Bonus Episode! The Day After

network because I want to be covering it. I think that's where I have a lot of fomo about the whole thing, and um yeah, I just I have anxiety not being there. I have anxiety when the players are on the field and I'm not down there. I have anxiety when Odell Beckham is going back to the locker room and I can't talk to Neil and know what's happening. It's hard for me to sit back and watch. I'd love to know any other job that feels that way.

Maybe Tom Brady felt that way when he sat back and he watched him self not playing in a super Bowl. How about the time or the calendar for those guys that didn't see his post. He had a calendar um a reminder that popped up on his phone, and it was to say that he was supposed to be playing in the super Bowl, which is kind of and he wrote ship and I DMed him and I said, enough

is enough to stop this right now? Come back? I mean, well, I'm still interested to see the fact that you know, and I know I made a big bigger deal of this than maybe it is. But he never said he was retiring in that whole soliloquy of a speech he gave or Instagram posts. So Aaron, I know you're not a gambler in the sense of which, by the way, how about me winning the pool? Yeah, my friends pool, the hockey pool. You were in it. You wanted dang it. I wanted of a random thing where it was just

like picking like who would score first? What was you know, who would whatever more? Receiving yards the Bengals or the anthem ring. Jared literally sat there in time to the anthem and he was like, oh, shoot, come on, come on, keep it longer. He's longer. So that was fun. But Ram's winning Super Bowl fifty six, it was very poetic. I mean, you know, the first team that ever won a Super Bowl in their home stadium was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last year, and then to have it followed

up again with the Rams this year. I was really excited to have all of those guys. You know how we feel about Matthew and Andrew Whitworth. I mean, how about that guy, Aaron Donald, Aaron Donald crying at the end. My god, I wanted to ball for him. Is Aaron Donald not gonna be playing next year? Because all that point game coverage was about like him not returning, and like is Andrew returning? It's Sean McVeigh returning. A lot of departures, potentially Sean McVeigh. The Andrew Whitworth stuff I

have heard. I have heard those rumors, and it wouldn't surprise me about both. But the Aaron Donald won the only reason I think Rodney Harrison started that. I'm not sure, but I saw a tweet that he put up there. But the only thing I would say about Aaron Donald and just being able to talk to him and listen to other people. He put so much into it, and I know they all do. I get that they all do, but you just saw his emotion. He and he kept saying, this is the only thing I don't have. But I

don't I don't see him. And I was listening to Peter Schreeger this morning on Good Morning Football because he usually has a good sense. I don't know. I hope that's not the case. But man, he wanted it so bad. I was so happy for him. But holy crap, Cincinnati. They came in there and they lived up to their end of the bargain as well. I mean, Jamaar Chase, are you kidding me? Signed to every endorsement out there.

Stupid guys. Unreal. And then when Joe Burrow went down and I was texting you, I was like, this looks so bad. It looked like the same knee that he tore his a c L on last year, and it just again. And Odell Beckham went out with that same knee injury that he sustained in against the Bengals. Ironically, it's just I was so impressed with Joe Burrow, the poise that this young man has year two in the NFL, to sit up at that podium and just have such

an incredible outlook. I remember him saying that he had watched the Kurt Warner Football Life and that when you lose, to be able to step away, and obviously, as a competitor, the last thing you want is to lose, but to be able to take a positive away from it and say, hey, we've made it this far and it's something to build off of. He just I'm constantly impressed with him and just the poise that he has at a very young age.

He's it's easy to root for someone like him. And of course in these games there's always a winner and a loser. But in this particular case, I was happy to have all of those guys, the von Miller's of the world, you know, all these guys come over Jalen stuff like that, and have it end up in a super Bowl victory. So, my boy, it was. It was great. It was a great game. I'm you know, I'm I'm glad it was a game. It's really hard to be at a football game. For me. I have to hear

the broadcast. I have to hear what's happening. That's why I kept asking you. I kept looking on Twitter. I just want to know what people are saying. I need my Pereira. I want to know about the calls very I'm very spoiled in all of that. I just I like to know what other people are saying because and

we should remind people of this. You have an i FB in out the games that you're working, and so you're hearing the broadcast, right, So when you're sitting there and as an observer and you're not getting that, does it feel like you're disjointed a little bit from the game all of it? And it's hard to because I people are sitting there, they don't care about the game, they're there for the social and I just that's not me.

I don't like to be around people that aren't dialed in um, that are just there for the halftime show, which holy crap was amazing as well. Another thing I thought was better on television. Okay, that's my question was so on TV is I mean, you know, and everyone says this. I feel like every year everyone's like, this is the greatest, you know, halftime performance of all time in person. Is it because it's hard to hear or what? What takes away from it? Yeah, like, listen, there's an echo.

Obviously we were on this side that all the houses opened up too. But I think on television, you could follow the storyline. Those were their houses where they grew up in California. That was their area. Then we saw the lights on the field, but we didn't know it was the grid of Compton and their area, Like, we didn't know that. And then just as my sister, My sister said it perfectly. She's a dancer. She said, yes, but that whole show is choreographed for camera, not for

you sitting there at home. I got home, I watched the whole thing four times again. It was unbelieved you. Yeah, you missed so much sitting there. Plus, I love a performance. I thought Dre was so hot and he moved his body good and he looked great. Piano yeah says that. What's fifty cent doing upside down? Did we know what that was about? That was from his video? What video that was in the video? Oh? I didn't know. I

didn't know what we were doing there. That was all like kicking it back and like paying homage to the video. I also died, Like those girls were so hot. I loved watching them. It was great. I it was so awesome to go back and watch it on television. Yeah, it was amazing. I was very happy that it was a game. You know, you mentioned at the beginning, it's

like just you that's all you want. You wanted to be interesting, and like that final drive and then with Joe Burrow getting the ball with that much time, I mean, you think about what Patrick Mahomes was able to do, you know against Buffalo scoring in thirteen seconds. It's like any time left on the clock. With these kinds of guys,

you never know what they're gonna do. So I was just happy that it was a game, and I just think it's so sweet, you know when you watch all the families on the field at the end of the game and the confetti and then what Aaron Donald said to his daughter, like promising her that she would make it onto the field and stuff, so you know those things. I was staying to Jared, I'm so sad in hockey that there's no confetti because that just looks so cute

to like lay in there. I was like, we're so worried about on the ice slipping and falling and you're shuffling your feet and everybody's playing with their kids and running around and like this is so opposite of what we get to do. I mean, we get to drink out of the cup. You can't drink out of the Lombardy. But how did that? How did that mark with the cup? How many days do you get it? You just get it for a day. I think it was also interesting

watching my husband. My husband gets so emotional for celebrations because he, you know, was just like he we sat there and we watched the whole celebration and this person suite that invited us, and I know that they probably wanted to go. But Jared Love I think it takes him back and it reminds him about like what he went through. But yeah, he's just like, I have goose bumps. This is so awesome. I'm like, I know it is. It's great. I'm also impressed that Jared stayed around for

the celebration. Isn't he quick to get out exit stage left? Yeah, but I think it's different when guys win it. Like I remember when Troy Troy posted yesterday about there's nothing that feels like this good and you and you heard I heard von Miller say that to me. I have during the NFC Championship, which just I want them to experience heaven. That's why he and Aaron Donald on the post game set, we're saying, what does heaven feel like? Yeah,

I think athletes would have been there. They like to sit there and kind of appreciate it and be reminded of what it felt like when they wanted. But as soon as we left the stadium, we were running through the crowds and we out of there, and we got out of there. We had it pretty organized with our ride and where we were going to meet him. And my husband is so good, like being a survivor with him, we would win because he's yeah, we would yes, amazing race.

He would nail it in a second. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that was It was like a very fairy tale ending to that whole story for them. And um I heard Stan Crockey talk at the end of the game and he was like, you know, someone had asked him like, oh, could you have dreamed this up? And he's like, yeah, I did. That's why I wanted to. Yeah, Jesus not to mention that used my draft picks. Oh my gosh. Yeah, but they had to. I mean we talked about this. It's a lot like with the Los Angeles Kings did

at the time. They they spend it all. I mean they used all their draft picks. They got to win now, so thank god they did for the city and and all that, because you know, it's kind of now is the time. We don't be rebuilding in the next couple of years, but this is the time to win it. So good for them, it's great, it's awesome. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams. The first Super Bowl championship for the l A Rams. The last time the Rams when it was when they win St. Louis in So congrats

to them. And now the football season is officially over, which makes us sad. But then we will turn our attention on our podcast to a bunch of things that we will be doing in the off season. That is it for our mini episode. More to come over on the Calm Down podcast. Calm Down with Aaron and Karissa is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the i Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.