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Of any purchase of $100 or more. That's promo code Brian. Hey, welcome back, everyone. If you're looking for me on Wednesday afternoon, you probably would have to find me in New Jersey at Giants Stadium. Why?
Their indoor practice facility is the place I caught up with a brand new coach, one of the most successful of the modern time in the NFL. After 18 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, he was let go and it became a bidding war for his services. The Giants is where he ended up. A famous franchise, yes, but has nothing but losing mostly for the last 10 years. Can he turn that thing around?
Even with the president urging the Giants to hire John Harbaugh, he was anything but certain.
So I want to bring you my exclusive interview, the entire thing.
So here is part one of my interview with the New York Giants coach. With one hundred ninety three wins, he walks into that building that had just four last year.
So coach, how does it feel? I see the last time I saw you were in You're practicing Baltimore, you're living and breathing ravens, and now I'm seeing an NY on your chest, a nice pullover sweater for this winter, and you're in this beautiful facility in New Jersey. Does it feel like you're the Giants head coach yet?
Well, it does. It does feel like the New York Football Giants. I mean, I got a big sign right over there that says New York Football Giants. We've got the four trophies up here in the indoor. It feels like the Giants.
But you didn't grow up in New York, right? This was not your area, but what does this team mean to you?
Well, I grew up as a football fan. My dad was a football guy.
So the Cleveland Browns were our team. That was one of the original teams.
So the Football Giants were pretty special.
So we had every historical football book that you could have. I mean, I read about Wyattle. I know about Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi. I mean, all that stuff was just kind of a part of our life growing up. And of course, one was the offensive coordinator, one was the defensive coordinator on this team.
That's right. That's some talent. That's pretty powerful. I want to be the head coach of that team. Yeah, you get a lot of trophies.
But so, coach, I was really struck. I see a lot of press conferences, and with the Giants, they've had a lot of new coach press conferences. But for you, having that job days after being fired from another job, you seem extremely happy. And what did it mean to have your family there, your mom and dad there? It meant everything.
I mean, to see mom and dad sitting in the front row, they were there 18 years ago. You know, with my wife, and my daughter was there in Baltimore, and here we were for this next leg of the journey, so to speak, and they're with us still, doing great. Dad still giving me the same advice: the team, the team, the team. You know, good rough, tough physical football. That's what we've always been about, that's what we grew up with, and then my wife being there.
Just a new journey, and then walking in and the players. There was a bunch of players here. They didn't have to be here.
Now they showed up and they were standing right there when I first walked in. It meant a lot. Those frantic days before you took the job. Can you bring us inside that moment? There's certain things you have to have, right?
Yeah.
Well, I mean, they were great. I always kind of knew it was going to be the Giants if they wanted me. And there were a lot of great conversations with a lot of teams. I mean, I talked to every team, and they were phenomenal. You realize how many great people there are in this league, how many great owners, GMs.
It was really, really awesome to get a chance to know everybody, but I just kind of always knew it was the Giants, I guess. And then when I came here on that Wednesday, When it kind of got out that I was going to be the giant coach, we had a great day. I mean, they rolled out the red carpet and we had good conversations, and I got a chance to know the mirrors and the tissues. And I felt like, man, this is exactly what I thought it was going to be like. This is this family environment.
First class operation, the New York Giants, the history. Having a chance to be in New York City, you know, this fan base, that was all a really big deal. But it can't just end at that. It can't just end with a good feeling. You know, it had to be something that we knew we could.
build together the right way. And that took a couple days. They sort it all out. Bill Parcells famously, I think he said it with New England. Said, you know, if you want me to cook the meal, I gotta shop for the groceries.
You know, they want to let me do that. They want you to cook the meal. Do they let you shop at the grocery store?
Well, yeah, you know, it's important, but it's also a team deal. I mean, every single operation in football does it the same way. They all work together.
So, really, all this stuff about who makes the final decision and all that, I think it's all overblown, at least with the teams that do it right. I mean, you've got to be on the same page. And we kind of came to an agreement through this whole process. It's something that we did in Baltimore: we're going to agree. to agree.
We're going to find a way to agree. You've got to find a way to get on the same page about any player you bring in. It doesn't matter who somebody else drafts, it doesn't matter who you don't get. My dad told me this in recruiting way back when. It matters who you get.
You got to get the right guys for your team. And if we can all come to an agreement on that pick or that signing, then we're going to be in good shape.
So we're really we're going to work together on it. It was that, it was other things that just we felt like I just wanted to be, you know. Going in the front door, we all believed in the same things. Two years ago, I saw you on the field, Ravens Giants. Yeah.
They had really no quarterback situation, playing out the string, and you always spin positively. You're like, well, they got a local hero here, he's going to be starting, the local guy. And the Giants didn't stay with you for a quarter. If you watch the Giants games, which you did prior to this, it was a different team with a very similar record from the football guy. What did you see?
on that tape that made you think. That this is a thing that I could turn around? That's a great question, and that's exactly what happened. I saw a football team playing to win. I saw a bunch of guys playing physical, tough football.
a bunch of guys that cared. You know, they weren't concerned about the record, they were concerned about the game, the series, the play, you know, and trying to win that play. I mean, I saw a quarterback throwing his body around trying to win football games, you know. As a rookie. As a rookie, I saw an offensive line.
I saw a running back, you know, powerful, I saw a defense flying around. They didn't make plays all the time that they needed to make to win games. I mean, we had the same issue in Baltimore. Every team does. But they were playing the game the right way.
So I'm like, well, I think I can work with these guys.
So you saw enough there that it wouldn't be, even though the record was, they've been only 7 and 27 in the last few years.
So that's not. A type of record where you're hitting the ground and you just need one more piece. How do you feel about that?
Well, I just never thought one more piece was ever the answer. I mean, all the teams that think, hey, this will be the one piece to get us over the hump, you find out it's really all about kind of the whole and the way the parts mess together.
So no team is as far away as you think, no team is as close as you think. Every team in the National Football League is kind of in the same plane. You know, it's not like college football where you got these big swings.
So this team is good enough to do great things next year, but you got to earn it. You've got to earn the right to play in big games.
So there was a big game. Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah.
This guy, Mike McDonald, head coach of this now Super Bowl champions. This guy. Yeah.
Seattle Seahawks. He was your intern. Yeah.
He was my intern, then he was my linebacker coach, then he was my defensive coordinator. He couldn't say enough nice things about you. This is Mike McDonald when asked about John Harbaugh. I don't think it's possible to overstate his influence on me. I love John Arbaugh.
He's a He's my one of my biggest mentors. Um was willing to take chances on me when other people weren't. And and invested in me and my career throughout. and stretched, you know. Like the things that I felt like I could do he He had a vision for me in my career that I probably didn't have for myself.
And all those principles that are part of his program that he's about as a person resonated with me. Those are a lot of the foundational principles that we that we brought to Seattle. Um He's also a great friend, he's got great family, so. I can't tell how much I love it. It's the first time I saw it.
I read it. It's the first time I heard him say it. Yeah, my thoughts are it kind of makes me a lot a little choked up, you know? I mean, it's uh... It's a meaningful thing, you know, and uh And it it uh I remember, you know, you know, Mike, Mike is an introspective guy.
He's a guy that thinks everything through. I just, I couldn't be more proud of him. You know, sometimes you can, you know, when you're coming up through the ranks, you know, you kind of can doubt yourself, or you wonder if it's ever going to work for you. And I remember kind of telling them one time: it's like, you know, it's okay, it's okay to dream big, it's okay to have high expectations. I mean, actually, it's okay to be a little embarrassed by what you want to accomplish.
You know, if people aren't laughing, At your dream when you tell them, then your dream's not big enough. You know, it needs to be so big that people laugh at you and think it can't be done. And here he is now, Super Bowl champion, because he was willing to. To believe it was possible. But you saw something in him.
Oh, yeah. I mean, Mike's always been smart. He's been, he's a good person. He's got a great heart. He cares about people.
He works really hard at it. He put his players first all the time. He's a great family man. He thinks about two things. He thinks about the football team and his family.
Football team and his family. And his dog, who's part of his family.
Now he's got kids now.
So he's just the right kind of guy, but everything always mattered to him the most. He took everything personally and he wanted to be good at it and he treated people the right way. To see him be successful, man, it's just like. I don't know. It's like your own success, right?
It's like when your kids have success. It's better. It's better. It's better than when the other people have success. I know what you're saying, but I know the Giants want you to have success.
But just having those few moments. We're going to beat the Seahawks now. I know. And when you play, it's going to be different. And I guess he knows your buttons and you know his.
All right, part two, we're going to discuss more about what he's up against in New York. Can he handle the press? And what his goals are personally, like finding a house. Don't miss the rest of my interview with John Harbaugh. From breaking news to big-name guests, Brian brings you insight you won't hear anywhere else.
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Radio that makes you think. This is the Brian Kill Me Show. Hey, welcome back. I had a chance to catch up with John Harbaugh, one of the most high-profile and sought-after coaches in the NFL who had a job for 18 years and then hooked up with the New York Giants. And there's a sense in this media market that he's going to turn this thing around right away.
So, in part one, I talked about what he has meant to Mike McDonald, the Super Bowl-winning coach of Seattle. He hired him as an intern. In part two, I look at Jackson Dart, what he learned by shaping an offense around Lamar Jackson, and what Jackson Dart did. In fact, Jackson Dart came down to our interview before just to introduce himself. That's what a humble guy he is.
Here's part two of my interview with the head coach of the New York Giants, John Harbaugh. Let's talk about something that hadn't happened. You have this incredible run with the Ravens. You have this fantastic relationship with the owner, seemingly, and you've said that in the past. What is it like that moment after 18 years in a Super Bowl, playoffs and 193 wins?
193 wins. That feeling when it's like, John, I need to speak to you.
Well, I knew it was coming, you know. Eric gave me a heads up. And then I talked to Steve and it was okay. It was okay. I knew, I understood it.
I understood what he was thinking. It's a move I might have done myself because I kind of think I know what he's trying to accomplish with it. And I told him that. I said, you know, because he felt bad about it. You know, he was really emotional about it.
I think he felt like. I don't know. And I just told him, I said, you know, we're going to be friends for life. You know, you don't need to apologize. You're doing what you think is best.
You're doing exactly what I would do. You got to make a tough decision with a player or whatever. Uh he's gonna be okay. And then uh Then I hung up the phone and then it sets in. You're like, ah.
It's over. It's over, you know? And then you start thinking about what's next, I guess, but all that gets messed up together in your emotions. We've all been through it, people know. Everybody watching knows.
There's that moment where you say you don't get that job or you get fired from that job. I guess you got to learn from it. There's a belief I think some great coaches have said, yeah, you got 10 years. After a while, the players start turning you off. Do you believe that?
Well, it was 18 years.
So if they started turning me off after 18 years, I'm okay with it. But you know what? I don't really believe that. I mean, I do think that, I do think everything runs out. I mean, nobody survives life.
Nobody makes it out alive. And that's okay. It's just the way things are. But I know right down to the end, those guys were fighting. I mean, I saw the way they played.
I saw their eyes in the team meeting room. I know how they took the field. I know how they believed in each other and the coaches and everybody else. I think our guys gave their very best right to the end, and that's what I'll be proud of. I mean, you know, 18 years of football.
People watch the Ravens play. And they'll always say, that's what the Ravens look like. This is how everybody can describe the Ravens. Any football fan can tell you, hey, what are the Ravens like? They'll tell you, rough, tough, physical, disciplined, hard-nosed football.
That's a good feeling for you. That's a great feeling. That's what I take away from the thing. And they played that way to the end.
So I'm proud of those guys. I love those guys.
So let's talk about the end. You hit that field goal, Tyler Luke hits that field goal. Yeah.
You're rookie. You're in the playoffs. And once you get in the playoffs, you know how to win. And if you get deep in the playoffs, maybe we're not here in New Jersey walking the giant field. But I saw a video.
of you. walking through the tunnel, the back of your head and your arm was around your kicker that just missed a 44-yard field goal. And he said he just missed it. What did you say to him? Why was it important for you to do that?
I just said to him, it's going to be okay. And you're going to be okay. And it's going to be all right. and things are going to be fine. And that was really all I said.
And he was crying, you know, because it mattered to him, because he felt like he let everybody down. Why? Because I was walking up behind him, and it's like one of those God moments. You know, it was a moment where there was no other option. Like, I didn't think about let me go find Tyler.
It wasn't like in my plan. I was feeling sorry for myself and everybody else. You kind of knew it was over then, too. I don't know, but I just didn't want to lose the game. We were right there, you have a chance to win, you get stunned.
We had the same thing happen to us in New England in 2011. You know, it's like it's a shocking moment. And you're walking off, and there he is. I'm walking down the hallway, and there he is right in front of me. He's by himself, and I could see he was just kind of staggering almost all the cameras.
And it was just like, man, I just like, God told me, it's like, you gotta go walk up and put your arm around this guy. It was just too easy to do it. And it was the right thing to do. And it just, you know. He's a good dude, you know, and he's going to be better because of it.
What I noticed with you is despite the stress in the game, I've seen you have heartbreaking losses, unfortunately bad calls, and missed field goals. But I'd never see A painful look on your face. It's almost like I gave it everything, I put them out there in the wind. I win, I feel good, I lose, I wish I didn't. And is that that grounding come because you seem to be a very spiritual guy?
Like, he seems to always have it in perspective. Is that because I'm on the outside or is that an observation that's accurate?
Well, you know me. I mean, you know, we're friends, and you know me, and I see the same thing in you. It is because of that, because I really believe, and I think our team believed that we were on this sort of the spiritual quest a little bit, whatever your beliefs might be. We would start off one and five. And we were down at the bottom, man.
We were at the bottom of the urban. Predicted to win it all. Had to swim our way all the way back to the top to the surface, just barely get our head above water. Fighting to the end, even in that game, which was like almost a representation of the whole season, you know, the fight. The inconsistency sometimes, but found a way to fight our way back to that moment.
And you thought, this is the way it's supposed to go. We're going to win this game. We're going to be in the playoffs. We're going to have a shot. We could win the whole thing.
We could be that good. You just knew that that was what the plan was, maybe, that God had for us. And boom, it goes wide right now. That's not what I expected. Wow.
I thought we were going to come out of it. I thought we were going to surface. I thought we were going to come out of it and boom. And then you just gotta kinda ask yourself, well, why? It's like, well, you know.
We make our plans, God orders our steps, you know, and this is the way it is. This is the way it's supposed to be. This is the purpose, somehow, some way. Interesting. Um one thing that you have You had with um The Ravens, you had a young quarterback with a lot of talent and maybe overachieved from what the draft thought.
And now you got Jackson Dart, who people thought, yeah, first round draft pick, we'll see. Jackson Jackson. And then, yeah. And then you see what he did. I haven't met anyone, Giant fan or giant hater, that isn't thinking this guy is going to be special.
How much did that have to do with your decision? And when you looked at the film, besides the toughness, what did you see?
Well, it had a lot to do with my decision. And when I looked at the film, I saw a talented quarterback. I saw the same thing I saw with Lamar Jackson. The same thing. When you watch the tape, even though everybody said Lamar wasn't a quarterback, not everybody, but too many people, said he wasn't a quarterback, you look at the tape and you say, this is a football player, he's a quarterback, we can do something with this guy, now we're going to have to do something nobody's ever done.
We did something nobody's ever done in 2019. We built an offense that now changed the way the game's played. You see that you see those plays now. In football, all over at every level. You never saw them before.
Give me an example.
Some of the read option plays, the midline read option plays, some of the play actions off of it. Oh, the idea that you want to extend plays, that you want to have a play on top of a play, on top of a play. Lamar created all that. You know, with his just natural ability, who he is as a player. I'm not saying we saw exactly what it was going to become, because Lamar made it happen, but we decided that we were going to believe that it could happen.
It could be. A quarterback could play differently than what everybody was used to seeing. Is that possible? I don't know. Let's try to create it.
So we did it in 2019. Four years later, we did it again. With a different version, different iteration.
Now they're going to do it again, a third time. That's their goal. That's what they should be doing. I root for them.
So, okay, Jackson Dart.
Well how's he gonna he's gonna play Jackson dart ball?
Okay, it's going to be Jackson Dart football. That's what we've got to create with our offense. We've got to create an offense for this quarterback at this point in time to give him a chance to be the best he can be. And, you know, I know we can do it, and I'm looking forward to it. And you'll have his, you could do these compound plays.
Right.
Well, it'll be built around his skill set. You know, the things he does well. He does so many things well. He's different than Lamar Jackson, right? But he's Jackson Dart.
He's who he is. He's the way God made him, right? And I just think it's our job as coaches to bring that out. And for any coach out there, I don't care what you're doing, teacher, you're running a business. I mean, you've got talented people around you.
You've got talented people working with you and for you. There's things they do well. Find those things that they do well and make the most of them. Don't try to make them somebody they're not. That's one of your coaching things.
And also for you in New York, I know people have to tell you there's a whole different standard. And you know how quick, not so necessarily they turn on you, but how much they want to win and how demanding they are. They still show up in the parking lot with four wins. It's still packed, they're still tailgating. Do you know you can handle that pressure?
Oh, yeah, I can take it. I'm sure I can take it. We've seen a lot of giant coaches blowing up, and not that that's bad, it actually makes it interesting. I got scars, man. You know, I've been a lot of, it's like you've been in fights, right?
I mean, if you don't have any scars, you haven't been in any fights. You know, if you got scars, you've been in fights. You're going to get hit, you're going to get bloodied. I've been hit, I've been bloodied a lot. You know, so this, I'm ready for, I'm ready for whatever.
That stadium right out there, you see it right out there, that stadium right there, that's going to be our home. You know, it's going to be a fun place to be. It's going to be our arena, it's going to be our battleground. I can't wait to go in there and start throwing punches. I'm looking forward to it with a football team, a bunch of guys that want to throw punches together.
So I don't care about the rest of it. The rest of it's going to be fine. And what are they going to do? They're going to say bad things about you. They're going to say good things about you.
I'm more worried about when we start winning. We start winning a bunch of games in a row. What they start saying about us, we don't buy it. They start patting you on the back and telling you how great you are, Brian. You're great, you're great.
I don't get that, but go ahead. But so, okay, you don't want to get too ahead of yourself. But people have expectations, and I think that's important. All right, coming up next, more of my interview with John Harbaugh. We wrap things up about how he's going to handle the New York press and.
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Hey, welcome back, everyone. Finally, the last part of my interview with John Harbaugh. What a fantastic guy on handling the New York press. It's different than Baltimore. It's different than when his brother's even dealing with Los Angeles.
Also, meeting Donald Trump and the blowback he received just because he met him? He pointed out he met other presidents and they said, congratulations. With Trump, they said, what are you doing? Also, what he thought with Brian Dable, the guy that was fired that he replaced. Kind of recommendations that he gave in Tom Coughlin's role, the Super Bowl winning quarterback with the Super Bowl coach winning coach with the New York Giants, and why he's been a mentor to John Harbaugh, even at the age of 63.
So, my interview, part three, with the coach of the New York Football Giants, John Harbaugh. Listen up. A couple of things happen. You've got to get a lot of questions about the press. From the press, a lot of people, they're going to be questioning you, and you're going to be looking at them saying, did you just coach 18 years and won 193 games and you're questioning my decisions?
Are you going to get that from different angles maybe instead of two or three? Yeah, I mean, to me, that's normal. To me, what you have to understand is that the game of football is a real-life game. It's really tough, and the guys who play it are real-life warriors in an athletic kind of sense. And so that's what the game's about.
But the business of football is entertainment. That's what pays all the bills. And if you understand that, like, it is entertainment, you're in the entertainment business in that sense, and you've got an audience out there, and they're a part of it, and they want to be involved in it. And it's like reality TV. That's what makes it so compelling.
And you're an actor in this whole thing. It's a drama.
So embrace it for what it is. If they want to criticize you and say you shouldn't have gone forward and forth and want, it's like, that's part of the deal. That's what you're in it for. Let's have the conversation. I'm going to back down.
I'll tell them what I think. And I'll try to be nice about it as much as I can. But we're all doing our best. Really, I be afraid of that. Understood.
So, you had a chance to meet four presidents? I met uh I met Ronald Reagan. I met President Obama. And I met President Trump.
So three. And then you meet President Trump, and I watched this video. You were getting questions, not about the game. And you guys got off to a slow start. You were getting questions about Trump.
Did it surprise you, like why you would go? It did surprise me. And was it surprising you you lose your job with the Ravens and the President of the United States puts on Truth Social? If I could just paraphrase, hey, Giants, do not let this guy go. It did surprise me.
What was that like? It was crazy. I got, all of a sudden, I started getting to bing, bing, bing, my phone starts going off, and there it is. It's like, man, okay, I guess that's where we're. He's the president.
You know, I guess that's what we're going to do. What did your parents say about that? No, about saying to go to the Giants? They were fired up about it. I mean, we loved it.
We loved meeting President Trump. We loved all of his group. It was awesome. It's pretty cool. And that just goes to show you how blessed we are.
To do something like this. You know, I know you feel that. The President of the United States. And he even knows who you are. It's crazy to me.
Well, it makes sense to me for him to know who you are, especially at President so engaged in sports. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's in everything, but for better for us. America 250 this year. You understand history, what this means, celebrating.
You're going to be on the field for that, a lot of things. What do you think people should keep in mind celebrating America's 250th birthday? Oh, man. I mean, I think people should keep in mind that this is the greatest country, and this is the greatest experiment in governing, and the greatest experiment in society building that's ever been attempted in the history of the world. I mean, what this is about is never even comprehended in the history of the world until 1776 when these founding fathers came up with this idea.
And then it was founded on some premises that they weren't ready to achieve, and we still haven't gotten there yet, but that's okay. We're fighting our way to accomplish all the things that this country was founded on. You know, we should try to do it together, that's what I think. And on the sidelines, when the international anthem plays. Yeah.
I'm going to be proud to be standing out there. Proud American. Uh John, lastly. Prediction.
Okay. In the coming season. You can be walking into a team. Four wins. What could you tell the fans?
What could you tell? uh the observers about what do you expect this year?
Well, I think the thing that you can say with certainty, because nothing is certain in life, we're not given to know the future, but what you can say with certainty is that the New York Giant football team will walk, will will get off the bus, and walk into every one of those stadiums this year and will expect to win the game. We've been playing the kind of football that is winning football. We're playing the kind of football that's going to make the fans proud. And our plan is going to be to win every single game we play. I mean, that's the idea.
And that's what we're going to be fighting for. I keep hearing the word culture. The minute you walk to the building, we have a different culture, different demands. Can you give us an idea? What do you mean by that?
What does that mean? I mean, yeah, you know, culture is such a crazy word, but it's like it's a worldview. It's a common understanding, you know, shared understanding. It's a vision, you know, and it's a way of looking at things. And like, I think our guys are going to, we just want a bunch of guys.
I want a bunch of guys around me that love what I love, which is football. I mean, we're here for football. And if you love football, and you love practice, and you like meetings, you like coming out in this turf, you want to be on the grass or the plastic grass. You know, if you like me, if you like to talk ball, if you want to hang around the office, you know, if you like going to the cafeteria and being around the guys, then you're going to like being a New York giant. You know, you're going to want to be a giant because that's what we're going to be doing.
Wasn't it interesting that Brian Dable and Tom Coughlin have one thing, two things in common? They both ended up being fired by the giants, and they both thought you should take the job. And they said great things about the organizations. What did that mean to you? It meant a lot to me because Tom Coughlin.
I mean, is a hero to me. I mean, I look up to Tom Coffin. He's one of my best friends in coaching now. And just because I, I mean, I look up to him. And it's for him.
And he was calling me every day, basically. He was giving me advice. He was telling me what to say. He was telling me what to think. I mean, and then Brian Dayball, like, I know Brian a little bit going into this operation, going into this situation, but we've probably talked about it every other day.
And he was telling me about the team and things, and he never said one thing about the Giants organization, the players, anybody that was negative. I mean it was amazing. That kind of got me fired up. He's going to be head coach again. Oh, absolutely.
So John, one of the first times I met you, I interviewed you at the Super Bowl, and unfortunately, I think you had a great run, but you didn't make it to the Super Bowl. But they see the smile, they see the looks, and they said, we need this guy in the network. work in the Super Bowl coverage, and you were kind enough to come on Fox and Friends first. And then you told me, I had a problem. I'm heading right.
I don't know if it's NBC or CBS or ABC, but I'm heading over. But you're not sure. And I have no belt. I didn't.
So I said. I'm a 32. What are you? He's like, I think you're a 32, right?
So I gave him my belt. Didn't hear anything from them ever since. I've been talking, I say this story on television, they're like, there's no way that's true.
Well sure enough. The word gets back to John. And I get A raven's belt in the mail. And of course, at the end of the season, since you're not there anymore. Do I have to hand this in?
I mean, do I have to give it back to you? The purple embroidery? Right.
No, no, you need to keep this belt. You need to keep this belt. You mean, doesn't it belong to the Ravens until... No, no, I had to pay for this belt. You did?
You should give it to me for free. Oh, all right.
So I owe you. I'm going to get you one with the blue embroidery next. All right. How about that? That'll be fine, because until then, I will wear a belt.
That's how much I'm found on you. John Harbor, new coach of the New York Football Giants. Congratulations. Thanks. I like the sweater.
So nice to the New York Giants to make the coach available. I know things are going to get very busy and very heated. I think they're going to win at least 11 games next year. And I know you're taping this. Also, I'll see you Saturday night, Valentine's Day in Fort Myers, Florida.
And you're going to listen to the stream on Fox Nation and watch. I think you're going to love the unscripted stage show with over 1,500 people in attendance on Fox Nation, 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Keep it here for the Brian Kilmey Show.
