Chapter 1: What is the significance of Ray Hudson's retirement in soccer commentary?
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I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
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Diana Rossini is going to be here for all of your football needs in a second. But I just want to pause the show for a second. I didn't do this in the local hour and I should have because Ray Hudson is an international legend. He's a national legend and he's a local legend. I mean, he started soccer down here with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.
and has been one of the most entertaining personalities anywhere in sports broadcast worldwide for, I'm going to say, 30 years? Because maybe before that, and I just want to introduce you here with some sound from Ray Hudson so that you hear him calling a messy goal, and all of his calls were poetry, and I can't believe that he's retiring because he's a voice for literally 50 years.
This is courtesy BN Sports. Again, the medicine man arrives and sinks his flaming spear into the hearts of Real Madrid. Messi, born in the crossfire hurricane, and he is jumping Jack Flash. The defenders are left with bees flying around him. Messi, you could drop a tarantula into his shorts and he'll still be cool. I doubt that.
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. If you dropped a tarantula down Messi's shorts, would he still be cool? You should hear Chris Whittingham, the way he talks about what his face does when he's next to Ray Hudson and he hears something like that break out. And the child in him is mesmerized because he can't believe he's standing next to Ray Hudson.
Yeah, grew up with Ray Hudson as not just the voice of soccer for what felt like a niche sport in this country for so long. And as the tide rose, his calls became more and more profound. My favorite color commentator in soccer easily. You mentioned the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, also an impressive run with the Miami Fusion.
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Chapter 2: How does Dianna Russini's son's egg obsession manifest in their home?
Same, I'm sure Phil Shane thinks the world of Ray Hudson. Ray Hudson and Lee Corso in a matter of weeks is tough. Diana Rossini is becoming a legend in this business. She's the senior NFL insider for the Athletics. She's the host of the Scoop City podcast. And her football information is second to none. She is wildly informed. She spent a lot of time at Vikings camp.
We'll get to that story in a second. And football.
Chapter 3: What makes Ray Hudson a legendary soccer commentator?
But I need an update on your son's obsession with eggs. A little weird child is growing in your home who who loves eggs and is putting them all over the house. Have you found any rotting? And what what is happening here with this young boy and his egg obsession?
Yes. First of all, thank you to all the viewers and listeners of the show who have reached out with their theories as to why my two year old has an obsession with just holding eggs around the home. He does not eat them. I think we have to make that clear. He just likes to hold them and walk around the house morning and night.
Um, we've been trying to talk to him about it a little bit more because my thought is something's up, right? This is, this has been going on for, I think about two months now. It was the summer when it started and, uh, he won't really answer me cause he's two. Um, so this morning I was actually putting him in his car seat and he was looking over my shoulder and he said, mom, egg, egg in the tree.
And I didn't really have time to stop because I had to get him off to daycare to get back to work. And I actually just thought he was making it up. And so I dropped him off and I came home and I pulled in the driveway and I'm like, you know what, let me just go look at the tree. What was he talking about? And there was an egg in the tree. So he was right. So now he just has this obsession.
He sees them. He wants to hold them.
He didn't put it there, right? A bird had laid an egg.
It was a bird laid an egg and he spotted it. And by the way, it was tiny. I don't even know how this little boy saw it. But he was right. So he's got some superpower. I don't know what this means for us in terms of what Joey will turn into one day. Probably nothing.
It's not a great superpower. Diane, I'm sorry that Dan asked you if your kid put the egg inside the tree knowing he's two years old and had to climb this massive tree. No, the way Diana describes her life, I do envision this child is a bit of a spider monkey. He puts things in the microwave like the cell phone. I think this child can climb around the house.
Well, look, the way I'm imagining her life is she's picking up the phone and someone's yelling about Vrabel and there's a child climbing on her head.
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Chapter 4: How does the retirement of Ray Hudson impact the soccer community?
It's just that there's I have no understanding of this. But but yes, we have found more eggs. We found an egg in the back of one of their little trailer trucks. And they also have like a Lightning McQueen little little car.
No smells yet. No smells of rotting eggs have been in the house yet.
OK, we know we're. We're in good shape. And someone, one of the listeners messaged me that I need to be careful for ants and bugs. So I'm on high alert here. Add another thing to my plate, you know?
Yes. Football is crazy this first week. And we haven't talked at all about last night's game that just. Seemed to me like the Bears would win that. And I'm still not used to first-time starters at quarterback winning football games, looking competent. And just league-wide, none of these guys throw interceptions.
Like, I'm just used to somewhere there's going to be a Zach Wilson who goes out there and throws five interceptions. But he did throw the interception.
Well, he did. I was going to say, J.J.
was terrible. Takes were flying, Diana. And then in the fourth quarter in which they scored 21 points, just totally made some tweets age poorly immediately. What was your takeaway? That was super impressive.
Yeah, it shifted quick, right? Like, did you see all the people backing it up? Like, oopsie, like went a little too hard there. And I had my own fun with the Minnesota Vikings fan base anyways, because we had reported a lot in the offseason that there were conversations about possibly bringing in Aaron Rodgers and fans didn't want to hear it because JJ's the guy.
And I spent a lot of time with the Vikings this summer. And yeah, Look, Kevin O'Connell is sharp. He's obviously a great teacher. He has a true understanding of the position, but he was preaching patience to like he's never JJ McCarthy's never played in an NFL game and he's coming off an injury. So what he did last night was just absolutely spectacular and just credit to his moxie.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Dianna Russini provide about NFL updates?
I still am not at a point where I expect rookie quarterback. That's a great expectation. I know it's still Sam Darnold, but the numbers Sam Darnold put up last year were worthy of winning 14 games. Understood, but also what we're doing here, calling him a rookie quarterback, remember, he was in that system for a full year. He didn't play last year, so he did get valuable experience.
He's not working at it from the same level of experience your typical rookie would have.
Correct. When I was with him at camp, it was as basic as it can be in terms of how they were managing him because he's a rookie. He did not play much. He's never obviously played in an NFL game. You know what I was thinking about, though, like over the weekend, because we saw Aaron Rodgers look good. Sam Darnold looked good. Daniel Jones looked fantastic.
He was the best quarterback in football over the weekend. I think that's that that added to the excitement of Monday night for what J.J. McCarthy could do, because look, all three of their options looked like they were playing well. So the fact that they were able to also come out of this as winners, I just think it's great momentum for the team.
Forgive my interruption. I just need to speed all of this up because we've got so much to get to. And she just casually said that Daniel Jones was better than Aaron Rodgers. Somebody told you a couple of months ago.
Seven possessions, seven touchdowns. It was like ridiculous.
No, it wasn't seven touchdowns. It wasn't seven touchdowns, nor was it as many points as Aaron Rodgers put up.
But by the way, how have we not already built in a segment of like rotten eggs? Like we should be doing every Tuesday the rotten egg segment and we just pick out the worst football.
Aaron Rodgers scored one more point than him. That's right.
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Chapter 6: How are the Minnesota Vikings adjusting their strategy this season?
Brock Purdy. He's dealing with turf toe right now, a shoulder situation. The turf toe is a bigger deal. We've seen the past quarterback shoot it up before. I'm not sure what they're going to do, but there's probably a chance he's going to miss the game. George Kittle is going to be out for multiple weeks. He's got a hamstring issue.
Juwan Jennings is dealing with a shoulder situation, but he's expected to be okay. It's just bad vibes again. I mean, every year.
Chargers, best team in the AFC West? We ran out of music right when Tony was going to ask his question. It needs the support of the music. I was going to go fast. I was going to rat off like six or seven. All right, let's do this. Fast, fast, fast.
Chargers, Diana. We've been doing this very fast this whole time.
Faster.
But here's the funny part. I have to go fast, but you guys go slow. All right, well, speed it up. Tony, speed it up.
Tony, let's go.
Let's go. All of us, let's go. Yes. Are the Jags back? Yes. Yes, thank you. Atlanta, Michael Penix. Interesting. Yes, very interesting. Can't wait to see what that's going to be.
Emeka Ibuka, superstar? Yes. Kelsey put a hit on Xavier Worthy.
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