Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, Boomer and Geo coming to you live from the Bill Ford Tough Studio on the Fan and CBS Sports Network. Believe it or not, it is Super Bowl week. That's right. There's going to be a game played on Sunday that no one seems to be talking about. Now, we're not out there.
I'm sure they're talking about it out there in Santa Clara, but as far as us here in New York, Man, this has been the most dead Super Bowl there's been, but we also have had some local football to talk about with the offensive coordinators and everything else and all the hires that have been going on, but I don't think this is a recency bias type of thing.
This has been the least amount of buzz and juice going into a Super Bowl that I've seen in many years, if not the most I've ever seen.
Chapter 2: Why is the buzz around the Super Bowl so low this year?
And remember that this weekend also has the Waste Management Open out there in Scottsdale going on, and I know that you like to... put a few dollars on these golf tournaments, and I know you won some money last week, and I would imagine that you've done your deep research this week. I just want to know the players that you have picked to be in the top 20, is it? Oh, that's what you want?
Did you put a team together? Of course I did. Yeah, I wasn't going to bring it up. Right, so this golf tournament, you've got to be a special golfer to win the tournament, first and foremost, because of all the distractions that surround it, especially the 16th hole. It gets kind of crazy. It's a party atmosphere, and it's not your normal type of golf tournament.
And I think this golf tournament alone has spawned so many other things, including what happened at Bethpage last year. Yeah, the craziness and the drinking and everything else. So just quickly, if people are looking to jump aboard. But listen, I don't know what I'm doing. I did plenty of research.
But, you know, you've got to pick guys from here, there, you know, whatever, something off the board. I bet you Scotty's probably got to be really expensive. Well, yeah, of course. I mean, we know that. But I've got Marco Penge, top 20, and Pearson Cootie, top 10.
All right, Marco.
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I know a lot of people are not. But I'm definitely into it. And hopefully we can keep this going. We had a really good... I speak like we're a team when it's just me. Yes. But we had a really good week there at Torrey Pines. We're trying to roll it over here. I'm trusting my process right now. Let's go to Gary in Baltimore. What's going on, Gary?
Yes, I remember that Cal Ripken's mother was kidnapped for a while or missing for a while. Huh. I just wanted to make sure. It was in 2012, huh? Now, do you have it in front of you? Yeah, thanks, Gary. She was abducted at gunpoint from her garage at her home in Aberdeen, Maryland. Wow. On the morning of July 24, 2012. You remember this? I remember the story. I'm reading now the exact story.
She was found unharmed but shaken early on July 25th, the next day. Oh, okay. Around 6.15 a.m., still bound in the backseat of her car near her home, a passerby neighbor spotted the vehicle and called police. No ransom was ever demanded, and the motive still remains to this day unknown.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Cal Ripken's mother's abduction?
Vrabel, Mike Vrabel is like, Some crazy number, like 12-0 as a player and a head coach against the Seahawks. And I was also just watching something this morning, like Belichick couldn't beat the Giants. Boomer, is there like a thing, the NFL maybe, where like a man like Vrabel just has his way with an organization year after year after year?
And you can even use the Belichick example, like he couldn't beat the Giants in the Super Bowl several years apart. Is that a stat that holds water? Please sugarcoat the answer. I won't sugarcoat the answer. I think every team and every game is different. Now, there are trends that obviously you can look at.
If I told you that the last three underdogs in the Super Bowl outright won the Super Bowl, would you... use that as a trend for this Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean, people use all sorts of trends that I don't agree with.
And every time you think you're using a trend that's going to be solid, rock solid, now all of a sudden the other team ends up winning or you end up losing your bet, whatever it may be.
Of course.
But I do think there is something to be said about... Certain teams against other teams, yeah, I think sometimes it's hard to beat a team in their building. Remember, the Super Bowl obviously is not played in either one of these teams' home stadiums. But that was a trend for the longest time.
You can't pick a team to go to the Super Bowl where their home stadium is where they're playing the Super Bowl because it never happens and it happened twice. And both teams won. Yep. Now we have a new trend started. Yeah, a new trend. And then you have this team can't win outdoors in this degree, and this team if they're not home. And a lot of it gets blown up in your face.
So it just depends what you think is important or not. But as far as Vrabel's history as a player and a coach against a team in an opposite conference, he coached. As an assistant with the Texans, a head coach with the Titans, a head coach with the Patriots, and played with the Patriots for a number of years, and the Steelers, right? So you think about that, it's all AFC stuff.
So it's not like he's running into the Seahawks twice a year. The Seahawks used to be in the AFC. Yeah, but not when he was coaching. Yeah. And he's a coach now. He's a coach. Yeah. He's a very good coach. Yeah. He's coaching. So... Not a trend for me.
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Chapter 4: How do New York sports teams end up with the worst GMs?
You guys are missing the clear number one cut. Worst general manager in New York history, Mr. Peter Schwartz. Oh, man, that's just not fair, Dan. They never really got off the ground on the end flaw. He never could show, and I understand it was a short tenure and everything that went on with the end flaw, but that was not on him. You can't put that at his feet.
It was just he really couldn't do the things he wanted to do. You know, much like the Darren Mooji report from Sean Morash, there was a lot of meddling that was going on there with the end flaw. And we heard about that meddling, but we really didn't want to say anything because we didn't want to embarrass Peter. Right. So he wasn't allowed to do the job in the way that he wanted to do the job.
So it's just definitely has to be put in the conversation. But I don't think it's fair to say that he was worse than like a Scott Layden or someone like that. Yeah. It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Boomer and Geo on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Jerry Recco is with us, and he's got another update. What's happening, Jerry?
I got to tell you, when I was away, the amount of people I met that listened to this show on the Odyssey app was staggering, which is kind of cool. Both at USC and UCLA, I met...
probably five different people all listen on the app a couple say they get up they try and get up at like 5 a.m to catch the last hour of the show on tv and then one guy tony who runs from islip west islip i think because that's not right west islip well i suppose that's the piece that's the percentualized okay well from west islip he was out there security company was running the grammys oh wow the security i met him and his wife stephanie very nice people okay i
That's a big contract to get the Grammys. Yeah, so I even met them out there. And they actually have security around the Grammys? Big time security. Why, to keep people out? I think so. I don't know what that means. Protect the celebrities. They've got to protect the celebrities. They've got to protect those people, man. Yeah, so very cool.
All right, we're brought to you by Chef IQ, precision cooking, effortless results, chefiq.com. This clip is from ESPN from last night's game with the Knicks and the Nuggets. Knicks win 134-127 in double overtime, but we talked a lot last hour about Mitchell Robinson. Here he was. I think this was the first overtime forcing Denver into a shot clock violation with his defensive prowess, as they say.
Shot clock down to seven. Murray moving to his left. Draws Robinson. Murray has it poked away by Robinson with one on the shot clock. Murray got it away, but it's a 24-second violation.
Mitchell Robinson with big-time minutes for the Knicks tonight.
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