Special Teams: Christmas Day

teams who remember, and we relive that special season for them. However, a bit of a twist on this week's podcast, considering it is the you Old Tide season after all, So we're going to look back at some of the special teams who had big games on Christmas Day in sports history. And we can still call it the holiday, holiday, holiday and holiday, but these games were on Christmas Day. So we're gonna relive some of the big games on Christmas Day and some of the big teams that had big

games on Christmas Day. Well, because let's face it, over the course of our lives, you know, you've got a lot of family time. Presents get unwrapped. Maybe you go to services, maybe a gluttonize with some big meals along the way. Maybe maybe you're a Turkey family, maybe a Prime rib family. Maybe you're just going out to the whatever restaurant down the street is open as you roll through.

But eventually you get tired of looking at your family, uh, and you want to either enjoy a game with them because then you're just talking about the game because you don't want to go deep into those family discussions again, right, what Uncle Billy's doing? I could I could always tell when my family was annoying my grandfather more because the volume of the game slowly went up. Like the beginning, if the volume was low and we were watching, he

was fine talking to other people. But as the game went on and he was done talking with everybody, the volume would go up until finally it was so loud. Oh god, he's done talking to anybody. He just wants to watch whatever game is on telem that's just a you can go hide in the game. So it's always a all right, what's on? Is there a great replay on? But this this is over the course of like, you know, two hours. This is not like you whoa you just jump from thirty to hang on? Hang on? Are we

really done talking about things? All right? So we're gonna take a look back. We're gonna at very first here in the show. We're gonna look back at the National Football League and one very special team that played two big games on Christmas Day. The NFL has not had a huge run of memorable games on Christmas Day because they didn't play on Christmas Day for a very long

period of time. But very first team we're gonna look back at our the Miami Dolphins, because they played the very first Christmas Day game because it was a playoff day in the National Football League in ninety one. The league decided in seventy one, Hey, we're gonna play games on Christmas Day. Okay, great two playoff games earlier in the day. The Cowboys beat the Vikings twenty to twelve.

Then four o'clock Eastern playoff game between the Chiefs and the Dolphins, and the the stats in this game don't really matter, just the fact it was the first NFL game on Christmas Day. But it was about the length of the game that made things special. This game went to double overtime and gar are your Premian who was known for one of the greatest football follies of all time with you know, kicking the field goal in the in the Super Bowl and knocking the ball up in

the air. The game was tied at twenty four and your premier and kicked the game winning field goal with seven twenty left in double overtime. Alright, so the game is over at this point. It was the longest NFL game ever. It clocked in at three hours and twenty one minutes, which is an average NFL game in one. It was a long time, and there was such an outcry that it cut into Christmas Day. It prompted the NFL to not schedule another Christmas Day game until nine.

You had a Kansas legislature go through and propose a bill to ban Christmas Day games for the NFL. That's how big a deal this one. Glad you said Christmas Day games because it's Sally, you said they're gonna ban Christmas Day. I'd love to know how many letters calls to the big switchboard operators whatever it was, or someone complaining to an owner directly who had some sway saying

that this kind of worked against Christmas dinner. Here, come on now, I mean four, you're eating Christmas dinner at two o'clock. I mean, waits till that late Christmas? Not everybody, but but you can. You can watch the game or not watch the game. You know, it's it's a playoff game. Hey, this is nineteen seventy one. This is a big deal. Well, there were only three stations back then. It was NBCCBS. The point it's like, you know you this wasn't looking

for a very special edition of Murder. You could wheeld the TV into the into the living room and dining room, but not everybody had fourteen TVs. Like I to do in the seventies and eighties was eat my dinner downstairs in front of the TV. When the Jets were actually had to teat while you were relegated to the basement.

That was always the best part. Was was on a holiday or when the when the Jets were playing late and it was like seven o'clock because they were playing a four o'clock game, and I my grandmother was awesome. I'd go upstairs, get my big play to spaghetti. Whatever we g is usually spahetti on Sunday, spaghetti, glass of milk, whatever had, I got to bring it downstairs and eat downstairs and watch the game with my grandfather, which was

that was the greatest thing in the world. I'm like, I'm getting to eat down I don't have to sit at the dinner table I could eat downstairs. I mean, now I'm in my forties and I eat wherever the hell I want to, so that that bit of regular it's kind of gone by the wayside a little bit, but still back then it was a treat. This would have been a treat for me. Oh, I get to eat Christmas dinner and watching it I watched, sure, absolutely everybody would celebrate it. Instead it goes uh in in

the moth balls for quite some time. So that's the first big Christmas Day game the Dolphins play in it, and then the NFL doesn't have one for another seventeen years. But then in nine the Dolphins played another very memorable Christmas Day game, more so because of what it meant for head coach Don Shula than what happened on the field. The Lions played the Dolphins. Both teams were nine and five coming into this game. In and that year, I had Barry Sanders in Fantasy, but more importantly, I also

had Bernie Parmelely in Fantasy. Like that, Bernie Parmeley was Fantasy relevant, and I remember how nervous I was about this game, having to my two running backs playing in the same game, and Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders, and Bernie Sanders said, how are we gonna pay for this? I want to make sure that college and everybody pay everybody. Barry Sanders had a bad game, but Bernie Parmly had three touchdowns and I was so excited, you know me

Jets fan Dolphins. I'm like, oh, the Dolphins are winning, but hey, I need every one of those Bernie Parmley touchdowns. A brilliant is that? A guy who had seventeen for his career, seventeen rushing touchdowns and that was the year to have Bernie Parmly fantasy? What was it? What was nub What do the end of the year? What do you want to add? Six rushing touchdowns eight hundred sixty eight yards in ninety four and then in ninety five

nine touchdowns eight hundred seventy eight yards. A little bit of work in the passing game. You know about forty catches in each of those years with one receiving touchdown. But yes, from a rushing perspective, he would go on from ninety six to ninety nine with zero rushing touchdowns, very few attempts to Those are the only two years where he really was the bell cow uh in the Miami offense. And now I said nine to five. I think both teams were nine and six going into this

having having playoff holps. But this is not about both teams having playoff holps for me having Bernie Parmly, even though I tried to make it about but you're celebrating Bernie Parmly and his entire catalog. It's okay. But this was the day that Don Shula broke the NFL record for regular season victories, win number three hundred and nineteen of his NFL career. I mean, Don Shula was Bill Belichick before Bill Belichick. He didn't win as many Super Bowl titles, but he was a coach who started out

coaching the Colts. I mean in the in the salad days of the NFL, when the Super Bowl first started. I don't forget. He coached the Colts, you know, and

they lost to the Jets. They won the next year, and then he reinvents his team as a team that wins super Bowls in the seventies, achieves perfection behind a great defense and a great running game, and then he morphs into the air raid attack that he had with Dan Marino in the nineteen eighties into nineteen nineties, Don Shula was Bill Belichick, and you know, if you're old enough to remember his, boy, Don Shula would just find a way whatever players he had, he would move his

system around to what fit. And that was a guy that look I at. Nineteen wins is three nineteen wins. You always had to get by Don Shula. You always had to get by him in the A f C. And I'd look up. I'd look up at Don Shula for most of my life. Then I look at at

Bill Belichick's. That tells you what my sports life roun for you right there, when you when you get down to it and you think about where the game is now as a pass happy event, but also just that you have less than ten players in eighteen finished with a thousand rushing yards foren and beyond, we're probably looking at those numbers being about the same. You're not gonna suddenly have a resurgence. You know, they win the game.

And it's not that it was the game that Don Shula broke the overall record, but it's kind of like baseball, where it was the records are really about the regular season because the postseason can't really count now he had broken the record for overall wins in but it was next year where he got win number three nineteen the regular season. In fact, Don Shula opened up a bunch of steakhouses across the country and they were Shula three nineteen because you know, he always called them that because

of that. That was you know, that was that what that win meant to him, you know, doing that for the Miami Dolphins. And you know when it comes to Don Shula, you know, everybody seems to have a story about him. You want my Don Chula story, real face hit. This is this is also then lamenting the fact that he existed in your division. All No, this is this is great because this was me interviewing Bubba Smith back

in two thousand and three. I want to say, for a TV show on Fox of Fox Sports one now called the Sports List, it was like, I love the eighties, but for sports and we look back it was best Super Bowls, best shortstops, you know, best NBA Finals games. Where it was a list of the top ten best things of all time. So Bubba Smith comes in to do an interview. We're talking about best Super Bowls and Bubba Smith played on that Colts team that Don Shula coached that lost to the Jets and Super Bowl three.

So he comes and he sits down, and I'm talking to Bubba Smith doing the pre interview stuff with him and East why I saw my Jets fan. He Jets fan and like he saw red. And he started telling me about how Super Bowl three was fixed and he knew it was fixed and he wanted to prove all of his life that the game was fixed. He said, I got into a cab after the game was over, and even the cab driver said to me, all the smart money was on the Jets. Everybody knew. He was

really mad. He said. He went to the party after the game was over and other players were dancing. He was really mad. He told me got thrown out of the Dolphins post of the Colts post super Bowl party because he was really mad they lost the game. And I said, well, I said, whoa. I said, nobody said this about anything. It happened to me, because well, let

me tell you what happened at halftime. For some reason, Don Shula put us in this different and these are this is Bubba Smith telling the story, and this this is me recalling it for him because he passed away. He said they had us do something different defensively that wasn't working. And I went to him a halftime and I said, put me here, put me back here, and I will dominate. Get in the backfield and stop the Jets what they're doing. And he wouldn't do it all.

He said that he was shut up in play your position, and so he was really mad about that, and he wanted to prove the rest of his life that the Super Bowl was fixed. When we won the next year, I didn't feel the same because I felt like we should have had two. And I joked around with him and I said, well, after all, you're telling me right here I go kind of telling my life is a lie. And he looked at me. He said, well, your life is a lie. What do I have to look back

at that? Yeah? I had the Christmas game in in two thousand eleven Bears at Packers. So you know, you said, let me it's just quick, because you know, you get excited that your team's playing on Christmas again. At some point you're done with family stories for the nine thousand time. Going through the photo albums, everybody's glutton eyes, some are drunk, whatever the case. Is, and then you watch Aaron Rodgers eviscerate your squad throwing five touchdown passes against Josh McCown

and Khalil Bell in the backfield. Josh McCown who wasn't nearly at the end of his NFL career, yes, coaching high school football and still going. But yeah, Rogers five touchdowns, so it became one of us. All Right, I just don't want to go back to the story, so we're gonna grin and just deal with however bad this gets the only lost by four teen, but it was an eternity. Normally in the podcast, this is where we look back at the year that was, but I mean it's we're

not looking back at the beginning of Christmas. It was okay, well we can do a little Jesus was born and they took him out of the manger on Christmas Day. There you had seventeen games between nine and two thousand seventeen. They actually moved the regular season by a week in nineteen seventy six because they didn't want to go on Christmas weekend. So a little bit there. Uh, you know, there are four teams that are undefeated on Christmas Day.

Go ahead, Philadelphia Pittsburgh. Wow, well they boot Santa Claus, so they should do well on christ there they like to fight on Christmas Day. It's a small sample size, but two and oh Philly two and O Pittsburgh two and are one and no Chargers and one of no Jets. I know, I feel so happy about Yeah, yeah, there it is. There's your best statins where I can get them. Yeah, no, that's it. So, oh, there you go. There's the Special

Teams Miami Dolphins Christmas. What about the NBA? We actually got two teams coming your way next on the podcast that did Special Things on It is Special Teams with Jason Smith and Mike Harmon from Fox Sports Radio, as we take you through a very special edition of our Special Teams podcast today. This is a Christmas Day edition. As we get near the holidays, you want to look back at some of the special teams that did good things on Christmas Day. Well, that's what we're doing here

for you today. We talked about the Miami Dolphins what they did on Christmas Day. The NFL, they didn't play for a long time. Christmas Day is now owned by the National Basketball Association. For many people, it's the real official beginning of the NBA season with NFL and full swing when the NBA tips off in October. Sometimes it takes a long time for the NBA to get to

the limelight. Now the past few years with all the stars going on, basically they have Opening Night almost every night during the week, all Lebron is playing, the Clippers are playing, Janice is playing. But Christmas Day, for the longest time was the big first day of the year on the NBA calendar, and we have two teams that

did special things, the Heat and the Lakers. Let's first go back to two thousand and four where the Lakers squared off against the Heat in a much ballyhooed Christmas Day game because this was Shack versus Kobe for the first time. The Lakers were coming off losing the NBA Finals to the Detroit Pistons. Shack finds his way out, gives traded to the Miami Heat. We knew Shack and Kobe didn't like each other. What was gonna happen as they faced off for the very first time as adversaries.

They did shake hands before the game. A video tribute for Shaquille O'Neal was played, but he said he didn't watch it. This was Shack being really mad at the Lakers, met at Jerry Bus for not giving him the maximum extension that he wanted a year before, still mad about what they did to Phil Jackson because Phil Jackson was dismissed after they lost to the Pistons in the finals. Kobe is getting the blame for Shack leaving. He was

more beloved, you know, Kobe was the harder worker. And now it kind of went in the reverse because Shaq is coming in as the villain and the Lakers, who always had embraced Kobe kind of an arms length because they loved Shack so much. Now I had to say, okay, Kobe's our guy. And this was a really great game. Shack fouled out in the fourth quarter. Kobe foul him

out by driving on him and fouling him out. You know, Shaq had that big quote before the game when they asked him what was gonna happen if you know Kobe drove the lane on you, and Shack said, well, what happens when a corvette runs into a brick wall. So that was a very big thing from shock Um. Shack had twenty four and eleven rebounds. Kobe had forty two, but he missed a three at the buzzer and overtime. Dwyane Wade was the one who had the big game

twenty nine points and ten assists. And this game was the first one that really jump started the NBA on Christmas Day tradition because they played on Christmas Day where but this was where wait a minute, we have a marquee matchup to look forward to in the NBA realized, wait a minute, we can own Christmas Day. This is

pretty cool. That's it. Going into the history of it and as we do and and looking at old box scores and some great highlights and and write ups, and they've been playing on Christmas Day as as early as but the evolution we talked about the NFL a little earlier in the podcast and how they kind of danced around it, didn't quite want to embrace it. There was blowback for the NBA over time, it became a tradition.

But when you had Kobe and Shack, I mean, everybody just wanted to watch how they'd interact with one another, not exactly the best of you know, handshakes, depth, whatever you want to call it, A little mean mug and going on and look, I'm still the big brother kind of feeling from Shaquille O'Neal and the fact that they followed him out on Christmas Day. Man, come on, that Kobe fouled him out, well, but but I mean that

they called six falls on them. How often when you watch it, and and dear listener, when you watch an NBA game, you go, yeah, this guy should have been gone to the third quarter star rules as it goes, But not on Christmas Day. Back in two thousand four, No, no, no, no, not so fast. So that's the first special teams game between the Heat and the Lakers. Now we fast forward to two thousand and ten, a much different Lakers team,

a much different Heat team. This is a Lakers team that had now been led specifically by Kobe Bryant for a while, and they had won a couple of championships. Now this was how long can this run happen? Phil Jackson was back as Lakers head coach. He was a very different vibe as the Lakers navig aided most of the odds until you got to the late part of the odds with boy, when is his team going to get better? They had a couple of really down years. But now they went to back to back final, back

to back to back finals, and they won. It was a very big deal and now the Lakers were suddenly, hey, wud beat the Magic, beat the Celtics. Everything is good. Meanwhile, for the Miami Heat, this was their first year with Lebron James. How things were going. It was rough going at first for the Miami Heat because they didn't win as much as they expected. Dwayne Wade was very upset. Everybody hates us. I can't believe it, but everybody wanted to see this Christmas Day game between the Heat and

the Lakers. The Lebron backlash at this point was about at its highest level because the Heat weren't playing great and many people were very unhappy that Lebron James decided to do this basically say oh, look, you took the NBA away from all the other teams by saying, hey, we're just gonna team up here and play. Many fans thought it wasn't fair, but at the same time it

was can't guys go play wherever they want to? But the point is the backlash for Lebron James was about at its highest on Christmas Day so much so that I don't know anybody who wasn't a Heat fan that wasn't rooting for the Lakers. How many people it aren't Lakers fans route for the Lakers and games. This is where you hate watched on both sides if you were

not a fan of either. Lebron had a triple double in the game, and just like the first best Christmas Day game that we talked about, Heat won that one, one oh four, one oh two. As I said, Kobe missing a three at the buzzer, the Heat pull away to win this one nine six to eighty, and that's where you kind of realized maybe the Heat are gonna kind of get it together at some point. Obviously they did. They went all the way to the NBA Finals. The Lakers, meanwhile,

as back to back champions. This is when they got ushered out of the playoffs very shockingly by Dirk Novitsky in the Dallas Mavericks. This is whoa look at what the Mavericks just did to the Lakers. How the hell did this happen? Lakers have been a three five, What the hell just happened to them? This was a very shocking finish for them, and then the Mavericks would go on to the NBA Finals where they took on the Heat. We talked about this u in a previous podcast as well.

If you want to hear about the Meet the Heatles season, you can find that as well. And special Teams, well, one of the the great runs that four year period that they played together. But here was the coming out party and an absolute thumping of this Lakers squad. I mean, you saw Kobe Bryant struggling just six of sixteen in the game, never really was able to put his imprint

upon it. They looked for other scores, Paul Gasol who had a fantastic NBA run that ended in but certainly this was the time for Lebron James to take that next step. So there's the Heat and the Lakers. Christmas Day Special Teams coming up next, a pot pourri of special teams to celebrate certain teams had great performances on December twenty will also do a little bit of where

are they now? Not for Christmas Day. Christmas Day is always on the twenty five, but some things that we used to have on Christmas Day that we don't have anymore. That's coming up next, right, here show teams Jason Smith and Mike Army. Happy Holidays. Hopefully you're enjoying this look back at big performances on Christmas Day's past. A very bit of a wrinkle here. In our Special Teams podcast that we have going on here, we talked about the

Heat and the Lakers, the Miami Dolphins. A little potpourri we have for you right now. I love, I love just saying potpourri. The first game we'll look back at special Teams the two thousand three Hawaii Ball, which featured Hawaii and Houston. This game was a one of those typical West Coast shootout type games. Hawaii beats Houston forty eight and overtime. Timmy Chang had a big game equipment.

This is back when when Hawaii would go through Timmy Chang and Nick Rolovich and every guy would come in and throw for like five yards in every single game. Colt Brennan look at one quarterback after the next, and then they'd come to the NFL. See, I'd love to see those guys playing in today's NFL. They were about ten years too fast, uh, Timmy changing through for four seventy five and five touchdowns. The big Game for Houston

was six week Fantasy Superstar about nine years ago. Jackie Battle Kansas City Chiefs, right, who ran for a hundred twenty four yards and three touchdowns. There were that six weeks when Jackie Butt. Look at Jackie Battle, gotta get him in fat I remember doing all those waiver wire pickup shows. Yeah, Jackie Battle, you gotta stick with him. But it wasn't just because this game was this is

a very famous game. He could find the end of it on YouTube in which the team's fought at midfield after the game and one player, i mean there were shouting, punches were being thrown in. One player through his helmet at at somebody. You can say, I'm just gonna throw my helmet at you. And one on Houston went all Miles Garrett on a player on who White, taking off his helmet and swinging over the top at him. You

do this at the college level. I mean there's been a couple of fights, but at the end of the college football season, some wide receivers and cornerbacks game like nothing compared to what bedlam, right. I mean, you got Dave Barnett who was just like this is just sad, Like there's just no other way to describe it, like you're not calling it like it's a wrestling match. Just sitting behind the microphone, going, my god, what am I watching? Is this is? This is gonna be a load of

stuff to unload. Hunt classic game, right, triple ot all of the greatness and the pageantry that his college football, and then that in two thousand to the Las Vegas Bowl u c l A beating New Mexico State. Okay, you still winning a bowl game is very noteworthy now because they don't do that that often. But now they're not. Why we're looking back, But Katie Nida was the first woman to play in D one college football. She kicked an extra point after a touchdown for New Mexico State,

but it got blocked. She also went on to kick two extra points first North Texas State the next year. But this was the first time we saw a woman play in D one college football. This has now become a topic of conversation. Now you're you're going ahead seventeen years because Carly Lloyd wants to try out for the NFL. She went and had that big kicking audition with the Philadelphia Eagles in the summer of twenty and Eventually we're

gonna see a woman kick in the NFL. I firmly believe it because we're in an age now where look, players don't care what your sexual orientation is. They don't care anything. Can you play well? Players now are coming up the younger players. They don't care about things that so many older people cared about. If a woman can kick a fifty five yard field goal with the kind of accuracy that Justin Tucker has, doesn't matter. They will find a place for on the team. And I can

see a player winning a job kicking in preseason. A Wow, this woman kicks sixty yard field goals like it's nothing. Of course she's gonna kick for But what do we do week to week? We watch abject failures trotted out by number of numerous teams, and without going deep into the ten roster of bad kickers, because there are ample, including some some future Hall of famers who are going

through terrible years. I mean Adam Vinetaria has been awful for much of The Patriots have a new kicker every week, right appendectomy signed a guy off the street, Mrs A p A t done that. It's like a TV show. And this week our special guest star. Is it's The Bachelor, right, No, it's the seventies TV show. It's it's one of those positions that seemingly it's throwaway. Right, We've always joked about it in fantasy. Oh, they should elimit. It's like, No,

it's it's a very important facet of the game. And as the NFL has most games decided by seven or fewer points, it is become even more of a specialty. Yes, people can kick further, but not necessarily with the same accuracy. So yes, if if a woman like Katie did to or whoever else comes through, Carly Lloyd, whomever, if you can kick accurately, you're gonna get a shot. So there's your special teams on Christmas Day? What about Where are

they now? Are some things we used to see on Christmas A couple of them that we don't have anymore? Where are they now? Where is the National Hockey League on Christmas Day? They have not played on Christmas Day since nineteen seventy one. They did not want to mess around with the holiday. Remember, the majority of the NFL is also Canadian and Boxing Day NHL Boxing Day on Canada is so they've decided we're not gonna play. They haven't played since nineteen seventy one. But honestly, the NHL

on Christmas Day sort of makes sense, right. I mean we're talking about lacing them up, getting out there, putting the parkers on and hanging out. Now. They do a good job on New Year's Day, a lot of fast, expantas plastic. But yes, it doesn't make much sense. And again you're looking for all the action, uh, in sporting events that you can along the way. The last game, UH nineteen one got a great quote from Butch Goring, played in that last game, Stanley Cup champions sixteen years

in the league, told NHL dot Com this quote. It's time when you're really not in the mood to play hoffs. He works for the Islanders. Uh, you grew up as kids, even Boxing Day in Canada, it's time to relax and enjoy what you did the night before, recovering from what you did the night before. When you grow up with that concept, it's tough to get yourself. What what what do you mean? What am I doing Christmas? I'm gonna get hammered on Christmas Eve. It's Christmas Day on Boxing Day? Yeah,

I mean that's basically what you said. I mean because remember the NHL also now has the moratorium on transaction during that week to try to be more family oriented, not to have guys bouncing around. Ah, you just got cut on Christmas. Even Christmas GM was in the middle of he got a piece of pie eated likes and you know what that last defenseman called, he's done. Yeah, we need you to go to Binghamton. You've been cutting now. I know one thing you miss a lot. We haven't

seen since two thousand and three. Yeah, the Blue Gray game, you know, for the degenerates out there. I mean, there's no question about it. It was a big deal. Sixty four games played Christmas Day all the time, and we got excited about it. Always had a side and you had some activity all the way through. There was a game all the way through two thousand one. It was playing annually. They missed two thousand two because Kelly Tires said, we're not sponsoring. Well, we don't have a sponsored So

they did it one last time in Montgomery. But some notables to have played in it, Howie Long when at Villanova, Joe Morris, uh Len Dawson bart Star, Jerry Rice was the game MVP with a hundred one yards two touchdowns. So back when, and that was also back when you didn't see college football all star games. It was kind of fun scene, right, a lot of these guys you read it, you'd read about in the Sunday morning paper, you look at box scores, maybe there'd be a write

up of guys in other conferences. Right. Growing up in Chicago, yeah, we had a lot of Big ten coverage on the local newscasts, but it's not like yet a twenty four hour cable channel dedicated to the network like you do now. And certainly you didn't have this great scope of what Jerry Rice was doing at Mississippi Valley State or any of those type of schools. So you'd see the name going, wait minute, this guy's catching he's doing what is this

a week week basis? He's doing what And you see the you know, the national leaders, and we're all these players from these colleges like, all right, find them on the map. For one, if they didn't have the state or directional it's also big for them too because it was Hey, it's like now having a good Senior Bowl. Hey,

they had a good Blue Gray game. Yeah, back then, I mean, that was a big part of showing up and having your opportunity to showcase your talent against other seniors because I I used always root for the blue. Blue is a better color than gray, so I'd vote for the blue. Alright, games Gray thirty three Blue, two ties. Yeah, that's how it goes, two ties as you go run for the losers, all right, So you want one more

good little random note from the NBA. The Charlotte Hornets slash Bobcats and the Memphis Grizzlies slash Vancouver Grizzlies have never played on Christmas Day, the only two teams to never at least get one invite to the dance. We'll have to reinvite the Vancouver Grizzlies to the league, move remove the franchise and then invite them on Christmas Day. This big country reeves come along with it and Sharif ab do a raheem. Yes, well you have to have Sharifa.

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