1PM - The Quiz Show 1-30-2026; Bob Pompeani joins after speaking 1-on-1 with Steelers coach Mike McCarthy
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What music do the hosts prefer and why?
I'm really liking this music. You said this is Craig choosing from our available? Yes, this is Craig's big-time new content music. This is good stuff, Donnie. I like good old electric guitar. Don't you? What's your favorite kind of music? It's rock. Good old-fashioned rock? Alternative, yeah. Like ACDC, like metal? A little bit. Yeah, I had you pegged as a metal guy in the locker room before your high school football games listening to Black Sabbath and things like that.
Yeah, I mean, I would say that that's... Okay, so I had that right.
That's fairly accurate, yeah. All right. So is this, that you've dominated the quiz show, but once we got to the postseason, the savvy old news sound posted a win last week. I feel like I'm on a roll here. Limits, are we ready?
Joe, we're ready. Let's see if you can make it two in a row. Okay, Joe, dealer's choice. Would you like to receive the football, or would you like to defer to the second half that we don't have on the quiz show?
Is that a great question? This is Steeler Super Bowl themed.
Steeler Super Bowl themed.
I feel like I'm going to be pretty good at this, and I feel like if you get off to a lead in the quiz show, you're at an advantage, and I'm ready. I'm going to take the ball and try and score.
All right, Joe. First question goes to you.
Yes, sir.
Joe, Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X for the Steelers were very unique because in both games, a team in the game scored points because of what?
Scored points because of what? Super Bowl IX and X is Cowboys- And Vikings and Cowboys? Yes. Okay. They scored points. What do you mean, because of what? What?
What is the format of the Steelers Super Bowl Quiz Show?
What do you mean by that?
Well, so the Steelers scored. Do you want to talk it through?
I mean, because of is a very weird phrase. There were special teams touchdowns.
A weird phrase?
Yeah. There were safeties touchdowns.
They scored points due to what? Due to a... Safety. It was much more complicated than it needed to be. But you got it right. They scored points on safeties in both games.
Yeah. Dwight White got off his sickbed.
How about that?
How about that?
Donnie, hopefully you won't insult the question. The next one goes to you.
Donnie, I'm really confident. When I get confident in these things, I'm not afraid just to fire away, to question the questioner. I'm sitting back here. I've got my feet up. I feel good right now about the quiz show. You are riding high. Just wanted you to know.
Joe, can I throw one thing out there from the text line real quick? Texter says, did music peak in 2016 like intern Dom says it did?
I mean, I thought it peaked in about 1974 myself with the release, or maybe 76 with the release of Rumors from Fleetwood Mac, but that's just me. Oh, what an album. What an album, huh?
That's a great album.
Every song, yeah.
What year was The Stranger by Billy Joel? I don't know.
That was 70s. Yeah, somewhere in the 70s is when music peaked for me.
Don't talk to strangers, Donnie.
I mean, the 70s and 80s had some phenomenal music. I mean, you can find greatness in the other years, but... Donnie's a big Engelbert Humperdinck candy.
You know that, Limits? You know I'm an old head, Joe. You know I'm an old soul. Yeah, you're an old soul.
It's one of the things I like about you.
What unique scoring events occurred in Super Bowl IX and X?
I think it is undeniable that the best movies of all time came from the 80s. Like, completely undeniable. Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
You might be right, actually.
The Goonies. I could just continue to go on and on and on about my thoughts about 80s movies.
Is Animal House 80s? That was the 70s. Well, you know, right around their limits. Go ahead. Question two.
Question two to you, Donnie. Donnie, in Super Bowl XIII... Terry Bradshaw threw four touchdown passes. Three of them were to either John Stallworth, who caught two, or Lynn Swan, who caught one. Who caught the fourth?
Rocky Blyer.
Two for two, gentlemen.
That was the Sports Illustrated cover, was it not? Was that the leaping catch?
That was the leaping catch.
Good pull there, Joe. Thank you, Limits. Okay, Joe. Actually, that was a Malsy I just pulled because I wanted to add on what I knew.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What music do the hosts prefer and why?
0:00–2:03
2
What is the format of the Steelers Super Bowl Quiz Show?
2:03–3:54
3
What unique scoring events occurred in Super Bowl IX and X?
3:54–10:46
4
Who were the notable players in Super Bowl XIII?
10:46–19:19
5
What questions were raised about the coaching staff?
19:19–23:08
6
What insights did Mike McCarthy share about the quarterback situation?
23:08–26:42
7
How does Mike McCarthy view the use of metrics and AI in coaching?
26:42–35:06
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