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Fantastic. I flew Guy with Wings last holiday season. Yeah, it didn't go well, you making about four feet. I was guys stuck at home for the holidays, you know, because I made bad travel plans. Speaking of just as you said that, I'm flying tomorrow on what is the busiest travel day of the year. I don't know that seems like a thrashing the FW or love dub Bless your Heart, thirty flight am Yeah, destination sr Q Sarasota Bradenton International. But the busiest Yeah, I don't know,
better get there. I'm not an early bird at the airport. Usually I'm not pretty low stress flyer. But yeah, I keep you keep reading the busiest day of the year. Are you TSA PRE? No, you need to do it. I'm so lazy. Mary. My sister in law just sent me an invite to clear. You know what clear is. I think it's like a level up from TSA PRE. Like it's international. And if your airport has clear, you just do nothing and you take the Bazuka right
on the plane. Yeah, you can dress like first Blood, to dress like John Rambo and just strut right right through. You'd go. Yeah, there's no metal detect or nothing. No, you're dressed like am War saedant, just popping on your commercial flight. You have the chest thing with ammunition andbaka just the baked potato grenades, a banana clip and chest dressed like Anwar's sedants. Go ahead, you are a calear. I believe your machine gun
will fit snugly in the overhead can part. Yeah, they take the machine gun and put it in a little sample thing like yeah, and you're like, I've done that. I bring it all the time. I'll make it. Is that an authentic German potato? Masha, I'll take that for you. Yeah, that'll fit in nicely. Uh yeah, So I'm none of
those things. I'm a regular ass. But I need to. It's just a matter of I think you have to either go to the airport and do it, or go to one of their satellite locations and do the ts Are you tsa pre It's probably run out by now because I haven't flown in a couple of years. Well, yeah, no, I'm not. I think it involves a cavity search. Yeah, what's holding me up? I do those a discount. Yeah, behind the building on Tuesdays. So you're in luck. Good? Yeah? Have you ever? Okay, So when you
do the flying, I always miscalculate it. Like every time it's like, oh, busiest day of the year, you better get there like three hours early. Man. I end up rolling through security in ten seconds and then I'm stuck out a terminal with nothing to do for like two hours. Or I'm like, you know what, I'm sick of this. I'm sick of good in the airport early every time I do it, and then you time it out to where, okay, yeah, five minutes, pre check whatever,
get through the thing. And those are the times where you're hurdling like oj Simpson and it hurts commercial just to freaking get on to the damn whatever that thing is. You get in line, the line sweat IV Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna give it plenty of time tomorrow, I suppose. But and then you get in there and you have time to kill and it's in airport, so at seven forty five am, you can have a lasagna and a glass of wine. It's not weird at all. Pretzels to
go. Oh, I get to go to Annie An's, my favorite restaurant. You love. You wanted the stadium Bowl a few months back. Yeah, remember that, you remember the stadium Bowl. They're going to order me the Stadium Bowl. You're going to eat it on your way home. I almost left here and went to the Gallery and yes, to get the stadium Bowl, which is a freaking NFL stadium made out of pretzel bread. But they look so cute. I think they were the spectator. That's incredible.
Now I want one. Just talk about it and it makes you want an incredible soft pretzel. And then on the field there's an array of dips. Yeah, dips on the field, little WEENI covered dogs in the end zone. I'm hungry. Let's speaking of stadiums. Did anybody watch football last night? I stayed up until the final whistle? Man, I wish that I hadn't that I did. How the how the f did Kansas City not win that damn game? They were in total ask command well until like the fourth
quarter, until halftime, until I stopped playing football. Listen to their drives in the second half, punt punt, fumble, punt, punt, turnover on downs. And I think that's three games in a row the Chiefs have been shut out in the second half, like they actually have offensive problems despite having the freaking goat their defense. It's football for a reason. It looked like they had the best defense in the NFL through two quarters. Yeah in
that game. Yeah, and it just disappeared. You know what they got is the drop SI's on offense too, worse than the league right, twenty six drops on the year, worst in the league, five drops last night, three drops on the final drive. Imagine how Marquez vander Valdez Scantling feels waking up this morning. That was the path, the second to last pass into the end zone. Am that hit him in both hands? It's funny they the second that that ball left Mahomes hands and I looked to the left
of the screen and saw that dude as open as he was. My first thought was, holy crap, there's like a minute and a half left. Jalen Hurts is going to go down and win this game. You know, it's too much time left for him to throw a bomb like that to the end zone. And then I'll be damned if he didn't catch it and not
catch it right in his effing hands. And then they had a chance after Mahomes like intentionally grounded the ball, and then it's like fourth and twenty five on basically the final play from scrimmage for Kansas City of the game, they get an open ass receiver, I mean not wide open. There were defenders closing in, but the ball was put right in dude's hands. Although he zinged it. Yeah, it looked like he did not expect the ball to get there as quick as it did. And then that one just flies through
his hands. Yes, my homes is so good, but it's they just their receivers are not good. And you have Kelsey who he trusts and everything, but you just don't have good receivers. They're dropping it like crazy. But he threw that strike to Scandaling. That's it. I mean you he did his job. And he's so great because in post game he's like, you know, we just got to make plays. You know, He's like, I gotta do better, and every one of the world's like, ye
okay, we know. Just say it. Just say they suck. Just say you want Tyreek back more than anything in the whole wide world. Well, they could have done the Chiefs could have done the Cowboys a big favor with that win. But the Eagles eke out another win. There was more tush pushing. They're good, man. I mean, I don't know how good the Eagles are, Like what are they nine and one for the second straight year? Like so really good. But I don't know if it's weird.
I just don't fear them as much as mate last year. I don't know what it is. I expect the Cowboys to hang one on on. They play here on the tenth of December, a couple of weeks. But that's a loss that the Cowboys needed them to take on the road at Kansas City and they did not. You read our buddy Jake's article in d magazine this week about the changes that the Cowboys made after the or I guess during
the bye week and what that entailed. Apparently there was like a lot of big get together meetings about the offense with personnel, coaches and all of that during the bye week and a lot of opinions, uh, you know, shared, a lot of ideas shared, and that's kind of what they came out with. And they've been pretty freaking perfect since. Was it the pre
snap motion that? Yeah, I don't want to be such a mouth breather and say that is the key, but it does seem like it in a modern NFL like on the move, confuse the defense get those switches that will buy you a half of a second, which is an eternity. Well, yeah, and if any if nothing else, it gives you an idea of what the defense's plan is, the way they react to your shifts. And I wanted to do this segment last week when I think he was thirty to
one. I don't know why it's plummeted so much, but the whole Prescott MVP thing, he's down a fifteen to one, I believe, which I still think is pretty damn good because Jalen Hurts sort of established himself as the MVP favorite after last night. He's plus two to fifty. He's your favorite. Lamar Jackson second, mahomes is third, then Tua, and then Dak.
He sided with Brock Purdy at fifteen to one. But I'm like, even at fifteen to one, I feel like there's a pretty good chance because again, if the Cowboys hang a win, god forbid, convincingly when they play the Eagles in that game, I think you can have a pretty good argument because all the stats, all the QBR and everything say that Dak is the best quarterback in football this season, and when you factor in that, he's where is this He spent an entire football game and two full overtimes worth
of time sitting on the bench in the fourth quarter of the season. That cast because they've just smashed people that they've won. They have these multiple a lot with six twenty point wins, so that's a lot of meat left on the bone as far as stats. Yeah that if you're really gonna dig him for any overall stats, not quality stats, any quantity stats. How much has Cooper played? Did you just set it for again, it's a tweet, Dak press gotta spent an entire football game and two full o t's and
so that's those are five minutes each, so four quarters. So has he played four full quarters? I don't know. It doesn't seem like that much, but I know he played the last two Yeah. Yeah, almost the entire fourth in the last game, and the entire fourth in the game before. So maybe a little bit more cumulative stats for Dak if he's playing, meaning full time in the fourth quarter, much less playing at all, if you care about such things. One play from last night that I want to
talk about. I don't know if you saw it. You see the Jalen Carter interception attempt? Was it glued? Okay? I didn't see it live either, I saw it on on the tweet. But I love when people try things that have never been tried before, like the umbrella plane. Yeah,
like a umbrella flight. So I think it was the It was right at halftime, right before the end of the second quarter, right and Jalen Carter is the defensive lineman for the Eagles and he's lined up right over the center for the Chiefs and it was obvious spike the ball scenario, you know, like the Chiefs are rushing to the ball and Patrick's like, oh, I was spiking spiking in you know, when they take it and spike it
straight down. Jalen Carter lines up right head to head over the center, and the second the ball is snapped, Jalen Carter dives through the center's legs with his palms upward and he was like an inch away. I maybe even hit his hands, I don't know, and mahme spikes the ball straight down and I don't know if it hit his hands, but he creates like a volleyball hamburger save or whatever they do, what do they call that when they just slad your hand out, palms up trying to get the ball to bounce
straight upward or land in his hand somehow. And it kind of it looked like it could work, and if you try that fifty times, it will work, whether or not it bounces up and then goes straight into into his hands or maybe bounces I don't know, up and over his head or you just catch it or just snag it instantly on the spike. I don't think that's gonna happen, but it's something I've never seen try it. He just gracefully slid between the center's legs and tried to create a little platform. Did
the ball ever touch his hand. It's hard to tell because they usually spike those balls hard. Yeah, it's hard to tell if if it actually hit his hands. I'll try to bring it up for you because it's actually hilarious. I guess if you're if you're on defense, you think a pretty good tell that you're trying to do that would be if your nose tackle puts on receivers gloves. Yeah, the stickies. I know. I've brought this up to you before. Have you ever, Steve, Have you ever like put
on those damn receivers gloves and caught a football? Absolutely not, dude. It's incredible, how amazing they are grip for days, It's insane. Like back in the day, you know, Fred Bulitnikoff was notorious for stick em with something that became outlawed later. You know, I think by the end of the seventies, I don't think you get or the eighties, you could even use it anymore. But I mean that guy would just coat his hands with this. It was like honey, yeah, and balls would just like
like velcrow to this dude's hands. Yeah, he's a good receiver, nonetheless, But they outlawed that stuff, and that's kind of when the advent of like receivers gloves. I got a pair and probably like ten years ago. You know, you all get crap, free crap at a radio station. It'll go to a break or any random break room at a radio station.
There's a box of stuff and it was some stuff from the NFL, and there were receivers gloves, and I like snagged a pair and went home with my oldest and let's go try these out, man, and dude, it's crazy. Yeah, you can just like grab a ball out of the air with one hand and it just goes. Yeah, Like if you have any kind of football acumen at all, you're they up your game. Man. There's a reason why those dudes use those. I don't. I can't even
think of a receiver that doesn't wear them. Boy, is there a receiver that doesn't wear Why would you love? Why would Yeah, it's foolish not to because right that shiny tight material like that obj catch, Like those catches don't happen, not without those gloves, without no way magical gloves. And
I don't want to minimize one handed catches, but yes they're not. If you try those gloves on and caught a football, you would understand that it's not as impossible as it is. They kind of make it look with as magic gloves. Here watch this, So look at Jalen Carter. So the dive, oh dude in his hands. It hit his hands and just kind of popped straight up. That's smart, isn't that kind of it hit him right in his hands and just couldn't He was laying on his chest so he
couldn't kilt his head up. Was that? I wonder if he was the only one on the team that knew that was gonna happen, because it seems like you would have told your friends it's like, hey, go around, I'm gonna tip this thing up in the air, right, like keep a heads up. But it did bounce straight up, and yeah it did because he couldn't look up. But if he could, he might have caught it because it kind of just went right to the right of him. Is that
genius? Yeah? Do do more wild stuff? I like it? Come up with Yeah, okay, hear me out, Jalen plan for tonight. I'm gonna play this cut of audio here, give me the ding dong. I don't even know how good the audio is, but I think it's kind of just awesome that I hadn't thought about this that we have. Is this sports audio? Yeah, okay, okay, someone do something because I have
trouble. You're listening to Sports at seven. On the downbeat, Mikey is frantically trying to plug in his cord to play some very valuable audio that we're going to hear just in mere moments. It's two minutes. I don't even know if all that's great, but I think it's kind of awesome that the
stars in the American Airline Center announced yesterday Dirk's getting a buddy. Dirk's getting a buddy out front Lonely Dirk. They only let him have one basketball instead of the three he was promised in his statue that Mike Madonna is going to get a statue in front of the American Airline Center. Now those two statues can share the mozzarella sticks. From Alamo Draft exactly right. Finally, use the buddy system when ordering mozzarella sticks. Here's Mikey mo and the great Darryl
Razor. Ray, you haven't done one of these in a while, so here we go. Look, you've had so many honors bestowed on you, Hockey Hall of Fame, US Hockey Hall of Fame, you have a rink named after your back home in Lavonia, so having a statue, where does that raid in there? I don't know. I thought we were done with these things, and poor Gallardi's had to foot the bill for all these things. So I feel bad for Tom, but he's been phenomenal. But this
is just kind of the grand finale of that all. And being out there with Dirk obviously a great friend and guy that we've done a lot of the great things here in this town together, and being able to watch a lot of great basketball and great hockey. But yeah, it's just the icing. And I think so Dirk has the patented fade away one leg shot going, Are you gonna have some say in what yours looks like? I actually did so, Dan Stukele and I and Brad and we all kind of came up
with a photo. You'll know what it is, so people will know it. Wow, it's like a tease all of a sudden from you. It's a patent one, so you'll know. Okay, can you give us a hint as to the era of Mike Madonna in Dallas? That was God, I'm thinking early two thousand is late ninety nine, late nineties, the good era, the hellsy on days around here. So when you look at your life right now and you're chasing five children around up in Minnesota, what are
they gonna think of this? I don't think they still believe that I never played. So you know, they're like, you know, watching videos and you know, starting to starting to sink in here and there, especially Minnesota people coming up and you know, my daughter's says, god, you got a lot of friends. Yeah. I'm like, well, you know, I met a lot of few people out along the way. But yeah, they're still they're still kind of trying to figure it out. But yeah,
they'll they'll all be here for this. So this they're they're excited. You've appreciated fashion and art through your years in that I'm wondering, is there a statue out there that that you really like or you have appreciated. There's so many. You could just pick the arena in Los Angeles, so there's about
fifty around that one. I think a little more exclusive here at PNC Plaza, yeah, a little bit, and all the ones in Little Caesars Arena in Detroit with those great guys, in Chicago Stadium with Hall and Makida and those guys, and and Jordan. But I was at the Artist's Studio in Chicago and right there was Barry Sanders, so big. I was a big Barry Sanders fan, obviously growing up, still still starving for the Lions to win a division. But he was a big, big fan of Barry.
But yeah, it's amazing piece, and you know he's it's just it looks phenomenal. Well, you're the foundation of everything that's gone on around here, so it's very fitting you're going to be drilled into the foundation outside this arena. Congratulations, man, It's it's an honor fitting you for sure. Thanks,
Raser appreciated it. Keep back. That's awesome. I'm really happy for him because when you think of one person to represent a franchise, it's obviously Dirk for the MAVs, no matter I think no matter what happens with number seventy seven. I think it's Phil be dark no matter what, because he brought the first championship here Madonno, brought the first championship to the Stars first and only. Yeah. Yeah, And you wonder what the statue is going
to reflect, which image it's going to reflect. It's got to be him on a breakaway with the sweater just flapping in the wind beyond the mall. It. Yeah, I think that's it, because I'm is there a single iconic image of him from their Stanley Cup year. He's got one hands up there, hands up after a goal. But I think you're right, we need we need breakaway right, sweater and mullet in motion, I think.
But that's pretty bad ass man. And he's sort of, I mean, furthest thing from forgotten, but like when you compare it to Dirk, who's such a staple of the community and all this, And Mike Berdono did kind of leave like shortly after, and I mean he played so he played for Detroit right after he played here, and then he got to what Scottsdale as quick as he could and made a tea time and fine, and that's fine. But it's not like the I don't know, the staple of DFW that
Dirk has has become on a lot of levels. But well, and also you keep in mind like that that stars Stanley Cup was like nineteen ninety nine, yep, ninety nine, and then the MAVs didn't win their first until twenty eleven, so there's, yeah, he's kind of Dirk is at least a little more present of mind for maybe younger sports fans in the Metroplex than Madonna. So it might be people that are showing up to the arena in a couple of years agoing who's that guy. I wonder if they'll put it
right across from Dirk's, kind of at the foot of the plaza. I think that's the plan, right, I don't know. I don't know that would be the natural spot anyway, Mike Madonna will join Dirk Novisky and shrined forever with a statue in front of the American Airline Center. Pretty pretty cool, as Guntald, But Steve, what do you got? Argentina elects the new president and plumbers prepare for the day after Thanksgiving