The Best of The Dan Patrick Show

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show (Best Of) — September 1, 2025

Guest Hosts: Steve Covino, Rich Davis, Danny G
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts & Dan Patrick Podcast Network

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Overview

This special Labor Day episode of The Dan Patrick Show sees Covino & Rich sitting in for Dan, broadcasting with their signature comedic banter and pop-culture-infused sports takes. The crew dives into September baseball, early-season college football overreactions (especially concerning Arch Manning and Alabama), the excitement and downsides of live versus TV sports viewing, and the cultural phenomenon of "Linsanity." A new game segment — “Covino or Belichick” — keeps things light, and extensive listener feedback rounds out the episode.

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Main Themes

• Sports Fan Overreactions: Debating the tendency to leap to conclusions after a single week of games, with a focus on college football narratives.
• Live vs. At-Home Viewing: Is it worth paying soaring ticket prices to watch the NFL live?
• Community & Fan Identity: Why do fans feel compelled to attend games in person — ego, community, or both?
• Pop Culture & Sports: Remembering Jeremy Lin’s brief NBA superstardom.
• Comedy & Real Life: Hosts riff on everything from pumpkin spice season to gym etiquette.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Labor Day, September Sports, and Personal Rituals

[04:01]–[08:14]

• The show kicks off with classic Monday morning gripes and Labor Day banter, setting a relaxed holiday tone.
• Transitioning into sports talk:
  “This is the time of year football consumes your life. ... every kid’s officially back in school, starting this week. So it is a big transition week.” — Rich Davis [07:58]
• Major leagues in play: September baseball, NFL season about to launch, college football recaps, and even boxing on the horizon.

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2. College Football Week One: Overreactions & Meme Culture

[08:14]–[23:51]

• Rich admits the human urge to jump to conclusions — are this week’s storylines actually overreactions?
• A major topic: Arch Manning’s “disappointing” debut, and the meteoric rise and ridicule via social media memes.
• “The headline was ... I think he’s ass.” — Steve Covino [12:15] referencing a Barstool meme.
• Are these takes hasty or fair, considering the limited evidence? Danny G brings perspective: “You can only react to what’s in front of you at the moment.” [13:12]
• Also discussed: Alabama’s perceived softness, and the viral catch by C.J. Daniels — “Was that the catch of the year ... or are we overreacting?” — Covino [21:08]
• Hosts dissect why fans (and media) cling to early narratives.

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3. The Challenge of Balancing Family & Sports Fandom

[24:03]–[27:04]

• Modern dad dilemmas: missing big games for your kids’ activities.
• “That’s got to be, like, tough when you only live so strong for that one team ... you wait all year just to watch that game and you can’t even watch it.” — Covino [25:13]
• Shared struggle of recording games (“DVR culture”) and the impossibility of avoiding spoilers on social media.

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4. College vs. NFL Fandom: Live Sports or Stay Home?

[27:04]–[38:06]

• NFL is king — “We have been conditioned ... Sunday is mentally reserved for NFL football.” — Rich Davis [26:26]
• Regional differences: Hosts admit college football matters less where they grew up (New York, Jersey, LA) compared to the South or Midwest.

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5. Is Attending an NFL Game Worth It?

[35:43]–[46:38]

• Analysis of average NFL ticket prices — e.g., Raiders averaging $578 [39:16], and others over $500 per ticket.
• Rich’s big assertion: “The actual viewing experience of an NFL game is the worst of all four major sports.” [41:44]
• Detailed breakdown of why TV’s technology (pylon cams, replays, first down lines) makes watching from home superior.
• “You can’t beat the view you have at home.” — Covino [42:46]
• Counterpoint: Danny G argues that the atmosphere — “the electricity in the air” — when it’s your team makes being there live incomparable [46:22].

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6. Ego, Community, and Sports Attendance

[48:49]–[51:15]

• Rich hypothesizes that a lot of “being there” is about ego and showing off on social media, comparing it to “choosing vacation spots for Instagram opportunities.” [49:06]
• Danny G pushes back: “Hardcore NFL fans don’t really give a ... We just want to be close to what we love.” [50:00]
• Is sharing game attendance bragging or just sharing? The group navigates the psychology of fandom and representation.
• Listener “JP from Upstate NY” calls in to describe his lifelong quest to visit every NFL stadium, emphasizing the deeply personal significance and sense of community gained from being at the game [52:24–54:25].

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7. Game Segment — "Covino or Belichick?"

[68:02]–[74:05]

• A playful segment where a caller must guess whether various fun facts apply to Steve Covino or Bill Belichick.
• Sample question: “His Jordan simultaneously enrolled in cosmetology school and commuted daily while balancing her academics.” [71:01]
  • Answer: Belichick. (Covino’s partner is a Pilates instructor.)
• More lighthearted revelations: Covino’s dog is a national ad star, and both he and Belichick have partners named Jordan.
• Winner receives a CNR Nerf football and some show swag.

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8. Remembering "Linsanity" and Outlier Superstars

[75:30]–[82:58]

• On Jeremy Lin’s official NBA retirement, the hosts reminisce about the cultural lightning bolt of his brief Knicks stardom.
• “It was a guy playing at the true height of his potential ... he was just in such a zone that it was, it took the world by storm.” — Covino [82:13]
• Broader discussion on “who wasn’t supposed to be a star?” with examples like Jacob deGrom, Brock Purdy, David Ortiz, Nick Foles, and Darren Waller.
• Takeaway: Sometimes sports magic comes where you least expect it.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Are we really moving too soon? Can you really make an assessment [in week one]?” — Covino [12:36]
• “That’s just the culture that we live in. ... we build the story to tear it down.” — Covino, on Arch Manning’s rapid-fire critiques [19:23]
• “The actual viewing experience of an NFL game is the worst of all four major sports.” — Rich [41:44]
• “You want to feel like you’re closer to the action. Vegas itself is bringing a next level of showmanship.” — Covino [43:37]
• “Are you sharing or are you bragging?” — Covino on game selfies and fan ego [55:52]
• “It’s a subconscious ‘I need to be there’ thing.” — Rich, admitting the urge to attend big games [60:14]
• Danny G's perspective on super-fandom: “You care a lot more when it’s your team.”
• Covino on “Linsanity”: “Those two weeks defined everything for that dude and props to him.” [82:58]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Labor Day opening, sports landscape & holiday banter — [04:01]–[08:14]
• College football week one & overreactions — [08:14]–[23:51]
• Family life vs. sports commitments — [24:03]–[27:04]
• NFL ticket prices & live vs. TV experience — [35:43]–[46:38]
• Psychology of fans at live games — [48:49]–[51:15]
• Caller JP on NFL stadium quest — [52:24]–[54:25]
• “Covino or Belichick?” game show — [68:02]–[74:05]
• Jeremy Lin and "outlier hero" discussion — [75:30]–[82:58]

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Final Reflections

This episode blends the silly with the sincere, challenging sports fan culture while reveling in its quirks. The filling-in hosts manage to poke fun at themselves (“They pay me in meatball at Fox Sports Radio” – Covino) and their audience, while ultimately celebrating the communal, once-in-a-lifetime moments that make sports fandom so powerful — whether or not you’re watching from the couch or the third row, fifty-yard line.

To sum up:
Overreactions are everywhere, but so is the hope and fun that comes with a new sports season. And whether you’re at the game or enjoying the pylon cam at home, sports are all about connection, community, and, sometimes, the desire to be “in the room where it happened.”

Transcript

[Steve Covino]

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[Steve Covino]

Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich podcast.

[Rich Davis]

Be sure to catch us live every.

[Steve Covino]

Weekday from 5 to 7 Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox SP.

[Rich Davis]

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[Steve Covino]

Oh I think a vampire it's so bright in here. It's freezing. Ah, Cavino and Rich in for the great Dan Patrick. And I figured I'd start off with a nice complaint to get it going because who really loves a Monday? However, it's not just any Monday, it's Labor Day Monday. So I hope you're enjoying your extended weekend. Freezing in here. By the way, did they set it.

[Rich Davis]

For football weather in the studio here in Fox Sports Radio?

[Steve Covino]

It makes it so unwelcoming and so hard to feel comfortable 35 below zero in the studio.

[Rich Davis]

I see it on the wall. It says Soldier Field conditions.

[Danny G]

Seriously, December Covino, you don't have to be in the bright lights this morning. Turn those lights all the way down because Spotty's gone. The other video guys couldn't make the holiday so we are actually not on our YouTube chann for one day only.

[Steve Covino]

And that smooth buttery voice making all those good points. That's great analysis Danny. Is Danny G. What's going on bud?

[Danny G]

Turn the lights down.

[Steve Covino]

He's on the phones at 87799 on Fox. The most inclusive show on radio begins now. Before we get in for Dan Patrick, really dive into the weekend. By the way, hope you had a Lee Corso Ohio State sort of weekend, not an Arch Manning Alabama sort of.

[Rich Davis]

Why are you Google imaging Lee Corso looking for new wallpaper I wanted to.

[Steve Covino]

See he, he went out on a high note. All his predictions were right. So I wanted to see all the games that he got right real quick. But congrats on a long career.

[Rich Davis]

You make it a slideshow. Young Lee Corso.

[Steve Covino]

Young Lee Corso. And again, we're gonna get into it. We're on Monday through Friday, 2 to 4 in the west, 5 to 7 on the east. But when boss May hits us up and says, hey, you want to say hello to Dan Patrick's friends? Want to fill in for DP? We're like, Absolutely, let's go.

[Rich Davis]

You mean 600 plus radio stations around the country?

[Steve Covino]

Yes. So we say, hey, yes, please. We'll fill in for Dan, get our weekend started. Our Labor Day started early. That way we could have a nice cookout later on today and sit back and watch our games and say hello to you. So again, just follow us, search Covino and Rich wherever you stream your podcast. And since we're on, how many people are listening, Rich?

[Rich Davis]

You said quite a few.

[Steve Covino]

I think it would be.

[Rich Davis]

Dan Patrick's pretty popular.

[Steve Covino]

You know what? Dan Patrick would also love it if you followed our YouTube page. He told me we're filling in for him and he's like, man, that's all I would hope is that you guys get something cool out of it. And by cool, I think he means for you to follow our new page. It's YouTube.com vinoenrich FSR. Now you can watch us live normally except for today because everyone took off. It's YouTube.com covinoenrich FSR and let the wild rumpus start.

[Rich Davis]

All right, well, today let me give you a little tease of things I know I want to get to.

[Steve Covino]

Sure.

[Rich Davis]

It's September baseball as of today. So we are going to talk some baseball. We are days away from the NFL beginning.

[Steve Covino]

It's the first of the month and.

[Rich Davis]

Hell, we got to talk about some college football from this past weekend. And I got to say, before we get into your observations and this past weekend, shame on me because on September 1st, I'm the idiot. I got a Starbucks this morning. I got a pumpkin muffin. Is it okay now football has started? Am I allowed to have some type of pumpkiny?

[Danny G]

Girl, what a wuss.

[Steve Covino]

You have the palate and the television taste of a teenager and TikTok algorithm of a 15 year old. My daughter's a 15 year old girl in high school. Same taste buds. Is Rich, she's the one excited about the new.

[Rich Davis]

No, no, you told me you don't Spice everything. I'm not a pumpkin spice guy, but you don't want a bite of this muffin. You were. No, I'm saying I got a muffin. A pumpkin muffin.

[Steve Covino]

No, that means you fell into the trap. Means you are.

[Rich Davis]

Son of a. Well, hey. Over the weekend.

[Steve Covino]

But I'll have a bite.

[Rich Davis]

Let's get into it now. This is the time of year where you start busting out those hoodies. This is the time of year football consumes your life. This is the time of year every kid's officially back in school, starting this week. So it is a big transition week.

[Steve Covino]

Wonderful time. It really is, though, of the sports year, because you are getting ready for your baseball playoffs. Yeah. Hopefully your team's in it. Lots of parody this year. That's a big buzz. More parody than we've seen in previous years. When it comes to baseball, there's no.

[Rich Davis]

I mean, you could argue the brewers are, you know, leaps and bounds above everyone at this moment. But then again.

[Steve Covino]

Say that. But then again, there's a part of every baseball fan that's like, yeah, the shoe's going to drop. This fantasy is going to stop.

[Rich Davis]

Come on.

[Steve Covino]

Reality is going to kick in.

[Rich Davis]

You tell me if they play the Dodgers in a series, you wouldn't bet on the Dodgers.

[Steve Covino]

Well, that's how everybody feels. You know, we don't know. They might be legit, and that's what makes it fun. But, you know, baseball, playoffs, you got college football, you got NFL starting this Thursday, you got a big fight on the horizon. You're like, who? Jake Paul? No, Canelo Crawford. So there's lots going on. Basketball. Be here before we know it. So.

[Rich Davis]

And thank God you Yankees lost yesterday. They were starting to look unbeatable. And I was. In a row, I was starting to get a little nervous. Kavino and I have a bet. Big bet. Mets, Yankees bet. And the white is just talking about.

[Steve Covino]

You sound like the nervous Southerner. But it is such a great time to be a sports fan.

[Rich Davis]

So I ask you this. Of all the things you observed this weekend, it's a time, like I said, for all those things, but it's also a time for overreactions. And it's human nature. I can't deny it. We all fall victim of overreacting, and it's going to happen. Danny G. In within the next week in the NFL. I'm a bigger NFL fan than I am college. Like, by far.

[Steve Covino]

Same.

[Rich Davis]

And you know what's going to happen? Couple premier teams are going to lose week one. And the narratives going to be like, my goodness, did their window close or did they not have it this year and some trash team's going to win. I remember what it was last year, the garbage Saints. Remember they started like 2 and oh and everyone's like maybe they're not so bad.

[Steve Covino]

Other no, they're bad.

[Danny G]

They were better than two and oh.

[Rich Davis]

I think they started.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, they started off pretty strong.

[Rich Davis]

But anyway, I want to go over the overreactions and which ones you think, well, maybe they are in overreactions. Like is is Kaylin DeBoer just not the answer in Alabama? I mean they're already saying get this guy out of here. If you look back to Last year, last three games, they were 1 and 2, 13 and a half point favorites over Florida State who looked like doo doo pie last year. I mean you got to maybe credit Florida State for turning around that program quick. But we're talking two touchdown favorites and the narrative was that this team is soft. Run defense, run offense, everything. Alabama just wasn't playing with any gusto.

[Steve Covino]

No heart when it comes to Alabama. Aside from all that, the viral thing was the meme of the year. It was like a meme was born and it's some jabroni holding up his middle finger. Looks like my brother in law Chris looks like a sad college football fan.

[Rich Davis]

And is that the new face of Alabama?

[Steve Covino]

I think it goes with your point though. It's like meme of the year. Meme is born.

[Rich Davis]

Just started.

[Steve Covino]

Season just started. That's why everybody needs to get a grip here. Aerosmith style. Get a grip. 87799 on Fox. When the NFL season starts, we do something called things that made you go right. Basically your observations in the world of football just all around in the weekend, this weekend because NFL is not even here yet. We're going to talk about, hey, are we moving too soon here? Can you really make any assessment in the first week? Like one of my favorite headlines, Rich over the weekend was archbanning. This is a legit. Well I think it was a barstool headline. It's a legit that legit. But you know they come with a sense of humor, which I love. Barstool.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. But it is barstool. Right. So a lot of people saw it. It is legitimate. But you know who's behind it. Right. The headline was I think he's ass.

[Rich Davis]

Or something like that. Camino texted me and I wasn't sure if it was his observation or a topic for today's show. You're at Arch Manning ass Cheeks, question mark.

[Steve Covino]

Arch Manning is cheek cheeks, meaning the bad kind. Hold on, I gotta find you the actual headline because it was really funny. But again, are we, are we really moving too soon? Can you really make an assessment is how I feel about this, but that's the narrative we run with as fans. Oh, here it is. It's a picture of Arch Manning. Right. And it says might be ass. And that's what everybody was quick to jump on. The game wasn't even over yet.

[Danny G]

Dude.

[Steve Covino]

That's what I mean about like, yo, we're really jumping the gun. The game wasn't even halftime and the headline was he might be ass.

[Danny G]

I know what you guys are saying, but in, in fairness to fans and media, you can only react to what's in front of you at the moment.

[Steve Covino]

Right? Right.

[Rich Davis]

That is true.

[Steve Covino]

And that's, that's absolute fact. We need to keep that in mind. It's like, hey, this is, this is all we got to work with right now. Right. But that made me laugh. I was on the treadmill watching this. And by the way, just to paint a picture, we're out here in Los.

[Rich Davis]

Angeles and were you running as lackluster as Alabama's run game on the treadmill?

[Steve Covino]

I almost had a moment. I almost had a moment.

[Rich Davis]

Speed on high in la.

[Steve Covino]

I don't want to stereotype or paint in broad strokes as I paint this picture, but for whatever reason, it's not like, it's not like, give me a good sports city. Give props St. Louis, Chicago. Chicago, you know, New York, Austin, New York, where, you know, if you're at the gym or at the bar, everybody's glued to that game. I had to have someone, please, can, please, we put college football on. It is why are we watching news? It is the one thing, it drives me bonkers. You're at a gym. You would think that it's part of their requirement as an employee. Like, hey, if there's something big going on, throw it on for our customers. Like, no one cares. And it's just the vibe of Los Angeles.

[Rich Davis]

I love living out here in Los Angeles, but it is one of those disconnects. And we've been out here a decade now, but you go to. We, you know, maybe it's because we don't go to like a high end gym. I go to 24 Hour Fitness across.

[Steve Covino]

The street, probably because the people that get $8 an hour don't care.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, but we're at 24 Hour Fitness and you don't know how many times I've had To say, can you put something on there?

[Steve Covino]

But it's a gym, right? So you would think that there's some like minded people that want to be on the treadmill, watch some sports or whatever. They should know what's going on. Same with the local bar. You think John Taffer has any patience for going into a bar and they don't have the game on or a game on. So I actually went out of my way. I said, hey, can you put on. I saw the headline. He might be ass. I want to see how this game wraps up. Can you put on the game? And I had the game on. Some old guy. True story. Tell me if this is legit or not. Some old guy with his. He had quitters on. You know, quitters are tube socks that were down those ankles because they were like the elastic was done. So they quit on them years ago. And he's still rocking. I've had these from 87. Old guy with quitters and a headband. Like, it looked like a la hobo comes, you know, into the gym and he starts. He brought his own remote control. Like, let's say it's DirecTV. I don't know what they use at the gym. He had his own directv from his house or whatever. Control pulls it out of his bag and he starts changing the channel of the TV that I already. I was watching, bro. I was ready to like, to get off my treadmill and give him a karate kick to the sternum. But I realized he was really old.

[Danny G]

Is that even allowed?

[Steve Covino]

Dude, that's what I was saying.

[Rich Davis]

Is that like thinking, son of a baller move, dude.

[Steve Covino]

I can't. But. Well, I get it.

[Danny G]

Are you sure you weren't exercising next to the owner of the gym?

[Steve Covino]

I had like, had a. I felt this guy because he probably went in there one too many times. He was like, I've had enough. And he brought. He's like. He took matters into his own hands, brought his own control because no one cares there. It's really funny. And you know, I had a look at him like, yo, I'm watching this. And I gave him a friendly look and he realized. So he went to another TV and changed that channel. I was like, thank goodness. But the point here is Arch Manning, is he ass or not? That's the point.

[Rich Davis]

Well, the point is the overreactions we're all going to make. But you could just simply say Ohio State's defense is elite. But I will say that while some were glued, again, I'm more of an NFL guy. Can't watch every game, but I did set the DVR and said, I'm going to skim through this one. It is Texas. It is Ohio State. But I realized I start coaching my kids on the weekends soon for fall sports. And I said, you know, it's the last one that I could have to myself. So I went to go play softball with my buddies and one of the guys goes, anyone interested in hearing the score? Texas, Ohio State at halftime. And people are like, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, a lot of guys were dbring it. 7 nothing. Ohio State. We're like, whoa, whoa, wait. What's Arch Manning doing? It really wasn't. It really was disappointing if you thought it was going to be Arch Manning on display.

[Steve Covino]

I was reading the subtitles at the gym before, you know, old man McGirt changed the channel on me. Old man Clemens came in and said, I hate Ohio State. Is they wouldn't let the leash off him. It's like, let him off the leash, let him do his thing, let him throw. And by the time they. They let him do that, like the game was over. It's like, yeah, why didn't you let him do that in the beginning of the game?

[Danny G]

But he looked flustered for a lot of the game.

[Steve Covino]

But that's Ohio State's defense, right?

[Danny G]

Well, there were a lot of Uncle Rico gifts and memes coming out because of his throwing motion on a few of those passes.

[Steve Covino]

So no, I kind of hate that too. And it is noticeable, but he comes from a. A good line of quarterbacks. I don't know. You know what, it's insane to see how much goes into the quarterback throwing angle and arm positioning and all these little things we would never think of. And when you watch Hard Knocks, you got to see what they go through with Josh Allen and all the QBs there as far as like just angle and efficiency and all these things. And everyone thinks they know everything.

[Rich Davis]

But the same way he didn't play.

[Steve Covino]

His best game, the same way you.

[Rich Davis]

See rookie quarterbacks struggle when they enter the NFL. Maybe we were wrong to think Arch Manning, you know, I mean, I know he played last year. We watched him last year, but not all the time.

[Commercial Announcer 2]

Obviously.

[Rich Davis]

He had a couple games and viewers was hurt. Did we expect Arch Manning to come in and just light up Ohio State, who's really good team did? Like, maybe we just were mesmerized and almost glamored a little bit by the by just the name Manning, like, oh, now time like we were last week before he even made his season debut. The minute Michael Parsons left for Green Bay, we're like, oh, there's a narrative that Dallas might, you know, just build.

[Steve Covino]

We build the story to tear it down. That's just the culture that we live in. And we've been building up this story of, oh, Cooper, you know, his run fell short. He could have been the greatest of all the Mannings, and he was a great receiver. And this is his son carrying on the name. And everybody loves the story, so.

[Danny G]

Yeah, but Texas came in ranked.

[Rich Davis]

Ranked number one.

[Steve Covino]

I know, but there you go.

[Danny G]

I mean, Manning's not the whole story here. He's not the team.

[Rich Davis]

It was one versus.

[Steve Covino]

It was true. But you're. That. That's a sexy name to tune in for, no doubt. And you've been hearing about it so long. So is it a matter of he's ass, he's cheeks, or. Ohio State's defense was great. Are we overreacting? That's really what we are getting at. Are we overreacting? The other thing.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, let's go over what is the biggest overreaction.

[Steve Covino]

CJ Daniels catch. Are we overreacting?

[Danny G]

I don't know.

[Steve Covino]

That was sick, okay? It was sick. And it's made other NFL players famous overnight.

[Rich Davis]

Odell Beckham Jr. He lived for years off of that one catch.

[Steve Covino]

It really was.

[Rich Davis]

I'm not saying he was a bad wide receiver by any means, But Odell Beckham Jr. His whole legacy is based off of some circus catches. One in particular.

[Steve Covino]

That dude, if God gives you, or if life gives you a moment, run with it for as long as you can. Look, I hit 27 Little League home runs. I ran with that all the way to the Dan Patrick Show.

[Danny G]

Ran. No, you're still running.

[Steve Covino]

Still running with that. That's my point. And look at me.

[Rich Davis]

I'm in for DP all because of those Little league home runs.

[Steve Covino]

That gave me a sense of false confidence and it gave me some. Some chatter, and I ran with it. Jay had that moment. And yeah, he was a great receiver, but he. He leaned into that for as long as he could. As he should.

[Rich Davis]

C.J.

[Steve Covino]

Daniel'S catch was. Was very close to that. So here's. Here's why I bring it up, though, Rich. It was one of the highlights. But remember the theme. Arch Manning, C.J. daniels. What they're saying is, is that the catch of the year? Well, can you have a year in the first game?

[Rich Davis]

It reminds me of when you come in in January.

[Steve Covino]

Or are we overreacting?

[Rich Davis]

No, in like January or February when Covino's like fight of the year. I'm like the year just started.

[Steve Covino]

Ah, that's a good point. But sometimes you see some magic right off the bat. You can't top that. Like are we going to look back at this season and say yeah, that was it. And it was, it was week one and C.J. daniels had the play of the year. If it put OBJ on the mat the way that it did, we still remember it, we still talk about it.

[Rich Davis]

Roll with it kid.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, he's got to lean into it, milk it. For what it's worth, you know, you're the OBJ of college football. We might have seen the play of the year in week one.

[Rich Davis]

Well what was your big overreaction? What do you think it is? Is it Caleb DeBoer in Alabama?

[Steve Covino]

I think the overreaction is Arch Manning's ass. Yeah, maybe Ohio State's defense, maybe they're just really good. I think they're a lot of pressure on this kid. Hold on, you know I don't think he's. Hold on pal.

[Rich Davis]

Let's look at Texas.

[Steve Covino]

I think it's funny and I think, you know, we all thought man he's ass but you know, I think that's, it's way too soon to make that assessment. Assessment.

[Rich Davis]

Arch Manning, 17 for 31 touchdown, one interception, 170 yards. How do you think he's going to fare this coming Saturday against San Jose State when Texas is favored by 37 points? So we'll be watching about to. He's about to put up circus numbers and you know, Texas went into week one ranked number one.

[Danny G]

College football fans are not going to respect that until it's up against one of the real contenders.

[Rich Davis]

Danny, you're 100% right. But I think now he'll have a moment to start to start padding those stats. And I'll tell you when people will start caring. They'll start caring first weekend of October when they play Florida or when they play Oklahoma the weekend after. But the next couple of weeks, you.

[Steve Covino]

Know what I noticed too?

[Rich Davis]

It's time for Arch Manning to get loose, play some lower, lower level teams. But overreaction, Arch Mannings ass overreaction or not, Caitlin DeBoer in Alabama over before it sort of even started.

[Steve Covino]

CJ Daniels, catch of the year first week. You know I think, I don't think that's an overreaction. I think that plays, like I said, it made other NFL stars superstars overnight. I don't think that's an overreaction. It was, it was a really great.

[Danny G]

I think.

[Steve Covino]

Was it a snag, a grab or. It was a snag.

[Danny G]

Yeah, a stretched out snag.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Danny G]

I think that's probably the one thing where we will look back at week one and be like, yeah, that still stands.

[Steve Covino]

I agree. I don't, I don't think that's an overreaction. So what were your overreactions that you noticed over the weekend? Something else that I just notice. And by the way, the number is 87799 on Fox @COVINO and Rich at Fox Sports Radio. Rich, I feel like there's a lot of people in our demo, if not people listening that live this life already where you're living that dad life of running around, taking your kid to travel league and you're just trying to be super dad, trying to do a million and one things. You're trying to maintain your house, you're trying to rake the leaves, mow the, you try to coach the team but you're also trying to like have a nice barbecue and watch the game or whatever. You just got so many things going on, you can't be at all these places. Like Ohio State played a big game this weekend and I know my brother in law who's the biggest fan ever, couldn't even watch it because he's at his kids game. And that's got to be like tough when you only live so strong for that one team. Like that's my brother in law's team. And I understand your kid comes first, that's obvious. But that is like, damn, I can't even watch them beat Arch Manning in this way.

[Rich Davis]

Well, to me that's why the NFL.

[Steve Covino]

Is such a tough balance.

[Rich Davis]

You know, the NFL on Sundays we have been conditioned and probably because I didn't grow up in a college football town. I grew up in New York. You grew up in Jersey, Danny, out here in la. That's my point.

[Steve Covino]

Like these college games are so big, everyone matters so much. But this was such a rivalry. My brother's there like giving, my brother in law's giving orange slices to his kid, missing the whole thing, playing flag.

[Rich Davis]

Football with his son.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, and that's again those moments, I'm not downplaying those moments. I'm just saying like, ah, yeah, but that's. You wait all year just to watch that game and you can't even watch it.

[Rich Davis]

I mean I know there's USC and UCLA and there's.

[Danny G]

I was gonna say I, I grew up with the Pete Carroll Trojans.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. But to me like where we grew up, no one cared about college football even slightly compared to the NFL.

[Danny G]

It was a big deal here in Southern California because of Reggie Bush and oh, Trojans.

[Rich Davis]

But I'm saying, like, when you look at, like Kavino said, let's be honest, if you're a family man, have kids even, you know, in any circumstance, to me, Sunday is mentally reserved for NFL football, wives, husbands, kids. People sort of acknowledge, like, Sunday, it's also church day. So there's people that go to church. Like, it's almost that they have rest slash football. Right?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. But if you have something important going on, there's that struggle of.

[Rich Davis]

It is. It is very tough.

[Steve Covino]

I can't even sit back and watch the games today.

[Rich Davis]

It is very tough. If you're a family man, it's like.

[Steve Covino]

A selfish little B.

[Rich Davis]

To say Saturdays, like sit around and watch the game. It's impossible.

[Steve Covino]

Now I got to go to the game. Now I got to go to my kids game.

[Rich Davis]

I'm. I.

[Steve Covino]

You feel like a little, little B. You do, you do. Because you know the right thing is just to go to your kids game. And it's great. I, I'm not saying that's not fun. It's fun and it's. It's mandatory.

[Rich Davis]

I like that more than football.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, of course. But there's this like, ah, man, I waited all year just to watch this game. I can't even watch it.

[Rich Davis]

That's why.

[Steve Covino]

So I, I noticed a lot of that. I noticed that with a lot of my friends.

[Danny G]

You guys aren't real football fans, man. This is why my taekwondo on Wednesday.

[Steve Covino]

No, I'm serious. Like, I'm like, how did you. I'm at the gym watching Ohio State. The biggest Ohio State fan I know can't even watch it. And it's not the same. You can't watch it later. Social media ruins everything. You can't watch it later. So your overreactions from the weekend, what you feel social media was overreacting on your observations and more. There was also some BS fights we could talk about. But we have lots to get to today again, in for Dan Patrick. We're going to talk some NFL. We're going to play a game called Covino. That's me or Belichick.

[Rich Davis]

Because you guys like the same guy.

[Steve Covino]

Apparently we're the same dude.

[Rich Davis]

You know, it's interesting tonight, prizes. Tonight there's a football game that.

[Danny G]

Oh, it's a big one.

[Rich Davis]

That I think there's a discrepancy of, like, why people are going to watch and I'll explain. It has to do with Belichick and Jordan Hudson. So we'll get to that in a bunch more. NFL, some college football, and of course, we're big baseball guys. So baseball. It's the playoff run now, man. September baseball. You can't turn back now. September baseball. So we got more.

[Steve Covino]

When you say big baseball guys, you mean 27 Little League home runs, right?

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, exactly.

[Steve Covino]

That's me.

[Rich Davis]

That's why I think of you. All right, we got more. Kavino Rich in for Dan Patrick next.

[Steve Covino]

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[Rich Davis]

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[Steve Covino]

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[Rich Davis]

No more white pants unless you're pitbull.

[Steve Covino]

Oh man, I gotta put my white pants away. Everybody was talking about it. I know mine are extra tight.

[Rich Davis]

Everybody's talking about your white pants.

[Steve Covino]

I got the bulge cut pants.

[Rich Davis]

I know.

[Steve Covino]

I guess I gotta put them away for next year. Steve Covino, just the kid from Union, New Jersey. Rich Davis from Franklin Square, Long Island. He put the square in Franklin Square. We joined forces years and years ago to do the Covino and Rich show. We're on Monday through Friday 2 to 4 out here on the west, right here on Fox Sports Radio 5 to 7 on the east we're always giving away prizes. So real excited to play this game today with you. Danny G. Worked hard. He worked through candlelight. I heard this on a holiday weekend. Who worked by candlelight?

[Rich Davis]

Abe Lincoln, I believe. Crotchet and Ebenezer Scrooge. Who else? Worked with candlelight?

[Steve Covino]

Worked with candlelight just you know, through the wee hours of the night to prepare this game. And I'm so excited to hear How I'm so much like Bill Belichick. We're playing.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, it's called Cavino or Belichick. We're going to do that in a little bit.

[Steve Covino]

Giving away prizes and more. And the numbers 87799 on Fox. We want to say hello, get involved again. Happy Labor Day weekend.

[Rich Davis]

We're, we're talking about the NFL, which of course starts in Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, three days.

[Steve Covino]

Can't wait.

[Rich Davis]

I know you were going to say the same. A lot of great games. Week one to me. We could go over the whole list, but I was already eyeing Ravens, Bills. I feel like that game, the fact that that's week one. I mean, you could argue watching Hard.

[Steve Covino]

Knocks, you're real fired up about the Bill.

[Rich Davis]

You could argue Lions, Joe and whoever.

[Steve Covino]

Else is making this.

[Rich Davis]

Lions, Packers. There's so many great games. Week one. But the question is, do you want to watch these games live? Danny G. Found the hottest, most expensive average ticket prices in the National Football League.

[Steve Covino]

And Danny, I don't think it's shocking, to be honest. Not, not, not knowing what I know.

[Danny G]

Yeah, it didn't surprise me because I.

[Steve Covino]

Saw a list of the most expensive franchises, most successful, like the value of each franchise. And that's why I'm not surprised. A lot of these teams are here. They got bills to pay. Well, they got expectations.

[Rich Davis]

I mean, I mean, let's, let's just zip through this. And it makes sense because my big, I think the bigger conversation is me thinking none of this is worth it. And I'll explain. You're defending super bowl champs, the Philadelphia Eagles. Your average ticket price, 456 buckabrus. The Patriots were still clinging. The Patriots still clinging to, you know, the dynasty. I mean, and they're rebuilding. Now, the average ticket price. People think that maybe the Patriots are your surprise AFC team. Right. They can make some noise.

[Danny G]

Looks like they've turned a corner, at least what they did in the off season.

[Steve Covino]

What, signing Tommy DeVito.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, that's the big move right there.

[Steve Covino]

In fact, the average price was 500. Since signing DeVito, it's 468.

[Rich Davis]

So he's. Yeah, it actually went down 468 and.

[Steve Covino]

468 for the Pats.

[Danny G]

And because it's, you'll know, you know, Vrabel is going to have that team ready to go.

[Rich Davis]

No doubt.

[Steve Covino]

No doubt. So again, if you just joined us, Eagles, 456 average ticket. Patriots, 468 average ticket. Your team, the 49ers, over five hundo average ticket. But Again, San Francisco's expensive. That's also part of it.

[Rich Davis]

It's the Bay Area. I know it's Santa Clara, but. And they're also a team that consistently competes, right?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, exactly. Good team. $500. One average ticket for Levi's Stadium.

[Rich Davis]

And number one, it's no surprise because a ticket to go see Penn and teller is 200 bucks. So what do you expect it's going to cost to see the Raiders Las Vegas for $578 and it makes that team.

[Steve Covino]

They're like top, top seven. Top. How are they as far as valued franchise? Oh, they're.

[Danny G]

Yeah, they're up there towards the top.

[Steve Covino]

They're up there toward the top.

[Danny G]

And they were down towards the bottom for Mark Davis when they were in Oakland. So they. They are making, well, the value. At least it's not cash flow in his actual bank account.

[Steve Covino]

The value of the team, the value.

[Danny G]

Of everything there in Vegas.

[Steve Covino]

And Rich, the prices up a little bit.

[Danny G]

You. You know, to go see the Raiders, to be more specific. And the Raiders are my favorite NFL team. I'm a lifelong fan. But to be more specific, to see your team play the Raiders in Las Vegas, because let's be honest, that's every NFL fan circle date on the calendar to go see their favorite team and make a boys or girls weekend out of it in Vegas.

[Steve Covino]

Right. It's not necessarily about the Raiders. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. It's about who they're playing and what's going on at half of stadium.

[Danny G]

Half of the stadium is filled with Raider fans.

[Steve Covino]

578 Reality.

[Rich Davis]

The reality is, you're right. It's a. Hey, you're. You're a Colts fan. Oh, they're playing the Raiders. Your doofus friends in Indianapolis, you all get together and say, let's make a Vegas weekend and we'll stick around on Sunday to see the game. It's. It's a tourist dream to have their team play against the Raiders. What you're hoping you're one of those eight games. That way, nothing's cheap.

[Steve Covino]

In Philadelphia, defending champions 456. The Pats are the Pats. 468. 49ers, San Francisco, Santa Clara. It's all expensive. 501 average ticket price. And the Raiders is Vegas. And it's a destination.

[Rich Davis]

You can't get. Number one, a steak dinner at a nice casino hotel for under 75. $80 for, like the cheapest steak at a restaurant.

[Steve Covino]

So, I mean, what do you? It's a lot. 578 average average ticket price. So per person at Allegiant Stadium that.

[Rich Davis]

That led me to my thought of while it is fun and electric to be at a stadium for football, I can't deny that you go there. You're the benefit of a football game. Here's my take. Has nothing to do with the football game itself. You go to a football game, it's about the tailgate, it's about the interaction with like minded fans. You're walking through the parking lot, music's blaring, people are cooking, people are high fiving and bro hugging and playing cornhole throwing around the football. It's the experience. Then you get into the game and you're you hope you sit in a section with fans that you know you're gonna high five every first down and another first down. Yeah. Other than that, I think the actual viewing experience of an NFL game is the worst of all four major sports. You go to a hockey game, you have decent seats, you feel like you're right there. You hear the guys crashing against the glass. Hockey live is unbelievable. You go to an NBA game, you're hearing it, you're hearing the sneakers on the court. You're there, you're watching these guys. If you have decent seats, you're like oh my God, there's Lebron James. You go to a baseball game, you can get pretty cheap tickets remote. Unless it's a Dodgers game or a Yankees game or maybe Mets or Cubbies, most teams you could buy a pretty cheap ticket to a ball game. Bring the kids, get a hot dog, get a drink. They have a lot of great food at stadiums. Now baseball, as my dad would at least try to convince me as a kid, every seat in the ballpark has a cool different angle.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, don't worry, these are nosebleeders.

[Rich Davis]

Oh, the upper decks. The upper decks are the best.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, nosebleeders are the best.

[Rich Davis]

So I say football is the worst of all four. And I say this because I've had great seats in an NFL game and I'm like, what are you gain there? 3 yards, 4 yards, you don't realize how great.

[Steve Covino]

And maybe it's a room where it.

[Rich Davis]

Happens, but maybe it's a credit. I think it's more of a bragging, right. I'll be honest, like I've been to Super Bowls and the more I think about it, I'm going to be real with you. I think it's more about me being like I was at the game. It's a bragging, right? Because the reality is NFL on TV is the best experience.

[Steve Covino]

You can't beat the view you have at home.

[Rich Davis]

The pylon cams, the first down line. Unless you are, if, if you're near an end zone, if the gameplay is in towards the other end zone, you're like, oh, what the hell's going on down there? You find yourself looking at the big screen half the time.

[Steve Covino]

You put a telescope to our last game in Miami. I remember, let's say you are felt so far.

[Rich Davis]

We were, we were by like the 10 yard line. And then you're hoping, I hope the actions at this end zone and then you're at the 50 yard line the minute.

[Steve Covino]

I'm just saying that Rich was falling asleep. I swear to you, the last game we went to together, Rich, I think this is not lying.

[Danny G]

This is one of the reasons why the NFL stadiums that are newer are more intimate now. Like, one of the reasons Allegiant Stadium is popular with all NFL fans is you do feel like you're in the middle of the action. No matter where you're sitting in that.

[Steve Covino]

Stadium, Vegas itself is bringing a next level of showmanship and entertainment. No, I mean when it comes to hockey and when it comes to what's going on there with their, their halftime.

[Danny G]

Stage and everything, it's, it's glitzy, but also you feel like you're in the middle of it. Whereas the old school stadiums were big, colossal coliseums. And that's kind of going to the wayside because of what you're talking about. You want to feel like you're closer to the action.

[Steve Covino]

Not to mention. No, you know, we grew up on the east coast. You go to a Giants game or forget about it, Buffalo game, you're freezing your ass off for four quarters. I don't care how much you say you love football.

[Rich Davis]

I remember going to a game once. I remember going to a Jets Colts game in the pouring rain once. I was like in high school, it was the 90s and I remember being like, this is the most miserable I've ever been in my life.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, it's freezing.

[Rich Davis]

And I'll say this, it sounds ridiculous.

[Steve Covino]

I have my freezy freakies on.

[Rich Davis]

It sounds ridiculous. But when you're watching NFL football on your big screen TV with the Sonos surround sound you got going on, you're hearing the sounds of the game. Unless you are like within the first 20 rows, you're not hearing the pads and the whistles and mud. It's like you're just Sort of watching.

[Steve Covino]

I look at it this way. How many NFL games do you go with those ticket prices we just talked about Raiders. What was it? 578. Average ticket price? 568. 578. I go to maybe one game a year.

[Rich Davis]

Well, be real.

[Steve Covino]

So for that one game a year, I do enjoy it. It's the one game a year I go to. They pay me in meatball at Fox Sports Radio. I'm working on Labor Day because I have to have bills to pay first of the month. I got child support. So if I go to one game, yeah, I have a pretty decent time.

[Rich Davis]

Rich, be real though.

[Steve Covino]

What that be like Cypress Hill.

[Rich Davis]

We went to one NFL game last year with some of our buddies. Yeah, it was a meaningless game. It was Raiders, Dolphins, in the end of November.

[Steve Covino]

Both teams were sort of avid or in Miami.

[Rich Davis]

Went to Miami and it was ass.

[Steve Covino]

What was more ass? Arch Manning this weekend or that game?

[Rich Davis]

We Both teams were under 500 or.

[Steve Covino]

Episode three of the.

[Rich Davis]

We had. We had like decent seats and they were 280 a person.

[Danny G]

Max Crosby was playing on a bum ankle and you needed him to get a sack, remember?

[Rich Davis]

I did. I did my prop bet. My prop bet.

[Steve Covino]

He also drank a lot the night before. So everybody's like sort of sluggish, right?

[Rich Davis]

But not only that. I'm just saying it was like 280 a person. We had mediocre seats and both teams. Teams are under 500 by that point.

[Steve Covino]

Trying to compare it to like the. The insanely awesome views and coverage we get nowadays. Nowadays, especially at home in the comfort of. Of again. That's what I'm saying, that we invested this year.

[Danny G]

Those weren't your teams. Rich, when it's your team and you're join you're. It's like a big gang and you're so excited to be with your people and there's electricity in the air. You're walking in and you can't believe you are there. There is nothing like walking into an NFL stadium.

[Steve Covino]

You're. You're. You're exactly right. And I pointed that out when I said it's the room where it happens. It's a Hamilton reference. That's part of it. Just being there with like minded fans and being part of that experience and that history that could be made. I could make the same argument that Rich is making about the NFL, about fighting, because I'm a huge fight fan and I grew up my entire life watching boxing and of course ufc, but boxing primarily. And, and you think of all the Action that you watch from home and pay per view and whatever else you're watching. You go to an actual boxing event, you're not seeing the same way you see on tv, not even close. But it's about being in the room where it happens. That's really what it's about. So you're never going to see the same way, especially not in today's coverage. What do you think, mark?

[Rich Davis]

Back in 17 and 18, I bought tickets to the Rams game because a buddy of mine had tickets. So I sat next to him, and we sat in the end zone looking through the uprights for the. For the field goal, watching the whole setup, like, after a play, and then the players have to go back, and then they go to their huddles. Just that experience of watching the setup and then watching, like, a running play and a team, a running back gets.

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Through the line and gets through the.

[Rich Davis]

Secondary and starts to run. That's, like, the greatest thing to see in person. The other part was during a timeout, you watch the referee, because I've been broadcasting. I watch the referee to see when they tell the players, okay, now you can start playing again because now the TV is back, so you can go back to playing.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

That is. You do pick up on those little.

[Steve Covino]

Things, but you realize that TV provides an experience that real life can't even compete with anymore.

[Rich Davis]

The reality is. The reality is, TV's so good.

[Steve Covino]

Now you find yourself. You're at the football game and all the things. I agree with you, Mark, and everything you said. But when you're at the NFL game, you find yourself looking at the big monitors more than you're actually looking at the field, because even the monitors are more vibrant and vivid than what you're seeing in reality.

[Danny G]

Isn't that one of the biggest differences, what Mark was saying? You feel like you're part of the movie rather than watching Danny.

[Rich Davis]

You know what? I wrote it down, so you're so right. I go based on what Kavina was saying. You're in the room where it happened. You feel part of it instead of watching it. But the reality is, I wonder how much of that subconsciously is ego driven. The same way a woman, not to be stereotypical.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, please.

[Rich Davis]

Where a woman would. And I've seen studies on this where women are now choosing.

[Steve Covino]

Wait. Is that how you preface something really controversial and rude that you're about to say? I've seen studies on. Wait, wait.

[Danny G]

He's a girl, dad.

[Rich Davis]

Oh, yeah. So I can't say anything. I'm a girl, dad. So I can't say anything offensive. No, But I've seen articles about this, so I'm not BSing you that they're saying younger women choose vacation destinations based on Instagram opportunities. That is true. People are choosing vacation spots based on IG and TikTok opportunities. My point is, are you there because you think it's the best experience, or you there because we, as people, is our human instinct to, like, I want to be part of it.

[Danny G]

You're talking about social media weenies who pose for lots of pictures. Hardcore NFL fans don't really give a. You know what about that? We just want to be close to what we love.

[Rich Davis]

I feel like if you go to.

[Steve Covino]

A big game, are you really a fan? If you're not at a big game.

[Danny G]

You'Re talking about people that aren't necessarily sports fans, though. They're fans of themselves and they're into themselves.

[Rich Davis]

Is it also, like, a weird fan pressure? Let me explain. There is, like, as we get closer to the baseball playoffs, I'm a big Niners fan, but, you know, I'm an East coast baseball Mets fan. Every time the Mets are in the postseason or my football team makes a run, there's an instinct for me to be like, I gotta go to, like, the playoff game. I gotta go to the super bowl or World Series or something. Is that. Why do I feel that instinct is because I need to be in the room where it happened? Is it?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah. Who's a bigger fan than you, jabroni Jones?

[Rich Davis]

What does that prove? Like, are we all trying to prove, like, I'm a bigger fan? I'm there.

[Steve Covino]

Well, look, if that guy's going, then you gotta go. Yeah. There's like, a weird team. It's also showing support to the team that you root for. Like, you can't say you root for this team if you're not there to support them when it matters most. But that's part of it. Like, you got to go there and represent. It's about you representing and showing who you truly are, which is a fan of that team. It's a part of who you are at that point. Danny G made a lot of great points. You care a lot more when it's your team. When it's not your team, you're just like, man, it's kind of boring. Better view at home.

[Rich Davis]

Can I ask you the truth?

[Steve Covino]

Truth. If the reason we bring this up, though, is because the average ticket price is 500 bucks and the Raiders is 578, they're the highest 578 a ticket.

[Rich Davis]

I'll give you how I know people don't like to be hassled. Every the world is a lot of extroverted introverts. What do you call yourself again?

[Steve Covino]

I'm an outgoing introvert.

[Rich Davis]

Outgoing intro.

[Steve Covino]

I like to go out, but I'd rather chill at home.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. A lot of people, once you get them out, they're like, oh, this is fun. But it's hard to get people to do anything. If I told you, Danny, and I know you can say, well, it's not my team. If I said, yo, freebies. I got tickets for Ram Seahawks, you.

[Steve Covino]

Know, week four or whatever.

[Rich Davis]

Are you driving a Sofi and doing all that? Or you're like, no, hell no. I'm just watching on TV.

[Danny G]

It's $125 to park.

[Rich Davis]

It's all included.

[Danny G]

Oh, it's all included. I'm going to go because I love football.

[Rich Davis]

To me, that seems like the biggest headache in the world.

[Danny G]

But I'm not paying 125 to park unless it's my team.

[Rich Davis]

Okay, let's go to J.P. that's why.

[Steve Covino]

You got to give credit to these crazy fans that are just willing to show up. That's why they're fanatical.

[Rich Davis]

JP in upstate New York. Let's kick it off with you. What's up, buddy?

[Caller]

All righty, boy. I was a young man when I called, but anyway.

[Rich Davis]

Hey, what's up, man? Welcome.

[Caller]

I've been to 177 NFL games.

[Steve Covino]

Damn.

[Caller]

I started with my brother in the 70s, and our goal was to go to every NFL stadium in the league.

[Rich Davis]

That's cool.

[Caller]

Since the 70s, teams have moved, teams have changed. We went to the Baltimore Cowboy game in the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

[Rich Davis]

Is there, by the way, have you covered everyone, or is there something you still haven't been to?

[Caller]

4. We couldn't get 4 because during the strike year, we got shut out of Seattle and we got shut out of Kansas City. City. Okay, so there's been only four. The packers, that was number three. And actually, I'm having a hard time figuring number four.

[Rich Davis]

It's all good. I think we'll be all right.

[Danny G]

Well, what can you experience at the stadium that you can't get on TV?

[Caller]

Well, for me, it started in 1969 at Franklin Field to see the Eagles and the New York Giants and. And throughout all of this time, like, my brother and I went to 10 Thanksgiving Day games in Dallas. 10. And what I liked about the game was just what somebody on your team earlier said. You get there for the first time, you're at your favorite team stadium, and you walk in and you say, wow, I am here. And you know, my favorite team was the. Still is the Cowboys. And when I got into Texas Stadium for the first time, I couldn't believe it.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, no, I get it, man. It's a feeling of being part of.

[Steve Covino]

It, being part of it. The room where it happens, there's millions. Every time I'm at a fight, especially, I'm like, there's millions all over the world that are paying money at home, having parties, watching this event, and I am here. My friends and family are all at home watching this. But I'm.

[Rich Davis]

Well, you know, you're describing exactly. Well, first of all, there's two things at play.

[Steve Covino]

So you can't. You can't as feel that way when you're at home. That's what you're paying for.

[Rich Davis]

There's two layers here. And I'm not getting all psychological on you, though. I am a little bit. If you go back to the days of coliseums and, you know, gladiators fighting lions in arenas, we. We all sense, we all have a sense of community that we want. We want to be part of a community. You want to root for something together with someone else. Right?

[Steve Covino]

So.

[Rich Davis]

So going like when Danny said when he hangs out with other Raiders fans, when you go to the Bronx and you're chess bumble with a bunch of other guido Yankees fans, bald Vinnie bro, Bleacher Creatures, there's something to be said about it. You see, it's the same reason why when you're walking through the mall, I'm out here in la, if I'm walking through the mall with my kids and I see another guy, if I see a guy wearing a Mets hat, I give him a little like, hey, let's go Mets. We all desire community, and that's what sports gives us. Combine.

[Steve Covino]

Trying to psychoanalyze me.

[Rich Davis]

Combine our desire for community with. Let's be honest, there's something ego about what you just said. And I, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing. We want to be there when we're in a Mayweather fight back in the day. Or now, if you're a Canelo Crawford fight and you're like, man, millions of people are watching it, but I'm here.

[Steve Covino]

But my ego. It's your own way of being like. Because it got me there and I'm not trying to brag about it on social media. That's a question itself. Are you sharing or are you bragging?

[Rich Davis]

Both.

[Steve Covino]

No, because I'm not posting it. Like, I'm here. Like, I know within myself that I'm here, and there's an extra cool feeling about being there.

[Rich Davis]

I call bull shiitake mushrooms. Because if you're at this, if you're a canelo fight.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Rich Davis]

And you do a selfie by the ring and you're like, just happen to be in Vegas, that's like.

[Steve Covino]

That's bragging. So again, bragging or sharing? Do it. I do it for work reasons.

[Rich Davis]

Work reasons.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Danny G]

But are you a F of that sport, Rich? If you're not and then suddenly you're posting that stuff, then I would hear what you're saying and be like, okay, that's bragging. But if I know Covino's a boxing guy, which he is, and he's always talking about boxing, then I'm like, oh, that's cool. Now he's part of it right now.

[Rich Davis]

But you'd be lying to yourself if you didn't post a picture of yourself at like, a Dodgers World Series game. If you didn't almost subconsciously want the world to be like, yo, I'm I just reminding everyone how big of a Dodgers fan I am. I'm here, right? Just letting you know, selfie time. That's the truth. We all want to show the world that we are in the room where it happened.

[Steve Covino]

We're at the star of their own TikTok page.

[Rich Davis]

That's true. Let's go to Kim in Oregon. Hey, Kim.

[Steve Covino]

What up, Kim?

[Caller]

Hey, good morning. Just you guys were talking earlier about, like, Katrina documentaries that you were watching.

[Steve Covino]

I said the first two episodes were. Were great. That last episode, man, you had a smack. You had toothpicks in my eyes like Tomcat from Tom and Joe Jerry.

[Caller]

Well, I watched one yesterday that I think you'd be very interested, if not sports wise unknown number on Netflix.

[Steve Covino]

Is this the. The girl that was cyberbullied?

[Caller]

Yes.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, I heard a lot about it. That's my homework assignment tonight.

[Rich Davis]

So it's worth watching.

[Caller]

It is. I mean, it's just. It's disturbing. It's worth watching. And you wonder at the end is what the.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, well, I'll give that. I'll write that down.

[Steve Covino]

I'm hearing that from everybody that that's the one you got to watch.

[Rich Davis]

Let's say hi to Baker in Illinois. What's up, Baker?

[Steve Covino]

Hey, Baker.

[Caller]

Hey. I just want to say I'm with rich on the NFL live or at home thing, I spent $750 a ticket to take my stepson to see my Eagles play his Vikings. And I thought, you know what? I'm gonna do this once. 50 yard line, third row, couldn't see crap.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, it's like you're there, but it's like, it's. How could yo, Is there a guy.

[Steve Covino]

With a big cowboy hat?

[Rich Davis]

It's cool to be there. You and your stepson probably had a great time bonding. And you, you probably just felt cool.

[Steve Covino]

Like, who was sitting in front of you? Yokozuna.

[Rich Davis]

Who's the best stepdad there ever was? It's me, Baker. Right, because you felt cool you were there. Third row, 50 yard line. But the reality is. Yeah, but you go to 12 games a year.

[Steve Covino]

You can't go there and just bring the fun and have fun. I get it. That's a great story. I'm glad you shared with us.

[Rich Davis]

Thanks, Baker.

[Steve Covino]

So, again, if you just joined us, Rich is saying, hey, man, when you're paying an average of $578 per ticket, that's the highest. Raiders 49ers, 501. Patriots 468. Eagles 456. Average ticket price. He said that? Let's be real. The TV experience is way better than going to the game.

[Rich Davis]

I'm just saying, when you do the math on that family of four, plus food and drink, you are talking about the cost of like an all inclusive week with your, like, your girlfriend or wife at a resort. All right, Option A. CO to go to a Raiders Colts game in the middle of the season with you and you two, or, I don't know, go to the Bahamas for five days. The same thing I'll watch on tv.

[Steve Covino]

I've decided watching on TV is really underrated. Staying home, like I said, you put all this money into your setup.

[Rich Davis]

I know you're calling me.

[Steve Covino]

I know you gotta enjoy it.

[Rich Davis]

Might earn my name as you like to call me double Talking Dicky. Because come playoff season, if the Mets make the postseason, which they likely will sneak into that wild card, if you see me going back to New York to see a Mets playoff, based on.

[Steve Covino]

Everything you're saying, it must be a brag. And I don't think everyone thinks that way. I think you're projecting on everybody else. Because that must be how you feel. Because based on everything you said, you're only going back to New York to brag that you went to the game.

[Rich Davis]

It's, it's. There's a subconscious I need to be there thing. It's a subconscious I need to be.

[Steve Covino]

That'S different from bragging about it.

[Rich Davis]

Well, hey, yeah, it's like you're a.

[Steve Covino]

Fraud if you don't like, how could I claim to be? Yeah, I'm the guy not there.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, if that's fair, I agree with.

[Steve Covino]

You there, but I don't think that everyone's there just to brag about it.

[Rich Davis]

All right, well, hey, we got more kavin on Rich. And for dp, we're going to talk some NFL Week one. I want to take a look at some of these. I have like, in my opinion, there's like two games that I feel like Vegas got the points read wrong and I'm going to jump on real quick. So we'll talk a little Week one NFL action. More next right here. Covino and Rich. And for dp, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

[Steve Covino]

Catch all of our [e-mail] and within.

[Rich Davis]

The iHeartRadio app this Labor Day say.

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[Steve Covino]

Patrick shouting out all the hard workers out there. Ramsey on the ones and twos. Danny G is our super producer. Danny G Radio on social media, we're Covino and Rich. Everything at Covino and Rich and for Dan Patrick live from the Fox Sports Radio studio. Most cars on the road could use a little tlc. Rich At Mako, we bring your car back to life with affordable paint jobs. Collision repairs. Got a free estimate today. Oh, better get Mako. So enjoy your day off. Hope you're enjoying your extended weekend. Hope all your teams won. Congrats again to Lee Coruscant, an amazing career. Congrats to Ohio State and their defense. And congrats to Tony Ferguson. He beat a YouTube influencer in a boxing match.

[Danny G]

Congrats to Miami and to Florida State.

[Rich Davis]

Florida State. Don't take away. You know, it's their QB is so fun to watch sometimes. You know, it is. Danny G. Sometimes when someone loses, you don't really give credit to the winner. You just mock the loser. Like I feel like the narrative is like, oh man, Alabama. Oh, and congrats also played well. Like you. Oh yeah, that happens so often.

[Steve Covino]

Congrats to Ryan Day's nipples. I don't know if you saw them. They went viral over the weekend.

[Danny G]

One of them did.

[Steve Covino]

One of them did. And there's an update, by the way, if you're not familiar with nipples gate, his nipple was all over social media over the weekend.

[Rich Davis]

Janet Jackson. That's a new nipple.

[Steve Covino]

Gate. Yeah, because he, I mean it was real like eraser tip. Geez, but there looked like there was two prominent piercings. Yeah, sticking out like he had a little barbell in there or something. I don't know what you even call that. Rich. You would know. You're the expert. What does Rich Davis and Ryan Day have in common? Pierce nipples.

[Rich Davis]

You think I have a Pierce?

[Steve Covino]

Get out of here. But look, the update is that we were all duped. It was like a fake photo that went viral.

[Danny G]

Somebody. Somebody doctored it.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, you know, totally fake. So you can never believe anything. That being said, we're Covino and Rich. We're gonna tackle insanity. But first, we have a game to play.

[Rich Davis]

All right, this is the game.

[Steve Covino]

And Bill Belichick have some things in common. Bill Belichick's the man.

[Rich Davis]

They both have younger girlfriends named Jordan.

[Steve Covino]

If that was my daughter.

[Rich Davis]

They both have a powerful presence in the sports world. Work harder.

[Steve Covino]

So you can do that when you're 72. You tell us, is it Steve Kavina or Bill Belichick? I'm not mad at him at all. I want to know what it is.

[Danny G]

All right, what started from Rich's late night edible mind has turned into a fun on air game I put together from time to time. What better day to play than on Belichick's debut for UNC versus TCU tonight.

[Steve Covino]

Dude, what a cool week, right? You got NFL starting. You got this game tonight. Like, so much to look forward to. Baseball heating up.

[Rich Davis]

I heard some buffoons talking about, like, what are they gonna show Jordan tonight on the sidelines? I was like, yeah, Bill Belichick's Jordan. If she's there, why would they not show her? She's part of the Bill Belichick story at unc. Like to not show.

[Steve Covino]

Oh, he's the storyline. She's definitely part of it, but he's the storyline.

[Danny G]

All right, we're gonna get our contestant on the studio line, and then I'll explain the game real quick.

[Steve Covino]

Quick.

[Danny G]

You know what, Covino? I'll use you for this. Since you're the man in the moment, would you love to travel to beautiful Gainesville, Florida? Medford, Oregon, Las Vegas, Nevada, Memphis, Tennessee, or Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

[Steve Covino]

Oh, Kitty Hawk, huh? You know what? I'm working on my gains, so I want to go to Gainesville.

[Danny G]

That's Mike.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, Gainesville. Mike in Florida.

[Rich Davis]

What's up, Mike?

[Steve Covino]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Good choice, guys.

[Commercial Announcer 2]

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[Danny G]

Good morning. Happy Labor Day. What do you do for a living there in Florida?

[Caller]

Well, I'm a retired school teacher of 35 years.

[Rich Davis]

Oh, nice, man.

[Danny G]

All right, here's no Go for it. What were you gonna say?

[Caller]

I want to ask, did the kid give him that hat to sign, or would he just have a bunch of hats there and was signing it?

[Rich Davis]

That's a great question. I think he had hats he was signing. Right, so.

[Caller]

But still, that. That man knew the key. He was stepping in front of the kid and grabbing a hat.

[Steve Covino]

You know, it was a bad look, for sure.

[Rich Davis]

And how aggressively he snagged the hat. That U.S. open story. Oh.

[Danny G]

Anyway, Mikey, here's how the game works. Covino or Belichick? I've done extensive research on both coach and Covino and their young girlfriends. Rich and I are going to trade off reading a fun fact, and then you got to tell us, is it Steve Covino or Bill Belichick?

[Steve Covino]

Check.

[Danny G]

You have five chances to get two correct, and then you win a CNR Nerf football.

[Caller]

Okay. It is Cavino, though.

[Danny G]

We haven't read it.

[Rich Davis]

We don't know.

[Steve Covino]

I mean, we don't know yet.

[Rich Davis]

One or the other.

[Caller]

All right.

[Rich Davis]

Okay.

[Danny G]

Rich is going to read the first fun fact.

[Rich Davis]

All right. Now, is this Covino or Belichick? His Jordan simultaneously enrolled in cosmetology school and commuted daily while balancing her academics.

[Caller]

Covino.

[Rich Davis]

No, sorry, that's Belgax. Jordan.

[Danny G]

That's one strike.

[Rich Davis]

That's Jordan Hutzone.

[Steve Covino]

However, my Jordan has become a certified Pilates instructor in the past, like, month. So close. So there you go.

[Danny G]

You guys are almost identical.

[Steve Covino]

I know. Close.

[Rich Davis]

And by the way, Mike, you know how I came up with this game? Truth be told, I was on a little vacation with my wife. Grandma had the kids. I was on the beach, and I had an edible. And I happened to be scrolling on Instagram, and I saw Covino on the beach with his girlfriend doing something ridiculous. And the next scroll was Belichick on the beach doing, like, Pilates on the beach or something. I'm like, oh, my God. Kavino and Belichick are the same guy.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, except we're not. We just date women named Jordan.

[Rich Davis]

Same guy. Same guy.

[Steve Covino]

But yeah, no, different beach. But think about that. He's like, yeah, big game tonight. You know, a lot of. And she's like, I got cosmetology school later. What a contrast, right?

[Rich Davis]

Danny, you got number two.

[Danny G]

Yeah, I'm gonna read the second fun for fact here. But his Jordan has gotten the couple's dog booked for several national ad campaigns. Covino or Belichick?

[Caller]

Covino.

[Steve Covino]

Yes, that's right.

[Rich Davis]

My dog.

[Steve Covino]

My dog Theo brings home more money than anybody in the house. I'm not even joking. He's like a little circus dog. And he's actually got several national gigs where he's like a little dog model actor. It's so funny.

[Rich Davis]

Look, Kavino's like a stage. He's a stage dog, dad. Yeah, that's. How embarrassing.

[Steve Covino]

That's crazy. I'm not even. Kid. I'm not making that up.

[Danny G]

Mike is halfway to a CNR prize. Rich, back to you for the third fun fact.

[Steve Covino]

All right?

[Rich Davis]

Is it Kavino or Belichick? His.

[Danny G]

No, third one.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. Oh, oh, this is not always just about Jordan, Okay?

[Steve Covino]

No, no, it's okay. Like, you've never played Cavino or Belichick.

[Rich Davis]

Okay. He first met Jon Bon Jovi while working in New York.

[Steve Covino]

York.

[Rich Davis]

Kavino or Belichick?

[Caller]

Cavino.

[Danny G]

No.

[Steve Covino]

Yeah, yeah, I've worked in rock. I'm not sure I ever met Jon Bon Jovi.

[Caller]

Yeah, that's why I thought it was going to be you.

[Steve Covino]

I thought it was.

[Rich Davis]

I would have got that one wrong.

[Steve Covino]

And I'm from Jersey. Never met the guy.

[Danny G]

All right, well, you have two more chances to get one correct to be a winner. Mike, here's the fourth fun fact. He was fired from a job in 1990. 95, but it did not deter him from his dream. Covino or Belichick.

[Caller]

Oh, God, that's that. It looks. It looks like Belichick, but I'm probably wrong. Belichick.

[Rich Davis]

Belichick is right, and you're a winner.

[Steve Covino]

Congratulations.

[Danny G]

That is too correct. That means you win a CNR prize just like that.

[Steve Covino]

We have IOUs, which are just as good as money. So we've had bribery balls before. Nerf footballs, then Swiggy stainless steel water bottles. Now we're heading into football season again, so we got brand new Nerf footballs. Inventory is coming in, so we owe you one. We'll throw in some koozies and all that stuff. Again, just trying to bribe people to listen to our show.

[Rich Davis]

So thank you, Mike.

[Steve Covino]

Congrats. We appreciate you, Mike.

[Caller]

Thank you, bud.

[Rich Davis]

But then again, Kavino, I think that could have been either one of you. Did you get fired from Bennigan's in 1995 or.

[Steve Covino]

I was never fired. Never fired from Bennigan's? Never. I did work at Bennigan's.

[Rich Davis]

You ever get fired?

[Steve Covino]

I was let go because of COVID if you count that firing.

[Rich Davis]

But, like, fired, like you're like Vince McMahon. Like Vince McMahon or Donald Trump. Like, you're fired.

[Steve Covino]

Never. No. Now, again, grew up in New Jersey, never met Bon Jovi we built our careers in New York. Rich Davis worked at Z100. I was driving the van at Krock New York and just trying to get on the air and was doing weekends and all that, that stuff. We joined forces years ago and in the early 2000s, Rich, you and I were doing the Cavino Enrich show.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah.

[Steve Covino]

At Sirius. Just the time. At the time.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. But it was not even XM yet, just Sirius Satellite Radio. And we were working with Maxim radio. Remember when magazines were a thing? Maxim. So we were doing Maxim in the year 2000. Man, this happened. Do you know exactly what year this is?

[Steve Covino]

No. But you were wearing bootcut jeans.

[Rich Davis]

I'm sure you were probably wearing some.

[Steve Covino]

Affliction T shirt, button down from Men's Express or Structure. I'm not sure what it was at that time. I think it was Men's Express. You were rocking a sweet Affliction graphic tee or something.

[Rich Davis]

Well, maybe it wasn't that long ago because I'm looking 2012. I feel like it was before that.

[Danny G]

It started on February 4, 2012.

[Steve Covino]

Wow. Really feels. Feels.

[Rich Davis]

It felt like the mid-30s further away.

[Steve Covino]

But I'm sure Rich was still rocking that and Linsanity began and we were in New York for it. So please trust our perspective.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah. When, you know, when you. When you think of the Knicks, I feel like as a kid, if you grew up in the 80s and 90s, it was about Ewing and Starks and Anthony Mason and that cast of amazing characters. Then the, you know, Latrell Spreewell, you had your different, you would say, like iterations of the mix and eras. Now there was a point where there wasn't really that much to cheer for with the New York Knicks. And I just remember when Jeremy Lin made his debut and Linsanity took over New York. It's hard to explain.

[Steve Covino]

I remember the backstory. He was living on his friend's couch and all that.

[Rich Davis]

Everything from the backstory to Linsanity itself himself was unbelievable. I. It's very hard to like Minshew Mania when Gardner Minshew wasn't. You know, that was like a hot minute where you. This guy's doing way better than they thought. It's hard to compare someone coming out of nowhere the way Jeremy Lynn did.

[Steve Covino]

Well, it was, you know, when they talk about the zone being in the zone in sports, it was a guy playing at the true height of his potential because he just was in the zone is when your confidence just reaches it's total peak, as the kids would say. You're just Peaking at the best time, your total peak, it was two years, two weeks out of nine years that he played in the NBA. Two weeks of high level insanity linsanity basketball where we saw him going head to head with your boy Kobe Bryant. Like this was no fluke and that's.

[Danny G]

What average 25 points.

[Steve Covino]

And the point is like, yeah, it was short lived, but not really. He still had a nice career. He won a ring with Toronto and everything. He had a nice solid career. I think he averaged almost 10 points per game. When you look back at his stats, nine years in the league, that two weeks was the most legitimate, you could say, fluke I've ever seen. Because it was real. We lived it. The hype. I'll tell you this, the hype was real. Real. It was excitement at the garden like we hadn't seen in years. Rich is right about that. All your friends were talking about it. You couldn't escape the highlights on sportscenter. And I just want to say, like being there in the city for that buzz and that excitement and just people walking down the street looking at each other like, are you watching this? Like we all knew that we were experiencing something together. And I'll never forget it. And even though it may seem like a flash in the pan, he played nine years and it was legitimate, it was awesome to witness. And I, I tip my y hat to the linsanity that we got to experience.

[Rich Davis]

It's. It's definitely worth mentioning. Lynn sanity on the day he officially retires from the NBA.

[Steve Covino]

He retired officially this weekend.

[Rich Davis]

This weekend. Jeremy Lynn, thank you for a couple weeks of linsanity that was like a pop culture phenomenon and then again won an NBA title. Didn't play but won an NBA title with the Raptors.

[Steve Covino]

It's like when people criticize one hit wonders. It's like, yeah, they may have had one hit but they had a great career.

[Rich Davis]

And they had one more hitting than.

[Steve Covino]

You had and one hit more than you'll ever sniff. So it' you try to dump on that moment. It's like, yo, yeah, he had a moment. He also had a nine year career.

[Rich Davis]

So.

[Steve Covino]

So that's. I like you don't want to minimize and undermine that. Let me never relive that again. But how many people play a career and never have that?

[Rich Davis]

Let me say. Let me pose a question for you.

[Steve Covino]

Sure. I'm sorry, it was Linsane.

[Rich Davis]

Let me pose a question. We could wrap with all four sports. Oh, we could add hot dog eating.

[Steve Covino]

Okay.

[Rich Davis]

Major sport, any sport. You want to bring Up I'm fine with it could be a fighter because I feel like maybe, maybe either a. I happen to just root for teams who have these stories or you only can remember the ones on your teams. I'm talking about the player that sort of came out of nowhere and way exceeded expectations. Like Jeremy Lynn, like you said was sleeping on his friend's couch. And no one ever thought Jeremy Lynn would turn out to this because I have two examples and they both happen to be teams I root for. So again, it might be one of those. You remember them more when they your team. But Jacob deGrom was a spot starter. He played shortstop in college and early minor League days. Jacob deGrom was not supposed to be a multi Cy young award winner, one of the greatest pitchers of the last 20 years. That was not what we thought. And as a Niners fan, the Niners whiffed on Trey Lance brock Purdy was Mr. Irrelevant and now he's making $50 million a year. Can you think of anyone else that you're like, well that wasn't supposed to happen.

[Steve Covino]

The Jeremy Lynn story even more special, it was not expected. It was unassuming. It's like what Jeremy Lynn is this dude, this guy, he's schooling Kobe Bryant here in this moment again retired at 37 and you're thinking again, I haven't seen him play in years. He stopped in 2019 with the Raptors when they won that championship with the quadruple doink.

[Rich Davis]

I mean the only other person that.

[Steve Covino]

Played in the PLG last year to Taiwanese professional that counts.

[Rich Davis]

But it doesn't.

[Steve Covino]

So yeah, you know what this is like short but impactful runs I thought.

[Rich Davis]

Of besides deGrom or like I said Purdy like wow, that came out of nowhere. I mean he was good but you can't imagine that anyone that roots for the Twins when they let David Ortiz go, they never thought he'd turn into big Poppy for Boston because he played for Minnesota and was like, how about.

[Danny G]

Players like Nick Foles? Nobody expected that Falls won a Super bowl. And yeah, and for my favorite team, the Raiders, Darren Waller was a practice squad player for the Ravens and then turned out to be one of the best tight ends in all of football.

[Steve Covino]

And he and here's my point at least that I want to leave with is all of these moments are great and we all have our own memories of them. But I think the beacon of all of them was Linsanity because he really took the world by storm. We had never seen anything like it. You can't discredit the fact that it was unassuming. Like we've never seen an Asian dude light it up like that in the NBA. That was all part of it, right?

[Danny G]

Covid was like he was channeling Michael Jordan for a 10 game stretch without.

[Steve Covino]

It was like he was playing outside of himself, right outside of his own body, out of body experience. Like even he didn't know what was going on. Like, but he was just in such a zone that it was, it took the world by storm. Not just New York, but we were there to witness it in New York and we say congrats on a solid career. Nine years. But that impactful, those impactful two weeks, it's so funny how we look back. It was only two weeks. It was only two weeks. Just like when you look back and you're like wait, Notorious B.I.G. only had two albums. Yeah, he only had two albums, but they were impactful.

[Rich Davis]

Yeah, Nirvana was only around for a couple years.

[Steve Covino]

Beatles only were around for how many years. Impactful, impactful. That a nine year career. But those two weeks defined everything for that dude and props to him.

[Caller]

Right?

[Rich Davis]

Your your thoughts and feedback will take it next. Kavino and Rich in for Dan Patrick. Labor Day Fox Sports Radio this Labor.

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