Birds of Play: Superb Owls Touchdown Edition

Ever find yourself swept up in the emotional whirlwind of a Super Bowl victory? Join us as Heather and I, Nicole, take a sentimental stroll down memory lane, sharing our highs and lows as Philadelphia Eagles fans. We reminisce about that unforgettable win, the infectious unity it brought to generations, and the blue-collar pride that defines Philly. With a touch of humor, we explore our unlikely fondness for the Detroit Lions and their perpetual underdog status, all while reveling in the anticipation for the big game's next chapter.

We promise you a journey through Super Bowl history, tracing its origins from the NFL and AFL merger to its current status as a global spectacle. Our chat covers legendary national anthem performances by unexpected artists and superstar icons alike, offering curious insights into these unique musical moments. We dive into halftime show theatrics, from puzzling mix-ups like the Indiana Jones-themed lineup to the profound impact of U2's tribute. You'll hear our personal favorites and a few grievances, reflecting on how these performances have shaped the cultural fabric of the game.

Get ready for some laughs as we recall the Chicago Bears' surprising musical venture with "The Super Bowl Shuffle" and its Grammy-nominated success. Our conversation meanders through memorable commercials that have become indelible parts of Super Bowl lore. And as we dabble in the logistics of attending parades, you'll experience our indecisiveness firsthand, wrapped in a lighthearted banter. We invite you to join the fun, engage with us on social media, and share in the nostalgia, excitement, and love for the iconic Super Bowl moments that bring us all together. #genx #eagles #biggame #superbowl 

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:04

Two best friends. We're talking the past, from mistakes to arcades. We're having a blast. Teenage dreams, neon screens, it was all rad and no one knew me Like you know. It's like whatever. Together forever, we're never the best ever Laughing and sharing our stories. Clever, we'll take you back. It's like whatever.

Speaker 2 0:32

Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for. By and about Gen X, I'm Nicole and this is my BFF, heather. Hello, so five more sleeps till the Super Bowl. Aye, aye, aye.

Speaker 3 0:46

I can't even think about it. Yeah, I'm nervous. Yeah, I'm stressed. Yeah, yeah, can't watch TV.

Speaker 2 0:56

I took my work, sent out a survey thing Not a survey Like a PICS, Kind of like a PICS, kind of like a PICS for everybody in the agency to like, and there were like 10 questions on it and that actually gave me hope. Going through it it was like you know who's going to fumble first and who's going to get sacked first and who's so I was creating scenarios in my head where I was like, yeah, yeah, and I picked the final score at Eagles 26, Chiefs 23. Let's hope. That's my pick, let's hope. And we're at 26 because Saquon Barkley's number.

Speaker 2 1:36

Oh shit, I didn't think about that. But no, because it said whose kicker was going to miss the extra point and I picked ours.

Speaker 3 1:48

Ours. Yeah, hands down. Yes, that's a pretty sure thing. Yeah, I re-watched the Super Bowl the other night, did you? Yeah, well, I shared I know you saw it the video of everybody after that game. Yes, and you know I've been an Eagles fan for a very long time. I don't follow it as much as I used to, I'm not, but then when we won, that was like.

Speaker 2 2:26

It reignited.

Speaker 3 2:27

It was just generate. Like you could feel, every, every generation of my family has been Eagles fans, like my grand, my grandfather and my mother used to go to Franklin Field and they had season tickets and she used to go as a teenager and she was there when they booed Santa and we were there for the Michael Irving nonsense and you know, you and I were at the first game of the, the link, and we saw Montel Jordan and my mom and I were there for the last game in the vet and you know, that night it was just so emotional because you know everything, every generation. Finally.

Speaker 2 3:12

Yes.

Speaker 3 3:12

You could like, you could just feel it and it was just. I don't know, it was just, and the way they did it and who they did it against I think really helped the situation. But I mean it was just so nobody liked them.

Speaker 2 3:30

No, no, it was yeah, backup quarterback.

Speaker 3 3:34

Yeah, you know. So it was just magic. It really was. I know I watched that game by myself for a reason. I really was, I know.

Speaker 2 3:45

I watched that game by myself for a reason.

Speaker 3 3:47

My mom did watch it with her brother, so he did get to see one before he passed. But I was alone and when those I didn't believe it was over. Like I didn't believe we had won. There was zeros across the board and I was just like I could breathe. It was like being able to breathe, yeah, and I fell down on my knees and I cried and then my phone just absolutely blew up with everybody. I have ever known, my entire life texting me.

Speaker 3 4:15

People I didn't remember I even knew had my number were texting me.

Speaker 2 4:21

Yeah, it was awesome. I remember I don't remember like the whole fourth quarter. I'm pretty sure I spent all of it in my hallway with my yeah eyes, my whole head face in my hands, like just I don't even want to know, I just want I.

Speaker 3 4:35

Can we just stop pretend, just, let's just not even do this, let's make it yeah, let's forfeit and it never happened let it be tomorrow, and then we can just all be done with it.

Speaker 2 4:45

And our neighbor across the street. He is also from Philly and lifelong Eagles fan and he told us that he always said that if the Eagles ever won he was going to streak and sure as shit. The game got over, we all ran out into the streets of the small town we live in. He stripped down butt ass naked and ran down the street.

Speaker 3 5:10

It's just you know, I love Philadelphia anyway. If I ever had to live in a city, Philadelphia would be the city. I just I love the city. I always, always, thought I was going to live in a row home, like Rocky.

Speaker 1 5:22

Yeah, that's never going to happen.

Speaker 3 5:23

I don't like cities, but I just always I Philadelphia doesn't feel like a city to me, like other cities feel, philadelphia never really felt like that and I don't know if it's just because I've been a hundred million times or because my family was from up there and well, I think it's a different city because it's very blue collar.

Speaker 1 5:42

It is.

Speaker 2 5:42

As to where other cities tend to be very uppity.

Speaker 3 5:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:45

Like. That's what they're known for is their fancy parts of their city. It's true as to where Philly is, just Philly, yeah, I mean. And if you don't like it, fuck you, yeah get out. Yeah, we don't need you here.

Speaker 3 5:58

Yeah, it's just yeah, you know as excited as I am for this one and I really hope they will win and I will be excited and happy, but I will never have that moment again, like that moment happened, and no matter what, no matter how many super bowls they win, yes, I will be excited, but I will never have that moment again yep, yep so, but I will cherish this one because, you never know when this is going to happen again.

Speaker 3 6:26

And I'm not. I'm not saying I don't want it to happen again. It would be great. But it might be another 50 years, it could be another 10 generations of human beings that you know will not experience an Eagles Superbowl. Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:41

But at least they won't have to hear their whole lives Bowl, but at least they won't have to hear their whole lives. How many Super Bowls? We have four. How many do you have being in this?

Speaker 3 6:46

division just sucks anyway, because everybody. And where we live. It's just horrible. You've got Ravens fans here and Redskins fans.

Speaker 2 6:55

Oh, excuse me, commanders fans I can't, and Giants fans, I cannot remember to say Commanders, save my soul.

Speaker 3 7:05

You know, so it's. You had to hear it from fans all the time that how many more rings they had, and you still do, but you know it is what it is. Yep, Yep. Hopefully we'll be victorious on Sunday.

Speaker 2 7:19

Yep, and then we'll talk about it next. Podcast, and then we promise we'll leave you alone after, if they don't win.

Speaker 3 7:29

If they don't win. If they don't win, we're not ever speaking of this again. We're gonna live in a hole. Yeah, somewhere exactly. But I also. What I wanted to talk about because this is this is gen x really this is gen x related um drew barrymore is on the cover of aarp magazine. It hurts my feelings.

Speaker 2 7:42

It really does. It's upsetting.

Speaker 3 7:45

She's a little girl.

Speaker 2 7:47

Yeah, and she still acts like one.

Speaker 3 7:49

She must be my age, yeah, yeah, because I just turned 50.

Speaker 2 7:55

How old were you when ET came out? I don't remember.

Speaker 3 8:00

She has to be the same age because that's for people over 50. So she has to be the same age because that's for people over 50.

Speaker 2 8:08

So she has to be 50. Yeah, that's not right.

Speaker 3 8:11

It's too, much. Nicole's husband turned 50 yesterday and he's not happy about it.

Speaker 2 8:18

He's very pouty, but wait.

Speaker 2 8:22

Oh more importantly, I got a puppy. She is the cutest, sweetest thing in the whole wide world. She is pretty cute. She's four months old, Her name is Nova and she's sweet and smart and she smells like a puppy. She smells like a puppy and she makes cute little puppy noises and we love her so much. We've had her like five days now. She didn't sleep for the first 48 hours so we didn't like her too much but we still loved her. We just didn't like her. But now it's all come together and she just sleeps in the bed. So you know, whatever, when she's too big for the bed, one of us will have to go somewhere else. But to go somewhere else? But we're too old to play that puppy shit staying up all night long. She's just going to sleep in the bed.

Speaker 3 9:08

I don't think I could do that again.

Speaker 2 9:10

Yeah, but she's amazing. We love her.

Speaker 3 9:14

She is pretty cute.

Speaker 2 9:15

And she's very social and friendly. So, many people have come to meet her and she's just been like, hey, what's up.

Speaker 3 9:22

Yeah, she doesn't seem very excitable, or you know?

Speaker 2 9:25

No, she's just been like hey, what's up? Yeah, she doesn't seem very excitable, or you know. No, she's pretty low key, which is good for us. That is good, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. But she does bite and pinch. Oh. She's a puppy Pinch Ooh.

Speaker 3 9:34

I had a dog that did that. Mm-hmm, drove me nuts.

Speaker 2 9:36

She's an ankle biter too.

Speaker 3 9:46

had a dog like that, yeah, but she's a big dog, she's not supposed to be no ankle biters and my chihuahua wasn't an ankle biter either and that's teasing yeah, she's pretty cute. Yeah, yeah, she is all right. Okay, so let's get down to brass tacks here. Let's do it. Let's fuck around and find out about, to no one's surprise, the Super Bowl. Woo, I know I'm clever, right.

Speaker 2 10:10

I love it.

Super Bowl National Anthem Histories

Speaker 3 10:11

So OG, just real quick. Just in case you didn't know that the Super Bowl was created as a part of the 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL to have their best teams compete for a championship. It was originally called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game until the Super Bowl moniker was adopted in 1969, super Bowl.

Speaker 2 10:35

III.

Speaker 3 10:37

Gotcha.

Speaker 2 10:38

So basically you know, that's how it became, and the Eagles did win one of those championships.

Speaker 3 10:43

Yes, the Eagles did win one of the championships. Yes, the Eagles did win one of the championships. They beat Green Bay Right FYI.

Speaker 2 10:49

We always beat Green Bay.

Speaker 3 10:52

You know what? Wait till you see what I have to say later about Green Bay.

Speaker 3 10:56

Oh, I can't wait it's really going to hurt my feelings. It really pains me. Oh, oh yeah, you just wait, okay. Among the NFL's current 32 teams, 20 have won a Super Bowl and 15 hold multiple titles. The Steelers and the Patriots have the most Super Bowl titles, at six each. The Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances, at 11. The Patriots and the Broncos hold the record for the most defeats in the Super Bowl, at five each. The Ravens and the Bucks are the only franchises to be undefeated in multiple Super Bowls, having each one two. Among the 12 teams who have not won a Super Bowl, the Browns, texans, jaguars and Lions are the only four to have not appeared in the Super Bowl. I do like Texans, jaguars and Lions are the only four to have not appeared in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 11:48

I do like the Lions.

Speaker 3 11:49

Yeah.

Speaker 2 11:50

But I think they've passed their prime. How?

Speaker 3 11:52

many times have I wanted to become a.

Speaker 2 11:54

I should have been a Lions fan like 30 years ago. Yes, I said I was switching teams 30 years ago, although now they're doing to people what the Eagles were doing to us when you wanted to be a Lions fan, because I said, you know, if there's no hope then you can enjoy the season, just pure enjoyment.

Speaker 3 12:11

That's why I always wanted to be a Lions fan. In that season they went without a win. I was like see no hope. Yeah exactly, you can't be disappointed if you don't have any hope. That's how I like to live my life.

Speaker 2 12:26

I'm going to buy you a t-shirt that says that you really should.

Speaker 3 12:27

I will wear it with pride. It's among the world's most watched single sporting events and frequently commands the largest audience among all American broadcasts during the year. Basically, I just wanted to, you know, give the basics and the little whatever about the teams. Okay, so we're going to start, just like the Super Bowl does, with national anthems Yay.

Speaker 3 12:54

In 1980, cheryl Ladd, who replaced Farrah Fawcett as Charlie's Angel, did the national anthem. I know when I read that I was was like hold up, what wait, what? Yeah, cheryl ladd, who replaced farrah fawcett in charlie's angels, sang the national anthem in 1980. Did I know that?

Speaker 2 13:14

I don't know if you knew that I'm gonna have to go back and look at pictures and see if it looks familiar. Okay, I didn't. I was that doesn't sound right I was six yeah, I probably wasn't watching a whole lot of charlie's angels either. Yeah, I don't because, right, I was six. Yeah, I probably wasn't watching a whole lot of Charlie's.

Speaker 3 13:26

Angels either.

Speaker 2 13:26

Yeah, I don't, because I think it was more of a grown-up show, but I definitely know. I mean, I know the show for sure.

Speaker 3 13:34

Yeah Well, yeah, there's another one that comes up that you're just like huh, really, yay, I had to like. When I saw it, I had to like Google and I was like are you sure that's not? You're just not lying to me. Oh, by the way, all my information comes from SBNationcom, nflcom and Wikipedia. That's where I got on my list. So that's why I was like I have to check that, because I think Wikipedia is lying to me.

Speaker 2 14:04

It could be yeah, I don't think lying to me.

Speaker 3 14:05

It could be yeah, I don't think so Sometimes when you I don't know Anyway, yeah, 81 was, I still check it sometimes. Yeah, helen O'Connell, it's really, you know, it's really good for like this kind of shit where you want to find out, like who won every Super Bowl, to have the list.

Speaker 2 14:19

Exactly, I go there for, like, basic information. I don't go there for like is this true, did this really happen? Like I don't go for that, but to see who won dates and stuff like that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 14:30

Stuff that. You know. You really it's yeah.

Speaker 1 14:33

Anyway.

Speaker 3 14:34

Helen O'Connell who sang in 81. She is a big, big band singer like 40s style. In the 40s she was a big band.

Speaker 2 14:42

I don't think I've ever heard of her.

Speaker 3 14:44

No 82, diana Ross. I know you've heard of her. I have yes, 83, here's the surprise one Leslie Easterbrook, who played Rhonda Lee on Laverne and Shirley and Debbie Callahan on Police Academy. What, yes, I didn't believe that one either. I was like hold up, because she's the big busty blonde Right On Police Academy, the stupid one. Yeah, yeah, nope, she sang and she's actually that's she's got from her doing that, the national anthem. She had a big Broadway career. Oh, I did not know anything. I mean, I never really, I guess, cared about.

Speaker 2 15:22

That's pretty crazy.

Speaker 3 15:23

Yeah, but yeah. So who knew? Yeah, 84 was Barry Manilow I know we talked about him. 85 was the San Francisco Boys Choir, girls Choir and Children's Chorus. 86 was Wynton Marsalis and he played the trumpet, okay. 87 was Neil Diamond. Again, I can't picture Neil Diamond doing that, yeah.

Speaker 2 15:50

I can't imagine it was very good, Unless he stuck right to it. Now I will say real quick if I could interview you, you can interject.

Speaker 2 15:58

I am very particular about the National Anthem. Don't get fancy with it. Don't try to sing keys and notes that you can't sing, don't you know elaborate. People should be able to sing along with you. It's the way I see it. Like it's the national anthem, it's for everybody. You should be able to just sing it straightforward. You can make it your own, but also make it so everyone can sing along without like they go to say a word and you're pausing because you're going to make this big dramatic thing or something, so that drives me crazy, drag it on for 20 minutes.

Speaker 2 16:27

Yeah, yeah but I do love like a good, like electric guitar, um national anthem, or somebody did a saxophone one recently yeah, the eagles at the I think it was the eagles game wasn't it. Oh yeah, they have a trumpet player that does the national anthem at the stadium too, too, it was the Eagles, because I remember telling my husband they should have got that guy that sits outside Eagle Stadium playing the saxophone when you're leaving.

Speaker 3 16:50

He is very good.

Speaker 2 16:51

Yeah, they should get him to go in.

Speaker 3 16:53

Or Jason Kelsey, yeah, yeah, exactly what's he doing? Nothing. He's got absolutely nothing. He was there, so you know get to it. Do he was there, so you know get to it. Yeah, uh. Also, I didn't go through like every super bowl ever like we're discovering, like the 80s, 90s, super bowls, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the gen x ones oh, yeah, and then some that I found particularly memorable because it's your. It's your episode half my show, so I can do whatever the fuck I want.

Speaker 2 17:22

I was just going to say you can do whatever the fuck you want 88 was Herb Alpert and he played the trumpet.

Speaker 3 17:29

I really liked how her him. 89 was Billy Joel. Also, I didn't Google it to watch it. I did Google a couple of them but I did not Google. I think I didn't want to know.

Speaker 2 17:42

I love Billy Joel's music, of course, and I know everywhere to every song, but him as a person I'm not particularly fond of.

Speaker 1 17:48

He's very curmudgeon-y and misogynistic. He's from New York.

Speaker 3 17:54

He's a New.

Speaker 2 17:54

Yorker. Yeah Well, I do love the New Yorkers, though, like I love all of that, but it's more recent stuff that's happened. I can't even think of what it is, but like in the past few years, I don't know.

Speaker 3 18:07

I just can't imagine him singing the national anthem.

Speaker 2 18:10

Yeah, it's not, no, his. Thing. No 1990 was Aaron Neville. I like Aaron Neville.

Speaker 3 18:21

I like Aaron Neville, the next one. She read ahead 91, whitney. She read ahead 91 whitney. I mean, it was the onset of the gulf war. She did release it as a single and then they re-released it after september 11th.

Speaker 2 18:38

Um, so yeah so if you're listening to this, if you've never heard whitney houston sing the national anthem, first, the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 18:45

First of all, have you been living?

Speaker 1 18:45

under a rock.

Speaker 2 18:46

Well, maybe they're young.

Speaker 3 18:49

Again every year during Super Bowl time they play it.

Speaker 2 18:52

Right, or if it's been a while since you've gone back and watched it. I mean, I can't. There are no words to even say what it does to me, like it is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life. I am to me like it is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in my life.

Speaker 3 19:08

I, I am not a crier and it makes me sob every single time I watch it.

Speaker 2 19:10

There are two very memorable that stick out to me, and whitney is one we'll get to the other one here in a minute, because I haven't read ahead so I don't know who it is, but yeah, that whitney one. I mean. If you ever need to feel good about being an american, which some of us can use right now, go listen to her sing that.

Speaker 3 19:27

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:27

And it'll kind of bring you back down to earth a little bit she does.

Speaker 3 19:30

I rewatched it just for this, it's beautiful. In 92 was Harry Connick Jr, and I know you're a big fan of Harry Connick.

Speaker 2 19:38

Jr. I love Harry Connick Jr. She does, she does.

Speaker 3 19:42

That was also the year that they added American Sign Language Lovely 92 seems like they're probably going to take it away now.

Speaker 2 19:48

Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 19:49

Well, maybe 93 was Garth Brooks. Also, I don't know about Garth.

Speaker 2 19:54

Brooks. I'm not a fan of Garth Brooks 94, natalie Cole.

Super Bowl National Anthem Performances

Speaker 3 19:58

Yeah, yeah. Love her 95 was pretty funny. I did go back and rewatch. This Was Kathie. Her 95 was pretty funny. I did go back and re-watch. This was kathy lee gifford. Frank gifford announced her and she got booed yeah it was fine.

Speaker 2 20:12

It was fine. Yeah, I used to be a huge regis and kathy lee fan when my kids were babies, so that was no 112 years ago. It was actually like when Torn was a baby my son, that was 97. But through the 90s I watched Regis and Kathie Lee and I used to love that show. But Kathie Lee is awful. Her family's from Lewis, is it? Yeah, she's really. I don't again.

Speaker 2 20:43

I can't think of why I'm saying all this bad stuff about her, but I know at some point she pissed me off. So I'm just bitter right now because I had to give up Target and I'm just so pissed that I had to give up Target Very upset, dropped. I'm not getting political here, I'm just informing you that the second it happened, target was like oh good, we don't have to hire anybody else anymore, so good, and they canceled it.

Speaker 3 21:14

So I can't support them anymore and I'm devastated but I digress. Yes, sorry, I'm gonna have to. Did you see? Costco was raising their? They're paying like $30 an hour.

Speaker 2 21:22

Yeah, and did you see the lines? People are waiting in line like two hours I'm going to have to.

Speaker 3 21:26

There's a Costco going into Rehoboth.

Speaker 2 21:28

There's one in, I think, christiana, right, I don't know, that would be the closest. It's just going to be Food Lion and Dollar General for me now. I guess those two made the good list, they're not on the naughty list yet. Yeah well, it'll be a long four years.

Speaker 3 21:46

Uh, yeah, um vanessa williams in 96. I do love vanessa williams. I like beautiful voice um 97 was luther vanderhoff 98 was jewel and I didn't look that up that can't be good I didn didn't think it would I like Jewel, but nah yeah 99 with Cher, I also did not look up Cher because I don't think, I want to know.

Speaker 2 22:10

I can't believe. I don't remember that. I know.

Speaker 3 22:13

It must not have been very good or not memorable at all.

Speaker 2 22:15

Yeah, I don't remember that at all.

Speaker 3 22:18

Again, I feel like it just takes a certain type of voice to be able to pull it off well, and I'm sure Cher did a fine job, but I just don't feel like she has that Right, faith. Hill in 2000,. After the first one after September 11th no. I'm lying, I lied. I skipped Faith Hill. Her version after September 11th was re-released also. And it made the Hot Country top 100 at number 35. Okay.

Speaker 2 22:53

She does have a beautiful voice. She does. Yeah, I'm not a country fan but she has a pretty voice.

Speaker 3 22:57

The one after September 11th was Mariah Carey. I didn't look that up. I'm sure she did a fantastic job. I don't care for Mariah Carey and she makes my ears bleed. Um, my all-time favorite, though, absolutely hands down. I don't care who says what about where. Yeah, fucking, lady gaga it. That was stellar that she stuck to it, she didn't fuck around. I went and watched it again. She didn't fuck around her costume, she just the whole set like.

Speaker 3 23:28

The whole thing was extremely professional yes not at all what you would think she would do, and that's why she fucking did it yeah, yeah, it was beautiful when she did it and her voice. I think that's the first time you actually found out. You know, as the average listener, what her voice did. Right, you know.

Speaker 2 23:47

Yeah, my husband has been a huge Lady Gaga fan for I mean, since she's been out Like he fell in love with her instantly. And then, back when she first got popular, she had a tour called the Monster Tour, I think, and it was on HBO and my husband would literally watch it like every day and we would dance and he just he loves her. We watched the Grammys the other night and she performed and he still was just like man she's amazing.

Speaker 3 24:17

Her voice is fucking amazing, amazing.

Speaker 2 24:21

It is.

Speaker 3 24:22

Top 10 voices, Like she could probably I mean you could put her right up there with Whitney, yeah.

Speaker 2 24:29

Her and.

Speaker 3 24:29

Kelly Clarkson. Kelly Clarkson has an amazing voice too.

Speaker 2 24:32

That drives me crazy too, because I can't stand Kelly Clarkson. I think she's so obnoxious, but she really is. She really does have an amazing voice, a really beautiful voice. You know who?

Speaker 3 24:41

else I like, I don't. Well, I can't decide. I don't know how I feel about her as a human being, but her voice is so unique and changeable she can do Ariana Grande can literally do anybody and sound just like them.

Speaker 2 24:59

I have always had a soft spot for Ariana Grande because I had young girls growing up during Nickelodeon and so I fell in love with her on that show, like she was great, and then you know, learning all the stuff that they all went through as children, coming up with Nickelodeon. So because she's done some really dumb shit, you know, but she went through a lot of trauma, yeah, and you know she was abused by people who were supposed to be caring about her and I think it's.

Speaker 3 25:28

I just don't care for her particular brand of music.

Speaker 2 25:30

I think that's it too. I don't necessarily like she has a few songs I like it's just not my thing.

Speaker 3 25:35

Yeah, it's not my thing, but her voice is just and just the way she can mimic when her and kelly clarkson go head to head on kelly clarkson's show, it's just. And. And her on saturday night she's just, she's yeah, yeah, yeah, she's very talented uh, so that was all the um.

Speaker 3 25:53

There's a lot more. If you wanted to, you know, look and see who else did it. I just didn't care. Beyond that, since 93, the NFL has required performers to supply a backup track. This came after Garth. I did not know. Fun fact, garth Brooks walked out of the stadium prior to his performance, only 45 minutes before kickoff.

Speaker 3 26:20

He refused to take the stage due to a dispute with NBC, brooks requested that the network premiere the music video for his new single, we Shall Be Free. During the pregame, the network chose not to air the video due to content some felt was disturbing imagery. Brooks had also refused to pre-record the anthem, which meant the league had nothing to play if he left.

Speaker 2 26:39

What a little bitch.

Speaker 3 26:40

Television producers spotted Jon Bon Jovi in the grandstands and were prepared to use him as a replacement. I know that's adorable. After last-minute negotiations, nbc agreed to air a clip of the video during the broadcast of the game and Brooks was coaxed back into the stadium and sang.

Speaker 2 26:59

Oh, the old baby got what he wanted.

Speaker 3 27:02

I would rather think I would rather see Bon Jovi, although I feel like that's not really Bon Jovi's thing either, but no, I would rather hear that would have been awesome.

Speaker 2 27:11

Yeah, he would have taken his place. Yeah.

Speaker 3 27:15

He gives love a bad name. I love Bon Jovi. Yeah, following the wardrobe malfunction controversy in 2004,. All scheduled performers for Super Bowl 10, 20, 30, 9 were chosen under heavy scrutiny. It's hard. Roman numerals are hard.

Speaker 2 27:36

I mean they are and they aren't? Yes, they shouldn't be.

Speaker 3 27:40

Well, they're fine when they're X's, and I Is, but then you start throwing Ls in there.

Speaker 2 27:43

It's like when you're a little kid and you're learning to count and you have to use your fingers.

Speaker 3 27:47

Yes, Like you have to stop for that second and think of what it is, what is the L, and I had to. There was a couple of them where I just was like I'm just going to write it out.

Speaker 2 27:58

Yeah, even the other night my nephew was here and they put up on the screen. They were talking about Super Bowl and it was LIX and he was like Super Bowl 59? I was like wait, yep, yep, you're right.

Speaker 3 28:11

Like I said, when you start throwing L's in there, that's when I lose. I'm fine with the B's, the I's and the X's. So, and the X's yes, so let's just stick to them. Yeah, yeah, anyway. So for that Super Bowl, they were chosen under heavy scrutiny. Game organizers decided not to use a popular music vocalist, so the combined choirs of the US Military Academy, the Navy Academy, air Force Academy, coast Guard Academy and the US Army held herald trumpets were invited to perform, coast Guard Academy and the US Army Herald Trumpets were invited to perform. This was the first time since the second inauguration of President Richard Nixon in 1973 that all four service academies sang together.

Speaker 2 28:50

I bet that was really beautiful. I don't remember that one either, but I bet that was really very patriotic.

Speaker 3 28:56

For the most part I don't really. Unless it's somebody like I actually care about, I don't usually listen to a national anthem.

Speaker 2 29:01

And speaking of the wardrobe malfunction, what do you think of the conspiracy theory that Justin Timberlake did that on?

Speaker 3 29:07

purpose, we'll get to that.

Speaker 2 29:08

Yeah, because we haven't gotten to halftime yet, damn it. Oh yeah, I know I almost brought something else up during the national anthem. I was like, wait, that was halftime and I'm sure she's got that in here. I just need to be patient. Slow your roll.

Speaker 1 29:23

You're the one that brought up the health function. We're in the second quarter.

Speaker 3 29:26

You're the one who brought it up, god damn. Two days after, oh God, this one, one of the Super Bowls, it was revealed that Jennifer Hudson had lip synced, I think it's 43.

Speaker 2 29:40

43, sure.

Speaker 3 29:41

I think XL3.

Speaker 2 29:44

It's 1053.

Speaker 3 29:45

1053. 1053.

Speaker 2 29:48

1053 Super Bowls.

Speaker 3 29:50

Okay, looks good, what comes, I don't know. There's other letters that, oh gosh, don't, just don't. They're going to throw more letters in that.

Speaker 2 29:59

Oh gosh, don't just, they're gonna throw.

Speaker 3 30:02

Oh, there's a v right there I see it well, v is five. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you just have me scared. Now I'm just well, no, I'm not in the super bowls, but I think like in in in life. There's other letters in the roman numeral luckily, we'll be dead by the time super bowls get that high valid point.

Speaker 3 30:20

Um oh god. What is that? 45 at the beginning of super bowl. 45, christina aguilera sang the lyrics incorrectly. Instead of singing, or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming, the pop star sang what so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming I remember that.

Speaker 2 30:38

And I do not like Christina Aguilera. I do Sometimes. I like her first album, message in a Bottle.

Speaker 3 30:47

Argenie in a Bottle. I don't like that one. I like Xtina Dirty. I love that song.

Speaker 2 30:53

My thing with Christina Aguilera. I think she has an absolutely beautiful voice I do but when she sings she sounds like she is straining to go way above what she can actually do. If she would just stick. I think that's why I like her first album, because her voice is very well displayed on that, but everything else she sounds like it hurts my throat to listen to her sing.

Speaker 3 31:13

She does strain, I don't know. I like dirty. I like dirty.

Speaker 2 31:19

I like the ex-Tina era.

Speaker 3 31:22

Don't tell anybody. So when you think about Super Bowls, yes, do you ever think about dot bears?

Speaker 2 31:34

Often.

Speaker 3 31:35

The Super Bowl shuffle.

Speaker 2 31:37

Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 31:38

Released in December of 85.

Speaker 2 31:44

Was that? Did they play the Steelers that year? You happen to know.

Speaker 3 31:47

I don't remember.

Speaker 2 31:47

I'm only asking because my stepbrother was a big Steelers fan and I remember this vividly and I remember watching a Super Bowl with him, so I feel like it was all kind of around the same time.

Speaker 3 31:57

I don't remember who they played.

Speaker 2 31:59

Like I remember laying on my parents' bed, he and I with our chins on our hands and our feet kicked in the air watching the TV in their bedroom, and I feel like it was all around the same time.

Chicago Bears Music Video Impact

Speaker 3 32:11

I don't remember who they played I only went in about, I was only concentrating on the Super Bowl show. I might say Okay. I might say Okay, we'll see. Sometimes that happens, yeah, sometimes I don't remember what I wrote. So it was released in December 1985, seven weeks ahead of their win in Super Bowl. Xx, oh yeah, it's two X's, yeah. The song peaked at number 41 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Now, that's ridiculous and it earned a Grammy nomination, that's even more ridiculous For best R&B performance by a duo or group.

Speaker 2 32:47

If I was a duo or group R&B performer and they put that in my category, I'd be fucking irate.

Speaker 3 32:54

It sold over 500,000 copies.

Speaker 2 32:57

I mean, yeah, that's all well and good, and of course it did, but if you haven't heard it, especially if you haven't seen the video, I watched. Look it up, it was amazing I can still, I don't even need to watch it I remember it.

Speaker 3 33:10

I went back and watched.

Speaker 2 33:11

It's like smoky right like it's like a smoky they're in a bar, in a bar, yeah yeah, yeah, all these big guys shaking their booties. It's pretty awesome, it really is.

Speaker 3 33:24

It fell in line with the Bears' high media attention as they competed. Their one loss regular season Completed their one loss regular season. I mean they were everywhere. The Bears were everywhere. Like you couldn't spit without hitting.

Speaker 2 33:38

They were on SNL, they were everywhere SNL, they were everywhere.

Speaker 3 33:45

Yeah, the 85.

Speaker 2 33:55

Chicago Bears were the second sports team to have their own music video after the 1985.

Speaker 3 33:58

Seattle Seahawks made one earlier in the season which I did not look up. I don't remember that. By the way, they lost to Prince Kiss as their Grammy, poor Prince, was put in the same category as the fucking Super Bowl. He was probably mortified.

Speaker 2 34:07

It's so funny. I just watched a clip today. It was somebody posted an old clip and it was an old Grammys category was best black single, which just sounds so yeah, awful now you know, and they, they go around and the other nominees, of course you know they're happy and they're smiling, but they get to prince and he's sitting there just staring at the ground like are you fucking serious, right?

Speaker 3 34:37

best black single, like I missed a chance to see prince. I really did. He was in. He was, uh, um, he was in vegas. I was in vegas, he was in vegas, yeah, and I didn't go because it was super expensive and I gamble, yeah, and that I felt was more important than seeing prince regret that don't you. I do because I could, you know, gamble anytime. I could waste two hundred dollars any day of the week yeah um.

Speaker 3 35:06

They made over three hundred thousand dollars in profits from the song and music video and they donated it to the chicago community trust to help chicago families in need with clothing, shelter and food it was number 41 on the top 100 and got a gram grammy nomination and only made $300,000. I mean $300,000 in 1985 money. I guess that's probably a lot.

Speaker 2 35:27

All you hear these days are billions of dollars.

Speaker 3 35:30

Well, but that's not adjusted for inflation Right. It could be billions of dollars, I don't know. The video was taped at Park West, a Chicago nightclub, the morning after the Bears' only loss of the 85 season 38-24 to the Miami Dolphins on Monday Night Football.

Speaker 2 35:49

Oh, their only loss. That was the season loss on Monday Night Football. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 3 35:52

On December 2nd 1985. Okay, jim McMahon and Walter Payton refused to participate in the video shoot, thinking it would be better to release the song and video after the season was complete. I mean they're not wrong.

Speaker 2 36:05

I mean, pick your battles here, guys, just well.

Speaker 3 36:09

So they got outvoted and I guess I changed their minds because if and if you go back and watch now, they recorded at a different time than the rest so they're not in. They superimpose them horribly badly, because I did, I watched it. I was like huh, I wonder why I never noticed that before, like they don't even like they filmed it somewhere out like it's yeah, they just basically just like poop popped them right on there. Nice, nice, a little crazy Nice.

Speaker 3 36:41

Seven of the surviving 85 bears were reunited to film an updated version as a 30-second commercial promoting Boost Mobile, which aired during Super Bowl 44. You see how I wrote that one out, because I was not going to try it. The chorus. We are the bear. Shuffling crew. Shuffling on down doing it for you. We're so bad. Shuffling crew. Shuffle on down Doing it for you. We're so bad. We know we're good. Blowing your mind like we knew we would. Yep, that's all we are allowed to sing.

Speaker 2 37:08

That was that awful song, because.

Speaker 3 37:09

I don't want to pay for it. I want to add to the $300,000. Oh, it's the Patriots, with his bears leading the Patriots 37-3,. Head coach Mike Ditka. Oh, no, no, no, that's a different time, never mind.

Speaker 1 37:25

Oh, no, no it was that one.

Speaker 3 37:27

It was that one. Okay, sure, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. The Bears leading the Patriots 37-3, head coach Mike Ditka sent defensive lineman William Refrigerator Perry in to smash it into the end zone for another score. No significance to the game, but it was definitely memorable. I remember when the Fringe I love running up the score, stumbling and bumbling yeah.

Speaker 2 37:53

Big fan of running up the score.

Speaker 3 37:55

I don't know if you also remember Albert L Woods, also known as Iicky woods. I the icky shuffle, the icky shuffle, yeah, I do remember that uh, the former cincinnati bengal fullback, grabbed plenty of attention after a stellar rookie season with 15 rushing touchdowns in 1988 and another three touchdowns during the bengal super bowl run. Unfortunately, a torn ACL and subsequent knee injury knocked him out of football after only four seasons. The shuffle, however, lives on. He yeah, I remember the icky shuffle.

Speaker 2 38:34

Yeah, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3 38:36

A little bit, a little bit the Cowboys. These are all memorable Super Bowl moments.

Speaker 2 38:44

I like it.

Speaker 3 38:45

You're going to really love this one. The Cowboys were killing the Bills when Leon Lett recovered a fumble and ran towards the end zone. When he got to the 10, he slowed down and held the ball out to showboat.

Speaker 2 39:02

I hate that. That drives me crazy.

Speaker 3 39:04

Bill's wide receiver, don Beebe, caught up with him and knocked the ball out of his hands into the end zone for a touchback. Lett's big mistake was slowing down. They did win that game, yeah, because the Bills have never won, correct, yeah.

Speaker 2 39:25

That was probably the last time they won one, but we still have to hear about it, yeah.

Speaker 3 39:33

So this one's going to hurt my feelings. This one, everyone is going to hurt my feelings. I hate to say this, gonna hurt my feelings. I hate to say this. In january 26, 1997, the green bay packers were about to win the super bowl for the first time in 29 years. Don bb was in his eighth nfl season and making his fifth super super bowl appearance. That's the part that hurts my feelings.

Speaker 3 39:58

On the final play of the night and the only thing he has ever done that I will give him credit for, favre knelt down before turning around and handing the game ball to BB a man who ended his career without a probable appearance as a mark of respect for the struggle endured. Without a probable appearance as a mark of respect for the struggle endured Immediately after BB was engulfed by his brother, wife and two children who managed to navigate security yeah.

Speaker 3 40:28

I hate, absolutely despise. I broke up with someone over Brett Favre. I am not kidding you. I am not kidding you. We broke up because of Brett Favre. Brett Favre is a horrible human being. I can't kidding you. I am not kidding you. We broke up because of Brett Favre.

Speaker 2 40:43

Brett Favre is a horrible human being.

Speaker 3 40:44

I can't stand him. He is an, absolutely he's the most overrated quarterback ever because he just tosses the ball up. If he hadn't had receivers that could do it, he just tosses the ball for anybody. Yep, that's why he leads with the most interceptions.

Speaker 2 41:00

Yep, that's why he leads with the most interceptions. Yep, and he was sending dick pics to 20-year-olds while his wife was going through breast cancer treatment.

Speaker 3 41:07

I mean that sucks, but I don't even care about that. I just hate him so much I hate him as a player, as a person.

Speaker 2 41:15

I hate when any sports outlets give him any airtime now in the interview, which is rare. I think he's fallen from grace.

Speaker 3 41:22

Well, yeah, because now he's got that other scandal going on, mm-hmm yeah.

Speaker 2 41:27

Yeah, yeah. I don't even Taking money from the poor. Yeah, yeah, to build a ring.

Speaker 3 41:31

You all are lucky I said his name, because usually I don't say his name, I don't even say his number anymore. Bob Ra, yeah, I usually say number after three. That's how I refer to him. That brings us to halftime. Whoop, whoop. Up until 98, or no 88. Up until 98, it was just usually just marching bands. Occasionally it was a star, but it was like a Broadway star, it was nobody, nobody exciting, or no. Up to 91. Although in 1988, shelby Checker did.

Speaker 2 42:08

I saw Shelby Checker Did you In Atlantic City my 21st birthday. My mom took me to Atlantic City. I had just moved in with my boyfriend and she was not happy, so it was a really awkward, weird trip. Oh yeah, but oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, but we did see Chubby Checker. You were 21 then.

Speaker 3 42:29

Yeah.

Speaker 2 42:31

Well, no, I was 19 when I moved in with him. But Right yeah, I think I had married him by then. So she was. Ok with it, but I still wasn't. Anyway, that's enough about Nicole's mom, yeah, if you'd ever like to know why Nicole's crazy.

Speaker 3 42:50

I'm not your mom. Okay, we're not going to talk about your mom.

Speaker 2 42:54

Okay, your mom, your mom, your mom.

Speaker 3 42:58

We will talk about my mom. Yeah, she's crazy too, she is crazy.

Speaker 2 43:02

She's cute crazy.

Speaker 3 43:03

Look, my mom will fight you to the death over the Eagles. That woman will take your ass out. Let me tell you something If I were to ever have brought a Cowboys fan home, she'd kill me. Oh yeah, that would be against the law. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 43:22

Now she's okay with some cowboys fans, because dt was a cowboys fan and she's okay she even gives him asparagus, so she's okay, I used to work with a man at dover downs that was a gals fan and I adored him, but he wasn't a dick about it there are, are some.

Speaker 3 43:39

There are Cowboy fans that I can tolerate. Yes, yeah, it's the bandwagon fans that I think. Right, they're all Kansas City Chief fans right now. So, yeah, they moved on from the Cowboys, yeah that is true, but anybody who's a real Cowboys fan now is an actual Cowboys fan at this point.

Speaker 2 43:56

So, like your mom's love of football, like it even transcends the Eagles, because she, I remember, when now his name is going to escape me the old quarterback that came into your restaurant, johnny U, yeah. And your mom, oh my God, she might as well have seen God himself.

Speaker 3 44:23

She would not leave the man alone. She wouldn't. She hugged him like 97 times. She just annoyed the shit. Doug Flutie also came in and ate.

Speaker 1 44:33

She wasn't as excited to see Doug Flutie as she was Johnny U, but yeah.

Speaker 3 44:37

Yeah, he came in a couple times, so she must not have made him too crazy. He was like oh look, but yeah, yeah, he came in a couple times, so she must not have made him too crazy.

Speaker 2 44:43

He was like oh, look, a fan.

Speaker 3 44:45

My mother is hardcore, hardcore. Yes, yeah, I'm telling you I would be disowned, I always say because my sister has a son, not that he would ever. He is not inclined for sports, unlike his sister. But I was when he was growing up. I was like, well, what if he? What if he plays football and wants to be and is a cowboy? And she's like I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what I would do.

Speaker 2 45:14

Not sure if I'll disown him or not. We'll have to wait.

Speaker 3 45:17

Cross that bridge when we get there, that We'll have to wait and cross that bridge when we get there. That is the sun, Her sun, moon and stars is that boy. So you know, she didn't know what she was going to do about that. There's no hope for any of us. Yeah, she's hardcore, yeah, yeah. So 91 was when celebrities and like the halftime show really.

Speaker 2 45:37

Like pop.

Speaker 3 45:38

Yeah, pop music Really started to become a thing like halftime shows and it kicked off with the new kids on the block and it was to celebrate the 25th super bowl okay yeah, uh 92 was um gloria estefan, and it was a tribute to the winter olympics gloria estefan was interviewed at the grammys red carpet.

Speaker 2 46:00

Oh yeah, uh-huh, she look. This is gonna sound awful, but she looks very old and I'm just shocked because she's always just been so, gloria stefanish yeah and I guess I haven't seen her in years. Like she always just looked the same, she never seemed to age for a long time and now, like I guess, she hit that point where we're all gonna hit where there's just no going back in that wall yeah I mean, she's still a beautiful woman, but it it that was one of those.

Speaker 3 46:27

It was like oh, I'm old, that's how I feel about christian slater on the new um dexter. Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, he looks old he's like a gray hair and stuff.

Speaker 2 46:39

No, no Christian no, he's just a skater. I mean.

Speaker 3 46:42

Heathers is one of my favorite fucking movies of all time. I had a huge crush on Christian Slater because I like the bad boys Gleaming the Cube. What was the one where he was a DJ?

Speaker 2 46:57

Oh, god damn it, I'm not going to remember it. I can't remember either.

Speaker 3 47:01

I have itmit I'm not going to remember it. I can't remember either. I'd love I have it somewhere. I don't know. He's just okay. Enough about Christians later. Okay, maybe we'll talk about him later. Well, I'm sure we will. 93, and I did go back and watch this Michael Jackson. It was the most watched halftime show of all time. I don't think anybody has come has beat him, and when I watched it he literally stood on the stage for two minutes straight, motionless. He did not move for two minutes while the crowd went insane for two full minutes I'm going to have to go by you should.

Speaker 3 47:38

Like he literally just doesn't move, and then he moves a little and then he goes into and um it it was yeah, um, uh, do you?

Speaker 2 47:48

do you know the singer? I think janelle monae is her name, maybe she's been out for a little bit. Um, she on the grammys again, uh, the other night did um, like a tribute kind of thing. I don't think it was a tribute, but she performed, and she performed like Michael Jackson. She like moonwalked and grabbed her crotch and like did the whole, threw her jacket out in the crowd. Taylor Swift caught it and wore it for the rest of the Grammys, like it was. It was outstanding.

Speaker 3 48:19

It was really good. I don't care, I love Taylor Swift. I don't care, I love her.

Speaker 2 48:22

Did you see what she wore that?

Speaker 3 48:23

night. Yes, oh, my God, apparently that's an Easter egg For all you Swifties. I did know that that was an Easter egg. The chain her thigh chain. Yeah, yeah With the T.

Speaker 2 48:34

And she wore Kansas City red, yeah, yeah, her Christmas, because the whole time everybody else is sitting and she's up dancing, celebrating everybody. I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 48:51

What sold me on her was the video that came out of her and Travis. Travis took the video of them in the Bahamas or something and she is out in the water on this bouncy thing and the whole time she's like are you watching? Are you looking at me? Are you watching? Are you looking at me? And then he's like, yes no-transcript. Yeah, she's, I'm.

Speaker 2 49:35

She's 35 years old exactly you should be the one teaching your children about alcohol, never mind taylor.

Speaker 3 49:42

Swift is not allowed to have alcohol at a football game like every other human being at a football game. But you can sit in your house and have wine o'clock and chug a bottle of wine every night well, taylor swift's uh has sings a dig about the wine moms in in one of her songs she should, because that's ridiculous. Like what's a woman?

Speaker 2 50:03

but yeah, I am. I am super excited that taylor's coming to our super bowl. Yeah, I am excited for that. But I had an argument about this with my nephew the other night. He's 29. And it's not that he dislikes Taylor Swift, but he's kind of one of those crotchety football like and I'm like so what? So you don't want to see her. I want to see her. When I see Travis catch a pass, I'm staring at that tv until they flash up to that box and I get to see her cheering for him, because she's like a little kid cheering for her boyfriend, like she's so cute. Well, and here's the other thing.

Speaker 3 50:35

She brought a lot and they you know I know that they talk about it on their podcast, the kelsey brothers she brought a lot of girls who are now sitting with their dads and watching football games that normally wouldn't have, yep, just so they can watch for Taylor Swift and you know they do show her what four or five times during the game. And it's what a four-hour game.

Speaker 2 50:59

So yeah, and when they show her, it's literally two seconds yeah.

Speaker 3 51:03

So these little girls are watching the game, waiting for her, they're learning about the game and, you don't know, are watching the game waiting for her, they're learning about the game and you don't know, who knows, one of those girls might be the first female nfl player, exactly. I mean you. Just you don't know. That's yep.

Speaker 2 51:14

I think it does nothing but good things for it's always just those crotchety, grumpy people that have to bitch about fucking everything what's the difference between showing her every 15 minutes or bradley?

Speaker 3 51:27

because Bradley Cooper is at every Eagles game and they show him 900 times in the stadium and nobody ever says a word because he's Bradley Cooper.

Speaker 2 51:34

Yep or basketball games.

Speaker 1 51:37

Look how many celebrities they show at the sidelines all the time.

Speaker 2 51:41

You see Spike Lee more than you see the Lakers Right. Okay, that's the soapbox for now.

Speaker 3 51:50

That's the Taylor's soapbox.

Speaker 2 51:51

We're going to switch out of feminist Heather Nicole and get back to the story.

Speaker 3 51:57

She was an Eagles fan. She was, that does bother me that she traded teams, but I get it.

Speaker 2 52:01

Well, yeah, you have to, but I heard that Travis got questions. Well, I mean, if you were dating a football player.

Speaker 3 52:16

Let me tell you something. Well, look, there will never be a day in my entire life that I won't make bets with anybody. I will put that ugly, ass, motherfucking star on my body.

Speaker 1 52:28

I do not have a tattoo with a star I do not have, I will put that ugly ass motherfucking star on my body.

Speaker 3 52:31

I do not have a tattoo with a star I do not have. I will not put a fucking star anywhere near me. I won't do it.

Speaker 2 52:38

But I will say in her defense and this is maybe where I'm coming from with this Her dad is an Eagles fan. She actually didn't know much of anything about football when she met Travis, I guess, so just getting into it, I mean he did go on her tour every show he could go, I don't disagree. I'm just saying, I know, I know.

Speaker 3 52:58

Okay, we got to be done with Taylor? Do we though? Sorry, we don't have enough Swifties listening for that. You don't know that we might, if we keep talking about her, and they put it in the little description Hashtag.

Speaker 2 53:11

Taylor Swift We'll make sure we get it in there.

Speaker 3 53:16

So after Michael Jackson 94 was Clint Black, tanya Tucker, travis Tritt and the Judds.

Speaker 2 53:23

I do like.

Speaker 3 53:24

The theme was country.

Speaker 2 53:25

By the way, I do like Tanya Tucker. I mean, if I had to pick a country?

Speaker 3 53:32

I don't much care for country. There's like little songs here and there that I don't mind, but for the most part I don't. Yeah, it's not my cup of tea. Gotcha 95 was a theme of Indiana Jones. I don't. Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, Tony Bennett and Miami Sound Machine, which all of those together just don't sound like they go together, Never mind with an Indiana Jones theme.

Speaker 2 53:53

That's exactly what I was going. When you said Indiana Jones and then Patti LaBelle, I was like wait, hold on.

Speaker 3 53:58

I don't, I didn't look it up. I should have looked it up just Then you ended with Miami Sound Machine and. I was just totally confused. I don't know what happened there that sounds like a lot of chaos.

Speaker 2 54:07

That sounds like a few years ago, when they had all those rappers on stage.

Speaker 3 54:10

We'll get to that one too, and it just was not poor. You didn't like it, I loved it. We'll get to that.

Speaker 2 54:15

All right, I'll talk about it when we get to it.

Speaker 3 54:18

We'll get to it. See, it's the bottom one. I didn't look that far ahead, okay 30 Years of Super Bowls was the theme with Diana Ross. She did one earlier, she did the National Anthem. Oh shit, that's right 97 was the Blues Brothers theme. Yes, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Jim Belushi, ZZ Top and James Brown. Okay, that all goes together.

Speaker 2 54:39

That would have been amazing. I didn't look that up either, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 54:45

Jim Belushi was still alive in 97. Jim, not john. Yeah, okay, gotcha, I believe jim is still alive. You said blues brothers curly which happens to be one of my favorite movies of all the blues brothers, yes, yeah, it's good that is an excellent movie and jim belushi is also in, is in um curly sue and that is a really good movie, whoopi is also in that anyway uh 98 was the motown 40th anniversary. Boys to Men Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, the Temptations and. Queen Latifah, I love her.

Speaker 2 55:16

I saw Boys to Men a couple summers ago at the Fremont stage. It was before you worked there. Did I see them? No, they were very good still, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 55:28

I saw them at. They played at an Eagles game. Okay, they did the halftime show at the Eagles game and Belle Biv Devoe With Belle Biv Devoe, Best 15 minutes of my whole anyway. 99 was the Salsa and Swing Gloria, Estefan, Stevie Wonder, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Savion Glover.

Speaker 2 55:51

It's so funny Like you can see how far Latino music has come, because Gloria Estefan got a lot of love, because that was probably like one of the only Latino stars that there were to put out there Because she's done it. I've seen her name like three or four times already.

Speaker 3 56:07

Yeah, I mean her name like three or four times already. Yeah, I mean it might also have some. They probably. Miami gets a lot of Super Bowls too.

Speaker 2 56:15

Yeah, I was going to say maybe the Dolphins were good for a while there too.

Speaker 3 56:20

It could be that, and you know what's it Joe Robbie Stadium. Is it still called Joe Robbie Stadium? I have no idea. Do they still play in Joe Robbie Stadium?

Speaker 2 56:27

I. Is it still called Joe Robbie Stadium? I have no idea, do they?

Speaker 3 56:28

still play in Joe Robbie Stadium. I don't know. Did they ever play in Joe Robbie Stadium? I don't know. In 2000 was the Tapestry of Nations with Phil Collins your favorite Christina Aguilera, enrique Iglesias and Tony Braxton. That sounds fucking awful. Well, I don't really understand where Phil Collins fits in there. I love.

Speaker 2 56:48

Tony Braxton.

Speaker 3 56:49

I love Phil Collins, but I don't really understand where Phil Collins fits in there. I love Toni Braxton, I love Phil Collins, but I don't understand how you put. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know I mean.

Speaker 2 56:58

I love Enrique and his wife. They're one of the most stunningly beautiful couples I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 57:03

Sure but.

Speaker 3 57:04

Their kids are probably crazy pretty.

Speaker 2 57:05

But with Phil Collins, like I don't know, it seems like I don't know he does seem out of place, Like he seems like he'd be that show up there and be like, all right, who are all of you? And you are. Why am I here?

Speaker 3 57:19

2001 was the Kings of Rock and Pop, and it was Aerosmith and NSYNC.

Speaker 2 57:25

I remember that one. It didn't go so well.

Speaker 3 57:29

I can't imagine that it did that. 02 was a tribute to 9-11 and it was U2.

Speaker 2 57:36

Yeah, which is weird that you would have an Irish band pay tribute to an American tragedy.

Speaker 3 57:43

I can't. I don't even know what to say about that, yeah.

Speaker 2 57:47

I mean I like U2. I know you can't stand U2. I hate U2. I can't even know what to say about that. Yeah, I mean I like you too. I know you can't stand me too. I can't.

Speaker 3 57:51

I don't know why you hate them so much. I don't know either, I just don't.

Speaker 2 57:55

Yeah, you've never given me an answer.

Speaker 3 57:56

I don't know why. Yeah, Bono, just I can't take it.

Speaker 2 58:00

I totally get it. There are people like that that I hate too.

Speaker 3 58:04

I don't know why Like.

Speaker 2 58:04

Kelly Clarkson. She's perfectly lovely. I can't stand her. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 58:11

Maybe we all have our thing. 03 was Shania Twain, and no Doubt Meh.

Speaker 2 58:16

I mean, I love Shania Twain, I love Gwen Stefani At least I did until she started dating What's-His-Face and it just didn't make any sense to me.

Speaker 3 58:26

You should hear Joe go on about that. Every time they show her, he's like what? And I'm like I don't know.

Speaker 2 58:30

Yeah, it bothers me too.

Speaker 3 58:32

I'm pro-Joe 04, they come back with the themes, or no? No, this was what was the theme of the last one, I guess Girls with Shania Twain, and no Doubt, I didn't write down what the rest. 04, the theme was Choose or Lose Janet Jackson, p Diddy, nelly, kid Rock, justin Timberlake, jessica Simpson, and that was the nip slip.

Speaker 2 58:56

That was okay. I don't think I remembered that. I think there were other people.

Speaker 3 59:02

No, I think that's the only thing anybody remembers is the last three seconds of that.

Speaker 2 59:06

So, like I tried to say earlier before you told me to stop talking about it there is a conspiracy theory that Justin Timberlake did that on purpose to get publicity and there is also controversy that that's what ended Janet Jackson's career, basically Because she really kind of fell off after that she did and I am a huge Janet Jackson's career basically Because she really kind of fell off after that she did and I am a huge Janet Jackson fan. I always have been Like I had her cassette tapes as a kid.

Speaker 2 59:37

I love her voice. Yeah, she's my guilty pleasure and I always loved Justin, but it really bothers me that he cheats on his wife.

Speaker 3 59:48

I prefer him as an actor.

Speaker 2 59:51

Yeah, yeah, definitely that, and I think he's funny like on SNL. Oh, I love him.

Speaker 3 59:57

He and Jimmy Fallon together, he's great on SNL.

Speaker 2 1:00:00

Kid Rock can suck a dick, nelly can suck a dick.

Speaker 3 1:00:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:00:07

I mean, I wouldn't have said that three weeks ago, but I'm saying it today.

Speaker 3 1:00:12

I'm going to stop being controversial and let you be controversial.

Speaker 2 1:00:19

Yeah, and Jessica Simpson, yeah, I'm fine with her, she's fine, she's perfectly fine. Yeah, she dated Tony Romo, which was a Cowboys fan or was a Cowboy, and that's a thing against her. But one of the things I will say as an Eagles fan that I have converted is I like Tony Romo. As an answer, I won't say that I love it.

Speaker 3 1:00:40

I don't mind him. He's certainly better than Chris Collinsworth, because I want to hang myself every time I hear Chris Collinsworth, and you know what is the worst?

Speaker 2 1:00:48

His son.

Speaker 3 1:00:49

Yes.

Speaker 2 1:00:50

Who looks and sounds exactly like him, exactly like him. So our entire life we're going to have Collinsworth on our football Sundays. It's not fair. No, I was like Collinsworth will at least retire one day and then we won't have to deal with it anymore, but there is a clone of him coming up to take over, and it sucks.

Speaker 2 1:01:10

You clone of him. Second, coming up to take over, and it sucks. You know who I really can't stand and you know I like tom brady and you hate tom brady. He's awful. Yeah, he looks like a fucking bobblehead with the stupid grin on his face just staring at the camera, just smiling and nodding, can't stand him. It's terrible, it's awful, like it's. It's actually um a relief, though, to see him do something that he's so horrible at, because he just seems so practically perfect all the time here's my thing about tom brady.

Speaker 3 1:01:34

I will admit that he is the greatest quarterback. He is the goat. I'm going to give him that, but that's it I don't like him. I don't care about him. I don't want to talk him, I just want him to fade off into the sunset, and I know he's not ever going to.

Speaker 2 1:01:52

but but that would be ideal for him.

Speaker 3 1:01:55

I mean.

Speaker 2 1:01:56

Like just go.

Speaker 3 1:01:58

I don't know why you would divorce your wife when she makes three times what you do. But whatever, what?

Speaker 2 1:02:02

do? I know he wanted some of that young thing. I mean you're married to whatever right exactly. It was like jay z, it's the cheating on beyonce, like okay, I don't know yeah, uh.

Speaker 3 1:02:16

So in 05 they stopped with the themes all that time, uh, and it was paul mccartney. He's awesome I've seen paul mccartney I have too.

Speaker 2 1:02:26

He was at firefly. Oh, oh yeah, one year.

Speaker 3 1:02:29

My mom made me go. We saw him at the vet.

Speaker 2 1:02:31

He's actually amazing, he was.

Speaker 3 1:02:33

I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 1:02:34

Yeah, yeah, I was seeing him because I was like it's a real life Beatle. Of course I'm going to go watch him play, but it was an amazing show, I loved it. An amazing show, I loved it.

Speaker 3 1:02:46

I enjoyed Paul McCartney. My mom of course she was. Paul was her favorite Beatle, right I? Remember that 06 was the Stones, yeah, 07, and I did watch this one again was Prince. I don't care who you are. That was the best halftime show that has ever happened.

Speaker 2 1:03:11

That halftime show was literally orchestrated by the gods.

Speaker 3 1:03:15

He was playing Purple Rain in the motherfucking rain In the rain. Go back and watch it, because it is In like 10 inch heels. Yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 1:03:29

I just I love, I love. Yes, I know he's a wackadoo. No, I don't even think he's a wackadoo, I think he's a genius.

Speaker 3 1:03:36

I mean, I know why he did the symbol. Thing.

Speaker 2 1:03:39

He had to.

Speaker 3 1:03:40

Same reason, taylor is re-releasing all her Taylor versions of everything.

Speaker 2 1:03:44

Right.

Speaker 3 1:03:44

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:03:45

Yeah, and I mean it doesn't surprise me that he was on all sorts of medications and stuff.

Speaker 3 1:03:52

Anybody creative has to be.

Speaker 2 1:03:54

Yeah, and the way he, those heels that he wore and the moves that he did and like he was definitely a tortured soul, but we all gained from that because his music is. We'll talk about him another time.

Speaker 3 1:04:10

We'll do a whole episode on Prince. Oh, yay, okay, I'll stop. 17, 2017 was Lady Gaga.

Speaker 1 1:04:18

I'm sorry, I just love Lady Gaga and I thought that was one of the best.

Speaker 3 1:04:22

I think that I would put that as number two in. Yeah, in, in, yeah um in 2022. It was dr dre snoop, eminem mary j blige, kendrick lamar, 50 cent, and it was the most viewed on youtube and it was the first to win an emmy I did like.

Speaker 2 1:04:40

I thought the set was amazing.

Speaker 3 1:04:43

I love the houses it was very gen, x pointed it yes, and I love kendrick lamar.

Speaker 2 1:04:51

um, I happened upon him at firefly also. Um, we went, you know, one year with my nephew, who is way hipper than I ever was, and, uh, going in he was like you've got to see, you've got to go see kendrickachemeyer, he's awesome. So we saw him live the first time ever and he really was amazing. Poor Fitty, he looked like a stuffed tick.

Speaker 1 1:05:16

His head was just going to explode.

Speaker 2 1:05:18

They kept him upside down way too long, yes, so that part was kind of funny. I'm not an Eminem fan. I love Jerry, I love Snoop till two weeks ago.

Speaker 3 1:05:34

Okay, Moving on, let's hear a word from our sponsors. Ooh, 1971, Coke. I'd like to buy the world. A Coke was the first viral. I mean for 71, if you can say viral at that point. I remember it very well.

Speaker 2 1:05:53

I'd like to teach the world to sing.

Super Bowl Commercial Memories and Reflections

Speaker 3 1:05:57

In perfect harmony, perfect harmony. So that was 71. In 1980, Coke again was the. Mean Joe Green hey Kid catch.

Speaker 2 1:06:09

This is my favorite Coke commercial of all time it was 84 was Macintosh.

Speaker 3 1:06:17

Of course we talked about that in the Bill and Steve's Nerdy Adventure. If you want to go back and let's talk about the Macintosh commercial.

Speaker 2 1:06:25

Also.

Speaker 3 1:06:26

Wendy's when the Beef. That's where that ad. That was a Super Bowl commercial. Yes, it was aintosh commercial. Also, wendy's when the Beef, that's where that ad originated.

Speaker 2 1:06:30

That was a Super.

Speaker 3 1:06:30

Bowl commercial. Yes, it was a Super Bowl commercial.

Speaker 2 1:06:32

She was the cutest old lady.

Speaker 3 1:06:34

I love her.

Speaker 2 1:06:34

In the back of that car. The car's like going side to side. Where's the beef? I love that it was so ridiculous.

Speaker 3 1:06:41

It really is. Oh man.

Speaker 2 1:06:52

93 was the showdown between michael jordan and larry bird, I remember that.

Speaker 3 1:06:55

Or the mcdonald's 95 was the budweiser frogs. Oh, I love them bud wise. 96 was the cindy crawford pepsi commercial.

Speaker 2 1:07:00

Yeah she's so beautiful and her daughter looks exactly like her.

Speaker 3 1:07:06

Oh my gosh, it's crazy daughter looks exactly like her mother, reese. My gosh, it's crazy. You know who else's daughter looks exactly like her mother, reese Witherspoon's daughter.

Speaker 2 1:07:10

Yes, might as well be her.

Speaker 3 1:07:12

Yes, yes, they look, I mean, yeah, it would be hard to tell them apart, yeah, 2000,. It was Wazzup Wazzup.

Speaker 3 1:07:21

Oh my God, how long did people answer the phone like that after like um, so this one in 2002, it is the only time it has ever been aired. It was aired one time and that was it. If you go back and watch it, it makes me cry. Every fucking time I watch it and I have, I have remembered it every now and then I'm like, oh, and then I watch it. It was um the clides dales bow their heads at the New York City skyline. No words are spoken. The entire it's just the Clydesdales.

Speaker 3 1:07:57

And it is very moving and they only aired it one time and they don't probably ever need to air it again, because if you watch it, it's yeah. Yeah, if you missed it the one time, it's on YouTube so you can watch it. 2010, betty White has the Snickers. You're Not you. 2011 was the little Volkswagen kid with the force, using the force.

Speaker 3 1:08:23

There's a lot of other ones, but these are the ones I like 2015 had the Like a Girl girl like to throw like a girl and that was very that was cool yep, in 2014, a very gen x commercial was the radio shack commercial that the 80s called, and they want their radio shack back and it was um every 80s thing, and look it up. It it was Hulk Hogan and now Radio.

Speaker 2 1:08:51

Shack's not even a thing anymore.

Speaker 3 1:08:53

Well, that's what I thought I was like 2014.

Speaker 2 1:08:55

I feel like Radio Shack was gone by then, but I guess not no, because there was one down the road here until just a few years ago.

Speaker 3 1:09:01

Really Weird. Okay, so you know we were doing it. It now it's the two minute warning in the fourth quarter of our episode we're almost there guys, I know an hour and 10 minutes. I'm gonna try and, but I accidentally did this part in the beginning, so we're gonna just do a little. Um, anyway, the greatest super bowl in the history of super bowls was was February 4th 2018 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, minnesota.

Speaker 2 1:09:31

Which, by the way, the team that went there and won beat Minnesota to get there in their own stadium the first time anybody decorated the Iraqi statue and that's why they lost Yep.

Speaker 3 1:09:44

And now they think it's just somebody doing it just for it's an Eagles fan doing it.

Speaker 2 1:09:49

It's a superstition thing, that's fine whatever works, that was.

Speaker 3 1:09:53

Super Bowl 52, where the Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots for their first Super Bowl victory with a score of 41-33. I watch it all the time, as I stated before.

Speaker 2 1:10:10

I just got goosebumps.

Speaker 3 1:10:13

I'm sorry, but the Philly Philly play is the most gutsy ballsy play you could run. Yes, I mean it just is. And, Doug Peterson, that's how they played.

Speaker 2 1:10:28

They were ballsy.

Speaker 3 1:10:29

Yep, they had that whole. No one likes us. We're from Philly, fucking Philly.

Speaker 2 1:10:36

Underdogs yeah.

Speaker 3 1:10:38

It was everything about, and I was at the steps of the art museum when jason kelsey gave his speech.

Speaker 2 1:10:50

yeah, so if you don't know it, yeah, I was down in front of town hall in a wind tunnel, uh, freezing my ass off with my family complaining freezing their ass off. But we didn't know like. We took the train into town and we got there before it was even light outside and we just found the first spot we could find and we're like we're hunkering down here Because we knew it was going to fill in around us.

Speaker 3 1:11:15

If I were to go again, I don't think I would go. I'm not. I don't think I'm going to go if they win.

Speaker 1 1:11:20

Why.

Speaker 3 1:11:20

Yeah.

Speaker 2 1:11:29

Because I did it. I don't know, I just don't. I don't, I'm old now, you don't feel like you need to, and it's cold outside.

Speaker 3 1:11:31

I just I got. I don't know if I got to the point where I'm just an old lady and I don't want to have fun or what. But like I don't like crowds, number one.

Speaker 2 1:11:39

Right.

Speaker 3 1:11:39

I can't take crowds, I don't. Yeah, it was a rough day. It was rough, it was cold. You couldn't leave to go pee. It was just a lot that day. It was it was intense.

Speaker 2 1:11:53

Well, because, first of all, number one.

Speaker 3 1:11:57

Howie Long's son, chris Long, had made the bet back in like December, november or December, that if they won the Super Bowl he would buy everybody in Philadelphia a beer. Do you remember that? No, yeah. So when it came time for the super bowl, bud light came out and said they would pay his tab, that they were um, do you not remember the whole budweiser ad? No, gosh, I don't remember the Philly Philly thing. They did the Philly Philly thing for like Anyway. So they said that they would pick up the tab. So all over the city of Philadelphia on the parade day, bud Light was free.

Speaker 3 1:12:44

Yeah any Budweiser product as a matter of fact. Yeah, they picked up his tab. They said, look, when we're done here you look it up.

Speaker 2 1:12:52

Okay.

Speaker 3 1:12:53

It's all the whole thing. But yeah, huh, yeah. So they picked up. So everybody was drunk.

Speaker 2 1:13:00

I definitely couldn't have drank beer. I would have peed myself, shivering and not being able to get to the bathroom.

Speaker 3 1:13:05

Yeah, and not being able to get to the bathroom.

Speaker 3 1:13:08

Yeah, and we were at the end of the parade, so where they were giving their speeches, and the cool thing- about it, though, because I don't know about where you were, but at the art museum they had a giant TV up and they played the Super Bowl, and so that's, I think that's why I don't think I could go to this parade, because I did that. I watched the Super Bowl again with a million of my closest Eagle friends, because I don't know how many people were down there, but it was very crowded, and so before the team got down there, we were watching the Super Bowl. So you know, there was that. That's why I don't think I could go back, because I don't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:13:57

You just think it would be a disappointment, or it wouldn't be?

Speaker 3 1:14:01

I don't think it would. I just don't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:14:03

You'd get halfway through and be like why am I here?

Speaker 3 1:14:05

Oh well, I got to drive three hours back, Do?

Speaker 2 1:14:08

you want to just leave now.

Speaker 3 1:14:10

Yeah, I want to leave now, let's beat the crowd. Yeah, so I don't know, it'll be a game time decision for me, okay.

Speaker 2 1:14:17

Well, if you need someone to go with you, I'm pretty sure my husband has said he will never do it again. Oh, like I would go. I don't know, but I don't need to go, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:14:29

I think that's it, like I don't need to go.

Speaker 2 1:14:31

I mean it's just If the right thing came up offer, or and if it wasn't three hours away?

Speaker 3 1:14:37

Yeah, and I didn't have to get up at two o'clock in the morning to go, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 1:14:44

It seems like a lot, although taking the train in was clutch?

Philadelphia Eagles Parade Discussion

Speaker 3 1:14:47

Yeah, yeah, I would imagine. Where'd you take Wilmington? Did you catch at Wilmington? I?

Speaker 2 1:14:50

don't know no, because Tracy lived in South Jersey at the time.

Speaker 3 1:14:55

So I don't know, I just I don't yeah.

Speaker 2 1:14:57

I would have no idea how to do that by myself.

Speaker 3 1:14:59

I just don't think I could do it. We'll see yeah, so yeah, I won't. That's that about that.

Speaker 2 1:15:08

Okay, since you all care about whether we want to go to the parade or not. We'll let you know you went all the way to the end of the episode just to hear this crap Right.

Speaker 3 1:15:20

Sorry, yeah, thanks for listening. Like share rate review. We need to put that in the beginning of it, just because nobody cares about this part. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us on all the socials at likewhateverpod. Send an email to likewhateverpod at gmailcom or don't like whatever, whatever. E-a-g-l-e-s Eagles.