Vikings Frontrunners For Aaron Rodgers? (Hour 4)

It is the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. Happy Friday to you. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody listening all over North America. I hope you've had a tremendous Friday. I hope you're ready for the weekend, and if you're not, I will do my best to get you all set and ready.

I'm in Atlanta. Thank you to super producer and host Ryan Hickey in New York City. We've had a busy show. It gets started every weekday.

That means Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Cooper Cup decided to sign a new contract with the Seattle Seahawks. Sam Darnold spoke to the media in Seattle before Cooper Cup signed his deal.

Demarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons are beefing. Bradley Beal says, Yeah, I'll leave Phoenix in the summertime. We just talked about Rory McIlroy. Yeah, we talked about golf.

He snatched the phone of a fan. We talked about the March Madness tournament. Hopefully it will have and include Cooper Flag, who is not playing tonight as Duke takes on North Carolina. Right now, the Duke Blue Devils leading the Tar Heels 70 to 59 about five minutes to go left in the game. Yeah, Duke can beat up on anybody with no Cooper Flag.

I don't know about winning no title, though. And so thank you so much to our guest who joined us, Jim Brute from The Athletic, who joined us. And then, of course, it's Friday. It's St. Patty's Day weekend. Please don't get drunk and do what you want, but be responsible, okay?

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A matter of fact, before we get back to the phone lines, let's talk about a few things that we've gone through today. Like this man. Who the hell is this man? Cooper Cup. So many Coopers. Cooper Cup deciding to go home. He is signing a three year contract. Forty five million dollars with the Seattle Seahawks.

This is the NFL network breaking the news. Cooper Cup has a new home and he's staying in the NFC West Cup agreeing to terms with the Seattle Seahawks on a three year forty five million dollar deal. Ian, there were a lot of rumors and reports about different teams being involved, but it always sounded like Seattle wanted to bring Cup home. He's from Yakima, Washington, went to eastern Washington. Now he is headed back to Seattle. Yeah. Seattle, by the way, they're going to do nothing like they they swapped out Geno Smith for Sam Darnold and they got rid of D.K. Metcalf for Cooper Cup.

Now tell me that is not just kind of walking the same line at the same pace or just going backwards. This is what they did. And so before Cooper Cup signed his deal, Sam Darnold spoke to the media today.

And I don't know how good things are. Sam Darnold said he improved by sitting behind Brock Purdy. Welcome to your new starting quarterback. I really thank Brock a ton. Brock Purdy for just his style of playing and how he kind of described his style is like we got a ton of great playmakers on offense. Like my job is just to play point guard and get the ball in their hands and let them go do great things with the rock. And when I started to change my thought process as a quarterback to kind of just getting getting the ball in my guy's hands, then that really that's that's kind of where it unlocked for me a little bit. OK. Now, Sam Darnold became a better quarterback by sitting behind Brock Purdy, learning that I need to just not do too much.

OK, fine. Good luck to everybody out in Seattle. Hey, we talked about Aaron Rodgers. You know, Sam Darnold, he made his way out to the Pacific Northwest. And so what does this mean for the Minnesota Vikings?

Diana Rossini. She spoke to 93 seven, the fan, and she said that the Vikings and Aaron Rodgers, they might they might get together. Listen to this. The Vikings haven't haven't come to a decision themselves as an organization if that's the path they want to go down, knowing that they've got a lot of hoops to jump through here in order for this to go well. What direction do you think they're leaning in? I think they're leaning towards doing it at this point. I just know that there are some people there that may not be fully on board and it's just really to come down to the power of those people.

All right. At the end of the day in Minnesota, it's all about Kevin O'Connell. Whatever Kevin O'Connell wants is what's going to probably happen.

Damn. Jonathan Jones from CBS Sports HQ, he doubled down on that. He said if Minnesota wanted him, Minnesota would get him. Folks I talk to believe if the Vikings wanted Rodgers, he would already be a Minnesota Viking.

They clearly have of the three teams the best roster. He would have a solid opportunity to start. It would probably be a short term proposition with J.J. McCarthy still on the mend, but being their quarterback of the future. It would also, of course, complete the Brett Favre loop.

That is incredible for all of the narratives. It just do it at this point, just do it, go to Minnesota, get it over with and let's keep it moving. And he would be on the best team. Just go to Minnesota. Forget Brett Favre. Just do it.

Just like Nike says, just go do it. Meanwhile, we got another future Hall of Famer. This guy changed his mind in just the course of a month. He decided that, hey, I don't want to be a part of the Browns because this team sucks. And then they showed him the money like it was Jerry Maguire. And then he changed his mind. And then he lied to the public today and said it wasn't about the money. This is Miles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns. He spoke to the media after accepting a contract extension that will pay him 40 million dollars a year.

And he says, yeah, I said the Browns suck. He said, I want to win a championship. But no, it's it's not not about the money.

Listen to this man tell a lie. I think the fans will see that, you know, my heart's in the right place. It's never been about money. It's always been about winning. That's where my frustration lies. And, you know, I don't regret it. I mean, I feel like I went out and earned it by, you know, playing best brand of ball that I know possible. And I plan to deliver week in and week out during the season. It looks like the whole thing was a long game for you to get more money. So how do you tell fans?

No, that's not. I don't tell fans anything. I go out there and prove it. If it's about the money, then I could just pack it in and and not go out there and get my my best.

No effort. But I plan to be the best person possible in this locker room, be the best leader possible, dominating on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. So that really shows you know what it's all about. That really proves it to the fans.

No, no matter where it's will. No, no, we can't conflate the two. It's it's you're on the Browns. That's the point, man.

It's not about how hard you play. It's that you stayed. Come on. Lying to people.

Now, that's a joke shoveling crap to the public. Oh, it's not about the money that I stayed with the person. Why'd you stay?

You wanted to leave so bad. Come on, man. Good luck with your rookie quarterback or Russell Wilson. Good luck with him, too, if he signs there.

Russell Wilson, what a sad story. I mean, a wealthy man. Oh, I got to fly to Cleveland for a job.

I fly to New York. Nobody really wants me. Good luck. What a joke. Miles Garrett is with those comments. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We've had quite a few jokes. It is Friday. Kind of keep things light.

People call up and say crazy things anyway. So we decided to kind of structure it in a way. And so we've had a bunch of jokes on. I haven't heard a funny joke yet.

They've all been pretty bad, pretty sad and pretty pathetic. Let's see if anybody can entertain us. I don't know. Maybe somebody will make a joke about North Carolina basketball. Reggie is calling from Baton Rouge, the red baton. You're on the JR Sportbreeze show. What's up, Reggie?

Oh, OK. This be Reggie. I got a little joke. This would be good in here, baby. OK. Just hit us with it. Give it to me. Go ahead.

All right. So the man got to go to the bathroom and he go up in there and he he he pulled down his pants, he pulled down his drawers and a whole bunch of fly be coming out of there. So he go what he say, oh, Lord, I didn't get me some flying crab. I need to go to the doc.

So easily. So he rolled up into the doctor and the doctor go, what up? And the man go, uh, Doc, I'll be having flying crab.

And the doc will fly crab. He go. All right.

All right. I'm examinee. Well, pull the ball down your pants. And so so the man dropped him pants and his drawers. And the doctor put the glove on. He said, I'm examination now. And he go down a one exam, disseminate the man Gerritos. And all of a sudden, the fly come all over the all over the room. The doctor snatched one out there and he is aminated. He look at the man and he tell the man, what you got here? Don't be no flying crab.

He said in a professional of opinion, you you you got some what's true. You got fruit fly in the mail. How do I get fruit fly?

And oh, OK, jail. Here you go. Hurry up. Hurry up.

And so the doctor go, you got fruit fly. Hurry up. Your banana be dead. What? What? What? What?

What? Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, God. Jeez. Thank you, Reggie. No. Thank you, Reggie.

From Baton Rouge. Oh, man. Oh, wow.

Because your banana is dead. OK. All right. Thank you, Reggie. Hickey, say something.

Say something. I think Reggie's laugh cough was the highlight of that three minutes. It was I hope he got some. He needs a recolor. So I'm glad Reggie can make it can crack himself up. You know, if you can't laugh at your own jokes, who will?

You're right about that. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Derek is here from Hawaii. It's sunny in Hawaii.

Maybe this is a brighter joke. Derek, you on the J.R. sport show. What's up? Hey, yeah. Yeah, what's up? What's going on?

How's it going? But my name is Jared, not Derek. Oh, OK. OK, well, thank you, Jared or Derek. Go ahead.

Yeah, thank you. Four friends in the bar having a few having a few, you know, after a couple of rounds, they decide to talk about something like, oh, what do you think is the fastest thing in the world? Who's saying both? I said the first guy says thinking the second guy said blinking.

All right. The third guy said turning on the light. And the last guy said diarrhea.

A diarrhea guy said, I think diarrhea is the fastest thing in the world. Oh, my God. And he said, well, last night my stomach was so sore before I could think blink or turn on the light.

I cracked my pants. OK, Derek, thank you so much, Derek. All right. Thank you.

Thank you so much. OK. Yeah, OK. All right. You know, I'm glad I didn't have to pay a five dollar cover and a two drink minimum, OK? Well, the two drinks could have helped so far. I think you're right.

Probably need a five drink minimum for some of these. You know what? I haven't been to a comedy show since before Covid. Really? Have you have you been to a comedy show recently? Probably about a year ago was the last time. Was it good? Yeah. You had fun?

I did. They were funny. They were funny. Wow. They were pretty funny. And you had to buy two drinks, two drinks, but you got like five acts, which is pretty good.

Oh, my God. I hate I used I used to hate that hickey because they watered down those drinks at the place, man. They water them. They want you to drink.

So you laugh. Right. But then I also feel like they they they watered down the drinks, man. I'm like, I don't want this, which is why I say I get beer.

I can't water down beer. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Good idea.

They also do take a while. But everybody got to buy a drink. Two drinks come out. Now you got to tip the person. And and if the jokes, I don't know, I'd rather do this and hope that I hope somebody's funny. Yeah, I hope so. Right. I ain't going to no comedy show tonight.

That ain't happening. Eight, five, five, two, one, two, forty, two, twenty seven. Mike is here from Pittsburgh. What's up, Mike? Hey, how you doing, JR? Good. Hey, a man is in a restaurant and he calls over the waiter and says, hey, this coffee tastes like dirt.

The waiter says, oh, yes, sir. Fresh ground. What? I mean, coffee isn't coffee is dirt, right? It's brown. Well, what am I missing here? It's from the cocoa from the ground. He was dying in the pre interview. I don't know.

Maybe maybe your phone quality is not good. Hickey, do you know, do you think you know what just happened? Yeah, you know, like coffee grounds is like, you know, this tastes like dirt.

Yeah, it's fresh ground, like, you know, fresh dirt. Oh, my God, Mike. Oh, come on. Oh, no.

Just you can laugh at it now. But that was not funny, Mike. Oh, my God.

Thank you, Mike. I'm going to need a real drink. Oh, man. You don't like that one, huh? No, I don't know. Hickey, why doesn't the office vending machine have alcohol in it?

That's a great call on Friday. No, you know what? I'm not going to say any names. I think we do have an office somewhere here in the country. They have beer in their kitchen. Really? I think so. Yeah, I think so.

Yeah, I think they do. That promotes good office morale, right? They got a basketball court in the office.

Oh, whoa. Yeah, they got basketball court in bleachers. It's not here in Georgia.

It's not in New York either. I know that much. And this is an Odyssey company? Yes. Yeah.

Basketball court beer? Shout out to the sales team. Yeah, for real. Wow. They got a they got a gym. They got massage chairs. Yeah.

What do we have to do to get transferred there? Could we just do our shows remotely from there? That sounds pretty fun.

We could. Yeah, I've been there. It's nice.

That's how I know. Yeah. Shocked you left. I probably wouldn't have left, honestly. Get me in there.

Not leaving. Yeah, we can we can figure out a way to do a show out there from the basketball court. We are here for no other reason than to drink some beer and play some hoops in the bricks. Yeah, play basketball. That's it.

I'd be better at lives than Angel Reese. Oh, yeah, that's a joke. No, there we go. Bad joke. Bad joke. Well, I mean, Lisa Leslie said she'd help her with her layups. I thought you'd learn.

I thought you learned labs when you're three years old, right? I don't know. How tall is Angel Reese? Is she six three? Very tall. Six four. Why can't she do layups? Like, I don't know. That's embarrassing. Lisa Leslie sells it to, you know, hey, I don't know.

Staff padding. Get those rebounds. Angel Reese height. How tall is this lady? Is she six three? Anyway, Dave is here from New York.

Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. What's up, Dave? Yo, fellas.

First of all, yo, Hickey, man, that do with with the flying crabs and the fruit flies. You can't let that guy come back on with jokes like that. Now, come on, man. I don't know what to say with that.

Yo. Well, anyway, I'm gonna leave you guys with this guy. This guy is having a lucky do is driving to the Jet game and he decided to pull over and go to this Barney Stone. I have a couple, you know, because back to his car.

Oh, my God. Someone broke into my car, stole my radio, tore up the console. He said, oh, man. So at least, you know, I can get to the Jet game. So he wanted to check to see if his tickets were still there. He opens up his glove compartment. His tickets are still there, but there's two more tickets.

He goes, oh, shoot, the guy stole my radio, but he left his tickets with his tickets. Yeah, I've heard that variation of a joke like 50 million times. Dave, come on now.

Well, hey, how am I supposed to know that? But I'll leave you with this. In other words, Sam Mitchell, hold up, hold up, hold up.

Free your mind and your behind will follow. Well, thank you, Dave. I know Sam. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right.

Thank you, Dave. How you come on talking about somebody else's joke and your joke sucks. You suck. Well, you can't do that.

Like the first thing you do is tell somebody you talk. Hey, your joke sucked. And then you give another one. I've heard that one. Oh, somebody. I could give that to every team.

Somebody broke into the car and they found the tickets and they left them. Like, OK, whatever. Heard that once. You heard it once. You heard it twice. Heard it three times. Anyway, eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. Hey, y'all can call with more jokes if you feel like it. We're going to take a break, of course, at the end of the show. We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. And a matter of fact, when we come back on the other side of the break, there's so much talk and it will be so much thought, justifiably so, about college basketball all next week.

Selection Sunday is, well, two days away. The Major League Baseball season starts next week in Japan. I can't believe it. I feel like we just saw the Dodgers win the World Series with that super team.

And now that super team is going to take on the Cubs in Japan. Baseball is upon us. We'll talk about that on the other side.

I'll get some more of your calls. It's just a Friday. We're having fun. Who wants to be miserable on a Friday?

Nobody. You're locked into the J.R. Sport Brief Show Coast to Coast on the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the J.R. Sport Brief.

It's the J.R. Sport Brief Show here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. It was, I feel like it was, I don't know, about 15 minutes ago or so. I was letting everybody know that Duke was getting ready to just get North Carolina to help on out of here. They were leading like 70 something to like 60. They had a good lead on them. And as of right now, the game is still going on. Duke leads North Carolina.

Remember, Cooper Flag is not playing. Duke leads a 72 to 71. Duke is they're just playing a free throw game right now. There's three seconds left in the game. But Duke has sucked like they haven't scored in like five minutes, maybe like one point in five minutes. And then Hickey, you told me that North Carolina is basically they gave this game away. They could have won it. What's going on?

I've never seen an ending like this. Like you said, 72-71. UNC is down by one. They have the ball. They throw the ball down low, going up for a layup, gets fouled. On the free throw line, two free throws, chance to take the lead, four seconds left. First free throw for UNC.

No good. Okay, that's normal. You miss a free throw, you miss it. Fine, okay. Especially in college. Basketball, big man, right?

Those things are anything but a given. Second free throw. Again, down by one, four seconds to go here. Make one out of two, tie game. Second free throw. Good.

Problem though. Okay, so he tied the game, right? He tied the game. For a hot second. Okay. Problem is on the free throw attempt, his own teammate committed a lane violation.

Oh my god. Wipes out the free throw and now it's a turnover. Duke gets the ball. So they were just on the line. Down by one, chance to take the lead, four seconds. They turn it over, get no points at the free throw line, give the ball back to Duke, who now just had two free throws to go up by three with three seconds to go.

Damn. I've never seen an ending like that. It's 74-71, it's three seconds. Well, North Carolina, well now we can wait to see if North Carolina comes through with a miraculous shot, okay? It's two and a half seconds left on the clock. We'll see if they adjust it a little bit.

Duke is leading North Carolina 74 to 71. And so, Hickey, you think they they knock down a three and everybody goes crazy? No, right?

I do not. Also, if you're Duke to get, you know, a real coachy here, you gotta fail. You have to, you think the players will do it? You can, I mean, I know it's risky because it's two seconds, basically catch and shoot. Somebody goes to the line and gets fouled on a three-point attempt.

Watch. And they'll probably... Yeah, a lane violation. And the third one has to make the first two.

Make the first two. What does the guy at the free throw line tell his teammate after the game? Like, you don't believe in me?

You don't think I'm gonna make it? Like, you're so eager to jump? Like, you just say nothing to that guy. I mean, I'm speechless.

I'm sure he's gotta be speechless. I'm honestly shocked he didn't throw him off. He moved so early. Like, as he's like still in his, like, in his free throw motion, like, it would have threw me off if I was on the free throw line. When I see, all of a sudden, this guy just, like, take a sudden movement.

And Hubert Davis didn't smack him in the back of the head? Well, he's on the bench crying right now. Oh, I see the kid. Oh my god, he is crying. Oh my god, he's crying. Oh my god.

Oh, this is terrible. Well, you answered that, and this is truly their season. They definitely need this game, bare minimum, to probably make the tournament. Yeah. That's a tough, I mean, yeah. If they... Let's see what happens. Let's see. Laugh at his pain.

That's a tough way to go. We're not supposed to give play by play. We won't. We'll just tell you what happens at the end. All right, let's go. Come on. Come on. They got to call another timeout.

Do they have one? Okay, ball went up and nothing. Same score.

Duke wins 74-71. The guy with the lane violation buries his head into his jersey. He is crying even more. His teammates are trying to help him up. He's really boo-hooing now.

Lifts his head up to the sky as he cries some more. Duke is happy. North Carolina is sad. Where's Hubert Davis? He's the man here. Yeah, he's congratulating the Duke players, and Duke will probably continue on its way to a national championship. At least compete for one with Cooper Flagg and North Carolina.

They stink. Yeah, and the guy with the lane violation is crying. Get used to this. We got a lot more of this over the next, what, hickey? Three weeks?

A month? Yeah, including this weekend? Oh yeah, you're right. There's gonna be a lot of great moments. A lot of tears as well. Yeah, they just threw a towel over this guy's head. Yeah. It's college sports.

18 to 22 year olds. You know, very emotional. A lot of pressure. Do they? Well, can they smoke? They don't let them smoke, right? No.

Well, I mean, if you ask Rich Raj from the other day, I guess that if they don't test, I guess, you know, there's no way of knowing. No TikTok. No TikTok and smoke on your own time, I guess. Oh boy. 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4227. Who do we have here? We have Stu calling from Florida on the JR Sportbrie show.

What's up, Stu? I just wanted to talk about Aaron Rogers for a second because even though I don't care for the guy, he's probably on the Mount Rushmore most talented quarterbacks over the last 30 years with Mahomes, Elway and Marino. But he just couldn't seem to learn from guys like Peyton Manning and Brady where you have to be a better leader and you might have to give up a few bucks to be able to surround yourself with a better team if you want to win Super Bowls.

Yeah, I don't think it's a money thing. You look at some of the talent. He had good wide receivers.

I mean, from the Nelsons to the Jennings. Yeah, he has some good guys working with him. I'm not going to put it on a money thing. Leadership? Yeah.

And here's the other element. A lot of guys, especially more recently, they talk about Aaron Rogers. They don't got a bad word to say about him in the locker room, but it's really all the other quote unquote stuff that becomes a distraction.

And that's the part that's crazy. I don't think there's a financial thing about him. Well, the guy just isn't very likeable.

Yes. You know, or at least outside of football itself. And I understand that people haven't complained about him recently, but I still don't think that he was as good a leader as he could have been for his entire career. I think most people would agree with you.

Well, and to a different degree, I think he spent a lot of time trying to find himself. How the hell are you going to lead other people when you don't know who the hell you are? Reason. It's a problem.

It's a problem. And he followed and he followed a great one. And I'm sure that a lot of it was was that to follow. Maybe, you know, Brett Favre, possibly. Yeah. I mean, all things considered football talent and what his output was.

You would think that he did an amazing job, but I think there's more of a personality of thing. Hey, Stu, thank you for calling from Florida. Have a good night. You as well.

855-212-4227. Marcus is here from Houston. It's pretty funny.

There's a guy named Marcus Houston, who's a singer. Go ahead, Marcus. Yes, sir. I got a joke for you. OK, give it to me.

What's a pirate's favorite letter? Hey, hold on a second. Hold on.

Hold on. We've heard this one. We've heard this one. We've heard this one. It's not it's not R. Do you remember? Do you remember what the answer is?

Go ahead. I didn't. Well, I heard the answer. It's not R. Well, Marco Ballet.

Marco, you've heard. Were you here when we heard this joke? I was not. I would have gone with the R. So, no, I don't know what this is. It's not R. It's something else. Oh, man. What is it? Well, come on. Come on. I don't remember. Hickey, I don't remember. I don't remember.

Oh, my God. What's a pirate's favorite letter? It's not R. It's it's something else. Give me a hint. Come on, a hint. Me? Oh, I mean, it is a letter.

It is a letter. Come on. Pirate here. Think pirate.

Come on. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R. You already said it. What? You want a hint? You already said it. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. Oh, boy. You already said it.

A, I don't know, man. You said it now twice. Come on. Think about it. Think about it. Think about what you were saying. I'm about to put this. I don't know.

It's not R. Think about the letters that are coming out of your mouth. What do pirates like? What is surrounding a pirate? Booty?

I don't know. Booty? They love booty, but booty is not one letter, unfortunately. That's the correct answer. Booty was a letter. I don't know.

Pirates. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. You're not thinking. You're saying letters without thinking about what you're saying. I'm saying every letter. I know what they sound like.

You're saying them, but you're not thinking about what you're saying. Think about it. I forgot the joke. I forgot.

What's a pirate's favorite letter? I don't know. R. I don't know. Mark, are you ready to find out what this is so we can feel dumb? Yes, I am. Yes, I am.

Mark is from Houston. What's the answer? Yeah. You think it'd be R, but his first love always be the C. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The C? Of the C? The C? Always be C? The C. He loves the C. He loves the C. Okay.

R. Yeah, R. Yeah, then R. C, then R. Okay. Thank you, Marcus. I love you.

I love you, too. Bye. Damn. Hickey, we got that joke. Somebody told that to us like a month ago.

We did. Also, I just love how you just gloss over there. I love you.

That's hilarious. Love you. He said he loves me. I told him I love him, too. I love him. I went through it to say nothing.

I like that we're feeling the love on this Friday. No, it's good, but that's just very funny. If that guy said, I love you, and I just said nothing, well, I'm a jerk now, right?

Big time jerk. It's true. Yeah, you got to say you love somebody back if they love you, right? Do you have to? Are you obligated? You have to.

Well, if you don't feel, I mean, if a girl says she loves you and you don't feel the same way back, you can't just say it, and then you're in big trouble. That's different. That's a real relationship. I was going to say that's different because you have to actually see them again. Right. He doesn't have to talk to Marcus ever again.

Well, Marcus could call back with another joke. Well, yeah, but I mean, honestly, I'd rather somebody in the street tell me they love me than somebody that's in your life that you don't. Let's be fair, right? It's a lot easier to ignore a stranger.

No, it's much easier to be like, yeah, you too, man. Love you too. I don't care. Who cares? Oh, my God. Come on. No strings, no repercussions. Oh, my goodness.

No responsibilities. Oh, man. You disagree? Hey, I'm not the only one thinking it. I'm just the only one that said it. Oh, don't tell. I hope nobody tells me that they love me if I don't love them back. That's that's what I just heard.

If I don't have to see them again, basically, yeah. 855-212-4227. Eric is here from California.

Eric, you got the last joke of the night. Go ahead. Hey, how you doing, RJ?

I love your show, man. But I've called a few times. You guys have referred to me as the resident therapist. But anyway, I think we all need to have a session on what love is to that. That could be very subjective. So the joke like Belichick's Belichick's girlfriend loves him, right? Oh, my gosh, dude. I mean, honestly. OK, so I just give you like a little like a little insight. Like I have a client that is sixty six years old and he's dating a twenty eight year old and he's been coming to me probably for two years and literally they're they're they're talking about the same issues. You just can't do it, man. That's just way too big of a of a span age wise. Well, no, nothing in common, man.

I'll keep that in mind for myself in a few years. What else you got? Yeah. Anyway, so the joke is this.

Athletes have athlete's foot. Do you know what astronauts have? No.

Mistletoe. OK. All right. That's my dad joke. All right. Well, thank you, Eric. Appreciate you, man. Thank you so much.

I need a drink. All right. Take it easy. All right. Have a good one. You too.

OK. All right. It's the J.R. Sportbreeze show on the Infinity Sports Network. We're going to take a break when we come back. We'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. And then I cannot believe we are on the verge of another Major League Baseball season. The regular season starts next week in Japan. You're listening to the J.R. Sportbreeze. It is the J.R. Sportbreeze show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

Yes. St. Patrick's Day weekend. Please be be safe. Please just just don't do nothing crazy. Please drink responsibly.

It's not like a commercial anyway. We just heard this from Marco Belletti. We know LeBron James has the groin issue. He's out on vacation.

I call a vacation. We don't know when he's coming back. But then even even past that, Luka Doncic is dealing with another calf issue.

Like, you can't make this up. Luka was asked last night if he feels like he's back to 100 percent. Obviously not. He's not playing the Nuggets today. Obviously not there yet, but I think today a little bit more. Like I say, every day a little bit more. But still not there. Got to get some some things off my body, get him to feel better and be ready.

It's just English still, second language or third or fourth. Got to get some things off my body. Anyway, I need you to think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all of your car care needs.

He guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Well, Luke is not playing today. Hopefully that calf, he gets it together. Anyway, it's time for a few things that took place this day in sports history. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything.

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. Today is March 14th. The year is 2025. And if we go back to 1960, Will Chamberlain, he set a rookie playoffs scoring record by scoring 53 points and a 132 112 win over the Syracuse Nationals. It was 1960. We don't we don't have audio for that. I wonder why. Hey, how about this? March 14th, 1996.

This exists. Princeton beat UCLA. UCLA won the championship the year before they beat them 43 to 41. They were the 13th seed.

This was one of the biggest upsets in March Madness NCAA history. I want you to listen to this sound. I want you to listen to this audio from 1996 courtesy of CBS. You know they're going to try to run a back door play if they can get it. Under 10. Back door. 2.2 seconds remaining.

43 41. UCLA down. Cameron Dollar inbounding the basketball.

Well that's what the timeout was called but they got to watch the log. Here's Bailey. He'll get it off. The Princeton Tigers have pulled the upset. They beat the defending national champions 43 to 41. What a surprise, right? Damn.

1996. Well, those are a few things that took place this day in sports history. I say over the next couple of weeks you get used to a lot of NCAA tournament stuff. I mean the tournament is coming up. This is that time of year.

Anyway, speaking of things that are coming up. Tomorrow, I mean over the weekend we got NASCAR. Yeah, this NASCAR race preview is sponsored by Weatherguard Truck and Van Equipment.

They're just as driven as the hard-working pros that they serve. NASCAR heads west to Las Vegas Speedway this weekend for the Pennzoil 400. Christopher Bell, he's been on a hot streak. This man has won the last three races.

He looks to become the first racer since 2007 to win four races in a row. There's so much going on. This is a beautiful time of the year. Spring and got basketball and college ball and I guess spring football maybe. We don't know about that spring football league that nobody cares about except for unless you're in Birmingham but there's there's a lot going on. Even baseball starts next week. I mean in Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday just the Dodgers and the Cubs they play two games that count for the regular season in Japan and then they come back and play more spring training games so technically the season starts yeah air quotes starts on Tuesday.

It should be fun right? Gotta love it. Dave Roberts whose team just won the World Series. Yesterday he talked about what we can expect from the Dodgers them to beat up on everybody. I expect us to play good baseball. I expect us to pitch well. I expect us to play good defense and take good at bats and it's just good to be here and playing in the Tokyo Dome. It's going to be fun to play against a couple Japanese teams but at the end of the day we were trying to come here and win a couple baseball games.

Yeah great great great. Well how do the Cubs feel about this? Craig Council he's excited about being in Japan. He loves Tokyo.

Well we've been here 36 hours maybe and already I think the trip for us is what we thought it would be. An amazing cultural experience, an amazing team bonding experience, and getting to come to Tokyo Dome today the start of an amazing baseball experience. Man that game is 6 a.m in the morning eastern time. I am not watching that game. Hickey you gonna watch that game?

No way Jose I'll watch the highlights. Oh man maybe I maybe I get up on Tuesday and Wednesday have me some sake. Have me some sake. Yeah why not?

Start strong sheesh. Yeah why not? You know what I'm gonna have me a Guinness on Monday. It's St. Patrick's. It's Monday right St. Patrick's Day.

That's right. Everybody's gonna be drinking all weekend. I'm gonna have me a Guinness on Monday for St. Patrick's Day and on Tuesday and Wednesday I'm gonna have me sake. I'm gonna wake up to watch the baseball and have sake.

I will. You know what wow from now till then talk about a hell of a week it's quite the bender gonna be. Yeah yeah I'm gonna have a green beer tomorrow I don't know a matcha beer. I'm gonna have two matcha beers all weekend.

Excuse me what'd you say? A matcha beer that sounds lame come on. Hickey no I had a have you ever had one?

I didn't even know that existed. There's a guy I know here in Atlanta makes a matcha beer it's like as strong as a double IPA you better be careful what you say here. Whoa yeah so it's matcha tea brewed into a beer? I Hickey it's green if you tasted it you wouldn't know anything green you wouldn't know it was green you would know nothing. Interesting. I could give it to you with a you know eyes what do they call eyes closed test or something you'd be like folded yeah it'd be like this is an IPA yeah. Wow.

You you don't you don't taste matcha nothing. But it knocks you out huh? Oh it's like a 9 to 11 yeah. Jeez it's no joke. Yeah sign me up I'm here for it here for it all. Anyway we've had a great show thank you to everybody who called up with their their crazy jokes their good jokes their bad jokes thank you also to our guests who came through early on in the show much love to Jim Root for joining us from The Athletic and thank you to you if you missed a minute of the show you can hit rewind start from the beginning you can do it all on the free Odyssey app the JR sport reshow on the infinity sports network is done I'll be back monday 6 p.m eastern 3 pacific hickey where can they find you sunday night 10 p.m eastern right here on the infinity sports network Bart Winkler is coming up next please be safe and drive responsibly.