Brian Kelly Looks Silly (Hour 4)

It is! The JR Sportbreeze Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Thank you to everybody tuned in all over North America, East Coast, West Coast, Down South, Midwest, Canada. What's up, Canada? Happy Friday. I hope you're safe. I hope you're well.

I'll be hanging out with you for one more hour. This is when the show, well, hickey dammit, this is not when the show gets started. What the hell is wrong with me? Something's wrong with me.

What's wrong with me? You'd be like Zion Williamson if this is when you thought the show started. Oh my God, I'd be three hours late, dammit. Just a little late.

I'd be fine and suspended. We'll talk about Zion's fat, lazy, late behind in a bit. Anyway, I've been here on time. Been here for hours.

Three of them. If you missed a minute of the show, which starts at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific, you can hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. If you're watching live on our live stream via the Infinity Sports Network YouTube, you can hit rewind there. Thank you to everybody listening live on the Infinity Sports Network radio affiliate. If you have Sirius XM, it's channel 158. And if you have a smart speaker, ask the speaker to play the Infinity Sports Network. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia. Super producer and host, Ryan Hickey.

He is in New York City. Meanwhile, down at the Cotton Bowl in Jerry's World, Arlington, Texas, we're trying to figure out who is going to advance to take on Notre Dame in the national championship. Ohio State is leading Texas seven to nothing. There is seven minutes left in the first half. Quinn Uris has already been sacked three times. He needs help. Meanwhile, Will Howard is running around his non throwing hand.

This man has a welt the size of a baseball on the top of his hand. So not not the scoring exhibition that we thought we might get. I'm favoring Ohio State.

Hickey is favoring Ohio State. And we'll see if Texas can get back into it. Still a whole lot more football to go. Let's see if we get a score up on the board here before we get to halftime as Texas is going to get its hands on the ball, hopefully trying to do some damage.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven is the number that's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We've had a chance to talk about the college football playoff. We have discussed the playoff matchup in game from last night on the college side between Notre Dame and Penn State.

There's so much going on. Hickey just alluded to Zion Williamson. He played one game.

No, no, no. He played one game since coming back. And then today we learned he was suspended. Right. Is that how that went?

Yes. They said they said Zion Williamson, who's been out the majority of the season with another hamstring issue. It's like every year it's a hamstring issue. He just came back, played one game, had an amazing dunk. He's now being suspended. He is suspended for one game. He was late for the team playing on the way to Philadelphia to take on the 76ers. You can't make this stuff up.

You cannot. Zion, who's been fat and lazy and out of shape and ridiculed, he had that issue with the the adult film star just destroying him online. Zion has made some bad decisions as a professional.

This is supposed to be the next big thing. Well, he is. He is a big thing. He's a big guy for a basketball player out of shape.

And he's lazy, too. No shocks and no surprises here with him anymore. And then if you think about another athlete and we'll see if the pelicans move him, eventually they're going to dump him.

It's going to be a new sucker who tries to bring him on. And then meanwhile, earlier today, we learned that Deshaun Watson, I mean, he's he's had his own issues with the massages and the injuries. He re tore his Achilles.

If you thought you were going to see him at some point this year is battling it out against a rookie QB for the Browns, you can go ahead and scrap that completely. Let's listen to a little bit from Ian Rappaport. Earlier today, he delivered the news that this man, he tore his Achilles again. A significant situation for the Cleveland Browns, one that could have a dramatic, dramatic effects going forward.

Here's the nuts of it. Deshaun Watson has re torn his Achilles, re torn his Achilles three months after the initial Achilles tear. Deshaun Watson now is potentially, potentially out for the 2025 season.

So here's what that means. The Cleveland Browns. Well, first of all, we'll get to Watson. So Watson underwent surgery on Thursday. Dr. Robert Anderson, one of the nation's experts in feeding ankle. He performed the surgery. It is the second time he's torn.

So that means it should be a longer road to recovery, which is why his 2025 season is likely in jeopardy, not likely. It is in jeopardy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, stop saying that. He's done. He's cooked. And thank you so much to Ryan Harris for joining us. Notre Dame football analyst on the radio, NFL analyst on Westwood, former NFL player, Super Bowl champ with the Broncos.

He came and said, well, we all know he's done. Deshaun Watson, if he comes back, he's going to be a backup somewhere. You know, future for this man is a cheerleader.

He's just going to collect the rest of his money and probably live off of minimum deals. If anybody wants to give him a chance and an opportunity. Or maybe there's a miraculous comeback.

I don't know. Too many issues, too many injuries, too many off the field, too much time away from the game. And the injuries certainly don't help.

And speaking of Achilles and injuries and issues. Man, we got some revealing video. Hickey, who got all that behind the scenes of Aaron Rodgers boo hooing and crying? Where'd that come from?

I believe it was the Jets own media team getting the cameras in the locker room and trying to shame Aaron Rodgers out the door. Is that what it is? Mm hmm. And I think about it like that.

Interesting. Maybe Woody Johnson is like, hey, man, go out there and make him look bad on the way out. He's sad.

Why not? Right. Woody does seem like a petty kind of guy. Oh, he does.

He does. Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets beat the Dolphins. The game that Tyreek Hill quit in and now all of a sudden he's all in for the Dolphins. But Aaron Rodgers threw his five hundred touchdown pass. We know the New York Jets don't have a coach.

They don't have a general manager. They probably don't have a quarterback. I think that's a foregone conclusion that Aaron Rodgers will be done. And so Devante Adams today, he spoke to Kay Adams on up and Adams, and he was asked if Sunday felt like the end of Aaron Rodgers, not for the Jets, but his whole career. I mean, it feels like we're done for the year, at least.

I don't I don't know. I think he definitely needs to every year. He said, like, I need to figure out what's going on in my future and all this stuff.

I think it's legit. I think he has a lot going on in his head, a lot of different potential options to wait. And any time you play 20 years, like you can easily hang it up. And I don't think anybody would say you're ridiculous for that. So it could happen. But I mean, you look at the way that he played once he was healthier at the end of the year.

You know, you could you could definitely make a case. He has a few more few more years in the tank for sure. Not just one. So that's my take on it. But we'll see where he's at after this year. Aaron Rodgers is going to have to talk to the drugs in his system to make that decision. And speaking of decisions.

Did my dreams come true? Not via injury. Not at all. Not via injury. Arch Manning. Has entered into the game. Arch Manning, with about a minute left in the first half for the Texas Longhorns, has taken one snap. And then they're trying to figure out if he fumbled the ball on a run or whether he went down. Now, the play prior and this is all difficult to try to figure out while you're live on a radio and watching a football game and trying to do a show. It appeared that Quinn Ewers got popped in the shoulder and was sent to the sideline. Picky, is that accurate? Am I am I drawing the right conclusion here?

Yes. From what I could tell, though, they have used Arch Manning like some run packages before as a fourth down and two. I think Arch was in more because of the situation than an injury to Quinn.

Go run, go run the football. And now they're trying to figure out if he fumbled it. And so, yeah, Quinn did have his helmet back on. And now they're like, oh, my God, is it his wrist? Is it his elbow?

Was he that hickey? He didn't fumble the ball. Did he fumble the ball? You think it's a fumble? So it's tough because the ball does look like it's slightly moved just before his hand touched the ground. I would probably if I was a referee, I'd probably say no fumble. I think it's too close to tell. Yeah, just keep it.

But it is true. Like if you rule a fumble like when it first moves, it was close. No, no fumble.

And who's who's out there? Quarterback. Is that Quinn?

That is Quinn Ewers. He's back out there. Did you see that fourth down snap, by the way, trying to set up, did that, trying to set up for a touchdown?

No, what did I miss? They, so Arch Manning's in the shotgun. They motioned the tight end under center like they're going to like sneak it, you know, like snap it to him and just like touch push it. The center snapped the ball through the tight ends legs. I did not catch that.

To Arch Manning. So it was like a fake tush push where the ball was snapped through another player's legs. I've never seen that before. Texas did it once other. You know, so I guess so. Texas did it one other time. But like, that's crazy. That's a lot of practice. You need to execute that here. All of this to get a fourth down and ultimately end up with a field goal.

All this fancy stuff, right? We'll see what happens. It's about 34 seconds left on the clock. Ohio State leads Texas seven to nothing. The second and ten.

I guess you try to go for it until you can't go for it anymore and then just kick it from there. I mean, if Texas goes backwards, then shame on them. Hickey, this game not not living up to the to the to the billing, man. It was still early, though. I mean, there's I mean, being only seven nothing in terms of living up to the billing offensively. A hundred percent. But I mean, with a lot of the bloods we've gotten right in the cultural plus, even though this game is lower scoring, I'll take a close game versus you know, what after the first drive in Ohio State march right down the field, I thought we could be looking at a thirty five nothing halftime score here in Judkins. Judkins touchdown after that. Yeah. And with how easy they did it, I thought this could be out of hand quick. So the fact that Texas has a chance right now to march in for six to tie the game right for halftime.

I'm not at least complaining. Well, I mean, we saw the game last night. Thirty one points in the fourth quarter. It's like they were in a boxing match and they were just feeling each other out for the first couple of rounds.

And then when they got to the last one, it's just like, let's throw haymakers at each other and, you know, just see who comes out on on top. Either way, I think we're looking at the national champion. We're looking at the champion Ohio State right now. And we'll see if Texas can go ahead and knock them off tonight. But last night's game was certainly didn't get too spicy until the end and get a lot of attention until the end.

And Marcus Freeman, after the fact, you know, he spoke to the media and he talked about winning 12 straight games after that loss against northern Illinois. And here we go. Hickey. Things got interesting. Boom. That was a nice throw by Quinn Ewers. And all of a sudden, look at that.

Thirty seconds ago in the first half tie game. Touchdown. Jadon Blue.

Jaden Blue coming through. Eighteen yard. Yeah.

Eighteen yard reception is a pan. Hickey, these cameramen, you know, they do their job. They do their job.

They find the most miserable ass people and they highlight them. They showed a miserable Ohio State fan. Let's see. Is he is he going to make the extra point? I hope he misses it.

Damn. No love for kickers. No, I just think, yeah, I just want things to be interesting. Am I bad for that? No. Is it is it bad to be a sports fan and root for failure?

The other teams fail. Is that bad? I do it all the time. Not at all. Is it bad because they were in college? Now I'm a bad guy. No, I feel like people trying to guilt you into that.

I don't really feel guilt towards trying to shame college players now. Can't do that in high school. Well, can you? Right.

If you if you go to the school, but not you can't be no adult sitting in a crowd going, boo, you suck. Can't do that. Right. If you were you or I were to go just a random high school game or trying to chirp kids, I would say, yeah, we have a problem. You suck.

How'd you miss that 25 yard field goal? You suck. You dumb ass. Yeah. Go back to chemistry class.

I was going to say home economics. Do they still do that? I don't even know. Right. I don't know. Go build a shed.

Put the football down. I don't know, man. What a world. And now they are.

They do. I don't even know. Is that the gritty? What is that? I don't even.

That's like, I think, remember the Titans. No. Yeah.

Hickey. I don't know. Or that. Oh, you know what it may. It might be. I actually lied. I think it's dodgeball.

You know, Globo come out. Adam Sandler. No.

Ben Stiller. Oh, my God. I mixed them up. They're not the same person. Wow. They are not. Wow. I haven't seen dodgeball since it.

Not even. I didn't. Who paid this. Did you pay to see a movie theater? No, but that I guess it did come out in movies. I was you know, I did not go to the movies to see Dodgeball, man. I saw that movie. I don't know how when I must have been falling asleep on somebody's couch. I just cheese.

Not something I would pay to see dodgeball. Well, thanks. Well, that's where the celebration is from. Now, how do they how do they know? They're like they're like twenty three years old when it's timeless. What a dodgeball come out twenty three years ago.

I would say my guess, like twenty eleven. Two thousand and four, bro. Oh, boy. Come on. They were they were three years old when a movie came out.

Some of them some of them not born. That's wild. Oh, my God.

Think about dodgeball. And well, you know, welcome. Welcome to getting older.

Hickey, it happens. Yeah, that's for sure. Better to get older than the alternative, right?

That's true, because if you're not getting older. Oh, you were certainly asking up. And here we go. Oh, my God. That's not a kid. Was that a kickoff return or did I miss something? No, that was a first play screen pass. And they found another another miserable fan.

Plenty of them. Oh, my. Travion Henderson, 70 yard.

Excuse me. Seventy five yard touchdown from Will Howard, Ohio State, with 13 seconds on the clock. Now takes a 13 to seven lead as the cameraman pans to miserable Texas fans.

Miserable life or death. They're all sad. It's the J.R. sport.

We show you with your coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're not sad. We're happy as Ohio State leads 13 to seven. Not because we care about the game, but just because we're happy. We're going to take a break.

We come back. I'm going to tell up Hickey. Did he do it? Did he do it? Oh, he barely got it. Oh, see, I was telling you, I wanted somebody to miss an extra point. You made him block it first and then it looked like it was hooking.

Yeah. Ohio State made the extra point. I just made a point about wanting somebody to miss it.

And he almost did. Anyway, we're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to talk about someone in college football who is not happy.

I'm sure he is banging on a table with a fake southern accent and slamming water bottles. I'm going to tell you who it is on the other side of the break. It is the final hour of the show. Of course, before we depart, I'm a share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history. But right now, it's time for it. Well, no, it's not.

We got we got some time. It's the J.R. sport. I'm going to tell you who's miserable on the other side. Don't move.

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Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. We head into halftime. The Ohio State University after that 75 yard touchdown. They lead Texas 14 to 7 with a chance to advance to the national championship game and taking on Notre Dame.

It's on the line. Ryan Day being interviewed right now as they head into the locker room. Probably saying a whole lot of nothing. Steve Sarkisian being interviewed as well.

Probably saying a whole lot of nothing. And we'll see if Ohio State can run away with this game in the second half or whether or not they they fight back. Everybody just trying to see who takes on Notre Dame here in Atlanta on Hickey.

What is it? The 20th? Is that the formal date? Monday, January 20th.

The 20th. Here at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Beautiful. Hickey, you're going to enjoy it. It's a nice place. Beautiful place.

Beautiful. I'm excited. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get there early.

Walk around. Never been to the stadium. Looking forward to the low concession prices of five. I think what?

Five bucks for something. You could thank Arthur Blank while you're here, OK? I might have to and I may have to go to Chick-fil-A as well. Check it out. One of the few times it's open. Is that a shot at Chick-fil-A not being open on Sunday? No, just more the reality.

I'm not into the shot. You you want to go to the Chick-fil-A in the stadium? Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant just Chick-fil-A in general.

No, no, no. I got a Chick-fil-A like a few blocks away from me. Oh, OK. But like, you know, in that stadium, because it's rarely open because most Falcons games are on Sunday and like Sunday, it doesn't get used much.

So to be there and, you know, it's kind of like a little novelty. There's also a Chick-fil-A at State Farm Arena across the street, home of the Hawks. That makes more sense.

Open every day. Well, not except for Sunday. Right. And the Hawks play most games, not on Sunday.

Yeah. You know, is that I understand the reasoning why they want people to be at home or go to church. There's great marketing to Hickey. Do you know how many times I walk by Chick-fil-A on Sunday and I you know, I don't go on Monday and go, man, I need my fix. But it's it makes me go, man, I wish they were open.

I think that's some good marketing, isn't it? But to your point, if it doesn't carry over the next day. Then it's almost like you're losing business where, like in the moment, oh, man, I would definitely stop in here, but it's closed. And if it doesn't, you don't feel that way on Monday and kind of the feeling dissipates, then really it's bad business. Is Chick-fil-A suffering?

People are talking. I don't think they're suffering. I don't know.

They could be doing well, but they could be doing a lot better. They just do a commercial up on TV right now to sell us this grilled, spicy, deluxe chicken sandwich. Does it pretty good?

It does. I wonder if you can taste it at what's his face? Arthur Blank Stadium. Why not just rename the stadium after him, by the way?

I mean, put his name in the ring honor at this point. This man has their hospitals in town named after him. We can we do. We don't need anything extra. Got a hospital on this picky, the side of the hospital.

How are them blank? You can't miss it. Wow. Not shy, huh? You know, you're a rich billionaire when they name a hospital after you. OK, that's true. You ever think you ever think you'll see J.R. Jackson on the side of a hospital? Nope, probably not. Probably not.

And if it is, I would not go to the hospital. I would not go to a hospital named after me. Mm hmm. Man. Man, growing up, we had a hospital. It was named Our Lady of Mercy. It was nicknamed Our Lady of Death. OK, don't go to that.

Don't go to that. Man, if I had a hospital named after me, stay away. What about you? Do you want something named after you? I don't know. And he's alive.

He's not dead. All the blank is here. That feels a little like the whole Larry David, you know, like anonymous versus, you know, putting your name on it. If you make a donation, I kind of like it feels kind of braggadocious.

Like, oh, look at me. I mean, make sure everyone knows that I donate all this money. Let me put my name on the side of the hospital so everybody can see it. The Children's Hospital. Come on.

Let's be specific. It's for the children. I'm glad the money's going to the children.

Absolutely. Thank you for that. But yeah, you can do it in a little bit of quieter fashion or maybe put your name on the inside of the buildings. People there can see it. Everyone driving on the highway has to see it. It's everywhere. It's inside, outside. It's on the house. It's everywhere. It's the hospital's named after him.

Yep. There we have it. Anyway, Arthur Blank, I guess he's happy. I mean, outside of the Falcons, what could you be miserable about when you're worth? I don't know how many billions he's worth enough. Enough billions.

This guy's not the next guy I'm about to tell you about. He is not worth billions. He has some millions.

He has plenty of millions in the bank. But I think he's kind of miserable. He is the former coach of Notre Dame.

His name is Brian Kelly. How the hell does he feel? How the hell does this man feel? He decided to up and go and go to LSU. People in Baton Rouge do not like him. He doesn't seem real. He doesn't seem authentic. He's not having success.

Sometimes the grass is not always greener. Meanwhile, here you got Marcus Freeman, who's who's led this team to a national championship game. If Brian Kelly should only be so lucky if he doesn't have success fast at LSU. They're going to be looking for the next guy. And dare I say, they probably pull him in somewhere local. You know, ironically, man, Tato was here on the Infinity Sports Network, chatting it up with Zach Gelp, who precedes this show.

And he pretty much said this week, man, Tato. Hickey, there's a joke somewhere here, but I will not do it. Don't do it.

I won't do it. I'm trying my best. Anyway, he said the players like and relate to Marcus Freeman more than Brian Kelly.

Of course they do. Well, let me say this about Brian Kelly is Brian Kelly is a good offensive minded coach. He knows what what it takes to have a successful offense. And I think when you when you're talking about a head coach of any program and you can look across the board at all the great head coaches, they not only understand the X's and O's of the game, but they also understand how to connect with their players.

They they understand how to get the most out of their players and how to really push them to become the best version of themselves. And I see that in Coach Freeman. I see that in Coach Dan Campbell. I had the great opportunity to be with him in New Orleans when he was the Titans coach interim head coach. And just to be around him, there's certain characteristics and certain feelings and certain culture that is built in the building. When you have somebody like a Coach Marcus Freeman and a Dan Campbell that you just really buy into them.

You know, and I'm a firm believer that anybody can go up on a chalkboard and draw X's and O's on the board. It takes a very special leader to turn those X's and O's into actual plays that can become highlights and lead you to a championship. And so that's why I've been such a believer in Coach Freeman since the beginning is he not only understands the game from X's and O's standpoint, but he played the game at a high level and he has those leadership characteristics where you want to follow that guy wherever he wants, wherever he goes and he'll stand up for you. And I think that's the biggest difference with Coach Freeman compared to Coach Kelly. Brian Kelly at this point in time just comes across as a fraud. That's what I'm saying. Like he's not authentic. He went somewhere and he's trying to be someone who he is not.

I don't think this is anything out of this world. And people see through that. I think people in Louisiana see through that. People in Baton Rouge see through that.

People down the road in New Orleans, they see through that. He's a fraud. Like he's feigning anger throughout the course of the year to try to elicit a reaction from his players. The first thing he did when he showed up all of a sudden, he got a got a fake accent. Been hanging out with Ed.

Oh, like what? And Hickey, where the hell has he been? Is he still hanging out with, you know, that lady? Like, where the hell has he been?

Just in the backwoods somewhere? He's a smart man. He got paid and he's enjoying his money in the silence, staying out of the limelight. Man, this is I'm not going to say that. Does it pay to be bad? Like, should you do something? If you're good at what you do, should you do something terrible that pays off for you at the end, right?

I mean, if you're Coach O, he won a national championship so you got to, you know, he got to the highest mark possible. And now he's living his life. This guy was rolling around and, you know, with that lady. Which one? Oh, that's right. The famous picture. Yeah.

You're lucky. I would agree. I think it pays to be bad. It pays to be good because you got to be good to get paid. And then once you're good and get paid, it pays to be bad.

What what old lady should I push across the snow when I leave here? Is that going to work for me? No, no. You got to be good first before you're bad. Oh, I'm not good. Damn it. Damn. Better. Rough. You got to get paid first. Oh, damn.

Hickey, damn. Could you retire tomorrow? Retire tomorrow? Hell no, I can't retire tomorrow. Coach O can.

He built himself up to be good enough first. Damn. Got to retire first. Well, if you got to push an old lady down, I mean, you got to be at least have enough money to live a good life after that. If I want to retire tomorrow, I think I'm better off slipping in front of the hotel when I leave here. That's a better idea.

Yeah, I think it's a good idea. Say it's an old lady. Marco Balletti, do you know anything about insurance fraud? This is not a conversation for on the air. So no, no, I have no idea. I know nothing about it.

Nothing. They were those and they were those NBA players. They went to prison, right? Yeah.

Big baby Davis, right? He's going to prison. Did he go? I think so. Didn't he have like that video that documentary? Yeah. You did have like a video, though, on like the car ride, almost like Ray Liotta and Goodfellas. Now take me to jail. Didn't you have that? I think you're right. He was on his way.

He stuck around a little bit longer because he was filming a documentary. Is that how that works? You're allowed to do that? Do what? On the way to jail.

You could say, like, give me a couple more days. I got to finish up this documentary. I'm filming.

Listen, there are people who got phones in there, OK, making albums and records. And it does pay to be bad. I'm Hickey. I'm confused, man. Do I want to be like Arthur Blank and have my name on the side of a hospital or do I want to be like Edo or Urban Meyer? You know, which one do I want? I don't know. I'm torn.

Mm hmm. I mean, Coach O's having fun. He's having fun. Fat. What do they say? Live fast, die young.

Is that what it is? I don't know. He's still alive. He's still he's still alive. He's still alive and he's won a championship. Arthur Blank still looking for one. Arthur Blank got billions of dollars. But no rings. Now all that money can't buy you the one thing that Coach O's got. And that man could buy rings. He could buy the biggest ring on earth if he wanted to. Not the real one. Not the twenty eight three one.

Oh, oh, damn. He doesn't he doesn't play, though. You think he cares? You think he cares that every game?

Of course he cares. He looks like the villain from Boris and Natasha. Oh, wait, wait, wait. No, he looks like Boris, right?

No. I hope you're not talking to me. I have no idea what you're referencing. I'm talking to Marco.

I was waiting for Hickey to save me because I don't know what that is. I don't know Boris and Natasha. Rocky Rocky and Bullwinkle. No, the villains. I didn't watch. I didn't watch.

I know what it is, but I didn't watch. No, not Borat. Arthur Blank.

No, no, no. Boris and Natasha. I'm thinking like Natasha from like the Marvel movie. So I was like, where's the Boris?

I don't remember Boris. Arthur Blank net worth with nine point two billion dollars. Come on, man.

Nine point two billion. Yes. Yeah. You think he cares about a Super Bowl ring if it comes? Great.

Like he has nothing else. I don't want to let me be careful here. He's 82.

He's not even that old. OK, well, do you want to send us on vacation or something? Who him? Well, now I'm starting to feel like we can call up Arthur Blank.

Well, when when Hickey comes down here, Hickey, we can. How do you say that? Surprise him? I don't know.

I think it's a corner. There we go. You want to roll up on him? What do we say? We got to coordinate it now. What do we say? We look at look, I know his I know his guy, his guy shields him like nothing, but we can roll up on him, too. We say, listen, man, we understand you're worth nine point two billion. Just give us a couple of million. That's it.

Do you do the whole Sopranos? It would be a real shame if something bad happened. I would hate to see that. Whoa. I'm trying to try. If he declines, you're trying to send us to prison. That's what you're trying to do. We started with insurance fraud. Now we're rolling up on Arthur Blank. It's a vague but it's a vague statement. And it's more positive.

I really hope nothing like I'm not rooting for you to get the fury. Oh, you're going to knock him in the head. There's a bee on his hat. Hickey, what we do is we stand outside the Children's Hospital while we do this. OK, I can call my I can call my friend.

I can call my friends who work at the television station and I can have the cameras. And me and you could stand outside the Arthur and Blank Children's Hospital and we can send this message via video to Arthur Blank. How about that? I like it. And I think we'll probably be arrested or fired within 10 minutes.

Both probably both and both. But there is the chance that we end up with something, right? I guess there's always a chance. Sure. One percent.

Point one percent. Marco Belletti, if you had nine point two billion, you want your name on the side of the Marco Belletti Children's Hospital? You would never know knew I existed. I'd be gone.

No, never on the side of a building. My name's not anywhere. You wouldn't even know for the children. No, no, no.

I didn't say I wouldn't give money to the children. My name would not be on that building. OK, like I never existed. So now you're calling Arthur Blank egotistical.

You did it. But yes, Arthur M. Blank Children's Hospital right up right up the road for me. They knocked down one of my favorite stores to build that hospital. I'm just like, no, I'm just no, I'm dead serious.

I'm sure I'm happy there's a chance I'm being too honest right now, but I am. What was the store? It was a guitar center. I'm saying kids, I need my headphones. No, listen, a lot of the a lot of my a lot of my a lot of my equipment that I have.

We have you think I got it. I'm talking adapters and headphones and computers and microphones outside when they close it down. Oh, no. When they closed it down, I said, damn. And then it was for children.

Heck, no, I will. No, they were building up. They built a hospital there and then they started hospitals. Now you can't just have a hospital building.

These hospitals are like campuses. And so Arthur M. Blank, I guess he gave him enough money. They now they took over like the adjacent acres and sold guitar center no more. I'm sad. But I'm happy the children's hospital.

I'm thrilled. Save the children, also the guitars and all my equipment. Now, that guitar center was so close. And now I don't I couldn't tell you that I haven't been to a guitar guitar center since they closed that one. Thank you, Arthur Blank.

Yeah, thanks a lot, Art. Hope you're happy. The J.R. sport show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. You're listening to the J.R. sport brief.

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. 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 J.R. sport brief show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. Well, if we go back to January 10th, the year 1982, I know a lot of 49er fans remember this. It's the day of the catch.

Yes, I mean, damn it. We've had more than 100 years of NFL and there's only one catch. Dwight Clark, 1982 NFC championship game, taking a 49ers off the Cowboys, 28 to 27. Let's listen to the catch courtesy of the NFL.

There's six yards away from Pontiac, third and three. I told you those 9ers went over those Cowboys and then they went on to beat the Bengals in the Super Bowl, 26 to 21. Let's fast forward January 10th, 2011.

You might remember this. Some Tigers won a national championship. The Auburn Tigers went out there and won a national championship. West Byram kicked the game winning field goal, a short one, about 19, 20 yards to put Oregon down and Auburn on top. 22 to 19. This is from ESPN.

This is for all the Tostitos. Auburn wins the BCS national championship. 22 to 19. Yeah, some guy named Cam Newton was there, won a national championship and then first pick in a draft. Yeah, that happened, too.

January 10th, 2022. How about this? Shout out to the Bulldogs going back to back. Thank you for beating Alabama. They did it.

33 to 18. Keely Ringo and Philadelphia Eagle hauled in his own interception, a pick six, and took it all the way to the house. That's ESPN.

Yeah, well, he started well, he has started his career with the Philadelphia Eagles, as I mentioned earlier in the show. Good to see that Jalen Hurts is going to be good and ready to go, no longer in concussion protocol. Looking forward to all the playoff action.

I'm not doing a damn thing but working and sitting at my computer and watching football all week. I'm going to pop up at the Hawks game tomorrow. Hickey, I forgot who they're playing. Are they playing? No, they played the Suns yesterday. They play some good team. What team is this?

Oh, the Rockets, a young team. OK. Oh, OK. Yeah, so I'll go to the game and then I'll watch all the football and then watch more football. So there you have it. Yeah, that's it. Is there a game? You going to talk to Emay Ojoka on the sideline at all or no? No. No.

The guy who cheated on Nia Long? No. Yeah, no. OK.

I'm not going to talk to that guy. Nope. Not at all. Is there an NFL game that you're looking forward to?

Yeah, a lot of them. The one we haven't talked a ton about, I'll say Raven Steelers. Good rivalry, right?

A lot of storylines there. I think interesting pressure on both coaches to kind of break through with some postseason failures. Lamar Jackson really struggles against the Steelers at a struggle in the postseason. I think it's going to be a really fun one.

Yeah. Well, you're going with the Ravens, right? You're not going with the Steelers. No, I am going with the Ravens. But I do see the spread being nine and a half and I. Too wide. Yeah, because these outside of the last time these two teams played a few weeks ago in Baltimore, every game has been close that these two teams have played.

I think Baltimore does win, but I'm with you. I think it's a close one here. I got to watch that on Amazon Prime. How about that? Oh, that's right. I forgot. Another streaming game.

Al Michaels. Yeah. Be excited. Well, I'll have it on mute.

Maybe. Entertain myself for once. Yeah, put it up. Enjoy. Come on here. I'll just. Yeah, we'll see that I sit down and have a beer. Then I don't have to listen to him. Sure to. Good option. Possible.

We'll see. Anyway, listen, folks, if you missed a minute or a second of the show, hit rewind on the Free Odyssey app. Thank you to Ryan Harris, Notre Dame analyst, NFL analyst. You can hear more on Westwood One. Thank you for joining us.

Super Bowl champ. Can't forget that. You can hit rewind if you missed it. You can hit rewind if you've missed a minute of the show. Thank you to everybody for listening, for watching on the stream on YouTube.

You can find me online everywhere at J.R. Sportbrief. Hickey, where can they find you? And listen, Ryan underscore Hickey in the number three. And they can hear you over the weekend, Tyler.

That's right. After the playoff game Sunday night, 10 p.m. Eastern to 2 a.m. Eastern right here on the Infinity Sports Network. Yeah, we'll be back Monday. The J.R. Sportbrief show is done. Bart Winkler coming up next. Be safe, be cool, be smooth, be well. We going by.