Local Hour: Greg Cote's Piano Man
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What is Greg Cote's connection to the Miami Dolphins' past?
Baby! And I meant it literally. That kind of thing. He's ready. I am ready. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I am, but I get a bad rap. This time I was ready to go. My phone is off. My computer sound is off. Everything's good to go. I'm so ready, my name's Freddy. There it is.
The thing that he said there, I just want to examine it because he is legitimately the only person in the world keeping alive Gary Stevens, the former offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins, walking into a press room 40 years ago before a game in which the Dolphins were going to play the Bills with Bernie Palmoli as their running back. And he walks into the press room, Gary Stevens. Lifelong offensive coordinator. Never graduated to a head coaching job, even though there were protests and people in Miami and every corner of the University of Miami were rooting for him to get a head coaching job he never got. He would come into the press room, usually smoking a cigarette, because back then you could do that.
My man.
And he would just say, who needs me? Dummy.
Right. As if someone automatically did need him. Who needs me? Dummy. You're going to go to Buffalo.
With Bernie Parmelee? That story's like Piano Man. I've heard it a few times, but it just slaps every time.
It's always good.
It's the best. I'm singing along with it. I'm like, who needs me?
The cigarette is a detail that I never caught before. Really? Yeah, the cigarette. Someone ripping a heater and saying, who needs me?
That's peak. It was very theatrical. It almost had a Rat Pack vibe to it.
The thing that you guys have to enjoy about that that is lost in the lack of context of a story that nobody remembers from 40 years ago is just how sad that press room was. Like, it's not what the dolphins are today. Like, this is not St. Thomas Aquinas, right? But this is soon thereafter. right this is a bad press room this is a you are taking inventory of your life and don't think it has much worth when gary stevens is blowing cigar breath in your cigarette breath in your face yeah it's amazing how everything has changed like back then
It essentially, for a couple of years, for a few years, it would be me, Charles Bricker, and maybe Hal Habib. And we were the only reporters there. There was no ESPN yet. There was no national coverage element to the Dolphins or most NFL teams. And so it was very confined. So Gary Stevens would be coming in to a very small room, just a few people. Who needs me? You know, and we always felt like... Dummy, dummy. Yeah, usually the dummy. Usually. Not always. Not always. Not always. Okay.
Who was he talking to with the dumbing? Who was that director?
I don't know. I'm not sure. I like to think it wasn't me, but you're never quite sure. Had to be Edwin, right?
No, no.
It would never be Edwin. No.
You guys are picking the absolute worst of the people. That was the joke. No, I thought it's a playful. Hey, dummy. Yeah, no, it was playful. It was playful. You can call Edwin Pope playfully dummy.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is Greg Cote's connection to the Miami Dolphins' past?
1:40–12:07
2
How did Kevin Durant react to the Suns' locker room toxicity report?
12:07–30:12
3
What is the story behind the Miami Heat's interest in Kevin Durant?
30:12–48:32
4
How does AI threaten traditional content creation?
25:14–48:32
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