No, it's not gambling. It's because you're trying to get a better draft pick.
So the worse you do, the better draft.
Oh, yeah. The worst team will get the best draft.
You don't want to keep having the number one team getting the number one players, right? You want to balance, make it competitive.
How do they control trades?
I'm sure that's all like money. So you sign contracts with teams, and if the contract ends, then you can enter into free agency and then somebody can come and talk to you. But those are like you go into free agency.
But when you're talking about trading, that's like Saquon Barkley. Like Saquon was like his contract was up with the Giants, and he wanted more money and they wouldn't pay it to him, so he went to Philadelphia. Sucks to suck, Giants.
Anyway, so he came to Philly because he said he wants to win a Super Bowl with Philadelphia because he grew up a Philly fan.
Oh, I know. I loved that.
He needed what? He had 13 more yards or something, and he was like, fuck it.
Well, yeah, they were like running up the score.
He said, we're going to put in the beat squad. Yeah. And he said, let him play.
Let the young kids eat.
Love that.
What a guy.
And I'm sorry. Anyone who says Philadelphia isn't classy, we could have run the score up on the Packers. And did you see Saquon glide?
I got to be honest, I hate when this is like when my team's winning and we're winning by like so many points.
Yeah, they just keep.
Yeah.
Like in hockey, at some point towards the end of the game, if there's a huge difference in points, they'll take the goalie out of the net. Using team. And I hate empty net goals.
I think it's such a slap in the face when they just shoot it into the empty net. And it's just like, that's so sad that I'm not a sports person. So that's why it pisses me off.
I'm like, did you really have to do that?
Oh, you aren't you aren't competitive.
No, I'm like, you're already winning. You're already winning.
I mean, I do think at some point, like when you drive up the score, it's kind of like a dick move.
It's not sportsmanship.
Yeah.
Well, yeah. They always growing up have like the slot. Is it the slaughter rule?
Yeah, the slaughter rule.
But that's in like peewee football.
Yes. But it's like we're going to by 10. This game is over.
Yeah.
We're not going to.
If you're winning by 10 by the third inning, the game's over.
We've all been on the losing team.
Yeah.
It doesn't feel good.
No, it doesn't.
Yeah.
So my personal opinion.
We've also all been on the winning team. You know what I mean? That feels good.
And I like to earn the win.
I want it to be hard. I want it to be close.
I'm sorry. That's slaughtering is winning.
I know.
That's still earned. I know, but OK. So anyway, it's illegal to tank.
So there's a couple of teams that they think tanked their season to get a better draft pick in 2016. The Cleveland Browns like tanked their season.
They they they say purposefully it was a one in 15 record, and they wanted to secure the overall draft pick in 2017, which led to Miles Garrett. The Browns have been relatively good, not great, but way better than they used to be.
Also, imagine it being the Browns. Why are they the Browns? Like, what is it?
Why? Why?
Can I tell you?
Oh, yeah. Tell me.
This is just like the Chiefs. The Chiefs be named for Chief, which was the nickname of the mayor or someone. The Cleveland Browns are named after their first head coach, Paul Brown.
Oh, there was a, sorry, there was a contest in Cleveland when the team was founded in 1946, and that's the name people play.
Is there a mascot, a guy who dresses up like the coach?
Yeah, Brownie the L.
Let me see a picture. No, it's not. It is.
That is so funny.
Let me see.
That's creepy. I would be scared of that. Brownie the L?
That's so random.
It's so random.
My God.
I wish it was a big dookie.
It's a reference to the folklore. Kait, you love some folklore.
I do. I love folklore.
Brownie is a reference to the folklore of Brownies, which are domestic tutelary spirits that are often described as ugly, brown skinned and covered in hair.
Oh, OK.
Well, I guess I'd rather be a brown elf than whatever that thing was.
I think that was a brown elf.
Well, they're covered in hair. Anyway, in 2011, the Colts allegedly tanked their season to secure, again, the number one draft pick. I don't know if you guys remember, but Peyton Manning used to play for the Colts.
And Peyton Manning, everybody loves the Manning bros, right? Even though Eli was on the Giants, we forgive him for that. But Peyton, America's boy, Peyton Manning.
Get it? From the commercial? Anyway, Peyton, you know, he's famous because he had this like neck injury.
Well, he's famous for a lot of things, but he did have this like infamous neck injury, which ultimately led him to like retiring. But he got this during the season, 2011, they benched him because of the neck injury.
And it was said they did it and then tanked their season because they wanted to get the number one draft pick. It was Andrew Luck. And I don't know if you guys know Andrew Luck, but that guy is good.
He's lucky.
I actually really like Andrew Luck.
I think he's a fun player to watch and he's a stand up guy.
And yeah.
So anyway, those are the two teams that they're like, oh, they tanked their season just to get their number one draft picks. And part of me is like, well, if you can't prove it, just do it. You know what I mean?
I understand why they have to make it illegal. But like, why does it matter so much, I guess? Okay.
This is interesting. Tom Brady. You know, Bill Belichick, we covered this in the Super Bowl episode.
I don't want to talk about Bill.
I know.
He's, you know, weird and problematic, problematic, but also like his girlfriend, like very weird. Okay.
You know what, though?
He's not even old enough to die soon.
She's like 26 or something.
Yes, it's weird. Anyway, I'm sorry. Daddy issues or grand daddy issues.
I don't think daddy issues.
I think she wants the money. Yeah.
Ew. Anyway, also, he just seems like a grumpy old man. Oh, I'm sorry.
I was confusing him with Nick Saban. Nick Saban can't take a joke.
Bill Belichick, he showed up to the Netflix roast, which was like NSFW guys. And definitely not for children, not safe for work.
Oh, how do you not know that?
Yeah. But anyway, he showed up.
Megan didn't know the feeling when, TFW.
Yeah. No, I had to look that up. But I still can't get over the fact.
I just think, yeah, like just like the way he handled Hernandez and the way I think it was always like, you know, money first and all of that. Like we're a big family, but really it's like.
Not. Yeah.
Okay.
And our last but not least guys, because I think this might be the biggest. So Bill Belichick, there was a lot. There's a lot of conspiracies about the deflate gate.
They didn't do it.
Yeah.
I think we.
Spy gate.
We talked about that last year.
Yeah.
But this one. And this is also like on record. This is before like all this information came out about CTE.
Oh, yeah.
But like was Bill Belichick working with the Patriots physicians to cover up the concussions that Tom Brady had?
I don't like that at all.
That's really.
I mean, I believe it. Because again, I've already ranted about his handling of Aaron Hernandez. But like Aaron Hernandez, and I think we talked about this, but he went to him and he's like, I need out of this era.
Like I'm involved in all this stuff. And I think the only way I can break free of this life is if you trade me. And he's like, no.
Yeah.
And so perhaps, I mean, it's also a business and he didn't know what was going to happen.
Right. But perhaps if he had listened to Aaron and traded him, he could have prevented multiple deaths.
Right. So anyway, so Giselle, like in a 2017 CBS interview, kind of came out and was like they, Tom Brady had suffered concussions, like multiple concussions on his Super Bowl runs. And that it was all covered up and he was still allowed to play.
And she was like, not happy about it. And then she like, you know, was also expressing concerns about like how aggressive the sport is. Yeah.
Her kids don't play.
No, her kids don't play.
But then she came back and she kind of like clarified like, oh, just kidding. And I know. And then there was like, it kind of was like brushed under the rug.
Like the NFL didn't really talk about it. The allegations weren't really taken into consideration. And yeah, so he had never, so this is really also very weird is Brady never appeared on an injury report for a head injury in his 17 year career.
Oh my God.
And the amount of times that man was sacked.
Yeah, there's no way.
Now I want to hear, I'm not telling you to like look it up right now, but now I'm like interested, what's every other quarterback's statistics?
I know quarterback, you're looking at me like I'm crazy, but I'm just saying, I thought in general, that because they tend to be more protected, right?
They're not supposed to get hit.
Yeah, then like, you know.
Well, Jalen Hurts just sat out for two games with a seed.
Okay, so yeah. Well, maybe also now that they're more open talking about head injuries in football, we'll see.
Yeah, I think it's just like more.
We'll see it more.
Right.
Now they've done the autopsies, now they know it's real. Right. We have like some unfortunately devastating examples.
No, but we didn't have the information. They had to autopsy all the like all of these former players had to donate their bodies to science. Have like postmortem autopsies.
So I don't think we had like proof of it until now.
And you know, now like within the past two or three years, the helmets are being redesigned and like all of these things, like they're getting bigger or whatever. So and they're really cutting back on like head to head.
And like those are those are personal fouls and like, yeah. So you can get ejected from a game if you're if you see yourself lowering your head on it.
And hockey, too.
Yeah.
Crazy.
I mean, they should. Head injury. I mean, when you talk about rugby, rugby, they don't play, they don't have pads on in rugby, but they're not allowed different.
They're not allowed to tackle anyone from the waist up. It has to be waist down tackling, which is better. And there's not nearly as many.
I mean, who knows? It's not as popular as football, but not nearly as many injuries. But very interesting.
I definitely think Tom Brady definitely had some concussions and was not there's no way being sad.
A shame for them to keep that.
I know.
I also know he's I know him. I know he's like an obsessive person. Yeah, he's got an obsessive personnel.
Yeah.
I wonder how much of it was him convincing them to let them let him play or anything like that.
Yeah.
Well, he definitely would do anything to win.
Also, he got his starting position from somebody with a head injury.
Well, I don't think it was a head injury. He was a leg injury. Anyway, he kind of stole the starting position from his predecessor when he was injured, right?
And so that probably also gives you this fear of like, if I go down, is a younger guy going to step in and take my job?
But Tom Brady is the greatest. Let's be real.
He had that other handsome quarterback player step up. I forgot why I brought him up, but boy, isn't he nice to look at.
Yeah.
OK, well, I think the cutest quarterback in the NFL right now is. Surprise, surprise. Oh, no, no, no.
The Bills quarterback, Josh Allen.
Oh, yeah.
Josh Allen is so Megan, you would like him. He's got a beard.
He does look like you're having him.
Yeah.
Classic Americana.
I do. I do love. He's and he's just like, just so cute.
And he's a good.
He's a good guy.
Yeah, he's a good guy. But OK, there's like Josh Allen and then there's like Jalen Hertz.
You know, Jalen Hertz.
So at the time of this recording, again, we're down to 14. So we don't know who's going to be in the Super Bowl. All right.
Everybody place your bets now.
My money. He's going to hate me. I think the commander is going to win the bowl.
Oh, their time.
No, it's not their time person. They're not an underdog. They're they're favored to win.
That's not an underdog.
Yeah, but to me, they're an underdog because the commanders are favored to win.
I think they're favored to beat the Eagles. Well, I the Eagles are the perpetual underdog.
It's so bad on the Eagles.
No, I'm not. My money is not anywhere close to the Eagles. I will never put my money in the Eagles.
I'd rather be the underdog every single day. I'd rather every team pick the commanders over the Eagles because that makes me feel better. Eagles always have something to prove.
If the Eagles don't make it, I want the Bills to smash.
Yeah, I would love to see some new teams in the bowl. I want to see some blue and some red and gold.
No, I think that you know how you covered the colors of the Super Bowl.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like it's predicting Bills-Eagles.
Really? All right, so if the conspiracy is true, guys, and Bills and Eagles are in the bowl, then the colors match.
But I don't want the Eagles to play the Bills because I don't want to hate the Bills.
I like the Bills.
You know what I mean? Like, any team we play, I don't like them.
But wouldn't it be nice if you like them both and you're like, either way, you're going to be...
No, there's no such thing as liking them both.
If the Eagles lose, there's no way she'll still feel happy.
Yeah.
So, you know what I mean?
The curse of being an Eagles fan, I'm telling you. They never make it easy.
No, but they're good. Anyways, guys, that's our sports episode. Hope you liked it.
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