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May 27, 2023 - Doug Collins Podcast
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You want to listen to a podcast?
By who?
Georgia GOP Congressman Doug Collins.
How is it?
The greatest thing I have ever heard in my whole life.
I could not believe my ears.
In this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule.
It has been said today, where is bravery?
I'll tell you where bravery is found and courage is found.
It's found in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules being broken, people being put down, questions not being answered, and this majority say, be damned with anything else.
We're going to impeach and do whatever we want to do.
Why?
Because we won an election.
I guarantee you, one day you'll be back in the minority and it ain't gonna be that fun.
Alright, it's Friday.
You've missed us.
It's been two weeks since Friday's Finest has been in your ears or in your life, in your car, in your gym, wherever it may be.
James is back.
Our Texan by way of New Jersey is back today.
I'm back.
We're at Friday's Finest.
It has been a wild couple of weeks.
We've got all kinds of things to talk to you about.
From snakes in Florida to kickoff launches also in Florida to NBA players wielding guns.
I mean, it's just all kinds of stuff on Friday's Finest Day.
You don't want to miss it.
We'll get to it in just a minute.
But just a few minutes before we start, I've got to touch on last night.
We're going to probably hit it a little bit in Friday's Finest.
But Ron DeSantis kicked off his campaign last night.
Depending on who you want to talk to, it was either a complete magical thing or a complete disaster.
I think if you're looking at it from a perspective of, did it work the way that the person who has portrayed themselves as being in control and being the one who is the forward visionary and looking at it, I don't think they can call it successful considering the glitches of the first 20 minutes which gave his opponents All kinds of political fodder.
I think it did reach into an area, maybe a certain, you know, and talk about policy.
I think what I have heard offline, not just the press.
Now, the press won't Donald Trump.
Let me just be real frank about this.
The press won't Donald Trump because they write the story, he gives them headlines, and they won't Donald Trump.
So, again, the press is going to be exceedingly hard on most anybody.
I think DeSantis, who they don't like at all because press...
He has a different tact with the press.
He doesn't talk to them.
He doesn't coddle with them.
He doesn't, you know, go in with them.
He only picks the ones he wants to talk to.
So they're going to be hard on him anyway, but the press is universally...
I just say not kind.
Now, can he overcome what happened last night?
Oh yeah, sure.
We're way into this.
He did talk a lot of policy, but I think for a lot of people it was also...
Maybe boring.
And maybe boring will win out in the end.
We'll see.
But it started last night.
I do think for the most part...
You know, they will have to change tax, change the promotion here, but we will see.
Tim Scott also, as we talked about earlier in the week, entered this race this week.
I don't think they're done.
I think you're going to possibly see one or two more from Chris Christie to possibly Glenn Youngkin to some others possibly get in this race, even Sununu up in New Hampshire.
We'll see, because I think they all, there's this feeling out there for many that Trump Either they don't think he can win in a general, or they don't think he can...
I think it's the biggest issue, or they think there's other issues, so they're hedging their bets.
The vast people who vote say they want Trump right now, and the others...
You know, basically say, you know, we want somebody else.
So it's just going to be an interesting time here.
Trump's still winning by far in the polls.
We'll see if that changes.
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All right, James, how we doing, buddy?
How are we today, Doug?
We're good.
Do you think the world, I mean, we found out the world barely got by with us not being able to be with them last Friday.
Yeah, I heard.
I heard people lost their mind.
They flipped out.
They were flipping their desks at work when they turned on the show Friday and just heard it wasn't me and you.
It was terrible.
In fact, just as one of the leading Friday's finest...
I think that if you've not seen this, folks, you've got to go see this.
People lose...
How many times, James, have I talked about this?
People lose their blessed minds on airplanes and in airports.
I mean, I don't get this.
We've had too many times we've had to discuss airports or an airplane about how people are just...
It's like once you cross the barrier...
Of the airport sliding doors, your brain shuts off and you're in a new world.
It's like Narnia for idiots.
Maybe, just maybe, it was because of the deficit of Friday's Finest.
We'll just have to give them a little bit there.
One of the people at the airport, by the way, what you're talking about is the O'Hare Airport where there was an absolute brawl of baggage.
This is why I have a carry-on and I put one bag up And that's it.
You're not going to catch me messing around, waiting for my baggage, because I'm not going to get beat up.
I literally don't know what happened.
I've passed baggage a million times, and I can't imagine what starts that sort of...
If you haven't seen the video, just type in O'Hare Airport baggage fight, or just O'Hare Airport fight.
I'm sure you'll find that and some other ones.
But I just, I'm always curious, like I didn't see, I didn't read much on it, what started the fight, but just the idea that that many people got involved.
Oh, oh, the classic here, James, the classic here.
I read a story, I read part of the story from either the Tribune or where, I can't remember where it was, but it actually said, I kid you not, this is, now, you're going to love this, okay, from your, this is your part of the world.
Undoubtedly, somebody overheard one of the people saying to the other one that ended up in the fight that I'm from Philly and I'm going to kick your, Oh, it was a person from Philadelphia?
Oh, okay, never mind.
No, that's standard.
I mean, the city of Philadelphia has staked its claim as the group that will do whatever, whenever, however, and if you're in the way, good luck.
I mean, when I heard that, I said like, oh, really?
Okay, and then just to all of our listeners in Philly, I don't know if this is true.
This is just what was reported in the mainstream media, okay?
But did it fit?
I don't know if I told this...
I don't know if I've told this story on here before, so I'm going to do it quick.
But I used to live in Philadelphia for about a year when I went to college.
And I went to a bar, and I was watching.
There was a Flyers game on, and it was winter.
It was very cold outside.
And I was rooting for the other team pretty loudly.
I'm not going to say I was intoxicated.
What?
Because I don't want to say it out loud.
You were feeling okay.
Yeah, so I was rooting for the other team pretty loudly.
I don't remember who it was because all I can remember is being booed and then being grabbed by two men that I can only assume were former Philadelphia linemen.
And they threw me out of the bar physically.
Not like I was pushed out or shut.
Two men hurled me out of the bar like I was a cartoon in, like I was a Looney Tunes cartoon, and I got tossed onto the curb.
I have never been physically picked up like that before and thrown around like a rag doll.
And I was like, oh, okay, right.
This is Philadelphia.
You can't root for other sports teams.
So seeing that someone from Philadelphia possibly started his brawl makes all the sense in the world.
And I love Philadelphia.
That's one of my favorite places and the people there are passionate.
That's the right word.
The word is passionate.
I agree.
This would be a great time to interject into the show here.
The clip from Ron White saying that he was not publicly intoxicated.
He was intoxicated in a bar and he was thrown into public.
That's right.
Into public.
I can hear him saying it right now.
Public.
I was thrown into public.
Great tater salad.
Tater salad, baby.
I love it.
Anyway, but O'Hare, you know, just again, if you can carry on, do carry on because it's just...
The moral of the story is don't bring too many bats to the airport.
Okay, but I want to go...
While we're doing this, let's just dive into this a little bit more.
Okay, I don't get it.
My generation...
If a fight started, you'd either do one of two things.
You were either part of the fight or you tried to break it up.
You didn't just take your phone out and start videoing.
That's because your generation didn't have phones, Doug.
But this is just so, I mean, to me, so stupid.
You're sitting there watching somebody get the bejesus beat out of them, and you're taping it?
I mean, what do you want to be?
I mean, this person gets people's shots to the end, they're dead.
TMZ will just throw money at you.
Plus, plus, plus, we are the generation of cell phones and we're gonna record it.
Listen, there are some really horrible things people record and it bothers me because...
The one thing that bothers me the most is when somebody records somebody at the gym who's just trying to better themselves or something like that.
That always makes me crazy because I'm like, that person's just really small.
Leave them alone.
But if there's a fight breaking out, by all means, take out your phone.
Unless it's really...
Like, there's a gun or something.
If there's just two people fighting, take out your phone, send it to me.
That's what I want my friends to do.
No, but I hear you.
It is weird that we have to generate...
Listen, that's why celebrities don't go out and do the same things they used to.
You can't even hear stories about it anymore because they're hiding.
Because you can't get away with it.
You can't do anything.
Speaking of people on their phone, we can talk about John Morant for a second.
I mean, that's example A, right?
That's exhibit A. You know, I think the gun issue is less the problem.
Because I agree.
He didn't do anything illegal, as far as I know.
I don't know if the gun is registered.
No, he's just stupid!
Well, yeah.
I've always been a proponent of you don't have to be a role model.
I used to really take that stance as a kid.
I mean, when I was younger, because I was like, it's not up to that person.
It's up to your parents to manage...
Who you're going to be, right?
And just because they see something...
If they take...
If they say that...
See, the John Moran has a gun.
They go buy a gun.
You need to do better as a parent.
But...
The more I think about it...
Like, he doesn't really have an option.
He is a role model regardless.
Right?
So to pretend to be like a...
To pretend to be a tough guy when you grew up like the rest of us.
You didn't grow up in the trenches.
You didn't have to claw your way out to get better.
You grew up having to keep a gun on you to stay safe.
You grew up in the suburbs.
You play basketball like a private school.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Not to be funny.
I know.
I get it.
You're in Memphis and the people you surround yourself by are tough guys and you got to pretend that you're part of it, but there's no need.
You're a millionaire.
Maybe at one time you had this culture, the NBA, the bad boys from Detroit, Chicago.
You don't have that anymore.
These are pampered athletes who don't even know what the meaning of walking is.
Listen, if you want to know what...
There's a couple of guys in the NBA, obviously, who grew up with obvious...
They play basketball to get out.
We all know that.
If you ever want to read something about...
If you want to read about growing up in the trenches, Tough Juice is one of the best books by Ron Butler you'll ever read.
But he had to do stuff to survive.
John Moran is pretending to do this stuff, and he looks foolish.
And then he basically looked Adam Silver in the eyes, who is the commissioner in the NBA, and he was like, I'm totally going to change my life.
And then, like, a month later...
First of all, you know your friends have Instagram Live.
That's the easiest thing to get caught.
You can't tell someone to stop hanging out with people because they just take it as, oh no, I do what I want, but...
Somebody needs to go get John Moran.
Go get him.
There are plenty of the hard story.
Jimmy Bowe.
Butler from Miami.
Great story.
It's one of the best stories you'll ever hear.
It just does his business.
I guess I grew up in...
I'm one of the older Gen Xers.
Yes, I am the one who drank from the hose in the water.
We did all this stuff.
I can go through the whole thing.
At the same point in time, This culture of, when I say showing off, is just interesting to me.
We've made that the standard.
In years past, it was like, do your job.
I can remember my brother who played baseball.
They played on the American Legion team.
He went on to college to pitch baseball.
Great pitcher.
But they had a great team.
One of the guys went on to quarterback at Appalachian State.
I mean, they had people drafted.
It was a great team.
And they typically beat up most of the teams they played.
And they would go to regionals and finals and nationals and stuff like that.
But yet, they had a tradition they started that when somebody hit a home run, the only person that would greet them at the plate was the next batter.
And so they asked him, well, why are you doing this?
They said, we're acting like we've been there.
This isn't new for us.
This is something we do all the time.
I agree with you, Doug.
I think you need both in sports because I think you need both versions of people because you need a villain and you need someone to root for.
Like, we all need...
Everybody wants a Barry Sanders, right?
Everybody wants a dude who just takes it 90 yards to the house and then walks over and hands it to the referee.
However, we also want Randy Moss.
You know what I'm saying?
You want Terrell Owens occasionally.
Terrell Owens might have been too much.
But you want somebody who might celebrate having fun.
You need it.
I think it's important for the game.
Ja Morant's one of those guys that, like, when he could dunk it over 17 people and your head explodes, and maybe he won't go crazy that time, but he might go crazy if he hits the shot.
Whatever.
Not the point.
It's the kind of thing where, in this case, like...
Yeah, the NBA is not exactly the humblest league in the world.
But if you do take Jimmy Butler, for example, like, yes, he gets in your face, he talks talk and walks the walk and does everything.
But he also, like, at the same time, like...
He always is there.
If it's business, it's business, and he knows the difference.
Where John Moran's a young kid, he's still, what is he, 23, 24?
I don't know about you, but I was not, I mean, that's only six years ago, but I still wasn't a smart kid then either.
So, you know, again, I... But why don't they put somebody with him?
I mean, that's the part that I know.
Some of these kids, like, he is the face of the franchise.
He...
He's one of the best players in the league, if not the top three point guard in the league.
But this kind of, I mean, again, when do we take the, and I get it, okay?
Again, I'm not looking to the NBA for my role models.
I'm not looking to the NFL for my role models.
But people do.
I mean, these kids do.
And what was it?
And I wish I remember who did this.
I want to say, golly, this bothers me, and I don't want to misquote it, but a very famous athlete, and I'm going to say something like a Magic Johnson or a Deion Sanders or a...
Kobe or somebody, it was in that vein, went to an inner-city school, young school, elementary, middle school-aged kids, and asked them, basically, how many of them wanted to go to college or want them to be an engineer, doctor?
Very few of them raised their hand.
How many of them wanted to be pro athletes?
All of them raised their hand.
And he went on to tell them, he said, look, this isn't happening for you.
You know, I've got to be just honest.
There's not going to be one in this building that would even get looked at by Major College.
And it just goes on.
And then you get the...
Oh, Nicole Jokic.
Nicole Jokic from the Nuggets, who, I mean, he just does his stuff.
I mean...
I agree with you, but have you seen his brothers?
No.
His brothers might be Serbian gangsters.
I'm not even kidding.
They're straight out of a movie.
But no, no.
That's the appearance.
I'm just kidding.
In all seriousness, you're right.
He comes in, he does it.
Listen, there are plenty of guys.
Take the shots you want at LeBron James.
That man has come up from nothing to the most touted human being to ever probably touch a basketball up until very recently with Zion and Womenyama.
And he lives in this world where he has somehow become a role model with all the things that have come at him and doesn't make mistakes.
Yeah, the biggest mistake he made was saying, I want to take my talents to South Beach.
That's a pretty good career, if you ask me, if that's the worst thing you've said.
Yeah, well...
Well, the one thing with LeBron, too, is a cocky arrogance, but he backs it up.
Yeah, whatever.
Listen, if you're going to be at that level, there's a cocky arrogance.
He happens to say it too often, because I think he's always trying to make sure that people know.
But we know.
We just want to hate you because you're not Michael Jordan.
And the generation who didn't like Michael Jordan wanted to hate him because he wasn't Kareem.
And we'll do this until the day that we die, because humans are miserable.
Well, speaking of this, though, the Nuggets pretty well put the Lakers in their play.
It did.
And, you know, four-game sweep.
I think it is tonight, if I'm not mistaken, for those of you listening on Friday.
I think the Heat's going to put away the Celtics.
They may have already put them away at this point.
That's going to be a good series.
If that's a Nuggets Heat series, that's going to be a good series.
Yeah, I know that people were joking about it that they weren't going to air it.
What?
Oh yeah, and James, this comes from somebody who is not an NBA fan at all.
Yeah, I live and die by it.
So, I'm all in.
And so, you go off on it.
I look at it as a small court rugby.
Because they're just, again, I mean, tiki-tac fouls.
Then they don't call stuff.
Then it's just like, oh, whatever.
But anyway.
I think we could, again, we don't have to get too into this.
But I think the pendulum has swung too far to the right.
We used to have fights.
There used to be fights in the NBA before my time that got so out of hand that when they were airing it, people were like, I don't want to watch this anymore.
And there was a huge racism element to it, especially in Boston.
But there was a huge racism element to the idea that white people didn't want to see black people playing and all that.
We can talk about that for decades.
But now that they've gotten rid of pretty much any violence whatsoever, so if you get in someone's face, it's a technical, you do this, it's a technical, you do that.
It's gone so far that players look like a bunch of punks.
They almost make their players look like they couldn't handle getting in the heat with somebody.
And don't get me wrong, some of them don't want to fight.
They just get in each other's faces because they know it's going to be broken up.
But there was a time where if you did get in someone's face, someone like Ron Artest would hit you so hard you would think twice about ever doing it again.
Could you imagine the Memphis Grizzlies going against the early 90s Detroit Pistons?
If they went to the paint and Bill Ambeer and Rick Mahorn were there, John Morant would not be playing basketball anymore.
No, it's true.
I mean, even think about those, like, I mean, we joke about it, but do you remember the Malice at the Palace in 2004?
Because I do.
I was watching it with my dad.
It was probably the coolest thing I've ever seen live on TV. Because the way the camera panned from the court to a human being running up in the stands...
Now, again, you never should fight fans.
They did throw something at him, so he had every right.
But, in all in all, those guys existed.
Ron Artest can't exist anymore.
He was one of the greatest defenders who ever played the game, but he also couldn't exist because he would throw an elbow and try to kill James Harden.
I remember that.
These people can't exist in the league anymore because they don't need enforcers.
They're just ticky-tack foul guys.
You're right.
It is crazy, and we don't have to keep talking about it, but they need to bring it back a little bit to the left.
Well, one thing I do want to...
We're going to continue this little bit of an NBA trend here for just a second, though, because Brian and I, we watched the movie Air about the Michael Jordan Nike.
How amazing is that movie?
Have you seen it?
Yeah, I just watched it like a week ago.
It's one of the best...
We watched it.
It was so cool!
Can we talk about the thing about how great sports movies are never really about the athletics?
Right?
Like a movie like...
This reminds me a lot.
I'm not comparing it to it because Moneyball is probably the best sports movie ever.
But...
That it's in that vein where like they did something revolutionary and you knew it was going to work out in the end and it was going to be great and whatever.
And obviously we all know the story of MJ and Jordan and I knew most of it.
But there were details in there that like kind of blew me away.
Like the idea that he actually went to their house to try to convince him.
I knew MJ wanted to be a newsman but I didn't know they went through all that just to get him.
So it is incredible.
Well, Damon did a great job acting.
I mean, did you recognize Matt Damon?
I recognized Matt Damon only because the tricky thing was how great Ben Affleck was.
I hated him for no reason for so long.
I think it's just I was jealous, as we all are.
I said I watched Ben Affleck again in the movie called The Accountant.
I haven't seen that movie.
Is it worth watching it?
Yes, very much so.
I'll watch anything.
You know, remember a couple weeks ago, this is probably more than a month ago, we were talking about when there's really good writing in a show or whatever.
Yeah, the Sorkin effect.
You can see, you can feel it.
This movie was beyond well written.
It was unbelievable.
Well, it did, and it flowed well.
You know, if you've not watched this movie, you need to watch it.
Again, it's a story that's been out forever, but now it's being told.
And...
What I would encourage you to do is wait until the end credits when they talk about Matt Damon's character.
They talk about, of course, Phil Knight who started Nike and everything.
And again, enough credit.
I was really happy that they gave the credit to Michael's mom.
In foreseeing that they were going to make money, and this is the old intellectual property attorney speaking here, that they were going to make money off of Michael.
Why shouldn't Michael get part of the credit?
I didn't know that started with him.
That was the thing I remember.
I obviously knew that was part of the deal, but I had assumed that this was just being done already.
But the fact that he's the first player To start the trend of if you're making money, I'm making money is insane.
Nike literally opened the door for millions of athletes, thousands of athletes to make money.
Double, triple the money they were going to make?
Oh, it was amazing.
One of the notes in the scene, and again, not giving away, but it was the scene in there where Ben Affleck, who plays Phil Knight, says, you know, okay, fine, it's all right.
You know, what's the most we've ever sold of a shoe in a year?
And it was like a million three or something like that, different shoes.
They sold four, was it, 160 million in the first year.
Michael Jordan gets passive income of $400 million a year from Nike.
Passive income.
He doesn't do a thing.
In 1985, went on sale for $65.
Nike expected to sell 100,000 pairs in the first year.
Instead, it shipped 1.5 million pairs in the first six weeks.
You know what's crazy, too, is they had that great opening, but what people forget, because obviously they don't put this in the movie, is MJ got hurt in his second season.
Yeah.
And he had to sit out, so they probably went into panic mode for a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
And then, of course, he turned around and that next year he came out with probably...
I mean, his greatest shoe ever.
We went over the sneaker stuff before, but remember also, Jordan didn't win his first title, what was it, until six years in the league, seven years in the league?
1991, yeah.
People were beginning to wonder.
I mean, think about this.
People were beginning to wonder.
Yeah, but he was still averaging like...
I think it was his third season or something.
He averaged like 37, 38 points a game.
So he was still doing crazy stuff.
He was winning dunk contests.
He was winning all-star games.
I think 88, he won defensive player of the year, MVP, all-star game, MVP, and was a first team all-star.
He had a crazy, absurd season.
I have to say this before we move off of this.
There was an Instagram post the other day.
A reporter asked Michael Jordan, If he thought the 90s Bulls could beat LeBron's Lakers, okay?
That was the question.
MJ said yes.
The reporter said, by how much?
MJ said two or three points.
The reporter said, why such a close game?
He said, well, most of us are 60 now.
Oh, that's an all-time quote.
He really is.
You gotta love it.
Gotta love it.
Speaking of, moving on from legends to another legend, and we've got to put in some music here.
It is, we have to remember the passing of the legend, the woman with the amazing legs, amazing voice, amazing sound, who had a crush, according to her own self, on Mick Jagger most all of her life.
Tina Turner passed away.
I mean, it's amazing.
In fact, we're going to pause here for a moment.
James is going to just do a little bit of montage here.
Speak the language of love like you know what it means.
And it can't be wrong.
Take the heart and make it strong.
You're simply the best Better than all the rest What a voice.
James, I mean, really?
I mean, and to come through everything...
I remember listening to her and my mom would put her on.
I mean...
I remember...
Okay, here's the interesting part.
I remember her from, you know, the 70s or stuff, but when she really took back off was in the early 80s.
And I think a lot of the generation began to really know her.
I mean, that was when Private Dancer came out.
She did the Mad Max, Thunderdome, you know, that kind of stuff.
And then she was, of course, on Live Aid.
For those of you who are too young to remember Live Aid, just...
Look it up.
Okay.
Anyway, and I mean, just amazing.
And she was 83, I think it was, when she passed away.
And I just got to thinking about that.
That was men's, and it was talked about then, when she really started her comeback, she was in her 50s.
Yeah.
And she looked like she was in her 30s.
I mean, those legs, I mean, the way she moved around, I mean, she's like Mick Jagger.
Of course, Mick Jagger's 80-something years old, and he jumps around more than a 20-year-old.
But Tina Turner's music, I mean, is just amazing.
Yeah, it's obviously, I mean, everybody before, you know, everybody's gone too soon, but...
She did live a pretty long life and a very successful one.
And obviously there are many up and downs and we can talk about that for days.
But she is...
That's what I'm saying.
You want to talk about just persevering and being great always.
She is a shining example.
And had seemingly the best attitude.
And obviously she had a voice of...
Only, you know, the gods can give you.
Oh, I agree.
I agree.
All right.
A few more things as we go.
Remembering the great Tina Turner.
Moving on in to a few more things before we let you all out for Friday's Finest today to go out and experience a great weekend.
I have to touch on this, James.
We've got to touch NFL news a little bit.
I don't know the specifics.
We talked about this a little bit offline, but somehow, someway, the Patriots were caught cheating again.
All right.
Everybody who's shocked, raise your hand.
Okay, nobody raised their hand.
I was not on camera, but I want to make it very clear I will never raise my hand.
I thought you were the now Dallas chapter of the Bill Belichick fan club.
Yeah, exactly.
I started it last month.
You know, Doug, the thing is they lost two OTA days, which is such a weird punishment.
They were like, oh, we get to have off?
Okay.
I mean, Bill Belichick was probably pissed because he wants his players to know that if you do anything wrong, you'll never get to see a football again, but...
Anyway, I mean, at this point, who cares?
Who cares if they cheat?
Let them cheat.
They already got the 18 rings and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will never win without him.
That makes me feel better.
We just need to report.
The Patriots are supposedly caught.
Well, he has to cheat because his division, now he's the bottom of the division.
Oh, yeah.
The Jets have Aaron Rodgers, so they're going to go to the Super Bowl, apparently.
The Dolphins just got loaded up on defense.
They're going to be a better football team.
And the Bills still have Josh Allen.
The Patriots are looking at mediocrity and below in every single season for the next three seasons at minimum.
So Belichick's trying to figure out ways he can steal the powers from other players.
He's trying to ruin something.
I'm sure he probably had one of his...
Lackey's tape a film session of Josh Allen or something.
There's no telling.
Anyway, we'll keep you updated on that as we go along.
Looks like there was another fight broke out at a Yankees game.
Again, not another real episode here to report about, but just keep it in mind.
Yankee game fights are fun because it's just a bunch of guys yelling with New York accents.
I love it.
All right.
One thing, though, the NFL has changed the rule for next year on kickoffs.
Basically, anything fair call.
Far call.
Well...
My country's coming out today.
Fair catch with inside the 25 will be moved to the 25. So, is the way I understand this is...
So if you fair catch at the 10, you just go to the 25. Right, exactly.
So basically, for the most part, you've now...
For the most part, you've just killed the kickoff.
I don't understand.
What's the point?
Well, they don't want...
You know, okay, I have a question.
And maybe, and again, statistics, I mean, they've been saying this for years.
How many times, though, in an NFL season, I'm trying to think about this, do you see people injured on a kickoff?
Well, obviously, it's been a while because they've changed the rules for quite some time.
But I don't know the answer.
I'm sure dudes are getting killed out there.
I know.
I think everyone who's played football knows that's the kind of position.
Guys are trying to prove themselves out there and so on and so forth.
But like, I don't know.
It still doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what this has to do with player safety.
That's my point.
That's my point.
I don't see it.
What is the point of this?
So now you're making a fair...
So what's the kicker supposed to do?
Just put it at the 25-yard line.
Call it.
Don't kick it.
Yeah.
Don't kick it.
And I think right now, if it goes in the end zone anyway...
I mean, I guess now it's going to be 25 if you kick it in the end zone.
So, I mean, it's like...
That's what I'm saying.
Like...
You know what you could see here, James?
What?
You could see this.
And again, if I'm a player and I know they're going to get it on the 25, then I'm going to start training my kickers to do the, because you don't have to kick off.
Okay?
You could punt.
Okay?
It doesn't have to be on a...
I'd have to go out and check the rules now, and I may be wrong.
If I'm wrong, go to the.comspodcast.com, go to the email and let me know.
Okay?
But you may have to put it on...
But even if you did have to put it on a tee, they can train those kickers now to do the pooch kick straight up in the air to about the 25 every time.
And it stays up there long enough.
You talk about having crashes.
To me, I think that would be the way to go about it because you know they're going to get another 25 anyway.
I feel like I'm missing something.
That's why I don't understand.
Players don't want to do a kickoff.
Now everything just starts at the 25. So you score a touchdown, and then your kicker puts it in the perfect place, and your team runs down fast enough, and they get it to the 9-yard line, and now they've called a fair catch, so they just get to come to the 25. They didn't earn that.
You're just telling the kicker you're an idiot, and whatever you do doesn't matter.
And look, we all make fun of kickers, but they are an important part of football, and we keep taking them away from the game.
Yeah, well, the question I have is, though, is this.
It's also, you know, it's about, and this may be a weird analogy, but it's like the kiosk at McDonald's.
I mean, you place your order on a kiosk, you're losing teenage workers who had their first job at a McDonald's running the register.
And so now you're taking away that six-round pick who came into training camp as a wide receiver or maybe as a fullback or running back.
They work their butt off, and where they're going to make their chops is on special teams.
Two players from Denver I can name right now.
Terrell Davis and Shannon Sharp.
They don't get their shot.
Yeah, I agree.
So it's just interesting to me that, again, this is another problem that doesn't need fixing.
How about let's deal with, why don't we go back and re-examine the quarterback, roughing the quarterback call.
You know, look through something like that.
But anyway, for folks getting ready for NFL this year, that's what you get to look for.
Final story.
Oh, sorry.
I just wanted to mention one thing about the NFL. You're aware that Thursday night, they've agreed to flex Thursday night games?
Yeah, basically.
Yeah, that's going to be a problem.
Listen, I'm all for not watching bad games on Thursday night, but what the NFL does to its actual visiting the field, actually visiting the stadium fans, is disgusting.
We could talk about the PSLs and how they have just destroyed season ticket holders because they called it this great investment and now you can't even get rid of them.
But what the NFL does to its actual in-seat stands is unbelievable.
We have streaming as the future and all that, but going to a ballgame, they're basically saying, we don't want you here, with the way they've treated their fans.
I just wanted to say that because I think that it's disgusting.
No, and look, that was a whole argument the other day on college sports.
I was listening to it on ESPN, and they were having this conversation about, especially in college sports, you know, the declining attendance and stuff on college sports.
And even Saban was calling out, you know, in the glory years, Alabama's student section was leaving after halftime.
And so it is real.
And they were saying, again, Look, I love to go to the University of Georgia and watch football between the hedges, okay?
I've enjoyed going to, you know, down to the Georgia-Florida game and, you know, going to Alabama, watching them in Tuscaloosa.
You know, I love, you know, I like going to a lot of sports, but it's a hassle, and it's also expensive.
Sure is.
I mean, I can put, I mean, think about this now, and I used to compare stuff because, I mean, I'm an old, you know, miser a lot of ways.
You know, they came out with, what, the NFL ticket or the Sunday ticket, and I was like $300 for the season.
And I thought, God, that's a lot of money to watch TV. And then I got to think about it.
If I went to one Falcons game, which...
Okay, let's just say I went to one Falcons game.
I'm going to spend close to that much anyway.
Right, your ticket at the lowest price is going to be $100, and you're going to be in the top row.
You got somebody with you if you're paying for them or whatever, but it's going to cost you whatever for four beers, and then you got to pay for food, and you probably already paid for parking, and if you tailgated, you paid for that.
I don't know.
I feel like the whole experience has changed.
And I love going to games.
I've probably been to like 10, 11 football games, maybe more than that.
And I always get the cheap seats with my friends and we move down and whatever.
But just like, you know, you could go to a baseball game for 20 bucks back in the day when I was younger.
Have you been to Jerry World yet?
Yes.
My brother took me...
Let me say this.
It is everything they have told you and more.
Oh, yeah.
My brother decided...
He got a little bonus from his job, and he goes, you know what?
I'm going to surprise me.
He's going to surprise me.
And he got me tickets on the 50-yard line.
They were such good seats, just so you know.
We sat next to the Winklevoss twins.
Which we were spending most of the game trying to figure out if it was them, and it was.
They left early because they're rich and they don't care.
So we get there.
We're very low.
I can see the field.
I can see the Vikings.
I'm losing my mind.
Then the stadium...
I've got to set the stage for you here.
The stadium lights all shut down.
Yeah.
And then in this huge burst, all the lights come on in like a flow up through the stadium.
And it's like an electric lightning bolt comes through.
And then Michael Irvin, his big face, comes up on their jumbotron and just starts yelling at you.
It is the coolest thing I have ever seen at a football game.
You could sit in the parking lot and enjoy a game at Jerry's World.
It was that incredible.
Listen...
Kudos to them for saying, we're putting all the money in.
We're going to make this the kind of thing you want to go to.
That's why I can't wait to go to a Vikings game.
By the way, we may start a GoFundMe page to send James and Doug and friends to, or get y'all to join us in Vegas on December.
Ooh, Raider Nation, let's do it.
Yeah, I think it's the 10th, isn't it?
What, November?
No, it's December 10th.
Vikings-Raiders.
Oh, December 10th.
Yeah.
Because I think I'm trying to go with my buddy to the Panther game in October.
So, listen, I'll travel all over to go to football games.
I've always been the enemy in New York, and I'm fine with that.
I was the enemy in Dallas.
I'll wear purple wherever, so I'm up for it.
We'll get more into that, folks, later as we go.
But we've got lots coming up.
Jerry Whirl is nice.
I've been there.
It's a real athlete.
Mercedes Benz in Atlanta is phenomenal.
Oh, yeah.
Another amazing.
If you think the TV screen in Jerry World is nice, wait till you go to the Mercedes Benz and see the circular 360. That's right.
That's right.
It is pretty amazing.
Anyway, last thought before we get today.
It is, and for those of you who've been waiting for this, it is now time.
The Panther, the Florida Python Challenge begins.
2023 Florida Python Challenge begins.
You can register.
To collect almost 30,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the wild.
You know, they have a whole show about this starring Craig Robinson called Killing It.
It's on NBC. It's actually kind of funny.
But I looked it up afterward because I was curious.
And I'm telling you, man...
I don't know if I have the chops for it, but the money doesn't seem too bad.
No, they've killed 18,000 of these invasive species.
So all you animal lovers out there, this species shouldn't have been there to start with.
It's killing the natural wildlife.
It's taking over the Everglades.
I mean, they're 20-foot pythons in Everglades.
I mean, come on, guys.
I mean, really?
Yeah, you have to.
This isn't invasive species.
This isn't like...
Yeah, this is...
It's like the carp up in the Ohio River and some of those out there that have just taken over up there.
Can I just say the website has just a picture of Ron DeSantis holding a snakeskin football?
This is stupid.
I don't know why it's making me laugh.
This is the dumbest picture I've ever seen.
Oh, wow.
Oh, you can register right now.
Python removal competition.
Oh, it begins on August 4th.
And then it's August 13th.
Oh yeah.
You can register right now.
Yep, get registered for it.
One last thing, we didn't get into the DeSantis announcement last night, which we're probably going to get into in an episode next week.
For sure.
I've seen this going around where they're using an alligator head as one of his logos.
I just have to say, talking about the swamp in D.C. and you're going to present yourself as an alligator, Look, maybe that's just the Georgia Bulldog in me coming out because there is such a thing that we do like Florida Gators.
They're excellent dog food.
But, you know, I just don't think I'd use that personally.
Yeah, you know, this is one of those things that's going to be the him and Trump debate forever until we get to the end.
But...
What was that?
Listen, Twitter crashed or whatever for a second, which means people were flooding it because they needed to know what was going on.
So that's a semi-positive.
I think every one of those things is always prepared for a crash and they just let it happen.
It's always all this crash because too many people were on it.
Well, you know how many people exist, right?
Like, you know at this point how many people...
It's like when the Pacquiao Mayweather fight crashed on streaming and we were like, are you kidding me?
Did we just pay $200 for your nonsense?
I don't know.
Okay, another topic, and you're going to have to remind us on this one, James.
We're going to have to come back.
I want to talk about the demise of boxing.
I don't think we have enough time.
Yeah, not today, but we're going to get into another Friday, Friday.
We can talk about that.
Because I remember being a kid.
We'll get into it.
I remember being a kid.
And my dad and my uncles and some friends, he would take me to somebody's house and we'd all watch it.
And it was a huge deal.
And then probably, I remember to me the last great heavyweight fighter was Bernard Hopkins when I was a kid.
And there's plenty now.
But it's just not the same event.
The good part for me is I go back to the 60s, 70s, 80s heyday.
You were in the glory days of boxing.
Oh my god, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Leonard.
The last real fighter for me was the guy out of Ireland.
In 2000...
Oh, Phil.
Just lost his name.
Anyway, folks, here's what you do.
Come back next week on Friday's Finest.
We never know what we're going to get into.
We could get into Pythons.
We could get into the Bronx Zoo.
We could get into our ever-popular Dallas Zoo.
Who knows?
Or we also could just talk the craziness of football, basketball, and everything else.
But this is Friday's Finest.
That's what you come in for.
45, 50 minutes of just simply sitting back and hearing the stories you don't hear anywhere else.
But that's what you do here on the Doug Collins Podcast.
James, say goodbye.
Take care everybody.
We're gone.
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