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Host of Silver and Black today. Yeah, obviously the Raiders have been in the news past 24, 48 hours. Just yesterday, Antonio Pierce is telling everybody, yeah, I'm still the head coach.
And then he's not because they fired him today. Tyreek Hill still, I guess, wants to stick around in Miami. We don't know.
Mike McCarthy has been denied an opportunity to interview with the Chicago Bears. That's, that's crazy, right? This means that the Cowboys want to keep him?
I don't know. Justin Verlander continuing to extend his career. The 42 year old pitcher has now signed a one year deal with the San Francisco Giants. Hopefully he's healthy, but he's 42 years old.
The guy's been pitching forever. And speaking of healthy, Zion Williamson is playing basketball this very minute. I told you I have an update for the Browns. Tennessee Titans did a dumb thing today.
What else is new? Like this is the NFL time of the season. This is an interesting time because on one hand you have NFL teams that are trying to win the Super Bowl. These are the teams that are still actively in the postseason.
There's about half the team, 14 of them, almost half. And then you got a whole nother group of teams that they just suck and they're making these terrible, awful, wild decisions because they're losers because they need quarterbacks and they need coaches and they need GMs. And now you can go ahead and put the Las Vegas Raiders in that category. We opened up the show by talking about Antonio Pierce being let go by Mark Davis and the Raiders. And when I say Mark Davis and the Raiders, I mean Tom Brady.
Let's be real. Tom Brady gave this the OK and Mark Davis said, you think, you think, you think? And Tom Brady said, yeah. He gave him the throat slash. That'll give you a fine in the NBA or NFL. But behind the scenes, throat slash is OK, right?
Right, Hickey? It's OK or not good? No, behind the scenes, as long as no one can see it publicly, I think it's absolutely OK. Yeah, I know Tom Brady's like, yeah, like it's over for him. This is only Antonio Pierce yesterday. And he said, you know what, when things go bad on the team, like when we went four and 13 this year, like when we had two bad quarterbacks, like when I had to fire my offensive staff, like when people were saying that I didn't know how to run a complete practice, Antonio Pierce blamed himself yesterday and now they blamed him and they fired him. I appreciate the support when it was a draw.
You know, when you take this job and when you're in front of this room, in front of the building, for an organization, the face of the organization, you take the good with the bad. Right. And when we win, everybody's APAP.
When you lose, get rid of his ass. I get it. I get it.
That's the nature of the beast. There's no different when I play. Right. When you play well, they keep you and they give you more money.
And you don't, you go to another team. Yeah, well, he's going to, Hickey, where's he going now to another team vacation? Right. Is family a long vacation?
Yes. And we don't even know, like it's an NFL team picking him up. Is he going back to college? I just, I don't know where he goes. I just, we don't know.
It's not going to be the head coach of a team. It sucks because it's, it's the Raiders. What can you say?
Just very, very unfortunate. Do you think, you know, after thinking about this, it appeared that Vrabel was going to be the best guy. No, Tom Brady is going to want to boss somebody around, Hickey. That's what I think.
What do you think? I guess my question is, does Tom Brady have the time to boss someone around? Like he does, he is doing broadcasting, assuming he doesn't quit after this year. I mean, he's not exactly hanging around the facility 24 seven.
He is somewhat distracted. He doesn't need to babysit. He just needs to hire the guy. The kind of, you know, boss, you can boss people around from a distance.
You don't have to be there. To be honest, Hickey, given his standing as both an announcer and a minority owner of a team, like he's, he's almost, what's that guy on a, on a radio, Doug Gottlieb right now who that is? Yes, sir. He's a bad coach and a radio guy, right? Some say bad radio guy.
I've never listened. I wouldn't know. It's both, right? Like he's doing two jobs. You can't give your all to both, not in that capacity. These are high profile jobs. This isn't like, you know, I'm going to work a shift in the morning for four hours, I don't know, cleaning. And then in the afternoon I'm going to be an accountant for four hours. This is not how this works.
You got to give your all. And I don't think Tom Brady has given his all to broadcasting. And I think by, by listening to him, does it come across that way? No.
Oh, I'm asking because I think, yeah, I'm being dead honest. I know you don't listen. I haven't listened. I haven't. He's not given much insight. That's what I read.
It doesn't, it doesn't say yes. Outside of clock management, which he's been pretty good at, everything else is very generic, very bland, pretty obvious. So I don't think he has to be in Vegas all the time. A text message, a meeting, a call.
It takes 40 minutes, 30 minutes to do a call. And when you're the boss, when you're the boss, like Tom Brady, you dictate to everybody what you want to do. I think this is going to work out maybe. And if it doesn't good for Tom Brady, what else does he need to win for? Let him feel some pain.
Let him lose for once besides his wife. That I agree with. Do you think like when you talk about being involved, right? Do you think he'll be involved like with the head coach or do you think he'll be more involved with the quarterback? Like I could see him being more hands-on like if they draft your door, even cam ward, both, I could see him being like nitty gritty. Let me roll the sleeves up. Let's do some quarterback work and leave the head coach to kind of do his thing.
All of it. He's just going to be touching everything. He is going to have influence over the head coach. He is going to have influence as much as he can as to how they get a quarterback and who it is, depending on where they select in the draft right now is sixth. And I could certainly see him being hands-on. I mean, it was only a couple of years ago that Tom Brady and Chador, we get all these videos about them hanging out and texting each other.
Like the relationship is already there. Why wouldn't I think that whatever quarterback comes into town, like they're going to have a personal tutor as much as he can and Tom Brady. And I mean, you think about the off season, Tom Brady, what's he going to do besides hang out with his kids and count money? He's going to try to establish and help out the quarterback the best way that he can. Do I think Tom Brady is going to be some overbearing jerk?
No, I don't. But I certainly believe he's going to have some, some heavy influence. And that's, I think that's what they need.
I know we talked about this earlier. How about this? The Tennessee Titans. This is what they need.
They need a, they need a Tom Brady. They need somebody who can come in and help write the ship or try to, because I mean, Oh my God, Amy Adams, Oh, the owner of the Tennessee Titans, the team that was left to her after the passing of her father, not only does she fire Mike Vrabel last year, because Mike Vrabel realizes that lady running this team don't know what the hell she's doing. Today, she fired the GM.
I want you to listen to this news report from WBIR in Tennessee. The Titans fired general manager Rand Carthan after just two seasons on the job. He was introduced as the first black manager back in 2023 and helped to hire a new coach. Tennessee controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said it was impossible to ignore that the team did not improve in the last two years. The Titans lost their final six games and clinched the number one pick in the 2025 NFL draft. Mismanagement at its finest.
She don't know what the hell she's doing. Just like, Oh, daddy left me the team. I got to run it. I'm not going to sell it. I got to keep it. It's worth money. Billions.
I'm going to keep it. Except for she, the football people she did have that are actually respected. She fired them. The hell is telling her what to do. I don't know. Hickey who's giving her advice. Ronald McDonald.
I don't know. Grimace. Now where's Grimace? Is he, is he still a Mets fan or did he quit? No, he's gotta be.
I mean, they had, it was a super successful season. He can't quit now. Does Grimace have a, uh, does he have a Soto jersey? Oh, definitely. I, you know what?
That's a good idea. I'm sure opening day. Oh my God. Who's going to throw out the first pitch? Grimace and a Juan Soto Jersey.
I'm in for it. Grimace can't throw out the first pitch. He can't do that. Although I will say, I think you got to leave the gimmick in 2024. No more Grimace in 25?
It was very organic and it worked for that season. I don't think he can live in 2025. Yeah. Okay. You giving Grimace the, uh, the throat slash gesture as well, huh? I will direct him towards your friend that you met that said, I'm looking to get out of here, meaning earth. I will send Grimace his way.
And maybe those two can peacefully, of course, uh, see greener pastures. Wow. Wow. Hickey, why the guy gotta be my friend? I just see him.
I don't know who the hell he, I don't even know the guy's name. He just clearly comfortable. He's clearly comfortable enough to tell you how he really feels.
Look. So for anyone who needs some context, uh, maybe last hour or so I had mentioned, I had left the gym earlier today and I passed by a gentleman who said to me, Hey, you're always in the gym. And I said, yeah, man, I'm just, just trying to stay alive.
And his response to me was that he was trying to trying to get out of here as in like life and earth as soon as possible. And I just, I just had to laugh and go, Oh, okay. Like, I don't know.
What do you say to somebody? Hickey? He, he was joking. I hope. Right. I don't know.
I was about to ask you, did he say that with like a smile with a laugh or is it kind of like, he laughed, he laughed. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're off the hook.
I don't want to turn on the news tonight and just from the gym. What do I do? What do I do at that point? I just have a beer and roll over. Like that feels like a curb episode. Like Larry sits down on the TV and all of a sudden, you know, his last words are, he was looking for help. He was desperate for a plea and man ignores him. And that was the final straw.
Oh, and then I just roll over and have a beer. And that guy, I don't even know his name. He'll be okay.
The man he last spoke to JR sport-proof. No, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, listen, not my problem, Hickey. I just, I'm just saying how many people are on earth right now? 9 billion something, 8 billion. I don't know.
I can't, I can only do what I can do. And where the hell are all these, where are these billions of people, Hickey? Let's count them. Where are they? No, where are they? I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of people here in New York city.
That's for damn sure. Too much so they're trying to chase them out of town. Congestion period. You got to pay money to come into the city so we can keep you out. That's how crowded in New York. That's where all the people are. Nah, you ride the subway, get lit on fire instead. I think it's the situation of a perch here going on. It might be better to be the coach of the Titans.
I live in New York. I don't know, man. This is rough.
Get paid millions of dollars to then not work. I agree. Yeah, I got you.
I agree. Who else is not working? What, Hickey?
Did anybody? Oh, Mike McCarthy. We don't even know what the hell he's doing. The Chicago Bears wanted to interview him. Jerry Jones says, uh-uh, not so fast, not happening.
You can't, you can't make this stuff up. Why doesn't Jerry Jones just, why doesn't he just say we're going to keep him? How can you deny somebody a job opportunity and, and then just leave him twisting in the wind? This is, uh, the NFL is a, sports is a wild, wild space. I think they're going to keep him. Tennessee Titans just a disaster of a franchise.
Hickey, did we miss any miserable ads? Oh, do we, we don't even have to talk about the Jaguars, right? They don't know what they're doing.
They don't. I mean, when your owner is basically openly talking about firing the GM on the same zoom call, the GM is, yeah, the Jaguars are right now they're in their own category. Just disaster. Now we, now we know why they got robbed by their own accountant. Like the accountant, Hickey, the account was probably on a financial call with, with Shad Khan going, yeah, there's about $20 million.
I don't, I don't know where it is if Shad Khan is just like, order more mufflers. He's like, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out.
Meanwhile, this guy's like, yeah, let me, let me rob another mill while this guy is selling cars. I don't know. Just, it is funny when you think about NFL owners and how much money they have and just how they don't know nothing.
The majority of them don't know nothing. Yeah. Just for giggles of it. Here, here's Jets owner, Woody Johnson, the guy who had to tell everybody his son does not run the team. Here's Jerry, Hickey, what did I call him?
What did I call him? Woody or Jerry? You said Woody first, then you just called them Jerry.
Woody, Jerry, John, all billionaire dummies. After the season of Jets ad where they fired their coach, fired their general manager, their stories coming out about how the owner doesn't like Aaron Rogers and Aaron Rogers doesn't like the owner. Woody Johnson said that the end of the Jets season was actually good. Everybody thought this is going to, not just me, thought this was a talent, but all the networks that are paying millions of dollars, they put us in five prime time, six prime time.
So everybody thought this was going to be unbelievable. So from that standpoint, yeah, we didn't, we didn't live up to that early opinion of virtually everybody. But, uh, but we ended up, we ended up well, because I don't care about anything else, but a win at the end was good. And so we beat, uh, we beat them today. They played well. They didn't give up. Everybody showed up. We did some really nice things. Everybody showed up. We didn't give up.
We won the game. Now, you know why the New York Jets are just a disaster. Hickey, did you see they brought the Jets flag out upside down or was that made up?
Oh no, no, no. I saw that. That was real. Is that not fitting? Is that not a fitting end to the season? That is like, Oh, you know what?
Grimace came out with his glove backwards, but that was on purpose. Oh my God. Oh man. You, you can't make this stuff up.
Miserable franchises. Congrats. If you are a fan, Hickey, do we, do we, is there an applause noise? Do we have like an applause hand clapping somewhere in the machine or something like that? I don't think so, but I do have my own hands. I can give applause for.
Okay, well let's, let's, me and you will do it collectively in a moment. Listen up very carefully. If you are a fan of the New York Jets, the Dallas Cowboys, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Tennessee Titans, the Las Vegas Raiders. Hickey, did I miss one? I think you hit the disasters. Titans, I think. Yeah. If you're a fan of any of those teams, you deserve, we can't, we can't send you money. We ain't got no gift for you, but we can applaud you. Yeah, there we go.
Yeah. From the voice of babes, we can applaud you for just sticking through with some of the worst ownership groups in North America. Congratulations. Your owners are idiots.
It's legit. We don't want to celebrate the dumb ass owners. We want to celebrate the fans, the fans. There we go. And not the dumb ass owners. We give them the booze like Hulk Hogan got last night.
It was, that was hilarious. I'll fill you in on that in a second. Speaking of booze, there's something that Deshaun Watson is familiar with. Or, he's the one who's the one who's the one who's the one who's the one who's the one who's the one of booze is something that Deshaun Watson is familiar with.
Also speaking of booze, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard hate each other's guts. We'll get into that. And of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history that you can cheer.
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It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, right before we went to break, we talked about, well, we talked about some of the disasters in the NFL. Yeah, that team, whatever team you just thought of, yeah, that one. Maybe it's the Raiders, the Jets, the Cowboys, the Titans. Yeah, that team. A disaster.
Anyway, if you missed that, go ahead, hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. Speaking of disasters, it is just past halftime. We got the Timberwolves and the Pelicans 54 points each. Today we had the return of Zion Williamson. I am happy and proud to announce that at this moment, at this second, Zion is still healthy.
Nine points in 13 minutes. Picky, both his legs still work? Are we sure? Today seems like, yes, tomorrow is going to be the question, right?
When you have so much time off, the next day is going to be brutal. Oh, boy. I know he's probably, you think about gumbo. What's he think about gumbo, pig, ham?
Well, that is, that is both of those are pig. Maybe I'm hungry. He's thinking about it all. When CBS Sports HQ, I was shocked. I knew I've heard for a couple of days.
It's like he's practicing. I'm like, this man ain't going playing. And I heard this news earlier.
Listen to this. We've got breaking news out of the NBA. Pelicans star Zion Williamson will make his return tonight against the Timberwolves. He has been out since November 6th, missing New Orleans past 27 games with a strained left hamstring.
The Pelicans are currently 7 and 29, which puts them at the very bottom of the Western Conference standings. Picky, November 6th, it is January 7th. Picky, I want to take that type of vacation and get paid. Same. I mean, imagine that you're hanging out. You probably can't do much physical activity because it's hamstring. You're eating well.
You're on Instagram, sliding to people's DMs. It's not bad. He had two months off and getting paid handsomely. It's a rehab.
I could do that. Oh, what a life. Good life for Zion. Good for him.
Must be nice to be, what is he, six, six, six, five, something like that. And Duncan, can he dunk? He can still dunk, right? Oh, I hope so.
All right. I hope so. One day that's not going to be the case. Might be soon, but good luck to Zion. I hope he can stay healthy. Maybe this is the showcase before he gets traded. I know they ain't trying to pay him all that damn money.
Also, speaking of damn money, two hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed. We all learned yesterday that Deshaun Watson might require another another surgery on his Achilles. Now, if you are a Browns fan and you did not know any more that you'll need to move on.
What other what other news do you need? And then when you think about the Browns, yes, they need a quarterback. Yes, these Browns will be selecting at number two in the NFL draft to get a quarterback.
And Diana Rossini is she was on Dan LeBertard show and she says, yes, of course, no, duh. They need to move on and get a QB. Yeah, they're going quarterback. Guys, they see what we see.
This is not a mystery. This is not like they're psyched about Deshaun Watson's ability, leadership play. They know this isn't great, but they've also have no way out of this. So they've got to sort of just barrel through. And it's almost like they're constructing their team as if Deshaun Watson isn't a part of it. Right. They've got to move forward here and find the answer, because I do think the fan base will forgive if they hit on a quarterback and this young guy comes out and, let's just say, beats Deshaun in camp and the Browns head to the playoffs next year with a rookie quarterback.
They they're I think there will be some forgiveness. Deshaun, Hickey, the man, Hickey, do you think this man is going to play next year? Deshaun Watson? If he needs a second surgery? No, no.
This man is not playing. Come on. They're going to they got to cut him and eat the money, don't you think? Is that I guess if you're a billion Arthur Blank paid Kirk Cousins all this money to to not even want him at the end of the day. They they treated Kirk Cousins like he was like somebody's lost dog.
And now I don't know. These owners don't surprise me. If you're dumb enough to give Deshaun Watson 200 plus million dollars guaranteed, I think you'd be dumb enough to eat the money and just bring in the new quarterback. You don't got to pay him as much money.
At least you got three to four years to decide whether or not you want to pay this guy and not perpetuity, but pick up a deal. And if he's any good at that point, quarterback salaries, these guys will be making 60 and 70 million dollars. Maybe the Browns can hit the jackpot. I also see that the Browns are contemplating a move to the suburbs so they can get a dome so they can have final force. And a Super Bowl.
Do we need a super? No, no disrespect to my friends in Cleveland. Man, it is cold and the cold don't bother me, but who wants to go to the Super Bowl in the cold?
Ain't nobody trying to do that. I'm just saying. Anyway, good luck to the Browns.
Your owner is also dysfunctional. We could put you in the same group as the Jerry Jones and Woody Johnson and Mark Davis and Amy. Yeah, we could put you in the same category. I'm just saying. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. I feel like we just talking about bad people right now. Deshaun Watson, Deshaun Watson, not well liked.
Zion Williamson, not well liked. And oh yeah, Hickey, I mentioned, do you see Hulk Hogan actually showed up at a place he used to work and he got booed last night? Did you see that? I did. I'll be honest.
I don't follow WWE slash wrestling, so I didn't know what it means with significance. Oh my God. Hickey, imagine, imagine being Michael Jordan. Okay. And Michael Jordan has been such an ass in the public and ticking people off that Michael Jordan shows back up to a Chicago Bulls game and they go, man, we're going to, Michael Jordan's going to, he's going to give a short speech to welcome everybody to the, let's just say the remodeled United Center.
And so Michael Jordan gets the microphone and they boo the hell out of him. Wow. That's what it's like. Yeah.
You got to do some serious damage to get to that point. Well, you know, Hulk Hogan had that, there's a list, Hickey. Did you hear about his, I don't know if you watched it. I don't, I didn't think I see it.
Hulk Hogan had like a sex tape. Did you hear about that a couple of years ago? No. Good. Oh, interesting. He had a tape.
He was saying some racist things on that tape, Hickey. Okay. Interesting. Yeah.
I saw his latest performance, I guess you can call it, at a political event and I wasn't sure. RNC, yes. Yeah.
How much beyond or further that went. And clearly I guess he's, yeah, I've been doing a lot of, okay. Yeah.
That makes, that now makes sense why he's getting booed. Yeah. He was busy.
Yep. He's been busy. He came out and did his brother, brother, brother thing. And then he got booed. They didn't even let the guy talk.
Wow. He had, he stood there like an old man with his hand on his hip going, I'm really getting booed right now. He wasn't expecting it.
I don't know. Come on. They booed, maybe a little bit, but they booed him. They booed him.
It's like Michael Jordan showing up at a Bulls game and getting booed. Where was this LA? Yeah, this is Los Angeles. Yeah. Interesting. Okay.
They booed him. Yep. That's tough. Hickey, that's like you walking into your house and your whole family booing.
You gotta do some bad stuff to get to that point. Wait, wait, wait. How about this? This was like, uh, I don't know.
Let me, I'm just going to relax. It made me think. No, it made me think of Baker.
Baker Mayfield is suing his own dad right now for what? 12 million bucks or is it a million? Does it matter? Does it matter?
No, I think it's a well, I think it's a good amount. Uh, Marco Belletti, you ever walked into your house and been booed by your own family? Nightly. Oh, stop it. They love you. Yeah. They love when I leave. Now that's, that's different.
I think, I think as human beings, let's be real, we can all celebrate and it doesn't matter. I'm not asking anybody to name anything, but can we all relate when someone who you want to leave the house, your house, whether it's your house, a shared house, can you, can you think of a time where you were elated, somebody left that you were just like, thank God. Is it just me?
No, it's not just you. I'm pretty sure I was Andy Dufresne at the end of Shawshank when he got out. Oh, many, many, many times when the house was empty. Many, many times. Hickey, you, you, you felt this way before in your life, right?
Thank God this person left or they left you happy, right? Oh, of course. I mean, you feel like, I mean, now I don't sound like a bad guy here. I feel like that feeling comes somewhat decent, like around often. Often? Maybe not often, but like, you know, for Hickey apparently as well, you know, sometimes you just need your space and you're quiet. And if you're around, you know, friends, mostly friends, like, you know, I feel like you got to entertain, keep up, they leave, it's okay.
If I let my hair down. Yeah, people, people leave Hickey's house, he lights a cigarette and pour some whiskey. Like, damn, that's over. And they left like, damn, you that guy like vacuuming when people are still eating, get the hell out of my house.
He said the subtle hints, like pack the food away, start turning off lights in the back room slowly, but surely turn off lights, make your way to the living room. Like, what are we doing here? Yawning, man, I'm tired. I could go to bed right now. Have you said that before? No, no, I just suck it up. I'm too nice.
Oh, no. Let me, let me tell you something. I tell you a story years ago, years ago, years ago, I had a buddy of mine. This is his family friend. I love the guy. I love him.
I love him today. I got in my bed. I got in my bed. Said I'm tired and it didn't work. I got in my bed. He was still in my house on the computer and I'm like, nothing's going to work. Nothing. He didn't follow you in though, did he?
No, he didn't. He didn't get in the bed with me. You stayed on the computer.
That's like a good friend at that point. You say, fine, I'm going to bed. You do your thing and leave. Just lock up when you leave. I should have been more direct.
He didn't have keys. Listen, next time I gotta be more frank. Listen, man, I'm going to bed. I want you to leave.
All right. I need you to leave. I love you, but I need you to get out my house.
Maybe I'm too nice. I thought by making it clear, I can't be in somebody's house and they're going to bed and I'm just going to be like, all right, I'll see you tomorrow. I'm just going to watch split games. I'll be here on the couch.
What are we doing? This is why I get booed on a nightly basis. I'm not that nice. And I would tell somebody, get the hell out of my house. I wouldn't even mince words. And I think I've actually said that before. All right, Ollie's got to get the hell out of here. I'm exhausted. I'm pretty sure I've said that. I no longer appreciate your presence. Leave. I'm pretty sure I've said it numerous times.
All right, everybody get the hell out of here. I haven't had, you know, see, but when I've had parties at home, it's, it's different. I'm just talking about, oh, you got one or two people over at the house, but if it's a party, people get the hint.
Like you get the hint if it's a party, but if it's just a, you know, one person, two people, small gathering, what have you, a little, a little tougher to just be like, most people know that some people just don't know when to leave. They don't like Hulk Hogan. He had to get booed out of an arena. He got booed by about 17,000 people to be made clear.
Hey bro, we don't want you here. Am I the only one thinking though, the next time we see him, he's going to have the NWO black beard and he's going to spin this to turn into the heel again. I feel like this is going to resurrect his career. He's going to, you think Hulk Hogan is going to be bad guy, Hulk Hogan, Hollywood Hulk Hogan. Why the hell not?
Where's Dennis Rodman? I think they should turn around and use this to get more publicity. He's going to want it.
They'll want it. Why not? Can we leave these? This is almost 30 years ago, bro. Come on. Should we really be having Hulk Hogan do any of this stuff? No, but we live in the past and wrestling's all about it.
He's alive to do it. Wrestling's all about that. I don't know. I think last night was a signal that Hulkamania is really dead. Okay.
Which is why we got to go back to Hollywood. See, you always got to re resurrect something, get the NWA. Where's the wolf pack? Somebody? Anybody? Andre the giant didn't kill Hulkamania.
Where's Vince McMahon? I think. No, see that we got to leave. All right. Okay.
Don't bring him back. Okay. All right.
Good deal. It's the JR Sportbreeze show here with you, coach. Did you read that lawsuit for Vince McMahon? I didn't.
I saw a couple of snippets, but I'm not surprised by any of it. Whatever it is, Vince McMahon. Look, I watched wrestling when I was a kid.
I loved it. I haven't really caught up and been involved in a long time, but he always, I've seen enough documentaries. He's a lunatic.
So none of it surprises me. You think he's friends with Jerry Jones? Probably. Yeah, probably.
Probably. On that note, it's time for News Flash here on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back, we'll go through a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze.
It is the JR Sportbreeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Man, how the hell did this happen? Lakers just lost to the Mavericks with no Luca, no Kyrie. Mavericks beat the Lakers 118 to 97. Anthony Davis had 21 points. LeBron James had 18. And for the Dallas Mavericks, PJ Washington, 22. Spencer Dinwiddie, 19. Klay Thompson, 13.
Quinton Grimes, 23 points off the bench. There you have it. Lakers getting waxed by backups. Anyway, let's go back. Let's back up. Let's go back in time to a few things that took place this day in sports history. The day is January 7.
I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. 7th in the year 1972, the Los Angeles Lakers. They set an NBA record. 33 straight wins. They beat up on the Atlanta Hawks. I guess what else is new beating up on a Hawks.
134 to 90 was the score. This is still the longest winning streak in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain had 15 points and 20 rebounds. Let's take a listen to how marvelous Wilt was courtesy of the NBA. 7th in the year 2007, a Phil Jackson celebrating his 900th victory, the fastest to ever reach that mark.
Phil Jackson inducted into the Hall of Fame as well in 2007. Listen to Phil from his speech say that this is all because of Red Holzman. He made me the coach I am today. Red not only encouraged me to stay a part of the game, but he also taught me a lot about watching the game. He would say, you know, this is not rocket science. Defensively, you try and stay in front of a man, offensively hit the open man.
It sounds simple, right? Pass the ball, guys open, shoot the ball. Don't dribble the ball. Anyway, January 7th, the year is 2010. Alabama smashed Texas 37 to 21. Nick Saban was still coaching, not on TV. This is what Nick Saban had to say about winning a national title at Alabama.
This is from ESPN. Well, really what it means to me is I'm so happy for our entire team. You know, our fans who have been great ever since we've been in Alabama. The players, the great job that they've done in buying in to do what we need to do. Our coaching staff and everybody in the organization, our administration, Mal Moore, Dr. Whit, everybody has, you know, made a great team. And that's why this team is good.
It's not just because of me. I'm proud of the team and I'm proud of the way they played today. And I'm really proud of the state of Alabama and our folks that this means a lot to. Let's go ahead and hit the reverse. Uno reverse January 7, 2019. This is the last time Trevor Lawrence was good. Clemson won 44 to 16 the national championship. They beat up on Alabama. Listen to this catch. Listen to this pass. Trevor Lawrence connecting with Justin Ross, 74 yard touchdown and made it 38 to 16.
This was also ESPN. And backpedaling Lawrence slips it open wide open. Justin Ross off and running the Alabama native wins the foot race and Clemson strengthens its grip on this championship game. And good luck to Trevor Lawrence. He got a busted up shoulder. Hope he has a better coat. Well, not Doug Peterson. I like Doug Peterson. I thought he just, he worked for a crap organization.
What you want from me? Anyway, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. Kind of crazy. Let me say this again. It's going to take some getting used to. It is January 7th. The year is 2025.
Damn. Hickey, I thought things were crazy in like 1999. And I'm like, well, the year 2011 is going to be weird. You know, 2007, that's going to be weird, man. It's 2025. And we are now closer to 2050 than we are 2000. Oh my God.
Damn scary. Well, I, I, I, I, I'd go back in time. I go back to Y2K time. I'm I'm fine with that. This 2025 stuff is for the birds.
Hickey. Come on, man. 2025. Already 2025 for the birds. That's it. You're out. When are they going to create the time machine?
That's it. Do you want to go back? I would. I wouldn't mind.
Where'd you go back to? Would you go back to Y2K? You're going to go even further than that.
I'm good in the year 2000. Nah, let me think. You know what? Take me back to 2004.
No, not even. There's a mix. There's a mix, Hickey.
There's a mix. There's no perfect year to go back to. There's none. There's no perfect year. You got a, you got a year that you'd like to go back to?
Actually, yes. I would go back to 1986. What the, the Mets? The Mets and Penn State won the national championship in the same year. You would want to go see that?
Ironically enough, both the last championships they've won. Of course I'd want to. Are you kidding me? Of course. I've seen nothing.
I can't even begin to discuss my memories and thoughts in the years that I mentioned. I'd be kicked off the radio. They're not, they have nothing to do with sports. Let's just put it that way. Nothing to do with sports. Interesting. Quagmire. Giggity, giggity goo. Okay.
How about that? Hey, listen, thank you so much to our, our guests. Jason Cabinda joined us to talk, to talk about Penn State and the Lions.
Thank you as well to Scott Gobranston for coming through to talk about the terrible Raiders. Of course, tomorrow we'll bring you a top six list. You don't want to miss that. I might even give you a teaser.
Just know it's going to be a top six. How about that? Anyway, you can find me online everywhere at JR sport reef. Hickey, where can they find you? On Twitter, Ryan underscore Hickey and the number three. Yeah.
All of that good stuff. The JR sport re show is done. We'll be back tomorrow.
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