It is! The JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody listening all over North America, all my people in Canada. I don't care where you at. You could be in Canada. You could be here in Georgia with me. You could be in New York with super producer and host Ryan Hickey.
You could be in California. You could be in Boca. Hey, shout outs to Boca. The Boca Raton Bowl. JMU beat Western Kentucky 27 to 17. Yeah, it's bowl season. Congratulations. Anyway, we got a lot to do this hour.
We've talked about a lot. Kirk Cousins been benched. Patrick Mahomes looks healthy enough to play. NBA is sick of its All-Star game. They're switching things up. The NBA had its NBA Cup last night. The Bucks won. It's just that time of year. Just give us more football.
We want football. Okay. No NBA tonight. No NBA games. Anyway, we got a lot to do this hour.
It is Wednesday. I also gave you a top six list. We took a look at some of the most.
Well, not the most. I gave you a list of the best athletes in 2024. The athletes who accomplished the most.
The athletes who had the best years on and off the field of play. I'll give you a recap in a second. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about, well, we'll take a look at what might have happened this day in sports history.
It is December 18th, 2024. It's been that way all day. If you want to communicate with me here on the radio, if you want to communicate to North America, you can.
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Yeah, I'm there. Knock yourself out. Anyway, let's get this part out the way. We got this last night. The news broke. Kirk Cousins was being benched for Michael Pennix Jr. Well, today all three of them spoke in hilarious fashion.
Michael Pennix Jr. said he got the news that he was being benched while he was at Costco getting a hot dog. Hickey, what the hell is wrong with this guy? Why the hell? Why the hell would he? Why would he admit that? Is he going to be this, this Frank? I mean, well, we got three more games left. Is he just going to say this all year long?
What is he saying? Yeah, the judgment is definitely questionable if you're going to go get a $1.50 hot dog at Costco. That's for sure. That can't be good for you. You think his decision making is going to be terrible for the Falcons?
Not a great, I'm a big Michael Pennix guy. Right. A little nervous now after hearing that you think it's a good idea to have one of those Costco hot dogs. So Kirk Cousins was at his house. He got a phone call from the coach. And then the rookie quarterback was at Costco.
They don't got better hot. They probably won't even serve hot dogs at the facility. He don't got better food at the facility. He got to buy hot dogs from Costco.
I mean, damn, I guess this is off day. So it's a cheat meal and he's going to cheat. Oh my God. You know, Hickey, we have him talking about a hot dog that we do. Oh my God.
Let's listen to this. I was actually shopping. I was shopping with my girlfriend was at Costco. I was actually getting a hot dog. And whenever I got a call, I wasn't hungry no more. So okay, listen, I haven't eaten at Costco and I don't know, 20 something years next time get the pizza.
Okay. If the pizza is still good, I don't know. God bless him. Good for him. And Kirk Cousins not so happy. Hey, Kirk. Are you getting benched because you can't move? Is your body hurting? Is your Achilles shot?
Kirk, tell me why. No, I think, you know, going back to the turnovers, I think, you know, that's more probably decision making than anything. And you know, that wouldn't have anything to do with any physical physical limitations. So I wouldn't say so. And mobility, the Achilles was not. No, I think when you look at it, you know, there's a lot of production. We were six and three, you know, nine games in and had done a lot of good things. And, and so I don't think there are any real limitations from that standpoint.
Okay. And so his body is not broken, but his mind is okay, I get it. Let's see what the Falcons do against the New York Giants on Sunday. Patrick Mahomes looks like he's going to be a full goal this upcoming Saturday against Hickey. Who the hell are they playing the Texans?
Yeah, they're playing the Texans. Let's see what he does. And thank you again to Matt Verteram for joining us from Sports Illustrated. He says that the injury apparently is overblown. Now I saw the hit.
Oh my God. Oh, even thinking about the hit is just like, Hickey, I'd be in an air cast for like three weeks if I got hit like that. I'd be in a hospital right now. I'm with you. You get crunched like that, top and bottom.
Yeah, I'm, I'm off for at least the rest of the year. His leg went one, he got folded like an accordion. That's how he got folded for real. His leg went up towards his head and he went towards the ground. It's just, oh my God. Good luck to, good for Patrick Mahomes.
He's built like an iron man. He described how he's feeling and how he's been recovering and listen to him describe it. Well, first we did a little bit when we got back, I mean, just get back a little bit earlier with the noon game and kind of got ourselves ready even on the plane and then on the plane.
What happened there? I wasn't doing high knees or anything like that. No, it was, uh, it was, uh, no, I, uh, I, we, we did some movement stuff, um, and some icing, some STEM and stuff like that, but we, we kept it moving.
We don't want to just sit there and get, and get too stiff. Okay. All right. Yeah. Good for him.
Patrick Mahomes. Oh, anyway, he, Hey, he was on my top six list. I just gave it to you. I gave you a top six list, top six athletes in 2024. If you missed it, you can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app.
You can listen to all the fancy audio and all that stuff. Hey, and number six, I gave you Travis Hunter and number five, I gave you Juan Soto. And then before I gave you LeBron James and number three, I gave you Patrick Mahomes and number two, I gave you Shohei Ohtani.
And number one, I gave you Caitlin Clark. Yeah. They all won something this year. Somebody called and said, Josh Allen.
Yeah. He's having an amazing year. What did he win? I think Josh Allen would even tell you he's disappointed at what he hasn't won so far in the calendar year of 2024.
So we got a lot of people on the phone lines. I was asked about Josh Allen. Somebody talked about Bob Roski on the Panthers. I'm like, yeah, but now he sucks. He sucks. And didn't he get, didn't they pull him in one of those games? If I remember correctly back in June, I think they did.
We got a lot of athletes. Tatum did enough, but no, he didn't got benched in the Olympics. Ouch.
Didn't win MVP in the finals. Ouch. I thought they'd give it to him.
They gave it to Brown. Damn. Yeah. We got a lot of athletes who had an amazing years, but I think these six, I think they take the cake.
I was thinking about Simone Biles. I'm just like, uh, do people care? Really? Really care?
Well, I don't know. 8 5 5 2 1 2 40 2 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 40 2 27. Skip. He's calling from Jacksonville. You're on the JR sport brie show. Go ahead.
Skip. JR good to talk to you. Well, thank you. What's up. So I told Vicki that I wanted to compliment you on the top six list. I agree. Caitlin, Caitlin Clark should be number one, but that's not really why I called.
Well, damn. Well, what's up. A couple of years ago, I was all liquored up and I called the show because, uh, Dave Shepherd had made this hot take about should Andrew luck be in the hall of fame. And I completely, I thought it was the funniest thing. So I tried to call and I couldn't remember Andrew luck's name because I was so drunk.
Okay. And the show came to a screeching halt. You had to put me on hold. I was so embarrassed. I hung up. So I wanted to apologize for that. You're apologizing, calling for calling me while drunk.
Join the club. Yes. Your power. You don't do a screeching halt because I couldn't remember Andrew luck's name because shepherd had said, do you think Andrew luck should be in the hall of fame? And he's like, Oh, the phones are lighting up. I'm like, of course you are.
Cause you're making a silly hot cake. But since I've been waiting on hold, I wanted to say this to Hickey and ask you JR, what do you think about Eli Manning being a first ballot hall of Famer because of his two wins against, uh, he put the Cape. I mean, he's not necessarily in the same way. We know Terrell Davis was an amazing running back. He had a short career, but he sure as hell helped run the Broncos and John Elway to two Superbowls.
Eli Manning, like it's no different than this top six list. We're talking about winners. Like I can't, I can't dispute the fact that somebody like Josh Allen had an amazing calendar year, but ultimately what did he win? He didn't win nothing.
Nothing. And so in the case of Eli Manning to think, I know how average he was. You got to give him credit for being an iron man. The guy never missed a game. He was ultimately reliable, but when it came down to busting ass, when he did go to the post season, Eli Manning, he slayed the dragon. And I think, I think taking JR would be a fluke twice is real. Once would be a fluke that we could say that he's not really that good of a quarterback, but he did it twice JR. When you think about the longevity of Eli Manning's career and you think, and you think, think about being a winner, I could think about, I don't know, 90, 95% of quarterbacks who've ever played in the NFL that wish they had his career.
And so I think people, people, people need to have proper perspective. And also JR, just as a side note, I was at that 2007 Superbowl. I worked on the halftime show. I stood at the 50 yard line when Tom Petty and then came out. That was the first Superbowl I ever worked as a, like a side gig that I do. Lovely. So you, you're not drunk all the time.
They give you jobs. Yes, I do work. Okay, good. That makes both of us. Well, thank you, Skip. Enjoy Jacksonville. I like it down there.
I get in trouble. Thank you. Cheers. All right. That's nice. That was nice of him. I don't, I don't remember what he was talking about, but that's, that's nice of him, right? I guess. Yeah. He's got some class, you know, and he clearly was eating at him for a while, so I'm glad he made up. And now seemingly we're all good to go. Good for him.
Good for him. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. JT calling from Alabama. You're on the JR Sport regional. Go ahead, JT. What's going on? Hey, how you doing? I'm all right, man. Love your show. Thank you. What's up?
Love your list. Well, what in the world is LeBron doing in your list? I think I explained it. Did you hear the explanation? I did, but going back to Josh Allen, compared it to Josh and what does LeBron want? Maybe, maybe, maybe you didn't hear, well, so you didn't hear, you didn't hear what I said. Well, I, he was a loser.
What, and what statistic is he even in the top five in other than a fifth? Okay. JT, what I need you, are you, are you telling me the truth or are you lying to me? Did you hear my explanation? Did you, were you listening last hour?
I heard it, but I don't know that I hear you. Okay. So you know, you know what the Olympics are, right? Yep. Did you see what LeBron, did you see what LeBron James did in the Olympics?
I did, but there were several other guys on that team as well, but then they're having much better seasons. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's well, how are you conflating the two? Like if I got to take a look at a year here, let's do some work. Uh, JT, how many, how many, how many months in a year? 12. Okay. What he did in January. Loser. Look at how he's doing right now. Loser. So you, you, no, no, no, no, no, no. So how are you, how are you going, how are you going to ignore what he has done all year long? Let me, let me tell you this.
I don't know how long you've been listening to me. JT. Tom Brady was on this list, the same list for what he was doing a few years ago, and he wasn't winning Superbowls, but he was still out there busting ass because the guy was in his mid forties. LeBron James is one of the last human beings I would look at in sports and America on earth and say that what he is currently doing makes him a loser. We know that there has not been the team success that he would have wanted with the Los Angeles Lakers, but to be almost a 40 years old, to be pushing more than 20 points a game, eight rebounds and eight assists to have played with his son, to still be the most popular athlete in the NBA, to have won the Olympics. And oh yeah, by the way, you said that there were other guys on that team. LeBron James was the best player on team USA basketball during the Olympics. Steph Curry helped close the door in the final game, but LeBron James was important all the way through.
So to ignore what he has done at his age and yeah, he played with his son and he sure as hell manufactured that the man had an amazing year. I just don't think you've got a good first 24 and into 24. Okay. My vote goes for the Costco hot dog. Okay. I bet you do.
I bet you like hot dogs. Thank you, JT, for calling from Alabama. Yeah, there's a whole lot to the year. And I think how the, and he is, he continues to annihilate the record books. The fact that the man is still playing at an all star level and yeah, he got to take games off half these damn guys younger than him. Don't even play. LeBron James is having an amazing year. Why? Because he didn't win a championship.
Is that the reason? Hey, you want to know who else didn't win a championship? Juan Soto didn't win a title this year.
He got paid more money than anybody else. He had an amazing regular season. It's not like he walked around and then won the winter classic for the Dominican Republic.
Not that it was played this calendar year last winter, but you get my drift. Like how can you look at LeBron James and what he's doing this year and not just say the guy's a winner. And Oh yeah, if I wanted to switch things up just a little bit, go back a few weeks and I go, Oh yeah, he also won the NBA cup. He won the first one. He won the second one. He won the NBA cup.
He won the first one. And I'm thinking about the whole entire year. The fact that, let me say it again. The fact that LeBron is on the court doing something that we have never seen done before at his age is enough for me.
It may not be enough for you. If you want to pick a hot dog over LeBron, I don't want to know what you're doing with that hot dog. 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. That's 8-5-5-2-1-2-42-27. Fred is here from Toronto. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show.
Go ahead, Fred. How are you? I'm excellent. How are you? I'm good.
I'm good. I listened to the show and your comments about the people in your list. And for the most part, I agree, but you did highlight winning as an important factor.
So I think there's someone you could add to the list, but I'm not certain who you would remove, and that's Scottie Scheffler. Masters, the open. He got arrested and still won. He got locked up and came back.
Good point. And he won, I believe, 11 tournaments. It was a Tiger-esque year. Now, Tiger did it numerous times, but how can you have a list of people who had the best year as an athlete? And he's been compared all year to performing like Tiger, who's arguably the greatest golfer in history. So I think he has to be on the list.
Yeah. What I think about Scottie Scheffler is his impact. That's it.
I think wide-ranging impact. And I don't believe he has that in the same type of way in the sports space as the other athletes that I mentioned. That's it. I mean, I'll give you that point, but I think in terms of domination of this sport at all levels for 12 months, I don't think anyone's come close to that.
Yeah, correct. But that's not how I looked at things. I looked at impact. I said what they did on and off the field of play. And to be honest, and this is why, yeah, there's no doubt Scottie Scheffler is one of the top athletes in his field. If you were to break it down, he'd be the top of the list.
He'd be the top golfer. But if I have to think about impact, it's really this simple. In regards to, I don't want to start getting into Q ratings.
If Scottie Scheffler was walking down the street next to, I don't know, Kaitlin Clark, you get what I'm saying, Fred? I hear you. I hear you.
Yeah, that's it. Anyway, I just thought he was someone that was deserving of the conversation. Absolutely. More than deserving when you talk about accomplishments.
But I wouldn't put them on the list just out of, hey, in a lot of cases, you go to a lot of pockets and people are going to go, who? What? But I got you. Thank you, Fred. OK, take care. Have a good one.
You as well. Thank you, Fred, for calling from Toronto. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. Rick is here from Birmingham in Alabama. You're on the J.R. Sporby show. What's up, Rick? Hey, what's going on, J.R.? What's up? Hey, I just want to give Hickey a little little crap for not knowing about pump lead, you know, Home Alone, Snakes, Johnny.
Give you the count of 10. Well, pump your guts full of lead. OK, yeah, you're right. You talk about the fake the fake movie playing in the background, right, to scare the burglars. Right, right, right, right.
OK, I don't know if that's the first time I heard being pumped full of lead, but a good point, Rick. Hickey, do you have a response to her, Rick? No, I don't. I'm sorry. I've never seen or can't at least remember Home Alone. That's on me.
All good, Hickey. What do y'all think about Alabama football, the A.D. trying to gather up some money? Oh, wow. Oh, how the mighty have fallen, right? The athletic director has to send out tweets begging for money.
What type of world is this? It's kind of pathetic, I mean, but that's that's the way the world is. And why why don't you just go beat up on the wealthy donors and alums who have money? I mean, if I'm a student, I'm going, man, I'm already sending you money. What are you asking me for?
Go ask rich people. Well, they've been they've been paying them for four years and years. You know, they're they're they're finally sick of doing it. I mean, now now it's actually legal to do it. So, you know, they've been doing it for longer than it's been legal.
Well, I think everybody has. We can go ahead and ask SMU that, OK? Pay them. Don't go out. Don't go on the Internet begging for money. Come on now. Alabama roll tide.
It sounds sounds terrible what they're doing right now. Go find the money somewhere else. Not on the Internet. Do better. Hey, what about Paul King? What about him? Oh, for athlete of the year. Yeah. What about.
No, no, no. I'm not putting him on a list. He won Rookie of the Year.
He got a girlfriend. It seems like he he has the personality of a plank of wood. Yes. Great year.
Great athlete. But am I calling him athlete of the year? No. Sorry. It's no.
No, thank you. Thank you, Rick, for calling from Birmingham. Picky, that laugh was disturbing. Yeah, it sounded kind of evil.
Yeah, that laugh at the end. Yeah, I want to go. Yeah, I want to go to break now. Is that OK? Can we go to break?
Please. Yeah. It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. I'm going to get some more of your calls on the other side of the break. We're talking about the top athletes of the year in twenty twenty four who has had major impacts on and off their field of play. More of your calls, of course, we'll share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. It's the JR sport we show coast to coast. The Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It's the JR sport we show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. What a day, what a day, what a day.
It's been an amazing day. Just gave you a top six list. We're talking about some of the athletes who've had not the best years.
Well, damn it, they have on and off the field, on and off the court, all that good stuff. I just gave you a top six list of athletes. My top six list of athletes in twenty twenty four. If you missed the full explanations, the fancy audio hit rewind on the Free Odyssey app.
And number six, I gave you Travis Hunter and number five, I gave you Juan Soto and number four, I gave you LeBron James and number three, I gave you Patrick Mahomes and number two, I gave you Shohei Ohtani and number one, I gave you Caitlin Clark. You need an explanation? Odyssey app, rewind. Hey, listen to the podcast, the show's on podcast everywhere.
JR Sport Brief, search it, Google it. Listen to every minute, every second. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Yeah, we've got a lot of callers. One, Scotty Shuffler.
Yeah, amazing. Yeah, I just don't. He doesn't have the impact, you know, to be golf. I don't want to call it a niche sport, but it is.
It is average age and somebody watches golf, I think is between 50 and 60. And so the impact of, I don't know, Patrick Mahomes, I think pales in comparison. It really does. He might be the ultimate winner this year and what he's done, but I wouldn't replace him with anybody on the list. But he's there. You know, if we were doing a top 10, Scotty Shuffler would be there along with Simone Biles. And maybe on this somewhere in there, I'd probably put Josh Allen and Tatum.
Hickey, I think that would probably probably start to round things out if I were going to look towards a 10. So that'd be Shuffler, Biles, Tatum and Allen. I think those would be my my additional four if we were doing 10. But we don't.
I do six. It makes it more difficult. That it does. I mean, should we throw Nicole Jokic in the mix as well? I thought about him. I did.
I did. If he won, if he had won this year, I would have. Because, I mean, even still, what he's doing now just makes no sense. Well, do we include what he's doing on the track? I mean, do we know how his horses are doing?
If he's winning on the track, does that count? Does he do that in his backyard? Does he do that legit?
Is that like some, you know, back room stuff that he does back home? Is there is there a legitimacy to that? I have no idea.
I mean, I'm he wears a helmet that at least would tell me that there's some legitimacy. Oh, OK. All right. You know, I don't know how the the rules work. I don't know. And that was at Serbia. I don't know.
Yeah, it is. I don't know what he does. I don't think he wants anybody to know what he does when he's not on the court. Remember, he got they took photos of him with his kids at like a dinosaur exhibit. He was upset about that. I don't really that I don't remember. Yeah, he was at a museum in Denver and somebody asked him about it. Like, he's like, how did you know I was there?
He was like, you know, I don't know, you're seven feet tall. You're one of the biggest stars in the city. Like, I think if you go outside, people are going to notice you. I think, you know, they're kind of hard to blend in. Yeah. Hard to blend.
I saw a video today. Weird. And I had to be a joke. Amari Stoudemire was walking through. What's that terrible park? Not Washington Square. What's the other one?
Union Square Park through the market at Union Square. And he was like, hey, I wonder if people will notice me. And somebody said, hey, Amari. Like, yeah.
Who are you fooling, buddy? Yeah. He had he had a Knicks jacket on like.
I wonder if anyone recognized him. Yeah. Who's that? Amari Stoudemire jersey. Yeah. Who's that six foot ten guy in the Knicks gear? Oh, just some some just some some random fisherman like.
Come on now. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Top six athletes.
Twenty twenty four. Andrew is here for Myrtle Beach in the general sport. We show us up, Andrew. You know, my man, this is the first time caller. Thanks for having me. Sure. So I want to talk about everything that I heard and before I even heard the the first one, I said Kate and Clark. So I applaud you on that.
OK, thank you. But also, I want I wanted to throw in there your list of winners. And my my take was maybe Freddie Freeman, because maybe without that grand salami and all those home runs, I know they had errors. The Yankees did Aaron Judge with that miss that missed catch. But I think Freddie Freeman with the MVP and that World Series run that he did maybe could could be right up there. Yeah, I thought about him briefly and there's no disputing what he did. I mean, the Yankee fans were begging for him to stop killing them. We know that.
But there's a simple question for you, Andrew. Who had a better year? Was it Freddie Freeman or Shohei Ohtani?
Shohei Ohtani. Yeah, there you go. That's it. That's how long it took me to think about it. I thought about it and I said, oh, that was it.
Nothing else. No, you're right. I was just thinking about winners, like you said.
OK, OK. And if I'm just saying if if he didn't do all those things, we know that maybe the Yankees would have won. You're right. You're right, Andrew. Right. You're right.
Yankees would have won. You're right. You're right.
If if. Well, thank you, man. Appreciate you for calling. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it. Take it easy. No doubt about it. Yeah. If I guess he was beating the living hell out of the Yankees.
He beat so much of the hell out of the Yankees that they sent Nestor Cortez to Milwaukee. If. If eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven, that's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Mike is calling from Baltimore. You're on the J.R. Sportbree show. Hey, what's up? My friend J.R. Hey, how you doing? I'm doing good.
Hey, I'm real quickly. I want to put Ohtani at number one on the list, but I was calling about what do you think about the reigning I mean, what do you think about the MVP race for the NFL right now? And also, what do you think about the Pittsburgh Ravens game coming up this Saturday? Well, I think in the first part and thank you so much, Mike, for calling from Baltimore.
We've talked about this. It is ridiculous to look at Lamar Jackson. A man has thrown 34 touchdowns to only three interceptions. He has, what, almost 770 yards rushing to go along with what, three touchdowns.
He's a bad dude. Ben Hickey and I talked about this last night. I just believe that there's going to be fatigue. I think it's going to go to Josh Allen.
And I don't think it's just fatigue. I think if you take a look at their records, I think outside of the Buffalo Bills just hitting the skids the rest of the year, I believe they're going to give it to Josh Allen. And it's crazy because Lamar Jackson, you could easily hand this guy a third NFL MVP.
It is absolutely amazing how he has just continued on. And then you want to talk about the game? Well, I think Pittsburgh is going to try to kind of hit back after also already losing the Battle of Pennsylvania. And we'll see what happens. If I were a Baltimore Ravens fan, I wouldn't be even worried about no damn MVP. Can we beat Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs? Can we beat Josh Allen? That's what I'd be worried about.
Nothing else. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. We're going to take a break. When we come back, I'm going to get some more of your calls. Get them in.
My last day here is tomorrow and Monday. That's why we're doing this top six tonight on the top six athletes in 2024. I'm going to get some more of your calls. We're going to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR Sport Brief. It's the JR Sport Brief show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. What a show we've had. Always what a show. Well, how about this? Oh, my God. The Art of Sport LA Bowl.
UNLV and Cal. What type of sponsor is that? The Art of Sport Bowl? I have no idea. What do you think they even is that like literally the name like Art of Sport?
Do they just blow up pictures? Well, we're going to Google it. I guess that's what they want, right?
That's that's what they want. It's in LA. I don't know. Art of Sport LA. What is that? What is that? A SoFi stadium. OK. I don't know. Oh, hosted by Gronk.
I don't know if that changes anything. I still don't know what the hell it is. What else are we in the MLB postseason, which I now don't even remember what the sponsorship was. Remember, they had everyone had that one sponsor on the helmet.
That German company, German clothing company. Right. Right.
So then that's I think it was like same thing with this. I guess, again, it's sort of work because here you are looking up Art of Sport and just the curiosity. Gronk pops up. What do I need to know more about that guy for? Nothing.
Agreed. Are you getting your ROI on this? I have no idea. I don't see how.
I doubt it, too. UNLV is leading. What is it? Seven to three. Yep. It's seven to three. About about two minutes left here in the the first first quarter. Yep. Says the L.A. Bowl, hosted by Gronk. OK, just why not? Who's the next athlete to get a bowl?
You got any suggestions? Oh, I was thinking LeBron, but I probably have to be football, right? You would think we don't need no stinking LeBron ball. The LeBron ball. Oh, no, no, thanks. Right.
Maybe the only job would be qualified for that either. He has been good in the G League. We haven't 20 points a game or something like that. I don't know. Whatever.
And that one big explosive game, 30 something. I don't know. No more athlete bowls, please. No, that's it. You're done.
No, more more food. Pop Tarts bowl, Cheez-Its bowl, the mayonnaise bowl. I know people hate it.
You hate it. I like the mayonnaise bowl. Well, no, I like the mayonnaise bowl. I like the mayonnaise bowl. I hate the fact that you get dumped mayo on or mayo dumped on.
You're the winning coach. Any other? Any other? We got like a ribs bowl.
Anybody selling ribs? We got a beef jerky. Do we still have that?
I can't keep up. We had last night a coffee bowl where the winning coach got iced coffee dumped on him. Oh, my God. The Idaho potato bowl. Don't forget, they don't or douse the winning coach in French fries. Oh, my God.
I'm I'm I'm not like your idea a lot of the French food. Are the French fries season? I would imagine so.
I hope so. I would hope and you would think, right? They'd ask the coach, what kind of fries do you like?
How do you like your fries? If you do end up winning the game? Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is what we got for the next three weeks.
In two weeks, three weeks. You sound miserable. You're going to be off. Put the feet up. Watch the pinstripe bowl. Oh, what a reminder. The pinstripe ball.
Oh, geez. Put a football stadium in Yankee Stadium. A football. Yeah, no, a football.
Yeah, football field in Yankee Stadium. That's right. It's stupid for the second time this year. It's dumb. I'll be watching them. I'll be watching. Oh, I guess I'm dumb, too. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.
We got so much to get into tomorrow. I see Doug Gottlieb. I see Doug Gottlieb. Hickey's, you know, I don't listen to him.
It's impossible. He's still coaching, right? And doing radio. He's doing both. He is doing both. Yes. One very badly, right? Yeah.
You could say they'll say that for sure. We'll talk about him tomorrow. He's coaching. Is it D2? D1? D3? What is he coaching?
Oh, no, no. He's D1. And he lost to a D2 school, right? Michigan Tech. Who?
That's exactly right. Went into his building and won the game. Yeah, we'll talk about that tomorrow. We'll talk about the NBA All-Star game tomorrow. We got Thursday Night Football. Denver is taking on the Chargers. The Chargers have lost two straight games. So that should be a decent game tomorrow.
A battle of the AFC West. And so, yeah, we got a lot to get into tomorrow. We'll give you a preview of some of the college football playoff action as well. Let's get some more of your calls before we roll out. 855-212-4227.
Lee is here from Cincinnati. Hey, thanks for taking my call, JR. I just got to say, your top six list tonight, the most perfect list you've ever come up with. I'm telling you right now, buddy, you were spot on with everything. And I thought when I heard you come up with the six best athletes, I thought, Taylor Clark's not number one.
Then there's something wrong. But no, you did me right. You made my heart feel good, man. You were spot on with everything.
And with your explanations, like I said, anybody doesn't understand it, you need to go back and listen. You explained it all perfectly well. So I was going to say kudos to you, brother. Well, thank you so much, Lee. I'm going to sleep good tonight now that you approve, okay?
That sounds good. You have my utmost approval, sir. Well, thank you so much, Lee.
Have a good night. Thank you so much, Lee from Cincinnati. 855-212-4227. Brent is calling from Illinois. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Brent?
Hello, JR. Thank you for a wonderful 2024. Oh, you're welcome.
You're welcome. I tried. I'll be quick. Last Friday, your joke night has been very popular. I didn't get to say my joke. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Slow down a little bit. Last week, what? Last Friday, your joke night on last Friday got really popular. I couldn't tell my joke. I just wanted to know if I could get my joke in before 2024. Oh, yeah, you're right, because I'm not going to be here on Friday.
I'll be here tomorrow. You want to tell your joke now? Is it quick? It's very quick. Okay, go for it.
Okay. There's a janitor that works in elementary school. And, you know, he works days. But one of his duties is to put the flag on the flagpole. One day he got so lazy that he killed a man so he could raise the flag half-staffed. I get it. Half-staffed because he's lazy.
He did it half-staffed, half-assed. I get it. Okay.
Okay. Well, thank you, Brent. Thank you. Have a great holiday. Yeah, last joke of the year. Thank you, Brent.
Yeah. Thank you. I was hoping we got a holiday joke, but that was a good one. That was a good one. I was a little worried when he started telling the story that we're going to be here for 10 minutes.
So I'm glad it was quick, right to the point, and pretty good. That was pretty good. Oh my goodness.
Wow. Yeah, not a holiday joke, but I'll take it. I know a holiday joke. I heard one. I don't know if it's safe for the year. It's about Santa and his sack, okay?
Yeah, why don't you tell us? Okay. Am I ready? You ready? You ready? Oh, you're going to do it, huh?
Yeah. No, no. I'm going to tell the joke in a terrible way. The joke is about Santa and his sack. And, you know, why does Santa's sack is so heavy? Why does Santa only bring the sack around once a year? Because Santa Claus only comes to your house once a year, so that's why the sack is so heavy, okay?
All right, Hickey, that was a bad way to tell the joke, but it's a way to tell the joke, where it ensures I still have a job. That is true. To be fair, give Joel in Knoxville, Tennessee, credit. He's the one who called in for that one.
Yeah, and we stole it. Thank you so much, Joel. 855-212-4227. Brian is here from Buffalo. What's up, Brian?
Good evening. I would certainly suggest, no matter what, you know where I'm calling from, but there's not a better athlete in all of sports than Josh Allen right now, for sure. It's the toughest position and the toughest sport to play, and this guy with very minimal, very minimal supporting cast, this guy is making this league look silly.
Yes, right now. The top six list was for the entire year, Brian. Thank you. I hope he does better than what he's doing right now. I hope he's actually whooping ass in January and February.
I know you would love to see that as well. Well, let's give him that chance, right? He's 27 years old. It's not about giving him a chance. We just got to watch him play. I'd love to see him do it. He don't need no chances. Tell him to keep on whooping ass. Let's see if he does it this year.
As simple as that. Hey, it's time for a few things that took place this day in sports history. Only one. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore. But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything. And it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show.
I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. December 18th, 2022, the World Cup was in Qatar. Why was the World Cup in December?
Because Qatar is hot. They didn't want the guys to die on the field in the summertime. Anyway, Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalty kicks.
This is what it sounds like after 3-3 time. A long, lonely walk for Gonzalo Montiel. Didn't start the game. He can finish it.
Montiel. Argentina champions of the world. Again. At last. And a nation will tango all night long. 36 years since Maradona and Mexico. Here, finally, is a nation's new throng of immortals.
Yeah, Messi was waiting on that one. Yeah, champions like you. You're a champion for listening. And shout outs to the last guy who called.
I agree with you. I want to see if the guy wins. We don't need to explain the greatness of Josh Allen. We know he's great. Probably MVP. Let's see if he wins a championship.
Simple as that. Hey, you're a champion. If you missed any of the show, hit rewind on the Free Odyssey app. Uh, Hickey's a champion too. We're all champions. Happy holidays. I'll be back tomorrow. 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Don't move. Infinity Sports Network, JR Sport re-show done. Bart Winkler coming up next. Thank you, Hickey.
