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Speaker 1: The following is a KTCK podcast presentation. All that implies a ticket talk that has nothing to do with sports, delivered to you daily in three two.
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Speaker 2: And one last week at the age of ninety in California. And there's a chance at least half of our panel has never heard the name John Brody.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, let's ask them right now. Honestly, Lando, have you heard of him?
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Speaker 2: Nope?
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Speaker 3: DJ heard of him before today? No, Hamster, No, okay, Now, this is what Trifecta is about.
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Speaker 2: Donovan. No, I don't recognize the name, the name John Brody. What if I would tell you that he is an NFL MVP, a first team All Pro quarterback, a passing touchdown leader multiple years, passing yards leader multiple years, and it happened right at the time of the merger in nineteen seventy What do you think of that? He was cute QB one for the San Francisco forty nine ers for much of his career, his career spanning with the Niners from nineteen fifty seven to nineteen seventy three.
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Speaker 3: It's a long time, dude. He played forever.
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Speaker 2: He did play forever. I don't know if he was QB one early because I think that was Ya Tittle if I'm not mistaken, but then worked his way to first full season as a starter in the early sixties after Ya was sent to the Giant's I think in sixty one. Anyway, that's not where the story begins. The story begins with him going to Stanford after a promising young life in terms of participating in every sport as a kid, and I mean every sport, so much so that when he went to Stanford, he did not want a scholarship because if he accepted his scholarship, they would want him to participate in spring football, and he was not interested because he wanted to play golf at Stanford.
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Speaker 3: How about DA.
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Speaker 2: Where he was an All American? How about DA in golf? So they begrudgingly allow him to be a two sports star that only cares about football in the fall semester and plays golf in the spring semester. And it's so he threw him off his football career that he was taking third overall in the nineteen fifty seven draft, behind Paul Horning and in front of Len Dawson and Jim Brown. In the nineteen fifty seven top six picks, John Brody goes number three to the forty nine ers athlete. Yeah, I mean you're assuming golfers or athletes.
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Speaker 3: Well, he was a quarterback for a football team, David.
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Speaker 2: A starting quarterback in the NFL when they reassigned.
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Speaker 3: When they redraft the nineteen fifty seven draft, he'll be in the same place.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was an NFL MVP. But no, I would imagine the teams that passed on Jim Brown probably aren't real thrilled about that. And then you could argue Len Dawson.
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Speaker 3: But Jim only gave him like seven years, Right, this guy gave you seventeen.
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Speaker 2: That's right. What if I told you in nineteen sixty six he became the highest paid player in the NFL because he was making thirty five grand asked for sixty five grand, and the forty nine ers were like, yeah, I don't think we're gonna double your money. That's crazy talk. Well, at the same time, like d Bennett, at the same time, the AFL is coming along and trying to steal players, and the Houston Oilers promised John Brody that if he jumps to the AFL, they will pay him five years for seven fifty, which is way more. I'll take that than thirty five K. Well, unfortunately for him, as he is going back to the Niners, the NFL and AFL merge and now they are done sniping players. But he wants his money, and he threatens to sue the NFL and the AFL in his opinion, one point one million dollars, and he demands that money. Well, the league, it was the brooks Kepka of his day. The league kind of agrees and they agree to pay him nine hundred and twenty K over three years if they can pay it to him over twelve but for the three years of playing.
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Speaker 3: Oh Micheltani deferred money.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And if Brody plays longer than three years, then they got to pay him eighty and then ninety K, which again he is the highest paid player in the league. All this is happening as he is for the Niners at Keysar Stadium, and things got so bad on the field because he threw a few picks in his day. In fact, in the end more picks and touchdowns, not incredibly uncommon back then, but he threw picks. Well. Apparently his bad days encouraged them to actually put protective fencing where he could no longer be hit by beer cans as he walks off the field from his own team. Later, he got into scientology and took some interesting turns there late in his career and disavowed them eventually, though he eventually disavowed them then, of course, at his retirement, started playing golf professionally.
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Speaker 3: He had a broadcasting career too.
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Speaker 2: And also was a common broadcaster on the NBC AFC package. When we were all kids, John Brody would be doing games all the time.
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Speaker 3: I want to say, Okay, let's see he called super Bowl eight okay, and I'm sorry super Bowl thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, Cowboy Steeler.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he was on the call with for super Bowl thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Incredible. I know. Well. He won one tournament in fourteen years on the Senior Tour by beating chie Chi Rodriguez, I believe in a playoff. And I can't remember where that was, but I just read it.
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Speaker 3: By the way, his story is is that in the offseason he would play golf, but not a ton and he was like, at some point, I'll get it back together. At some point I won't play football anymore and I'll try to get my game back together. I don't think human beings understand how ridiculous it is to say I'll get my game back together to qualify for the professional level at fifty Like.
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Speaker 2: This is literally what people said Tony Romo would do. Right, he actually.
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Speaker 3: Did it, Yes, he did, and he won.
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Speaker 2: He won an NFL MVP and one on the Senior Tour and the Security Pacific Senior Classic in nineteen ninety one. Not that long ago, guys. No, so not that long ago. You were alive. You were on a high school of the old you are.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He suffered a stroke.
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Speaker 4: It was in the nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 2: He traveled Chichi was probably eighty at that time. No, he wasn't late in life. He suffered a stroke. He traveled to Russia to try stem cell treatments and died last week at the age of ninety in Solana Beach, California. A John Brody dead at ninety NFL MVP, winner on the Senior Tour and all around great guy.
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Speaker 3: Lando No DJ yes, ham fist, no passing or touchdowns, two fourteen interceptions two twenty four.
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Speaker 2: All right, now look up Terry Bradshaw and Joe Nama. Yes, I don't know who they are putting them either.
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Speaker 3: He beat out Chieching Gonzales and Golf Rodriguez. Chichi Gonzalez was a pitcher for the Rangers. Dave, No, I'm saying, yes, he won an NFL MVP.
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Speaker 4: In the Dark Ages.
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Speaker 2: Well actually he yeah? Why was it a dark age the NFL? He won after Johnny Unitis and Jim Brown and before O. J. Simpson and Ken Stabler?
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Speaker 3: Is that the Dark Ages?
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Speaker 2: Dave? That's right on the right on the line.
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Speaker 3: By the way, he was a starting quarterback in that famous Cowboys NFC championship game. Yes he was from seventy one. No, that was not the only nine years prior he.
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Speaker 2: Won a Super Bowl is ninety day ninety.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, he was a starting quarterback and that is the game the Cowboys had the big comeback when Larry Cole or I can't remember who it was was rolling around on the ground because of the massive comeback that was. That was Brodie's team.
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Speaker 2: I would say, Donovan's vote is pretty important here. So you're yes, Bob, I haven't voted yet.
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Speaker 3: Well, well no, you're Donovan's. Are Donovan's the swing vote? Yeah, so we got to get.
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Speaker 2: Down to him. You're your first, Bob, Yes, I think as a general rule, NFL MVPs get a yes from me. So it's three three to Donovan. Is it really so much power? Uh? This is why you're here.
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Speaker 3: You're let's go. It's gonna make Bob we Were happy. It's a contemporary of Bobby San Francisco guy, the quarterback of the football team. Incredible, and they can double team Bridgete Bardo.
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Speaker 2: Why are you doing that with your hands? What did I do?
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Speaker 4: You were doing some dramatic double fisting motion, like what, Let's hope they all fall in love first, there's no qu everyone loves everyone in heaven.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, let's go. It's not how and they get her at thirty three, right, there's no consent, dude, and Bob were Bob Weir is like shockingly good looking at thirty three, and this guy's like athlete. She's just be going door to door.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, just don't sully things quite that.
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Speaker 3: God, I'm just happy for Bob. Really, do you can go down?
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Speaker 2: I mean he presented it very well.
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Speaker 3: White, Oh he can brow down?
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Speaker 4: And then is the scientology going to be weird up there in heaven?
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Speaker 3: He's out, he's done.
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Speaker 2: He denounced he turn into membership card there at Donovan. Thank you. We'll talk to you in a short order, won't we.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, exactly one hour from now right, yes, sir, I'll just I'll just walk around.
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Speaker 2: What you guys, what are we talking about next? John Alway
Speaker 1: The following is a KTCK podcast presentation. All that implies a ticket talk that has nothing to do with sports, delivered to you daily in three two.
00:00:16
Speaker 2: And one last week at the age of ninety in California. And there's a chance at least half of our panel has never heard the name John Brody.
00:00:35
Speaker 3: All right, well, let's ask them right now. Honestly, Lando, have you heard of him?
00:00:39
Speaker 2: Nope?
00:00:40
Speaker 3: DJ heard of him before today? No, Hamster, No, okay, Now, this is what Trifecta is about.
00:00:48
Speaker 2: Donovan. No, I don't recognize the name, the name John Brody. What if I would tell you that he is an NFL MVP, a first team All Pro quarterback, a passing touchdown leader multiple years, passing yards leader multiple years, and it happened right at the time of the merger in nineteen seventy What do you think of that? He was cute QB one for the San Francisco forty nine ers for much of his career, his career spanning with the Niners from nineteen fifty seven to nineteen seventy three.
00:01:39
Speaker 3: It's a long time, dude. He played forever.
00:01:43
Speaker 2: He did play forever. I don't know if he was QB one early because I think that was Ya Tittle if I'm not mistaken, but then worked his way to first full season as a starter in the early sixties after Ya was sent to the Giant's I think in sixty one. Anyway, that's not where the story begins. The story begins with him going to Stanford after a promising young life in terms of participating in every sport as a kid, and I mean every sport, so much so that when he went to Stanford, he did not want a scholarship because if he accepted his scholarship, they would want him to participate in spring football, and he was not interested because he wanted to play golf at Stanford.
00:02:39
Speaker 3: How about DA.
00:02:40
Speaker 2: Where he was an All American? How about DA in golf? So they begrudgingly allow him to be a two sports star that only cares about football in the fall semester and plays golf in the spring semester. And it's so he threw him off his football career that he was taking third overall in the nineteen fifty seven draft, behind Paul Horning and in front of Len Dawson and Jim Brown. In the nineteen fifty seven top six picks, John Brody goes number three to the forty nine ers athlete. Yeah, I mean you're assuming golfers or athletes.
00:03:26
Speaker 3: Well, he was a quarterback for a football team, David.
00:03:29
Speaker 2: A starting quarterback in the NFL when they reassigned.
00:03:34
Speaker 3: When they redraft the nineteen fifty seven draft, he'll be in the same place.
00:03:39
Speaker 2: I mean, he was an NFL MVP. But no, I would imagine the teams that passed on Jim Brown probably aren't real thrilled about that. And then you could argue Len Dawson.
00:03:48
Speaker 3: But Jim only gave him like seven years, Right, this guy gave you seventeen.
00:03:55
Speaker 2: That's right. What if I told you in nineteen sixty six he became the highest paid player in the NFL because he was making thirty five grand asked for sixty five grand, and the forty nine ers were like, yeah, I don't think we're gonna double your money. That's crazy talk. Well, at the same time, like d Bennett, at the same time, the AFL is coming along and trying to steal players, and the Houston Oilers promised John Brody that if he jumps to the AFL, they will pay him five years for seven fifty, which is way more. I'll take that than thirty five K. Well, unfortunately for him, as he is going back to the Niners, the NFL and AFL merge and now they are done sniping players. But he wants his money, and he threatens to sue the NFL and the AFL in his opinion, one point one million dollars, and he demands that money. Well, the league, it was the brooks Kepka of his day. The league kind of agrees and they agree to pay him nine hundred and twenty K over three years if they can pay it to him over twelve but for the three years of playing.
00:05:31
Speaker 3: Oh Micheltani deferred money.
00:05:33
Speaker 2: Yes, And if Brody plays longer than three years, then they got to pay him eighty and then ninety K, which again he is the highest paid player in the league. All this is happening as he is for the Niners at Keysar Stadium, and things got so bad on the field because he threw a few picks in his day. In fact, in the end more picks and touchdowns, not incredibly uncommon back then, but he threw picks. Well. Apparently his bad days encouraged them to actually put protective fencing where he could no longer be hit by beer cans as he walks off the field from his own team. Later, he got into scientology and took some interesting turns there late in his career and disavowed them eventually, though he eventually disavowed them then, of course, at his retirement, started playing golf professionally.
00:06:33
Speaker 3: He had a broadcasting career too.
00:06:35
Speaker 2: And also was a common broadcaster on the NBC AFC package. When we were all kids, John Brody would be doing games all the time.
00:06:46
Speaker 3: I want to say, Okay, let's see he called super Bowl eight okay, and I'm sorry super Bowl thirteen.
00:06:55
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Cowboy Steeler.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he was on the call with for super Bowl thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Incredible. I know. Well. He won one tournament in fourteen years on the Senior Tour by beating chie Chi Rodriguez, I believe in a playoff. And I can't remember where that was, but I just read it.
00:07:15
Speaker 3: By the way, his story is is that in the offseason he would play golf, but not a ton and he was like, at some point, I'll get it back together. At some point I won't play football anymore and I'll try to get my game back together. I don't think human beings understand how ridiculous it is to say I'll get my game back together to qualify for the professional level at fifty Like.
00:07:39
Speaker 2: This is literally what people said Tony Romo would do. Right, he actually.
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Speaker 3: Did it, Yes, he did, and he won.
00:07:46
Speaker 2: He won an NFL MVP and one on the Senior Tour and the Security Pacific Senior Classic in nineteen ninety one. Not that long ago, guys. No, so not that long ago. You were alive. You were on a high school of the old you are.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: He suffered a stroke.
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Speaker 4: It was in the nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 2: He traveled Chichi was probably eighty at that time. No, he wasn't late in life. He suffered a stroke. He traveled to Russia to try stem cell treatments and died last week at the age of ninety in Solana Beach, California. A John Brody dead at ninety NFL MVP, winner on the Senior Tour and all around great guy.
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Speaker 3: Lando No DJ yes, ham fist, no passing or touchdowns, two fourteen interceptions two twenty four.
00:08:53
Speaker 2: All right, now look up Terry Bradshaw and Joe Nama. Yes, I don't know who they are putting them either.
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Speaker 3: He beat out Chieching Gonzales and Golf Rodriguez. Chichi Gonzalez was a pitcher for the Rangers. Dave, No, I'm saying, yes, he won an NFL MVP.
00:09:16
Speaker 4: In the Dark Ages.
00:09:19
Speaker 2: Well actually he yeah? Why was it a dark age the NFL? He won after Johnny Unitis and Jim Brown and before O. J. Simpson and Ken Stabler?
00:09:28
Speaker 3: Is that the Dark Ages?
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Speaker 2: Dave? That's right on the right on the line.
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Speaker 3: By the way, he was a starting quarterback in that famous Cowboys NFC championship game. Yes he was from seventy one. No, that was not the only nine years prior he.
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Speaker 2: Won a Super Bowl is ninety day ninety.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, he was a starting quarterback and that is the game the Cowboys had the big comeback when Larry Cole or I can't remember who it was was rolling around on the ground because of the massive comeback that was. That was Brodie's team.
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Speaker 2: I would say, Donovan's vote is pretty important here. So you're yes, Bob, I haven't voted yet.
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Speaker 3: Well, well no, you're Donovan's. Are Donovan's the swing vote? Yeah, so we got to get.
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Speaker 2: Down to him. You're your first, Bob, Yes, I think as a general rule, NFL MVPs get a yes from me. So it's three three to Donovan. Is it really so much power? Uh? This is why you're here.
00:10:25
Speaker 3: You're let's go. It's gonna make Bob we Were happy. It's a contemporary of Bobby San Francisco guy, the quarterback of the football team. Incredible, and they can double team Bridgete Bardo.
00:10:38
Speaker 2: Why are you doing that with your hands? What did I do?
00:10:43
Speaker 4: You were doing some dramatic double fisting motion, like what, Let's hope they all fall in love first, there's no qu everyone loves everyone in heaven.
00:10:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, let's go. It's not how and they get her at thirty three, right, there's no consent, dude, and Bob were Bob Weir is like shockingly good looking at thirty three, and this guy's like athlete. She's just be going door to door.
00:11:14
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, just don't sully things quite that.
00:11:19
Speaker 3: God, I'm just happy for Bob. Really, do you can go down?
00:11:24
Speaker 2: I mean he presented it very well.
00:11:25
Speaker 3: White, Oh he can brow down?
00:11:29
Speaker 4: And then is the scientology going to be weird up there in heaven?
00:11:32
Speaker 3: He's out, he's done.
00:11:33
Speaker 2: He denounced he turn into membership card there at Donovan. Thank you. We'll talk to you in a short order, won't we.
00:11:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, exactly one hour from now right, yes, sir, I'll just I'll just walk around.
00:11:46
Speaker 2: What you guys, what are we talking about next? John Alway
