NFL Owners Meetings Roundup (Hour 4)

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Man, we talked about Brock Purdy. He's about to break the bank, which is why the 49ers can't afford other guys on the roster. The Dallas Cowboys continue to be stupid. Jerry Jones is insulting Michael Parson's agent. It's just, it's ridiculous. John Marant, he might be trying to make his way out of Memphis. Giannis might be making his way out of Milwaukee or hell no, not Giannis, of course not.

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That's 888-710-4ISN. You know what? Let's go through a few of the things that we just discussed. The NFL owner's meetings are going on, which means that we've heard not just from the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, but we've also heard from some owners, from some coaches. But let's start off with the commissioner. Today, the NFL did a vote to try to ban the tush push made famous and popular by the Philadelphia Eagles, the defending Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl Eagles. But Roger Goodell didn't have anything clear as to why they wanted to ban the tush push.

He pretty much said, we don't have any data, but that this is just injuring players. But they voted on it anyway. And it was a tie. 16 owners said, yes, let's ban the tush push. 16 owners said, no, let's keep it. And so what did they do? They said, let's vote again on it in May. Roger Goodell talked about it afterwards.

And this is what he said. There are safety issues that are being considered in that case. We have very little data from it, but it's beyond data. There's also the mechanism of injury that we study, that type of thing, that leads us to show the risk involved with a particular player, particular tackle. So those are things that we did discuss. I do think there's a lot of discussion about going back to the previous rule, back to pre-2004. It's a dispute about how long that rule was in play.

But the reality of it is, I think that makes a lot of sense in many ways, because it expands it beyond just that single play. Hickey, what did he just say? Nothing? He said a whole lot of nothing, right? Whole lot of nothing, because nothing he can say is backed up by any fact?

Nothing. The Philadelphia Eagles convert the Tush push 86 percent of the time. 86 percent of the time. The league average is 76 percent of the time.

Here's the deal, though. Nobody runs this play but the Eagles and the Bills. That's it. The Tush push accounted for just 0.28 percent of all plays ran last year. 0.28. Not 1.28. Not 1 percent of plays.

0.28. We don't see the Tush push unless the Eagles are doing it and they do it to a success. I don't get it. The NFL is making crap up. There's an ulterior motive here that has not been presented. The NFL is full of crap, but we knew this already. And they want to talk about player safety? Come on.

Every day I see a guy's leg go the wrong way. Let's talk to Alex Smith about player safety. Let's talk to Tuatunga Veloa about player safety.

Why is he still allowed to play? I mean, come on. And DeMar Hamlin died on the football field.

They brought the guy back to life. And we care about player safety and catastrophic plays? Every play has the potential to be catastrophic. Okay, spare me with the garbage here. Tush push.

But I never heard of a play with such a soft name and everybody is so up in arms about it. Give me a break. NFL shoveling more crap. What else is new?

Also, this is something that did pass. The NFL is going to utilize technology to measure the first downs. They're going to use Sony Hawkeye technology to measure first downs. The old guys, the chain gang, the guys in the fancy black and white underwear who can barely run, they're going to be backups to the technology.

And so all things considered, hopefully they're getting paid just to stand around, which is pretty much what they do anyway. And then also, NFL overtime has been adjusted. Both teams will now get the football regardless of who scores first or whether they score a touchdown or field goal.

Both teams will get an opportunity to score and what will now be a 10 minute overtime period. The touchback has also been changed or moved, I should say. A touchback on a kickoff will now be moved from the 30 yard line to the 35 yard line because they want to generate more returns. And so some things change, some things stay the same. We'll see what happens when it comes down to the tush push.

You can't stand it. Also, we have some owners who spoke today. Most famously, Jerry Jones put his foot in his mouth as he's negotiating with Michael Parsons on a new contract, ultimately making him will probably be the highest paid player in the NFL. That is not a quarterback, which means that he'll receive an excess of 40 million dollars a year. Jerry Jones basically insulted David Mulligetta, the agent of Michael Parsons, and David Mulligetta isn't some guy who just fell off of an apple cart and became an NFL agent. He's the first NFL agent to negotiate more than one billion dollars worth of contracts last year. This guy ain't no scrub.

This guy ain't no bum. And in speaking with the media today, Jerry Jones pretty much said, I'm talking directly with Micah. Who cares about the agent is I don't even know the agent's name. Listen to Jerry Jones basically make a fool of himself saying that the deal is going to be between me and Micah and because Mike is going to play and I'm going to pay him.

Listen to this. The agent is not a factor here of something to worry about. And I don't know his name. And so my point is that I'm not trying to demean you in any way, in any way. But this isn't about an agent. The agent doesn't have one thing to do with what we're doing when we get on the football field against the team. Micah does to the degree I'm involved. The people that have something to do with what we do going forward relative to our fans and football or me and the player, not the agent. I'm not trying to demean him.

I'm trying to demean myself. That's basically what Jerry Jones is doing. And I'm sure Michael Parsons and his agent, by the way, Michael Parsons tweeted out in response to these comments by Jerry Jones, he tweeted that David Miller Geller is going to be a part of this negotiation because he's one of the best agents. And so even though that he both he and Jerry Jones have had direct contact, I don't think that you're getting a backdoor deal by just speaking to me. And if I'm David Miller Geller, you can be kind of irritated by the words of Jerry Jones that he would insult you or demean you.

But on the other hand, from a business perspective, he is probably doing backflips. Oh, you're going to know my name. You want Michael Parsons on the Dallas Cowboys? You want to pay him? You're going to have to talk to me. Jerry Jones putting his foot in his mouth.

But what else is new? Anyway, we got another owner. Hopefully he's not putting his foot in his mouth. He's the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. His name is Art Rooney, the third. And Art Rooney spoke to the media today. And with all of these rumors about Aaron Rodgers joining the Steelers, us seeing video on social media of Aaron Rodgers working out with new Steelers wide receiver D.K. Metcalf, Art Rooney spoke to the media and he said, I think we're getting close to Aaron Rodgers being a stealer.

Listen to this. I would say it was a good sign that he wanted to do that. And, you know, we keep hearing that, you know, he's I guess headed in our direction.

And so that seems to be all signs of positive so far. Oh, man, he needs a jolt of electricity up his backside. What's going on with that guy? Man.

Hickey, what happened? Aaron Rodgers sucked the life out of that guy already. Already one meeting. And that's all it took.

Damn. He was referring to him working out with D.K. Metcalf as being a a positive sign that he would ultimately be on the team. Well, I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers have never been known as a team that sound enthusiastic about anything.

They always sound like everything is absolutely painful. Well, Ian Rappaport, he spoke yesterday on the Pat McAfee show and he believes that Aaron Rodgers will ultimately end up on the Steelers. Rodgers has his process.

I think it's probably not as fast as many people would like. This is what he needs. It might be his last stop. Probably isn't the last stop. Needs to make sure it's right. If that includes throwing with the newly acquired star receiver for the team. OK. Did go well. Was, you know, part of the process for Rodgers to say, all right, maybe this is my eventual destination.

And it seems to me, unless the Vikings do a complete about face from what they've said publicly, that would be his only spot. So it feels like a matter of time. All right. It feels like a matter of time.

I can see it now. We hit the fast forward button a little less than a year because that's what it would be. We're in January of twenty twenty six. The Pittsburgh Steelers have gone to the playoffs and they've been eliminated in the wildcard round with Aaron Rodgers as their starting quarterback.

And then what happens? Do we go to the Aaron Rodgers saga for twenty twenty six? Oh, my God. Was that a bow?

And that's it. Is he going to be back? Is he leaving? Is he going to retire? I mean, you got to get the you got to bring him in on a I hate to say this.

I feel like I say it every day now. Oh, one plus one deal. Like you can't you know, it's a one year. It's going to be a year to year thing.

And so, yeah, I guess the answer to you is yes. They're going to enter into the the Aaron Rodgers paradigm. Do we want him? Does he want to come back? Does he go?

Is he going to retire? I'm sure the Steelers are going to draft the quarterback at some point. You know, what do we do? The Steelers are they're like a lot of teams, except for they win while they do it. They are in what do you call it? Purgatory. They're in purgatory right now. QB purgatory, the worst place to be. Yeah, a lot of teams. Half the teams in quarterback purgatory, right? Half of them, would you say?

At least right. Yeah. Hold on. Let's see. Let's count these teams in NFL purgatory. I'm going to go through all the teams right now. You got teams that are paying a lot of Buffalo? No. Miami? No, not yet.

But it's coming. The New York Jets? Yes. New England?

They hope they're not. Baltimore? Hell, no. Pittsburgh? Yes. Cincinnati? No. Cleveland?

Currently in purgatory. Houston? Nah, they hope not.

I mean, CJ Stroud's going to have to show some things in his third year. Indianapolis? Absolutely. They are welcoming the purgatory.

Okay, Hickey. They're welcoming it. Swimming in it right now. Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson.

They love it. Jacksonville? No. Tennessee?

Yes. Kansas City? Hell, no. Los Angeles? The Chargers?

Hell, no. Denver? No purgatory. Las Vegas? Yes.

Hopefully coming out of it. Philadelphia? No. Washington? No. Dallas?

Is $60 million to be in purgatory? Hickey, is that possible? I mean, I would say no, but I mean... The team is just swimming in mediocrity, right?

Yes. Yeah, they got their guy. New York Giants, purgatory. And then also, by the way, Brian Deball, they're in so much swimming and mediocrity.

Brian Deball was asked earlier today. He's like, hey, you got Russell Wilson. You got Jameis Winston.

You got Tommy DeVito. Are you going to draft the quarterback at number three? Brian Deball had an answer for that. The head coach of the New York Giants.

This is what he had to say. We're going to go through the evaluation of all the guys that have been on my list to look at and talk to. And again, everything's got to fall on the line too relative to draft picks and where you are picking. And if somebody else gets picked ahead of time, everybody out there that, oh my gosh, Michael Pennix got taken here. You don't know when they're going to get taken. There's an affinity you have for a player if you feel like that player is the right player.

And they're sitting there at the pick, whatever pick it is you have. Is it a reach? Is it not a reach? I'm not going to get into that. It's how you feel about the player.

And does that player match where you want to take them? Well, I guess there's something to feel positive about. At least he has a list.

That's a start, right? Anytime somebody says that they have a list, that's good. They have plans.

They have an agenda. You come home from work. Your partner says, I got a list.

It's Saturday. You think you're just going to put your feet up and maybe relax a little bit and drink a beer and no, there's a, there's a list. And you know what? I changed my mind. Lists sound absolutely terrible.

They sound awful. Hickey, have you, you haven't gotten to that point, right? Have you gotten to the point of here's a list of things to do? No, thankfully, no. Good. I'd say try to keep it that way, but I don't, I don't know if that's good either.

I don't know. Lists are terrible. I would agree. Yeah, they're bad. Anyway, Brian Deball has a list that could be bad for the New York Giants. Detroit doesn't need a quarterback.

I think eventually they will. Sorry. Is that a bad thing to say, Hickey? Is that bad? Goff is ass.

Like there's a reason why Los Angeles didn't want him. And I think they've kind of maxed out. Is that, is that wrong to say?

I think it's fair to say they've hit their, but like they're also one of the top offenses in the league. I would not say his ass. That's, that's harsh.

Is he winning this? Oh, you're right. You're right.

That is harsh. Like he's a playoff quarterback. Is he closer to like Dak than Mahomes? Yes. Yes. Okay.

All right. You think they're winning a championship with him with his play in the post season and Dan Campbell gambling? Like how many more years of exciting offense do they have before they go?

Oh boy, we got to get rid of this guy. A year, two years. It could probably say two. Yeah. It could be a year. It could be things move quickly.

They do. The NFL's a wild place, Minnesota. They don't know what they have at their quarterback. Green Bay is trying to get their quarterback weapons. Chicago is trying to grow their quarterback from year one to year two. Tampa Bay.

I hate to say it. They're never winning anything with Baker Mayfield. They're a playoff team, nothing more, nothing less.

And then we got Atlanta. We don't know what the hell they got in Michael Pennix. I mean, he could just be an average ass quarterback. He could end up being one of the best in the league.

We have no idea. And we also know that Kirk Cousins is sitting right behind him on a depth chart. I was going to say ready to be a backup, but that's, that's not true at all.

A matter of fact, Ryan Morris, the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, he spoke to the media earlier today and he said, Kirk Cousins, I'm cool if he wants to be the backup, but I also understand he don't even want to be here. Listen to this. We get that we got to get to comfortable on who Kurt is and what he is a man, who is the human, who is his family, man, everything that he needs to us. Our relationship goes way deeper than just this year. It goes beyond that.

And there's things that we know that we can get past. If we have to, man, who wants to be with somebody who doesn't want to be with them, a loser. And yeah, the Falcons have to do it because of business reasons. They're the ones who made the decision to bring on Kirk Cousins and pay him and then draft Michael Pennix Jr. at eight.

But only a lame would stick around with somebody who doesn't want to be with them. The Falcons are lame. Carolina, we don't know what the hell they got going on with Bryce. New Orleans, they don't want Carr and Carr doesn't want them.

They're stuck together. Los Angeles Rams is sooner than later. Stafford's going to be gone. A Seattle Sam Donald. Good luck with that one. Arizona with their miniature quarterback.

Good luck there in San Francisco. They're going to be paying Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy, he may have to be, he may have to pay to bring in his own talent because he's going to be taking up a lot of their salary cap. Yeah, so there you have it. More than half the NFL. Just trying to figure out the quarterback position. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network, 888-710-4ISN.

That's 888-710-4ISN. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll go through a few things that took place this day in sports history. We're going to take a break. When we come back, the NFL is making some major moves as well on the schedule. And then speaking of the schedule, it's April Fool's Day. Tiger Woods thought he was funny. I'll tell you what he did.

We'll get into it on the other side. It's the JR Sportbreeze Show, the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR Sportbreeze. It is the JR Sportbreeze Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network.

It is April Fool's. Might as well hear from Mark Sanchez, right? I don't know. He's a Fox broadcaster right now. Mark Sanchez, not a joke. Very nice guy. Very funny guy. Very affable guy. Very warm guy.

Very kind guy. I guess on the New York Jets, Mark Sanchez, he was a joke. Here's something that's not a joke. And we all know this. The NFL wants money. That's what they want. The NFL wants cash. We learned today that the NFL is going to have a triple header on Christmas.

Just a couple of months ago, we saw a double header on Netflix. A lot of conversation as to whether or not the NFL was even going to get the job done, whether or not Netflix was able to successfully stream the two games that we got. We got the Chiefs, we got the Ravens.

Nobody wanted to eat that red velvet cake. And despite the fact that the NBA was going on, the NFL crushed the NBA in ratings. About 24 million people watched the Chiefs versus the Steelers and the Ravens versus the Texans. Those NBA games, I mean, 4 million people watched the Nuggets and the Suns barely.

Almost 8 million people watched the Lakers versus the Warriors. So the NFL basically tripled them when it came down to the ratings. And so now this upcoming year, because Christmas is going to fall on a Thursday, Hickey, did you know that?

I did. I did know that. Did you know that just because of the NFL or did you know that for another reason? I knew that just because the NFL actually looked it up just to make sure I said, oh, this triple header probably like Thanksgiving.

And so earlier today I found out it's a Thursday. Yeah, there it is. I was going to say I have no idea when Christmas is because I don't get anything. Get socks, OK? Nothing. If I'm lucky, I get socks, Hickey.

Lucky. That's not cool. That's not cool. I think I'd rather get can I produce energy with coal?

Right. Can I do something with it? I can't do anything with socks. I got enough socks. I don't have I don't have coal. What do you own? What could you use that is coal powered?

I'd find a usage, OK, here in Atlanta, I could go on here in Atlanta. I could go on the street and sell anything. I think I'd be better off selling coal than socks. Can I can I light it up? I can't light up the coal. And if you want lung cancer, sure, I can't go to the park and light it up, I guess, get a grill and make a burger. That's what you want to do for Christmas, bro. Why are you trying to get me black lung? I'm you're the one trying to do yourself. You're asking you're begging to light up some coal. What do you think I'm going to do?

Put it in the oven like and broil it. What do you think I'm doing here? I don't know. Put my put my head in the oven and hail it. Come on, man.

I don't know. I just I guess I've never thought about functional uses of coal for the everyday man. I go outside and do something with it, OK? If I can't use it or not, sell it. I sell coal better than I can sell some socks. I could tell you that.

No dispute. How much you how much are you selling socks on the street for? Five cents a pair. Well, I guess it depends who you're looking at, who you're selling to.

Oh, boy. There's some people on the street that could use some socks. I can sell coal here in Atlanta on the street for a good profit, OK? What do you think a hunk of coal is going for? Five dollars?

Depends on who you're talking to and what you tell them it is. OK, that. Well, OK. Now we're talking.

Now we're getting to some some profitable margins here. I'll get there. I'll get there.

We'll see. I'll ask for coal for Christmas and and see if it comes in and I'll figure out the what. You're the only person who ever asked for coal. I think, you know, I'm going to Hickey, I'm going to find a sweater. That's a good idea for the holidays. I'm going to wear the same holiday sweater.

Every party, every event that I go to. I want coal for Christmas. Now, that's something I bet you could be a hot seller. All right. I want coal for Christmas. Great conversation starter as well, right? That's true. I want coal for Christmas.

I'm going to try to remember that by the time the holidays roll around. Let's see if I market and sell it to J. Cole and he could sell those for a big profit. J. Cole doesn't put nothing cool on their clothes, do they? Nothing cool. No, like J. Cole, the singer.

Oh, oh, she's so she's so relevant and he's irrelevant. Hickey, you say J. Cole. Isn't that a store, right? Is it a fashion brand? Isn't it a store?

I think you're J. Crew. I was like, J. Cole doesn't sell cool clothes. They sell sweaters.

You got a good point. I like J. Crew. J. Crew has nice clothes. Not J. Cole though? I've never wore, what does he sell?

Hoodies, oversized hoodies out of eight times too big? I don't know. I don't know.

Do they still make any music? I mean, for as few fans, maybe still out there, they could buy one. For Christmas, it's Cole with a picture of his face. Oh, I heard he made a diss, well I didn't hear, I know he made a diss record last year and then retracted it. He said he didn't want to, he said, I don't want to be in the beef. I guess he didn't want to end up like, he wouldn't end up like Drake. What a smart man that guy was. Wow.

Yeah, I've never heard of her. What a rapper make a diss record and say, uh, nevermind. Homer Simpson walk in, okay, actually, I'm gonna get right out of here and walk right out. Yeah. And that was grandpa Simpson by the way. Oh grandpa, my apologies.

This is grandpa. Yeah, that was Homer. Marco, grandpa Simpson is Homer's dad, right? Homer, right? Yeah. Did we ever see Marge's parents?

Never, right? You see her mother. You see the sisters. You see the sisters all the time, but you do see the mother. Okay. Uh, select episodes.

Okay. I don't remember ever seeing Marge's dad and Homer's father is Abe. Yeah, Abe. Abraham.

Abraham Abe. Yeah. What a world. Anyway, the NFL is going to run their games. One game is going to be on Amazon. I guess that'll be the late night game and the other two games will be on Netflix.

So it'll be a streaming thanks. Well, the streaming Christmas for everybody and to the dismay of LeBron James who, uh, proclaimed the NBA belongs on Christmas. The NBA belongs for Christmas and the NFL said, LeBron, screw you. Remember this from ESPN. I love the NFL. I love the NFL, but Christmas is our day. Uh, sorry, LeBron. No, you might want to fight with Steven A. Smith, but you're not winning a fight, uh, with the NFL.

Good luck. It's the JR sport pre-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. When we come back, of course, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history.

And that is April fool's day. I'm going to tell you how tiger woods is. Well, tiger woods has a sense of humor.

I guess he does. I'm going to tell you what happened on the other side of the break. You were listening to the JR sport brief.

It is the JR sport pre-show here with you coast to coast on the infinity sports network. What a day, what a day, what a day NFL owners meetings and contract discussions and torpedo bats. I may have been watching baseball my whole life. I, I never heard of a damn torpedo bat. This is all new stuff. Torpedo bat. Like where's everybody been?

All we got to do is figure out a way to shift the bat around and move the wood from one spot to another. And then boom, here we go. Now it is April fool's day. And this is, uh, this is not a joke. This is pretty hilarious though.

Okay. I'll say this, all the Yank, well, not all the Yankees, jazz Chisholm Volpe. These guys are using these torpedo bats. All of a sudden they're launching home runs.

The Yankees, by the way, are losing right now to Arizona seven or four, but there's a lot of talk about, uh, you know, what's going on with the team. Now, one New York Yankee that we have yet to see this year is Giancarlo Stanton. He was using the torpedo bat last year. We haven't seen Giancarlo Stanton because his elbows hurt. They had baseball players swinging a bat, his elbows hurt, his elbows reportedly hurt last year.

He carried the Yankees through a point to a point through the post season. And of course, Giancarlo Stanton, he actually talked about some of his bad adjustments last month. And so now Giancarlo Stanton is saying that the torpedo bat isn't the reason that he got hurt and said, he says, you're not going to get a story that you're looking for.

So if that's what you guys want, that is not going to happen. He says his return is not close. He says that this situation with his elbows is unique, but the torpedo bat doesn't have anything to do with him being hurt.

Hickey, what do you say, man? I mean, I don't know, like I'm not a smart man, so I don't know much about physics and body mechanics. I have no idea how you could, how the thoughts even out there that this torpedo bat correlates with double elbow injury.

I don't know. I think he's just lifting too many weights. He needs to do more yoga with those models he hangs out with. And less tricep push downs.

I bet you that's what it is. I feel like that's very bad for your elbows. You think that's what he's doing in the gym?

Absolutely. He's ripped. You see those triceps?

And it got wild, yeah. He can't run the bases. I mean, I think he's too many muscles, right? Like who runs, what baseball player runs the bases and has to run slow because their calves are going to give out?

I forgot about that. Half jog at best. Yeah, he can't run. Like what is, is he a power lifter? Is he a baseball player? I don't know. He is fragile. Like we've seen, we have seen fat baseball players just have better, you know, physical endurance and stamina than him.

Bartolo cologne. Oh my God. I guess when you have less muscle, the body fat can absorb.

I don't know. Sometimes these guys pull muscles that I don't even have hickey. So, you know, who am I to say, but at least I can run if there's trouble, you know?

And you don't have to worry about getting up and hurting your elbows or hurting, pulling a hamstring as you're running away from trouble or just walking and going about life. Well, at least he's getting paid a lot of money. So I guess that's the, that's the other end. He's got to make it more like 35 million a year, 30 a year. But your body's with your rest of your life. Yeah, he's yeah, but so will the money unless he's an idiot, right? Also true. He'll be okay. Good for him. Good for him for making money. Bad for his elbows.

Okay. Let's just, let's go ahead and put it that way. It's speaking about people swinging things and always being hurt. Tiger Woods, ever the comedian. I didn't know he had a funny bone in his body. He decided to get on Twitter this morning and Tiger Woods tweeted this and CNBC fell for it. How about that? Tiger Woods says, I can't believe I'm saying this, but a few weeks after rupturing my left Achilles, the sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, plus the explosive lifts, my doctors and trainers, they have me ready to play the masters next week.

Can't wait to see all on the course. CNBC actually mentioned this briefly before going, Oh crap, this is a, this is a joke. I immediately read it. I didn't even think about it being April fool's day.

I'm said, this is, this is not true. And then I said, it's April fool's day. Like I didn't know Tiger Woods was funny. I know he was kind of goofy. I know last week, Tiger Woods decided to put out an entire statement saying, Hey, I'm dating, uh, uh, Donald Trump's son's ex wife.

And he put up photos and asked for privacy. I knew that that was stupid. I didn't know, uh, Tiger Woods was, uh, was funny. That wasn't all that funny though either. Anyway, Hickey, were you amused by that?

No. And like what idiot and you just highlighted CNBC, what he did is falling for it. I guess the Achilles and now three weeks later is going to be back. I mean, you got to factor in his knees, his back. Good point. His ankle, everything but his triceps.

I'm sure at some point in time he needed that worked on too. Yeah, I don't. Oh, I don't know.

That wasn't funny to me. Tiger Woods is just, you know, I feel bad for him a little bit Hickey. Not that, you know, he's financially stable. He's one of these, these celebrities that has never really lived a normal life.

You know what I'm saying? He missed out on, on being normal. Yes, he did.

I wonder if you could tell him, hey, if you could go back, would you change anything? I, well, outside of the, maybe the obvious, I bet you he would say no. No, I don't.

Yeah. I don't, I don't think so either. He's rich, he's wealthy. He's just, doesn't know what it means to be a normal human. I mean, outside of maybe when he was a kid, but even at that, he just played golf, right? And he burst out of the scene at what, 16?

Like people started knowing his name. Hickey, let me ask you this, like you and I have friends. Do you think he has grown up with like a real friend outside of some rich guy that he befriended through golf or what? Do you think he has like an organic friendship from, Hey, yeah, that's my friend from XY.

You don't, I bet you don't even have a real friend in that regard. You're probably right. Yeah.

Like, I mean, outside of just maybe early on the golf course, like when you're young as a teenager, you're playing all these tournaments or maybe some someone, but I'm sure that's also their, your competition. I, yeah, I would probably say no. Yeah. That's why we get stupid jokes like this and poor guy and whatever. I hope he finds some, something positive in life. Maybe this is the one, maybe he'll be with her forever.

And good luck to, uh, Tiger Woods, the woman that he publicly shared with the world and then asked for privacy. Uh, anyway, today is April Fools. It's April 1st, 2025.

This is no joke. It's time for a few things that took place this day in sports history. It's time for this day in sports history. We had radio and you couldn't see anything and it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR sport brief show.

I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. April 1st, the year is 1991. Duke beat Kansas to win its first ever national championship. They beat them 72 to 65. I want you to take a listen to this final call courtesy of CBS and it's Duke's basketball. And there it is. The first time I've seen Mike Krzyzewski smile, he knows he has that monkey off his back. Final seconds. It doesn't matter. Duke has won its first national championship.

Yeah, you heard that correctly. Coach K, he smiled for the first time ever in his entire life. Maybe Coach K needed a friend.

April 1st, the year is 2002. Maryland. Oh, they got a new coach now, by the way.

After that last coach said, Willard said, I'm the hell up on out of here. Maryland won its first ever national championship beating Indiana in 64 to 52. This is Juan Dixon and Steve Blake.

I want you to listen to this. This is Gary Williams talking about the emotions after winning his first championship. This is also on CBS.

It's a great feeling. A lot of people involved, a lot of former players, a lot of assistant coaches and the administration has to make that decision to allow us to be good enough. Their new head coach is Buzz Williams. Hopefully he doesn't complain and whine and leave like Kevin Willard did. They were there trying to win another one, but now the team's been blown to hell. The coach left anyway. Good luck to Derek Queen in the NBA.

April 1st, 2018. Oh, I remember this, this basketball game. This is one of the best endings I've ever seen to a basketball game anywhere, anytime, period, men or women.

Arika Gumbawale, now on the Dallas Wings. She had a game winner for Notre Dame. They beat Mississippi State and Notre Dame won the NCAA March Madness Women's National Championship on a game winning three. This shot, this game was absolutely crazy. Notre Dame won 61 to 58.

Hey, listen to this courtesy of ESPN. Three seconds for a national championship or overtime. Gumbawale wins the national championship for Notre Dame. That ending was just bananas. I remember watching that game. I don't know what the heck I was doing or where I was, but I was watching. I'm like, man, this is, this is a crazy ending. Gumbawale, for whatever reason, she can't make Team USA basketball, but I don't know.

They didn't let Kaitlyn Clark on either. Yeah, and those were a few things that took place this day in sports history. It's April 1st, 2025. Heck yeah, I made it. The day's not over. I made it the whole day without being duped, without being flim-flammed. The whole day. That's good.

That's very good. And Tiger Woods didn't get me. I don't know. Maybe it's my lack of a fun interaction with humans. I feel like when I was in school, which is a long time ago, I feel like all day people just said dumb things.

You know, not today. Nothing is fun about this point in life. Everything is serious. Agreed.

Yeah, it is a little depressing, but you're right. It's days like this I've come to hate. Why? What do you mean?

Why? Because it like, I don't need to be, I don't want to be tricked. I don't need a day that gives everyone the green light to just say, what can I say that's just going to really fool someone?

Cause I've gotten fooled in the past. Like what you mean? Like what? I can't remember exactly like a certain like piece of news, but like, let's just say something like Tiger Woods-esque. And I'm coming back like, this is, you know, great. And I'm just like, I would not even realize what day it is on Twitter. Oh my God, this is huge news.

And then it's like, oh wait, it's April fools. You got hit by like ball sack sports or something like that. Yes, exactly. They've not been around in a while, by the way. Hopefully they're doing okay. No, I thought they came back.

I thought they were gone for like one day and then they came back. Or was that, no, that was NBA sent out. Yes. The sental. A sental. Yeah.

Whatever you say. Not central. Yeah.

Sental. Not, not central. Yeah. Well now I got something to Google and we get off here. I'm going to look, yeah, good for me. I'm going to go on X and search ball sack sports.

Hopefully things end up okay for me on that end. Okay. Hey, a big shout out to Garrett Poldell for joining us from CBS Sports to talk about these crazy NFL owners and their meetings. We'll be back tomorrow, 6 PM Eastern, 3 Pacific.

And of course, I'll be bringing you a new top six list. You can find me everywhere at JR Sport Brief. Don't move here on the infinity sports network. We might be done, but Bart Winkler is coming up next. Thank you so much for listening. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you to Ryan Hickey.