Ray Fittipaldo says he's not counting out TJ Watt playing quite yet
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You too. Yes, the sounds that bring in Ray Fittipaldo of the Post-Gazette. Donnie and I here on a Donnie Football Friday along with City Limits. We are at the Baseball Card Castle in Cranberry having the time of our lives. You should join us. Tons of people walking in. Bring non-perishable donations. We're supporting the greater Pittsburgh community. Food Bank here for the holiday season. You can drop by to donate. A man in a penguin's sweatshirt just walked in with a hat that says Stick City. Look at this limits. This is incorrigible. Not to be confused with the Penn State linebacker, Stick City. No, please. Donate online, pittsburghfoodbank.org slash need. Text need to 50155. I've picked out Donnie's wedding present, and I have it hidden behind the general's dad over there.
Donnie, you're going to love this, and I also have a book for you. It's a Sports Illustrated book.
What are the community efforts discussed during the episode?
Open to any random page right now. Just a random page, and we'll see what's there. Oh, my God. John Henry Johnson with a panoramic view of one of his runs. Look at that man. Phenomenal. Oh, man. Little Alan Fanica, little Dermot Dawson. The bus. The bus in a snow game against the Bengals. Rocky Blyer in a snow game. Donnie, let's not have an indoor stadium. I mean, look at these photos. What are we doing here? Is Cleveland getting an indoor stadium? Oh, yeah. That's going through. For what? To have the Final Four and have concerts inside during the winter. I don't care about any of that. Neither should they. If this was a Browns book, we'd be opening to things like Jim Brown in the mud and snow. And the drive and the fumble and all the other infamous events.
What are we doing, Donnie? Why are they doing indoor stadiums? I know why. I know why for what he just said. It's a crying shame. You just opened to the Vikings. I knew that we had all jumped the shark when the Minnesota Vikings went indoors. That's where Bud Grant used to stand on the sidelines when it was minus 30 in a T-shirt practically. Do you remember when they were making the new stadium? They were already out of the Metrodome. And they were playing, what, at Minnesota's college stadium. Yeah. They had that playoff game against Seattle. And I think it was zero degrees. Yeah. And here came old man Bud Grant. Yes, I do. In a t-shirt. Yes. To the coin toss. God bless him. That's what football's supposed to be.
Surely you agree, Donnie, right? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean... Even Buffalo's new stadium is going to be part, like it's going to be still outdoor, but it's going to be encased. I guess I'll accept that, but not really. Can you imagine a dome stadium here? I get because... It's sacrilege. Yeah, we've already discussed why places do it, because you can do... We already have a hockey arena. Multipurpose activities. Yeah, we have one of those. Right, but places want a larger venue to host massive, massive events. They're selfish, and they ruin football. Now things like the Final Four or some huge concert, I don't know, maybe like a WrestleMania. I know you guys aren't wrestling guys, but... They're going to look at places potentially indoors that can fit 70,000 people, not a hockey arena that fits 20.
Imagine this book with no outdoor shots. It's all in an indoor. Go ahead, open it again. There you go. There's the Tulane Stadium in an outdoor game.
How does Ray Fittipaldo view the trend of indoor stadiums in the NFL?
There's Chuck Knoll being carried off the field after an outdoor football game, and that's part of the ambiance. It's part of the culture. It's part of the history. It's part of the city. What are we doing? You lose the Dolphins mud bowl game, the 3-0 game. You lose everything. You lose everything. You play on a carpet when it's 72 degrees. Imagine this book wouldn't be worth a damn. How are you, Ray? I'm good, guys. How are you? Ray, how did you feel about that rant? yeah i mean bud grant was definitely tempting fate much in the same way george allen tempted fate when he got uh an ice bath after a big win and then unfortunately for george he wasn't with us too much longer after that wow suddenly it's a somber note that ray's presented here
It doesn't have to be, Joe.
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