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Bobby d calls me up and he goes, hey, man,
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you got to check out this great documentary. And I'm saying,
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which one is it. He goes, it's the Rise of
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the forty nine Ers on AMC channel. I'm like, why
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do I want to watch the Rise of the forty
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nine Ers. I have no I have no interest in
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seeing anything about the great Bill Walsh, Joe Montanas, ste
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Bobby Rice, Roger Craig, all the Hall of Fame. Like,
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I need to watch this, Bobby, because no, Boomer, you're
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in it. I'm like, I'm in it because yeah, you're
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in the third series. And you know, they got you
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all dressed up in a nice suit and everything. They
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must have caught you somewhere and they were asking you
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about the forty nine ers that you came off really
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well and all that stuff. Like I said, I don't
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remember giving the interview. I don't know when I did this.
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I have no idea. And he was like, man, it's
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so great. I said, Bobby, you do know that you
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know there Ian, I'm sure that they probably put this
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one game in there. You know. It was it was
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the strike season. It was the second game of the season.
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We had the lead twenty to sixty at the end
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of the game, and we had the ball with fifty
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four seconds left to go, and they had three timeouts
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on defense, and they used all three timeouts, and then
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we had a fourth down and we had to decide
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what to do. There was eight seconds left to go
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in the game, and instead of taking a safety with
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our punt team, we decided to run an offensive play
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that they thought would eat up the amount of time.
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And as soon as they handed the ball if to
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James Brook he was tackled. There were six seconds left
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in the game. They'd throw a hell Mary to Jerry
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Rice and we walk off the field losers. And then
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the next week we go on strike.
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And you don't remember doing this interview. He remembered every
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single detail of that.
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Well because it was so significant because half the team
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wanted to kill the head coach, and I had to
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talk a bunch of the players off the ledge about,
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you know, going after our head coach in the locker room.
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And it became a very intense time in Cincinnati around
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this game and going on strike because the media had
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asked Sam Weisch, you know, do you think the players
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should practice, and Boomer said that they would practice if
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the Bengals would give him footballs to go practice with.
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And I had just signed a new contract with the
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Bengals that August, and I was the highest paid player
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in the league at the time. And Sam, without knowing
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that I was talking players off the ledge from going
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full on cycle on him in the locker room after
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losing that game to San Francisco. He doesn't know this.
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He comes out, he says, well, Bloomers, the highest paid
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player in the league, he can buy the footballs. And
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I was like, game on, game on. So I went
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to cook Sporting Goods in Cincinnati, got myself a football,
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got a hat that'sad coach on it, got a whistle
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and a clipboard, and took the football team out to
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LaSalle High School to have a practice. And we practiced
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at LaSalle High School, and I invited the media to
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come because Sam said all this stuff in the media
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back then, and this has got really intense. So I
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pulled everybody up midfield that blew a whistle and I said, okay, guys,
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you know, we just really have to work on a
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few things. And we played really well against the forty
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nine ers. We should have won the game, but you know,
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we lost it because the coach doesn't know what he's doing.
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So we're just going to practice exactly how to finish
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a game and how to win a game. And this
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is one of those situational things in football. So I said,
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give me the punt team out on the field and
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give me Chris Collinsworth as a punter. I said, Chris,
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I want you to get the ball, run towards our
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end zone, stand in our end zone until they get
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close to you, then step out, take the safety. The
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game will be over and we'll have won by two points.
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We'll win twenty to eighteen. So I run the play
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and I and I explain it to the media what
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we're doing. And they showed the whole thing on the
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news that night and everything else, and it was game
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on and I told Bobby d this this story. I said, Bobby,
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the last thing I want to do is go revisit
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that because they actually do show this game. Oh wow,
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and they don't show they of course, they showed the
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Super Bowl twenty three, the comeback where he goes ninety
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three yards and he says, hey, there's John Candy and
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all this other stuff, and he's trying. Oh, it was
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so great because they also showed the Giants. He's one
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of my fanatic giant than in Assurance, so he loves
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it because the Giants and you know, Jim Burt knocked
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the crap out of Joe Montana, and all the discussion
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about Lawrence Tiler, I'm sure is in here. I'm like, like,
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why do I want to watch this? Because it was
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really great. It was great that it was awesome. I said,
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you know, listen, I lived it. I don't need to
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read it or see it.
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That's amazing. If that would have happened today, Like the
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highest paid player, Like who's the highest paid quarterback in
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the league.
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Right now, Dak Prescott sixty million a year?
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If Dak Prescott, Well, the only.
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Time it even came any only time this even became
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an issue again after that eighty seven strike. I want
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to say it was probably about eight or nine years
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ago when Drew Brees was the highest paid player in
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the league, and I think Drew Brees was the president,
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the player president of the NFLPA, or was a high
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ranking official in the NFLPA, and he threatened that you know,
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he would go on strike. There's no way the players
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will ever go on strike again because there's way too
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much money.
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But just the idea of like, oh, Boomer is the
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highest paid player in the league, he can go buy
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the footballs and then you go out there. I mean,
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I like imagine like Patrick Mahomes saying, you know, Andy Reid,
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go old. Patrick makes more money than me, so he
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can go coach the team.
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It's funny. Sam and I talked about this a lot,
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you know, after the fact, and Sam and I had
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a wonderful relationship and I love the man. And he
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gave me, you know, the no huddle offense, all the
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different things that and nuanced things that he would do
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with me and for me as a player and for
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our team, and we all like every day was a
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different day with Sam. You know, he was just so
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different and so unique.
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You know.
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He was the one that kept the woman out of
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the locker room in Seattle, and I had to go
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outside and talk to the woman. I said, you know,
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I'll stand out here as long as you want, because
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you deserve to be in there. You've already fought this
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fight and there's no reason that you should be out here.
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But the reason Sam kept the woman out of the
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locker room that was previous week, well because Azeke Mowatt
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showed his winky too, at least Alsen. Yeah. And the
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next thing we know, we have to make the statement
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in Cincinnati after a Monday night game in Seattle winky spot. Yeah.
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So it's just like crazy stuff like that. So I'm
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telling Bobby, I'm like, I am not watching this. I mean,
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I know how great Steve Young is, I know how
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great Joe Montana is. I know how forward thinking Bill
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Walsh's and George Seaffert was on defense and everything that
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they did. And what he didn't realize is that Bill
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Walsh only became the head coach of the forty nine
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Ers because Paul Brown, the owner and the coach of
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the Bengals, did not select Bill Walsh as his replacement
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as head coach in Cincinnati. When Bill Walsh was on
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the Cincinnati staff, he selected Tiger Johnson as his replacement
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in Cincinnati as the head coach. Therefore, Bill Walsh went
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the forty nine Ers instead. So Bill Walsh could have
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been in Cincinnati, but instead he went to the forty
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nine Ers with Eddie Debardlow.
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I feel like I don't have to watch the rise
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of the forty nine ers, because you just told me
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the entire.
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Thing right, Well, no that I told you from my
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perspective what we were doing in Cincinnati. This thing is
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about the rise of the forty nine ers from from
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nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety five or so, or
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ninety six ninety six maybe.
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Quickly, Zach and massive pequods going on.
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Zach, Hey man, how are you guys? Good?
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Zach? What's happening?
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Uh So, me and my buddy, we have season tickets
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for the Saint John's game, and we went Thursday, and
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uh so we got those cards umping down to us
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and we went to the game additionally on Tuesday and
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we got the cards. We knew we were gonna hit
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the cards when we entered the MSG and me and
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my buddy we decided to have some fun with some
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of these resellers because they were buying tickets just to
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go to the game to get these cards, and we
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acted as if we had no idea what they were.
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And we were telling them, these guys that were buying
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them for fifty dollars each in the stadium, that we
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had thrown them out in the garbage. And we would
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point at the garbage that we threw them out at,
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and these guys were fighting in the garbage to searched
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for the ticket the car that was not there.
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It was great, Zachy. I love the way you think, man.
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That is awesome. Send those guys right to the garbage,
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you scavenger losers. That is awesome. So, by the way,
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a friend of mine just texted me and he knew
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nothing about this. He went to the Yukon Saint John's
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game on Friday. He said he got two cards as
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he left the building, and someone with a load of
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one hundred dollars bills offered him one hundred bucks as
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he walked out the door, and he took it, but
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his wife held on to hers and had her cousin
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who sells baseball cards, put it up on eBay and
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she got two hundred and eighty bucks. So they got
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three hundred and eighty dollars for a free giveaway at
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the Saint John's game.
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That is it's great for the fans that are able
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to do that, and it's even better for the school.
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You don't even think the schools would be thinking maybe
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we could have these cards and sell them and raise
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money for the basketball nil program.
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Yeah. I mean someone's got to be paying attention over there,
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because obviously this was a huge hit
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Bobby d calls me up and he goes, hey, man,
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you got to check out this great documentary. And I'm saying,
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which one is it. He goes, it's the Rise of
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the forty nine Ers on AMC channel. I'm like, why
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do I want to watch the Rise of the forty
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nine Ers. I have no I have no interest in
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seeing anything about the great Bill Walsh, Joe Montanas, ste
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Bobby Rice, Roger Craig, all the Hall of Fame. Like,
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I need to watch this, Bobby, because no, Boomer, you're
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in it. I'm like, I'm in it because yeah, you're
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in the third series. And you know, they got you
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all dressed up in a nice suit and everything. They
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must have caught you somewhere and they were asking you
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about the forty nine ers that you came off really
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well and all that stuff. Like I said, I don't
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remember giving the interview. I don't know when I did this.
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I have no idea. And he was like, man, it's
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so great. I said, Bobby, you do know that you
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know there Ian, I'm sure that they probably put this
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one game in there. You know. It was it was
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the strike season. It was the second game of the season.
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We had the lead twenty to sixty at the end
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of the game, and we had the ball with fifty
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four seconds left to go, and they had three timeouts
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on defense, and they used all three timeouts, and then
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we had a fourth down and we had to decide
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what to do. There was eight seconds left to go
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in the game, and instead of taking a safety with
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our punt team, we decided to run an offensive play
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that they thought would eat up the amount of time.
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And as soon as they handed the ball if to
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James Brook he was tackled. There were six seconds left
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in the game. They'd throw a hell Mary to Jerry
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Rice and we walk off the field losers. And then
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the next week we go on strike.
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And you don't remember doing this interview. He remembered every
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single detail of that.
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Well because it was so significant because half the team
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wanted to kill the head coach, and I had to
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talk a bunch of the players off the ledge about,
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you know, going after our head coach in the locker room.
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And it became a very intense time in Cincinnati around
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this game and going on strike because the media had
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asked Sam Weisch, you know, do you think the players
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should practice, and Boomer said that they would practice if
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the Bengals would give him footballs to go practice with.
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And I had just signed a new contract with the
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Bengals that August, and I was the highest paid player
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in the league at the time. And Sam, without knowing
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that I was talking players off the ledge from going
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full on cycle on him in the locker room after
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losing that game to San Francisco. He doesn't know this.
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He comes out, he says, well, Bloomers, the highest paid
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player in the league, he can buy the footballs. And
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I was like, game on, game on. So I went
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to cook Sporting Goods in Cincinnati, got myself a football,
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got a hat that'sad coach on it, got a whistle
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and a clipboard, and took the football team out to
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LaSalle High School to have a practice. And we practiced
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at LaSalle High School, and I invited the media to
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come because Sam said all this stuff in the media
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back then, and this has got really intense. So I
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pulled everybody up midfield that blew a whistle and I said, okay, guys,
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you know, we just really have to work on a
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few things. And we played really well against the forty
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nine ers. We should have won the game, but you know,
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we lost it because the coach doesn't know what he's doing.
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So we're just going to practice exactly how to finish
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a game and how to win a game. And this
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is one of those situational things in football. So I said,
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give me the punt team out on the field and
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give me Chris Collinsworth as a punter. I said, Chris,
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I want you to get the ball, run towards our
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end zone, stand in our end zone until they get
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close to you, then step out, take the safety. The
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game will be over and we'll have won by two points.
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We'll win twenty to eighteen. So I run the play
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and I and I explain it to the media what
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we're doing. And they showed the whole thing on the
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news that night and everything else, and it was game
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on and I told Bobby d this this story. I said, Bobby,
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the last thing I want to do is go revisit
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that because they actually do show this game. Oh wow,
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and they don't show they of course, they showed the
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Super Bowl twenty three, the comeback where he goes ninety
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three yards and he says, hey, there's John Candy and
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all this other stuff, and he's trying. Oh, it was
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so great because they also showed the Giants. He's one
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of my fanatic giant than in Assurance, so he loves
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it because the Giants and you know, Jim Burt knocked
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the crap out of Joe Montana, and all the discussion
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about Lawrence Tiler, I'm sure is in here. I'm like, like,
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why do I want to watch this? Because it was
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really great. It was great that it was awesome. I said,
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you know, listen, I lived it. I don't need to
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read it or see it.
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That's amazing. If that would have happened today, Like the
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highest paid player, Like who's the highest paid quarterback in
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the league.
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Right now, Dak Prescott sixty million a year?
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If Dak Prescott, Well, the only.
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Time it even came any only time this even became
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an issue again after that eighty seven strike. I want
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to say it was probably about eight or nine years
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ago when Drew Brees was the highest paid player in
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the league, and I think Drew Brees was the president,
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the player president of the NFLPA, or was a high
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ranking official in the NFLPA, and he threatened that you know,
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he would go on strike. There's no way the players
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will ever go on strike again because there's way too
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much money.
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But just the idea of like, oh, Boomer is the
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highest paid player in the league, he can go buy
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the footballs and then you go out there. I mean,
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I like imagine like Patrick Mahomes saying, you know, Andy Reid,
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go old. Patrick makes more money than me, so he
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can go coach the team.
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It's funny. Sam and I talked about this a lot,
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you know, after the fact, and Sam and I had
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a wonderful relationship and I love the man. And he
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gave me, you know, the no huddle offense, all the
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different things that and nuanced things that he would do
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with me and for me as a player and for
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our team, and we all like every day was a
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different day with Sam. You know, he was just so
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different and so unique.
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He was the one that kept the woman out of
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the locker room in Seattle, and I had to go
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outside and talk to the woman. I said, you know,
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I'll stand out here as long as you want, because
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you deserve to be in there. You've already fought this
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fight and there's no reason that you should be out here.
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But the reason Sam kept the woman out of the
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locker room that was previous week, well because Azeke Mowatt
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showed his winky too, at least Alsen. Yeah. And the
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next thing we know, we have to make the statement
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in Cincinnati after a Monday night game in Seattle winky spot. Yeah.
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So it's just like crazy stuff like that. So I'm
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telling Bobby, I'm like, I am not watching this. I mean,
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I know how great Steve Young is, I know how
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great Joe Montana is. I know how forward thinking Bill
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Walsh's and George Seaffert was on defense and everything that
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they did. And what he didn't realize is that Bill
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Walsh only became the head coach of the forty nine
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Ers because Paul Brown, the owner and the coach of
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the Bengals, did not select Bill Walsh as his replacement
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as head coach in Cincinnati. When Bill Walsh was on
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the Cincinnati staff, he selected Tiger Johnson as his replacement
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in Cincinnati as the head coach. Therefore, Bill Walsh went
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the forty nine Ers instead. So Bill Walsh could have
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been in Cincinnati, but instead he went to the forty
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nine Ers with Eddie Debardlow.
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I feel like I don't have to watch the rise
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of the forty nine ers, because you just told me
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the entire.
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Thing right, Well, no that I told you from my
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perspective what we were doing in Cincinnati. This thing is
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about the rise of the forty nine ers from from
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nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety five or so, or
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ninety six ninety six maybe.
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Quickly, Zach and massive pequods going on.
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Zach, Hey man, how are you guys? Good?
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Zach? What's happening?
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Uh So, me and my buddy, we have season tickets
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for the Saint John's game, and we went Thursday, and
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uh so we got those cards umping down to us
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and we went to the game additionally on Tuesday and
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we got the cards. We knew we were gonna hit
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the cards when we entered the MSG and me and
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my buddy we decided to have some fun with some
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of these resellers because they were buying tickets just to
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go to the game to get these cards, and we
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acted as if we had no idea what they were.
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And we were telling them, these guys that were buying
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them for fifty dollars each in the stadium, that we
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had thrown them out in the garbage. And we would
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point at the garbage that we threw them out at,
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and these guys were fighting in the garbage to searched
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for the ticket the car that was not there.
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It was great, Zachy. I love the way you think, man.
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That is awesome. Send those guys right to the garbage,
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you scavenger losers. That is awesome. So, by the way,
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a friend of mine just texted me and he knew
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nothing about this. He went to the Yukon Saint John's
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game on Friday. He said he got two cards as
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he left the building, and someone with a load of
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one hundred dollars bills offered him one hundred bucks as
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he walked out the door, and he took it, but
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his wife held on to hers and had her cousin
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who sells baseball cards, put it up on eBay and
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she got two hundred and eighty bucks. So they got
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three hundred and eighty dollars for a free giveaway at
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the Saint John's game.
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That is it's great for the fans that are able
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to do that, and it's even better for the school.
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You don't even think the schools would be thinking maybe
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we could have these cards and sell them and raise
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money for the basketball nil program.
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Yeah. I mean someone's got to be paying attention over there,
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because obviously this was a huge hit
