The Chris Plank Show talks underwhelming Tournament moments, George Foreman's passing & MORE!

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you I want you all to put this kind of
in the back of your head and we'll dive into
it later. Could end up being one of the wildest
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I used to when I first started in radio, I
had a boss. His name was Michael Dell. Jordan became
one of my best friends, and he said, and everything
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that might be conducive to the first ever live studio
audience in the history of the Planks, A very short
history of the Plank show.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, we'll update in just a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
And man, I know, we've got March Madness and it's
my favorite sporting given of the year, at least the
first two days are we'll talk about what I think,
for most people would be considered a monumental disappointment, because
you know, we did have a little bit of history
in the NCAA Tournament tonight. And it's it's not bad history,

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you know, it's not. It's not something that you look
at and you think, oh my god, how how embarrassing,
how terrible?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, unless you're the ACC. I mean this is.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
This is the first time that only one ACC team
is alive in the Round of thirty two in the
last fifty years.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Man, what a terrible year. And by the way, I'm
still not over Thursday night. Listen here, Clemson, show up,
Show up? What are we doing not even showing up
for the NCAA tournament? Ah and I'll be honest with you,
I didn't even really have Clemson going far in my bracket, like,
for instance, like Clark Kellogg had, Clemson is a final

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four team, Like if you had that, you should.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Be really really angry with the way they showed up.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
But no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
The stat that stands out to me, it's not that
from the acc we had zero, not a zippo zilch.
Seeds from thirteen and beyond that advanced. So basically what
we're saying is sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, and thirteen. And I
think the easier way to lay it out if you

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don't like the upsets, we've had zero true cinderellas. The
top four seeds went sixteen and zero in the first round,
and it's the first time since since twenty seventeen that
that's happened, and prior to that it was two thousand
and seven, and it's only happened four times in the

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last twenty five years now and total, the only times
the top four seeds went undefeated in the first round
since expansion of sixty four in nineteen eighty five, with
those four and twenty since twenty two thousand, seventeen, two
thousand and seven, two thousand and four, and two thousand
and nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
That is it.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
So if you're a fan of the upsets, which most
of us are, are the buzzer beaters. I'm preparing myself
for our show, this little mention here, and a majority
of the program tonight is going to be preparing myself
because I know what my buddy Arnie Spaniard is gonna
say on Sunday night, and I'm afraid I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Really have a counter.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't have a pushback to those of you that say,
oh man, this NCAA tournament has been a snoozer.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
We've had zero buzzer beaters.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
In fact, I didn't say this my brother, Good Evening
Mark In Brianna, producer co host Life Partners here for
four hour, three hours every single Friday night into a
Saturday morning. I mean, Brie, I don't know about you,
but I don't even know that many people that sit
here today and throw their hands up and like, oh
my bracket's busted.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It's terrible.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
I put together the top five moments from the NCAA Tournament.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I'm so excited because.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Every year you'll get that crazy buzzer beater, Kevin Coogler
or one of the great voices on Westwood One. It's like,
oh uh, and the minute men lats longer than one
minute in the NCAA tournament, I have all their little
cheesy calls that they have in the end.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
You know what I'm talking about, Brie? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I mean, we're gonna probably have to work on this
or the whole first hour. I don't even know what
the top five moments from the first two days of
the tournament are.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Do you gosh? No, I could maybe come up with
like two. Maybe I reached.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I reached.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'll present it to you during our first commercial break
and you see if it's arable, and maybe we'll do
it in our next second. By the way, Bri, how
was your week? How welcome? Welcome to the program tonight?
How was your week?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
It was going pretty okay? But now with the Sons
just killing the Cavaliers, I wanna high right now? I
wanna high?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Whoa we still have?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
We still have NBA action to talk about?

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Actually we do?

Speaker 1 (05:54):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Final score tonight one twenty three one twelve, Phoenix over
the clear when Cavaliers. I've got a great note go
figure on the Thunder that we'll get to a little
bit later on in the program, plus a hot scorching
take that my man Jason Smith would be proud of
on the Lakers Mark.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Good evening. How's your week been, Bud.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Good, very good, very good?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
All as well?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
All It's good, same here man.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I had the worst day maybe that I've ever had
on Tuesday, but everything beyond that has been outstanding.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
But I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I could sit here and we could talk for the
next you know, twenty minutes of our opening segment about
March madness and me complaining about zero buzzer beaters and
how it just hasn't had the umph we could pin
our sad goodbye to Jamis from New Orleans. Well, actually
it's wild because he was he was a Cleveland last year,
and yet New Orleans Saints fans treat him like he

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was the greatest thing that's ever happened. Did he even
have a winning record? As you all starting quarterback pree,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Think he did.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
No, he did not.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
But like the most beloved.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Terrible quarterback in the history of the NFL, uh, he
signs tonight where you guys know, I've been pretty open
and honest about my obsession with the Aaron Rodgers story
that I guess continues to kind of linger. But I
I want to start tonight with George Foreman. And when

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when George Foreman made his comeback, that that was the
golden age I think of boxing, and maybe maybe we're going.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
To look back and you know that the decade of.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Them and maybe I should be more specific here right
heavyweight boxing, heavyweight boxing. I I understand we have way
too many titles.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I get it. We have. We have way too many
federations and in belts.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
And we're we're trying to, I guess, reinvent the wheel
in a lot of ways.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But from.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
From Mike Tyson's emerjents, whenever, at you know, nineteen years
of age, he's knocking out guys like quick Tillis. Then
all of a sudden you look up and he's winning.
He's winning a title at the age of twenty years old.
And then he's fighting the biggest fights that anyone wanted
to see in the late eighties eighty eight, you know,

(08:21):
eighty nine against Frank Bruno. But then when Tyson lost
in ninety there was a certain sense of oh gosh,
where is where's heavyweight boxing going to go from here? Well,
enter a pretty good crop of younger boxers, right, Michael Moore,
Evander Holyfield. I mean, I'm old enough to remember when

(08:44):
the great Tommy Morris, Tommy Morrison was a thing for
a while. But you know, George Foreman's re emergence is
honestly at forty five and I'm forty nine. Okay, So
I think about George Foreman whenever he beat Michael Moore
in nineteen ninety four, which by the way, came basically

(09:10):
a little over a year from him losing to the
late great Tommy Morrison. But when he beat Michael Moore,
it was right in an era where heavyweight boxing was
can't miss you, just you couldn't miss it. And I
miss that. I don't know, And maybe tonight on the

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tweets into the show the X submissions, how everyone to
phrase it.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Maybe there might be some old heads like me that
feel the same way.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Maybe there might be that younger generation that kind of
longs for the days because like we didn't have to
generate some fake bs like you get with and again
whenever I'm not trying to hate on Jake Paul.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's not the point.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
But it wasn't some so of choreographed show. It was
a freaking fight, and it was a show in the ring.
He had craziness that would happen around big time fights.
We had dudes para selling or whatever, fan man jumping
in the ring, you had brawls, you had earbyites. He
had all this craziness through the late eighties and the

(10:23):
decade of I guess the nineties to two thousand and
heavyweight boxing, and George Foreman and his incredible return was
a major part of that. So tonight I'm really sad,
not just because well, let me rephrase that, I'm really
sad that I think an American icon passed away because

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he became so much more than a heavyweight boxer.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
He was the Foreman grill guy, right.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I would imagine that a majority of a whole new generation,
that's all they knew him for. I kind of always
got a kick out of the fact that I felt
like every single time I would hear about George Foreman,
there was another kid that had kind of popped up
that was his and the kid's name was George. Like,
can we have some creativity in the name George. But
for me on this, you know night, when we have

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a whole first round of the NCAA tournament to recap,
we got quarterback moves and the NFL to debate and
discuts in tonight when we're gonna take your calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine ninety six, six three sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm sad, but yet.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Thinking about George Foreman brings happy thoughts about a sport
that I miss, that I wish was still in some way,
shape or form relevant. Now there's I'm not turning this
into a boxing segment. I'm not gonna act like I've
been following the boxing beat or anything of that nature.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I can't even.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Pretend to Hell, I couldn't even tell you off the
top of my head right now who the actual heavyweight
champion is. I'd have to google it, but I'll add this.
It's all over TV now, right. You got Fox, you
got ESPN that's showing it NonStop. So some might argue, well,
I'm seeing more boxing than I ever have. But Mark Ramsey,
it's a different feel to boxing, right, It's not like
it once was.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
You were talking about the last half of George Foreman.
But in the beginning half, do you recall all the
time when George Foreman had a fight and he fought
three guys and one night.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes, that was.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Amazing, just he was so big and strong, just so powerful,
and somehow they had a fight night where he fought
three guys in a row. I'm sure the fans would
know what I'm talking about, but it was just a crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Crazy night.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I mean, you think about it, just in general, he
went from a guy that fought the likes of Ken Norton,
Joe Frazier. He fought Joe Fraser twice and beat him,
and Muhammad an Lee. The very first loss for George
Foreman was Muhammad ant Lee when he was twenty five

(12:56):
years old. And then you fast forward and he fought
the likes of Michael Moore and e Vander Holyfield.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Axel Schultz had to run there for a while.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
In the heavyweight division, Oh my gosh, I forgot about
I'm looking at his Wikipedia page right now.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I forgot about Shannon Briggs.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
But all I mean he had two eras when in
that heavyweight division, like Mike.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Sorry, he fought three dudes in one night. He fought
Muhammad Ali.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
He's he was a part of some of the greatest
boxing memories ever. And I'm sad for George Foreman tonight,
but it fills me with incredible like memories. They all
come flooding back, I mean, and it just doesn't have
to be George Foreman, right, It makes you think of ah,
like I would imagine, I hate to try to do

(13:47):
comparative deaths here or anything, but I and I can't
really think of any weight classier or less hokey to
put it. But I would think that if we were
sitting here tonight, and let's just say hypothetically we Darrel
Porter passed away a while back, so there's a good one.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
If we were reminiscing about Daryl Porter.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
For me, I would be like, oh my gosh, it
takes me back to in time when baseball was king
in my life. Right, those those eighty two Cardinals and
the run that they went on just really takes me back.
Or if you were, you know, going back and you
think about, like, if we were celebrating the life how
about it, this is going to if we were celebrating
the life of saying Tom Osborn, who's still with us,

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but you'd be like, oh my gosh, remember when college
football you had teams like Nebraska that would run the
bone and you couldn't stop him, Or if it was
Barry Switzer that we were memorializing. Today, Thankfully we're not,
and unfortunately we are thinking about George Forman.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
And for me it's not only man. I feel for
his family.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
You know, if there is, if there is a place
where I could, you know, sign up and go ahead
and confirm that what was George when he passed away
seventy six? If I could confirm that I could, it's
seventy six, which is still you know anymore today.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's like seventy six.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
I'm kind of young, right showed you what modern medicine
and technology has done. But if I could, if I
could get seventy six years, I feel pretty good about things.
I feel feel pretty good, and I'm sad that we
lost him, But it just it brings back such incredible
memories of a sport that.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Honestly has so much potential, and all it.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Takes is is one name, like a Foreman, a holy Field, Tyson,
you know he's in these.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Kind of come out of nowhere. Just makes me.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Really miss heavyweight boxing and it's prime heavyweight heavyweight boxing.
Whenever you know you're you're making sure that you got
the pay perview. Kids, we used to have to pick
up the phone and call to get to pay perview,
all right, You couldn't just click on the spring.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Or how about this one. I remember the very first.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Let me see, I got to go back here on
this one because this was whenever my mom, uh my mom,
let us get the pay per view. Whenever I was
sixteen for the Evander Holyfield fight and I'll never forget
they called it like the Battle of the Ages, and.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I had to go.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
And wait in line at our cable place to get
the actual box he had. You had to get a box,
and you got the box, call let's go, and you
take the box home and you have to plug it
in in order to watch the fight and set it
all up.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
B He's like, oh my gosh, you are so old. Hey,
how about it. You used to have to go to
a movie theater to watch pay per views.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
That's how I watched uh, that's how I watched one
of the Tyson holy Fields.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's just, dude, it's.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
A different time. The watch parties, the.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Talk sports talk radio was still kind of in its
infancy with fledgling, if you will, and it was a
major topic.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I don't know what the show is going to look
like tonight.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Because you guys can always take it in your own
direction at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. But
for me, as we honor the life and the legacy
of George Foreman, it takes me back to a time
when the prize fight was king and when you would
have these debates, what would you if you could have
one ticket to any sporting event? Would you want a

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ticket to Game seven of the NBA Finals or would
you want a Game seven World Series ticket? Would you
want a Super Bowl ticket? Would you want a ticket
to college football's biggest game? Or would you want a
ticket to a heavyweight prize fight in Vegas? Oh that'd
be tough. I mean heavyweight prize fight. Let's go alright,

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nine nine six six three six nine.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
When we come back, I wouldn't mind rolling through some
calls early.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
I know that we kind of like to set the
stage for a couple of segments, but if you guys
want to jump in and talk George forman and talk
boxing them all about it. But I've got to put
my five biggest moments from the first round of the
NCAA tournament up to Brie and see if she thinks
it's airworthy, because I.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Don't know if it is.

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Speaker 3 (19:20):
All right, welcome back into the Plank Show here on
Fox Sports Radio. I got a couple of lines up
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox if you
want to get in. But hey, real quick, since we
were on George Foreman, we were on a little boxing
Billy in South Carolina had checked in.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I want to get his.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Call in right off the top, and yeah, we're morning
a legend tonight, George Foreman. But for me, it also
kind of takes me back to that golden era of
boxing and heavyweight boxing specifically. So, Billy, welcome to the
show you're on in South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (19:53):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Hey, I'm good man.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
I saw that George Foreman fight with Bahamad Ali and
it brings back a lot of memories. I think my
father was alive back then and George was the man.
That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
You know, by the way, isn't it kind of wild?
You mentioned you sotherfire the Muhammad Ali. So I just
want to make sure that was his first loss, and
it was in nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Isn't it wild? Man?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Isn't it wild to think that you look back and
the dude then you know, twenty years later, at the
age of forty five, wins the heavyweight title, And I say, back,
but it truly was, I mean twenty years later, that's crazy.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Yes, yes, he was twenty five. I think when he
fought Muhammad. It's just like when Joe Fraser, Joe Fraser beat.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Muhammad the first time, you know, uh huh, yeah, it's great,
get a second.

Speaker 9 (20:49):
Time to it.

Speaker 8 (20:50):
That's when Muhammad took the title of.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
You're right, hey, let me let me let me pose
this to you real quick. Just a thought in general?
Am I off base here? I mean you you talked
about bringing it back to the Muhammad Ali. You and
I probably are kind of close to the same age.
And you know for me that that nineties the run
of the brit Bows of the world.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Are we ever going to get back to that in boxing? Made?
Wasn't that those heavyweight products?

Speaker 8 (21:19):
How can it be like that again? It's changed so much, man,
just like everything else.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I apprecia. I appreciate you checking in tonight. Man, thanks
for the phone call.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's it's, it's it's awesome. Heavyweight boxing was awesome.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
And you know, maybe you could rack this opening segment
and whenever, you know, maybe we are paying tribute to
the when when Riddick passes, or when Tyson passes, or
when we lose Evander Holyfield, it might be a very
similar conversation this one. This one hits different right because
to me, George Foreman, he became a media superstar after

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winning the title. Now some of the old heads will
have to correct me. I don't know if he had
started the TV analyst work before he had beaten Michael
Moore or after, But he also for so many people,
he had become like a voice of boxing because of

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the work that he had done on TV. The guy
retired and came back like like five or six times.
He has an incredible testimony for those of you that
are people of faith, right, I mean, it's it's it's
a really wild story about how he felt like he
boxing brought him closer to the Lord.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
It's just it's crazy in a good way, right.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
But he became a multi media rock star, and I
mean the rumble in the jungle for goodness sakes, and
then yet still had a whole other career after that.
Come on, we're never gonna get back to it, though.
I think I'm with you. I think I'm with you, Billy.
Thanks for the phone call now before we get really

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rolling on the call. Tonight at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox, I gave myself an assignment after watching
my beloved Sooners lose to Yukon tonight and get knocked
out of the NCAA tournament. Got a quick little nap
to make sure we were rested and ready for tonight,
and then I went to work on the top five

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moments from the first two days of the NCAA Tournament. Now,
is it fair to say here, Bri that after presenting
the list to you, you feel like we could have
stopped this at three?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (23:41):
That was my opinion.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
But I can see why those shoes could be as
like little fluffers.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Like you know, like light Well, I think in you know,
I say descending order, but does it really matter? I mean,
has there been this one moment that bri Are or
Chris Plank or any of you guys have been on
the phone with your frinchial.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Did you see that? Oh my gosh, that was crazy.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Right, Yeah, I'm hoping like tomorrow, I think I'm thinking
that like Arkansas and Saint John's like, that's gonna be
the moment.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
There you go, that's what we could give it to
us very much, very well, could give it to us. Well.
I went with this shows you maybe how rough of
a first couple of days it's been.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Whenever number five is a team almost getting beat, that'll
bring us to.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
What will be our final score.

Speaker 11 (24:34):
Alabama dribbles the clock away and after a very tough
opening round game, their climb back toward the final four
is intact. Alabama Wedsay ninety to eighty one.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I mean, one of our biggest stories is that, oh hey,
got close close to an upset. Number Number four for
me was maybe the closest thing we had to a
buzzer beater in this tournament. Number four Saint Mary's holding

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on late against Vanderbilt, throws.

Speaker 11 (25:11):
Out m'clock to a three shut no good reboult galt.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
The ross and that is the ballgame.

Speaker 11 (25:18):
Saint Mary's hangs on and the Gale survived and advance
to take on Alabama here.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
On Sunday with a fifty nine fifty six come for
behind wed against Vanderbilt.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
I know that, you know, Saint Mary's game is slowing
it down, Slow Mary's. But I mean, we just we
put a game in the top five moments of the
NCAA tournament that had that final score.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
I mean, what are we? What am I doing right
now with this segment? Bree? Is this wasted time? I mean,
what am I?

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I'm trying to come up with five stories from the
NCAA tournament and I just put a game that finished
fifty nine to fifty six, which I think I was
trying to do some.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Quick look at.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think it was the lowing lowest scoring game in
the entire first half. It's the least amount of points
that a winning team scored. And honestly, it's right up.
There was some sixteen seeds for the least amount of
points from the losing team ough Troy.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Troy had fifty seven. Grand Canyon scored forty nine of that.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
There we go, all right, Hey, thank you Vanderbilt. You
least gave us that. The side item from this Vanderbilt
loss is you can see how there was like two
separate tiers almost of the SEC, where the two to

(26:52):
one seeds, the two to two seeds, the three to four,
and one of the two six seeds all advanced. A
six seed in Missourian, eighth seed in Mississippi, State, two
nine's in Georgia and Oklahoma, the ten in Vanderbilt, and
then of course Texas was out as the in the
first four.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
So six of these seven lower ranked, higher seeded teams
were We're out.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
So I get it's funny because a lot of people like, look,
just about half of the SEC's.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Already out of it, and You're like, well, I mean it.
I mean the top half is still alive.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
So I don't really think this isn't like the ACC
having one freaking team left ended. Okay, Well, number four
was Saint Mary's outlasting Vanderbilt. Number three, the preseason number
one team in the country goes.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Down, pus, you would headed Chagas. What wain come three?

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Talking about Kansas, I have to go back to last night,
Arkansas beating Kansas seven, nine to seventy two, setting up
a second round showdown between Rick Patino and John Calipari.

Speaker 12 (28:09):
I've always had great respect for John, and I've always
said I told a team. We have not seen this
type of size and this type of athleticism all year.
We have not seen that create as a seven two center,
but they have multiple guys. Athleticism wise, we haven't seen
this this year, so we know what we're up against. Obviously,

(28:30):
they had a lot of injuries, that's why he opened
up BOO and five. But they got it together right now.
And if they I don't know where they finished in
the SEC, eighth, ninths in the SEC, but if they
finished eighth and ninth what I watched today, I'm glad
we're on the SEC because that's the talent level in that.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Conference is amazing to me see.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
And even that, I feel like is kind of cheating
because even at Kentucky leaves and so we start the
bill self rumor mill right, is he going to be
the next head coach at Texas?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
But even that's cheating a little bit.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Bree to put it in the top five because while
it was a good game, it wasn't very much in
doubt down the stretch and it's kind of more about
Patino versus Calipari, right.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, that's the main storyline.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Boy, I am I going to get through this.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
So that's that's number three, all right, number two on
the top five moments from the NCAA Tournament to date.
I gave a tip of the cap to Michigan because
I think if you were to look at the Fox
Sports Radio bracket pool, that a majority of us me too, had.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Picked Michigan to get beat.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Everyone was kind of a little bit, a little bit drunk,
if you will, on Uce San Diego.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't know if it was there.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
I don't know if it was their numbers and kin
palm or whatever it was, but I don't think a
lot of people had Michigan moving on and they had
a value. I mean they I guess in fairness, they
did have to have a comeback to win this game,
and it.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Took some It took some big time plays late in
order to get it done.

Speaker 13 (30:19):
Now Michigan looking for a response to Big ten tournament
chance steep clee go it is good. Oh it turns
to quiet the Titans crowd with Michigan up, won sixty
six to sixty five.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
All right, So there was a little drama there.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
And if you stayed up for that game last night,
you were in you thought, okay, maybe you see Davis
has a chance. This one has a little bit of drama,
but Michigan holds on and they move on, and then
of course you know number one was was McNeese. Though
this was a pretty gross game thanks to thanks to
the McNeese not being able to make a free throw.

(30:56):
It became close down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
But I I think, I think this is big story,
number one, big moment number one so far Cutter.

Speaker 13 (31:07):
Tried please to day after puzzle, it's going off McNeese.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
What the upset?

Speaker 14 (31:14):
What the mark?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Fairness began the Cowboys with their first ever and ce.

Speaker 13 (31:20):
Ain't comment when the twelve suit is moving on sixty
nine sixty seven McNee upsets Clemson.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Did you happen to catch? Did you watch any of
that game yesterday? Bring?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
I was gonna say, I cut that highlight?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Oh did you really? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I did, well done, Well done. You gotta start tipping
your cap on those highlights you have to put.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Together well because it's free.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Because that was like one of the games that I
was super invested in. So then you know, because I
was working and watching.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yeah, I uh, I was listening to it because I
was on the road, and I felt so bad for
those guys.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
At halftime, you know, it's like a boy, Jordan, Jordan
Cornett's my guy, and I'm pretty sure it was Jordan
right and he was on the goal and at one
point he's like, as a former player, I feel like
I can suit up and give more effort than what
I've seen from Clemson.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
It was thirty one to thirteen at the half, thirty
one to thirteen. And it's kind of wild because I
got so mad, I gave up on the game. But
then you check the I was like, oh, okay, well
Clemson's cut it to seventeen. They've cut it to twelve,
And the next thing you know, they've got an opportunity
late in that game. But I mean, let's be clear,

(32:35):
the only reason that they had a chance in that
game is because mcgnee state shot eleven of twenty two
for the free throw line eleven of twenty two. But
in the end, Clemson goes home. Rough night, a rough
night for Clark Kellogg, who, during the CBS selection show
had put Clemson in his final four. See whenever people

(32:57):
bully you into taking higher CE teams, it's like, oh
you what a whimp you are?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
You got four number ones? Yeah, my brack is still
looking pretty good.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I mean, unless we have some chaos, because these these
eight to nine seeds that have moved on have looked
pretty good in their first round games.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
But everyone else at that one level of that one
line has been a different level so far this year.
So there it is.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
If I missed a moment, feel free to correct me.
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox when we
come back, let's start your calls. I'll quit trying to
pigeon a hole in any big moments that haven't been
there from the NCAA tournament coming up right here on
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All right, we're headed to Minnesota. We're heading to Highland Park.
We're headed to Houston, Big Mike get back in here
in Vegas. But we'll kick things off by heading to
Kansas City. At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
Steve is in Kansas City. Welcome to the show. Good evening, Steve.

(34:21):
Oh delay, Hey, what's up man?

Speaker 15 (34:24):
Hey Blank?

Speaker 16 (34:25):
What's up man?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Another night, Steve, How are you living?

Speaker 16 (34:30):
The NC Tournament's a total dog man so far, They've
they kind of get this going. I can't waste through
any of my time on that. You know, this is
this is all about Big George Foreman and I man,
I got to talk with him at a book signing.
Great guy, you know, sat there, answered every question. Just

(34:52):
just a terrible loss. You know, I remember him, you know,
as a kid, I remember him fighting Tommy Morrison. He
was fighting dudes in their prime.

Speaker 12 (35:02):
You know.

Speaker 16 (35:02):
That was That was how great Foreman was.

Speaker 17 (35:05):
Man that he he was.

Speaker 16 (35:07):
He was fighting the class of the generations after after
Ali and he became a great great man. And uh,
you know, he's very under extremely underrated. I think he
kind of gets overshadowed by the success of the Grill
and and all that all that other stuff. My on

(35:29):
a happier note, my my nomination for the best game
is is usually something where uh, you know, like again
again in the glory days of my of my youth,
you know, the kid I something like a Game seven
at home at the World Series, the Royals winning the
World Series, KU winning the National Championship. I would put that,

(35:53):
you know, I would put that the very top. Ironically,
the Chiefs winning the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. I mean,
we've been we've been spoiled pretty much in the Midwest.
But I for me personally, I would say that, not
just because it's NCAA tournament season. I would say, my
my greatest thrill would probably be Now, I didn't go
to the I didn't go to the hockey game in

(36:15):
an Olympics something like that, or where where the Danny
Manning and an upset one and then you've got to
go back to your campus and celebrate, you know, thirty
minutes afterwards. I mean that it was just crazy. That's
that's probably either that or the the World Series at home,
a game a game seven, beating beating the Cardinals. But

(36:36):
you know, it's just sort of that immediate celebration, especially
when when you're the heavy underdog. That's in my memory,
that's the best. The Chiefs were not a heavy underdog,
but they you know, we were supposed to supposed to win,
but you know, I mean we've It's great that we've
had so many options, you know, of that over over

(36:56):
the over the years.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Thanks for all see. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I think what Steve was getting to was my my
statement earlier that a few were to have offered me
thirty years ago. Hey, you know, twenty twenty three year
old Chris Plank, you can go to a super Bowl
or a World Series. Are you going to have, you know,
tickets to a prize fight, a heavyweight prize fight. Hell,

(37:22):
I'll put your rings side. I'm going to go to
that prize fight in Vegas. And George Foreman was a
part of that. He he was a part of it
and made it a great and made it an incredible event.
Every every single game was an incredible event. What am
I saying? Every single match, every single lead up to it,
every press conference, don King going crazy was worth it.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
It was awesome. Neil is in Minnesota. What's up?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Neil?

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. How are you tonight?

Speaker 18 (37:53):
I'm fine? How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Outstanding? Man?

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Thanks for calling.

Speaker 18 (37:56):
I have a story that includes George Foreman. In the
mid seventies, I was a sportscaster with ABC Television and Albuquerque.
Bobby Foster light heavyweight champ, who defended his title fourteen times,
was retiring and almost everybody showed up, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman,
Ken Norton, Fraser, among others. And we were heading to

(38:16):
the auditorium for the big show, and Foreman was on
my left, Norton was on my right, and about ten
feet ahead was the Fraser walking along and Foreman, he
tells Norton, he said, sneak up and wrap up your Fraser.
I'll get in front and punch him. And Norton said,
is you a fool?

Speaker 19 (38:36):
You go?

Speaker 18 (38:36):
Joe doesn't play games. He said, if I wrap him up,
we'll have to defend myself. So Foreman, it was like
a teenager. He's always the price to messing around having fun.
Just wanted to talk hiou.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Now Man, I'm glad that you chose to share with us,
and I appreciate it, you know, Neil, that's we all
have personal stories on that as well. Maybe it was
being fortunate enough to have that kind of access with
Neil where you see, I mean, George forman like one
of the original troll moves. Right, He's like, hey, hey, Kenny,
go go go grab Joe Fraser from behind, Go go

(39:09):
go do it. You'll love it, right, And there's one
to see maybe how Joe would react, But what a
what a cool moment.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Man, George Fraser's George Fraser.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
George Foreman's personality was bigger than life, and my man
George Fraser's was to but it's what I think connected
him through generations, from the Foreman grill to his TV work.
His boxing, though, was fantastic and probably sometimes the most
forgotten part of his incredible legacy. We'll keep rolling with
your calls next on Fox.

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Speaker 14 (40:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Tonight, we're taking your calls looking back on the legacy
the life of George Foreman, and then in that for
some of the old heads like me, like I can't
go back to the Rumble in the Jungle. I can't
go back to the Thrilla in Manila. Those were a
little bit before my time. But I assure as he
can remember Michael Michael Tyson, Mike Tyson in his run,

(40:28):
and Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bow and Fanguy and then
of course in the middle of all of it, some
forty year old dude came in and knocked out the
twenty five year old stud I mean, it's it's one
of the most amazing career arcs ever I've I mean,
there will be somewhere, somehow, there's gonna be studies on

(40:51):
George Foreman's career arc because it just doesn't happen. You know,
maybe someone almost asked to do something in your mid
twenties and then come back and do it again in
your forties. And and Foreman was I don't know, a
little bit older than than Tom Brady. Oh, by the way,

(41:12):
it's boxing too. It's boxing, you know, I mean, let
me ask him. Brie, you're younger, did you know much
about George Foreman the boxer or was it more the entrepreneur,
the TV guy, the Foreman grill.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
I'm gonna, unfortunately have to say the entrepreneur like Grandma
had the grill.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Right exactly, Mark, you and I said, do you remember
forming the boxer right when.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
The boxer the whole Fraser fight, Howard Coosa going crazy,
because yes happened. Yes, George Foreman when his his Olympic
stuff and then oh gotcha.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
We haven't even mentioned Mark. We haven't even mentioned in
the first hour and in ten minutes his Olympic.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Stuff, I mean the Olympic stuff was great, and then
once he turned to pro he was just gigantic and
powerful in everybody I think, Well, I would say there
was a section of people who's thought he had a chance.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
I guess Muhammad Ali. But Muhammed Ali had the brain
power over him. We all know what happened.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, I mean this George Foreman in his youth was
talked about and again this truly a little bit before
my time, but it was talked about as maybe.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Someone who could have been the greatest ever.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Right, and he loses to Ali and continues to win fights,
but it's just not the same. He finds his faith,
he gets into broadcasting, and then he made the dude
set the standard for retirements and comebacks. I mean, you
think Sugar Ray Leonard has that crown. I think I
think George Foreman.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Might have it.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
So we've been honoring his memory tonight. Obviously it's tonight
where we're looking back on the first round of the
NCAA Tournament. I wish I was creative enough and it
thought enough to put like an XT question out there
tonight the first round of the are what one word
would you use to describe the first round so far
the nc tournament?

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Maybe underwhelming would be one of it.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
You know, I went back through for some This shows
you how sometimes I think there's this incredible topic that
I'm like, oh, I cannot wait to get to this,
and I'll write stuff down and then I look at
him like why did I write this down? Like I
wrote down the final score from five games on Thursday
and six games today and what they I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Why.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Then I'm looking at this, why would you write down
BYU ay VCU seventy one? Like what are you trying
to say here? And then I realized those are all
the games that were less than a double figure margin
in fact so far. If you want to kind of
drill that a little bit deeper. We have only had
three games that were one possession games. On Thursday, Yes,

(43:51):
I'm right, look at me. On Thursday, the average margin
of victory was fifteen points. On today's games and into tonight,
the rich margin victory was eight points, so you haven't
necessarily had the jaw dropping buzzer beaters. And then finally
we're we're still on Aaron Rodgers watch, and we'll go

(44:11):
through some of the highlights of the NFL offseason kind
of carousel this last week. But I mean, I don't
I don't think Aaron Rodgers is the bad guy in this.
I think I think the Vikings kind of were, and
it doesn't sound like to me as of right now.
Aaron Rodgers has a bunch of offers he's sifting through,

(44:33):
So we'll get into that coming up in just a bit.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
And I do not think the giant.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Signing Jameis Winston precludes them from doing anything else in
the quarterback position. Bre How can I forget congrats to
your sons tonight you beat the Calves, right.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Such such an exciting night for one.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Person one to night.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
All right, let's go to the phones eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six,
six three, sixth night in order of the longest wait.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Eric in a Long Island welcome to the program. What's
going on?

Speaker 16 (45:03):
Eric?

Speaker 20 (45:04):
Hey, Frank and Ran, it's a pleasure to talk to
you tonight.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Frank.

Speaker 20 (45:12):
How you do anyway, Duke is playing great coming into
the tournament. I'm sorry. I feel bad to those people
who hate Duke and Christian Latoner He's I'll tell you
right now, Duke is gonna win the championship. I got
Duke winning the championship.

Speaker 14 (45:29):
Wait.

Speaker 20 (45:30):
Crazy, I think they're gonna warn the other teams out
up the court, as they said they would say. And
I think they're a great team. Saint John's, on the
other hand, they can't shoot the ball.

Speaker 21 (45:41):
They they are young guys on.

Speaker 20 (45:42):
The team, but they can't shoot.

Speaker 14 (45:44):
And I think U n C.

Speaker 20 (45:46):
I'm glad they got knocked out because I'm a Duke
fan and I'm good friends with Greg Bawlers. I mean,
and let's go Mets. I hope they can win and
UH and in the next hope we UH will prevail.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
Hey, Erica, Long Island hit them all. Thanks buddy, appreciate
the phone call.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Did you want to unpack I don't want to unpack.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Hold on, hold on, let me, let me, let me
work backwards here. Let's go Mets.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
So got it, But congrats the Dodgers starting to and oh,
I thought the esthetics from the what they call them,
the Tokyo Series or the Japan Series, whatever it was,
the aesthetics were really cool. I don't think though, you
can play two regular season games then suddenly go back.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
And play two training string training games. I mean, like,
what are we doing?

Speaker 4 (46:32):
And everybody's like, oh, you guys have to factor in,
like the travel and they need to sleep. It's like, no, no,
you don't need to doctor that.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Don't do that to me.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
No, So let's see. I guess that takes care of.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Let's go Mets.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
North Carolina, North Carolina losing, Yeah, yeah, okay, so that
North Carolina wasn't a very good basketball team this year.
There win over San Diego State and and a lot
of us getting drunk on North Carolina and moving them
on in our bracket's really My dad had a saying
a lot and I don't know if it's still politically correct,

(47:05):
but I feel like we're in a save zone here
at eight minutes past the hour of two am in
the Central time zone. So he used to say, that's
like putting lipstick on a pig. Like this would be
whenever I would fix something. He's like, Buddy, that's not right.
But I felt like that it is it still okay
to say, Okay, okay, make sure no want to get canceled. No,

(47:25):
Frank has gott to keep his overnight show. Okay, it's
like lipstick on a pig would be what I would say.
North Carolina has win over San Diego State was so yeah,
I'm I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
What what doll we miss?

Speaker 14 (47:36):
It?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Was there like a NIX thing in there.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
He was a big Duke fan and that's why he
was very anti North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
I realized.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
He said, if a lot of people can't stand Duke
because of Christian Latner, do you realize there's probably more
people listening tonight that never saw Christian Latner play basketball
than there are that did. I mean, we're going back
like thirty years now, bro, But Cooper Flag look pretty good.
So if you had, if you had either diminished or

(48:08):
minimized Duke's chances because of the injury to Cooper Flag,
then tonight was a very, very very sobering wake up call,
because they look good. I wonder if I wonder if
we'll get some upsets tomorrow. I wonder if that's whenever
you start seeing, like you know, Saint John's they can't
shoot the ball. But really, honestly, Arkansas, that hasn't really

(48:32):
been their strength this year. So I'll be interested to
see if maybe maybe that's a place where you can
see a double digit seed.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Move on, Steve is in Highland Park. What's going on?

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Steve?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 22 (48:45):
Hey, Chris and Brie. How are y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Outstanding? Man?

Speaker 1 (48:50):
How are you?

Speaker 22 (48:51):
I'm doing great? So let me so I don't take
too much time.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Go ahead, We're on all night. Take all the time
you want.

Speaker 14 (49:02):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 22 (49:03):
Well, I want to put to the side. And it's
just a question for after what I say about foreman,
I want to get into George a little bit. But
also i'm u cla sayan and I haven't heard anybody
mention their name, you know, talking about all contention, and
I think that they're going to give to see a game.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
How did you do? I'll talk about it after you
talk about George. That's a good point, man.

Speaker 22 (49:30):
But in one month, I'm going to be seventy five
years old. And my father fought in the army in
World War Two, and I grew up on his knee.
And I remember the Olympics of nineteen fifty eight and
everything in boxing afterwards. And I can't even watch the

(49:51):
heavyweight ranks for some time now. I just I haven't
been able to drum up the interest. But I saw
all of George's era men up and you know, of course,
I was a Cassius Clay Mohammad Ali a fan right
from the beginning. You know, that was in the seventies.

(50:11):
That was his second time that he took a championship
Ali and the the Ali Foreman fight George was to
hear him speak as a young man, and as he matured,
he was always a gentleman and always like the general

(50:32):
giant that had such power Ali. It was almost like
a David and Goliath kind of a matchup. Other than that,
George destroyed everything that stood in front of him. Yeah,
for twenty years he had. There was a fighter named
Ernie Shavers that fought Muhammad, Oh, yes, he had. He

(50:54):
was considered a dangerous puncher. But George, he could try
you down then he had the like like if he
had rocks in his fists. So I'm not even it
is impressive his career after but I was a part

(51:14):
of all of his career and the impact that he made,
and I saw all of his fights. So I missed
those times so much. At my age, I'm not seeing
I actually am had as a younger man, a little
bit of martial arts involvement, but MMA just hasn't captured

(51:37):
and drawn my attention away from the sweet science. And
so I started paying attention back in the Floyd Patterson
and Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson for Sugar Ray Leonard,
who I loved also, But I'm just saying, so I
love boxing like that. I used to go to a

(51:59):
place it's called the Olympic Auditorium here in Los Angeles
that's where they held the biggest fights in LA back
in the sixties, fifties maybe, And and you know, my
hero was the sixties. I was a teenager and and
everything forward from that. And I really miss it big time,
miss it. And George he's only it was only maybe

(52:22):
like a year and a half other than me. So yeah,
I'm seriously in stealing his loss.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Well, Steve Man, I appreciate you sharing that with us, Buddy.
A great phone call tonight from Highland Park. And it's
cool whenever we stay connected to our rits if you will,
you know, and a guy like Steve and his passion
for boxing, you heard it, there is something you just
don't have anymore today when it comes to that sport.

(52:51):
What's funny is, as he was talking about, I went
back and I was watching the highlights of when Foreman
knocked out Michael Moore, and I'll never forget.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Whenever I watched the highlight. You know, you'll see guys
that will hit with an upper cut and you're like, oh, man,
that looked like it hurt.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
You watch the knockout punch of Michael Moore, it just
looks like it's it's a straight jab.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
It's not something where he reared back and got everything.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
He just boom.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I don't know why I yelled that here in the middle,
but I mean boom. And he knocked his ass out
and Steve's right, it was like rocks in his hand.
It was a different era. It was a different era.
Sat Fred Knight, Steve now to uh.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
To follow up on one other note, I was watching
UCLA beat Utah State in the first.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Round, and I came to this conclusion as somebody who
grew up a UCLA.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Fan and is still in a lot of ways a
very diehard.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Ucla basketball fan at my core, I just don't know
much about this team. I don't know if we're supposed
to not admit that and act like we know everything
about all sixty four teams or I guess now thirty
two teams that are still left.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
But I'm watching this UCLA team and I'm thinking I.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Like them, And I realized there's a reason why number
on the Big Ten schedule was red.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I could not figure out what night the Big Ten
was on all season long.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
They played games on Tuesday, they played games on Friday,
they played games on Sunday. It's almost as if they
did everything but play games on Saturday. And to be
honest with you, whenever, you know, UCLA lost a couple
of games early. I think they had what the four
game skid in Big Ten play, actually lost five of six.
I just kind of lost track of them, and you know,

(54:49):
you're trying not to get too crazy off one game,
but they they looked really well.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Sky Clark, Eric Day junior double figures. They look good.
I don't know what that means going forward.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
That's that's not gonna be a very easy second round
matchup against Tennessee. But UCLA is the kind of team
that can get in a rock fight with you, and
Tennessee's gonna try to make it a rock fight.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
So I think it could be a fun second round game.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
You want to we're up again, let's break so that
way when we come back, Joe and Houston, John and Portland,
Ron and Rochester, Gunner and Minnesota and you at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, we'll have plenty of time
to get your take in Tonight, we're honoring the memory
of George Foreman.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
We'll talk.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
We're talking about a very underwhelming nca tournament, and we
got some NFL talk around the corner right here on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 7 (55:43):
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Speaker 3 (55:56):
Oh, welcome in to the Plank Show. We take you
through the night into a Saturday here on Fox Sports Radio. Basically,
we're the tailgate show for the fellas, but pumped you
decided to spend your evening with us with Brie and Mark.
I'm Chris Plank. We are spending some time on the
phones tonight, and I think it's been really cool honoring
the memory of George Foreman, who passed away at the

(56:18):
age of seventy six. A really really good phone call
tonight on that front. See who kicked it off for us,
Billy out in South Carolina, steven Highland Park with a
touching tribute. It's one of those sports that I think
when we honor the memories of those who lost, and
it's kind of wild when I think about it. When

(56:38):
we lost Muhammad Ali, I was filling in that day.
I happened to be filling in that morning. It was
a Saturday morning when we learned that we lost Cashius
claimed Mhammad Ali, and it was really cool to talk
about even when we had lost Mohammed. How you know,
boxing had not been the sport that it was during
our childhood. Baseball's you know, a lot the same way.

(57:00):
Baseball's not what it once was.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
But then I kind of pulled back in my old
man kicks and I'm like, broh, that's sports. I mean breeze. Young.
Most of you, especially those in the West Coast that
are aut partying right now.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
You're young.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
You don't understand the challenge of having to wait to
see the morning paper to find out stats from games
or hope. I mean, I grew up a Dodger fan
in Saint Louis, so I would just hope, beyond all
hope that the local sports cast that night would give.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Me a Dodger score. You know, that's how you knew.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
And maybe part of boxing's nostalgia is that we just
we didn't have the instant reaction and instant coverage that
we do now. And it's funny because, I mean, I
just sometimes think about how ready this is, old man
sitting on my porch reminiscing.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
It's wild to me to think that.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
During that commercial break, I went back and watched like
five different videos of George Forman right of him boxing
from a fight against Muhammad Ali, from fighting against Joe Fraser,
from a fight against Michael Moore, from a fight against
Tommy Morrison, and it's all.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
A click away. You didn't have that, man. You kids,
in your technology, they don't have to wait for anything.

Speaker 5 (58:14):
It's right there.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
You have No.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
The other challenge was back in the day before ESPN
had the ticker is it was what was it CNN
like CNN Headline Sports, and you'd get the headline Sports
update and then you'd have to watch the bottom scroll
to see it's sorry do we have Are they gonna
show the Illinois?

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Are they gonna show the Illinois score?

Speaker 3 (58:40):
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Gunner has assured me that all is right with the world.
He's in Minnesota tonight, Gunner. What's up, buddy, Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 16 (59:49):
We've gone nothing much, man, I got some upsets for
this next round.

Speaker 21 (59:53):
Bring it b Yu over Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
That would be an upset.

Speaker 17 (59:59):
Saint Mary's over Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
You like Saint Mary's over Alabama.

Speaker 23 (01:00:06):
I've been keep an eye on that team because my
mom's a Gonzaga fan. They play him a couple times
a year.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Okay, okay, fair enough.

Speaker 23 (01:00:14):
You know one way over Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Okay, I like that one. I like that one a lot.

Speaker 17 (01:00:20):
And you've been talking about this one u c LA
could be Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
You think so, yes, you know that's why? Go ahead, Bud.

Speaker 23 (01:00:30):
I've been watching a lot of college this year and
my team was not out yesterday.

Speaker 17 (01:00:34):
I'm a UNC fan.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Pretty nice to.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
That, pretty nice justification though, for getting in with the
way that they played in the playing game.

Speaker 17 (01:00:42):
Right, Yes, that was that was a good game.

Speaker 23 (01:00:45):
And then I guess today I'm like down twenty two,
I'm I'm taking that waking up the Okay, we're doing too?

Speaker 15 (01:00:51):
What the hell you do on here?

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
We had a couple of games like that, right, Clemson
made a run leak to make the McNeese game close.
But I don't know, since your call's so clear, I
don't feel like I want to hang up with you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Who you got winning it?

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Right? Now?

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
Well, I have a.

Speaker 23 (01:01:06):
Final four Auburn and Maryland, and Maryland went in it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Okay, I'm with you.

Speaker 17 (01:01:15):
It's gonna be good, Duke Maryland final.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Buddy, Hey Gunner, good phone call, Bud. Glad you were
able to get in. Everything good in your life.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
You're working hard, Yep, everything's down good here, buddy, have
a great night.

Speaker 20 (01:01:28):
See you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Gunner has had the worst luck of any caller in
the very short lived history of this young, very radio program.
I think what he got through twice, and both times
his phone crapped out on him, literally right as he
came on the phone tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
That sounded like that sounds like a good old fashioned
hardline phone.

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
I was gonna say, it's like a lamb line, which
also reminds me I was just telling you Mark, I
actually did hughes a VCR back in the day, so
I didn't, okay, whine things.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
But this was this was a big week for me.
You talk about VCRs and landlines. I went to call
to check in with my dad and love my dad.
His phone was disconnected.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
WHOA, what's going on here? You know he's been retired
for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
I didn't know, if you know, maybe I had to
start sending some money back home help dad out a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
And he's like, no, we disconnected our landline. And like,
there's this part of me that thought, what.

Speaker 14 (01:02:28):
What what?

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Why would you do that? I mean, it needs to
be there. It's the only phone number I have.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Memorized Dad, and I'm probably I mean, listen, I call
you more on your cell phone now. But why so
that means now, as far as the entire planet is concerned,
my mom is the last person that still has a landline.
I guess technically, weed you in the studio at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, Right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
Yep, that's the landline, and my mom has a landline too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Oh oh good, there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:03:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Every so often my wife we have we have a
teenage daughter and we have an eleven year old, and every.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
So often my wife is we'll say, you know, we
need to get a we need to get a home phone.
And I'm like, why she goes, I don't know, she goes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
I sometimes get nostalgic about it, and I called to
see about it, and I'm not kidding. They started laughing
at me, like, hey, we't to see if I gett
home phone service, Like don't you have a land don't
you have cell phones? I'm like, well, I mean it's
fair point, but I mean I was kind of thinking
about a landline, Like okay, hold on, we'll ship you

(01:03:36):
to the old school department. Some guy named Lenny who's
on sales is trying to teach me about how to
put a landline in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Did you I used to have my you really made
it when we were kids?

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
See boxing and Losing George Foreman tonight has stirring up
a lot of nostalgia and Gunner's call sounding like it
came from a landline. Uh do you know you really
made it? When you had a separate phone number, like
you had your mom's home. You had your mom or
dad's number. But then when you or your sister or
your brother got your own phone line.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
Oh, that's a great example of my house. So there
was the main line right then went to my sister.
Sisters got to a certain age, got your life to
get the second line, because then her friends could call her,
so there would be the main line because of her.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
They had to get a second line.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
My gosh, where have we gone wrong? This is a society.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
Yeah, like you just found out. They laugh at you.
If you want a land I said, why don't you have?

Speaker 14 (01:04:37):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
I want a landline for just in case because the
phones could go out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
What are you talking?

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Why? Why are you looking at me?

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Funny?

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
I need a landline, I say, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Mark, I feel you. Hey, Joseph is in Houston. He's
next up on the Plank Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
What's going on, Joseph?

Speaker 14 (01:04:54):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:04:55):
How you doing, sir? I just wanted to call real
quick and just comments on George Foreman, please, and not
so much the Boxton career or the Hamburger things, but
how great of a human he was. I got to
meet him a few times through the Boys Club, and

(01:05:17):
he was really really passionate about promoting the Boys and
the Girls clubs, and she did a lot of charity
work and helped a lot of people out. So I
just wanted to put that out to give another side
of how great of a human he was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Glad you did.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
If you mentioned the Boys Club and given back, right,
I think it was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
You know, I mentioned his testimony is pretty incredible, but
that really that was important to him, Like you hear
sometimes people.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
I'm not saying anything that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Anyone does for a charity is fake or for show
or for clout, but I mean George Foreman did all
that back in the day, you know, without all the cameras,
with out of the fan fare.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
He was really truly just about giving back.

Speaker 10 (01:06:04):
He really was. And I got to meet him a
couple of times, and one day, years later, I I
was the Boy's Club kid, and it really it helped
me out a lot at that time in my life.
So I went back and I started to volunteer at
the Boy's Clubs and tried to help out as much

(01:06:26):
as I could to get back and one day I
felt this big old It felt like a Catcher's meant
and it was him, and he just put that big
old Paul on my shoulder and he goes, what's going on,
young man? And I looked up and I'm swere kids.
His hands were like the catchers that he was the

(01:06:50):
kindest man did you ever know? And I just wanted
to give tribute to the other things that he did
in his life besides you know, I mean, he had
an amazing story and a career, but he also had
a really good giving side, and I just wanted to put.

Speaker 8 (01:07:07):
That out there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I'm glad you did.

Speaker 23 (01:07:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Thanks so much for the call, Joseph. I appreciate it.
This Joseph in Houston is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
I think that's for me one of the cool things
about this time slot. Maybe why I'm so glad I
get to hang out with you guys on Friday nights.
When you have a story like this, we can open
up the phones. There's what was I saying, Bree, It's
probably the most cleared program on Fox Sports Radio. You know,

(01:07:36):
you think about Ben's show during the week and you
know what Bernie and I get to do on the
weekends because there's just there's not a lot of stations
that care about the overnight hours, nor should they, I
guess right, But you know, unless we got our friends
that run the show in Dallas, and we'll hear from
different producers all across the country that are that are

(01:07:57):
still up and hanging out in studios with us, but
you know, they're they're kind of going between commercials and
our show and then everywhere else. You know, you can
kind of think about the automation process, which is as
I'm a former PD so I can nerd out on
this stuff. But my point, more than anything else, there's
not a lot of live programming tonight. You could listen

(01:08:19):
to a network that's just gonna play highlights all night long.
You can listen to a network that's gonna rehair shows
from during the week. Here on Fox Sports Radio, we're
freaking live, man, and you get reaction like that whenever
story like this happens. So, Joseph, I'm glad you chose
to call us tonight to talk about it. Great man

(01:08:40):
and a different perspective on it. Because there was George
Foreman the boxer, George Foreman the showman, George Foreman the
TV guy, George Foreman the entrepreneur, But then there was
also George Foreman, the humanitarian, the guy that gave back
a person that was very involved in the Boys and
Girls Club. So really cool story from Joseph all Right,

(01:09:03):
Ron in Rochester is next up before we get a break. Ron,
You're on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on, man?

Speaker 17 (01:09:08):
Yeah, I got a couple of comments I want to
talk about. First of all, I have a landline, and
with Spectrum it basically free if you have a cable
landline and internet, so you get a free phone if
you get those other two things. Second of all, by
the way, George Foreman, I loved him when he was
a bad guy, and I loved them always. But you know,

(01:09:30):
he recreated himself. He was angry, he was mad, he
hated everybody, and then you know, he wasn't happy and
he changed himself. And he's talked about how he hated
Ali and he's so mad because they became friends later,
how he had hate for him when he was such
a great man, and that's just how he changed his life.

(01:09:52):
Go look at the old videos. He doesn't have a
pile on his face. He's mad. He you know, he
was you know, he was the Olympic hero than that,
he he was mad. At the world and he finally said,
you know, he's not happy and he changed his personality
in his life. Second, another thing, though, the NIL is

(01:10:12):
horrible with m Syracuse grad and s he s he
s making all those teams. Thank god they're losing, but
they need to do something. They need to salary cap
or something because SECS is dominating and everything when women's
sports to everything, just because they all have all the money.
It's not fair. I feel like a Pittsburgh Pirates fan
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
A good night, guess it's see you brother, that's a
good phone call. I uh.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I you know this is that's in my wheelhouse, bro.
The last point you brought up in the college world,
and in fact I always always love like I kind
of live on Twitter during the show and we got
a we got our ax. Sorry, we got a note
from Steve Rodriguez earlier who said his NIL also hurting
March madness rich versus.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Poor, very few upsets.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Well, I mean, in fairness, you know, last year we
had an eleven seed make a run to the final four.
You had seven double digit seeds at advance. In twenty
twenty three, you had a sixteen beat one in the
final four. You had two fives and a nine seed.
In twenty twenty two, you had Saint Peter's as a
fifteen seed go to the Elite eight. In fact, you

(01:11:20):
had a ten and a fifteen seed in the Elite
eight twenty twenty one. Now, listen, there a power conference school.
But in twenty one, UCLA went to the Final four
as an eleven seed. You had a fourteen over the three.
You had a fifteen seed make it to the sweet sixteen.
You had a twelve and eight and eleven and two
elevens in the sweet sixteen. So I'm not I'm not

(01:11:43):
ready to say Ells completely made college basketball one sided.
You know, this is one year, but there were fourteen
teams and a sixteen team conference that got in and
they I mean outside of maybe Texas, and I know
that you know, of those fourteen, six are no longer

(01:12:05):
in a tournament. But that's that's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
I do think the.

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
College basketball, to me, is where the bigger nil problem
is than college football.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
College basketball is just completely unhinged.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
It's unchecked, it's unregulated, and a lot of people feel,
and I might be in this group that when we
get the house settlement and For those that haven't heard
of this, the House Settlement is basically forcing everyone to
have a twenty million dollar salary cap and you can't
spend over that. And that's twenty million across all your sports.

(01:12:42):
But name, image and likeness is still gonna be a thing,
and they're gonna have an nil clearing house. And what
that's gonna do is it's supposed to make sure that
none of these nefarious deals can go on out there.
But yet I'm reading a story that Louisville's gonna spend
eight to ten million dollars on their.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Roster this offseason. That's not under the salary cap.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Louisville's not dedicating ten of its twenty million dollars to basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
So how is that number supposed to make sense in
our new world?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
It's a great question, and honestly, as you can tell,
I don't I don't have an awesome answer for it,
except to say college sports we usually just kind of
say college football's got it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
No, College sports.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
Has got to figure out how to regulate this unregulated world,
because there's no way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
No way that this is sustainable none.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
And for right now, let's let's have this kind of
call me back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Next week and let's see where we are, because I
do think it's a I do think it's a very
fair question to ask Ron.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
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(01:14:37):
on the straight and narrow and We've been ripping through
your calls tonight, remembering the legacy of George Foreman, who
passed away at the age of seventy six, taking some
of your potential upset picks as well for the NCAA tournament,
and I guess in some ways kind of wondering his
you know, nil been to blame for the boringness of

(01:15:00):
this tournament, if you will, we have it is it
is wild to good plaints like we haven't had any upsets,
and then someone will point out, well, we had a
twelve beat of five.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Well that's not an upset, but the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
It has not been good for the lower seeded teams
who had been kind of the bell of the ball
over the last few years. Maybe you just look at
this year and it's a little bit, a little bit normal.
According to Josh Tabou, noted raider hater of the Associated Press,

(01:15:36):
the top four seeds went sixteen to zero in the
first round, and the only times the top four seeds
went undefeated in the first round since expansion to sixty
four and nineteen eighty five were this year and in seventeen,
two thousand and seven, two thousand and four to two
thousand and nineteen ninety four, and this is the largest
average scoring margin in the first round since the tournament

(01:16:00):
expanded to sixty four teams in nineteen eighty five. And
we mentioned tonight for today's games was eighteen points per game.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Unreal.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
All right, let's go back to the phones. Doug in
San Diego? Does that sound right to you? Doug in
San Diego? Welcome to the show. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Bud?

Speaker 14 (01:16:21):
Of course, God love.

Speaker 24 (01:16:22):
You for talking about George Foreman Hi great was he? So,
you know, unbelievable the guy uh was went from a
kind of a devil to an absolute beloved dude. And
I happen to hear the interview that he actually did
with after Mohammad Ali died, and it was unbelievable.

Speaker 17 (01:16:45):
He talked about, you know, in the fight in.

Speaker 19 (01:16:47):
The rumbled in the jungle, and he said he was
coming back and he thought he's going to beat him,
and he hit it with the hardest punch he could
and Muhammad Ali looked at him.

Speaker 17 (01:16:58):
And went, is that are you got George?

Speaker 19 (01:17:03):
It wasn't long after that he knocked him out, and
he said Mohammad Ali would call him and try to
get him to come back. Because she was I need some.

Speaker 25 (01:17:13):
New I need some new blood out there.

Speaker 14 (01:17:15):
George, come on, he we can make a lot of money.

Speaker 19 (01:17:18):
And but and and I think Dan Patrick was Patrick
asked him, how come you never fought him again? You
always said you would, And he goes, I've never wanted
to fight him again, Dan, He goes, I knew, I
knew what was going to happen, and I just it
was the guy was so funny and yeah, but uh
so revealing about everything that happened to him that I'll

(01:17:41):
never forget it and uh definitely miss him already.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Good lord, thanks for the phone call.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Yeah, it's uh, it is interesting because he did you know,
you think he had he had Joe Frasier twice? Did
he fight Norton twice or just once beat Ken Norton?
Then I guess what kin Norton kind of went into
a little bit of her retirement. But I guess My
point is the Ali fight. But that was It's a

(01:18:14):
great fight. Mohammed won an eighth round knockout, and the
fact that George Foreman never fought him again was pretty wild,
pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
And you know, I keep going back.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
I think was Ronda called earlier that was talking about
like George Foreman the man, And like I said, I
can't sit here and talk like I knew George or
I got to interview him, like one time when I
was very young, very early in my career, he treated me.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Like a king.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
But just to hear how he became a completely different person.
You know, there's guys that I find this to be
a true statement. There's people that maybe you worked around
or you're around in college or early in their careers
and you might see not see him for a while,
but that's that's your opinion of who they are and

(01:19:06):
the kind of person they are, maybe the kind of
work ethic they have, but they may have completely and
totally changed who they are and how they work and
what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
That that was George Foreman.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
People did not like George Foreman early in his career,
and he was a guy that didn't really seem to
like himself too much. But he changed and he became gosh,
one of the most lovable figures, not just in professional boxing,
but I mean the George Foreman grill, the TV works,
the talk shows.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
I mean, he was he was a star. Sad night,
all right, when we come back, we got a lot
to get to. We got breeze.

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I promise not a ton of reset. You guys have
been in from the start. We've been taking your calls
tonight on a myriad of topics, but really one is
persevered over the others, and that's George Foreman, his life,
his legacy, his incredible impact on boxing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
I brought up for me how it takes me back
to the glory days of boxing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
The heavyweight prize fight is something that no one wanted
to miss, no one wanted to miss, and it was
just a different era.

Speaker 14 (01:20:55):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
It's funny thriller in Manila was Ali Fraser. That was
there fight, the Rumble in the Jungle. That was the
one and only fight between Fraser and I'm sorry Muhammad
Ali and George Foreman, but George Foreman, you know, down
goes Fraser, Down goes Fraser.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
That was That was a George Foreman fight.

Speaker 7 (01:21:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
I think sometimes like history, you think of those lays
like yah won that win when that went ever, George
Joe Fraser got knocked out by Muhammad Ali. No, no, no,
it was George down goes Fraser twenty four years old.
He was twenty four years old. He knocked out Joe
Fraser to win the heavyweight title and didn't lose that

(01:21:44):
until the Rumble in the Jungle in nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 14 (01:21:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
He picked up a couple of vacant titles in seventy
six and then again against Shoe Fraser in seventy six,
but then went without a then went without a title
or and at the very least even a title shot
until nineteen ninety one, and that's when Evander Holyfield beat him,

(01:22:10):
before he beat Michael Moore in nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
So rest in peace to a true legend.

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
Tonight, we've been trying to find ways to drum up
more excitement for the first few rounds of the NCAA tournament.
Are at least the first few days of the NCAA Tournament,
it's been the largest margin across the board of victory.
Haven't had a lot of tight games and honestly no
no buzzer beaters, only what what I say, three one

(01:22:37):
score games. You had the Michigan and McNeice wins yesterday,
and from earlier to you only had one one score
game today. Now Saint Mary's over Vanderbilt. So your calls
to take us home at eighty seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. Where do you want to start, Brie? Do
you also sor a Doug in San Diego? Or do

(01:22:57):
we already talk to Doug?

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
We did talk to Duck. You go to Connie and
South Dakota.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
Okay, beautiful to the front of the line. Connie, what's
going on? Welcome to the show?

Speaker 25 (01:23:06):
Hi there, Yeah, I'm king from Wrapping City, South Dakota,
and I got a story in order to watch any
price back in this when the first TVs first came out,
my dad had to put up from the antenna and
he had to crawl up on top of the roof.
You're trying something to happen. You have to get up

(01:23:29):
and turn that antenna and Nord ring in the TV
station right. The TV station was about two hundred miles away,
so you had turned everything. There was a boxing fighter
were resting on. He had to get up there and
turn that antenna.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
So wait, your dad would have.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
To get on the roof, Connie, every single time that
there was a big time of it to adjust the
antenna for you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Yep, these kids don't understand what we had to go through.

Speaker 25 (01:23:52):
Back in the day, do they No, they have no idea.
And we only got one TV station.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
That's right, and we liked it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
We loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Thanks, Connie, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
Somebody had hit us up earlier on Twitter when we
were talking about how my first pay per view experience
was having to go. I think it was it was
like Sears, or maybe it was Famous Bar. They didn't
have a Famous bar. And you'd have to go wait
in line to get like a receiver to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Watch the fight.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
You'd have to go to.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
Movie theaters to watch the pay per views in order
to have that opportunity to get the fight. Yeah, there,
Chase and b Diamond boxing pay per views in the
mid nineties were huge. Yet we never knew how great
we had it with George Foreman. And closed circuit television
is how we would watch him. I watched my first
WrestleMania on closed circuit television and Port Connie's dad is

(01:24:56):
out climbing up on top of the roof in order
to get the antenna pointing in the right direction. All right,
John is in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
John?

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Welcome to the show. How are you?

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
Hey?

Speaker 22 (01:25:06):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
Boss Man? I want to say this. I hope I'm
not repeating it, repeating anything. You are, buddy, George Foreman.
People don't realize he left for ten years. Ten years.
Think about ten years out of your prime anywhere anywhere.
When you're professional ten years, you take a vacation and

(01:25:30):
then you come back and eventually become a champ. That
is amazing. I don't like George Foreman, but I respect.

Speaker 25 (01:25:36):
What he did.

Speaker 14 (01:25:37):
He was a monster.

Speaker 9 (01:25:38):
He was a beast, you know, And that's what I
want to say about that. But I want to talk
about the lady who just talked. Hey, I was a
remote control When I was a kid. My dad would
slap me on the back of the head and tell
me to go change the channel.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Great, thanks for the call. What a nickname.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
It's like, Hey, have you met my son John. We
all call him remote Control. We watch this John, come here,
go change in the channel two.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
My daughter's name is Timo. So that works out well.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
There you go, right, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
I'd be curious John, maybe on a maybe on a
later program, call us back. I know we're trying to
get as many in here in this first segment as
we can, but I'd be curious to know the why
behind the dislike of George Foreman. He fought in nineteen
seventy seventy lost to Jimmy Young. That's where he found

(01:26:38):
his faith and stepped away from boxing for a decade.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
So from the in what I guess you could say
from like twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
To thirty five, I mean, when your season, your body's
fully developed, you know, the game.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
You're probably the best you're gonna be in sports, right.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Maybe some might say younger, but I think when you're
looking at like twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight,
that's boom. That's the primate you're really setting up for
a I guess, a more established back half of your career. Well,
George Foreman just stepped away from the game for a decade.
He didn't fight again until nineteen eighty eight, pardon me,

(01:27:21):
nineteen eighty seven, and ended up winning the championship again.
Pretty wild story. Man, Oh, lookie, who's back Mike the
Leprechaun in Boston? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Mike? How are you?

Speaker 14 (01:27:34):
Top of the morning?

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Top of the morning, Mike, how are you?

Speaker 14 (01:27:38):
I'm great, I'll quickly mentioned in the rainer the beef
is continuing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
Uh oh, what happened? What happened?

Speaker 17 (01:27:46):
I beat her in the are you.

Speaker 14 (01:27:48):
Smarter than the check Queen in an eleven minutes bappo,
and she says I was cheating. It was all Saint
Patrick stake questions by Mallard. Anyway, you won't even talk
to me, so he won't even talk. But anyway, Mallard
put up a picture with me. I get them gold coins,
chart the coin so Street. Anyway, that's not why I'm calling. No,

(01:28:10):
that's not why I'm calling.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Okay, you were talking about Mike.

Speaker 14 (01:28:15):
Okay. So back in the day as well. I grew
up with a black and white TV. We had one
channel and Ireland r TV radio Teleta Sharon and every
now and again the two it was called the tube.
It wasn't the TV. It was a tube because that's
how they had Clint and always at the wrong moment,

(01:28:36):
the tube would pop and we have to go get
the TV guy and he was always on call. But
I do remember those beautiful boxing matches. They were the highlights.
You could never wait to see Frasier or Bahammad Atali
or George Foreman. Those were classics, right there was the

(01:28:58):
rumble and the drummles George Woman. He's a very well
spoken man. He This is a quote he had after
the Muhammad Ali fight. He said, spec in boxing, I
had a lot of fear. Fear was good, but for
the first time in the bouts with Muhammad Ali, I
didn't have any fear. I thought, this is going to

(01:29:20):
be easy. That is what I've been waiting for her
no fear at all, no nervousness, and I lost I
know the fourth class. I didn't well the mark maddness
say that it's terrible. I watched most of the games
the first two days. You're right, there's been no buzzer

(01:29:43):
beaters at all. It's so hopefully this weeking will.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
Be better, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Thanks some phone calls.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
I found out if I talked, well, Mike's talking it
completely and totally resets the deck for him.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Have you noticed that I did?

Speaker 21 (01:29:58):
I did see that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Is that a tell we need to keep an eye
on it? Just Mike, give your poison. I won't say
anything because if I talked what no?

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:30:05):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
Do you know he was talking about how I called
it the two and this has been if my dad
was listening tonight to be so proud of me. I'm
talking about boxing and TVs and him. But you know,
my dad used to always call the TV. He's like,
go turn the boom Tube on. I never knew what
it meant. I thought it had something new with boobs.
I had no idea, like, who good dad?

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
That was the word?

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Yeah, boom too, boom tube. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
I feel like it needs to make a comeback. Maybe
we can start it here tonight. Thanks for the call, Mike,
I appreciate it. Uh to Joe and San Diego. Big
night in San Diego for the show tonight.

Speaker 21 (01:30:41):
What's going on, Joe, Hi, Chris Tank, It's a pleasure
to talk to you regarding George Foreman. That's my favorite
sport boxing. And you know when George Foreman went his
Olympic gold medal in nineteen sixty eight, just after that,
he was sparring with Sudy Listening. A few sparring sessions
where Suddy listened and Suddy listened was very eighty two,
just like Mike Tyson. They had an aura of invincibility.

(01:31:05):
But once George Foreman lost his first fight, he was
no longer undefeated. The bully was gone. Like Will Chamberlain said,
nobody likes Goliath, but he was dominating everybody. He'd beat
Ken Norton in two rounds, knocked out Joe Fraser, dropped
him six times in two rounds, and everybody said, oh no,
that means he's going to destroy Muhammad Ali. Well styles

(01:31:27):
made fights. Muhammad Ali outsmarted him, but it messed him up.
When he lost that fight. He tried to prove himself.
He's still the Bacho Man, the King. He fought five
guys in an exhibition in one night. He did good
the first three three fighters, and then he started to
wear down. Then he went to Puerto Rico and fought
Jimmy Young, which was his second loss, and the crowded
Puerto Rico was chay named Jimmy Young. Jimmy Young. Nobody

(01:31:50):
liked George Foreman, but he adopted Sonny Liston's bill full
stare before the ring instructions. So and Archie Boorr was
one of his traders. And Archie Bore is one of
the knight guys. George Foreman used to carry a purse
when he go in the shopping balls in Hayward, California.
And uh, he was really a nice guy back then too,
believe it or not, but he was like a facade.

Speaker 14 (01:32:10):
You know.

Speaker 21 (01:32:11):
When George Foreman made that comeback ten years later. The
main reason he made that campaign to come back was
he wanted Mike Tyson. He said I could beat Mike Tyson.
He'd go on David Letterman, he'd go on, uh, Jay Leno,
and he was adamant about it. He said I could
beat Mike Tyson. I always felt styles make fights, and
he used to always take down little guys like that.

(01:32:31):
He fought a lot of little guys and I really
felt he could have beat him. I used to be
a boxer, and you know there was one there was
a seventies where the Golden Age of boxing, No disrespect
to you. They had guys like rod Lyle and Ernie
Shavers that never won the heavyweight title. Go on YouTube
and watch George Foreman fought rod Lyle. I remember watching
that fight and in the first round, like George Forbman

(01:32:53):
dropped rod Lyle, And did rod Lyle drop George Foreman?
And my dad was just coming in off work at
three point thirty. It was on ABC White Woman of Sports,
and I told my dad, I go, you got to
come in and see this fight.

Speaker 9 (01:33:03):
It's just started.

Speaker 21 (01:33:05):
This is a barn burger and it went only way
to five rounds, but trust me, it is one of
the most accent tech fights you'll ever see of a
heavy waste fight. It was a non title fight, but
he was unreal. But I have a lot of good
memories about George Foreman.

Speaker 14 (01:33:20):
I met him.

Speaker 21 (01:33:21):
One of the nicest guys you ever want to beat.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
Hey great trivia. Man. I really appreciated Joe good phone call.
You know, he's he's hey. Not the era for Boxley
was the seventies. No, I'm still.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
Like I said, I I can't get into a true
historical perspective fight. But man, the nineties were pretty damn awesome,
pretty Riddick bow. Didn't we have a run with Andrew
Gillotta there for a while. Evander holy Field, you know,
Michael Moore, George Foreman, Mike Tyson. Of course, Tyson was

(01:33:56):
more late eighties into the early nineties. It's good, it
was amazing. It was amazing. You those prize fights were
something else. And for me tonight, what's been cool about
the show and the tributes that have been paid is
it brings back a lot of great boxing memories. All right,
I want to fit two in before breeze three. Okay,
let's go to Rob in Orlando.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Rob?

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. Oh he's gone? Okay? Paul
and Denver, what's going on? Paul?

Speaker 17 (01:34:23):
Hey?

Speaker 21 (01:34:24):
How you doing?

Speaker 14 (01:34:24):
Chris?

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Outstanding man? Thanks for the call.

Speaker 15 (01:34:27):
Hey, you know, I love this the Late Show. I'm
a musician and I listened to Ben and you guys,
and thanks, buddy, you're pretty Are you died?

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Then I appreciate it.

Speaker 15 (01:34:38):
He listen, I want to get a little more esoteric
on the George take. You know, I didn't really like
the hulking batterer that he was, but I was. I
remember going to a gig I'm a musician go over
Colorado October thirtieth, nineteen seventy four when that happened, and
they have to play by play, but it really wasn't
play by play on the radio, you remember, it was
just right. They did it after that post posted around

(01:35:01):
and when he knocked him out, we freaked out.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
Man.

Speaker 15 (01:35:03):
I was such a holy fan. And remember that I
was in college at UNC, and really I remember him
a fraser beating him supposedly, and but I just want
to say that I think that fight for George, and
I love George. I've got his grill by the way
he was, he was. He was the guy that learned

(01:35:26):
something from that fight. I think it changed his life
and I'm a big later on. I was always rooted
for George. Loved that and that was that was fight
too sad sometimes, but that was a beautiful night for
me and I But I love George later on, I'll
just say that about him, you know, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
Yeah, listen, I thank you you had on the head Man.
I really appreciate the kind words Paul, be safe, be
safe out there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
As Arnie likes to.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Say, have you noticed there's a couple of caveats, like Paul,
He's like, I wasn't really a big fan of the style,
you know, the big man style.

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
It was kind of like.

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
Robin Orlandos too. But you couldn't help but respect. You
couldn't help but respect the level at which he was competing.
And I'm not gonna lie to you, at what at
the time seemed like such an advanced stage.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
It's like, my gosh, George Foreman was so old.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
In fact, whenever I was getting ready for the show tonight,
I think I think I've had his Wikipedia page up
most of the night, and whenever I was up and
I looked at that went over Michael Moore, Like in
my mind, I.

Speaker 1 (01:36:32):
Was like, gosh, what was he like fifty?

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
And you look at like, oh, forty forty five, forty
which now I'm older than, but it's just still you
think about it at the time, whenever you know this
was happening, in what you already beat Michael Moore nineteen
nineteen ninety four. I mean, to see someone do anything
in sports at that age was almost beyond comprehension. Now

(01:36:55):
it's a little bit more normal, you know, with watching
what Brady's doing in the quarterback position in the NFL,
but not in boxing. I don't think we'll see many
forty five year olds win heavyweight titles in boxing ever. Again,
it's been a fun night on the phones. Man, I'm
not gonna lie to you, Brie. Are you a little

(01:37:15):
surprised by how much George Foreman talk? We ended up
having just a yeah, I am and maybe tying it
into boxing. Oh, and let's add to it, it's been
an awful first two days the NCAA tournament as far
as games are concerned. You get a story like this,
it shuffles a lot of things to the back page,
and it brings back a lot of really cool memories.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
I remember going to my fir.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
I was talking about selling Brie, how is a PD
for a long time during the break and one of
my first events I got invited to was my boss.

Speaker 2 (01:37:49):
His name was Don King.

Speaker 3 (01:37:51):
Now it wasn't the boxing promoter Don King but he's
a legendary Tulsa radio guy, and he had everyone over
to his house for the Tyson holy Field that ended
in the earby. It was one of the first kind
of work watch parties that ever got invited to. I mean,
that was that was crazy. That was what ninety seven
ninety eight. I mean, just those moments, you're just not

(01:38:11):
getting them anymore. In boxing, it has to be something created,
something almost scripted, something wrestling like MMA has heard it
quite a bit, but there's just there's something about the
Sweet Science Man, and it's been cool to tip our
cap to it tonight and pay tribute to a legend
and George Frazier. And by the way, I forgot to add,
I'm glad that Paul and Din for mention this. I

(01:38:33):
always say the overnight shows are usually for the insomniacs
and the third shifters and the party animals. But I
can't leave Aubrie Mark. You know this too, the bands
who've had to stay sober while they're playing their gig
at at local bars and establishments, that just want to
get home and get caught up on their sports news.

(01:38:53):
The DJs, now most of you have probably been able
to stay sober, but we're grateful and thankful, all right
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Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Let me see here, how many Sweet sixteen teams have
I lost. I lost for some reason. I had uh
for some reason. I U see San Diego and VCU
going to the Sweet sixteen. But as of right now,
those are the only two Sweet sixteen teams that I've lost.

(01:41:30):
So keep hope live, keep hope live. All right, you
guys know what it's time for. It's time for Breeze three.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
One, not two, but three. It's entertainment.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
It's good.

Speaker 1 (01:41:48):
It's Breeze three.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
Oh dang it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
I've got to add one more team to that. I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
I got drunk on North Carolina and picked.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Him to beat Iowa State. Gosh, dang it. All right, Breeze,
what do.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
You got for it? A thing?

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
You're like barely ahead of Aaron Torres. That's like just
an accomplishment in itself a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
Well, that's that's where I like to kind of beat
my chest a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
As long as I can stay ahead of our college
basketball expert Aaron Toys and be within striking distance of Arnie,
I'm in good ship.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
That's that's a success right there. So I did call
an audible about like fifteen twenty minutes ago. So the
shout out Mark for uh for rolling with this. So
I we were talking about nostalgia and like TVs and
you know, antennas and for me like VCRs Connie, Yes,
I love Connie. Love Connie MVP of the night for me.

(01:42:39):
So I like I used to rewind VCRs, like you
know those VHS's right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
Do you remember this the sticker whenever you would go
to Blockbuster that they would put on the tape.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Do you remember it, Mark?

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
What it said, be kind rewind?

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:42:52):
Okay, I'm sorry, Mark, I'm sorry you had to rewind
it because it would charge you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:58):
That's right, shout out Hollywood video very underrated because I
loved both like I was. I was a member at both.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43:06):
Yeah, So the Blockbuster, Wow, I'd live in a Blockbuster
if I could. Okay, anyways, so I was so anyway,
so I called it an audible. So I just thought
of like three different like movies or TV shows that
kind of just brought back that nostalgia side for us. Okay.
So my first one, I went with Titanic because that
was the first movie that I saw in the theater.

(01:43:27):
I did fall asleep halfway because I was only like
five years old, but I do remember seeing that and
that would just like, and that's a great movie I
feel like to see in the theater. I mean, I
don't think it wasn't like Imax or anything like kind
of crazy like that, but just to see that in
it and the theater was super memorable for me. My
second one was Er because I would watch that every

(01:43:49):
week with my mom, and so again I was probably
in like the five six seven year old range and
I was super young, but I knew George Clooney was
amazing and gorgeous and like, who is this beatiful man
god man? Right, George Clooney. Definitely memorable. And then my
third one, I went my best Friend's Wedding with Julia
Roberts because that was the first rom com I ever saw,

(01:44:11):
and I just thought that was very memorable for me.
So those were my three kind of nostalgic kind of
entertainment side. So Titanic because I saw that in the theater.
Er was the first TV show that I remember vividly
watching every week and I love the theme song. And
then my best Friend's wedding Julia Roberts. So those were
my three, No.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
Just just out of curiosity. Yeah, when you say nostalgia.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
This can be anything, right, TV show that brings you
back to like, yeah, a TV show, like an actor
a movie. So yeah, I just kind of made it
super broad. And those are three things like an er
if I watch er, dopamine like all over my brain?

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
All right, Mark, what do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:44:50):
So the first thing I thought of when I got
the curveball change up throwing at me.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
A second ago?

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
Nice?

Speaker 6 (01:44:57):
So okay, so one movie that makes me go back
and think of nice things watching the Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 5 (01:45:05):
Now, what's as a growing up?

Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
When I, for me, I figured out that the Wizard
of Oz is basically somebody putting a contract on a witch.
They basically said go kill her and bring her bring
us her broom. Say it was a contract killer movie.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Okay. And we have a whole different view of the
Wicked Witch of the West after Wicked, Right.

Speaker 6 (01:45:25):
So they're the whole wicked thing came about and a
whole bunch of movies and a whole set of other idea.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Yeah, Dorothy was really the bad guy and not Dorothy Glinda.
Glinda was really the bad guy.

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
So you know, so really the bad guy.

Speaker 6 (01:45:37):
So the Wizard of Oz the first one and then
I thought about another movie for me that just made
me think about old TV and just all that stuff
about writers and writers room and things like that. Not
the Dick Van Dyke Show, but that was a movie
called My Favorite Year with Peter o'tool So that's a
great movie. It talks it's like old TV and you

(01:45:59):
know just how a show was put together and at
the end of the week, sort of before Saturday Night Live,
but just because a TV show would have a star
that was going to be on, then they had to
rehearse and get things together. And Peter ol'toole's character was
this old movie star and this TV show wanted to
have him on.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
So that was over that I thought about, and then
it was My last movie is Tarrowing Inferno.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
That's a great movie because back in the seventies, when
they made a movie, they could include a bunch of
stars in it.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
So that was one that had.

Speaker 6 (01:46:38):
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman and just you know, famous
actors throughout the whole thing, and a burning building and
people will know this, The juice was in that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
Jay.

Speaker 6 (01:46:53):
So those are my three Towering Inferno, my Favorite Year,
The Wizard of Oz, and I had to.

Speaker 5 (01:46:59):
I know it's extra, but I combined Ten Commandments.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
And Ben Hur.

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
Those are oldest dogic movies for me.

Speaker 1 (01:47:06):
So those are.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
So And you said this could be a little bit
of everything, right, So for me, it's it's it's kind
of like anything wrestling related. I know that sounds crazy.
It's like the old This is the old music for
Saturday Night's main event.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Oh, Hollywood Hogan to hold on?

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
That was pre Hollywood Hogan, right, this was whole comania,
whole comania running wild? Can hear the macho man get along?
Or is there bad blood? You know, we would watch
whenever I was a kid. We were talking about VCRs.
We would go to the store and like you said.

Speaker 14 (01:47:45):
We.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
From a small town in Illinois, Wood River, Illinois. Love
my hometown. But back in the day, in addition to
like Blockbusters and family.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Video in Hollywood video, there would be like Ted's video,
our John's video where there was always a local video
place you can wrint, Nintendo games and all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
And you know what, I would always rent.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
I would always rent the old pay per views and
I'd watch the old pay perviews and had a blast.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
My sister would watch it with me. Sometimes my dad would.
I think he was a little disappointed. But yeah, any
it's weird because we're talking boxing and combat sports, so
anything wrestling related gets me nostalgia. So I'll go with
any old Saturday Nights Made event. Here's another one. My
first crush and I still think we're meant to be
together is a Lissa Milano, and I think there's somewhere

(01:48:39):
that we're meant to be together. But anytime, like I
hear the Who's the Boss theme, It's like, Okay, there
we go. I'm I'm feeling nostalgia now. And it was
a terrible show when you look back at it. I mean, really,
you went and you had this guy basically be your
living butler, and his kids stayed with you, Like it

(01:48:59):
makes no since there's a time we lost a friend
or two, dream or two.

Speaker 1 (01:49:05):
That's right, founded Trent.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
And at the end, was you see nostalgia all the
way you get any of those old TV shows?

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
Oh man, it's all nostalgia for me. Look look at a.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
Lista Milano, so gorgeous, so amazing. Isn't she a Dodgers fan?
I think, so, yeah, there you go, we got it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:24):
Listen a line of clothes too.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Really, I understand that you would think me being from
Oklahoma probably to red state for you. But I'm willing
to adapt. I'm willing to adapt and a j just
what is it? Adapt or die? So I'm just gonna
tell you right now. Listen, Milano, I'm here, I'm here.
Who's the boss? First crush? Sam was her name? That
gives me nostalgia And as far as movies are concerned.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
I don't know if I've watched it since seeing it
at the movie theater, but the very first movie I
remember seeing at the theater.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
It's funny you say yours was Titanic. Mine was Et,
and I remember I remember like being really sad after it.
So anytime I see something gift related or meme related
with the kid riding the bike or with Et flying now,
we've had a lot of jokes every since.

Speaker 1 (01:50:18):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
An honorable mention for me is you mentioned Saturday Night
Live excuse me and Mark for some reason, like as
a kid whenever, you know, I was a nerd and
didn't have any friends, so on Saturday nights I'd be
staying home. It's like the mid nineties, like the fifty anniversary,
the fifty year anniversary of Saturday Night Live, which by
the way, is like twelve shows. I still haven't quite

(01:50:40):
figured it out which one's the actual fifteenth anniversary show
and which one isn't.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
There's like eight different versions of it. Those all those
old sketches, I mean that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
So now even watching it today is like, as I'm
watching it, I think about mister Robinson's neighborhood, I think
about Gumby, I think about Fronds, and you know, even
the when they had Chevy Chase used to do the news.
Now this was a little bit before my time, but
they were gonna have the news for the heart of

(01:51:11):
hearing and Chevy Chase at the headline, and then the
community was yelling it after he So just all those
things whenever.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
I watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Yeah, yeah, so I.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
Think that fits into what you were looking for tonight, Breed,
does it?

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
Of course?

Speaker 4 (01:51:27):
Oh, going back to the wrestling, the Saturday Night Mean event.
So that's when they were all over like different territories, right,
is that?

Speaker 23 (01:51:32):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:51:33):
No, this was before No, this was where they all
had come together.

Speaker 1 (01:51:36):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
This is where they all kind of got the territories.
Ladies and gentlemen sit back and have a conversation. The
territories back when wrestling was real. I mean, that was,
that was amazing. That's whatever. Sunday mornings, Chris blank would
be sitting down eating his bowl of fruit loops watching
w CCW, and here come the von Erics and they're

(01:51:59):
gonna get them nasty, fabulous freebirds in that cheater Michael
ps Hayes missing link. I'm still scared of him today,
always worrying that Kamala Uganda Giant is running free somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
But yeah, now that was when Vince bought up everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:52:16):
My wrestlers were the crusher and the bruiser. Oh that's
all the way back.

Speaker 6 (01:52:21):
And then the manager, the guy the blonde, Bobby Heenan,
he was the greatest.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
The great mouth. Oh no, Jimmy Hart was the mouth
of the South. Bobby was the brain.

Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
I can't, I cannot mess up my managers. Yeah, you know,
we were thinking about some lost things in the world today.
In addition to close NCA tournament games. Great wrestling managers
just not what they what they used to be. All Right,
I got planks Parlay coming up to put a rap
on the show. But I know, I know that This

(01:52:53):
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(01:53:14):
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(01:53:37):
of notes here before we get out. I didn't mention
these from the NBA, probably because I didn't want to
get a labeled to Homer. But there is an interesting
storyline developing as far as regular season marks or a
concern Oklahoma City tonight dominated Charlotte. Now I'm not sitting

(01:53:59):
here at China, beat my chest and tell you look
out thunder or unstoppable because.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
They beat Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
Let's all face it, Charlotte kind of stinks and Oklahoma
City won in easy fashion. I'm I think they one
forty one to thirty six, forty one to thirty six,
and now that would be that would be easy fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
To one oh six.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
I only bring it up because it is the forty
fifth double digit win of the season for Oklahoma City.
They are five double digit wins away from tying the
most ever in the regular season, previously held by the

(01:54:41):
Milwaukee Bucks. Why I say previously held currently held by
the Milwaukee Bucks. Now we have you guys really take
an inventory how down the stretch were coming in the
regular season in the NBA. There's only thirteen games left
for Oklahoma City this year. It's an interesting stat because

(01:55:04):
seven of those top ten teams in that list of
most double digit wins in a season went on to
win an NBA title. Now I'm not here to do
they're already in the top ten. Forty five puts them
in the top ten. So I'm not trying to tell
him you that SGA and these guys are going to
win a title. But just when you're looking at trends.

(01:55:24):
That's a good one. I think it also speaks to
how top heavy the NBA is this year. I mean,
you didn't expect things to go so poorly for Philadelphia
as they did, But I mean the bottom part of
the league it just stinks. I mean even in the West.
Sometimes you can look at the West and go, oh no,

(01:55:44):
there's competition there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
There's not.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
And listen, I don't blame the Spurs at all for
just out and out tanking once they lost winby for
the rest of the year. I know that you made
the trade to go bring into Aaron Fox, but bottom
part of the bracket's just bad in the NBA. So
worth keeping an eye on Oklahoma City chasing history most

(01:56:07):
double digit wins in an NBA season. Ever, the record
is fifty. They currently have forty five, and seven of
the top ten teams in that list won an NBA title.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
I still, you know, Brian's wild.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
I still don't feel comfortable about my top five moments
from the NCAA tournament so far. I know something we
did way back in the first segment, but I still
it's just been that it's been that challenging. It's still
the NCAA tournament. It's still fun. We still love to
talk about our brackets. Everybody's still alive because it's pretty
much been all chalk. But we just we haven't had

(01:56:43):
those moments, have.

Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
We We have it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:47):
I can't even think of like one moment from earlier
today other than when you brought it up.

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
Average margin of victory in games today was eighteen points
per game. The average margin of victory the first two
days of the NCAA tournament is the largest in the
history of the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
Now, that hasn't stopped me from planks parlay. Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:57:10):
We went in the three team parlay. We went one
for three last week, which isn't a winner. I talked
to a couple of people about re engineering.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
The way the parlay goes in other ways.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
In other ways.

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
A lot of people look at parlays as what soccer bets.
It's like, why are you playing parlays? It's a soccer bet.
And I'm saying, well, I don't know, man, Listen, I
feel like it's the easiest way to make money. Well,
what do you mean, the easiest way ever to win money?

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
To you win?

Speaker 3 (01:57:35):
Well, no, but I like the amount of money I
could win. Based on what it shows me I could
possibly win. I'm sure that's some sort of an addiction issue,
but here we go. So we actually have spreads on
the second round games. And the advice I was given was,
if you really like a team in a parlay, just
play the money line.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
So here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
I've got two money lines and I'm taking a number,
and they're all college basketball. And as this progresses and
I become more of a degenerate, all work in player
props and things of that nature.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
So here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:58:10):
I've got the A and M money line. I think
they're gonna roll today. I think it's gonna be a
fun game between them and Michigan. They're kind of a
very similar team, but I kind of I like A
and M's physicality, and I think their defense is gonna
cause problems for Michigan. So give me the A and
M money line. I'm gonna go against the callers tonight.

(01:58:32):
I'm gonna take the Tennessee money line tomorrow. And you know,
this was one that Bre mentioned during the break when
we were looking over spreads. Man, I really like creaton
plus eight and a half over Auburn. I know that
of the high seeds. Alabama probably looked the most vulnerable,
but Auburn wasn't too terribly far behind. They kind of

(01:58:57):
played with their food around for a little bit and
Alabama State was keeping it tight. Now they eventually won
by twenty, But I think Alabama Creighton's going to be
a tight game today. So the play A and M's
money line, Tennessee's money line and Creighton plus eight and
a half with a slight thought about the under, what

(01:59:19):
the under in the Tennessee UCLA game.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
There you have it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
By the way, night of the tournament, Dan Hurley and
his team wins again. Quote of the night Whenever he
was asked about how it feels to win their first
round NCAA tournament game, he said, it feels normal heartbreaking
for me as my Sooners go home, but I hope
we get more action in day three and four of

(01:59:45):
the NCAA tournament. Stick Around the Fellows are coming up next.
I'll be back tomorrow night, eleven o'clock Eastern. That's eleven
pm Eastern, ten o'clock Central with my man Arnie Spanier.
Until then, Bree, have a great week, Mark your rockstar.
We'll see you back here next Friday night into a
Saturday morning. Have a great Saturday on Fox Sports Radio

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