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That's 855-212-4227. We've had a busy Wednesday already. It is Wednesday. And so I'm going to bring you a top six list in one more hour. We're going to take a look, unfortunately, at some of the most miserable fan bases in sports right now.
It's a top six list. Miserable fan bases. Yeah, we going to get into that. And in a few seconds, we're going to talk about a few minutes of ridiculous fan base. The Eagles fans are nuts. And we all know about the Snowballs and Santa Claus and five year olds flipping off adults. We've seen the worst of the worst. But even this week, it's just like people are getting hurt over the Eagles fandom now.
Like last week, we got a guy, a grown ass man yelling out a young lady calling every name in a book. It's like nobody taught you better. Like how much alcohol do you have to drink to be that way?
You're just that way. There's not any amount of alcohol that turns somebody into a raven lunatic. You just have it inside of you. At least I think so.
Hickey, what do you think? There's no amount of alcohol that'll make you say some things. You just it's just deep down inside of you anyway, right?
As they say, right? Drunk thought or drunk words, sober thoughts. Drinking doesn't make you say things you normally wouldn't say.
It just allows you, you feel more free to say whatever you've been thinking. Yeah, that Eagles guy. And now we got people who are getting hurt. I mean, we'll get into that in a few minutes.
And we've talked about a lot so far. A potential reunion between Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. We discussed the New Orleans Saints job. Kellen Moore, just go ahead and take it. If you want to be a head coach, take it.
I wouldn't take that job. They don't have a quarterback. They don't have a future. They have no idea about their cap space. As much as I love New Orleans, as much as I love the dome and chopper, two lists and everything associated with everything out there, except for that stupid arena across the street.
I don't like smoothie came places a dump. It needs to get raised, but I wouldn't take that Saints job. Not at all. I would run.
I'd stay far, far away from that. And thank you so much to wool man. So from WPLG TV down in Miami, he came through and joined us and to my surprise, and this is why we're going to talk about crazy fans. Cause I don't get it. He said that about a month ago when we started with this Jimmy Butler nonsense and he's losing his joy and he wants to leave and find his joy somewhere else. Will Mansell said the fans were actually on Jimmy Butler's side. The fans down in Miami were rooting and cheering for a guy who took him to two finals. God bless him, but didn't win. Doesn't play is always hurt. And now he's complaining about money. Like why in the hell would the fans be on his side? He ain't showing up for work, man.
If I don't show up for work, they will give me the boots. I'm not Jimmy Butler. I'm not making $50 million a year, but I mean, damn, this is, I can't believe it. So from one nutty fan base to another, we're going to get into the Eagles in a minute.
As I told you, we got the top six list coming in an hour from now. Bill Belichick has some suggested changes when it comes down to the Superbowl trophy and then Adam Silver, somebody needs to get in his ear. Adam Silver owes the JR sport re-show an interview, by the way, I need to hit up the league office.
Adam Silver has some interesting changes when it comes to the NBA regular season. And I'm like, don't do it. I'm going to tell you about all these things, but we have some callers here who have been waiting patiently. So we are going to do the thing and get them on the line.
855-212-4227. Let's start off with Lou in San Diego. You're on the JR sport re-show. What's up, Lou? Hey, how are you doing JR? I'm great. What's on your mind? Well, you know what, if you can't beat them, join them.
I called a few months ago when we hired Jim Harbaugh and they had a disappointing out. It sucks. And I'm kind of defensitized.
I might make the list on your top six. Who knows? Oh, the Chargers might be one of those, but you think the Chargers are one of the most miserable franchises. And I would think there's some optimism. You have Harbaugh. And I know the last time you saw Herbert, he was thrown four interceptions, but I would think that there'd be some positivity there, right?
No. You know what? I am so disappointed that I enjoyed that day doing honeydews with the wife. And when I thought what was going on in the score, I was just like, I'm glad I did not skip doing things with the wife for this nonsense. We're going to give her another shot next year. What did she ask you to do?
Clean the oven? What did you have to do? No, no, no. We were just running errands, pretty much. Since I'm a driver and I'm away for the week, the weekend is to be with the family. No reason to be upset over four interceptions. Okay.
All right. I mean, that sounds, this sounds pretty miserable. I mean, family is great. I love my family.
I want to look at them too, but you know what? I don't want to do run errands. I would tell my wife run those errands while I'm gone. Yeah, true, true. Maybe that's why I don't have a wife, Lou. Maybe that's why.
Yeah. And I was also very upset because in the very beginning of my football fandom, I was a huge Bills fan for those Super Bowls that they lost. I even shared a tear for losing all those stupid Super Bowls. That's why I hate the Cowboys. And I have no, I mean, Jerry Jones can be alive for another hundred years if he's going to keep running his business the way that he is. And I will be glad. He got enough money.
Maybe he will stick around for another 100. Hey Lou, take it easy. The weather's nice out there, huh? Weather's good? Yes, it's good.
It started raining a few days ago. It was two weeks late, but it was good. I understand that. Well, Lou, thank you for calling from San Diego. I'll talk to you later. Okay. See you later.
Thank you, JR. No problem. Of course. Wow, man. He was a Bills fan.
He's just like, oh, these guys are some losers here. I just need to switch over to the Chargers. At least they disappoint me and don't go as far. I'm just saying, just saying. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27.
That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Yep. Top six lists, the miserable fan bases.
That list is coming your way at the top of the hour. So about 50 minutes from now, we'll get into that. Let's go ahead and talk to Chris from Birmingham. Hickey, is this the gentleman who said he prefer a meteor to hit earth than to watch the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and the Eagles? Is this the same gentleman? Oh, I don't remember. I should, but I don't. Well, let's find out.
Hey, Chris, you're on the JR Sportbree show. Is it you? Yes, sir. No, it is. Okay. Yeah, you were saying meteor yesterday. I thought you were saying media. Okay. Yes, that's what I said.
But let me talk to you, JR. As a Saints fan, I feel a little bit attacked with what you said earlier, saying we're literally the most unwanted job in the league when there's nine other different worst, the worst teams that we are sure we ain't kept in front of the camp purgatory. And what if we if we if we can't get off is sticking his own thumb up his rear, then it actually might make make some stuff. Chris, let me let me explain something to you, Chris.
I want you to listen very carefully. You've been to school before, right? You were in school at some point in your life.
Maybe you're still in school now. I don't know. Right. You've been to school.
Yes. What are you reaching for? Where do you reach?
I'm not reaching for anything. I'm just saying what difference does it make if you got to sit in the back of the classroom and you need a little extra love and TLC to learn? If you sit in the back of the classroom, what does it matter if you are student number 28, 29 or 30?
Like what difference is it? But you're still in the back of the class. No, but see, but a little work and effort.
You can sure change the end results of your grades. Maybe the New Orleans, the New Orleans Saints are sitting in the back of the class and it's going to take a whole lot of effort. You know, you know what's crazy when you say that? It's crazy how the media was all week. When the first two weeks media was like, we'd have built a ball in the NFL and I can't speak for no damn meat. Well, Chris, I can only speak for me. I didn't think the Saints were worth a damn at the beginning of the season.
Not at all. I mean, we, you could say the media, I don't know who that is. I don't know what you watch and what you listen to.
The media is rather large, but I can tell you, I did not care. These Saints are running on borrowed time. The New Orleans Saints, they on a, I don't want to AC, DC the situation up because saying they're on a highway to hell sounds cool. They're on a highway to nowhere.
They suck. Your future is not bright and Derek, there's no suit. You know, I look at teams, are you competing for a Superbowl?
Are you ascending, trying to get to that place? And if you're not in category one or two, then you, you, you got a lot to work out, you know, or you can just be a team looking for a quarterback. You could be a team that has a rookie and you're trying to grow them. The saints are at the bottom. Like they got a quarterback. They went and nothing with car. Eventually car is going to be gone. They're going to have another miserable season until they get a decent quarterback. Maybe it's going to take them a few years to do that.
Like I would rather just dump car and start over right now. And like I even found it ridiculous. As I told you in the last break that they decided to sign re-sign Alvin Kamara for what, just to sell a couple of tickets. And I love the saints. I mean, it's a beautiful place to watch a game.
It's a, it's certainly one of the more unique places to watch a game and the entire NFL. It's just, it's going to be bad out there for a while. Let's just put it that way. And that is a wonderful fan base.
Now I got to switch gears. I told you from the Miami Heat fans, the ones who agreed with Jimmy Butler holding out and asking for a trade to a fan base that is actually going to the Superbowl. What the hell is wrong with the Eagles fans? Why every single year there's something new with the Philadelphia Eagles.
There's always a different story. I mean, they win the NFC championship on Sunday against Washington. You think this would be a celebratory moment. We got Paul George on video stuck in traffic. We got fans of flooding the streets down in center city.
We got people climbing poles. It's just nuts. And then we got this terrible news.
I heard this on Sunday night and I'm just like, you gots to be kidding me. This is awful, awful, awful. Listen to this. This is WKRN News 2 out in Philly. This is an awful story. After you win a game, listen to this.
Good morning. I'm Meghan P. Back at the wkrin.com alert desk. Celebrations for the Philadelphia Eagles took a turn last night when a car struck a large crowd after the game. Philadelphia police say the crash happened around 9 30 last night after the Eagles beat the Washington commanders winning the NFC championship and punching their ticket to the Superbowl. This is some video from that scene. The car hit and injured three pedestrians leaving the game, part of a huge crowd that took to the streets to celebrate.
Police say the driver is in custody and that collision did not immediately appear to be intentional. Yeah, not it wasn't intentional. Great, but it's still a jackass. I don't see the allure. I mean, I get it. It's it's younger people and drunk people.
I understand. You leave that little stadium district and maybe get on scepter and you go downtown and now you want to party. You want to have a drink. You want to be nutty. It doesn't pay, man.
It doesn't pay. You know, you thought you thought a guy running people over was the worst of things in Philadelphia. We learned that a student from Temple. This is awful.
There's a student from Temple. He passed away because of a decision that he made. It's terrible. Listen to this from six ABC. The big story on Action News tonight is breaking news. The 18 year old man who fell from a light pole during the Eagle celebration has died. Tyler Sabapathy had been on life support since Sunday when he fell at 15th and Market Streets in Center City. We've learned he's a first year student at Temple University, was majoring in exercise and sports science and is an accomplished gymnast, a native of Toronto, Canada. He was a member of the university's club gymnastics team. Oh, my God. Oh, man. Being a gymnast doesn't doesn't make things better.
And my condolences to that, that guy's family. That's just. He was the last time you climbed a pole after a victory. Were you out in Penn State climbing poles? Were you doing any of that stuff?
No, thankfully, never. I'm not limber enough. I'm not.
I don't have enough hand strength to lift me up, so never have done it. I don't. What's is this something in the water? And I don't know. Maybe I'm an example. I was born out there.
But is this something in the water? Why? Why? Why Philadelphia? Like why? Why Philly?
Like every year there's a story, every of this, something. What? Why? I don't know.
I wish I had an answer. Like you said, if it's not climbing poles, it's harassing fans and videos of them saying stuff you should. It's like it always is someone somewhere doing something they should in Philly. I don't know why to think it feels like now that it is a thing like nationally that people lean into it even more than they otherwise would.
And it just feels like now like it kind of feeds on itself or it's only getting worse and worse. The fans in Philadelphia, they need to consult with the Buffalo Bills fans. That's what they need to do, because the Buffalo Bills fans have undergone a complete rebranding of what their images.
Typically, you go back 10, 15 years. I think about Buffalo Bills fans jumping through flaming tables. I think about them being absolutely crazy. It looks like WWE because pre Josh Allen, what did you have to look forward to?
The answer is nothing. More recently, all we hear are these positive stories about how Buffalo Bills fans organizing fundraisers for Josh Allen and for other players on other teams. Mark Andrews was sending money after dollar after dollar, all types of stuff. They rebranded their image. I'm sure they're still going through tables and drinking and wearing them stupid Zumba pants. Eagles fans need a redo. They need to rebrand themselves. And Hickey, I think this might be one of the reasons there are so many colleges in that downtown. It is not tough to say, oh, well, we won the game. Let's go drinking.
Let's go acting crazy. And downtown Philadelphia is so it's so compact. It's it's built to just go outside and show up and have a drink and act like a nut.
I think it's the colleges in the area. I hate to blame the college students, but I am. I mean, I don't know, just because I mean, I think so many incidents, it's more than just an 18 year old or a 19 year old.
Like, again, like the incident we talked about, the Packers fans like I was like 50 years old. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and he's out there just saying all those nasty things.
It's very vile. And I mean, kids as young as six years old are flipping you off and people as old as 70 years old are ready to beat the hell out of you if they could. You're right. You're right.
You got a good point. Here's a summary. People in Philadelphia are nasty. I said it.
That's what I was born so I can say what I want to about it. Do better. Go talk to the Buffalo Bills fans and you'll see how you can rebrand. Stop cursing out Santa. Stop throwing snowballs at them. Stop cursing out guests. Stop stealing articles of clothing from supporters from the other team. Teach your kids to stop throwing up middle fingers. Stop cursing out women. Don't curse out anybody. How about the heckling should just pretty much stop at your team sucks and leave it there.
That's it. Like the I saw I've seen so many terrible videos over the past couple of days. We got a guy who died and fell off of a pole. An 18 year old fell off of a pole. We got another idiot cursing out a woman.
And she didn't do nothing to this guy. He's she's cursing out. Kids are throwing up just all type of profanity. Like what are we doing? Can we do better as a society? Maybe not just Philly, just maybe. We need to send Russell Westbrook to Philadelphia. That's what we need to do. Put him in them fans and have them set them all straight.
Russell Westbrook not afraid to beat up a fan him and Ron Artest. Get it all together for everybody. 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 crazy ass fans.
We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to hear some crazy ideas. Bill Belichick has a crazy idea.
Adam Silver has a crazy idea. Maybe there's just something in the water everywhere. Maybe it's called the Internet. It's the JR sport. We show here on the Infinity Sports Network.
Don't move. You're listening to the JR sport brief. It is the JR sport. We show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. You know what? It's not just fans that can be a little crazy. Today, in the matter of hours, I heard one of the greatest coaches of all time and I also heard the current NBA commissioner say two things that just made me go, oh, my God, what are we doing here now? I don't think Bill Belichick and Adam Silver are crazy, but they both shared some opinions that are just made me go, OK, enough.
Just just leave it alone. You know what? Let's start off with with Bill Belichick. You got to enjoy Bill Belichick in the media while you have him. He had one year away from coaching.
He did four or five different shows and podcasts. And now he's going to be running the sidelines at North Carolina. And so Bill Belichick, through all of our amusement, is still on Sirius XM and he's still doing the Let's Go podcast without Tom Brady, mind you.
And so he's sitting there in his car, I guess, getting ready to show up at some kid's house and he's talking to Jim Gray. And as we're staring and getting ready for another Super Bowl. Bill Belichick, you know, he was asked and then he brought up a point about potentially changing the name of the Super Bowl trophy, which we all know is the Vince Lombardi trophy. Why is the trophy named after Vince Lombardi? Because this is the man who won the first two Super Bowls. And before we even had two damn Super Bowls, before we got to the AFL and NFL merger, he won five championships in the NFL. And so there's a good reason why this trophy is named after Vince Lombardi. Bill Belichick in explaining once again, which I admire the fact that the players are more important than the coaches.
He then went down a different road about the trophy, a little bit of a joke, a little bit. Players win games. You can't win games without good players. I don't care who the coach is.
It's impossible. You can't win without good players. You know, I found out when I had Taylor Banks and Harry Carson, Pepper Johnson, Jim Burt, Everson Walls, all those guys are the Giants. And same thing, you know, when we got good at Cleveland and then at New England, those are the guys that won the games, man. I didn't make any tackles.
I didn't make any kicks. That was Vinatieri that made that kick in four inches of snow. You got to have good players. And as a coach, you want to give your players a chance to win. They don't name it the star trophy. It's named the Lombardi trophy. Maybe they should name it the Brady trophy. He won seven of them.
A little bit of a joke. Ain't no serious campaigning going on, but please don't, don't put that idea into the atmosphere. Vienna, leave the damn trophy name alone. We don't need a Tom Brady trophy. Rename the trophy after Tom Brady. When Tom Brady is in a wheelchair. Forget that.
He's not too much older than me, but it put him in a wheelchair. Maybe, maybe I need to be in a wheelchair. Like leave the damn name of the trophy alone. Is it really that necessary? I mean, we got some iconic trophies here, right? Got the Stanley cup.
Been handing that thing out since 1892. They ain't changing the name. It's probably the most famous trophy in North American sports.
The Stanley cup. They ain't changing that name. Vince Lombardi trophy.
Don't change the name. We got the Larry O'Brien trophy. Handed out to the NBA champs. It's been called that since 1984. Before that, it was the Walter A. Brown trophy. That looked like a cup. And that was the original Celtics owner.
Little less history. NBA being 75 years old, but I'm not a fan of that. Hickey, you want the Tom Brady trophy?
No, I'm okay. I think we can keep it the Lombardi trophy for everybody's sake. Do you think at some point they would change the name another like 50 years or so, right? Well, yes. And if it's in 50 years from now, could it be the Mahomes trophy instead?
I'm saying, yeah, maybe. Right. And that's also, isn't that the tough part though about renaming after somebody? Like if you name it the Brady trophy. Well, what if Mahomes ends with eight? They're going to rename it again.
And then what if someone, what if your boy Arch Manning comes in, he wins nine. And we're going to just keep renaming it every 30 years? Leave well enough alone.
Follow the Stanley cup. Named after Lord Stanley of Preston, who was the governor general of Canada. A little bit more prestigious than being a player. I get it. Just leave the name alone. It's named after Vince Lombardi. Leave it as the Vince Lombardi trophy.
We don't, we don't need to change that. 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. That's 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Dan is calling from Wisconsin. What's up, Dan?
Hey, yeah. I heard, you know, all the stuff about the Philly fans. I can't stand Philly fans, but as a Packer fan, I am so rooting for Philly.
Something for your back pocket. No one has won three Super Bowls. I'll give you that.
But the Packers have won three championships in a row twice. Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, let me tell you something. You ready for this? I don't, I don't have any back pockets cause I have on sweats. Okay.
No, no, no, no back, no back pockets. And we just talked about Vince Lombardi and the success that he had. And so I just talked about the merger and the pre-merger. I mean, for all of this, I might as well start talking about how great the Browns used to be in the fifties. Okay.
Okay. I know I'm an old guy. Hey, the trophy. I think the AFC trophy should be named after Belichick. Man, nobody cares about that trophy. Well, the NFC is the Hallis Trophy. I don't even know what the AFC is. That's that's my point. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.
No, the players don't. And I don't care what sport it is. Uh, Hickey, what's the name of it? The, oh no, not Clark Hunt, Lamar Hunt. Oh yeah. From the Chiefs. Yeah.
AFL. Yeah, man. Nobody cares.
Hey Dan, thank you. You know what I'm saying? You got to throw him a bone. No, you don't. The play, who wants that trophy? Like nobody wants it. This is, this is what happens when you are miserable last team.
And thank you, Dan, for calling from Wisconsin. This is like you, they are the teams that are at the top, the Boston Celtics. Okay. If the Boston Celtics win an Eastern conference championship and go to the finals, they're not hanging no damn banner. They are not hanging a banner. Now, if you happen to be, let's say, I don't know.
Hmm. The Atlanta Hawks. If the Atlanta Hawks ended up going to the NBA finals and losing, they sure as hell would hang an Eastern conference champions trophy they sure would, or banner they would, because you got to think about the expectations. Hickey, correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't been in this place in a minute.
I think I might be banned. In Madison Square Garden, aren't the banners up, not only for the Knicks championship, it's been 73. Aren't the banners also there from the Eastern conference finals champs? Isn't that stuff hanging from the rafters? Yes.
Yes. Like this, this is like, there's, there's levels. Nobody wants the, the players don't even want the trophy. They're like, I don't want to touch this thing. I want, I want to hold the Vince Lombardi trophy, the hunt family. They don't want this middling AFC champion. Nobody wants it. I don't, they put that in somebody's office in the back room. Nobody cares.
8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Nick is here from Erie, Pennsylvania. What's up, Nick? Hey man, I wanted to say this because I saw that they were talking about the Tom Brady trophy. That sounds awful compared to the Lombardi trophy. Lombardi deserves to be the name of the trophy for however long the NFL continues. But the Super Bowl MVP trophy, somebody was saying Tom Brady trophy for that. Do you have any other suggestions for the MVP trophy in the Super Bowl? No, I, I don't. I don't need Tom Brady's name associated with anything more than it already is.
Okay. How about we just, we don't, I don't even, and I get it, you want to utilize names to honor, you know, the players who've won it, the guys who've accomplished that. But I personally don't, I don't even think the players care. You know, you know, the only players who care, they care about the bonus that they're getting. Well, I won this, it's in my contract. I got the MVP. Where's the money?
That's all they care about. But Tom Brady, he's been around too close. Like let Tom Brady finish out his TV contract, which he swore up and down that he'll do. And he just left the game. We don't need the name squat after him. Does he have a statue outside of Gillette yet? Does he have a statue? No, he's going to have one in Tampa.
He's going to have one down there next to Baker Mayfield. Oh my God. All right. Thank you, Nick.
Appreciate you, man. No doubt. Hickey, did they put a trophy up there to him?
Right. It's like a giant trophy of Brady. Am I, am I making things up? It is in my imagination. That's not coming to mind. Tom Brady statue. Let's see.
Uh oh. Patriots shift plans to unveil Tom Brady statue. A 12 foot bronze statue of Tom Brady is planned to be unveiled outside of Gillette stadium in 2025.
The statue will be the first to be located outside the Patriots Hall of Fame. Okay. So we got to wait. We got to wait.
Hickey, I'll say it. And I know, I know he's going to have a helmet on. He has to, right. He's going to have a helmet. I hope they get the guy who did Dwayne Wade statue. I hope the same guy who did Dwayne Wade statue does the statue for Tom Brady. That is my hope. I hope that's what happens.
I do. And Cristiano Ronaldo while we're at it as well. Oh, with that, that screwed up face. Oh yeah. Yeah. I hope if you're going, if there's going to be one statue that gets messed up, make it Tom Brady's.
Yeah. I think he's going to be posing. He has to stand. No, he just, you got to standing. He has to stand there with a football and his on under his arm. He has to wear the big Cape.
Like it's cold outside and the helmet, right? Or is he going to have a throwing motion? He should just stand there. Like, like he's the God of football, no action. Just standing there with the football, with the Cape. And that, wouldn't that be bad-ass and a helmet on like he's on the sidelines.
That would be like, almost like Walter Payton then. Oh yes. With the Cape on. I like that outside of the Cape. You want him just Tom Brady just standing out there. Maybe like him, like, you know how he was used to like run out and yell LFG.
Let's go. Maybe like in that pose. Yeah. I don't know how that's possible, but it is.
It is quite possible. I just really think that if you got Tom Brady out here and you giving him an hour, a statue, it just has to be very, uh, how can I say it? You gotta be majestic, right? You gotta be special.
It has to be bold. If he's just standing there, he ain't got no Cape on. He looks like a mortal to me. Hmm. Past that alone.
I'm just saying. Maybe for Bill Belichick's inevitable statue. I mean, I'm sure he'll have the cut off sweatshirt. That feels like a must. Has to have holes in it.
You gotta have like, they gotta put holes in, I don't know. These statue makers are getting worse. Hickey, remember?
Remember? No, we were, nobody was alive back then. Look at these beautiful works of art we got in Europe. You can go to the Louvre. You can go to Paris. You can go to the United Kingdom.
You can go all throughout Europe. These guys made works of art with chisels and stone. And nowadays we can't make a bronze statue out of a basketball player. Like we have fallen off as Hickey is the tablets. It's the tablets.
Everybody using tablets. We have lost our sense of craftsmanship. I would agree.
No, they definitely do not make them like they used to. You're a hundred percent right about that. Creativity's gone. Skill gone. Yeah.
We had better sculptors 2000 years ago. Crazy. What a world.
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That's 855-212-4227. Right before we went to break, we heard the quip. And it was a quip.
It wasn't a campaign. It didn't sound like anything serious from Bill Belichick about how important players are to coaches actually winning anything. You can't win if you ain't got no players. And Bill Belichick, just kind of in jest and passing, said, you know what? They should rename the Lombardi Trophy, the Brady Trophy. He has seven rings. He has seven championships. Ah ha ha ha.
And I'm like, please don't don't give anybody any ideas. Like, leave the Vincent Lombardi Trophy alone. The man won two Super Bowl championships.
The first two, he won five championships in the NFL before that. Just leave good enough alone. We don't need to change the name. At the top of the hour, by the way, we're going to give you a new top six list. We're going to take a look at the six most miserable fan bases in the world of sports right now, today, this moment. New top six is what we do every Wednesday. And then I told you that Adam Silver has something. He had an idea for the NBA. And we may not be able to take a deep dive into it today or later.
I mean, we may have to do it tomorrow. Adam Silver floated the idea of shortening NBA games. Yeah. The shaving a few minutes off of every quarter.
I'm not a fan. Don't take away the basketball. We got it. This is like taking away extra innings in baseball. Now I got ideas about, you know, saving some of this stupid referee time. But let's leave well enough alone. So we'll get into that later in the show.
If we can't get to it today, we will certainly discuss it tomorrow. And speaking of quarterbacks, the stupid idea of a Tom Brady trophy. Just over the past several minutes, we learned that Matthew Stafford does have a desire to return to play in the NFL. We saw the Rams lose to the Eagles. We saw the disaster that the Rams and like a lot of people out in California, Southern California, had to deal with with the wildfires.
So pretty inspirational what they were able to do. Matthew Stafford before the season ended, he readjusted his contract. And now the Rams can actually save some money if they give him the boot. Now, Matthew Stafford is not getting any younger. I still think he can go out there and play. Is it going to be with the Rams?
Is it going to be elsewhere? This man was not going to give up his money. The Rams owed him about twenty three, twenty five million dollars for twenty twenty five. I mean, the shock of him even saying or he has to contemplate whether or not he's going to play, but he thinks he has football left.
It's all just a matter of negotiating. Listen to Ian Rappaport. This is what he said not too long ago, just a few minutes ago on the NFL Network.
Listen to this. Last we heard from Stafford, he was in his post-season press conference talking about how he wanted to take some time and ponder his future. Sean McVeigh saying he would like an answer sooner rather than later. My understanding is Matthew Stafford does, in fact, plan to play next season. This is essentially what he sort of communicated to the Rams, wanted to take some time off and basically told them, I feel good. I don't see why I wouldn't play.
My understanding again, plans to play. Now, that is not exactly the whole story for the Rams because he's due twenty seven million dollars next year. Not guaranteed on his contract. I have a hard time imagining Matthew Stafford plays for that. Listen, I think you'll stay with the Rams. What are the Rams going to do? They don't got a quarterback. They got Jimmy Garoppolo sitting around on the sidelines and Jimmy Garoppolo might as well be good as a. I don't know, I can't even say break glass in case of emergency. Jimmy Garoppolo is just. I might as well be that backup quarterback. Let's just put it that way. I think Stafford will be back with the Rams.
I think he will. 855-212-4227. Jim is calling from the Outer Banks. You're on the JR Sport Reshow, Jim.
What's up? Hey JR, thanks for taking my call. In regards to changing the name of the trophy, that's like changing the name of founding fathers.
These guys created what we have today. And there's no reason to even consider changing the name. Now I'm a die hard commander slash Redskins fan and. Forget the loss, we won the season with Jayden Daniels. OK, yeah, you got a bright future ahead of you. I'd be thrilled with the results. I don't. Did you expect the team to go this far?
Oh hell no, no. No, no, but we found a quarterback and. We've got offensive coordinator, yeah, and. You know, for some reason it works very well and we have nothing but.
You know a bright future ahead of us. Yeah, more importantly, Daniel Snyder is gone. You know where he's at, Jim? I don't care where he's at.
Oh well, the Jets need to get their owner in the same place. OK, well he's going to have to have a few more scandals before he gets there, Jim, OK? Alright, well hey, thanks a lot to take my call. Love your program.
Love the way you deliver your. Message and thanks for being on the air. Well, thank you so much Jim.
We're going to clip that and use that in perpetuity. You have a good evening, OK? Thank you Sir. Alright, thank you Jim for calling from the Outer Banks. Made my day an endorsement from Jim. North Carolina, thank you so much, Jim. 855-212-4227.
That's 855-212-4227. We don't even know Tom Brady trophy. Could you imagine it? Hickey if Tom Brady if he if he got a trophy? No, if the trophy I can't even say that if they renamed the Vince Lombardi after him.
He'd be even more. Unbearable and he don't bother nobody today. He's just still unbearable and when he gets that trophy Hickey, not the trophy, the statue. When he gets the statue. I bet you he's going to have a second version. Well, he's not a rod.
I need to relax. He's not a rod, right? No, no, no, no. He's much more tone down. If a rod ever got a statue anyway, he would have one in his bathroom, his living room. He'd have one at the front of his house when you show up. You know, I need to give Tom Brady a little bit more credit. He is not a rod.
He's just a little weird, weird dude. OK, it's the JR sport re show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. We're getting ready to take a break and when we come back on the other side it is Wednesday. It's time for a new top six list. We're going to take a look at the six most miserable fan bases and sports. Hopefully your team is not on the list because I want you to be happy. It's the JR sport re show coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.
