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Earlier on the show. Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner. Bears wide receiver Romo Du. Coming up. Dancing with the stars host.
Alfonso Ribero. And now. It's Rich Isen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Great chat in our green room with one of our favorites, Alfonso Ribeiro, is back here.
As always, just as cheerful as ever, without a doubt, hiding deep, deep down. His disappointment that he's not on a golf course right now. All right. But other than that, just delightful to chat with him, America's funniest home videos, and dancing with the stars. To, I one would say, legendary tent poll shows to host for Disney.
He's in our green room. We'll chat with him shortly when he comes on out here. I've got a top five list to hit in short order. Already had my power rankings. Already had a chat with Kurt Warner.
Already just chatted with Roma Dunze. Also chatted with an 11-year-old from Iowa on his way to Chicago to go to game two of the wild card game for his Cubs. He's never been there. Fourth row, too, in the outfield. And he called in to say: if I get a home run ball, do I throw it back?
I'm going to put up a poll. Because that, well, I mean, that is, as you know, tradition. There's a caveat. If it's the home run ball from the. From the opposition, yeah, and I guess his father said, Um, if it's Tatis, you keep it, yeah, there's a you know.
There's a caveat. I guess so. I mean, wouldn't that be also. Right. And if it's Machado, try and throw it to the infield.
Right. Is that what it is? See? Or maybe you just, you know. You catch one from uh PCA and it's all good in the hood.
You keep it. You keep it. Yeah. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. Dave in Brooklyn, let's take Dave's phone call.
What's up, Dave? How are you, sir?
Well, Rich, as we are on the eve of the Day of Judgment, Yom Kippur, shanatovatiyu. Same to you, sir. I have to kind of Mayakopa myself, where I spoke to you after the First game of the jet season and said, oh, silver lining. Maybe it won't be that bad. And I apologize to you and everybody who heard the call.
That it is So bad. And I really feel bad for Aaron Glenn because I think his hair has gotten Break. almost white. Not even gray. I think gray would be a nice thing, but that beard is going to like shrivel and fall off.
His face of the frustration when you can't win with penalties. You touched on it yesterday. You can't win. where Garrett Wilson is covered up. And just wondering like Is this a rip?
The bandaid off type thing dissolved the whole team. And Glenn really needs to find his quarterback because no fields has shown brilliance. It's still missing a lot of things. He's got to find his people, Dave. You know, obviously, he inherited a team.
and he's got to find his people. Like I said yesterday, it's a very simple question. Do you want to play for this guy? Do you want to play for this guy in the New York metropolitan area or not? It's a very simple question.
And if you do, then you got to focus more because that's what some of these penalties are about. Practice better, play better. And it's that simple because at some point, You'll get caught. You'll and In terms of how bad it is, if Glenn goes 0-5. He'll be the first New York Jet coach to ever start 0-5.
Dave. But Tony Dungy started 0-5. I think Glenn actually mentioned that from his podium today, that he's reached out to Dungy. Um The guy whose staff he just came from And it's kind of crazy that you look at the Lions and it's just like. How many we didn't grow up in a world where everybody wants to be like the lions, um, but but Dan Campbell, Dan Campbell, and Aaron Glenn with Dan Campbell started 0-10.
And no one's talking about Owen 10 to Detroit anymore right now. Can the Jets make those cuts, though? I don't know. Can the Jets give him the power to? To cut the guy than cut the dead woman.
They have no choice. Again, you saw. That fumble, that's where the game went of like, you got to hang out of the football. That's fundamentals of like, if the Jets, if Woody gives them the, because Woody's back, if Woody gives them the tools and say, you can make those cuts, it'll be the first time the Jets actually have some, I guess, Detroit Campbell Moxie to, you know, get off the knees to make those things happen where we haven't seen that in a while. Dave, he does, like, again, and thanks for the call, Dave.
I appreciate it. And happy new year to you too. Um May you be etched in the book of life. Hmm. I like that, Rich.
Although mine is up in the air because, you know, I'll be working tomorrow. How do you s Work on Yom Kippur with your in-studio guest, Charlie Sheen. But that said, Yeah. Um Listen. If they keep making these Mistakes.
Aaron Glenn's going to have no choice but to start cutting people. You know what I mean? Like, what else are you going to do? What else is there? Right now, he's doing the right thing, which is: I believe in the guys.
They're my guys. We just got to go back to work and do and do better. But I don't want to speak for the guy. I mean, he'll speak for himself. And in the meantime, if he's reaching out to Tony Dungy, that's not a bad resource.
No. But again, Dan Campbell started. Oh, they were 0-10. How many people in Detroit are talking about 0-10 right now? Full Bluetarski.
I forgot that. 0.0. Look it up. I don't think I'm wrong about it. Dan Campbell's talking about.
I'm here biting kneecaps, and we're going to take it out. And then, when we're done doing that, we're going to do, you know. More Hannibal Lecter stuff, and everyone's like, okay, bud. We're going to have a great day today. You know?
That's what he's saying now. Not anymore. I'm thinking he could be coach of the year for good reason. I wish they were O10 and 1. 010 and 1?
Wow.
Okay. 2021, yeah, they were 313 and 1 that year.
So Jets are maybe halfway to that. Tied the Steelers. They got too many talented guys. I am confident that. You know, they'll do their best to figure it out.
844-204-Rich is the number to dial. Disney Plus ESPN. The app you can get everywhere as well as ESPN Radio, presented by Progressive Insurance. I've got my top five most disappointing teams. We do this every year.
As you know, I always look glass half-fold. Every now and then I just say, you know what, this is not going well, and this is a disappointment. based on the record at the Quarter post-mark of an NFL season. There's still time to turn it around. Turn that frown upside down.
Take a look at that glass and say, you know what, it's half full. Higher register is tomorrow. You know what? Maybe I will be in the book of life. Oh.
All right. It's a top five most disappointing teams of the season. We do this every year at this point of the season. And it's presented by Hyundai. High five.
One, two, three, four, five. Riches, top five. All right, you've got 0-4 teams in New Orleans, but I think a lot of people expected that. An 0-4 team in Tennessee, they were first on the clock. But I am putting the Jets at five, being a disappointing 0-4, certainly based off of what.
The Jets put on film and put out there for everybody to take in week one to take in. Aaron Rodgers coming back and You know, almost pulling that thing out. Would they be having a different record now? I don't know. I mean the Bills still came in in week two and beat them up to the point where Tarod Taylor started in Tampa.
And then we all know what happened there with a chance to... You know, win that game, but they lost at the very end as well.
So they can look at this and say, we should be better than 0-4. And I think they've got a roster much more talented than that with a coach who knows what he's doing. But I have to put them five on the list. Number four on this list is a team that I was talking about being a sleeper team going into the season. Whenever you finish a campaign, uh on an offswing And you seemingly draft well, it gives you an opportunity to start faster the next year.
And the Carolina Panthers are disappointing in that regard. You know, certainly after they shut out Atlanta. In week three, they start 0-2. They're like, we're not starting 0-3. And as a matter of fact, the only 0 is going to be on the visitor's scoreboard.
And then they give up 41 to the f- Patriots the next week. Um And they're one and three, and you're now wondering if Bryce Young is the guy anymore again. And now Carolina's taking on Miami at home. I mean, this is it. Like You've got to have taken Miami when they just lost Tyreek Hill.
And you just lost the way that you did. But the last time and only other time, by the way, that you've been home. You haven't given up a point.
So now you need to make a point. And at one and three, I'm a little disappointed. I thought they'd be showing out a little better. If not having a better record, number three is the aforementioned Miami Dolphins. You know?
The Jets turned it over. three times and had 13 penalties. Three lost fumbles and 13 penalties. And had they gotten an onside kick. Had they had Braylon Allen not fumbled the ball going in.
But no mother defense made a play, so you've got to give them credit for making a play at the end and not breaking. Despite bending like Gumby. Wasn't that their first forced turnover of the year, too, for Miami? It's just been a brutal start. We all know.
And now, you know, Tyreek's out. That's a disappointment as well. Um So not all of this is their own doing for disappointment. I'm disappointed for everyone there. One and three, but They do have again Carolina next up.
And then they're home for the Chargers. Maybe they catch the Chargers in a way that the Giants just did. and get back in the mix. Number two on this list. I don't know how much more disappointing you can get than the Ravens starting one and three.
Right. And being as banged up as they are, I'm disappointed for them now. Lamar being out for two weeks. This is not what we're. I mean, you chose him to make the Super Bowl, and you're not alone.
I look great after three quarters of week one.
Well, three and a half. Yeah. Look great. And, you know, offensively they've been sputtering a bit.
Now Lamar is out.
So they could turn it around by saying, We are talented, we're well coached, we still have some great. People in the locker room, but it's a tough go of it. But number one, the most disappointing team. And I understand that they have a better they're not 0-4, but. Man, the Houston Texans just don't look right.
They don't look right, and I understand Stroud just had a game in which he was efficient with a passer rating north of 125. And You know. I'm still waiting for Nico Collins to come up with that monster game with two touchdowns involved and just not doing it. I mean We're still waiting on Tank Dell. Kid Higgins had a touchdown.
That's good. Nope. Christian Kirk was hurt to begin with. Offensive line couldn't protect Stroud worth a damn. in the first three weeks.
of the season defensively. They've been performing well. But one and three, and being two games behind the Colts. After four weeks, is certainly not it. Um And so far, the Texans have kind of surprised me at being as...
mediocre as they've looked. to be straight up. Great. They're number one of the most disappointing teams so far. We have one more.
I did not know this. Mm-hmm. You are surprised about a lot of the money. I can't believe it. One more?
Do you think we need one more? Clooney and Cooper. It's a duel. What a classic combination. He likes the Clooney one.
I'm disappointed for this team more than any than in them. I'm putting the Bengals here at 2-2. I mean, Burrow going down at the end of week two, and they'll be out for. Maybe the whole damn season, the offensive line is just... 100%.
Got to be hearing it in film sessions. Got to be hearing it walking around the streets of the Queen City. Got to be hearing it every single time they turn on a television set right now. Burrow hurt again. Jake Browning can't stand, you know.
Stand tall in the pocket. And when he does, you know, as Jordan Palmer points out, He doesn't miss. But as he also pointed out, You're you're not. Having a clean pocket every time. And so Um Jamar Chase is disappointed.
The offensive line is disappointing. The defense has been torched the last two games when that's supposed to be better. They're still two and two, but. I'm disappointed for them more than disappointed in them. But that may change.
Over the next few weeks. And that's my top. Five most disappointing teams list. Right here. Are you gonna have like fantasy owners of any Bengals player?
Well, I mean, we could do that as well. Let's go to Isaiah and Fresno before we bring Alfonso Ribeiro out here. What's up, Isaiah? You there, Isaiah? Oh, I'm this London.
Okay. We'll give you one last chance. Isaiah and Fresno. Put them back on home. David and Fresno.
Let's see if it's a Fresno thing. No? How you doing? I'm just glad Fresno can hear us. What I mean.
What's up, David? I can hear you. I have a solution for the um field goal, you know, like a field goal shootout. Oh, for overtime, you're saying field goal. Shoot it.
Love it. Love it. I'm in. All right, let me bite here. David, so is there a rush on the field goal?
Yes, yes.
Okay. So we start out like a regular on the like an extra point where and we just had ten ten yards If whoever misses you know, is out. Whoever keeps winning, you know, making it. Can you imagine you have just given your heart and soul to this game? You are just.
left it all on the field and now it's up to a kicker. To kick the ball. And I'm a big Dallas Cowboy fan, so we have the best kicker. Yeah, no one you're like, okay, great. It's not just that.
Thank you, David. Thanks for the call. It's the line. It's the holder. It's not just the kicker.
No, but still, it comes down to once if the operation goes well, somebody has to swing their leg through and make the kick. Take it a step further. They should have to call their shot, like name that tune. Uh I'll start at 53 yards. Yep.
And the next guy goes, what, 55? Oh, so like horse? 57. Like horse where it's just like a trick, a trick kick? No, no, no, no, no, they're just calling the shadow.
It's crazy. Then let's look at it this way: what if they've got to pick what pole to hit? You got to hit one of the two pole. Come up right now. Oh, you want a doink?
You want a doink something? These are better ideas than ties. You can't get frogs more than kicks. Anything's better than a tie. Ties are stupid.
You have to hit the right upright bar. I like for it to count. You got to hit the left. Remember, Corolla had the Adam Pole? Right down the middle.
Right down the middle. Maybe you lift that pawn. It's so stupid. Play five more minutes. Play five more minutes.
And then what? And then have a tie.
Well, it's still a tie though. Yeah, but it's still a tie. Five minutes, a tie is a tie. Ties are not to eliminate a tie. I understand you want to eliminate a tie, but.
I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you have seven on seven. Just like you take guys off the ice. Like you take guys off the ice in hockey. Eventually it should be three on three.
Three on three. Three on three. Three on three. Quarterback or wide receiver. It's just so stupid.
Give me five more minutes and see how it works, and then we'll figure it out. What's five minutes? Give you two more possessions. For you to score more possessions? I don't know.
For you to score. You still owe me a time, man. I like our ideas, but with five.
Okay. That's three out of three. I love three. How about cool fans out there? Right.
Fans from each team have to black. Let's do that. Let's see if we can get a minotaur and a bearded lady. Get out of here. You guys are, it's absurd.
Yeah, the tie is absurd. Kicking contests than a tie. All right. 844-204 rich is the number. Let's bring Alfonso Rivero out here.
He said it's nonsense. He doesn't like his nonsense. He's not going to like ties. Yeah. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast.
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On ESPN, the app everywhere, and ESPN Radio, which is presented by Progressive Insurance. America's funniest home videos and dancing with the stars, hosted by the same man, Alfonso Ribeiro, here on the program. Dude, you know. Were these shows on the air? When you were In Bel Air.
Well, I'm just trying to put everything together like a half a year before Fresh Prince. Dude, so it has continued throughout, right? Amazing, right? And this is my 11th season as host.
Now, obviously, Dancing with the Stars was much later. We're in season 34, but they also had two seasons a year for many years.
So we are having our 20th this season.
So it's the 20th year of the show. And it's incredible to think that these shows have been around this long. And right now, Dancing with the Stars is the most watched show on television. In all of network television, which is incredible to think about, that it has had such a surge in popularity. Our votes, the engagement is what's truly amazing, where You know, we used to have somewhere between five and seven million votes during the show.
Last night, we had 39 million votes. Dude, right?
So to think about the engagement of our audience and what they've come up to is. It's unheard of. They just, you know, television, as we all know, in terms of the networks, are you know, slowly every year, you know you're going to get a six to eight percent drop in your audience. We've doubled our audience in the last three years.
So it's phenomenal. We've got a great cast. The producers, Conrad Green, our executive producer, is incredible. I've got an incredible co-host and Julianne Huff. And together, I think we just make great television.
Baron Davis, for the sports fans, is out there dancing right now. Is he surviving? He's not there no more. Oh, I'm sorry, I must have missed that. He went after the first cut.
He was the first cut. Yeah, which stunk. Because he returned. He was doing really well. He was doing really well.
And, you know, this is a very different season. We've got so many dancers that are really good dancers that normally that's not the case. You have like a few good and a few bad and some in between. We've got so many good ones that if you make one mistake. It's over.
It's hard to come back from it because, you know, there's too many really great dancers. It was sad to see him go. And last night we had Lauren Horregi from Fifth Harmony. And I mean, you know, the internet is in an uproar. We were all absolutely shocked last night that she was eliminated.
So Corey Feldman outlasted Baron Davis? They were together. They were together. Okay, so they went together. They went together.
We had a double elimination the second week.
So, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, listen, Baron, we love you. We miss you. And we, you know, whenever you want to come back, I have seats. If you can't call the producers, I can get you in.
I know somebody. I can get you in. And no, I'm just playing. But like, ultimately, he was, he was really great. But even he said it, right?
Like, he hadn't been off the couch in a while, right? And, you know, this season, especially, I mean, people were in shape. People were coming. People were bringing it, right? We've got a lot of people who were dancers and Baron.
Aaron was starting at ground zero. And it's always harder if you're taller, right? Height difference makes a difference in your dancing. No doubt. Um so What season were you on as a contestant?
I was season 19. Season 19. Season 19. Okay, so you being on as a contestant, I was thinking about this. When you were involved with the same karaoke competition I was involved in at the American Century Championship, and you stepped up there, and I'm like, this is not fair.
It's not fair. No, no, no. It's definitely not fair. You're an entertainer. Please, please tell me why what I did wasn't fair.
Because the fact that you're involved in the same competition as I was singing is not fair. Let me ask you this question. Two grown men doing what we do. Hold on a second. Who else had an actual paying gig for this sort of thing later on that night?
In Tahoe after the American Century Championship karaoke. Who had a paying gig that week? I mean, listen for this sort of thing. Who did? Not me.
But that's that. You were new. This guy. They didn't know what you agree with. They didn't even earn American dollars to watch you entertain them.
No, they didn't actually give me real money. They didn't give me real money. They gave me chips. They gave me chips. They gave me chips to spend in the casino.
We spent those changes. Did you spent them to maybe enhance them? We spent. We spent and it enhanced because you know I got skills, right? Just like on the floor dancing and singing, you know, when I go to a table, I very rarely lose.
That's because I, you know, I probably about to say something I really shouldn't say, right? Because, and I always do this to myself when I come on here. Yes. But like, I had a TV show called Catch 21, right? Which was a game show.
My watch that was involved, kind of, it's basically blackjack. Yes, indeed. Right?
So you have an ability to recognize where you are. In the game, based on the cards that have already been dealt.
So, did one catch 21 or did one not catch 12? We caught some 21s and we caught some, you know, some some double face cards, and we and we also hit on some 14s when we knew the odds might have changed in our favor. I'm not necessarily counting, I'm just recognizing what is happening.
So Next year they probably won't give me chips. The Rainman of the American Century Championship. Who would have known? Just saying, I just see the cards when they come in. What, you know, there's a rhythm, you know, it's almost, it's like dancing, right?
It's like dancing. You know, there's a ooh, there's a six. Ooh, there's a five. That was supposed to be for the dealer to make his blackjack, right? But no, I got it.
And I, ooh, I threw down, I accepted one because I wanted to take a loss because I knew it would disrupt the flow. There's things that you can do. In the world of playing cards in a casino, because I wasn't gambling, it wasn't my money. Understood. I'll thought through a barrel here.
A round of applause for that. A deflection at the very end of the day of the fact that you have no business being in an amateur Karaoke contests with people with the Chelsea's. No, you did not. You did not.
Now, it was a pity win. They did a pity win this year. Rand Romano. Rand Romano was Facebook. He did Eminem, right, didn't he?
Yeah, yeah. I mean, like. Listen. Ray. He's out his lane.
That's not. If you give him a mic with jokes, you can kill it, right? But singing and dancing, and that's not, but this year they were like, you know what, we want to do because every year, this will be real for a second. Every year I do it, it comes down to Travis Kelsey and myself, right?
So we almost go back and forth every year. And every year I say that's not fair, right? Just like you're saying it's not fair. I say it's not fair because American Century is in Kansas City.
So now they're all, the people voting are from Kansas City, and they get Travis Kelsey to come on the stage and perform without hitting a proper note once. Yeah. What do you sing, Alfonso? What do you sing? I sing different.
I try to mix it up, right?
So I'll do some Billie Gene with Michael Jackson. This year, I did Chris Stapleton, Tennessee Whiskey. It's great. And I'm sitting there waiting for my name to be called. I'm like.
This is not right. No, you gotta sign up. You gotta sign up. I did sign up. I did, and I went up there and I crushed New York, New York.
I mean, I would crush it. Crushed New York, excuse me, crushed it to the point where Ray Romano strolled up on the stage. I handed him the microphone. He goes, I gotta follow that. And then he went in and won it.
He followed it. He followed it. He did. I wouldn't say crush, but I would say he did it. It happened.
It was there. He did it, and it happened. By the way, that's a much better way to describe my golf. It did happen. I did it, and it happened.
It's a much more accurate way of describing my golf game at the end of the day. It's a way to find the positive in things that typically have a dash before it. A dash before it. That's funny. I was T-88.
There was a dash in there. You did tell me when I saw you and prior to the event, like you're like, you're going to love it here. And it was unbelievable. It is just the best event. I mean, the American Century Championship is the winner.
It is just the best tournament every year that we get to do. Orlando, the LPGA Tournament of Champions, the Hilton Grand Vacation Tournament of Champions, is also a great event. And it's great because it's like they're six months apart.
So you get one in January, you get one in July, and they're a lot of fun. But the American Century being up in Tahoe is just an incredible event that we get to like. Enjoy golf with the fans, playing a great golf course with an incredible lake, great events. Every night. It's actually spectacular.
And they put on a great event. And I couldn't be more proud that I get to do it every year.
So I don't know if anybody, but I actually got engaged in Lake Tahoe the week of the event. This is obviously many years ago. And most people give me a lot of credit for this because what I did was I was like, okay. My wife is not truly into golf. How am I going to keep her wanting to go to Lake Tahoe every year for this event and not be like, It's our summer, we should go to X, Y, and Z?
I'm like, She's gonna want to go to Lake Tahoe because we have to celebrate our anniversary at the place that we got engaged. It's very important. These are very important things that you have to do in your life to recognize how to get what you want and make sure that the people around you are also getting what they want. Yes, it's a, you know, I'm deeper than this, I'm deeper. I go next level sometimes, yes, and that's the way.
Through all love. She learns how to split eights against a four. If that comes up, if it happens at the right time. I'm just saying, right? I mean, I didn't host Catch 21.
I'm just assuming that, but I saw what you were throwing out and I was catching it. I was catching what she was throwing. Alfonso Ribeiro here on the Rich Hisen Show. You're a cowboy fan? Is that true?
I am a cowboy fan.
So I was a Jet fan growing up in New York. And Jets played each other this week, by the way. And I'm excited to root for neither. But because I, you know, we're both going to lose. Let's just be real.
Even whoever wins still loses in this world of these two teams. Because growing up, you know, back in the day, if you were a Jet fan in New York, to be able to watch the games on TV, they had to be sold out. That's right. Otherwise, they'd be black shout out to the channel. Right now black shout out.
So they were never on TV. Ever. You never got to watch the Jets in the 70s.
So I. I was like, all right, well, I still want to watch football, so I would put on whatever the other team was. And of course, The Cowboys were always on. And I was like, well, I can't like the Giants. They're up against the Giants.
I got to go for the Cowboys. This is perfect, right?
So I became a Cowboy fan. And the funny story is, my wife used to work for the owner of the New York Giants. And she was her, she was the titches. And so she was his flight attendant. And so she would take me to games every once in a while, and I would be in the owner's box.
Clearly, a Cowboy fan, hating on the Giants, and I used to call it Opposite Day, right? Where I had to display whatever I felt in the opposite way.
So every time the Cowboys did something great, I'm like, oh, back. Dang it. And then, like, you know, the judge knew something well, and then, you know, and yeah, I'd be like, ooh, and I didn't do it. But it was the opposite day. And then Steve came over and he said, um, You know, I have to admit this, I'm really enjoying watching, but Angela told me that you're a Cowboy fan.
Shoes. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool.
So, go, boys. The real cowboy fan in the room is not having an opposite reaction. You're just showing your utter disdain for this entire subject matter, TJ, correct? I get it because I think I told you guys once. I once sat in the Chargers box down in San Diego as a guest of the Hispanos, and I was told beforehand: like, you cannot charge.
For the Cowboys.
So I literally just sat. I clapped for good football. But outside, it's like, is that what it was? That's how we do it. But the second the game was over, we won, and I got in the, you know, in the little thoroughfare.
Oh, man. You was enjoying yourself. I had three hours of obnoxiousness that I just let out. I had to let it out. Yeah.
I understand. I understand. But yeah, but this season is an absolute, absolute mess. We've got a great offense, but it's a mess. You know, at the end of the day, like I always like to say I'm a real Cowboy fan, not one of those delusional Cowboy fans, right?
Where I understand that just no matter how bad your team is, you still think they're the greatest team in the world. No, no, no. I'm realistic, right? We keep doing it wrong. Yes.
Right?
Like, hey, we can pay Dak a lot less money if we pay him a year or two early. Nah, let's make him the number one quarterback, highest paid quarterback in the league, and let's wait to the last possible minute when he's got us, you know, by a shotgun firing. And nope, we're going to pay him everything. Let's give CD everything at the end. If we could pay him less or earlier and build an offensive line, why do that when we can wait till the last minute to pay him then?
And then, hey, we've got our greatest defensive player that has probably ever played the game. Since you are here in support of Dancing with the Stars, as well as obviously America's funniest home videos. What about Instead of a tie in a game, at the end of Overtime. Right. There's a dance contest.
Hey, I'm down. I'm down. I don't mean. Let's get you involved here. I don't know if any of the Cowboys can actually dance.
Watch what I'm saying is that. As we know, uh Amit And it Well, if we're talking about former winners, former players. I'm just saying is that football players have won the. The trophy. They've won the ball.
Yeah, okay. Heinz Ward. There's been a few. There's been a few. And never forget the moment on NFL Network.
when I had Jerry Rice and Emmett Smith at a Pro Bowl. And I had to throw it a break and continue the conversation on the other side. I said, when we come back. We'll talk about dancing with the stars with one person who won it. And another one who did not.
Yes, yes.
I'm sure that went over. In the four minutes it took to come back, Jerry Rice stared 15 holes through me. I looked like a cheesehead during that commercial break. And he was pissed. Yes, he was.
Yes, he was. He felt like he should have won his season.
So, which NFL player that's currently in the league, if you could choose. Doesn't have to be, you have to know if they could dance or not. You just want to see them. And it could be a big man dance challenge, which used to be an NFL network commercial, which was very popular back in the day. I mean, obviously, you know.
The Kelsey's Would be fun. Right. Okay. But but not Travis. But she wants Ed?
Do you want his dad? Donna? No, no, no. But like last season would have been great. I mean, I don't know.
I don't know who, you know, obviously we've had a lot of, you know, wide. I think, listen, I would just say my buddy. I would say, let's see Aaron Rodgers have to actually, it should be a quarterback thing where it's just the quarterbacks having to go, because you know, they put it all on the quarterbacks anyway, whether they win or lose, they put it on the quarterbacks. Let's just make the quarterbacks have to dance. At the end.
Yeah, I mean, listen, I don't think the rest of the world will go for this, but I think you and I in this room today think it's a great idea.
Well, you know, NFL teams, they would have their third inactive quarterback dressed for the game just for his dancing ability. Absolutely. That comes down to Todd. Because the Giants aren't very good, they would have Maxim Shmierkovsky be, you know, since he's a New Yorker, they need fit on the jersey. You know, they got to double it up.
They got to double it up. It's really tiny letters. There's really tiny letters across. But you'd put Maxim Shmirkovsky on there as the third-string quarterback. All of a sudden, why is he on the Giants roster?
Yeah, yeah, he could throw a ball. Maybe. What if it was, since we love the big man, what if it's the heaviest players, the two heaviest players on the team?
Now they've got to go out. It would be fun. I thought, right. It would have comedy written all over it. There you go.
Then, see, this works perfect. Then we just air it on AFV. America's Funniest Home Videos, season 36, premiered this past Sunday. You can catch it on ABC 7 Eastern Time every Sunday. And new episodes of Dancing with the Stars air Tuesdays, 8 Eastern on both ABC and Disney Plus.
And both America's Funniest Home Videos and Dancing with the Stars can be streamed the next day on Hulu. Bringing all of Disney's families of networks together, Alfonso Ribeiro. Absolutely. We're going to cut that piece where I talked about, we're going to cut it out. We'll cut it out.
Cut that junk out. All of Alfonso's takes on Micah Parsons will be removed. Like it never happened. Good to see you, sir. Good to see you.
You too, brother. You got it. That's Alfonso Ribeiro back here on the Rich Eisen Show to wrap up this Wednesday show in a moment. The Rich Heisen Show, the podcast. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show is one big happy simulcast.
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We are in our final segment of the simulcast with the Tigers and Guardians tied at one. Bottom seven, correct? It's getting really intense. Then first pitch of game two, the Cubs can close out the Padres or the Padres can force a third game in Wrigley. Bottom five.
Bottom five. Okay, thank you. It is also game. Two of Yankees Red Sox tonight. Red Sox can close out the Yanks, or we can get a third game forced for Thursday.
And the Reds are trying to force the third game here in Los Angeles on the Dodgers. That's how it's all working. in that respect. Um there's a um A video that's going on that won't work on the radio because Shadur Sanders is pantomiming his responses. Is that right?
Is that what's happening? Why are we even asking him questions? Listen. You know how it's working? I do, I know.
You know how it works? His last name is Sanders, and everyone's going up to the. Like, again, it... When Did anyone go up to Jameis when Jackson Dart got the gig? Not that I sucked that.
Or Right. Did anyone go up to the third stringer and ask them why is Carson Wentz getting it? You know what I mean? But it's different. It's different.
We all know how Shadur was born into this world and born into this league. Yeah. But it's also going to engender whether he's serious or not because he pantomimed his answers. You know, so to our radio audience, just know the silence you hear is him mouthing the words to his responses to the questions. Thank you uh you have to show So shout out to some coaches.
Having uh have that belief in you that you can be ready to work. What can you say?
Okay. I'm just saying. How much has Joe been important to both you and Dylan in terms of your guys' development to this point? Yeah. Okay, so he's mouthing the words and nothing's coming out.
Again. I I understand I'm I'm um In my mid fifties, And um I I I It's lost on me. Um if I'm I'm just going to say this as well. You're going to be surprised. Don't real Gs move in silence?
I'm serious. Like lasagna. I'm. Yeah, they do. Who was sitting next to him at the Heisman Trophy?
Hmm, who's the F baby?
Well wait. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I can raid it.
In his mouth at the end, he said, Joe's my guy. I did pick up on. No, but I guess I. Is he trying to be funny? I don't know.
It's not going to be helpful for people who are. Trying to tear them down, and it's not going to be helpful. If you want to be taken seriously in this league, it's not going to be helpful. It just won't. And even if he's trying to make a point that you're going to use words against me, you know, or whatever, you're still going to be criticized no matter what.
Aaron Rodgers is age 42. And he's going to be criticized if he doesn't make the playoffs. You know what I mean? It just comes part and parcel with the territory of being a quarterback in the NFL. You know Uh It's just not helpful for his calls.
Just isn't. But I just don't know. I'm just trying to read into it. Or Rich, you think maybe it's something like I'm the third stringer, like Chris said. Why are you talking to me?
But the reason why they're talking to him is because he's going to be next, one would think.
Well, he's not, though, unless he's the third stringer.
Well. He's still not number two, right? I understand that, but if Dylan Gabriel doesn't perform well, Or you're going to go back to Flacco? Or are you going to go to your other rookie? And I just, again, for those who are wondering, maybe he's not being.
Elevated to this status, yet it's because he's not taking it seriously and he's not learning or he's not doing this. And I would be stunned if that's the case. This gives off the impression he's not serious. But you know I root for him. They all do.
But I do know real G's move in silence. You're surprised that I knew that?
Well, I feel like I'm rubbing. Yeah, we're hanging out a lot these days. I don't, but I just don't. Oh, my God. I don't have a barn for you.
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