Hour 2 – Sports Bucket List, Andy Staples

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio, our number.

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Speaker 2: Two on a meet Friday. Absolutely love any chance I get to be up here in Connecticut with the dan Nets talking about meat, talking about football somehow, talking about Paprika pronunciation because Fritzy pulled a Fritzy at the end of our number one. By the way, this is what's so great about life and the Internet. There's a lot of bad stuff about the Internet. There's a lot of bad stuff about social media, but the instantaneous access to feedback and to information is incredible. We got to talk about last night's game because it was one of the worst games I've ever seen, and Fritzy is wearing a blonde wig for some reason as.

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Speaker 3: A result, so we got to get to that.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you about what I'm doing Monday night because I want every single one of you to put it on your bucket list.

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Speaker 3: But first let me do two things.

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Speaker 2: Let me welcome in everybody listening on all the different Fox Sports Radio affiliates over four or five hundred, which is incredible, including one where I reside in Harrisburg, which is very cool. We're live on Peacock. I know at least my mom and my mother in law Rachel are watching. Thank you guys for watching. That's a great thing about grandma's, my daughter's grandma's. You can check us out at Danpatrick dot com. You can call in eight seven seven to three DP show. You can always hit us up on social media at DP show on Twitter X. I'm at Ross Tucker NFL, and I promise I check during every commercial break. Love those of you that check us out when you get a chance later via podcast. Mine is the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. So this is what's so funny. We go to break, okay, and Steve Stone hits me up on social at Ross Tucker NFL and says might be a regional thing Pa Prika down south, such as Fritzi was saying, John Light Junior, Pa Prika, I'm from Central Virginia.

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Speaker 3: Okay. So we're getting several people that are backing up Fritzi on this. You know what I did. I did the.

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Speaker 2: Little Google machine, okay, on my phone, and I said Paprika pronunciation.

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Speaker 4: Paprika.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys hear that? Was that loud enough?

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Speaker 4: Paprika?

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Speaker 5: It's definitely a puh puh situation.

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Speaker 3: Puh Paprika.

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Speaker 2: And then I feel like I'm I feel like I'm in my cousin Vinnie, you know, I feel like I'm presenting my evidence, you know, like Joe Pessi. And then it was brought to me document number twenty seven oh three.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry?

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Speaker 5: What is his name?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Uh oh yeah, there was a little something there is what I say? It's Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. I say Pessi. You said Joe Pessi? Yeah, Irony, oh yess what? All right?

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Speaker 2: Jesse Joe Pessi? Is it a Pesci? Would be worse than saying Paprika? Is it a Paprika?

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Speaker 3: All right? But listen, it's Pesci? All right. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: According to Ali Baba dot Coyle, I don't even know what that is.

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Speaker 6: That's one of the sites I here. I looked at a few different places and they all had the same is that.

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Speaker 2: Like reputable Ali Baba dot I wouldn't buy any goods where you go for information time.

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Speaker 3: I got a bad basketball jersey. I think once of them from overseas. It's a thank you Todd all right.

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Speaker 2: The connect pronunciation of paprika is pa prika. This three syllable word places emphasis on the second syllable. Second syllable fritzi with a soft a sound at the beginning. Many English speakers mispronounce it as paprika or pa prika. So anyway, you know, you know people in life say I hate to say I told you so.

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Speaker 3: I don't I love it.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I loved like I told you so. All right, so last night.

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Speaker 2: Your Broncos Fritzi won ten to seven, bad win, but you're wearing a blonde wig.

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Speaker 3: Please explain.

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Speaker 6: We had a call the other day wanted it to have a I don't know what he was gonna get in return if it didn't work out, but basically he said, if the Broncos don't win by at least ten, I would have to wear a Mark Davis Raiders owner wig.

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Speaker 2: Was there any chance that that was a guy named David in Ohio?

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Speaker 3: That's very likely who that was.

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Speaker 6: I think there was actually a tweet a little while ago saying he looks forward to seeing me in the wig.

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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven to three DP show.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Oh wow, there's so many callers who I could pick all of you?

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Speaker 7: Oh you know what, I'll go to David in Ohio. Hello, David, Hey, what's up Bra? That'd be meat Friday. Yeah, Todd, I was watching the game last night and I thought the Broncos were going to go down and score and cover that ten and it was going to be a push, but they ended up not.

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Speaker 3: But I love the wrong time you do on the show.

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Speaker 7: And that hair piece looks very plattering on you, So thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks David.

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Speaker 2: I like that you just accept betts from callers like that, and you can't wait to do a pie in the face with a caller. Remember that guy in Central Pa that reached out to me and wanted me to smash a pie in his face?

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Speaker 3: So I did it outside of Costco.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you showed up and did it.

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Speaker 2: That was amazing, all right. So enough about the last night's game. Don't even know what else to say. It was a terrible, terrible game.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: It reminded me of of what a lot of the Thursday night games used to be. Like, Thursday night football used to be bad. It's been good as of late. Monday night football is typically pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Monday Night.

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Speaker 2: I'll be in the radio booth with Kevin Harlan. What will he say to me?

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Speaker 3: When I walk into the booth, Fritzy.

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Speaker 9: How's it going Ross? This is the NFL on Westwood One. We'll step aside. That's one of the best things you do. You book, guess and you do Harlan.

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Speaker 6: He gets very excited.

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Speaker 3: I have a question, Paully.

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Speaker 2: After Kevin Harley says that to me, when I walk into the booth, what will I say?

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Speaker 8: I love lambeau I love Mustard, I love brats, and I love football in that order, in that order.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Seaton, when you go do a game at a I'm gonna call it a classic stadium, one that's been around for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: Right when you go sit down and you're.

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Speaker 5: In I'm assuming a booth, right, and you're gonna sit there and there's a table and stuff. Is the inside where you're working more modern than what the stadium appears, or is it like, hey guys, we're all here in the press box and like, oh, the only outlet is over there and we're all plugging into that one outlet.

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Speaker 2: It is a great question, and the answer is lambeau Field is amazing. And I mean this as sincerely as.

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Speaker 3: I mean anything else.

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Speaker 2: Everyone listening, everyone watching, please put it on your bucket list, please try to get to a game at some point at lambeau Field Seaton. They have done the most unbelievable job I've ever seen, where if you're sitting in the stands and looking at the field, it feels like it's still nineteen sixty and Bart Starr and Jerry Kramer and Forrest greg and Jim Taylor and Paul Horning. I could do this all day. Ray nichke that they're gonna come out there. And then the outside, what's the outside of a stadium called the facade? Yea, the facade ook Okay, the facade looks like it's from the nineteen fifties or sixties, very well done, looks like it's redone almost looks like an IVY League.

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Speaker 3: Stadium right on the outside.

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Speaker 2: But then the guts of it, it's really modern. They have all these nice luxury boxes. The booth, the press box and booth are amazing. I don't know what's that is that called retro fitting it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 2: They did, but somehow they made the inside and the outside look just the way you would expect it to. But then the middle, the middle part looks is as modern as anything.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, that's really interesting. So they kept sort of like the that like same classic charm, but modernized everything for the actual workings of the stadium.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I can't emphasize this enough, okay, because it really doesn't show that.

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Speaker 5: It looks like it's been like in a glass case since the day was built.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Incredible, And the grass is so amazing. And the craziest thing about it Packers fans are in the stadium an hour before the game. When the punters and kickers run out fifty five minutes before kickoff, the crowd goes crazy. It's the wildest thing. I can't emphasize enough. I remember going there as a rookie.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: It felt like we were driving down my street in while Missing Pennsylvania. It felt like we were in just your normal suburban town, Delaware Avenue in Wile, Missing Pa. And then we made a right turn and it would be like, picture, right next to your best friend's house in your neighborhood, there's an NFL stadium. I mean now, I know that there's probably bigger roads you can take to get there. And I think because it was the team bus for the Redskins, they took us on back roads, but it still is wild now.

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Speaker 3: In fairness, they have bought.

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Speaker 2: Some of the surrounding real estate and they have you know, commercialize it a little bit more so it's not quite what it was my rookie year twenty four years ago, but it is still incredible.

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Speaker 3: PAULI.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been there once in the eighties and twice in the past ten years, and like seen said, they haven't changed the tone. There's that street, it's called Shadow Lane. It's right by the field, right by Lombardi Ave and there's a bunch of little houses and they have tailgates in the back. But they did renovations for lambeau Field. They started them, I think maybe twenty years ago was a big one, and they kept the entire tone, the color, and the outside does not look like it was completely renov Now they added modern amenities, but it's kind of the opposite of what the Chicago Bears did with Soldier Field. They basically landed a spaceship on Soldier Field and it doesn't match at all, and like what they kept the outside of Soldier Field in the park area, but Soldier Field did not go the same tone as Lambefield and tried to match the outside the facade.

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Speaker 2: So here's my question for all four of you and everybody listening or watching on Peacock. You can hit us up eight seven seven to three DP show, or you can hit us up on social at DP show. I am at Ross Tuck, NFL. What's your number one bucket list sports venue, not event venue. What's the one venue you haven't gotten to that you really want to.

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Speaker 3: I will start.

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Speaker 2: This is actually kind of a combo platter, I would say, because I feel like you have to go there for the actual event. But it's the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. I don't think it would be the same if I just went to a random UCLA home game. I think it's gotta be the actual Rose Bowl. I have watched that game every January first my entire life. I have seen how it's dark on the East Coast, but out there the sunset in southern California it looks amazing. I there might be others, but right now, for me, in terms of ones I haven't seen yet, number one.

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Speaker 3: On my bucket list would be the Rose Bowl. PAULI.

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Speaker 8: I've worked three games at the Rose Bowl and it's very similar to what you said. It's a neighborhood and you're driving through this middle class neighborhood in Pasadena and all of a sudden you go down a hill and there it is, out of nowhere. It looks like it doesn't all really. Yes, it's a complete middle I never knew that. Yeah, you go down a hill, you turn right and there's the parking in there as a stadium and it's old school light on the amenities and they do the flyver. It's it's worth it, totally worth it.

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Speaker 3: Fritzie, do you have one?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if it's a little less about as you were saying, about the actual facility, more about like the specific game i'd want to see there. But I'd love to sit next to the Cameron crazies and go to a North Carolina duke basketball game at Cameron Indoor is something I would really like to experience.

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Speaker 2: You know what, You're a thousand percent right that that might almost even beat out Rose Bull for me. Now that you say that, I you know how many of those games have we watched over the years?

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Speaker 3: All right, what about Seaton?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Cameron Indoor was gonna be one of mine. I've always wanted to go to more racing events, you know, so like or whether it's Kentucky Derby or Indianapolis, you know, motor speedway. Yeah, I haven't done much of that. A lot of mine, for me are soccer stadiums because I really like soccer. And you know, it's weird though, because we're fortunate enough doing this that we've probably all been to quite a few stadiums. You know, I've never been to a Dodger game, though I would love to go to a Dodger game.

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Speaker 3: You know what's interesting, Seaton, I'm not a soccer guy at all. Okay, not at all.

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Speaker 2: I really want to go to like a Premier League, manach. I really want to go to some type of international soccer in the UK or in Spain or whatever, and I want to feel the passion and the energy.

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Speaker 3: I want to feel what that do?

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Speaker 10: You know?

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Speaker 3: Off the top of your head, Seaton, Like, is there one I should go to?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's a lot, for sure.

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Speaker 3: But like what's like the most well known, like.

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Speaker 5: If you're going to say in Spain like bernabout is a real Madrid camp? New is Barcelona? Those are pretty iconic sports venues.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've done a couple I've been in Europe a couple of times.

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Speaker 2: It's never matched up where there was a Premier League match I could go to.

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Speaker 5: You know, the crazy thing is is that there's so many tiers and it's almost like, uh, people are probably kill me for saying this, but even like almost like the lower you go in some ways, the more passionate it gets in the tiers. So you could go, you could have just as good a time in a smaller stadium that holds five or ten thousand people than you would in a place that holds sixty thousand.

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Speaker 3: Got it, Marv? What do you got?

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say the Rose Bowl, Well, uh, fog Allen Fieldhouse at Kansas Okay. I would love to go there see the Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, that entire thing. But the Rose Bowlden, like you said earlier, to me, it's really kind of about the building. I kind of liken it to Madison Square Garden where Lebron and Kobe don't play the Knicks, they play at the garden. Yeah, like the like the arena or the stadium is the star.

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Speaker 2: So what's so interesting is I feel like we're definitely missing some I mean, we had multiple Cameron Indoor, we had multiple Rose Bowls. There's got to be like five that were totally missing on Seaton.

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean like nobody has said Wrigly, nobody has said Fenway. Probably we've all been to this no, right, but that's what I mean. Like, there's so many listening.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people listening. Go ahead, Fallow.

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Speaker 8: I'm lucky enough. I've been to a lot of them, a lot of the ones we mentioned, you know, Notre Dame or regularly and all that stuff. There's one that popped in my head. I want to see a Pirate's home game. Every time I see the Pirates stadium on TV, it just looks gorgeous. It's very well done, the city and back. I've never been to Pittsburgh and it just looks like a great game day experience. I know they're not a great team, but you talk about the stadium, I think that's a cool stadium and a cool looking city from afar that I've just never been to.

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Speaker 2: You know I love the quick response time of social media at Ross Tucker, NFL getting some really good ones. By the way, you know, this is kind of a different category. But somebody said the Army Navy game, which is a great point. It's not a venue though, that's that's an event, not a venue.

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Speaker 3: But yes, absolutely put Army Navy on your bucket list.

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Speaker 2: Bob Frabele said, my uncle and aunt turned me on to Penn State football years ago. So west Shore home Field at Beaver Stadium, that's a unique one because that's like you gotta go for a whiteout. That's like, that's a venue, that's an event at a venue. It's kind of like the Rose Bowl at the Rose Bowl. It's the white out at West Shore home Field at Beaver Stadium at Penn State. Yes, Paul, and it's great as the Army game is. I'd suggest you go to an Army home game and then a Navy home game against a random opponent in see West Point in Seannapolis games. You've worked, you've been at West Point before. It's great experience.

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Speaker 3: Wembley Stadium overseas. And Lombardi what's lombardyamb I think he means Lambeau. Oh, I think he met Lambell. All right, let's find out.

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Speaker 2: I think Andy Staples has probably been to every cool college football venue you can possibly go to. I'm sure there's some that you know what, even Andy probably has one or two, and maybe it's a group of five stadiums that he hasn't been to. Maybe he wants to go to that Dome North Dakota State. I guarantee Andy has some that he hasn't been to yet that he wants to. He's a good friend of mine. He does an unbelievable job in all sincerity. If you are into college football and you're not following Andy's work or following him on social media, at Andy underscore Staples, you are doing it wrong. Andy, really appreciate the time. Great to see you. I guess I gotta start out with these two questions. So one of which is what's on your bucket list college football venue that you have not been to yet.

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Speaker 11: I've got a few, and you actually just mentioned a couple of them. So Mikey Stadium at Army I overcovered a game there. I want to do that. The Fargo Dome you mentioned at North Coast State, the Kibbi Dome at Idaho, seventeen thousand seat Dome, Moscow, Idaho. I have driven driven through the parking lot when I was in Pullman to do some Washington State stuff, and obviously Moscow, idahos eight miles away, so I drove. I was like, I gotta see the Kibbi Dome, but I want to see a game in the Kibbi Dome, and then yeah, those would be my three. Also, I need to commend you Ross on the impassioned defense of spicy Deli mustard because it is the world's greatest condiment.

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Speaker 3: Oh you know what I gotta tell you. I already knew.

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Speaker 2: I liked Greg Cosel, I liked Andy Staples. I had no idea they were part of the spicy mustard tribe. I didn't know they were part of the family. Although they're really smart, successful people, so you would assume that they know that spicy mustard's by far the best mustard.

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Speaker 3: All right, here's the second part of that question. Andy.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I've done a bunch of games at Mikey Stadium.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't possibly more highly recommend it.

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Speaker 11: I believe I've heard you and Jason Horowitz doing games at Mikey stadium before.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And honestly, Andy, the crazy thing about Mikey Stadium is it's actually probably best observed from the press box because it's so elevated that you can then see the reservoir and the water and the Hudson River.

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Speaker 3: It's actually better almost the higher you are, if that makes sense. But you're gonna tell me, give me one or two.

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Speaker 2: Or three that I probably haven't been to that, you know, power for whatever. What should be on my college football venue bucket list?

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Speaker 11: If you've never been to a game at LSU, if you've never been to Tiger Stadium, that is it's the best tailgating in college football, and when they're good, it's probably the best overall stadium experience in college football. It's just so cool and the tailgating is incredible that people go all out. It's not you know, we talk about the Old Miss tailgating, but Ole Miss doesn't allow open flames, so limits what you can cook. Like they're grilling gator like when they play Florida, they're grilling gator at LSU.

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Speaker 3: So it's it's incredible.

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Speaker 11: Going into the one that people maybe don't think about. If you get a chance to go to a k State home game at Kansas State home game Manhattan, Kansas bill Sider Family Stadium. They do it right there, like that's a great crowd. It's a great town, just a great little college town, the Aggieville district with the bars and the restaurants and everything. That's an that's a fun one that I don't think people think about when they're like, oh, these are the best atmospheres in college It's one of the best atmospheres in college football. And the other one You'll never believe it until you actually get there. To autsin stadium in Oregon, sixty thousand people sound like one hundred thousand people. I don't know how they do it, but it's incredible.

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Speaker 2: There's something weird about the Pacific Northwest and the acoustics because I guarantee you the people in Seattle are not louder than the people in Philadelphia, but yet when you're in that stadium in Seattle, it is so loud. They've done a nice job with the accoustic.

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Speaker 3: The Seahawks Stadium.

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Speaker 11: I've driven past it, I've never been inside it, but it does look like it's just built perfectly to capture this. Maybe Autson's secret Autson is sort of like an extreme version of the old sombrero in Tampa.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and so you've got these two.

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Speaker 11: Really high middle parts that just kind of bounce off each other, and I think that's what helps.

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Speaker 3: All right. So, Andy, we are, I guess, a year and a half into the new.

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Speaker 2: College football playoff tournament structure, and I know it could be changing, But I guess has it been a good thing or a bad thing so far? Are you a fan or not a fan of it?

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Speaker 3: So far?

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Speaker 11: I love the twelve team playoff. I don't want them to go any bigger. If they go sixteen, fine, I know they've talked about that, because that just that doesn't really add another round, It just keeps it the same general structure. But don't go any bigger than that. Like, this is good. I like the stress and the adjecta that it causes among the teams from twelve to twenty that still have a chance. I like the fact that if you win the Big twelve, or if you win the ACC even if you didn't have the greatest year, you're in.

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Speaker 3: I think that's pretty cool. So I like this format.

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Speaker 11: I thought four was too small, Like it's still the most exclusive playoff format in major American sports, like the fewest number of teams get in the all this percentage of teams get in, and I think that's great, but it needed to be bigger than four. So this this feels like the perfect number to me.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: I also think when it was four, we really only talked about who was five, six, and seven and maybe eight. Now that it's twelve, people are looking at who's fourteen, who's sixteen, who's eighteen? I saw on your show you were apoplectic that Miami's that much further down than Notre Dame. Is that the biggest thing that jumped out to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because why'd they bother playing the game?

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Speaker 11: Like, if they're gonna have the same record, and it's not like Notre Dame's played much better competition than Miami throughout the year.

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Speaker 3: They haven't.

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Speaker 11: Their their schedules are fairly comparable, and they have the same record, and they played and Miami won.

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Speaker 3: How in the world can they be eight spots apart? That makes no sense at all. And that's that's what bother.

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Speaker 11: I mean, if you're gonna do that, just simulate the whole season on a computer. Don't even bother playing the games because that the results of the games need to matter at some point.

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Speaker 2: How much do you wait what happened recently versus what happened at the start?

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Speaker 11: It all matters ross, It doesn't matter when you played the like it all matters. It doesn't just because you played it in September doesn't give you a mulligan for losing.

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Speaker 2: I would agree, But wouldn't you agree if two teams are ten and two and one of them lost the first two won the next ten, the other won the first ten, lost the last two, don't you think that there should be some nod given to the teammates.

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Speaker 3: Team that lost the first two.

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Speaker 11: Where there's there only two really good games and everybody else was not very good.

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Speaker 3: I don't think.

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Speaker 11: I'm not I love Notre Dame. I love Notre Dame. It will defend their independence till the day I die. Well, well fight anybody who says Notre Dame needs to join a conference.

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Speaker 3: I love Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame is a real good team.

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Speaker 11: I think Notre name is probably gona wind up in the college football playoff, mostly because I think Miami is gonna lose another one along the way and and Notre Dame's not like they're both gonna They're both gonna play Pitt, and maybe Pitt beats Miami and doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Beat Notre Dame.

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Speaker 11: But you gotta you gotta have results matter. You can't just say, well, it didn't matter, same record, whatever they play, like you you have the ultimate event.

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Speaker 3: What if they played well? They played all right?

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Speaker 2: Maybe the bigger question in college football right now is, with all these guys getting fired, why has there not been any hires made yet? Like, why why hasn't Virginia Tech jumped on James Franklin.

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Speaker 3: I mean he would be.

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Speaker 11: Maybe James Franklin is waiting for Florida State to open up. Maybe James Franklin wants to go coach at Auburn.

00:27:53
Speaker 2: So you think it's there's a pecking order of available candidates and those guys are waiting until they see what all their options are.

00:28:03
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, James Franklin's going to have options.

00:28:06
Speaker 11: If he thought his best option was Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech was offering him the job, he would have already taken it. But I think he's going to have quite a few options, So we don't know yet what all the options are going to be, because we'll see what happens with Florida State. That's still very much up in the air. They're playing Clemson this week. If they want out Mike Orwell will be fine, but if things go badly that their fan base is itching for a change, even though would be very expensive. Kentucky's another one. You know, Mark Stoops beat Auburn that got Hugh Freeze fired last week. If they lose, you know, to Louisville, if they lose to Florida, I don't think Mark Stoops is all that safe, even though he has the most school unfriendly buy out in the country of thirty seven million dollars do within sixty days of the firing, all in one lump sum.

00:28:58
Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible.

00:29:02
Speaker 2: I mean I try to get fired at this point, that would be all right.

00:29:06
Speaker 3: So what about, Like, I guess, what's.

00:29:09
Speaker 2: The value in firing these guys so early if you're not gonna then make a hire. I mean, I live in Central Pennsylvania, penn States losing recruits left and right.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: I thought the whole point.

00:29:21
Speaker 2: Of firing him early, if you're gonna do that, was to get somebody else in there and rally, But.

00:29:26
Speaker 11: You're not going to hire somebody who's actually coaching another team right now. They're gonna finish their season, So like, who are you going to hire? You hire an NFL coach, They're just gonna leave their NFL team.

00:29:36
Speaker 3: Like, so, then what's the boy? You get Pat Fitzgerald?

00:29:40
Speaker 11: You could get Pat Fitzgerald now, and I think he's one who has multiple options and is waiting to see could you what winds up?

00:29:47
Speaker 2: Could you agree with an agent for a guy like Bob Chesney from JMU.

00:29:53
Speaker 11: But just not announce it but kind of know that has happened many many times. That's that happened with Scott f when he went from UCF Nebraska. And you fire the coach during the season to tell your fan base that you're making the change that they're clamoring for, to.

00:30:10
Speaker 3: Tell them you hear them. That's why you do it.

00:30:13
Speaker 11: A lot of schools do it because they see a ton of empty seats and they're like, oh god, the fans are not even going to come back this season if we don't do something and show them we care enough to make a change.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: Do you think Kurt Signetti has kind of ruined this whole thing because it will.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: He's good. I love it.

00:30:29
Speaker 11: I think he has broken every bad coach's excuse, well, every bad coach who makes excuses.

00:30:35
Speaker 3: You just point to Kurt Signetti now like he can do it, why can't you? Right?

00:30:39
Speaker 2: But how much of that is I don't want to say fluky, because obviously they've accomplished at all.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: Right, they've accomplished what they've accomplished.

00:30:49
Speaker 2: But I guess my point would be, you can't all be twelve and oh, you can't all be eleven and one.

00:30:56
Speaker 11: You can't all be twelve and oh. But you also can't be in year three or year four where your trend line is heading down, your trajectory is heading down, and you're saying, well, we just need more time to build.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: No, you don't you know by year two if you if you made the right higher or not.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: You know? Do you feel, though, Andy, like we should be at the point in college football, especially when I look at some of these SEC schedules and like who Florida had to play this year or who Texas has to play? I feel like this is just my perspective. I don't think it should be as soon as you get a third loss we're gonna fire you when you have the schedule.

00:31:35
Speaker 11: Tillioner was twenty two and twenty three and three plus seasons at Florida.

00:31:40
Speaker 3: I'm a Florida grad.

00:31:41
Speaker 11: Yeah, I can tell you right now five hundred football is not acceptable at the University of Florida. Three and a half years is more than enough time to get better than five hundred.

00:31:53
Speaker 3: Man. So the way you're making it sound, this is gonna be the new will. You either have standards or you don't. That's really what it is now.

00:32:02
Speaker 11: The Penn State one, yes, we can argue about that one all day because James Franklin was winning, was successful, but he wasn't getting them what they wanted.

00:32:11
Speaker 3: What they wanted national titles.

00:32:12
Speaker 11: And if that's what you want, I'm not one to tell the consumer what they do and don't want. The Penn State fans want national titles. Now, getting that is going to be difficult, Like I think the Penn State job, of all the ones open, is the toughest one to take right now because you will be judged against what James Franklin was doing, which means you'd better start winning double digit games immediately. You'd better start competing for the Big Ten title and in the College Football Playoff immediately. It's kind of like when Georgia fired Mark Richt and hired Kirby Smart. He was in the national title game in year two. Great, but yere one when he was you know he I think he was seven and five or six and six, it was like, oh boy, what is this? So you have to succeed immediately if you're in that job. But like the order job, he was not getting it done, so they fired him. Auburn, he's not getting it done, so they fired him.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: I guess it's a great point about landing spot because entry point means a great deal. Franklin by all accounts, and it was a top ten program over the last ten years. They just weren't top five. Penn State believes they have the resources to be top five. I guess, you know, Franklin used to say this all the time, but I'll get your opinion. I'm not sure people realize how hard it is to go from top ten to top five.

00:33:33
Speaker 3: Because top five is exactly right.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: It's Georgia, Alabama, it's Ohio State, Like there can only be five in the top five.

00:33:41
Speaker 3: It's the hardest part. It's the hardest move.

00:33:43
Speaker 11: Dan Mullen mentioned that when he was at Florida where he wins ten games, he wins the Orange Bowl and they interview him on the field after the Orange Bowl and he said, it's that eleventh and twelfth they're the toughest step.

00:33:56
Speaker 3: And he was righting. I mean, he ended up gotting fired at Florida.

00:33:59
Speaker 11: It is very hard the places where they expect national championships. The margins are so thin, and they're going to make mistakes too. Because look at what Georgia did. They fired a really good coach and Mark Richt, and they hired an even better Coachan Kirby Smart. That's not gonna happen most of the time. Most of the time, the person you hire is not going to be as good as the person you just fired.

00:34:24
Speaker 3: If that person's winning ten games a year, check him out on social media. He's fantastic.

00:34:29
Speaker 2: He's all over college football at Andy underscore Staples.

00:34:34
Speaker 3: We got a good weekend this weekend.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: Indiana's double digit favorites against Penn State. That's a real thing in society. It's unbelievable. Thank you, Andy, Me, Thanks Ross. Love diving into some college football. I'm a big college football guy. I'm also a big Meet Friday guy, and I like this little segment that we do. Now or you guys do, I should say called best in the Week, best weekend, best week in sports, best week in sports, led by Paul when we come back forty two minutes past the hour here on the Dan Patrick Show.

00:35:09
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00:35:21
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00:36:03
Speaker 3: And then college football has some fun matchups too. It's saucy. Yeah, I mean.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Number seven BYU number eight, Texas Tech number nine, Oregon at number twenty.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Iowa.

00:36:16
Speaker 2: That's a legit tough test for Dan Lanning and the Ducks. And then I love that Navy not Dame play every year the ninety eighth time.

00:36:26
Speaker 3: Navy has a really good team.

00:36:28
Speaker 2: This year, they kind of they lost the game last week to North Texas. We'll see if they can give the Irish a better game than they did last year. Is there one of those that you guys are most looking forward to?

00:36:39
Speaker 7: Seaton?

00:36:39
Speaker 5: You know, I hate to say it because I love Oregon as a state. I love Portland, even though I know Oregon's not located there. I think that might be like an upset of the week Iowa over Oregons.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: Her Iowa is playing very very well. I love watching Iowa play. They might be as well coached, you know, like you talk to guys that come to the NFL from Iowa or you watch their tape. It is their technique. They're like pros when they get to the NFL.

00:37:11
Speaker 5: Yes see, they feel like Iowa is the kind of team too that like it feels like they like to punch you in the mouth a bit. And I don't know that Oregon likes getting punched in the mouth very much.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: You know, I will say this Oregon, I think is more physical than Perhaps they're getting credit for Paul.

00:37:25
Speaker 3: Not against Sandonyana. They weren't.

00:37:27
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I would say that the Navy Notre Dame game Notre Dame Canty can't afford a loss of any type. But Navy's good for like once a decade, once every twelve years taking down Notre Dame. I think the last time was twenty sixteen. They did in twenty ten, so it's it's not inconceivable this is as big as it gets for Navy.

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00:38:17
Speaker 6: I'm going back to last Sunday since it's within the calendar week. The Steelers defense forcing six turnovers, twenty seven to twenty home win over the Colts. I think that was pretty impressive.

00:38:27
Speaker 2: Steelers defense had the best weekend sports seaton.

00:38:31
Speaker 5: You know, I'm gonna go back to last weekend too, to last Sunday. I'm gonna say the Buffalo Bills, that's a pretty good performance against the Chiefs. You limit Patrick Mahomes to like two hundred and fifty yards. I think, no touchdowns in an interception. I know that they beat them in the regular season and struggle in the postseason. But for the Bills, I feel like every time you could beat the Chiefs and remind yourself that you can beat them, it's a win.

00:38:55
Speaker 3: It's a huge win. Marv.

00:38:57
Speaker 4: Going off the football board, I got the Laa. I know, super early in this season they won four straight games. Luca Dodgers had a great game against the best player in the NBA victim win Benyama.

00:39:07
Speaker 3: So I got the Lakers, Paully.

00:39:09
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go with Drake May, the quarterback of the Patriots. He's having a good season, but this past week a lot of people are getting on his bandwagon as being the best quarterback from that draft. Twenty twenty four, Jane Daniels is banged up. It's received a little bit. Kayla Williams still searching for it. Drake May is having a fantastic season. All decent answers, but all also wrong wrong. I think you guys are gonna be stunned by mine. It happened last Saturday night, so that's still this week because it's it's not Saturday yet. Me Ross, the football guy, I am gonna pick a baseball player.

00:39:53
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Miguel Rojas.

00:39:55
Speaker 2: This guy is thirty six years old, it's his last game.

00:40:01
Speaker 3: Okay. He hits the.

00:40:03
Speaker 2: Game tying home run, then he has the game saving out and the play of the plate from second base. Then they end up winning the game. Who had a better week? I mean Marv saying the Lakers when in the first week of the season, Paul's saying Drake May. Do you think Drake May had a better week? Then he got to celebrate the whole week. They won the game Saturday night. Miguel Ross has been parading around and having gallivanting.

00:40:38
Speaker 3: The man is gallivanting around, and you.

00:40:41
Speaker 2: Guys think that these other people, You think the Steelers defense had a better week. They had to practice all week, Miguel Ross is on a boat in the Pacific Ocean, drinking whatever he wants.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: Good ahead, Marv.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: Do you think Miguel Rojas is gonna be like the baseball equivalent of David Tyree, where he'll forever be known for this one play?

00:41:04
Speaker 2: Yes, now, he had a much longer career and better career than Tyree.

00:41:09
Speaker 3: But yes, I don't know anything about Miguel.

00:41:12
Speaker 2: Rojas other than that that he made that play, and that's what I will know moving forward with him forever. All Right, we've got a fun final hour. Who are the best college quarterbacks to actually have your team draft next year if you're a Saints fan or Jets fan. Plus, we got to get some of your calls on the venue that's on your bucket list next