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Live from San Francisco, home of Super Bowl XXXI, it's the Rich Eisen Show. Earlier on the show, Steelers defensive tackle Cam Hayward. Coming up. Four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Grunkowski. Pro Football Hall of Famer Charles Woodson.
Comedian Frank Caliendo. Academy Award-winning actor Octavia Spencer. And now, Rich Eisen. I'm so glad you guys didn't make me pull that car over your behavior in the back seat. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show, live from San Francisco, California.
Super Bowl 60 Wednesday edition is on the air right here on Disney Plus, the ESPN app. We're also live on ESPN Radio as well as SiriusXM Channel 80. We appreciate everybody taking in this show on this very important Wednesday. Rob Gronkowski will be here in about 20 minutes' time. But, ladies and gentlemen, one of our favorites is back here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Frank Caliendo, everybody. I got to work on my Grok. I got to get a Grok, got a Grok, got a Grok going. Do you have that? I'm working on it.
Somewhere in there, isn't it? Just over-enunciate things you don't think are going to be over-enunciated. Never tried it before, but I thought that's kind of what it is, Rich. It's got the gold jacket for Robert Kraft. He deserves a gall jacket.
That's pretty good. It's not bad for first. Was that a first go? Probably second. Workshopping at Olympia?
Man, I've been on radio, Roma. I've been on radio. There's a lot of workshopping going on. There's a lot of. Is that the Peoria?
Before you show up here, you get a playout. I work a lot of stuff out. Is that the off-Broadway? I work a lot of stuff out. Way off-Broadway, Richard.
In the bowels of the convention center, and then you go off-site to the Rich Aisen show, man. Off-site. That's what I said. It's somewhere in there. I heard him say, that's why Robert Kraft deserves a gall jacket.
It's very good. It's getting close, but it's also a cartoon character, like a whole lot of lumps. It's like Pete Puma. Three or four. How many lumps?
That's what inside the coffee. Pete Puma. I haven't heard that no longer. Yeah, I'll get it. He's the Pete Puma.
It's in there. Yeah, it goes in and out. That's been happening because I've been working. Like some you can hit right away, some impressions I can hit right away, and some I can't. You know, the ones I've dedicated the memory, got the muscle pieces, those are easy to go in and out ever.
You know, those types of impressions. But I understand where you're coming from with some of these things. Those are the ones I can go in and out of, but when they're new, I was working on the Billy Bob over and over and over, and I lose it. I get in here, it's in here. I can't.
Now I did a bunch of other things. I know, it's tough, yeah, I know. I guess comprenda. Hey, I heard him say a thing about. How his kids think he sounds like Hank Hill.
My kids think I sound like Hank Hill. But, dude, you know, it's comprende. He said that. That sounds just like him. It's close enough, Rich.
Thank you. FrankAaliendo.com is how you could see Frank on stage. Hartford, Connecticut, Brookfield, Wisconsin. Grant, Oklahoma, and Salt Lake City, Utah are just some of the locales that you are headed to. Nobody knows where Grant is, including the people in Grant, but it's right outside of Dallas, like two hours outside of Dallas.
It's the Dallas market, man. What's the first I have been around to Grant, Oklahoma? They have some great people. In Grant, and Frank is performing at the Choctaw Casino.
Now, I believe. As the all-knowing power behind the Dallas Cowboys that I was probably the best actor on Landman. We talked about that with Aikman yesterday. Oh, did you really? Yeah, about that.
T-A. T-A-Man? Ta. Ta. Troy Aikman, the man.
Ta. That's what Jerry Brad's from. TA, T-A, Troy Aikman, got it. Tech away in here. We've got to be careful.
I know. I know. It's pretty cool. Frank, I guess the name of the player that Jerry traded at the beginning. The Green Bay Packer?
Yeah, it's not, I can't remember. Uh Micah. Micah. It that's how much Radio Roy's been doing, man. I could I Frank could not remember Maca.
But I, as soon as I get into character, understand That marker. Was a great player for us, but his time was over. The end. The end. What was the first Super Bowl you've been to?
Because you were at Fox back in the day. The first Super Bowl, you want to know about the first Super Bowl I went? The first Super Bowl I was at was at Jacksonville, and I got kicked out of it. What do you mean you got killed? Jake Lazer, Brawl.
You know, Jake Lazer, Fox Sports, Incredible Insider. You guys know what I'm talking about? Listen, you guys want to go work out later? I'm going to work out. On my way to work out, I'm going to work out.
I'm doing a bunch of workouts. You guys do work out? You guys work out? I got a gym where I work out. I was working out the rock.
I looked at the rock and said, you got to get bigger. You got to be stronger. You want to do that movie? He said, okay, whatever. It's so good.
I was supposed to be. Here's the thing, guys. You guys know what I'm saying? I was supposed to be Cassus Randman in the T-Man movie. Neither of us has a neck.
We're just. Calliander's looking for his bag. We actually built suits that go up to my ears. You guys want to work out? I'm working out.
I'm working out right out. Listen, I thought it'd be great, Rich, in the gift bag after the show. You should give out weights. You should give out weights. Sure, sure.
So he goes, Jay's great. Jay's fantastic. A very funny guy. I'm saying that now so he doesn't hurt me. But he's super nice, and he did one of the nicest things.
He tried to do one of the nicest things in the world, was to bring me down to the flyover at the beginning of the Super Bowl. It's like, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. You know, the planes fly over. I've never seen anything like it.
It's the most amazing thing in the entire world. We go down there, and an NFL. Security guard goes, What are you doing down here? And I was told by Fox at the time that I was working for them that I had, you know, my badge had green on it. Green means you can be on the field.
So I had a field pass to be down there, so I was legit. And Jay's like, Just go down there and say it's gonna be fantastic.
So they asked me, the security guard goes, Are you supposed to be here? And I said, Yeah, I got the green thing right here. Take a look at this. He's like, Yeah, but what are you doing? I was like, I'm just, and I was dumb.
I'm like, to be honest with you, I'm just hanging out with this guy. And he goes, that's it. And he takes, he's like, so you don't have anything to do out here? And I go, not really. He goes, so he takes the badge off of me.
And he's like, I get escorted out by other security. I look at Jay. He's like, sorry, I didn't know. I thought you probably should have said that. I should have told you you're supposed to be doing something.
If you're not doing something, you're not going to be here.
So I got kicked. They kicked me out. I was in Duval County. That was it. I was completely out of the stadium.
They escorted me out of the stadium, and I missed that whole Super Bowl. I had no idea. Get back in. I'm texting people. I don't know.
And that's an FBI-checked credential, right? Yeah, right. That's the most elite credential. You've been cleared, yeah.
So I had to wait until some security guard was hitting on some girl that was walking by. I did a scooby-doo walk by and like did a kind of a sneak off around the corner. Yeah. This is always like a scoob. Nobody saw it.
Rut-ro.
So I get back to Fox headquarters and they're like, where were you? And they like, kicked out of the Super Bowl. And they're like, what? And Terry's like, ah, I've never been kicked out of the Super Bowl and I've done a lot of dumb things. Come on.
What'd you do? On the field. I thought you're supposed to. I done a, I was on the show. Yes, right.
So it turned out. That even David Hill supported me in the end right back in with the David Hill. I did eventually. And I was like, guys, I don't know. I'm not exactly sure.
But all I said was, I don't know what I'm doing here, which is most of my life. Right.
So they get back in, and David Hill wrote a letter to the NFL. It's like, he's one of our guys. What are you doing? Right, that's a great. Fine.
Cry cancer. That's my Dave in hell. All right. You know, this doesn't happen to us in Australia. Then again, I valves it flat.
So yeah, that was my so the next Super Bowl you knew what am I doing? I know Jay Halftime Act. Damn it. That's what I'm doing here. What are you doing here?
Just standing here in your slicker, looking all mean, asking what people are up to? I'm with Prince. And Jay's like, you want to go back down there? No! No, support.
I'll support you this time. I got your back. Like you had my back last time? Yeah, something's happening. I was very busy watching this.
I got to report on things that are happening. What was happening at that time? I think somebody had a cold. Scoopage. Scoopage.
I got some scoopage. You ever got some scoopage? That's what I do when I'm lifted weights. I get scoopage. Frankhaliendo.com.
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As you know, John Madden was on the sidelines of the Immaculate Reception where Franco Harris caught the carom pass and changed the. Change the, you know, what the steel is. Of course, history. I mean, that's a history change right there. You think, is it what happened when a ball goes off, somebody boomed, gets it?
I mean, is it going? Is it going? Is that a catch? Is it a catch? And then the refs look around with they don't know if it's a catch, so they try to figure out if it's catch.
The fans tell them it's catch, and then boom. I mean, I mean, you got to be dangerously, you don't even know what happened there. That's what he said on the sideline. You could even read his lips. Yeah, all those words were right there, and maybe there were maybe that were a couple blurred ones.
In the middle, there's some blurred ones. Like, what the heck? It was almost said it there.
So, I guess while we're on the subject matter of former Raider coaches involved in a big moment, the snow game, as you refer to it in New England, right? Sure. The rest of America and football universe referred to it as the tuck rule game, where Charles Woodson meets Tom Brady in the snow in the backfield. What was Gruden thinking at the time? I'm thinking that doesn't exist, man.
There's a lot of words going through my head at that point that I am not allowed to say right now, man. But I'll tell you what, I don't understand where a rule comes out of nowhere. What is that? Because it's Tom freaking Brady, man. What is that all about?
I don't care if it's echoing in here. Do you see him just walking around walking into people? That's what he's doing here. Groot is just walking. See him rich Gannon.
Rich Gannon, man. He's just pounding. He's like, Rich Gannon, get down. Let's do some calls, man. Let's hear what you.
How are you doing, bud? Green 42. Green 42. Oh my God. Hold on.
You can still hear me echoing in this tremendous facility. The next one, the very first Patriots Super Bowl in the Superdome against the Bears and the famed 46 defense. The fridge, not Walter Payton, gets the ball to score a touchdown. How would Morgan Freeman describe that? Was going through Mike Ditka's mind, Walter Payton, sweetness.
He liked to dance. Running the ball was like making romance.
Okay. That's the Super Bowl shuffle, Senny. But instead, they gave it to the fridge. He was a rookie. He might have been large, but he was no dumb cookie.
And the fridge made its way into the end zone, and Walter Payton just became the nicest man alive in legend, but without a Super Bowl touchdown. And that's when Mike Detker climbed through 500 yards of the filthiest slop. I can't even imagine to explain that one. Fantastic. The helmet.
The helmet catch as described by Al Pacino. It doesn't look. Like that ball was caught, but there it is against the helmet.
Some people think you need two hands for a catch. What you need is two hands, a helmet, and don't lose it in the ground. The ground can't cause a fumble in that situational canon. I don't know what a catch is anymore, but I do know that if you catch it against your helmet, Eli Manning gets a Super Bowl. Eli.
I got two more for you. Two of them, he got. I got two more. Oh. I have two more for you.
The famed Malcolm Butler interception on the goal line that everybody's talking about with the Patriots and the Seahawks in this Super Bowl, as described or reacted to by Stephen A. Smith. I understand what you're thinking in this situation, but a past one, what's going through your head when you catch and I may not be ready for this one. I'm trying to go through the Rolodex of Thessauri. Thesauri, that's plural for thesaurus in my head.
And I wasn't getting there.
So let's just say he went all the way.
Well, that lets you do this one. Last one. The James Harrison famed interception for a touchdown as described by Chris Burns. James Harrison, say what you will. Yeah.
But nobody uh circles the uh Yeah. in the true and false, like James Harris and he could. Go. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, buck, back, back, back, back, back.
I don't know why I'm saying back. I just turned into the gre I just turned into the Berman chicken. Buck, buck, back, back, back. That's the Cadbury Easter Berman. Back, back, back, back, back, back.
It's Easter time, and it's time for the Cadbury Berman. Say what you will. Nobody bails on a bit better than Frank Kellier. Perfect. I don't even know what that really is.
Oh my god. No, but he bails like a bet. Did we get any Jerry in? I don't even remember. No, we could.
I have been. I've decided. that I want to go through all those plays myself. And I will. And now, Robert Kraft deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, as does Bill Belichick.
and they will eventually get there like I am. Oh my goodness. The end, again. My God. All my bits are ending with the end of the end.
By the way, it's not a bad way to end it. No. I just tell you, it's like in the in a movie when it says fiend, fi-n, fien.
So I say fiend, that's French for end, man. F-I-N.
So I'm just trying to put these together. Get loopy, guys. You got David Hill to get you back in the NFL's good graces. Yeah. And the next Super Bowl was the helmet catch.
So you were back, you were back. Or the next for Fox. Yeah, I guess so. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, the Fox Super Bowls went to Jacksonville.
And I've been telling this story a bunch, but that was the one where. Oh, no, maybe it's not. I'm not going to tell that. Do you do a Collinsworth? I kind of do.
You know how much I've been revving up the Tony Romobile, by the way?
Okay, yeah. Oh, Jimmy Jim Jim. Just like all day, just yesterday. It's like, oh, Jim, Jim. And Collinsworth's so close.
He's like, you know, Mike, I guess it's a good one.
Sounds like an FO. I really love Patrick. You know, and then you go to Patrick Mahomes, and I didn't even know. And there's Gronk right there. He looks real good.
And he's like, hey, I'm working on my Gronk. By the way. That's not it. That's not it. That's not bad.
Do you want to throw to break? Introduce Gronk coming up next. FrankCaliendo.com is how you can get additional dates and tickets to see Frank. Do you want to introduce Gronk? Can I do it?
Do we have to go to a commercial real quick? Sure. I accidentally met Gronk at a Super Bowl event.
Okay. I don't think he recognized, he didn't know who I was right away. You still think? I know your wife and kid, though. I said something.
That's his wife and kid. Oh, that's your wife. Hey, hey, just offend everybody. This is great. Welcome.
He walks in, he's the nicest guy in the world. But everything you say, like this, he really is this guy. And I thought it was like a play when he was, like, you'd see him on TV and you're like, nobody can have that much fun, right? But he walks in, he sees some food just sitting there. He's like an hour late.
He's on the Gronk bus. He comes in, he's just picking things like, are we doing this?
Okay. He goes, and it's me, him, Richard Sherman, Terry Bradshaw. For this event. And I said something like, You I said it because I'm an idiot. I look at him and I'm like, Ah, you really are like this, huh?
And he looked at me like, Who are you? And it was the same look that he gave me right there. Does it ring a bell now? But so not. No, not there.
Never happened. I mean, there's too many Super Bowls. Never happened. Never happened. You do look familiar.
I'll stand right there. I'll stand right next to you like this and be like, who's that? And you, I mean, I really like your energy right now. I'm becoming a fan. I really am.
Yeah. Rob Gronkowski. Rob with some Bella check out on the way here. What do you think? There you go.
See? Yeah, it's really great. That's the nice job there. Dang. I like these good.
Good. That's the next one. Frankcaliando.com to get tickets. Hold on, can I make him real? I'm saving.
I'm not doing that because. No, make me uncomfortable. No, no, you've done that to me already. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, Rob Gronkowski is next.
Frank Caliando here on the Rich Rising Show. And that's when they realized it was time for Gronk and get rid of Caliando. I love it. Close. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast.
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Yeah, this is a Lombardi trophy, so watch out. I might dent it. I got four of these bad boys. It's the real thing. And let me tell you, I mean, it has no engraving on it.
It just says Vince Lombardi trophy. I know that. Who's the winner of this game? Rich Eisen.
Somebody, yeah. Let's engrave it. By the way, you're making me very nervous by flipping that around like you just did. That's fine. I dent trophies.
I stay dented and go in the Patriots Hall of Fame. But let me tell you, I got four replicas as well, just like this for all four of my Super Bowl wins, and I have a couple of them each. And let me tell you, meaning like I bought a couple. I had to buy them. They were like $1,500.
This guy was making them. And they're the best souvenirs to have out of any souvenir possible. People come in the house. You're like, yo, is that the real trophy? And like everyone picks it up, holds it, takes pictures with it.
And it's like the best. The best thing that you can have hanging up in your office or in your home are these Vince Libardi trophies. How many have you broken? Couple in my life, two, right? Yeah, just one real one.
One real one. The real, that was the one in Fenway Park, right? That's when I dented it.
So it didn't really break it. I dented it.
Okay. And it's Julian. There it is, right there. Julian. Julian threw the pitch.
I mean, you know, if he's going to throw me a pitch, like, I'm going to swing. What's funny is I'm like, I'm not going to swing and hit with it because it's going to ruin the trophy. I'll just bunt it. It can't ruin the trophy. I didn't even know I put it done in.
I gave the trophy back. Oh, Stacey James. Oh, man. How many times I made Stacey James almost faint and die in the sky? You're talking about the famed media relations executive.
He's in the business. He's been there forever. Forever. I've almost made him faint like 18 times in my career. Still to this day.
He's probably nervous watching you pick this trophy up, too. He's nervous for me just talking about him.
So Edels.
So.
So Edelman throws the pitch, and you're like, you know what? I'm going to bunt it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to, I go, oh, I should swing, and I go, no, that's going to ruin the trophy.
I should just bunt it. Is the dented trophy on display in the Patriots Hall of Fame? It's on display in the Patriots Hall of Fame. It's even better, though, don't you think in the long run? Wait, then it is.
And I swear, Mr. Krabs, RKK's like, yo, everyone goes to the Hall of Fame to see that trophy. Yeah. Of all the other trophies. Of all the other trophies.
He goes, everyone wants to see the dent in that trophy. He's like, I had to keep it. I was like, I love it. It's got its own special story to it. Because that's what it's all about.
Is there anyone in terms of winning it that's special to you the most? Yeah, definitely the first Super Bowl that I won versus Seattle. This is a Super Bowl rematch, I'm saying, of Super Bowl 49. But that Super Bowl was very special, near and dear to my heart, because it got me into the Super Bowl club. And it was also one of the best games of all times.
One of the best football games to be played. One of the best Super Bowl games to be played from the beginning of the first quarter all the way to the end. And everyone contributed. I mean, Julian had the game-winning touchdown. Amendola, my boy, had a touchdown.
Shane Vereen had like 10 catches out of the backfield, you know, for how many first downs. I had a nice touchdown on the fade route, you know, on KJ Wright, you know, going into the first half. And then, obviously, what the defense did with the Malcolm Butler interception. It was a complete game overall. And it was my first time winning the Super Bowl.
So you'll always remember that. Be special. Where were you watching it? I mean, Brady being mic'd up, you know, is over and over again. We see that in NFL films of when Butler made the interception.
Where were you when that was all? I was sitting like this on the bench, you know, on the bench, and it was the fastest I ever gotten up from sitting down in my life, no doubt about that. Right when he caught it, boom, I popped right up and just started celebrating, man. It was very emotional, and it was one of the most joyous moments of my career as well. You know, I was in the stands.
It was the first NFL, first Super Bowl on NFL Network where I wasn't doing a post-game, so I went as a fan. Really? My whole in-laws, they're all from Massachusetts. They're all Patriot fans. My youngest son is now a diehard.
He's going to be flipping out that we're talking on the show. He's just jacked up to come to watch this Super Bowl because he was like three years old in the stands. He didn't even remember that. Anytime he sees a Malcolm Butler player, I'm like, you were there. He's like, get, you know, for a while.
He's like, get out of here. I don't remember it. But The reason why I'm bringing all this up is I've never in my entire life, going back to my sports center days, ever been at a sporting event where people who were crying were immediately cheering, and people who were cheering were immediately crying in the flip of one switch like that play. I've never seen anything like it in my entire time. Yeah, I bet so.
I never actually really looked at it that way. And that's kind of what, you know. Keeps these fans just keep coming back. The emotion that this game brings to them is incredible, and it can flip at any other time, like you said. And when it's in the bad way, you're coming back because you want it to happen to you in the good way as well.
Right, and you probably just couldn't believe it, right? I mean, you were sitting here thinking this thing's over. You're not winning the Super Bowl, I'd imagine, right? No, I had some faith. You did?
I had some faith. I mean, we stopped him on the play before. I mean, it's the least talked about play when Dante Hightower tackled Marshawn Lynch one-on-one before they threw the pass. I mean, they handed off the ball the play before, but Marshawn Lynch, Dante Hightower is an absolute beast. I mean, he's actually bigger size than Marshawn Lynch, probably stronger, too.
And Beast Mo's a savage, but Dante Hightower made the play of the game with that tackle, which forced him to throw the ball. You've been talking about that. I bring it up all the time. And here's the other thing, too, Gronk, that I point: oh, they should have just gave it to him on the next play. They would have scored.
Would they? Because Dante Hightower tackled them on the exact same. Same play in the play before with one shoulder, by the way. He was hurting that game. Yeah, exactly.
There we go. I mean, Dante Hightower, he's playoff Hightower. Beast. Yeah, Beast. I mean, he comes through in the playoffs like I'd never seen before.
28-3. What are you thinking? Because High Tower, by the way, had a big play in that game, too, right? Playoffs. Kind of fluffy script a little bit.
We were dominating them, actually. I mean, it was 28-3, but I mean, we were moving the ball. We just had plenty of mistakes that we made. And Coach Belichick at halftime was like, yo, we're doing what we need to do. We're not changing really anything.
The thing is, is that we just can't have the turnovers. We can't shoot ourselves in the foot. And then another big thing he said is, we're better conditioned than this team. They're going to fold. They're going to collapse.
He said that? Yeah, throughout the week. We're better conditioned. And he would always be saying it. We always ran these hills, man.
Everyone hated it. But he always engraved in us, we're going to be the better conditioned team. It's going to come down to it. And he knew we were too. And he even said it throughout the week, and it showed.
We ran, what, 99 plus plays on offense, including the overtime? Dude, if you watch the last couple drives, their defense was absolutely gas. And our offense was still going at full speed because we were a better conditioned team. And Coach always brought that up as well. I mean, he just knew the niches of what's going to happen in the game and what's going to play in our favor.
That was a better detail than what they're going to present against our opponent's going to present against us. Could you imagine how many more Super Bowls you have if you had a Hall of Fame head coach? I know, man. Dude, I would probably have like eight Super Bowls if I actually had a real coach. Like someone that's in the Hall of Fame.
That one, yeah. Yeah. Like it would, like, it would be a no-brainer then. Like, the guy is not even a Hall of Famer, Bill. Like, I mean, he's a terrible coach.
Yeah, just think about it. If you really, you know, that's just absolutely crazy, man. Just absolutely absurd that he's not in. I mean, what's this? This is setting the standards that there's going to be no head coaches ever that's going to be a first ballot.
And there's one right now that is 100% deserved to be. I mean, Sean McVay's kind of on his way. He's still so young, but Andy Reid. Yeah. Come on, Andy Reid's not a first ballot Hall of Fame.
Look at his career. But guess what? He's not now because Coach Belichuk isn't. Yeah. Well, they might change the rules in frame of how to vote.
Well, how to vote. You know, I don't know. You want to know who's at fourth ballot Hall of Famer now? Who's that? Dom Brady.
He might not even make it. He's sweating it out now, huh? Yes. He's sweating it out. That would be hilarious.
I mean, it would be pretty hilarious. I mean, because then it would really ruin the Hall of Fame, though. Oh, yeah. It would ruin it if he's not. It's not going to happen.
Are you worried? No. Don't be worried. Tom? No, you get worried.
I mean, how many years have you been out now? I think I'm eligible next year.
So maybe you and Belichick go in. What if you and Belichick go in together? Me? Balachek and RKK at the same time. Dude, that would be pretty cool.
I mean, that's entirely possible. I'm not against it at all. I mean, I can only control what I can control. I mean, I don't really talk about my situation because, you know, that's a very prestigious honor, and you don't want to get out of your lane. Yes.
You know, you can't really control it. But if that did happen, I mean, I'm down for that. Here's what's going to happen. Because I'm able to talk about it, because it's like fight club. You don't want to talk about that sort of stuff.
Right.
Because it's bad form to say I'm going to the Hall of Fame, even though you're going. It's bad juju. I don't want to. We're removing the juju from it.
So you're going to get in, and then Belichick gets in, all right? And let's just say that just that two alone happens. What ends up happening is during Bill's speech. Your family will all be there, right? For you.
You get up and you start dancing around him like you did on the bass stage during his speech. You know what I mean? Like, how do you like me now? Yeah. You know what I mean?
Like, after all those years, who gets the last left? Right? There we go. Now we're going game planning already. What do you think?
Strategizing. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, I'm going to have to do something. Because your whole family is going to be there. I'm going to have to do something.
And no one can call to tell them to get off the stage. Call Bill. Bill, get off the stage. You know? Uh-oh, we're gonna have to play off each other.
Possibilities are limitless. If he even gets in. At this point, you might as well put him in in like five more years. It might have been, no lie, it might have been the best thing for him not to get in. Not saying that, because I'm saying, like, dude, like, with not having a good year at UNC, you know, like, everyone came to his defense now.
And like, he's got so much great pub from not getting in. Like, it's but it might, it could have possibly been a good thing. The bottom line is, we definitely deserve it when we're talking about it, and you're like, well, you know, he's got 333 wins, and then you start in the middle of all that, you're like, why do I even have to say his numbers? It's just like, you feel silly. You feel silly even saying it, sort of thing.
Yeah. What are you doing for FanDuel, Gronk? What have we got here? Yeah, so I'm here with the FanDuel Super Bowl campaign. It's the last call for football, and the campaign's a celebration and a toast to what a wonderful regular season that it has been.
And now it's a rallying cry, you know, to enjoy the final night of football, which is obviously the big game, the Super Bowl game this Sunday. And we got legends in this campaign. We got Joe Montana, you know, who's giving a speech in the campaign. We got Adam Vinatieri, you know, the best kicker of all times, and myself. And we're just giving it a toast to just an incredible season that it has been.
And FanDuel, you know, if you're going to make a bet, bet on the game response. Responsibly, you know, play in your means and embed on FanDuel.
Okay. And the play of the year, what do you got for your player of the year? What do you think about that? Player of the year or play of the year? Play of the year, the one play that happened.
I kind of have. A game of the year. The standards of how the season was going to go. And let me tell you, the NFL won this year. How many great games every single week?
I know. The playoffs, every week one, just wild card, every game was unbelievable. The NFC Championship was great. I mean, the AFC Championship game was a mess, but it was still close. And that's what you want.
Well, pretty much every Bears game from week 15 on was eye-popping play after another. Like play of the year for me would be Caleb Williams, just choose any of his throws, either to beat the Packers or the fourth and eight to keep Hope alive down 11 in the second time against the Packers before the big one, you know, to Cole Komet, that was just made me curse, like just sitting on the couch, just like more curse words were like, holy S, you know, what was the game? Oh, so the game was week one, Sunday Night Football, Buffalo Bills versus the Ravens. Ravens had the game sealed, and the Buffalo pulls out the comeback. It set the standards of how the NFL season was going to go, and it was going to be entertaining just like that game.
What do you think about Super Bowl 60, Rob? What do you think? I'm going to go with the same score as Super Bowl XLIX and the same team winning. This guy. It just makes it easy.
Makes it easy. 28, 24. 28, 24. That sounds reasonable. By the way, it sounds like a totally reasonable.
A score, but that's it. But by the way, that's a great way of just saying, you know, I'm just going to go with the same thing. Keeps it easy as well. Yeah. Did you see McDonald was asked over and over again on Monday night what's going to be your play if you're on the one-yard line?
What play do you call? That's great. And he said, you know, just the best play possible. And he had fun with it until he just got a bit of a bad thing. It finally triggered him.
Yeah. It triggers you. That's why I'm just 28, 24, because I get asked too much. It's just automatic now. I'm on the street.
Who's going to win? Patriots 28, 24. I don't even think about it. You love your Fox work? You like doing it?
Yeah, it's great, man. Fun times with everybody? Yeah, it's fun times, man. And I got some great guys around me, man. I got Hall of Famers around me, not just on the football field, but in the media world as well.
They're just so classy and they're just so good at their jobs. I learned so much from them. I mean, Strahan, you know, he's not just unbelievable at being an analyst with football. He's one of the best in the game just overall in just whatever topic it is in the world. And you got Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Kurt Manifief.
It's just a great group of guys to be around that I learned so much with. Is what he's done post-playing career is as great as anybody's post-playing career. Probably the best post-post-career, not like investing and making money in a business, like actual work, work. He's probably had the best post-career out of any football player. He's grinding.
He's a grinder, right? And he's, yeah, I can't say enough about him. And you too. Thanks for coming here, man. Yeah.
I appreciate it.
So, what do you do now? What does Gronk do for the rest of this day? Oh, so I get to go take a nap now.
Okay. Got a little dinner tonight. What do we have on a nap from? What is a Gronk nap? What do we, 15 minutes?
An hour? No, I need like an hour and a half to I didn't get too much last night. And an hour and a half tonight, today, and then relax. And then that was the hardest part of my schedule for this whole week was the last six hours, you know, from 5 a.m. to now.
And then I still got more radio row stuff, you know, a couple parties to attend, but nothing. This was the biggest grind. I'm glad I got it out of the way. I'm thrilled that we were your last stop.
So may you. Last stop back. Stop. Thank you, sir, for saying that. Hey, no other stop gave you an idea of what happens if you and Belichick go into the Hall of Fame care there.
No, they didn't. You and your family. No one even brought up that situation either. Crash it. They just crashed the whole damn thing.
Yeah. It would be crashing. Yeah. For sure.
Okay, so Gronk is here, and he's gotten through it. He's going to take a nap, and the truck is intact. It's good. All is good. The trophy's good.
Hey, I'm still here. Uh-oh. Oh, no. I shouldn't have said anything. Everybody, again, Fan Duel's Super Bowl campaign last call for football.
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Visit pella.com/slash Eisen today. That's Pella.com/slash Eisen Today. Yeah, we got fans showing up here. Gronk is like the Pied Piper, huh? He shows up and the fans show up, and the or is it just getting closer to lunchtime and people are coming down from the offices here in this building?
You know, I don't know what it is. One of my favorite humans on planet Earth. And Frank said it earlier, too. He's exactly who you think he is and want him to be all the time. And it's not an act, it's just who he is.
He's the happiest guy, and he's the biggest guy. And to see that, you know, as a combination, it just works. He's amazing. Yeah. I forget what Super Bowl it was.
Um but there was the one in Miami.
So it was the 49ers. First go-around. First go-around, right. And so to make it back to our studio, I had to leave the game early.
So I left the game right after the first quarter was over and wound up watching the game on the back of a plane seat, you know, going. Yep. And the flight took off at like 11 o'clock at night. It was. It was an overnight deal, and I'm sitting there, and I'm like wondering.
What time are we going to get in? And I'm in my head, right? Just like trying to think about, you know, how much sleep am I going to get, or whatever. And um long story short. The person who sits next to me in the empty seat is Rob Grinkovsky.
Oh my God. Right.
And I'm like Why didn't you stay for the game? He goes, Well, I have a shoot tomorrow in LA. And At the time, My kids who are now, what, 17, 14, and 12. We were at the time like eleven, nine, and seven. Right.
And all they were saying. Was in the masked singer, they thought the tall tiger or whatever had to be Rob Gronkowski. Yes, I remember he was. And here I am now sitting next to Rob Gronkowski on this plane back from the Super Bowl, thinking to myself. He's got a shoot in Los Angeles to get exactly.
And my kids think that he is on the masked singer. He can't really say anything to me. But I looked at him and I'm like, are you going to. Sing, is that what you're going to do? And he kind of gave me this look of like, Can't say, but I want to say, you know, and it was outstanding.
And just, you know, watching the end of that Super Bowl. Play out in the fourth quarter on the back seat and watching with him.
Well I'll never forget that either. Couldn't have been nicer. Everybody coming up to him. You know, flight attendants and the pilots were even like psyched, and everybody who was, you know. walking past.
back into the other cabin. We're just stopping to say hello to him, you know. He's just a little bit more. He couldn't have been nicer to everybody. He's very wealthy.
So you're right about that. And I'm like, which one of you guys are living your best life doing the Super Bowl shows? Because Gronk and Edelman coming by almost every year, right? And Ammet. And Irv and Dion coming by almost every year.
We're trying to get Michael Irvin, but he's doing his new Netflix pod when we're recording every day. But Deion and Emmett are back-to-back, our first-hour guests on Friday. As a matter of fact, we're coming on the air and Deion's gonna be sitting in the seat. We're starting the show with him. Oh, that's the globe.
On Friday. And that's why I can never sign that Cowboys release, man, because for as bad as things are going now, those memories, what that meant as a kid, like, you know, that would be like releasing my entire childhood. Yes. So you don't, I don't, I didn't bring that piece of paper for you to sign your release of fandom. But I had a talk with a nice gentleman I met last night, and he kind of made me feel like maybe there is no hope, so I don't.
Okay, very good.
So another breaking news out of the NBA, Chris. Is it true Anthony Davis is now a Washington wizard? Yeah, Anthony Davis, currently injured, is going to be. Oh, by the way, which year is it? Yeah.
Okay. He's going to the Washington Wizards, Rich, for D'Angelo Russell. Yeah, it's a bunch of people. It's a massive, almost team swap. A.D., Jaden Hardy, D'Angelo Russell, Dante Exam going to Washington for Chris Middleton, A.J.
Johnson, Malachi Branham, Marvin Bagley III, two first-round picks, and three second-rounders, according to.
So.
You know where we're going with this. Yeah, I understand there's a bunch of players that went with Anthony Davis to Washington. Couple good ones. But The Mavericks got more in this trade than they got for Luca. Right.
Yeah. Am I wrong? Five picks. Just that alone, but you also gave up three other players, right? But think about it this way.
What are the Mavericks up to? Why would they basically say to the Washington Wizards, we'll trade most of the team for most of the team?
Well, I imagine the players are getting dumped. That's right. Right, exactly.
So they basically trade Luca for Cooper flag, two first-round picks, and three second-rounders. That seems like a pretty good trade.
Well, Cooper, I mean, Cooper, they didn't know they were getting Cooper flag. They didn't know a ping-pong ball was going to bounce their way. They're just bouncing around here, and I think maybe they did, according to him. No, stop it. We talk about scripts, so.
But th that's essentially what the Luca trade was now, officially. You can kind of look at the- No, I know that, but you can't sit here and say part of the Luca trade was them getting s the most lucky. Ping-pong ball bounce possibly get what happened. No, I get it.
Well, which allows them to maybe make a trade like this. Right, right. But the bottom line is it already kinda was perhaps the worst trade Oh my god. Maybe ever. But now that AD's gone, I think you kind of get that certified.
Well, now that they've fired, you know. They fired Nico Harrison and they fired, you know, that they got rid of Anthony Davis now. They're starting from scratch. And I'm wondering if Jason Kidd was You know, didn't want to go coach the Knicks now. Unless he's just happy about this, I have no idea that he's now got to put together the Mavericks are toast, essentially, for this year.
And the Washington Wizards have gotten Trey Young and Anthony Davis in the span of a few weeks. Yeah, but I mean I hear you. But next year's draft is going to be in Washington, D.C. And I imagine the Wizards will be a much better team in the middle of the mix in April. They might even be hosting or playing in a playoff game.
Well, they traded their first rounders. I understand that. I'm talking about the NFL draft in Washington, D.C. It's all NFL to me, man. That's true.
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