Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
All right.
Chapter 2: What predictions does Dave make for Super Bowl 61?
So last things first, in honor of the 2026 NFL season ending in SoFi Stadium, I'm hereby ready to announce my pick for Super Bowl 61. And yes, it's a sequel to my 2021 Super Bowl prediction. That's right. I'm doing it. Rams v. Chargers. Once upon a time in Hollywood or Englewood. Either way, it's a sequel, and I'm copycatting myself, if that's a thing you can do.
I was half right the first time I said this five years ago. This time, Valentine's Day, 2027, love is in the air.
Chapter 3: How do the Rams and Chargers compare in Los Angeles?
L.A. 's all in, both sides. Not one team playing a home game, but two. Three words for that, ooh, la, and la.
Chapter 4: What makes Aaron Rodgers' career feel anticlimactic?
Real quick though, if you aren't aware, or if time has just gotten away from you, we're now a decade into the Prodigal Sons, both wearing blue and gold, coming home. Related, it gets weirder every month remembering one of the best teams of the entire Super Bowl era played in the St. Louis-based Dome. Has the tenure in L.A. been a success? Sure, for the league.
SoFi's in the Super Bowl site rotation, don't you know? It's the most exclusive sports clique since the front row at a Knickerbockers game. And while I know SoFi's two teams don't necessarily love the color of the jerseys the ticket-buying fans wear and the towels they wave up in the stands, the seats are notably full.
Yeah, there have been some mistakes, and I don't just mean the Rams purposely making their logo look like it says LAC. But for the most part, the Rams have had more to cheer about over the last 10 years. And Stan Kroenke makes 10 times more money than his SoFi tenant, Dean Spanos, does.
Rams fans have gotten to see their team win a Super Bowl in their home stadium and witness the guy who might be the greatest defensive player of all time. OK, that's not accurate. That was Lawrence Taylor.
Chapter 5: How did Colin Kaepernick change the game in the NFL?
But still, Aaron Donald was very, very good. The Rams, of course, also made it to another Super Bowl, plus won the greatest regular season game of all time in the Coliseum. High five for those of you who remember that one. Now, on the Chargers side, they have better uniforms. And now they get a red shirt to go along with those uniforms. Yes, I'm giving Jim Harbaugh's second season a red shirt.
Why? Because I'm society's greatest empath. And the real turning point for his teams in Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Ann Arbor was that second season. And he requires big, strong fellows who lean good on 300-pound defenders. And his two tackles were hurt last year. So, red shirt.
Yes, both teams are a success a decade in, even more so if and when my prophecy comes true, and they play each other in SoFi on Valentine's Day 27. Problem is, the 800-pound silver and black gorilla, even, is this.
Chapter 6: What impact did Dan Marino have on football?
The Raiders might be more popular still. In fact, a great what if or NFL, what if the Chargers and Raiders would have just switched places? No way the Raiders would rent space in Stan Kroenke's ballroom. So who knows where they'd be playing right now? Maybe an upgraded Coliseum or, you know, memory, if my memory's correct, Fernando enjoyed his time in the Rose Bowl.
and the Chargers would be in the big Roomba in Vegas, except it'd now be powder blue. All fun to consider, but let's get real. Super Bowl 61 in SoFi, Chargers, Rams, Cliff Booth doing the coin toss. Let's start the show.
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Chapter 7: How does the discussion shift to the greatest show on turf?
How about that? I just told you both L.A. football teams are going to finish their season at home in SoFi. Let's say hello now to our pals Mike Fuentes and Buddy Badowski. Sad to report, Gino Fuentes. Homesick! But we have a moment to spare here. I'm going to start with you, Mike Fuentes. You heard my pick. It's not a homer pick. It is where I live. Rams and Chargers. How say you?
Who's playing in 61, fella? I like the Rams.
I don't know.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of Mike Tomlin's coaching style?
Chargers? I'll never see it. As long as Justin Herbert there is their quarterback. So I'm going to go with the Los Angeles Rams.
Oh, how lame is that? I just said Rams and you jump in with that? I don't know what that is. I don't know what that's supposed to be.
The Los Angeles Rams. And I'm going to go ahead and say, ooh, Ethan, do I want the bounce back Patrick Mahomes here coming off injury, or do I want the Buffalo Bills getting over the hump?
Why are we on the same page? Why are we on the same page? I hate it. Kansas City Chiefs.
Patrick Mahomes reclaims the AFC. Oh, no. That would be, at this point, I think that would count as a cool story. You know? Yes. I agree with you. Is that right that the Chiefs have now fallen back just a tick and with the return from the injury and everything else that we now...
I keep forgetting he's coming off a torn ACL, Dave.
Every time I remember it, I'm like... I think DraftKings hasn't completely knocked them, but their odds aren't as short as the frontrunners.
Fuentes is on that right now, but... Yeah, I think it is a great story. I mean, look, Superman has fallen, right? The Chiefs have not won back-to-back Super Bowls. I think this is their longest drought, if you want to call it, since Mahomes has started winning. And, well, they
okay they've evened it now because they took two years off in 2020 and 2021 as well but i mean we haven't seen them this low right like now they've missed the playoffs mahomes is coming off an injury like this is the first real adversity that we've seen him face and just as a reminder for anybody who may have a little bit of amnesia they were missing the playoffs before the injury of
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