Tony Reali

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn” · 20 May 2025 podcast

I elevated it to something that it clearly wasn't for some people in my head. It was, it absolutely was. Every day was a movie. Every day was something that I was trying to give, turn it up to 11 on. And that's not my energy. I have to lower my energy to do TV. This is one of the things I learned early on. Yeah. But every show I was trying to have an imprint and

elevated to more than just what it was the day before, whatever that was.

I have not watched my first episode. I don't think I even allowed myself to stay in the room when it was taken in for the 10th anniversary. Right. And then the 20th anniversary, I was not in D.C. So, no, I have not watched my first episode. You're going to play it now, and I'm going to watch it with you. Let's do this together.

Can you give us a dateline? Yes, February 1, 2004. Now, this will be my first time hosting as full-time host. I think that's what you have, not knowing what you have. But I had appeared seven times as a panelist. and won two shows. Good winning percentage. It's up in the high 20s. Oh, you're on the Wikipedia page. And then I hosted it probably four times in those first 200 episodes as well.

Season one, Max had a sty in his eye one day. I literally wore his clothes on TV. So that happened once. There may have been two or three other opportunities that I hosted the show. So this is not the first first, but this is definitely February 1, 2004, the day after a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. Very good game. Won in the last minutes, as the Patriots did for all their Super Bowls.

Panthers scored a late score. John Casey, the kicker, left-footed kicker for Carolina, kicked the ball out of bounds, which is a terrible thing to do in that instance, and then enabled Brady to have a short field play. and lead to yet another game-winning Patriots Super Bowl. So that happened, but of course, it's also known for the halftime.

These four things I know are true. Make no mistake. Super Bowl 38 was the best Super Bowl ever. I know Joe Montana and Tom Brady is. Well, he's Joe Montana. The Super Bowl MVP might have been Justin Timberlake. And I'm Tony Reale. JT saved me 20 bucks on the lingerie bowl. How about that?

It's funny you say that. I don't hear that. I hear a little bit of television talk that people try to drill into me to lose what was my accent, right? Okay, so I'm from Jersey, and I had a Jersey accent. My parents are from Staten Island and Brooklyn, and I took on some of that accent. I've been thrown off radio in the Bronx recently. which is an incredible... I put that on my Wikipedia page.

WFUV. It wasn't necessarily... I just wasn't polished enough. And in the near future, for this young man here, he's going to be working with a voice coach brought in by Bristol. to work on his accent or delivery or just polish. But I'm hearing a little bit of this, you know, which is what a 25-year-old is trying to do to sound like other people want someone in that position to sound.

So this is the first window of imposter syndrome. I'll say second is I don't wear suits. I'll wear it at your wedding. Yeah. But I'm not going to wear suits. I mean, the job dictated that. Dress for the job you like. You did wear black leather pants for the record. I will wear your wedding. Your wedding specifically and other weddings.

I wanted to be on air for a living, Pablo. I've said this as far back as I can remember. I always wanted to be a sportscaster.

Yeah, yeah. And are getting, I think... It's the highest rated show we'll do all year. They're getting a new host who they will know from the show after because I really nail 15 seconds a day. So I'm about to do 30 minutes of the highest rated show that we're going to have at 5 o'clock on a network with... I could go through the list now, but you know the list. Why isn't Stu Scott sitting there?

Why isn't Linda Cohen sitting there? Why isn't Kenny Mayne sitting there? They would have been phenomenal hosts because it was the Super Bowl. Everybody was either in Miami or in Connecticut, and it came very quickly that somebody needed to be in D.C. and couldn't get there, and now I'm hosting around the horn. That's how it happened.

This is sneaking in through the fire escape, but you're telling me I sound like somebody who at least was faking it? Then I'll make it. If I'm watching this show, my first thought is, okay, yeah. I grew up very late. And you know this about me, Pablo. But I was 5'90", well into junior to senior year.

Right. I hope some people post those in big glasses. But the whole, you know, still having acne and that sort of thing, you know, that was me at 25. I'm at 28-inch waist. I barely was filling out, you know, those shoulders in that suit, I'm sure.

After 24 minutes of painfully scoreless football, the Pats and Cats turned it on. Jake DeLome and Tom Brady led two supposedly vanilla offenses back and forth like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson, out-toughing, out-gunning, and out-cooling each other until Brady and the Pats were the conquering heroes and DeLome and Carolina the valiant but beaten runners-up.

Guys, was Super Bowl 38 the greatest Super Bowl of all time? Around the horn, we go to Woody Page.

Three 80-yard drives by the Panthers in the fourth quarter. You can't beat that. Next topic.

I want to run through a wall right now. I know about you. I mean, I feel... Yeah, so these are maybe things... That fits me. That feels natural to me, what we just witnessed. Absolutely. That is probably close, except for the reality. I'm going to make my ruling at the end based on my opinion. This was the greatest Super Bowl ever, which I can't imagine I felt at that time.

And I was probably thinking make TV or I was probably thinking it needs an exclamation point at the end of it. But put that to the side. That's my pace. That's my energy. At that stage in my life, that was enough conflict for me. That's something I would be craving.

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