We are celebrating our 50th game with a very special re scoring extravaganza episode.

We've had 13 hall of Famers, 56 total guests. We've covered a game in every decade for the last 50 years.

That's 50 years. We are going to unveil our new top 50 games. Rolling up the sleeves to revamp this whole scoring system.

Let's talk about scoring. I have no problem being the right and saying Reggie Bush. This regular season game against Fresno Snape perhaps is not a ten stakes zero to ten.

Awesome 1010.

Well, hold on, hold on, hold on. And you guys go shut the up.

Let Mister Bush rank his game.

The 28 to three game is 16th on our list behind the Iron man match. A scripted entertainment product.

How is that not higher?

You're tapping a nerve here. Our scoring system is bullshit and it needs to be complete. Look at number one, mavericks.

He knows that Mark Cuban came here.

And just gave everything ten. Let's build this thing back up to tear down and build it.

There we go.

And then we will wrap it up with our first annual gamey awards.

Cuban award for worst guest score.

The Ernie Adams award for most knowledgeable celebrity fans.

CT award for Julian's worst person pronunciations.

And the winner is.

Games with names is a production of I heart radio. Welcome to games with names today, fellas and ladies, we are celebrating our 50th game with a very special re scoring extravaganza episode.

The stars are out.

Stars are out. What are these awards for?

These are for participation.

Okay, we'll see. Maybe we'll get into. In the show. We'll get into the. Into the show. Today we're gonna be rolling up the sleeves to revamp this whole scoring system. We got change coming.

Change.

Finally.

Finally, if you can change and I can change, everybody can change the score. As you guys can see with the. The t shirt will each state our case for scoring changes and doing our best to keep it from coming to blows.

No promises. No promises.

As you guys can see, it's all fired up.

Well, we can save it. We can save it.

We'll save you guys. You guys. Maybe we'll see what Kyler is wearing. And then we get at the end, we are going to unveil our new top feature. 50 games, including a new number one. A new number one game.

New, new.

Throughout the show, we'll be taking plenty of calls from the hotline.

Hotline, baby.

And then we will wrap it up with our first annual gaming awards. That's what the awards are for.

There they are.

Peek. Can you believe we've gotten 50 games in, fellas.

Insane. And, ladies, 50 more.

50 more.

That's right.

Our quest is to find the greatest game of all time. The gogue, baby.

The greatest of all games.

Let's go.

Let's go.

May 7, 2024 Nut house studio Brentwood, California.

After 50 legendary games, we're finally fixing what's broken.

This is games with games reward extravaganza. Let's reflect on these 50 games, Kyler.

It's been wild.

There's been scores of integrity, a lot.

Of scores of non integrity, and there's been scores, a lot of sandbagging happening.

Sandbagging sons of bitches.

Yeah, yeah, we'll get into that. But let's, like. Because we're recording this just a week before it's releasing, usually with this little bit more time, like, let's catch up on some of the stuff that's been going on. Like the live show. Like, I don't think we've ever really talked about it. Sold out. Two shows in 45 minutes.

Live shows, fast approach.

And we've got some. I don't want to.

I don't want to say the guests we have.

There's some. There's some good ones.

Current pats, potentially.

Yeah. And we're, like, currently, like, creatively figuring out what it's going to be to some fun. So, fans, if you have any ideas, we're open. Suggestions. Hit up the. Hit up the voicemail.

We gotta make that thing look like a kiss. Concert, light show. I'm talking smoke machines.

Did you see the Kelsey Brothers live show?

No.

Don't watch it because we'll never. We won't just. We won't meet that expectation. WWE event.

They have pyrotechnic.

They had fire. They had, like, mud wrestling, bro.

I'll come in there like stone cold, baby. I'll tell what's up, baby. Got nothing on me. Sorry, Kelsey.

They have full live show. Yeah, it was fireworks. It was smoke.

Yeah, we got that. I regret that I brought it up.

We got a firework, you guys, and we got a smoke guy in Boston. We'll be good.

Jack's gonna come out smoke people in Boston.

We might need a gofundme.

We get t shirt guns, love cheerleaders, you name it. Beyond the aisles. Crowd surfing. It's gonna be live. We hike.

It's gonna be. It's gonna be foggy. Show them how Boston does.

We'll show them how we do it, baby.

The Wilbur Boston and all the people that are fans of the shows that are coming traveling from a lot of different areas.

Germany, Germany, Germany. Coming.

We got what?

Yeah.

One hiking. That's squirrel. Is it one hiking bomb? Yeah, we'll get it next time, dude.

Also, you. We haven't done it yet, but when this episode comes out, so now you will have just done the Netflix roast of Tom Brady. So we're just writing jokes now. There's some fun stuff. There's some killers out there. Hopefully, it does well. But we'll recap that coming up in this window.

We're all recording, but this is a. What do you say? PSA.

Public service.

Public service announcement.

Yeah, these are jokes.

We're gonna be up here roasting, maybe jokes.

Yeah. And if you bomb, we'll just cut this out of the show.

No, but they're jokes. They're jokes. That's what people need to realize.

It's a place of love.

Jokes are funny. Yeah, jokes can get ruthless.

Do you have ever favorite episode we've done so far?

Favorite episode. I loved the Ernie episode, that whole. Because we flew them out, or probably shouldn't say that, because we're gonna want that, but not everyone's getting Ernie treatment, bro.

Back corner booth. Ernie Eatin. Whoo. That was fun.

Incredible.

I thought Slate was an awesome episode. Slate.

It was great.

He's fun.

Well, I wish we. I wish he had his inhaler when he was here.

I actually was going through some stuff. The patriots sent me a box of stuff when I retired, and I got, like, mix of a bunch of different things. So for a lot of guys. James Devlin, I'm sending you a box of things, and you're gonna be. There's gonna be so many great memories in there that I've had for two years now. But one of the things that I stole and I'm not sending back is one of Matthew Slater's inhalers. It's right there on the wall, that inhaler. I saw him every day before practice, and I would make fun of him for a while. He had that, like. There's like a. There's, like, an extension piece.

The spacer. You need space.

The spacer. Sometimes he'd be pulling the spacer. The chaser, Steve.

Otherwise, the medicine just hits you right in the back of the throat.

Pause. Pa. Yeah.

No, and you're not getting it into the lungs as an albuterol's, man. I know.

Can I.

Have. We got a bronze? That thing?

It's got a hot take. Is Slater the greatest of all time? Rex spec inhaler kid.

Oh, I don't know we're after.

If anyone certainly got a strong case.

I don't know any other ones, so I think he is. But for everyone out there, can we get some suggestions in the comments on who's the best time?

Rex back. Inhaler guys.

Rex spec. Inhaler guy. Rex Beck. Inhaler guy. That's what we need to know.

So Ernie's your favorite episode.

You think Terry was fun?

Terry was great.

Terry Bradshaw, by the way, just had a fox retreat with him. Terry don't even know how to play dice. He was on them dice, the craps table for about 50 minutes, hitting hard eights, hard fours. I mean, he must have hit four or five hards. It was insane. It was so fun. Only Terry Bradshaw.

Hard ways. Maybe you're a hard ways guy.

Love the hard ways in gambling and in life.

There's been some hard ways. There's been some hard ways.

Jack, do you have a favorite episode?

I would say Ernie was awesome just because that's like an a one super special. We flew him out. Terry was incredible. I gotta say, back, back in our canal street days, getting Jared Zabransky and Adrian Peterson on the screen at the same time. I know they zoomed in, but just having those two guys in our presence at the same, like, I was like, holy shit, we made this happen.

Yeah.

It was like, the second one we ever do. Like, this is crazy.

Well, Jack. Jack has a term that's like the elevator pitch games.

Yep.

And, like, that was our elevator pitch game for a while.

It really was.

Start conceptualizing the show. The, like, Statue of Liberty gaming, trying to get. We've since moved on from it now a little bit, just because scheduling is a pain, but try to get players on each side, and, like, that was just a cornerstone thing, and that was awesome. That happened.

Wow.

We can really do this thing.

I mean, there's an elephant in the room.

I'm missing something here. Yeah, I'm missing something.

Is he not probably the most Jack Ginger you've ever seen in that damn zoom interview? I actually. Gingers. He's yoked. Zybransky was yoked. He's living the Zimbransky life right now. I mean, I saw the veins.

He came, Jackson pumped, baby. Wait, now I'm trying to think of Jack Gingers.

Does Conor McGregor count?

I don't think. Connor's not really ginger. You're kind of ginger, either beard is.

I know, but I'm not jacked.

Andrew Santino, he's in shape. He's a comedian, so he's not that.

Oh, who's the pale ass dude from WWE?

Oh, irish guy Shane. Oh, yeah.

I don't know, but that's.

Oh, is Max Crosby.

Yeah, he's Crosby.

Yeah, our guy.

He's not like, put, like Zimbransky was like eight pack.

Well, very last year. He's doing the rocky four thing in Boise. Just throwing logs around, training.

And now Crosby is probably. He goes in a category of baddest of all time. Gingers.

Bamf. Yep.

Like, he, like, not just jackness. He's. He's getting up there and that.

You think William Wallace was a ginger?

Well, I'm watching. I'm watching that new Ben Franklin movie.

There's George Washington. Was it?

I think he was. He sent over Ben Franklin during 1776 revolutionary War to go make a peace treaty with the old French.

And he made a peace treaty with a bunch of teenager girls.

Easy. Ty, Kyler, Jack.

Give us some stats, guys.

Dead.

Give us some keys.

Looking up. Jack Jennings. Ed Sheeran. Not making the cut, brother.

Cheryl.

Bernie. Sorry.

Easy. He's in that. He's in that same category. I mean, he's. He's.

He's a beast. Conan. Sorry. Julianne Moore. Sorry.

Conan was awesome. I used to memory we had his late night show on like, TNT or some TBS.

Yeah, triumph, bro. He let it rip. I love.

He has a new show on HBO. It's great.

Come on. I show.

It's a travel show.

It's awesome.

Should we toot our own horn here? Look at some all encompassing game with.

The first 50 episodes.

Over the first 50 episodes.

Games, episodes, games.

We will be building on these numbers tremendously. But we've had 13 hall of famers, 56 total guests. We've covered a game in every decade for the last 50 years. That's.

Years.

That's insane.

Hella football. Hella sport. Hello, basketball.

Hello, hockey, though.

Hockey.

Two hockeys. Two hockeys. We have covered 30 championship games of various levels of various sports. We have also done 27 NFL games, six college football games, eight NBA games, three MLB games, two NHL games, one soccer match, one the basketball tournament game, also a championship game, one college basketball game, one UFC fight, and one wrestling match that was, of course, WrestleMania, the Ironman match. No one can do that. Bret Hart, Shawn Michael. Well, don't even get me started. We also have had hundreds, hundreds of botched pronunciations. And we got many of them. We got plenty of more that's coming.

Not a word guy. No, not a ring guy. Not a word guy.

Names is in our title of our show, but we're not great with names. Zambransky.

Zambransky.

Reggie. Reggie.

Applewood.

Applewood. We had Reggie Williams.

Reggie Williams.

We had Bart Kreischer.

Rod Bert. Hey, maybe this, maybe that might be award spoiler lady.

Oh, yeah.

So let's do it. Let's do a quick game. Our TikTok people say this is good. High lows. Ha. Favorite moment, worst moment. Funniest moment. Quick. What do you guys think?

Jules, you go first.

Well, geez.

All right, I'll go for it. I'll go first. You want me to start off? I got my best moment already. The cat's out of the bag. Zabransky, Adrian Peterson. The same time in our studio via zoom. That was awesome, Milo. Reliving 18 and one. I mean, jeez, don't put me through the pain again. Next thing you know, we'll be doing, like, the Bill Buckner game. Or when the Celtics lost last year, the heat in game seven of the Eastern Conference final. I mean, ugh, God, we should, though. And my ha was having Uncle Terry in here, talking about his booty cheeks being out in front of Matthew McConaughey, hanging dong. I mean, I don't cheat.

Clapping. I was Uncle Terry.

He was Uncle Terry. Kept me laughing the whole time.

Uncle freaking Terry.

Oh, my gosh. Hi, loha. I love this game.

You want to go shot ego? My high? There's a few. Cause, you know, Ernie Terry, those are, like, classic growing up football fan. Like, that's love. Also, I went to Virginia Tech for a little bit, so Mike Vick on the zoom is awesome, too. Talking about that. Their championship game run, I guess. But I think my high, honestly, is when we got funding to do the show, honestly, we were coming up with this idea. Did I? You were still playing. And so we conceptualized a show that could be shot, not weekly, to match your schedule. And it was when sports gambling was happening. Me and Jack on the whiteboard back, you know, the bu campus days.

Shout out to Commonwealth Ave. Allstate, mass.

Stand up.

Gannis arena. Stand up.

Can I just say something? I had canes here recently.

Same dude. The guy Texas totes didn't hit.

Oh, I only just go strips. I just do strips a la carte. That's it.

Texas toast. The most damn best thing there.

My man Josh used to always give me his coleslaw. Texas toast. Good. You're missing out.

I'm missing out.

So you do like the Louisiana hot sauce they put there?

I do like the hot sauce. You can do hot sauce. And then in the cane sauce, whatever. My. So that's my high. Getting money to make the show. Yes.

Thank you, Winbit.

Thank you. My low to be on, on trend here or, you know, to, you know, be on theme for the show is every single time we score a fucking game. And we can, and we'll not to keep teasing this, but we'll go into that more later.

And there's been some integrity scores.

There's been. Yes, there has been some integrity.

Skyler goes full Walter. I check every episode.

Does anyone give a fuck about the rules anymore? Market zero.

Damn it, Donnie.

And then funny. Funniest moment or funnest moment. Just all of Gary Galman. Just the whole boy, the whole thing. Just, you know, I love Gary.

We saw a new, new friendship being born right in front of our eyes. Two bros, man.

Yeah.

You know, my dad didn't really look at me like I was that kind of guy.

Oh, my God. New impression just dropped.

Let me. Let me. Let me change. Let me change my funnest. It's honestly, I hate to be a tease to the fans out there, but, like, some of the conversations that happened post show in the back, that's been very fun.

That was your hot, your ha.

Oh, right. Ha. Yeah, there's been some. Ha. Yeah, there's been some gronk hahs.

I enjoy sharing laughs with my friends.

Yes. Yes.

All right.

Jokes, perhaps.

Amen.

My high, low and highs will start with the high. My high was probably when we had Gronk on the episode.

Hell, yeah.

I mean, he's just fun to hang out with, talk war stories. And Gronk remembers so much more than I do sometimes that, like, he'll tell a story, and I'm like, oh, shit, that happened. Yeah. So that could be, you know, that. That's a high. My low is sometimes when. Well, I got two lows. Sometimes when Kyler comes, he wears these blue shoes and he takes them off and it makes the whole fucking studio smell. That is an absolute low. I mean, it smells each. I have a fucking candle budget because we do this out of my house. I'm spending $5,000 on candles to try to get this goddamn smell out of my shout out.

Dip tea, baby.

Okay, another low. Is my guys wearing dress shoes?

Yeah, I mean, this is extravaganza today. You're wearing fucking sandals and your balls are out.

Balls are not out, but I wish I were. I do have rocky.

There they are, baby. Apollo Creed underwear for you. Underwear for all you audio listeners right now, we got to take a quick pause for a fit check. Kyler has dressed for the occasion. What they want.

I bought a couple pair because you did it, Jules.

And I got t shirts, shorts, hoodies, hats.

No respect.

No respect for the Tyler is full tux right now.

I gave them months in advance to wear something nice to respect.

You know, the real football guy or real sports guy would wear what. What he always wears.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

What he always.

Stupidest thing I ever heard.

What he. Oh, audience, I get to my ha moment. Mister Crabby Patty.

Yeah, go.

This just came up to my head. This maha moment was when it was one of our first shows. We got Sam Morel on there.

The man. We love you, Sammy.

We love Sam. And if you don't know Sam or you don't, you don't know what you're getting into with Sam. Sam. No filter. No filter. So we have this guest on by the name of Kurt Warner.

Hall of Fame Super bowl winner, Hall.

Of Fame Super bowl winner, multiple MVP winner, multiple MVP winner, winner, and man of Faith. Man of faith. Guy is a man of faith. We love Kurt. Kurt loves faith. And I think, you know, Sam's opening joke had to do with, like, jacking off or a Harvey Weinstein joke. Which one?

It was cracking up.

I'm sitting there, I'm seeing Kurt's reaction, and I'm sitting there watching Sam deliver this thing, and I'm just like, oh, my God. Yeah, Kurt saw on that cover, too, or whatever it was.

But you know what? Like, to make this a positive, when Sam dropped a cunnilingus joke to Peyton Manning with neck surgery.

Yes.

Peyton Manning went along.

He did.

What a good laugh.

What a good sport.

What a good sport.

So those have been small moments.

All right, let's. Let's get into the whole point of this show. We've alluded to it a lot, but let's talk about scoring and the problem that we have now that all that fun stuff's out of the way. I've got a lot of problems with both of you people now. I've got a lot of stuff.

What do you mean?

You fucking too?

I've got you people.

I've got problems.

What do you mean? Coming from before, I fully aryan bearded man.

We're both German. Relax. Here's your opportunity. If you guys want to say anything that we could do better about the scoring system or what's not working, about the scoring system. If you don't, I have plenty. But here's your platform.

You know, as a man that has been learning how to television, been learning the interview process, the communication and the feel of the person you are having and you are hosting onto your platform show, whatever it is. As a man that does that and my learning process, I like to allow the guest to feel special in his own special way. Agreed.

We're hospitable.

You know, that's a hot. That's a hospitable thing to do, Kyler. Okay, now, do I agree with them? Absolutely not. But I'm. It's. Who am I to say anything to them while they have the spotlight? It's their time to shine for their game.

And this is in 90% of the time, if not more. It's like the high watermark for these guests.

Life.

Like, this is the biggest game. Not this show. No, not being on this show. Not. I mean, this is a big honor, but this game, they're breaking down with us. It's like, this is like, this is a ten to them. So when they're given it in. I understand.

Exactly.

Moment meant a ton to these people. So I'm with you. I'm in the same boat. I don't have the balls to argue.

And, like, for Burt Kreischer, I mean, he doesn't even remember the time. It is his favorite time of all time.

Yes. He's had better times that he forgot than we ever had that we remember. Okay, well, then, what makes any.

What is the goal of scoring? Is it to make our guests feel nice and fluffy and comfortable, even though you let them sit on this fucking couch? Or is it the sanctity of sport competition, finding the greatest game of all time? Or we just playing fucking tummy sticks and just letting a regular season game be a ten.

All right, dude. Like, it's broken down like this, okay? We're gonna have our own scoring system. It's kind of like at the combine in pro days, you hear the kid goes out and runs a four three at his pro day, but at the combine, he ran a four five, six. Okay, there's professional scoring, and then there's pro day scoring.

Okay, so you guys got what you needed to get out.

I don't even know what I just said.

When people do go full Billy Bob varsity blues, I get a ten. A ten. I'm like, ah, man. I would like. I would like you to put a little thought into it, because sometimes it does feel reactionary and. Yep, it's a little quick to, like, add it. Like, that bugs me. Sure.

Yeah.

But I will say the one gripe where I'm like, ah, man, come on. When I, like, really care about the scoring system is when a game that is of the level of a 28 to three, when that is below some of these games, yes, that are not on par with the 28 to three. When I see it all laid out like that, I'm like, ah, that really gear ons my gear. That gets my goat. But otherwise, like, those are my two big ones. Is something being too low? And then like a quick ten, we'll.

Get into some of the receipts here too, but. Okay, so off of you, Jack.

Yep, go ahead.

So I. I'll be the one that's the asshole. I have no problem with being the asshole in my life, personally and career.

I got a quick question.

Go for it.

How's that bowtie feeling right now?

It's feeling lonely. She's lonely. It's actually your bow tie. I don't have a bow tie.

Good looking bowtie.

Thank you. Anyway, so I have no problem being the asshole, right? And saying Reggie Bush, this regular season game against Fresno Snape perhaps is not a ten. And then what you guys do is. Jules goes, you're.

Shut up.

It is great.

And then Jack goes, yeah, I'm the hype man. I'm so, like, flavor, flavor.

So, like, that's when I, like, I opened the door for debate and you guys go, shut the fuck up, you sandbagging bastards. And the wardrobe today is apropos of this whole thing where I'm the only one that cares about this thing, and it makes me sad.

What are you talking about?

There's no integrity, bro.

That's a sick ass rocky tv.

We are embracing debate.

Rocky literally defeated communism and ended the cold war, just like we're ending the discussion of some of these scores.

Ask Ukraine how that's working out for him. The stakes are too high. The guests are biased. We aren't embracing debate. We're supposed to be experts in finding the greatest game of all time. And we're just making sure our guests are comfortable.

If I could change, you can change the.

I can change.

But now let's be constructive here. Well, first, before it gets constructive, let's just take a look at this top. Our top list right now. Right? Can I. Can I just a couple of.

Who put tens on all these?

These are the scores. These are the scores from the episode, right? Okay. Right. Who put. Who put ten on all these, Jules? The guests that you let off, though, Mark Cuban, I think, takes the heat for a bigger issue. Right? So here's the 2011 NBA Finals game. Six Mavic's versus heat 9.5. It's third overall. It's in front of the 18, one Super bowl and right behind two AFC championship games, the 20, ₩18 and ₩2003, both Patriot wins. The almost tie game. The almost tie game, a regular season game that's known for almost being in a tie, is number six ahead of the 2004 ALCS.

It was almost a tie.

Almost.

I mean, you know, ties worldwide are looked at like in soccer.

It's the bush push.

I can't even argue.

We all want to argue the bush push. A week six game, right? Granted, there's, you know, undefeated season. Whatever. It's right ahead of the 1999 Women's World cup. Ahead of the 1999 Women's World cup. Also ahead of the 28 to three game, is 16th on our list behind the iron man match. A scripted entertainment product.

It's not scripted. It's still real to me.

Damn it.

Not scripted.

And there's more. The can't wait game. The can't wait game, a giants divisional round game, right. Is ahead of the Patriots Seahawks Super bowl.

That's a marketing guy. He knows we're going to talk about it in this thing, so.

And then there's more here. I will say that the tb twelve final team barstool is 32nd on this list, ahead of the UFC. Khabib versus McGregor fight ahead of a BC's national championship game, ahead of a game seven. A game seven of a Stanley cup final that ended in riots, which is 45th on our list. The only thing that we've nailed is the pro ball being last. I will say that.

Yeah, I think that's higher than the bar stool.

It might be too. I don't disagree with that.

Okay, Brandon March.

So now, enough negativity. Let's build this thing back up. Let's tear it down and build it.

There we go.

We've got some solutions and we've listened to our fans who sent in some hot the hotline with some opinions and advice. Let's hear it.

Yeah.

Connected to Kylo's.

I listen.

Huge fan. My name is Alec. I love your show. It's great. Jules, you're awesome. But this scoring system. What are we doing? This is not it. You can't let these guys come in and big panty Jules like. Yeah, I just don't know. It's not right. But I'm not in your position, so that sucks. But you want a scoreologist. You want someone to know what they're talking about. I'll be your guy. I promise. The only legitimate score? I thought there was the 2004 ALCS game being number three. But anyway, love you guys.

Show.

Fuck ya.

First off, Kyler, who the fuck did you hire to throw that one in?

Not this one. Not this one.

Big pants.

Big pants. I never even heard that term.

I kinda like it.

I kinda like it.

I've never met an Alec in my life.

We might need to start using big pants.

Yeah, I agree, I guess. Yeah, right.

Jules, the way to improve the scoring would be for you and Frank, or whoever else, to score the game yourself. Don't let the gas score it. If it's a patriot game, obviously you have to absolve yourself. Gives your bias, but you guys gotta score it. And you gotta use decimal as frequently as possible. Oh, at the guest court. This is Matt from Chicago.

Chicago. Actually that's not a bad idea. What, are we gonna eliminate the guests from scoring the game?

I don't agree with that, but I think he.

Frank. Frank is the most biased person you'll ever fucking meet. This guy still talks about the 1998 Super bowl. That was him.

James's name. Aaron Hansen, New England.

Wait, wait, wait. Can you pause? Is this. Is it Aaron Andrews?

It said Aaron Andrews type.

Hello. Games with names. This is Aaron Andrews from New England. Yeah, you got a case of the tens. But maybe if you had levels to cap on a certain number for each game, whether it's like a divisional, a championship, or just a regular season. I don't know if this makes any sense.

You introduce math that I kind of clench up.

So maybe this will jog your creative minds. Either way, looking forward to your podcast. Thank you.

I like the case of the tens.

Case of the Dinesh. Pretty good.

Got a case.

Turn up.

This may have already been figured out, but with the question of how to figure out the scoring system, I think the easiest way of facing this is just having the guest, Jules and then any other co hosts all rank each part of it. So like the game overall, the gameplay, everything like that. And then you just average that up that way. You can't have someone like Cuban come in and just give a ten to everything. That ten still kind of a little bit, but not all the way.

We don't need to.

So what is. This is a pro ball. You got your fans, you got coaches, and you got a fucking Internet and player. How do they even do the Pro bowl?

Is it fan fan voting now? We don't. Fan voting is too complicated.

I just can't get over that guy being named Aaron Andrews. That rocks.

Okay, we got one more, right?

You think about it. It's probably a common name, but he's probably a.

A Ron.

A. Yeah.

The male version.

Yeah. I mean, I've met, like, a hundred Susie Culbers in my life.

Like, did you kiss?

Shout out, Joe.

Fellas, I think I got a pretty easy solution here for your scoring predicament. You just got to take Jules opinion. You got to take the opinion, whose name I cannot remember. Jackie boy. Jackie, take Jackie's opinion. Take the guest opinion for each category. So, you know, cubes put you guys in a body bag. I get it. Hard to say no to that guy. And Jules, you throw out a seven. Jackie boy throws out a 7.5. I'm not here to do math. That's for you guys. But you take the aggregate of those three, and that is the category score for that. Yeah, that's pretty much it. I think you do that for all four categories. You'll get a little bit more of a fair scoring system here because, yeah, cubes absolutely dominated you, but love the show. Glad you back.

Aggregate.

Aggregate. When he's throwing down words like aggregate. Oh, man.

Okay, so we have a solution. We've talked about it. We've discussed it. So here's what we're going to be doing moving forward. We listened, we talked. Jules, you'll have your own score. Jack, you will have your own score. Kyler, myself will have my own score. And the guests will have their own score.

And we'll average it all.

And we're average. We'll use the aggregate of all 4100%.

This is reasonable.

We're going to keep the categories as is. We're going to do stakes, we're going to do star power, we're going to do gameplay, and we're going to do the name of the game, which is also the cultural relevance of the show of the game. We'll let the guests score how they want on the show, but we'll guide them to an integrity score as best we can, encouraging decimals and to belittle.

Ten back is all jamfy over there, baby.

I get comfy for this.

We'll belittle tens and then how we're gonna do it to make the show, like, seamless. Because Jules, Jack and myself, we always prep before just watching game footage, going over the rundown of the show. When we do the prep process, we will score before the guest comes on and we'll have our scores already going. That doesn't mean that we can't be changed based off of the conversation, because I think it's important to take a primary source's information, you know, put it into, you know, if we're going to be integrity here. So it doesn't mean we can't change our score, but we will have scored the game ahead of time so that when the guest scores, we'll be able to average all of them and come up with a new final score. So that's what we're going to be doing moving forward.

So we're taking it before the three.

Of us will score, before the guests will score live, and then we'll get the final.

We're scoring twice.

Yeah, but we're not going to. We're not going to do it on camera. We're going to be doing it during research. We talked about this.

No, I know that, but I'm just.

Saying when we actually get to the scoring the show, we'll let the guest score. Right. And then we'll reveal our score that's already in the rundown, and then we'll average it together. So if they say a ten and you say an eight and you say an eight and I say a ten, which I won't, it'll be a nine. I just was doing easy math. It'll be a nine. Oh, we see that it's a nine. Right. So we're just the information. It's like in a cooking show when they cook something before college type shit.

You just said that doesn't matter.

That's only on your brain because you're watching Franklin.

Yeah, it's kind of.

Shout out Monty Douglas.

So that's what we're gonna be doing.

Shout out Michael Douglas. That's. He's probably the cool.

He's so cool.

You think Benjamin Franklin was that cool?

He did supposedly invent a lot of stuff, the bifocals thing.

He was never in Wall street, so I don't know. Douglas got him beat there.

So that's the score. That's the new scoring system. Now, if you're with it, if you're an astute listener, you might say, well, what the fuck? We're talking integrity. What about these 50 games we just did? Well, now, what's. Me and Jack and Jules. Leading up to this episode, we all went over each game and scored them independently. And now we're going to take the prior show's score or the guest score. And then before we had the guest score, the show score, and then we'll average all four of those scores up. And then we have a new top 50 list. And now we're going to go over those top 50 and reveal what our new integrity based top 50 games are.

The folks from Ernst and Young delivered them in a sealed briefcase. We don't know the results yet. This is live on the air. We will be reacting to these. We're writing our wrongs. The envelopes are in.

Let's get to it. We'll be right back after this quick break.

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We ready? So 50 to 41. Okay, let's unveil the 50th game, the.

2012 Pro bowl, right where it should be.

Right where it should be.

49 TBT, final team, barstool, first of Notre Dame alums.

Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me see these real quick.

Ooh.

Jack's throwing out full zeros here on Pro bowl. Zero stakes, zero name. I think that's fair.

Look who has a little russian judge.

Yeah.

So the Pro bowl still got beat by barstool. Game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, 48, I think for me, nationals, that's the worst game ever. That's third worst game we've done. I'm wearing Giants hat right now.

It's baseball.

Sorry.

Vision around.

Game 47. What's 47?

The fake spike game, 2013, week eight. Lions, cowboys.

That beats a NLDS game.

They went 18.

Star power football, big eight.

It's literally the worst. That's the worst week in football. It's been like, half the team's hurt. The grind starts. I'm just trying to shout out there for the seam heads.

Yeah.

You know, you see meds out there. I'm with you. It's fucking bullshit. NFL owns everything.

I mean, it's. It's. It is wild. But look at the numbers. People are tuning in on a week eight game more than a division around game.

Easy, Rod. All right, we get it. 46, Gilbert Arena, 60. Game.

Oh six.

I gave a six nine. Average score. Three five.

We're moving into number 45, the Manning seven. This is a week one.

Manning seven. Week 120.

13, Broncos, Ravens.

Who I give it a worse score than. Oh, no, I gave it a better score. Peyton Manning only gave it a six. Eight. Eight, huh?

Well, that was. That was before we did it with Peyton. So that was. That was you and Sam.

Okay, solid. I think you guys came to a pretty solid move.

What I'm noticing as a trend here so far is that Jack is the hard. Oh, the biggest hard o here. Jules is given the best scores, and I'm somewhere in the middle.

Closed ballot votes. I turn into the hardest of hardos when it's closed ballot, you get me in the voting booth and you pull that curtain.

Hard.

Low 44. Let's move on to 44 here. The snover time game. Lashawn McCoy, colts, bills, week 17. Little bit of playoff implications here, but it's still a low scoring great number.

Yeah.

44.

If we had a visual like a visually stunning game. Yeah, this would be tough.

Jerseys popping in the snow, the red on all reds.

And it was a beastly game to play. As good as Lashawn did.

And went to overtime.

Oh, shady.

Number 43. Ah, man.

Out the club game.

Out the club game.

It was week eleven. I get it.

Amazing about this is mean.

Gronk gave it the same score.

It ended up being the same score.

Wow.

What a fucking intent. I just love.

That's a man of integrity.

Man of integrity.

It's a 6.5. And then we went through it and was in 6.5.

Shout out to Jonas Gray.

And it changed stains. The same exact position. All right, let's see. 41 here.

I'm sorry, I got like a miracle.

Morgantown with Vic.

Shout out to 42.

The Hank Aaron game that jumped up five spots.

Wow. Okay, okay. I can dig that.

On to 41, Hokies.

The 2009 Western Conference finals. Nuggets late. See that being ahead of Miracle in Morgantown, it irks me a bit, but you're being in the forties stakes.

I think it should be noted that stakes in college football at this era, before the College football playoffs were a lot higher. If you had national champions expectations, those were essentially elimination games. Not much, but close. Yeah.

And it's a. It's a trophy game. Black diamond trophy.

Yeah, but victim play super well on it, though. But it had a great ending.

Yep.

When it matters, I give it a seven two on these state. Yeah. It's a finals game, bro. Still, it's got to be over a C. Yeah.

Western Conference finals.

So you look at it. You look at it like a great. Like an ABCD. Like, I just. I just go like one through ten.

Think of it like that.

I don't think of it like that. But I get where you're coming from.

I do the same thing where I.

If it's a five, it failed.

For me, a championship game is a nine.

These get degrees. If it's a seven, your average average to very good is lower eights. If you're a nine, that's great. You're rhyme. It ain't nothing. Hitting a ten for me.

Like, championship game starts at a nine, and then it can gain incremental points. If there's some legacy stuff, there's some.

Backstory, or can seven, though.

Yeah, yeah. Well, no, but then I think like a game, one will lose some points. So I might have like a game one Stanley cup final. Be like an 8.8, whatever. Or if it's a game seven, it might go up to a 9.5 or whatever.

I agree.

Yeah. Okay, so that was our first ten.

First ten.

First ten.

I feel like it feels pretty. Feels better.

Yeah, feels like getting there. We get some more integrity when it's done, you know? We've got to see the new list.

We're on the right track. Keep playing with these.

Let's wanna. So then we also asked some fans to send in their opinion of what the greatest game of all time is. So let's hit the mailbox real quick.

Let's hit the mailbox.

Hotline, baby.

Hotline for our fans opinion of the greatest game of all time.

Hey, Jules. Longtime caller, big time fan, Tom here. I think the greatest game, it's been talked about, but it's Seahawks path super.

This guy's name is Tom. You think he was named after Tom? He sounds like he's probably 28.

I could see it.

Probably talking about a Patriots game.

There got to be a lot of.

Guy like, yeah, he's definitely after. Ready? Keep going.

Hey, Jules, longtime caller, big time fan, Tom here. I think the greatest game, it's been talked about, but it's Seahawks Pat, Super bowl game winning touchdown, ten point comeback. It had it all. Great play by butler at the end. I think that's. That's my number one. You know, it had it all. The storyline, the stars. I know y'all talked about playing podcasts before, but that's my vote. Have a great day, Bubs. Love you.

Nice to meet you, Bubs. That's a good one. That's not the greatest.

It's a good one.

That was a really good one, actually.

Yeah, I think. I suspect that ends up needing a boom. I suspect that ends up top five for us. We'll see.

Hope so.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Hey, Jules. This is ago calling. The best game of all time was Cal Stanford football. He's a game winning drive to take the lead for Stanford. We all know what happened on the ensuing kickoff. The band was out on the field. He's going into the end zone. The Bears. The Bears have won. Imagine if this game happened today. The referendum about fans and bands and music programs and all the nonsense that would go with it. Back then, it was just a crazy win. Greatest game ever. Cal Stanford. The band is out on the field.

We got to do that game.

We got to do that game. That was a. I mean, I grew up in the Bay Area, so we all knew that that game I mean, that was pretty crazy. But first off, that'll never happen in today's day and age, because if one person would ever step on foot after all these crazy like things that are happening at games and public events, I'm pretty sure sniper is taking them out. Done. A pound band member gone.

Rip to the tuba, kid.

Rip to the pac twelve.

Oh, yeah, boy.

Yeah.

One ip. That was a pac ten game. That could have been a pack eight.

This is not. This is an ACC rivalry now, right?

Yeah.

Stanford and Cal went to the acc.

These kids are gonna have to go on a Friday, fly across country, and then come back probably right after the game on a Saturday. Have Sunday to recover up. Go to class. I'm. Yeah, right. It's gonna be so hard.

Also, because we've done some research about this Cal Stanford game. Ron Rivera played for one of the. Also Mike Nolan for former 49 ers coach. There's some. There's some heat. Berkeley, the coaching stuff here.

Hey, what's up, guys? Just now seen the post question was asked, what is the greatest game of all time? I'm not sure, but the greatest fight I've ever watched was probably. Hmm, good one, prime. Nate Diaz versus Conor McGregor. Two. Both of them. One and two. That was cinema. Thank you.

Those fights are so entertaining. And I've gotten to meet and hang out with Nate Diaz. He's a Stockton guy. I got family in Stockton. I know rough and tough those jokers are, and he don't give a fuck. That dude is crazy, bro. He just eats the pint. He's a street fighter, man.

We're doing some work to try to get him.

We're going to get him on. He's going to. Come on.

Let me say.

I wonder what he wants to talk, which fight he'll pick.

Maybe one of these.

Maybe one of these.

Yeah, but I agree. UFC. I'm not a big fight guy. UFC. But the fans really seem to like this, and those are fun episodes.

He is a scary dude, and if Kyler argues with him on a score.

That might be one where I turtle. I might turtle big time. Oh, yeah, it's ten.

Yeah. He'll knock your ass out. Straight out.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't disagree with that.

Yeah, I think we all.

Everyone's got everyone.

We don't actually set a charming, sweet dude if he likes you.

Yeah. But actually, this makes me think of. We got to get some boxing matches in here.

I'm down, brother.

You got to get some sweet science, baby. I want Tyson.

Tyson would rock.

Tyson would rock. We got so many good.

Tyson had a score that you didn't fucking like. What would you do there, Kyler?

I would. Well, with our new, new and improved.

Scoring system, you want to say anything?

We would guide him.

Smug look in your eye.

We would guide him. But then we would know that our system is designed properly with data and thought that we still have an integrity score, even if Mike wants to give everything tens.

I dig, but I think Mike would have an integrity fight.

I think so. I think so too.

Also, the thing with Mike is he's not bullshitter.

Those stakes are super high. The star power Mike in the nineties, super high. Right? And then, you know, maybe some of these fights, we knocks a guy out in like 3 seconds isn't the best gameplay, but if we got Mike in.

The studio, man, they'd be so tight.

Oh my God.

Is he gonna beat what's his dick when they fight Jake? Paul, I've heard it's like a sanctioned fight.

It is heavyweight, 16 ounce. 16 ounce gloves are big gloves. Those are big boys.

Okay.

If we get over my dead body of Paul is coming on this podcast. My God.

Well, his gloves are right.

His glove. He sent me a glove. Jake. Oh, we like Jake.

I forgot about.

Yeah, we're a big guy.

We love those guys.

I can't wait for a poll.

Maybe we'll go on impulsive or whatever, his podcast. We'll drink prime and all. We love those guys.

No, I think that's his other. That's his brother.

Oh, okay. Same guy to me. But go iron mike them.

They're fucking geniuses. And the motherfucker. I mean, he looks like he's learned how to fight pretty damn good.

Also, boxing has always been about the spectacle. It's always been about the story leading up to it. They just take it.

They know how to make a damn story.

Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, one more. One more voicemail on this block.

Hey, Jules Ryan calling in from Tampa. Just a quick one. Get. Best game of all time. Has to be the miracle on ice. Biggest upset in the history of sports. No questions, hands down. We had a bunch of college kids playing against a russian team that had just beat the NHL all star team by about seven goals the week before. So craziest upset of all time. Best game of all time. See you later.

That is a pretty amazing game.

That would be an elevator. Elevator pitch game.

Will we get Kurt Russell?

Not tonight, boys. Not tonight. Michael Rizzioni from Winthrop, Massachusetts. Yeah, because this is, you know, I'm a hockey guy. Actually bought a jersey for when we can do this game. The angle that I want to do and the reason why we haven't just done it yet is because I. There's, like, three or four of these russian guys that speak English, and I think that there's a world where we could get one of them. There's been some documentaries about them that are great.

I don't know right now.

That's a good point.

I don't know right now, bubs.

Yeah.

This is a pro America podcast, and I don't think their government would allow us to get on here.

Talk about defeating communism.

Yeah.

Your fictional character, Rocko. For real.

Here's. Here's a good question. He brings up miracle on ice. We're talking miracle. We're talking her Brooks. We're talking Kurt Russell. What other game that we have done in our top 50 would translate well into a great movie? Jazz, there's one for you.

That's a great segment.

Have we done the malice in the palace yet?

We have not. That'd be a sick movie.

That'd be a sight movie.

I can just be the end of, like, the guy that looks like Jerry Ferrari just getting ducked out by Ron artist. You remember that guy? He's out there on the courts.

Well, 28 to three technically had 80 for Brady.

Oh, you're right. You're right.

And I think we do have some 80 for Brady gear on there.

Shout out to Jane Fonda.

Yeah, we have her.

Willie Tomlin.

Willie Tomlin. We love them all. Immaculate reception. I don't know that there's enough.

You could probably. Well, Kurt Warner had the movie, which is.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Underdog. American underdog.

You could probably do a christian movie about Boise State, Oklahoma.

I don't think that's a christian school.

I know, but you could pick one of those christian kids from Boise. They're a little, like, in the Utah vein. You can. You can make one. And then they propose to the girl.

Oh, no. The Ian Johnson story. Oh, my gosh. That would rocky my life.

I swear.

I love you.

I got a surprise for you after.

The game if we win.

But you know what? Let's put that on the old notes.

That's a great place in branch and Sharon.

No. Who's our Santino?

How much you would do in a christian produced movie?

Yeah. I don't know. For the right money, I'm sure he'd do it. I'm trying to think, like. And Walton Goggins is Bob Stoops.

Who'S playing Adrian Peterson. Oh, I got a. Who's Jonathan major and let's go next topic. Okay. 40 to 31. Let's unveil these.

Ready? Ricky's record.

Ricky's record.

Speaking of college football, 1999, week eleven. Mack Brown. Ricky did it, baby.

It's a big.

I mean there's Jack's three on the name.

Yeah. Ricky's record.

Yeah.

Run Ricky, run.

That was a really good one. I just like the cultural.

That was. I think that. Wasn't that a e 40 or so?

That was like a yeah. Movie or 30 for 30.

Yeah, 30.

We gotta get Ricky on in person. He's cuz he's close by.

That'd be sweet.

Let's do 39.

39.

I went with him at his house once.

He's a Manhattan beach guy, right? Yeah.

It wasn't his house, it was. It's like his creative studio.

Ooh.

And we just hung out and brought some tacos.

That's tight. How are the tacos?

They were phenomenal. But I was starving on the way and he hit me up and it was like a pretty cool. I think he loved the gesture. We sat in, ate tacos and talked.

You brought the tacos?

I brought the tacos.

Very good.

Guess you're very good at the gesture. The hangout gesture. And a lot of it's food based but it's thoughtful. I think you should get more credit for that.

Thank you, Kyler.

Yeah, you're welcome.

39.

39. The 2018 Stanley cup final game. Five caps versus Golden Knights. Pft was our guest.

I mean this is, this is suitable for this game. The Woodhead game. Yeah, the Woodhead score. You know what I mean? Like you overlook it a little. It was really a really great thing.

Jack, your scores are some hard anti hockey bias.

Sorry, sorry. I think it's just like. Yeah, I don't know. This one. Cracking the top 30 is or below 40 or above 40. Whatever you want to say. Yeah, it feels a little weird but yeah, I think I. This game five, the star power I think pulled it down a little bit for me given it was just ov and pft.

Oh, 40.

Yeah. Jack, this is pretty.

Sorry, sorry. I might have gone a little harder.

You went real hard here. Like and just look at next to the Ricky's record here where you scored Ricky record 5.5. Fine. But like there's only one star in that game or maybe two. Mack Brown and Ricky Williams.

Yo, Dan Campbell was on that table.

Dan Campbell.

Apple white or apple will?

Apple wood? Apple white.

Fuck.

It's apple white, isn't it?

Sorry.

Yeah, it's white.

I pulled this one down.

Yeah.

38. Shall we. Shall we touch on 38?

But Jack hates hockey. God, good to know. I should have sandbagged guy.

Let's go, Bruins.

I should have sandbagged college basketball.

Oh, we only have one to do it for.

That one dropped ten positions.

Wow.

It was 29, which felt probably right for it, but okay.

That baby had an anvil on its waist.

And it's Jack McCarthy, my 89.

Number 38 legion. The legion of boom. Game with Carissa Thompson, Seahawks Broncos. This was a bit of a. I mean, this was a blowout. Super bowl.

The name is pretty better than a two. Jack.

Jack throws out twos. Like, the gameplay. Like, the Seahawks played really well, right?

But, like, no one's gonna look back and be like, that was one heck of a Super bowl.

They'd be like, that's true.

First snap was over his head. It was like safety.

Literally, from the first player, like, all right, this is gonna be done.

Yeah.

I was in New York watching this thing. I bounce.

Cold weather. You. Were you at Metlife for this one?

No.

Oh, you're in the city.

Summer. It was awesome, though, because you'd walk, watch the game, and you had a booth. And during the game, when the game was on, it's full attention. The game's on. Playing loud. And then as soon as it went to commercial, it'd be bumping out. And then as soon as the game came back, the music would stop. You go to the gameplay.

It's like going to a basketball game or a hockey game.

I was gonna say a wild game of musical chairs there.

It was fun.

That's died. 37. The Sean Alexander game 2019 Western Conference semifinals warriors versus rockets. This was with Ryan Rosillo, Steph Curry. Ice cold in the first half, on fire in the second half. They took down Chris Paul, James Harden. This one is 37.

I mean, that's a respectable.

That feels right.

Where are we all at? He gave it a 70. Yeah, I gave it a seven.

Eight.

Yeah, you went a little higher. I think you star power, though. And I think that was. That's fair. That warriors team, no name.

No name killed this one.

Yeah.

What's up a katie that year?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, got injured in these playoffs.

Yeah, yeah. They a lot of star power for hella stars. Like.

To think of star part two is not just like total stars, but like percentage of stars. So I feel like with these super teams of basketball, if you've got four stars on a team and there's five players, really, like, that's really high. Where it's like, you know, rest. Like wrestling. Wrestling or fighting gets higher stakes. Because if they're both fucking stars.

Yeah.

Not stakes, but star power.

And if you'll remember, the Khaleesi was at this game sitting courtside.

She was.

Yes.

The Khaleesi.

That's why Jack had an 8.4.

That's right.

You guys had the same star power on that one.

Nice.

Yeah.

Number 36. Moving on. 21 30. 119 95. Angels versus Orioles. When Cal Ripken set the record. The Iron man. This game we did with Lewis Black.

That feels right.

That feels right.

That feels good.

Heck of a streak game itself. What I like, we're here for the streak. We're not here.

So that one moved up three positions. This feels right. I kind of sunk it a little bit with my stakes. Cause it's a regular season baseball game.

Yeah, but the stakes. This is a. This was a record that was going for.

Yeah. If you were to account the stakes leading up to this, maybe I probably would have. Like, the stakes here was just like, just don't get the flu. Don't have Kevin Costa cheat on your way. Right.

Just make it to the ballpark.

Kevin Costa.

And five innings.

And five. And make it five innings.

Yeah.

Kevin Costner would come on.

I bet he would.

I don't think he said he's just too cool. He looks at that. He's filming photography of something I saw. He's making his own. What would he. He's a baseball. I mean, he's got to be a sport fan.

All timer, love.

We've always talked about doing a functional game at some point.

Moving on. 30, 35. Shout out Jonas Gray. We are on to the 2011 Stanley cup final game. Seven bruins, canucks with big Z Joe list came on and chopped it up with us on this one. This is 35.

Feels a little low, but this feels low.

This feels low, Jack.

7.9 stakes.

This is a game seven of a major sport.

Too high on the list.

No, it's too low on the list. So it should be higher. So the score is too low. The placement's too high.

So should. Should it be closer to 50 or closer to one?

Closer to one.

Yeah.

So it shouldn't be lower.

Yes. The real who's on for all about perspective. Yeah, but with you, it should be low.

I think you. Your anti hockey bias. 7.9 of a game seven. I mean, I guess it puts it in the same places as.

Char had an integrity score.

Well, this was. Char didn't score this member we'd scored after.

I feel like every. I did. Yeah. The name dragged it down for me. Actually.

I gave it an eight.

Yeah. I think your score was pretty good. Yeah. And I gave it a higher name, even though it doesn't technically have a name, but, like, it's very present culturally. There was literally fucking riots after that picture of those, like, kids making out in the street with fire. That was pretty sticks with you, so. But okay.

All right. I'll give you. That. Should be higher, sweetness, higher.

Anti hockey body.

34, 34.

34. Ricky Williams.

The bush game, 12,005. Week eleven, Fresno State, USC. Reggie ran for 500 something all purpose yards.

That's a record, right?

That was a record. I think it still stands. This one rank change. Whoo. Whoo.

Down 16.

Whoo.

Yeah. Also, the last Seneca final went up nine, but still didn't go quite enough. And these two next to each other don't feel great.

No.

Yeah.

Moving on to 33. Larry Bird. We love that.

Yeah.

2001 NCAA title, Duke versus Arizona. This one didn't move much. Went down one spot in the rankings. I mean, the stakes are high. I think we're all pretty much in agreement in the nine region there. No name.

9.6 Jack.

Yeah, that was high. I think a little too high, probably gameplay.

I mean, was this dude going back to back?

It is a title game. It is two blue chip programs. I do think stakes is a little higher.

Yeah, I think. I think that's my college basketball bias show.

Yeah.

Full. Sorry, guys, but it was. Nah, Duke was not going back to back on this one. Just to clarify. Yeah, I'll admit my wrongs.

There are 32.

32.

Is that oj r I p r I p. Juice. He was 32.

2014 BC's national championship, Auburn versus FSU. We did this one with Burt Kreischer. As you'll remember. He may not. You may. I will say this one, the star power and the no name, I think hurt this one a little bit, then.

Well, no name in star power.

This is an underrated BC's game.

This was.

This is a spectacular.

This was a great fucking game.

Kick return, comeback at the Rose Bowl. I mean, you name it.

Yeah.

Yeah. This. This one.

But, I mean, it moved up nine spots.

Those are blue chip. Blue chip. Blue chip.

Right?

Like FSU that time. This was an FSU in the nineties with Dion. No, you know, I mean, like Fisher. Like a random. This was a random come up for FSU.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

Same with Auburn.

I mean, like an Auburn usually. I mean, they've lived in the shadow of Alabama. I'm not trying to put no salt, but, like.

Right.

Auburn does the thing where they kind of, like, you hear, and then they spice for you and then they.

Yeah, they always do that. It's like consistent blue chip.

Then their coach leads, becomes a senator, fucks over the country.

Yeah, it's like. Yeah, it is very good. That's a good way to put Auburn.

Yeah, this is. This feels too low. But I think it is notable to point out that this. There isn't any cache to this game, even though it. It's up there with Boise State, Oklahoma. In terms of, like, actual gameplay that maybe doesn't have as quite iconic plays, but the back and forth was pretty wild.

This is certainly one to revisit if you forgot about it.

Yeah.

31. Moving on. The 2002 Western Conference finals game five, Lakers versus Kings. Hassan Minaj, Mike Bibby were with us for this one. This feels a little.

I gave Sacramento king bias.

Yeah.

On my score.

Zero rank change.

Wow.

Interesting.

That's incredible.

Yeah.

So we're staying at 31 without.

Nailed that one.

I used to.

We had integrity with this score. The referees did not in that game. We're. I like that. It's pretty cool to see a game not change at all.

Yeah. I like.

That's integrity.

Neat.

Cool. Okay, let's do another jump into some of these. Go into the hotline again.

What's going on in the hotline bling right now?

Same thing. Guests, audience giving us their. Their favorite or their greatest games of all time.

Hi, this is Brittany from Roseville. I just wanted California. I just want to say that the greatest game, in my opinion, because it's biased, is the 2017 Falcons Patriots Super bowl because it was a sweet, sweet victory to come from behind. And obviously, Julian, you had the greatest catch of all time, in my opinion.

I mean, that's a pretty crazy game.

I will say now we've selected from Roosevelt.

That's not even a Bostonian shout out to Brisbane.

A lot of calls from all over the place. It's kind of. It's cool.

Probably a parent from, like, Worcester or something.

I love it. Hey, shout out to Teddy Bruce when we're talking. Roseville, California.

Teddy Brusky.

We gotta get him on in person.

We gotta get Teddy back.

So while we. We didn't.

Teddy's intensity will. You might. You might get scared, Kyler, on your score. This is some shit.

Well, I don't have to get scared anymore. Cause they're allowed to score freely with influence, and we've protected it from the back end. But I. I will say by far, the most calls and most examples of the greatest game of all time from the fans was this game. There was probably maybe about like 50 callers just said this game. We didn't obviously put all 50 because that would be a lot. But from our fans, this is unquestionably the fan favorite for best game of all time. Makes sense. We also have a hard Patriots bias.

I don't think so. I think we got some others.

I think so too. But I just think our fans are. If we had a. If we had a look at some demographics, I'd say we were a lot of Patriots fans.

Hey, what's up, Jules? This is KL KWM from Baltimore.

Baltimore.

The greatest game of all time is games five of the 95 divisional series within the Marines and the Yankees. You have the main character at baseball in the nineties and Kangaroo junior. Not only Homer in the Nate is tied up, but scoring the winning run from first and the 11th on a line dropping from Edgar Martinez. He was one of the greatest starting pitchers ever. And ready Johnson coming in and getting out the 9th, 10th and 11th after pitching seven innings two days before Jesus. You have a game five win in a series that literally forced local officials to keep baseball in Seattle. Not to mention appearances from David Cohn, Mariana Rivera and the spread of talent in New York at the time. This game has the names, the moments and the narratives. It is simply the greatest.

That's way to stick your case, baby.

For baseball. That's great.

This was, I think this is the high water mark. Mid to late nineties baseball.

Gosh damn, that Yankees team was so good. Randy Johnson, how did that Mariners team.

Never win a championship?

I know.

Griffin, Johnson, Martinez.

Alright, man, because it's like those, those Braves in the nineties, they only do, they only got one. They had like the best pitching ever.

Yeah.

Maddox, Schultz, Glavin, Glavin.

From Bill Ricka. Great hockey player.

You know, I saw in Bahamas who. Chipper Jones. No way. And I was literally talking with the guy in the craps table who's working it. We were talking and he was watching the baseball game kinda while he was, you know, I was like, who's your team? He goes, I love the Braves. I go, dude, I used to fucking hate Chipper Jones because all he did was tear our fucking face off in San Francisco. And then ten minutes later, Chipper Jones walks in simulation, simulation, simulation. And he was such a gentleman.

That rocks. Do you guys chop it up?

We chopped it up a little, bro.

You manifested Chipper Jones.

That is wild chip. You never know it's a great baseball name.

Now you just got to manifest. Tom Brady. Andrew Jones. I love Chipper. And Andrew Jones was always fun.

Joe's brothers.

Yeah. Joe Smoltz. Those Braves teams were fun.

They were great.

Yeah.

Mama said it's when Baba Boucher showed up at halftime and the Monk dogs won the Bourbon bowl.

Love that game.

Great game.

This guy makes a good point.

Had some star pie.

I like this guy.

Do you remember?

And that's why you don't do drugs. Coming from Lawrence Taylor. Want Lawrence Taylor on here, too. Awesome.

Oh, my God.

By the way, need to get lp.

That would be incredible.

Hey, Jules. Best game of all time. I mean, as a hockey fan, I got to go with the Bruins. Game seven over the Leafs, 2013. Down four to one with ten minutes and 42 seconds left to go in the game. Nathan Horton scores for ten minutes, followed by two goals with the goalie pulled. Patrice Bergeron scoring the tying goal. Leon Lucci scoring the third goal. And then, of course, the goat. Patrice Bergeron in overtime, sending the Bruins on to the second round. What a comeback. Go, Bruins. Go, Boston. Go, Patz. See you later, Jules.

Dude, I remember that game.

That was a great game.

Cause we were out in Boston, you know? I mean, I think. That wasn't in. That was. That was in Toronto or.

No, it was in Boston.

It was in Boston.

Yeah. It was 2011. It was on their cup run that they won 2013. He might be wrong.

He might be wrong.

Yeah.

Yeah. It was eleven. I drank, and I know I'm not supposed to, but Sean Thornton was hosting the Sir Stanley cup, and I drank some beer out of it.

I'm a big stickler for, like, the sanctity and the cultural nature and the rules around the Stanley Cup. I think you being a Super bowl champion.

I wasn't a Super bowl champion at the time.

Oh, well, then fuck you.

Maybe. Maybe Sir Stanley ignited it.

Was it 2013? Maybe that was. I thought they won the Stanley cup that year, man. We'll look it up.

Archer on retired this year, didn't he?

We should get him on. Is he. I wonder if he's still in Boston when we go to Boston, maybe we can record some episodes. But this is. This is a great game.

Down four. One down. 28 to three. Down three games to none. Fucking Boston.

Down sports.

Don't bet against Boston.

Hell, yeah.

All right, let's get back to these.

Paul Pierce. What, did he shit his pants?

No.

Down points.

Okay, 30 to 21. Let's see it.

Let's get to it, baby. Number 30, squish the fish. 1985 AFC championship, Patriots, Dolphins with Gary Goleman, number 30. This one dropped seven spots in the rankings to bring us to a 7.56 total hole.

Jack.

What?

Six, seven five. What would I put?

Eight two and eight. You know, I'm a little russian judge.

Name is. That's a squish the fish.

That's a great name. I don't know why.

Huge thing for the Patriots after that.

Yeah, yeah.

But it's not entirely fair to give that game all of squish the fish, which. The fish was kind of bigger and not.

I think that's where it started, though. That's her originated.

Yeah, it might have. Yeah.

Yeah. A little low there.

You know, I want to say I've been catching a lot of shit for being mister poopy pants on scores. And look at these scores on Jack. Some bullshit hater.

Low key, closeted hater. Number 29. The almost tie game. This one dropped 23 spots. Yeah. Sorry, Mad Max.

Yeah.

This was 2022, week 18.

Chargers Raiders, a short lived time in the top ten.

A short live time. Hey, you're there for a minute?

Yeah, dude.

Star power. I went hella low here. Sorry, guys. Why?

Jack hates Brandon Staley.

Yeah, sorry.

That's a negative pointer.

Yeah. Rip Brandon Staley.

Not every play callers a good head coach. Words to live, just how it goes.

The Peters principal words to live by.

Number 28, Corey. Corey Dylan Marshall.

I'm saying. Marshall Fault.

Marshall Fault.

Love Corey Dylan Marshall.

Falk.

Man. Batman. Thousand pound.

All right. The double doink 2019 NFC wild card game.

I gave it a eight.

Eagles. Bears.

It's a great name.

Great name.

I got a nine three.

Yeah, I gave it a nine flat. Shout out to the long brothers. This went down one spot in our ranking, so we were all pretty. Yeah, pretty much in agreement.

Did they grade this one?

They did.

No, this was us. Yeah.

Back in the day. 27, star power.

I guess there was no quarterback.

Yeah. Mitsubisky.

And then the. Was it Nick Falls, too?

Nick Falls.

Yeah. Yeah, that's fair.

27 was the Super Bowl. 56, rams. Bangles. We did this one with Andrew Whitworth. The farewell. Andrew Whitworth.

27.

Dropped ten spots to net us out at a 7.64.

The random hit it and quit it for the Rams. You know what I mean? Yeah, sounds about right.

It does.

Spangles, too. Jack. Jack with the two. Jack. You love throwing out there, too. It's true. But.

But I just went super hard on the no name there. Um. 26 was the Cowboys Bills Super bowl with Michael Irvin. How about them cow?

How about them Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson.

Man, Mike Jackson on the halftime show rolled out.

You wrote out a casino with Jimmy Johnson. That's all you hear.

How bout them cowboy Jimmy Johnson? Like a ring on his pinky guy?

Because there's Jimmy Johnson, I'll tell you right now, has probably the most electric hairline I've ever seen.

I was just gonna say, how is the air off camera?

We went on and we did a survivor thing as a team. Like, we did, like the whole sir. And Jimmy, he was on survivor. So, like, if you take a look at Jimmy when he was on a survivor, like 30 years ago or 20 years ago and now, I mean, guy was like, full in. It looked the same.

Dude was actually, he was on the real survivor.

Oh, he was on a celebrity edition. Wow.

This. This game went pretty far, too. No, no change in ranking.

Another.

Yeah.

Wow.

Cool. Number 25.

We're into the top.

All right.

Let's hurry through these. Can I. Can't wait. Game 2011 AFC division jets Patriots rich eisen drop six spots.

Negative six points.

Six negative.

The fact that this is in the top 25 irks me.

Yeah. Yeah.

I will say I am guilty of using the gif of this sometimes with, with Bart Scott saying that, but pains.

Me, it was pretty badass to be a fucking team.

Yeah.

To go in, in Foxboro, beat the shit out of camp like, that's. I give him that. Yeah. Tip your hat sometimes.

Speaking of hit it and quit it. That was a jets hit it and quit it moment.

Yeah.

They didn't get to it.

They fouled it and cream it.

Yeah. Something. Super Bowl 21, giants Broncos. Ty Law, Phil Simms up. Number 24. Ty Law, Phil Sims was with us this episode. Ken Griffey, King Griffey. Also. Nice.

Yeah.

A bit of a dominating win there by the Giants. Moved up six spots. 7.72 seems a little high, but it.

Has the we're going to Disney World.

This is. I mean, this is the first. We're going to Disney World. This is.

Was a world or land land at the time.

Probably. Where was it at? Where was the game at?

It was at the Rose bomb, so probably Disneyland.

Yeah, it is. 72. Moving on to the Michael Jordan, the 23. 23rd ranked game. La versus Montana, 1994, week seven. Who cares if it's a regular season game? It's in the top 25.

This is different.

No, I agree.

This is Montana versus Elway from Mount.

Rush, Monday night Football. Be there. Be square. Appointment television.

Put on your starter jacket.

Go. When he retired. Goat. When he retired, Montana's last time playing Elway.

This was a heck of a game.

Only moved one. Only moved down one spot.

Yep. Going into mile high, getting a big win. The number 22. 2005 NBA Finals game five, Spurs Pistons with Robert Orey. Big shot Bob.

No change.

7.9. No change.

No change.

Honestly thought this might have dropped just cause it's a game five, not a game seven. Yeah, feels a little weird being in the top 25, but went into overtime. Big shot Bob did. Big shot Bob. Things.

Consistence all the way through, right? Like name is whatever, but like gameplay, star power, stakes were all pretty in a good spot.

Amen.

Shot Bob's a great name.

It's great name.

Yeah.

And this we all remember.

I mean, Robert or he's remember for like for this game.

Doing this. Yeah. Yeah.

All the time.

Put the man in the hall of Fame. 21 was this be our Fred Taylor game 21.

Love Fred Taylor.

Youthful Joe.

Personal is 21.

Brom time.

I mean, it was in my email because of them.

21 is Super Bowl 53. Rams, Patriots, 13 to three win tools. MVP. This is an 8.03. Another no change in the rank.

Yeah, that should. Yes.

Wow. We're kind of honing in on some of these last ones. Back to the hotline.

Hotline.

Let's see what the fans are saying.

Hey, this is Zach from New Hampshire. My homework pick for greatest game of all time. Week 13, 2003. Patriots at Colts. Huge game. Patriots go up 31 to ten. Colts come back, tie it up 31 all. And of course, the Pats make a goal line stand to end the game and ultimately get home field advantage and win their second Super bowl in three years. Best game, all time.

Sneak hats in category of regular season games. That's in there.

Up there, yeah.

Great.

Those kind of cool comebacks. Goal line stainless, Willie McGinnis.

Not a lot of games.

You got Brady, Brady Payton, heighty. Payton height of Brady Payton height.

Yeah. And this was before the dynasty, right? This is only one super before he.

Was Tom motherfucking Brady. Great title.

Not a lot of games in on goal line stands.

All right, let's hear another, fans, greatest game of all time.

Jules Ray Hudson here calling about the greatest game. First off, longtime listener, first time caller. I'm gonna have to go with Fortnite. Original map, risky reels. Work our way over to lazy links, occasional hots, hot. Drop the tilted towers boys together. End of the day, can't beat it.

You are talking, my love.

Where are we dropping boys?

I'm talking. That's the exact location you had to go. We were actually what was the one? I don't know. When this thing first came out, before it became fucking way too crazy with the building and editing and all this shit. I was hooked on it.

Oh, my God.

Like four or five guys in the teams, I used to call Adam Butler, because Adam Butler was hella good. I'd be like, yo, Adam, you on you? He's like, yeah, man, let's go. Because previous regime, like, previous older guys, we were playing cod, but when this came out, the original map spectacular.

Who was in the cod crew?

Randy was in it.

Wow, really?

Yeah, we, everyone was in it. Orenburger. Shane Vereen, Tyler Gaffney. But I remember when I was the younger, I was like one of the rookies and Randy would come play on with us and you just, you'd see Randy's guy in the fucking battle royale. He'd be looking at the sky and shit. And Randy be, oh, man, she's hella good. Yeah. And then fast forward to when I was the old guy playing these fortnights with the fucking younger guys. I was a slap dick. It's crazy. You're Dexter. I don't know if you're, when you're born and you, you start out with three buttons. These kids, they're starting out with the triggers and stuff. Your dexterity's developed quicker at a younger age.

Time comes for everybody, baby comes for everybody. Chug jugs for the boys, though.

If you could score this score this game, would you score it? What's the star power? What stakes? A fortnight original map, stakes would be low.

Actually, stakes at the time were high because when you got a fucking win, as with your boys, for like, the first time, I mean, I remember we all used to take pictures of it. You need to take a picture of the victory.

Number one, victory number one, victory Royale. Yeah. Fortnight is about to go down.

Be doing little dance and shit.

Emoting. Oh, my God. God, I want to play some fortnite now.

This game of all time, in my opinion, is the miracle in Motown, whatever it's called. December 3, 2015. The packers were trailing late in the game. They ended up coming back and beating the lion with when time expired. We got to throw Hail Mary. We won the game. Go, pack, go.

Was that the one with like the double Hail Mary?

December 3, it won NFL play of the year award. Was it a 2015 Hail Mary? Yeah, it was Aaron Rodgers, one of.

His Richard Roger Hail Marys.

Yep. 60 1 yd Hail Mary passed the end zone, caught by tight end Richard Rogers for the game winning touchdown. That'd be a good one to do. I like that.

Love a nice NFC north game. Although I hate when an NFC north game is played in Detroit because they all need to be outside. And I hate when it's, like, indoors late in the season.

I completely disagree. Even though I tore my ACL in Detroit and I hate that fucking field. But that new stadium, which is probably this. This one.

Yeah. The Ford.

The Ford built in an old factory. It's like underground. It's fucking sick.

So for indoor stadium spectrum, it's still pretty badass.

Yeah. You don't think it's like a, I mean, you know, the old one was just like a. Yeah, but it's like an old factory. They like. It's just. I think that's cool.

Wait, so we're gonna have three out of four in it? We're gonna have bears will be indoors, lions will be indoors, pack will be outdoors, Vikings indoors.

They've always been in three out of four indoors.

It's cold out there. Wait, aren't they doing a new one? They're doing a new stadium in Chicago. Are they making outdoors or indoors?

I think it's indoors.

Is it? I thought that was one of the coolest stadiums. We played in soldier Field. Soldier Field. And they renovated it so it looked like a UFO.

Yeah, looked awesome.

I don't know, it just felt cool, like, and I like, I don't know. There was a lot of it felt old, but it was kind of new.

It's kind of like what they did with Fenway where, like, still has the old charm, but it's like slightly more better amenities. All right, last one here all time.

Is the Patriots come back versus Atlanta Falcons and the Super bowl. Beat the three when they came back, beat the Atlanta Falcons and Julian Adelman in that best catch in the game. And then Tom Brady threw for the rest of the passing touchdowns, and then they ran in for the russian touchdown to score in overtime to win the game. And then the next year they went, and then the next year they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.

With respect, how old is throwing the last part?

It makes you feel bad for swearing.

How old is this?

He's a good kid. I don't know. It sound like he just came in from playing, though. Like, it was that, like, still out of breath, like, yeah, take a huge swig of a Gatorade. No, get your whole story out at once.

This is like going out and playing for a kid this day. Naj. Yeah, right. He just got off a sweaty match of fortnight and his mom gave him 2 seconds left to go out and fucking go out and eat dinner. And he's like, I gotta get this in real quick. Let me call this in, mom.

I gotta call the games with names. Outline. Hold on. I like this guy.

I love him. Call back in, bubs.

Amen.

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The Iron man match. WrestleMania.

Iron man match. Twelve.

Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart from the old pond in Anaheim, California, 8.0. Tyler dropping seven spots.

Six, seven. Kyler.

Yeah.

Stakes, 2.1.

Kyler.

It's written.

No, it's not.

It's.

Hold on. These are still higher than my. 2.1 is still higher than Jack's. Two. Bullshit on every single game that doesn't have a cool name.

Iron man match. Pretty cool.

Stakes are two one.

Yeah, it was determined ahead of time. Are we including the stakes in the writers room beforehand? Hey, what if we did the longest match yet? What if we did this?

It's real.

Still gotta go and execute.

Fucking real.

And that's why I gave the gameplay at 8.1.

Oh, very good. Good point. Good point. 1919, we're inside the top 20.

Brandon Lafell.

Brandon Lafell. We love you, Jojo. Super Bowl 54 49 ers, Chiefs. Heidi Gardner in the building. I know Jules was in the building for that game.

Drop ten spots down in Miami.

Drop ten spats. Sorry, Heidi. 8.06 was the total score. How does this feel, fellas?

That feels okay.

It's the kickoff. Their dynasty.

Yeah, that's true. Oh, we're catching a little bit of shit from our fans. And I think it's true that all the chief games that we cover are only from fans and not from players. So we might need to hit the. The old talent booker, get some chief players of this dice.

Travis Kelsey on this bad boy.

That'd be tight, man. Maybe get Rasheed rice.

I text over here. I text you. Sorry.

Too soon? Too soon. All right.

What takes Travis? I didn't want to just fucking ask him. I say, you want to come hang out? Maybe then, you know, kind of, yeah. Well, did he make time? He didn't big time me. He said he was busy.

He just. He just signed a new deal. The highest paid tenant.

How much?

Kill a trash.

I don't think the numbers came.

I think it was 34 million.

Yeah, but I don't know how many years that'd be. Probably two years, maybe.

I think two years. Good for him. Hey, you know, you manifest for Jones. Will manifest. Travis Kelsey, also, Patrick. Patrick said he'd do just scheduling.

I would love to get pat on and talk to him. I have a couple stories I would love to break down with. Patrick Mahomes, pre Patrick Mahomes at a Super bowl together, hanging out as backup. Patrick Mahomes.

That's crazy. Andrew got him before he was the man.

Let's. Let's all, like, agree to have this show last long enough for when Andy Reid retires. We get him on here, because that would be.

Andy Reid would be awesome.

Awesome. What would you do for the food spread for Andy Reid?

Food spread.

I mean, cheeseburgers comes to mind.

Hawaiian shirts.

You gonna pass those nuggies? Those little fingers?

He's a great. He's a great actor. Yeah, he's a great actor.

Oh, I think you gotta go with the smorgasbord of just. You gotta have a bunch of good handhelds. You gotta have, like, a fried chicken sandwich. You gotta have a burger. I'd even throw in, like, a great french dip. Maybe have, like, hillstones or Houston's or R and D kitchen would get one of those. I mean, a deviled egg or two. Like, he.

He probably your thing with deviled eggs. It's crazy, bro.

Those ones at hillstones. Oh, I'm still thinking about him. I'm still thinking. You're.

Are you actually still thinking about him.

Or you just say, I did the other.

Okay. All right. Just checking.

18. Peyton Manning, UFC 229. Khabib McGregor, 8.08. We had Dana White with us doing that one.

A lot of people love this. This episode.

We gotta do more of a fan favorite.

One of the fan favorites, it's jumped.

15 spots, which I think deserve the.

Deserves for sure. 18 is a great number, too. It is, chaim.

I love it. 17. The Philip Rivers game here. The 2011 NBA Finals game six. Mark Cuban, dropped 14 spots.

What's the total score?

The total score is now an 8.13 from a 9.5.

Still feels high.

Dropped 14 spots.

Yeah, still feels high. The dirty dirt game.

The old rank was third, too, so this feels maybe a little bit high, but it feels okay here.

We're on the right track. We're making progress.

I mean, that was a big. That's a big upset. Beat those heat teams.

No.

Yeah, big time.

Like, that was. That was a huge three, guys, and.

Only in six games, too.

Yeah, very big. Big three. Number 16.

Wide right. Wide right.

Super Bowl 25, Bills giants. Tom Papa was in studio with us reliving that one. 8.32. The name is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The name is. It's. It's. I mean, we're still talking about stakes to here.

Yeah, stakes and name.

I just got to say one thing. Tom Papa. I went and did his show, and he. His podcast. What's it. What is it called?

Breaking bread.

Breaking bread. And he. He bakes everyone a homemade loaf of bread.

That's so kind, thoughtful.

Brought that loaf home, and I cut it up for lily in the morning for toast. She hadn't stopped asking about it. She goes, dad, can we have that bread? I go, I'm not a guy that lies to the kid. One of my friend. One of this guy. Is he a friend? Not a friend. A guy's podcast I went on to that gave me this bread. I don't think he can just make it for me every day. She goes, dad, well, I love that bread. It was a sourdough. It was good. Very good.

God, Lily might have to get Tom on the foot. Like, that's a ringing endorsement.

Hey, I walked in, so. Tom has daughters. So I know he understands that it's tough when I kids. I can't give my daughter a Tom papa loaf of bread.

Tommy might have to start marketing that stuff or selling it whole something.

Dude, that is awesome. That's a great present for people. When they cut like that. Takes time. You think about that. That's thoughtful. It was. I mean, it was spectacular.

Now you're in a precarious situation, though.

Yeah, I know. You gotta learn how to lie to my child. Thanks, Papa. He'll lie.

Yeah.

This Tom Papa's bread? No, it doesn't taste like it, dad.

All right, moving on. Number 15, the double comeback. Wow. 2014 AFC divisional round. Ravens Patriots seems a little high. The double pass. The double comeback seems a little. Yeah. I mean, up twelve spots from last time, to me, this is like a top ten game, for sure.

Yeah.

An 8.33 over divisional round game, guys.

Yeah. Gameplay is great, star power is good, and there's a legacy to it. Granted, we are biased Patriot fans, for sure, but as for a non super.

But people don't realize this was a. This was a rivalry. Oh, this was a rivalry for a good seven, eight years. Oh, yeah, Ravens Patriots. Could have even been longer. With. With when. Before I was there. Because Ray would always give us trouble, for sure, but, like, they had no problem coming into Foxboro and playing us. They beat our ass in. In Foxboro. Twice? Was it twice? Maybe. I remember the game should have won, too, but 2009. And then there was another one. They beat us. They beat us twice in Foxboro in the playoffs. So there was a lot of, like. I don't know, maybe this is a bias, this. That's biased. I think it could be a little low or. I think it should be closer to 50. I think closer to one.

I think it's.

I don't know what to say. Is a higher. Is it supposed to be lower?

I think this is a good spot for it. Baltimore going into New England. New England is a lot like New England going into San Diego. We just have their fucking number. Don't give a shit. Don't care about the comp.

You got it? You gotta empty the playbook on that one.

That's not a good comp because San Diego never beat us. Like we still beat. Yeah, I guess the Ravens would beat us.

This is true.

I was just thinking of having to dig super deep.

I mean, we played. We played the San Diego Superchargers in an AFC championship with, like, a depleted team. What was the score? 37 to fucking six. When every person on tv had the char. It came into Fox, ran it in your throat, and it was cold. Like they lost before the game even started. It was a January game. No, they're not the Ravens. Patriots.

No, I'm saying, I'm saying. I'm not saying that the rivalry is the same. I'm saying the fact of a lower ranked team coming into. But I guess the big difference is New England is generally hostile, where Qualcomm was never really a hostile environment.

Actually, Qualcomm got hostile.

Did it?

Yeah, dude, we played there in what? 13? That's what sparked the run for us to go in the Super bowl that year, or 14, when we went out and lost to the packers, and we stayed in San Diego for a week. That put, dude, Chargers fans love Chargers. Like, the San Diego Chargers. I know they don't love the LA Chargers anymore, but there was a charm about going to San Diego. Those people in San Diego, at least it was a shithole fucking stadium. I mean, this locker room.

Yeah.

You're shitting with dudes right next to you. No, stall. Things. Like, it's so weird when you're. You're shit next to a dude and you're both. And one's a lefty and one's a righty. So you have to look at each other while you're shitting, you know, tough. That is pre game. I guess it's an intimidation factor, but.

Oh, my God.

But they had. Fans loved it there.

That's all I gotta say on the toilet talking about. Pardon my great grass.

Love the grass.

69 yard touchdown. If I.

We were big fans.

Talked. We talked about, I think with Gronk, remember?

Yep.

We manifested that fucking play. I had manifested it for Gronk. Cause I knew it'd be a 69 yard touchdown. So I'm like, gronk, let's hit that 69 yard touchdown. I just so happened. Got it.

All right. 14.

The shrug game. 1992 NBA Finals. Game one. Blazers versus bulls with Gil Mitchell. A recent episode dropped nine spots in the rankings, 8.37 overall. The name is doing a lot of.

Heavy lifting on finals and the finals and Jordan George.

I mean, that's been me. That was a meme before memes were even big.

Oh, yeah. Feels right.

Feels right.

13.

Damarino Marino.

The bush push.

Oh.

Five. Week six, USC versus Notre Dame. Oh, this one hurts. But 8.39.

This feels high. It moved up five. The name does a lot of. A lot of the lifting.

Name does the lifting on this.

Yeah.

Stakes. They were on a huge winning streak at the time.

Star power. Gameplay was good.

Yeah, this was a great college football game.

Shout out, Charlie Weiss. Yep. Number twelve, Tom Brady. 18 and one.

There you go.

Oh, boy. Super Bowl. 35, 37.

Jack, you sunk this, you skunk.

Oh, I hate this game. Patriots versus Giants.

Jack gave it a one on gameplay. That's the biggest homer, you fucking skunk.

I'm sorry. Homer. 8.47. Still almost in the top.

I mean, it's dropped eight spots.

Should be higher.

This should be closer to one.

Jack. So now we know where the lack of integrity has been this whole time.

Hey, that's a homer score.

Just right next.

I can't even get mad at Giants fans when they say shit to us.

No, it's just they did it like.

And I wasn't even a part of that one. I. And that's what people always like. I like, I was like, fucking college, bro. But you guys get me when I.

Was in the league to seven and get lucky.

I gotta say, I hate this game. It's like a Patriots fan. But this episode was pretty cathartic. And listening to Teddy Bruce and then also thinking of it from the perspective that had the Patriots won, this game might not created the second dynasty, it might have just shifted what Tom Brady was about, how much he wanted to do what he wanted to, you know? So I think that there's some compelling evidence that. Would you trade this for the second dynasty? Probably not from my perspective. So there's a cathartic.

He said he'd chain. He would trade it for two Super Bowls, I think.

Yeah. Yeah.

Number eleven.

Honestly, Drew Bledsoe sticks.

Drew Bledsoe, number eleven. We're almost in the top ten. 2003 AFC championship, colts first patriots, you.

Know, go back to Hilo and ha. That was a fun episode.

That was a fun episode. Shot a clock.

Shot o'clock. I'm Jesus. It's 11:00.

This, this dropped nine places, which I think feels right. AFC championship game gameplays, whatever. Yep.

But we're almost in the top ten. Stay tuned.

Yeah. Okay, back to the hotline break. We are gonna talk about a little bit of game Rex here now though. Shift shifted ahead.

Let's do it, baby.

Hey, games with me. This is the advice line, huh? Well, I got some advice for you guys. You guys keep doing all these games that we all watch them tv. Want some insider information? Wants an insider back. Some shit that we don't know.

Having a good time.

We know all that stuff. We were watching the game too. We know how they feel. I thought we could probably go way back. Talk about 1998, Super bowl run, Redwood City, 49 ers. It's talks to Naperville, huh? Talks some weird cleaning. Texas. I don't remember the name. Let's get jewels and get some of the old ball coaches on there. Maybe get Frank on there. All right. And kyler, let's line up the beer, huh? If you're gonna be on the show. Okay. Let's get a little clippers to that thing. Don't even get me started on old Jackie Birdwatcher, all right? That's just my season.

Yo, next bro.

Jock. Jackie Bird, bro.

What is this?

I got hiring people, dude.

He ripped on me. He ripped on me.

Rock, I got a couple birds for you reason.

I have a brute so I don't have to shave.

I'll hit you with that.

Let's not bury the lead. Little foreshadowing.

Oh yeah.

Foreshadow.

Maybe. Maybe Frank might. Come on.

Maybe a Frank episode in the bank coming soon here today.

And maybe we're recording this soon. Who knows?

All right, Rocky.

That'll be fun.

Jules and Jackie. What's up, boys? I got a game for you. March 26, 1997. Joe Louis Arena. Aaron McCarty. That's best I could do for that part. But one of the greatest fights NHL history. It was a big lead up from a dirty hit that was on Chris Draper earlier in the season. And the Wings were just waiting for this moment for a very very long time. And they got their moment. Then all hell broke loose. And I think it would make a great game. With names. Jeremy McCarty would probably be the guy to interview and huge fan. Love what you guys do with the pod. Keep up the good work and hopefully soon enough we'll see this Red Wings avalanche on the pod. Thanks a lot, fellas. Take care.

I like that old school hockey. Kyler, what do you.

Kyler's like, we should.

No, no. There's a little bit of a. There's a bit of a grassroots not campaign. But this is a sneaky, under the radar people wrecking this game. The Avalanche and the Red wings of this era were both very good. And it's also like old school hockey where there's like, darren McCarty, like toothless.

Gotta check it out.

Yeah, I would love to fight.

I'm down.

This would be a fun game. I don't necessarily love this as the representation of NHL, but this is a fun time. These are fun teams and this is a crazy game. We should do that at some point.

Week one, 2009 Patriots versus bills. Brady's looking a little shaky. He's got that ACL injury. Is it going to affect him for most of the game? Didn't affect him with the last minute 16 where he threw two touchdown passes to Ben Watson.

Leotis that game up.

And everyone in New England's always buying Leotis McKelvin a drink for his return out of the end zone for some damn reason. Tools. Love the show, Jack. Kyler. Love it, guys. Keep it up.

Hell yeah.

Be a fun game. That'd be awesome. Fun one, we got to get scareweather. Oh, he forced that fumble on that dude. I remember this game because I tore. I housed a punt week one in this in the preseason. And so week two in the preseason, I get a really bad high ankle sprain. So I'm sitting there like I'm not making the team. So it was, you know what I mean? Because you can't make the club in the tub and I was in the tub. And the whole week before cuts, Billy O'Brien's fucking with me. Like, cuz he knew I was gonna make the team, but he, he knew that I didn't think I was gonna make the teams. Like, man, cut days. Like he would just say some shit like that, get me all fucking scared. And so I make the team, but I didn't dress for this game. So I was at home watching the game and that was the first experience I saw of like Tom Brady doing some Tom Brady shit. Like we were down two touchdowns. Like fucking minute to go in the game. We talk, you know, like it was his first game back from the ACL.

There are some things, you know, offense wasn't going great, but when it was nut cut in time, Tom hit Watson on those two bangers down the middle of field against cover two. I was watching on his. I was like, oh, my God, it's so crazy. I'm on this team. Like, fuck. It was nuts.

Oh, my God. We got to do that.

That's awesome. We do. We are getting to a problem where we have a lot of Patriots fans and players and we're, like, having to, like, allocate which games are going to who in this kind of stuff. So it's good to have some more like. Like, more like, order. History of fun Patriots games in the mix. Our last game wreck.

Julian, I want to hear some of the biggest games of your childhood. What were some of the games that left an impression on you? I know you grew up in the Bay Area. Probably a Niners fan. I'm a Niners fan. I want to hear what some of the biggest games to you when you were growing up. Probably the Niners NFC championships with 92, 93, 94. I think those would be awesome games with names, contestants. So I don't know. I'd love to see some Niners games on there. All right, you have a good night. Bye.

Definitely gotta get some Niners games on. I got a Niner game that just always seeks out, especially in my childhood, is one. It was in the divisional round against the Packers. Packers. Niners used to meet every year in the divisional round. And Brett Favre would send us home. And this was the year Terrell Owens. Tio goes. And he had a couple drops early in the game. And then it was like the last play of the game. Steve almost stumbles, fucking zings it to fucking down the middle of the field to Tio. Tio catches it, gets bang twice in the end zone game. Like, that's one game I remember as a kid. I was like, oh, shit, is that.

The catch two game?

It was. No, it was one where he caught in the middle, down the middle of the field. And we finally beat freaking the Packers. I think we won the Super bowl, and we didn't win the Super bowl out here. It was later one, but it was insane. We got. We're definitely gonna get some of these.

Jeff Garcia.

No, it was. It was Steve Young.

Okay. Yeah. Some from that area, that era.

I would love to get Roger Craig. I would love to get, like, Tom Rathman, Brent Jones. We're gonna get a Montana here. I'm gonna do whatever we can to get Montana. He'll be fun. And I've met him a couple times, and he's just fucking Joe. Cool. I mean, my dog was named after him. So, like, we're gonna get some niner games. That's a promise. That's an absolute promise.

Love that. Okay, let's reveal the. The top ten of games with names. Extravaganza.

Oh, baby, here we go. Drum roll, please. Number ten, wheelchair game. The 2008 NBA Finals. Game one, Celtics versus Lakers. We had Paul Pierce on this. Clocks in an 8.56. Feels right.

Jumps up 18 spots.

Jumps up 18.

Top ten game.

Come on, we're in playoff season. We're all Celtics homers. So that probably accounts for a little bit of it.

But not a Celtics homer.

All right, I'm Celtics homer.

Yeah, we're everybody else but Kyler. Celtics homers. Yeah.

It's got a lot of cachet to it.

It does.

It's a high stakes environment. There's a cultural component. It's kind of sports lore.

Yes.

More so maybe than just pure.

There's a lot of backstory of what really happened that everyone's got to take on. So you're right. That lives on in lore. That adds a lot to the score. Number nine, immaculate reception. 1972 AFC divisional round, raiders at Steelers, Terry Bradshaw. This comes in at an 8.56, drops one spot. Gameplay hurt. This one a little bit. It was low scoring, a little bit ugly. But we all remember the. The epic last play there. Franco Harrison.

Yeah, I mean, that we. This play, everyone knows the name of this game. This game. This is a historic game.

Another elevator pitch type case could be.

The game with a name for sure.

Literally.

This one, the casual Franco. All right.

And it was a great up. We had a great episode. I mean, that was one of our first seventies guys, you know, that, like unbelievable stories. I mean, Terry's a fucking pro guy. He was the best.

Awesome guy. Awesome episode. Hopefully we get.

Terry did bust Brady's balls that he hadn't come on my podcast yet. Yeah, Terry did say, man, he was really impressed with, you know, the games with names, crew, leah, everyone. Like how he came in. It was pro bang bang. And we did, you know, we did get them fried chicken.

That's where. Fried chicken.

That's the best fried chicken in the city.

That was so good.

What was that fried chicken spot, honey kettle.

It's very good.

Hit the comment sections. LA. What's best fried chicken spot in LA?

Hell yeah.

Don't give me that Roscoe's. That's a lazy answer. It's a lazy answer.

Number eight.

Number eight.

The ovetskin game.

The Antoine Walker Patriots rams. Super Bowl 36. This is with Ernie Adams. The greatest show on turf. Rip. The dynasty is born. An overall score of 8.592 spots. Top ten. Phil's top ten worthy.

I mean, this is a great game.

Yep.

I mean, this is a. We shocked the world. I mean, no one thought they had a shot.

Nope. Not a shot in hell. Double digit underdog coming into the double digit has.

That's never been done. Double digit underdog to win the Super bowl. Maybe the 18 one. Actually, that was.

Oh, yeah, they double.

But I think it was ten. You're right. Yeah. Introduced as a team. Brady. The Brady legend is born here. Feels fair. Number seven, Super Bowl 24. Titans verse.

That's not 24.

No, not 24. 34, 34. Yes. That was with Kurt Warner. 1 yd short.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The reach game.

I was a fucking electric ending. Yeah.

.60.

That was a great game.

That was a great game.

I mean, they made that whole story with Kurt, how he came in and, like, took over that team and that team. We don't even talk about defense. Defense is fucking phenomenal. London Fletcher never missed a play in football.

Love London Fletcher.

And the game even got referenced in castaway, so, you know, it's got to be good.

Also. It's only, it's only what? It's only 100th of a point. We're cutting hairs now. It's only 100th of a point between the Patriots, rather. Actually, all three of these games were within .04 points of each other. Like, we're getting into the nitty gritty.

Number six, the Statue of Liberty game. Wow. 2007 Fiesta Bowl, Boise State versus Oklahoma with Jared Zabransky up 19, Peterson up 19 spots. We all realize this was ranked a little bit too low previously.

Now, this. This was. This is our highest college game.

We'll see.

I think it should.

It probably will be thinking we've done.

Yeah, it should be that. I mean, this, this.

Or until we do, 2005, USC Texas.

Which was the same. No, it was 2005. Or is it 2007?

No, it was 2005. It was 2005, I think because the bush push was out here. Yeah, but it's close in the same.

Era because this also had a really good national championship. This. This bowl season was an Oklahoma Florida.

This is Tim Tebow E. This was USC Texas. Texas beat him.

Yeah.

The same year. This is 2007.

Yeah, but the game from. Hold on. Yeah, but then the, oh, seven year was also the toast.

I'm telling you, this was the same. It was on the same card of the bowl season, because it could be one of those crazy 2006 2007 games, because I don't think it played in 2007, but it was a 2007 year. Crash is always in 2005.

The.

The USC. USC won the natty. And then 2006, they lost, but they played in 2007 because it's. So this. This is on the same card you have.

The really good Vince Young game is on this card. No, it was oh five.

It's the o five season played in 2006. Right.

This is the zero six season played in 2007.

This is the next year, or is the next.

So then that game was gonna be floored that year. So then the 2007 national title. It's confusing because it looks like it's also sponsored by Tostitos, but it is not the Fiesta ball, which was also presented by Tostitos. This was the 2007 Tostitos BC's national championship game, in which Florida whooped Ohio State.

Yeah.

40, 114.

And the Broncos were the years. The Boise state team was the only undefeated team that year.

Either way, good game. Worthy of being there.

That's a great game.

This is an awesome game. I also think from a, like, stakes perspective, this is the game that has stakes that exist beyond, like, the actual championship. Right. Cause this is mid major at the time, small school, but also a lot of.

In the other fashion, Oklahoma could be sitting there like, fuck. Why aren't we in the natty?

Absolutely.

So they didn't play their hardest. This was pre, like, guys didn't play in bowl games.

But we talked about Agent Piercing. He said he wanted to go out and win. You know, you could also make a case that games like this really start laying the groundwork for what we have now in college football, which is a twelve. Yeah. A twelve team playoff.

Because, look, here's a bullshit waxing playoff between professional teams.

That's right. Yeah.

These guys over here.

So I love. This is my personal favorite game. I think this is a great place for. I think, you know, I'm glad it got the 20, the 19 jump, because it deserves to be here.

Great game.

And now, moment you've all been waiting for. Top five.

Top five.

Number five on the list of greatest games of all time so far on our hunt is the 1999 Women's World Cup. China for the United States. Played at the Rose bowl. Did a lot for women's soccer. Did a lot for soccer in America. Brandy Chastain, all time sports moment. 8.73. Total score.

This literally, because this was. I was playing soccer in the early nineties. Our men's soccer team wasn't doing nothing.

Nope.

These girls were rock stars, like, and especially playing in China. There was a whole. Wasn't there some shit going on with us in China at that time?

Yeah, it was a big.

It was a big china, Us, Russia. Anytime pro sports are involved, it gets. It gets above and beyond. Gets above and beyond. And she took her shirt off in the nineties. This ain't. This ain't whack right now or that shit's all right.

But it was also. It wasn't even about, like, taking her. That was the celebration that all the guys were doing.

Yes. Yeah, but you know what I mean? That's why it sprung board. Yeah, I think you sprung board women's sports in general, you know, especially with what's going on with Kate park. Absolutely. Like, we've been unstoppable since then. I mean, I know we show a.

Couple times, choke, but they had a hard last one.

Like, that was also political. And, like, the team built, like, they probably didn't. They had to play the older girls. That's how. That's how it goes.

It also speaks to the growth of women's sports on a whole, that there's more parity. But this time it was just china usually back and forth.

And Canada was good.

Yeah, but, like, now is more. Yeah. And that team was stacked. I had a sister that played soccer because of that.

Me and Ham Garcia papara. Weren't they married?

Yeah, no more, baby.

My sister was at like ten at this time.

I wonder what their kids are up to.

They gotta be athletes.

They gotta be getting to be college age now.

We gotta look that one up.

Look that up. Cause those are two studs.

Oh, my God.

When this woman's team played at Gillette, it was like, transformative experience for New England girls at this time, 100%. My sister was like, oh, my God. May ham looked at me, was like looking at fucking John Lennon. It was crazy. So this is a great place for this game. And it was a great game, too, even though it was, you know, zero. Zero.

But in soccer, that's. Yeah, it was back.

There's nothing more stakes than penalty kicks in, like, World cup soccer.

Oh, my God.

Ready for four? Are we ready for 2004 ALCS game four, Yankees, Red Sox. The game that started one of the greatest comebacks in post season baseball history. Wow.

Baseball hitting top five. Big poppy, impressive.

8.88 on the total score.

I mean, this was a. This was a legendary game.

It was Boston, New York, Boston, hundred year, like, rivalry. And this whole snake bite thing.

The whole baby. When he left for the Yankees to do this to the Yankees, also awesome.

This Red Sox team was like, but the cob, this is the cowboy up year, all rag tag. Johnny Damon with long hair and a beard versus the shaved Yankees, the underdogs. And then, and then not only is it an underdog, like, just Yankees versus Red Sox, actually how the series played out, going down three, there was another level of a comeback on top of a comeback.

That's probably top two. Top three comebacks of all comebacks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No doubt about it.

I think this is a great place for this one. It just needs, it doesn't need a good nickname. It does, but I think that, like.

It is in the comment section. We need to know what the nickname. We need a good name for this game.

But this game, much like the 99 woman's World cup, is.

That's only shut it down.

It's just like, you just know it and it just impact. It's just there.

But everyone does know. 2004. ACLS.

Yeah.

Roberts. Big.

I wouldn't name an ACLS kid.

Yeah.

So clutch number three. We're getting down to it. The Malcolm butler game.

Butler.

Seattle versus New England. The Super bowl. We had a call about it earlier in the episode. You know, it feels right, I think, up 17 spots, by the way.

Yeah.

It's worth noting at the time when this Super bowl was in the books, this was the largest comeback in a Super bowl. And that ending, I mean, we'll remember this game for the rest of life because of Malcolm's interception. Like, that is. That is a crazy, crazy ending.

It really is. I mean, like, unheralded guy at the time to top of the sports world.

Like, it's what makes sports great.

It really is.

Yeah.

Tom getting his, you know, getting back on the, on the train and he went ten. We went ten years that went a Super bowl.

That's just insane.

Ten years.

That'll never happen again.

And I think sometimes with, with games like this where there's a specific moment, if you look at the immaculate reception, like it was kind of a whatever game until that big iconic play. This game had an iconic play with the Malcolm Butler interception. But also it was a great game back and forth.

I mean, it was, it was a back fourth slug fest.

That catch.

Good defense. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of crazy shit that went down in this game.

Great fight at the end is worth fight.

Bennett and Gronk.

Maybe some slight New England bias on our end here, but I think, I think time will look really favorite on this.

Even people it.

It's. I mean, it's all time for me.

So there could be other games that are better.

Yeah.

Haven't done them yet.

Yeah, I'm yet.

Great point.

Amen. Good caveat with yet. This is also our first game that enters the nine club. This was a 9.08 previously. 8.88 on the ALCS game. So we're in the nines.

The snowmen were.

Yep. Three snowmen. Shout out young jeezy. Number two. Number two. We are close to one. We can almost smell it. Number 228 to three. Super Bowl 51. Falcons Patriots, 9.23. Tough to beat that. Biggest comeback in Super bowl history. What do you think?

Up 14 spots?

Up 14 spots. That's. I like that part, Jack.

You almost gave it a perfect score.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Really, really, really close.

I mean, against all the odds and for everything to happen, for that to happen, I mean, that. I don't think that'll ever be done like that again.

No.

Yeah.

Gotta.

Gotta believe.

Gonna be a hell of a story.

It was a fucking hell of a story. I mean, look, it's number two on the fucking list, deservedly so.

If I can be on brand and just be slight poopy pants for a second, I will say there's an argument here to be made that gameplay isn't quite as good as it feels. And the reason I say that is because it wasn't back and forth, per se. Like, let's say the Seahawks Patriots game. It was.

Yeah, but there was driving by the offense and then all of a sudden a mistake.

Yeah.

Or an interception or a fumble, which. You know what I mean, like, for sure.

And I gave it a nine. Eight. Yeah, but the reason I didn't give it a ten is because it was almost like two blowouts. Not quite because there's stakes involved in time, whatever, but it was almost like Falcons time, then patriots time.

See, I gave it a.

You give it a eight. Nine. I gave it even more. But great game.

Amazing game.

Amazing game.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, what's number one? The moment we have all been waiting for. We are unveiling our new number one from the first 50 games on our quest, the super blood wolf moon game. The 2018 AFC championship game. Patriots go into Arrowhead and beat the Mahomes Chiefs on their way to a Super bowl.

This is like a passing of the torch game.

It sure is. A 9.39 now.

It didn't change position. So this is the same. The old one is the new one.

It sure is.

But I think you nailed it. Jules. Why this game is the number one is because it's two dynasties, but butting.

Each other up, but each other. Dick the butts boys.

Back to back.

It's what movies that from, dick the butts boys. It's like a, it's got to be full metal jacket or something.

Star power off the charts here. We'll look back. A lot of hall of famers here.

This is insane. This was a fucking crazy game.

Great gameplay, legends.

The stakes are back and forth over time. Changed a rule because of it that Kyle Shanahan didn't bring over with his team. And I'm a Kyle Shanahan fan.

It also meant a lot, like, talk about bias. It meant a lot personally for all of us, too.

100% the doc. I mean, every play in that third down drop, like it was hanging on, like, like third downs, like high scoring.

But great defensive plays.

Incredible. Romo was like on fire in the booth.

That was peak, romo, peak, romo, peak romo, peak romo in Arrowhead, breath coming.

Out, laser pointer in Tom's eyes.

Great laser pointer in the eye.

It's great. And I think let's, you know, because it was only, you know, six years ago, but I think that as time goes on and Patrick Mahomes adds to his resume, let's say he gets a few more, whatever. He's starting to get in the conversation of greatest quarterback of all times, not just in performance, but also in, you know, resume. Now that, because it's Brady versus Mahomes that you don't have Tom playing Joe Montana, right? You don't have Peyton Manning playing Joe Montana, right? So you look back and you have Tom right now, the unquestioned goat. Maybe we don't know in 1015 years where Patrick Maher's Patrick Mahomes career goes, that maybe this is kind of like a great against great.

Amen. And for Pat in his first year as a starter, to make it to the AFC championship game and push the goat to the brink like that. That's. That's a testament. And got to tip my hat to rob riggle, aka Ron Ribble, coming in here as a chief diehard and doing a chief's heartbreaking loss. Yeah, we respect that.

That's. I mean, he's integrity. He's a marine.

Yep. He's a marine.

He's a marine.

And can I just.

That's a man of integrity.

I know we started off contentious today, but now I. I stand by our top 15 there.

I still got some whatever's. But, yeah, I stand by it.

Nothing's perfect. Cool. So good list. Good list everyone. That was.

That was good.

Stand by.

That was good.

Yeah, I like it.

And to wrap up this re scoring is stravaganza. We're gonna be giving out some awards now. The old gameies.

The inaugural gamey awards.

Highly coveted.

We got the gameies participant trophy.

Participation trophies.

Kyler, why don't you break down what our gamey awards are going to be?

They're just some, you know, fun bullshit. Just fun bullshit. Well I don't want to. There's no more substance than that. About the 50 games we've done before. Do you want to start with the. If anyone can guess what the Mark Cuban award for worst guest score is, the nominees are. Big cat for giving any score for the tb twelve championship. Particularly the star power was quite high. Reggie Bush for stakes of a regular season game against Fresno State. Little high. Pat Hill played him top hill and Mark Cuban. Of course Mark Cuban could be nominated for the Mark Cuban award for worst guest score. And perhaps the impetus for this entire episode.

Hey, by the way, we got to take off. Is he not an owner anymore?

He's a part owner.

Okay.

Not controlling steak. I don't think.

And who does the winner go to? Mark Cuban.

The first game award for Mark Cuban. Let's go. Are you want to do the next one?

And our next one, also named after an illustrious guest, the Ernie Adams award for most knowledgeable celebrity fan. This was tough. I mean everybody could have been nominated but the nominees are. Gary Goleman from the squish the fish game. Heidi Gardner from Super Bowl 54. And Eric Stone street from Montana versus La.

No, Ernie Adams. It kippy.

He's not a celebrity fan.

More in the coaching category. Drum roll please. And the winner is Eric. A man that knows ball. A man that loves offensive line play. A man that has been a season ticket holder since I don't know when and is now a sweet owner.

Sweet owner.

Sweet older.

I mean sweet seed. I want to go see the sweet.

I want to see this week.

Sweet.

Eric, in exchange for this award, please invite us to a game. We can be bought and we can be bought.

We can definitely bought. Yeah. Great nickname Giver.

Great nickname Giver.

Also wildly connected.

Wildly connected. I mean if you wanted to suit up guard for a game, I bet Andy might let him. Like he runs that.

I actually think you said that he could maybe get on the headset or call some plays in the preseason.

Two degrees he could.

Two degree?

Yeah. Not unless Goodell takes away that third preseason game.

Is he trying to do that?

There's talk. He said, get rid of the third. Make it a regular season two, preseason, 18 regular.

That's great.

Super bowl on Memorial Day presents day weekend.

We just had 15 quarterbacks gone last year for football.

Less regular.

Let's go. Speaking of Eric Stone street, great injury CT award for Julian's worst pronunciations.

You want me to read the Jules? You got it. You got it. The nominees are. Rod Ribble. Major. Major Applewood.

That's a multi episode one.

That's a multi episode one.

Multi year one.

Had some also major Apple white. Just white. White.

There's an Applewood pizza where I grew up that I liked not to be.

Confused with the smoked bacon as well.

Or Applebee's.

Or Applebee's. And our third nominee, Bart, Brett and Bort.

Bort.

I believe there was a bort.

You never said Bort.

Oh, no.

That's a Simpsons joke for all you Simpsons heads out there.

Sorry.

And the winner goes.

By the way, there is numerous honorable mentions for this one for sure.

This list could have been a category with, you know, hundreds. And the winner is.

Rod Ripple. Rod Ripple was pretty bad.

Right on. Awesome. Moving on.

I'll do this one. All right.

You got it. Kai guy.

The Leon let awareness award for not comprehending the premise of the show. The nominees are. Thai law. Granted, alcohol was involved there. Shady McCoy and Burt Kreischer. And the winner goes to.

Drumroll.

Jd mcCoy.

McCoy.

Nice. He came in and made it his show. We like it.

Yeah. And Bill sucks.

Yep.

He still thinks.

All the time.

He still thinks it. Walking by each other right up in that hallway at Fox when he's. I'm in there doing Colin coward. He's doing. About to get ready for speak. We'll literally argue the 1520 paces up and down these stairs the whole time until he goes to his show. Until I go to my show.

Does he walk slow in the hall? Does he have the running back walk?

Not a crazy slow running back walk. Cause he's out. I think, you know, it's different. And we were also, you know, we also had some time limits. We had to get to live tv. You can't be late.

Little pep in that step, baby.

Pepin that step.

And are we doing this last one?

Yeah. It's time.

The Sam Morell Memorial Award for best future guest. Sam, we love you. Your legacy on the show will always live on.

Always.

And especially live on through this physical manifestation. That is a gamey award. And the nominees are. Tom Brady.

Tom Brady.

Maybe a future guest. Who knows?

Who knows?

We're manifesting.

We're manifesting.

This week, we'll manifest this. Bill Belichick, coach B.

Coach B, famously famous, went on Pat.

McAfee show, social butterfly. Now, man, he's gonna be at the roast. I heard. Boy, maybe.

Did you watch him on the draft or no?

A little bit here and there.

Yeah, he smiled.

Yeah, I saw it.

I didn't watch out of protest.

I watched. I watched the drake may pick, and I just wanted to hear what he had to say. And then I changed.

I mean, he gave a talent evaluation. That's what talent evaluators will say. People are all busting his balls.

Oh, that was bullshit.

You know, all right, he gave pros.

And cons to everyone, but everyone picked the story. It's all the media is. But not a games with names. We celebrate players in x rays.

We celebrate coaches that will come into our shows.

And the final nominee in this category is the man himself, Sam.

Sammy Morell.

Drumroll, please. The winner for our final gamey of the night, Sam Morell.

Sam Morell. Sammy.

We gotta get him on.

Just like Eli Manning, Sam beat out two great patriots when it mattered most. Sam, we love you, brother.

We love you, Sam. We love you.

I would like to have him come on. And we learn more about him as a person and not just dick jokes.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good dick joke.

Some dick jokes. And that's our post guest segment, best dick jokes of all time.

There it is. Great segue.

Yeah, right. There ain't no post dicks pics. National Geographic. Bird watching. Jackie. Jackie got all excited.

Oh, my God. I was frothing at the foam. Whoa.

Pause.

Whoa.

Foaming at the. Oh, my God. Champing at the bit.

Oh, did he cut that.

Cut that.

Well, that was fun.

There we go. We did.

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