“4th and Snow”

Tony on today's show we will talk to Kip Sheeman about the winter storm heading towards DC. We'll also talk to Michael Wilbond to see if he's recovered from the bears loss yet. And we'll get picks from Chuck Todd and Reginald the Monkey. But first let's do some commerce. Previously on the Tony Corn Houser Show. And he begins to run the other way. He begins to run out of the stadium. And then somehow finds an open receiver in the left corner of the end. So how can he be open? It's the easiest pastings ever caught in his life. It should just say to yourself, wow. So wow. Did you see the cornerbacks reaction right afterwards? Immediately started pointing fingers at everybody. Yes. What you're saying is somebody else. Thank you. Who's you? That was your man. He's supposed to be covering him. This is General George Washington and you're listening to the Tony Corn Houser Show. And of course we will reprise that later in the day with Michael Wilbond. But we begin the show today with a great Kevin Sheehan. Normally a year after year after year around December 1st we have a winter prediction from Kevin. And we did not do this this year. I have no idea why, but we didn't. These things happen and suddenly it's the middle to the end of January. And I get a call last night from Kevin and he says it's coming. The big one is coming. You ought to put me on the show. And I said, of course, of course we'll do that. When people ask me, what does your show about? I say it's about weather in Washington DC. That's really all it's about. That's what distinguishes it from good shows. That's what we do. Weather in Washington DC. For those of you who are not keeping up, we have had two snowstorms in Washington DC. I hesitate to use the word storm. We've had two experiences of snow incidents. Two to three inches in one, one to two inches in the other. Nothing that was difficult to deal with and always followed by weather within 72 hours that was warm enough that it essentially disappeared. We've also had spotty little snow showers that close golf courses because snow accumulates on the green, but they really amount to nothing. So this one seems to be a big one. I was under the impression, Kevin, that in a La Niña year, it's too warm to snow. Look at you. Well, that's what I read. You know, it's too warm to snow. So why don't you just, why don't you tell us how much are we getting? When are we getting it? How much play is there into how much we are getting? And if it comes, when, if ever, will it melt? Go. First of all, Kip Shemen. No reporting for duty. Okay. Second. Here's the NBA scores. We haven't done the December winter weather forecast in about six years. No, no, no, it's been, it's been five years. Really? Right? Nigel? That's been a few. What did you do with all the sponsorships you had sold? What did you got? Tostitos calls me every year. I'll do it again. Okay. And I told them that Tony wanted to can it for five years. Only because you have two other jobs and I don't want to impose upon you. That was never the issue. As you know, I think we all kind of felt it ran its course. But look at you with La Nina and El Nino and the whole thing. Here's what we got. We got a big one coming. Okay. A really big one and a cold one. But that doesn't mean that it'll be all snow. And the latest model runs from overnight. Do push that sleep freezing rain line. You know, over us at some point during the storm, which could cut down on totals. But I'll give you the range right now. Three inches to 24 inches. What? It's ridiculous. What do you mean? That's a three to 20. That's what it is. Hmm. That's what it is. It we're still four days out. We're four days out. It's impossible. They can't predict. Tomorrow it'll be hard for them to predict today's weather. Let alone what's coming in four days. Right. So and they all base their predictions and their forecasts off of like these four or five models. It's all computer generated now. And they change every six to 12 hours. But the one thing that's been consistent in all seriousness is that this is going to be a massive storm that impacts Texas through, you know, perhaps New England. We don't get these very often. And the cold air is really in place in Tony. We're not playing golf in these parts for a long time. Well, that's that's what I was going to get to because there were there is a certain unanimity of people saying that next week will be the coldest week we've had. And there's no, it doesn't look like melting would occur until March, right? Yeah, I mean, that the long term forecast, which are not very reliable. Right. Certainly indicate that we're going to be cold for a while. Remember last winter we got like six or seven inches and it just stayed on the ground for like 35, 40 days. Yeah. And I think that's what we're looking at. We're looking at essentially a long rest of the winter. And this won't be the only, you know, opportunity for a big storm. There are others down the road that, you know, look possible like the actual setup is good for a real period of winter, which we had last winter, but you know, we went basically four or five years without winter. And that's the thing around here. We can be warm and we can be mild or we can be brutally cold and it's going to be that for the next month or so. But this storm, there is a big range, but I would guess that we're going to get no less than six inches minimum. And then that would be with ice on top of that at the end. But I think there's a chance it's a foot or more. Really? So I, as you know, we've talked about this. I read the Capitol Weather Gang all the time. Me too. I read them obsessively and colleagues. Yeah. And, and, and, you know, at the end, the last line and most of what they say is confidence level. And often it's low. Often it's low that they're not, you know, they're not confident in this. They talk, they give you examples of what the modeling systems are saying. And they are often widely divergent. Are they widely divergent in this one? Let me tell you something about the Capitol Weather Gang. They do a phenomenal job, but Tony, they'd be at the bottom of the league in going for fourth downs. They would hit the bottom of the league going for two. They are so conservative of do this. With every storm and it's smart because you really don't know for sure four days out. But they're, I personally, I mean, they don't need me to help them, but I'd be talking up the snow. People like, you know, predictions of doom much more than I don't know. Or like Kip used to say, let's let it play out. I think that they know that there's a chance that this could be massive. But the possibility that they could look really bad if they went out on a limb is still there, although it's becoming more remote by the day. I don't mind when they say they're wrong. I like when people are accountable when they're wrong and when they're right. That doesn't bother me at all. When is the, and you like fear casting? You enjoy that. I love that. I love that. This is sounding like the blizzard in 96. Is it could it be like, yeah, that was the one that stuck around till April. Yeah, it's set school down for a week. Yeah, snowmageddon 15 years ago. April, yeah, you know, there was when we were doing the show on what is that rock fill pike. And there was a shopping center across the way where they just stacked up the snow. It didn't melt till May. Is that what? They ate tower of snow that did not melt till May. And the rest of the area was was fine, but that tower stayed there. When is the earliest you believe this will start? The earliest would be the late Saturday afternoon, Saturday evenings, but it looks like a late Saturday night, you know, midnight or later Sunday morning start. And then, you know, this is going to be different than 96 or the 2009, 2010, you know, winter storms. Or even 2016. I'm on 26th. 26th. 2016, you remember we in 2010, I mean, we I was with you the entire time as you were fretting in the corner about, you know, whether or not the sheen boys would actually show up. Show up and show about. Yeah, they're not available, by the way, they're in Nashville, New York and LA. That's not going to happen. No, we'll get pineapple. We'll get pineapple to them. Okay, good. But this is not going to be a true nor Easter, where the, you know, the low develops off the coast and rides up the coast and we get the wind. Yeah. And we get the near blizzard conditions or actual blizzard conditions. There's not going to be a lot of wind with this one. And that and because of that, we won't get what we love to refer to as the wrap around. Right. In fact, when the storm goes by our latitude, but this is more of a big overrunning event, where it's just Pacific, Gulf moisture, and it will tap the Atlantic a little bit. But it's not going to wind up and be one of these, you know, 40-mile-hour wind blizzards. It's just going to be a longer duration, you know, moderate to heavy snow event. And then the big concerns are will it get suppressed, meaning push to the south, where we get the lighter amounts of snow in places like Richmond get buried, or is it going to come too far north, where we get into mixing issues. And that's the latest run of models overnight that suggests that we might actually get into some mixing even in DC. Or are we the bullseye where that's what I have the snow. That's what I want to ask with no mixing. Yeah, that's what I want to ask. If not us, if we are not the center of it, if we are not going to get the highest accumulations, where would that happen? Englton? I always wish for Binghamton. Well, again, if it moves further to the north and we get into the mixing issues, then Philly and New York and New England, you know, get buried with the heaviest snow. If it's suppressed to the south, it's more like Richmond and the Carolinas. But there's a chance that we're the bullseye, we're the jackpot. And the fear cast on that, that's a foot to two feet. Oh my. Two feet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you can't do that. That's the namus saying or the euro. Well, there are models that are spitting out 18 to 24, yes. The weather channel, by the way, you know, they name their storms. And this one has a beautiful name, Fern. Fern, they're predicting this morning will drop two to three feet over our area. They get, they're the opposite of the Capitol weather yet. They're ready to go. They're going on four and 13. They know it rates from their own 20. Yeah. That's what they're doing. Yeah. Is that they're honestly saying that much? This morning's maps had due to three feet over us. This can't Tori been cited anywhere in the area? Can Tori might be coming here. I think he sees his intended visit end of the week. Weekend. It's always good to have him in town. No, boy. All right. So are you doing with that? So you're going to be okay? No, I'm not. I'm not going to go to Hobus. I'm not, I can't, you can't drive, can't go any, no, no, no, I'm just going to sit in my house. I need chicken. Cook fried chicken. I eat chicken for two weeks. How about baking some gluten-free cookies? I don't like gluten-free anything. I'm not gluten-free. Yeah, okay. And gluten's okay. All right. Thank you, Kevin. By the way, the winter weather forecast had this particular date for a major storm. Yes, it did. Too bad. I could have told you that on December 8th. All right. Love you guys. Kevin, she and the best. Kip, she-man. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. We'll take a break. Michael Wilbond will join us when we return. I'm Tony Cornheiser. Indeed, present. Pires, you can't afford to get wrong. 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Since I'm a musical at time, you write, here are two songs I wrote for my new album entitled, Don Stewart Volume 53. This one is called Same Feet. You write, I hate my phone and I hate Bluetooth and I hate Wi-Fi. When I say Wi-Fi, I'm thinking Wi-Try because I know all this technical stuff isn't going to work very long, and everything will have to be replaced. After my phone was upgraded, little strange, squiggly symbols started appearing and began to ask me questions about stuff I didn't understand. All I wanted to do was make a phone call. The next day I was writing a song on my computer at one end of the house and the TV came on at the other end of the house. How does that happen? Thank you for complaining about Apple phone upgrades because I've been cheering you on. This makes me feel very good. This makes me feel very good. Don Stewart plays in Michael Wilbond, who missed on Monday because he was traveling and we have him on Wednesday and we have a million football questions. But I think that the first question we have to ask and we have to talk about is the Hall of Fame inducted or elected Carlos Beltran and Andrew Jones. Good. Yeah, tell me what you think that means. I just think those two guys are deserving. They'll be cheated. I'll be honest, because I don't come to baseball anymore. I can't keep track of. Well, he was on the Astros and he was specifically named. Oh, I mean, that kind of cheated. He was specifically named as a ringleader of it. And his quotes last night that I read indicated he didn't think he was going to get in. You know, but but he got in. And Andrew Jones is a wonderful defensive center field. Yeah. And his offensive numbers are okay. They're fine. I don't know that they're all of Fame fine, but I'm just wondering what you you like both those guys. You're good with it. Yes, I like both of them going in. I don't care about the Astros cheating that one bit. Never have. Well, care. So I think it's like the Tom Brady football stuff. The pump out. I don't care. Well, I yeah, so you then you might agree with me that this means that the other guys on that team when they become eligible like Al Tueve. They're getting in. Yes. I don't know the breadman will get in, but Al Tueve will get well. No, they're breadman. Breadman not have all the same numbers. The potential to get in. Yeah, that's right. But it ain't going to be some, you know, stealing. No, no, no, that doesn't right. That doesn't meet the level to me. That's not steroids to me. Yeah. It's not not at all. And it's probably going to be more cheating scandals and I'm fine with it. Um, so we are somewhat similar in this. I'm not necessarily fine with it. But I think that the history of sports is replete with teams trying to take advantage of other teams. Yes. And stealing signs and stuff like that. So it's not the same to me as steroids to me. But Andrew Jones though, I'm just sort of, I mean, I know he's a great defensive center fielder. There are a lot of great defensive center fielders. He had home runs. He had average, but I don't, I don't think that after, I think I read that after the age of 30, he really wasn't much offensively at all. But you'd put him in. It's okay. I wouldn't crusade for it. Yeah. I mean, if I was, you know, then no baseball is different. Even football, which I was a member of that body for 10 years. Yeah. And you actually sit there and debate it. You know, you talk, you talk about the candidacy of each person baseball has not done that way. I don't have a problem with Andrew Jones. I, my initial reaction without seeing numbers yesterday was it's fine if he's in. I think it'll be close. I don't know what his ultimate numbers were. And I thought that belt chain would be. And I don't care about the Astros and cheating. I don't think it doesn't matter to me in the least. So I thought both those guys would and probably should get it. Beltrans numbers are, or, or, you know, they speak for themselves. Yeah. He has the numbers. Yeah. You know, they're no. All right. Let's move on. Let's get to the subject at hand. Because even though it's three days later, it's still the bears. What are your thoughts about the play? The Caleb Williams play? What are your thoughts about them? Ultimately losing the game. What are your thoughts about their entire season? And, and, and the impact they had in the metropolis of Chicago? Well, you know, I'll take the last, the last thing first, honey, the impact they had. They galvanized the city in a way that you wouldn't think, you would think that we would link in Nebraska all fall. Especially once they did this two or three times. And it went right through, you know, these last games, the three hands with Green Bay in six weeks. And of course, one of those was a playoff game. But the other games, even the games that the bear's lost, the particularly the San Francisco game, it was first of all, it was very new. We don't know anything about offense. The bears are measured in Chicago or by traditional bears fans. And they're millions because it's the oldest franchise along with the Packers. It's measured by linebackers and running backs. That's the deal. So the rest of the world can talk about quarterbacks and, you know, 70% and, you know, 4,000 yards. And they can talk about that on get up and first take. That's not what we talk about. So for the, for the bears to have a quarterback chosen first overall, even though he's not perfect, he got, he's got a ways to go. For him to have these games where he, he's just like 8 or 10 highlight plays in one season that some great quarterbacks don't have in a lifetime. And Caleb Williams has these, these plays and you have receivers and tight ends and people have started to look at the bears differently. Completely have to look at them completely differently in Chicago. And then the magical nature of these games, these impossible games where they keep coming back to winning. Seven times. And people fell in love with the team. Yeah. I'm one of them. And we'll fell in love with them. Now, it doesn't mean that I don't know what's going to happen next year. I mean, the Washington Commanders are a cautionary tale. Yep. And not the only cautionary tale. There's just, you know, the NFL landscape is dotted with cautionary tales about a team to get close ones and then it's one off. And we hope it's not that. But the game itself, the, once he threw that, that touchdown pass to commit when he's sprinting one way and throwing another, there are people who's interested in, listen to people like Chris Collinsworth. And I went back because I was at the game. I couldn't hear the broadcast. And I listened to Chris Collinsworth say he'd never seen anything like it. Chris Collinsworth played the position of receiver with a couple of really good quarterbacks. Kenny Anderson at the beginning of his career, Boomer Siason at the, at later in it. Anything he'd never seen anything like it. He was insisting upon that. And then I've heard people talk about it subsequently. It was the, even though the Bears lost, I think it took the edge off us. That we think they should have won. That interception never should have happened. The Bears should have just taken a couple of short completions, kicked the field all. One of the game in advance on the Seattle this week. But that's not the way it went down. So, but we're not growling. You know, when people are not angry, like we've been when our teams have lost in the past, in the past, in the past, double-doublethink, I still have an angry over double-doublethink. Right. Which was the last Bears playoff game in Chicago in that stadium before the Packer game last week. Still angry. This isn't that. We're not angry. Would you hope that we that we rarely have about the Bears right now? Would you not you as Ben Johnson, you? Would you have gone for two after the touchdown to try to win the game? No. No. No. I wouldn't have. No. No. And that was and that was disgusting real time. That that told you yesterday. Mm-hmm. I'll shorten it. Sitting with Richard Denton, Otis Wilson, and God's who played in that place on that turf. And one big games on one championship. And one of them is the MVP of the Super Bowl, Richard Dent. And they in real time, because it happened against the Packers just two weeks early, one week earlier. In real time, those guys are like, no, no, no, play for overtime. Because you play for overtime, they can't beat you if they have the ball first, not with one score. They can't. So if you can stop them, you're going to get a chance when they game. That's exactly how it played out against the Packers. And as soon as the coin flip was made or whatever it was, you know, they were saying the same thing and they convinced me last week. And I certainly wasn't going to change my mind in a week. And it played out just that way. The Bears got to stop and the ball. It should have won again. Okay, let's go to the other games, the games that are left. Do you have picked Seattle? I have picked the Rams for weeks now. I think I like you are picked better at the moment. I think Seattle is a better squad at the moment. But they have a question at quarterback that the Rams don't have. You know what you get. Matthew Stafford has done this for too long for anybody to think he's not going to do it just the same way. That's not true of Sam Donald. What do you think of that game? Well, but I just watched. I just watched Matthew Stafford complete like 50% of his pack. Oh, he was sailing it in the snow. It's not going to snow in Seattle. I don't know what the weather is going to be like in Seattle. Right. Seattle won't get that kind of snow. Although you and I have seen in the other games. That's what that kind of snow. That's what that's unlikely. But you know, I just saw it. I just saw a deep fifth is not good at all. Play an entire game where Matthew Stafford to one point was like three four eleven on third downs. So I'm not turning Matthew Stafford into Joe Montana. Okay. Yeah, even though we got a ring and he might be probably the MVP. You of course you're right about Sam Donald. Yeah. You don't know. Sam Donald has everything to prove. But I just think Seattle's team now the injury to Charbonneau. Is that pronounced in his name right? Charbonneau. Charbonneau. Charbonneau. The injury to him. I mean, he's a great changer back from Kenneth Walker. I don't know if Seattle are going to have enough off as they can throw it. But you know, yeah, the Donald's history is he'll give it to you a few times. And he can't do that. But I was impressed with the way Seattle played Los Angeles in the regular season. And I'm going to take Seattle home in this game. All right. What about the Broncos in the Patriots? The Broncos are walking in there with a second string quarterback who has not. He's not thrown a pass in two years. Yeah. I just it's hard to see it. I can't see Denver win the game now. I am. It's interesting to be informed by knowing that still who's going to be the quarterback for the Broncos. He was like the first person that Sean Peyton called when he got the job. Is that right? Yeah. I didn't understand. Handpicked like like with it. I'm going to start this program. You know you're coming in as a backup. But he wanted somebody. He knew in the building to remember play quarterback because they don't even have both nicks. Could could could explain the offense. Run it. Run it in practice. Help install it. Like help build the Broncos program. Does that mean he's ready to play for a spot in the Super Bowl? No, it doesn't. But maybe it means he's got one performance in him. I am certainly rooting for Denver. Not that I have anything against New England. Nothing. I'm just going to root for Denver because of the circumstance. But look, New England is a heavy heavy heavy heavy favorite heavy. I'm not talking about Vegas. I'm talking about my mind. So that game to me doesn't have any luster at all because of the circumstance. But you know, I'm going to be tuned in. Yeah. All right, Indiana Miami. Your son of the big 10. Indiana is a great story. You were playing Futsi with Miami. You tried to tell me that Miami winning is a better story than Indiana. I mean, I'm on the other side of that. Miami acquitted themselves well. They proved they should be in the tournament. There's no question about that. It's a one position game. It's a one throw game. Yeah. Well, but the other. That's past. If it's if the last pass goes over the defensive back, they win the game. Miami. That's why I was playing Futsi with them because I thought they could win the game. So you don't really care about how the story is. I've got news to that. I'm I live next story in Indiana. And currently familiar with all of that. It is a wonderful story. You're right. It's probably a better story. I don't care about that. I wanted to see the game we saw. And Miami went down to the wire with the past to win it. And ruined the story. They could have ruined it. The other kid was great. Mendoza was great. He was great. He was great. I don't know if he's a pro. I don't know. Well, it looks it looks like he is. We don't know until we know. Don't know. You and I tend to reserve judgment on that. Other than like others. That's right. Particularly the newest wave of people who want to make declarations about everybody the moment they're when three games in college. But he looks like and sounds like it looks like he's got the goods. And I don't know whether he can turn the raiders around. The raiders are terrible. They are bad. They do not have good ownership. They know what they're doing. They don't have good ownership. They don't. They don't. No, but but but Indiana. Look, I'm intimately familiar with Indiana. I don't know what Northwesterns record is against Indiana in the last 25 years. If we've in the last 15 games we played out, I think is possible that Northwesterns nine and six against Indiana in those games. And so now, and this is intimately his hits home. This is this is just it close to home. Indiana, which had lost more games than any school in the history of division one football, has been replaced in that distinction by Northwestern. Yeah. And it's interesting now because college football is so different that you can walk into a home and say, son, why would you play for a house state? Well, we can pay you more and you can play from the moment you walk on a campus. You can come to school early. You can come to college a semester early. You can leave high school today. Come and play now. You don't sit behind anybody. You're not the fifth running back and running back you because there's no more running back you. There's no more linebacker you. There's money. We got a new stadium. We got coaches. Sadlet up. Let's go. I agree with that. I agree. I think that it's in brand new landscape. I think what Indiana did, I'm not saying anyone else is going to do it, but it proves anyone else can do it. It's possible. It's possible. And Tony, more likely there are degrees of it which are possible. So we don't know where it's coming from. We don't know where it's coming from next. What school has a sugar daddy or two or three is not just Texas A&M oil money. There's richer schools in Texas A&M. Who's going to do that and say, you know what? I like this kid, this quarterback from 2000 miles away. Let's give him some money. That's what that's what it takes. That's different. So there are degrees of it are possible that we could see a school. We could see four schools next year in the top 20 that we're not used to seeing there. I agree. I don't know that we will, but yeah, we can. I know that we will, but it's possible. Yeah. And again, like you, I'm not suggesting that team is going to win the national championship. I'm just saying that a couple of schools or more could make life miserable for the blue blood in a way that we haven't seen. It's all true. All right. I'll see you later. I'll see you later. All right, Tom. Michael Wilbon, boys and girls. We will take a break. We'll come back with Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd had a tough week. James Carville had a tough week. Chuck Todd had a tough week. We'll have Chuck when we return and Reginald. Of course, I'm Tony Cornheyser. You're listening to the Tony Cornheyser Show. Once again, this is Don Stewart. These are from his latest release, Don Stewart Volume 53. This is called Whisper. He's played songs for us for years. Yes, he is. He's a lovely, good for the show. He's Don Stewart is good for the show. Michael, if independent artists like Don Stewart want to send in their music, and we'll play it, how do they go about it? Send us your music by emailing it to Jinglesattoniquinheysershow.com. Plays in Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd had a tough week. He lost all four NFL games. He won with Miami. Miami covered. He has won consistently with Miami. But Miami is off the board now. And the pros still remain. What were your thoughts about what happened as you watched it? The Miami game or the week of... Just tell. No, the Miami. Let me just read this first. This week's picks would talk Todd and Reginald Romanki are brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook. Make every moment more. Well, let's start with the Miami game because you were invested in that. I was there. I went to it. And that's it. This is my fifth. Here's some... I've attended five national title games that Miami's been involved in. Wow. In purpose. And my record is three and two. Obviously, the last two that I've attended, they've lost the infamous Fiesta Bowl. Pat's an appearance call. And then this last one. Look, it was... I'm just... You know, Miami had every chance. They had... They could have made one more play. Yeah. And made one last mistake. Right. I mean, it was exactly I thought that Miami had... One of the best teams is not probably the best collection of defensive and offensive lines in the country, which is I felt that way from the entire season. And that usually gets you pretty far. And it almost did. And they probably... We'll look back at this game in five years. And I promise you, there'll be more NFL talent on the Miami roster than there is on the Indian roster. Sure. Sure. But, you know, I'm all in on the Mendoza Kid. I mean, he... There's a reason I thought Carson Beck played pretty well. The problem for Carson Beck is for an Indomendoza played better. For an Indomendoza justified everything that was said about him. He did. 100%. He did. I mean, a Nade they cut his lip early. They went after him early. And I thought that should have been a penalty. I really did. I thought it was the ball. When you're in person, right? All the penalties I was whining about were all on the defensive backfield. I didn't see where my seats were. I wasn't in... I was in the cellizosee. You know, I was pretty good to see. I wasn't in the cellizosee. I couldn't see. Couldn't see the... They hit on the quarterback. But that is what happened in the Ohio State game. You know, it was sort of the old Mike Tyson. You know, everybody's got a plenty of punched in the face. Right. And we punched... We punched quarterbacks in the face and we see what can they do. This guy said, okay, let's go. And he did it. And by the way, if you're keeping track, the Cuban power index in Miami. Fernando Mendoza came in at number one. You know, Marco Rubio was number two, thanks to what's happened in Venezuela. Porto Mario Cristobal was number three. And I think the order hadn't changed. I think Mendoza is probably easily now the most popular Cuban in Miami. I don't know if this matters to him. I mean, I don't know. I mean, he's had so much success that I don't know. But it matters to somebody like Tom Brady that he was picked in the seventh round. Maybe it matters to Mendoza that he was a high school player in Miami and he was not recruited by Miami. Maybe it does. It seemed a fuel him because he keeps bringing it up. Yeah. Yeah, he does. He keeps bringing it up so it... But it wasn't just Miami. I mean, it was only Yale. Yeah. Can you imagine? Only Yale. And then Cal comes in. By the way, the guy graduated early from Cal. Yes. Okay. He graduated early from some other, you know, no offense to these other schools. But Cal, okay. You know, one of the public ivies. This guy's also got a pretty big brain on that shoulder of his. So, the way that you have to play quarterback in the NFL, can you take a punch? He did. And are you smarter than the average bear? He is. He's... I'm not going to... I'm not overlooking him. I'm all in. I'm... Yeah. For me, he's someone I would root for at this point when he gets to the NFL. Sort of like... You know, he's got this T-bo like following now. Right? I don't know that. The difference between him and T-bo is that he looks like he can play an NFL quarterback position. Right? T-bo was never really a traditional quarterback. Right? He should have gone to taste him hill route. I think he might have had a more successful crib, but I don't think he wanted that. So, T-bo is a big strong kid who wasn't a great passer, but somebody who wanted on your team. He tried to make... Come back as a tight end one year. Yeah. And then how he added... But his T-bo career was fabulous. Just fabulous. Just fabulous. All right, let's get to games this week. And points bred... Certainly in the New England Denver game. Points bred are a big deal, because you don't know what you're going to get from the quarterback. Jarrett stood him. You just don't know. He hasn't played in years. Sean Payton knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. He's got a really good defense. Maybe he thinks he can make this game, you know, 7-6. I don't know. New England is favored on the road by five and a half points over Denver, which would never happen. You know, if Phoenix was there, Denver would have been favored. What are your thoughts on this game? Well, that turns out, Bonaix is basically worth a touchdown, right? Yeah. That's what we're saying, right? That Bonaix is worth a touchdown. But I keep coming back. The bill had to turn the ball over five times and Denver still needed overtime. Yes. So... And if you were that catch to the bills, that some of us thought was a catch, you think it's a catch? I admit this. I thought it was a catch. Well, when did you stop the replay? Well, I mean, I understand we had Dan Gratiano on the other day, who explained what he'd been told from referees as to why it wasn't a catch. It's just in the moment, when he holds... He's got the ball, he goes down. I think it's a quick whistle and you say he's down. It's not like he coughed the ball up. The other guy simply took the ball away. So, anyway, you thought it was a fair interception. I don't know how you could have caught. You couldn't call it incomplete, because the ball didn't touch the ground. No. I just don't... It never looked like the offensive guy ever had control of the ball. Okay. I mean, I... I don't see. In fairness, now, what I don't understand is why they didn't look at it longer. Right? At least make the fan think it... You were debating it. Yeah, you're right. I mean, you know, if I'm... Bill Goodman. I'm like, what do you mean we're not even looking at it? Like, you know, are you kidding me? And, you know, anyway, I am... And my point with the Broncos is, I don't regret... I have made that Josh Allen pick every single time, even after watching that game. Right. They don't turn the ball over five times in every game they play. And they still need it that. So, I'm not sure, boy, it just feels like we're team in the AFC. We're going the old day. They're just going to get slaughtered by whatever NFC team comes out. You have to go with the Patriots. I love the Jared Stidham story. That would be fun, right? A backup quarterback. Sure. Hasn't thrown a path in a few years. It's the Nickfold story. I'll lead them to the Super Bowl, right? We've gone through this Jeff Haas-Statler, Nick Foles. I mean, if I'm in your old shoes, right? If you're the sports columnist, I know the outcome you want. Jared Stidham. Yeah, in the Super Bowl. 100%. But I... I give me... You got to take the Patriots here. They... He'll figure out... This is an... You know, the... The more interesting that to make is just betting on a low scoring game. Doing the under. Yeah. And as you know, I'm an under guy all the time. All the time, toilet paper as well. Exactly. Exactly. Carvell went under on the Indiana Miami game. Underfeet. I know. So it's 47 and a half right? It was 48 total. Oh, it's 48 total. And boy, nobody wanted that interception more than him. Yeah, you know. By the way, very quickly in that game. Signeti almost mismanaged that game. Yeah. I... So he goes for it on fourth down twice, earlier, but had a chance to end the game to go for it on fourth down and kicks the field goal and gets... I was ecstatic. I couldn't believe he gave Miami a chance to have the ball. In that moment, which also, you know, which probably would have meant we'd have gone... We'd have had overtime. But anyway, but I... I'm sorry. That was a better game than I thought. I have to say, I didn't think Miami would be that close. I mean, and I was pretty confident watching the first half that they weren't, because they couldn't score. They couldn't score. Well, I do... I blame this a little bit. No offense to you, Ernie. I blame this on this perception that if you beat Alabama and you beat... You know, you beat these teams that we preseason think are great. You just assume they were... It is... I still believe this. Indiana was a great team. But Alabama and Oregon were not near Miami. And that was... I always bothered to... Miami got penalized simply because they were in the ACC. That's ultimately why they were... an artificial underdog throughout the season. They wouldn't have been in the tournament if Virginia had beaten Duke. They would not have been in. Would not have been in. All right. And the third that's team in the country might be Notre Dame. Yeah. Who didn't even get a chance? Didn't get a chance. Rams are at Seattle. They have split this year. The total point differential was three points. One team, one by two, one team, one by one. That's all it was. They are... I think I'm comfortable saying they're the two best teams in the NFC. I mean, all year long. The records are the best. Seattle is home. Seattle has more of a question mark at quarterback than the Rams do. But Seattle has looked great in the last few weeks. Will you take the Rams plus two and a half or take Seattle? I'm tired of Seattle teaching me a lesson. I have been doubters on Seattle. I've not been a doubt or a donald. And when in doubt, if you think two teams are even in the playoffs, who's got the better defense? Give me Seattle. Seattle. It's so. But this feels like the Super Bowl, right? Winner's gonna... I mean, look at what's coming. I mean, I don't think we're sure how good the Patriots are. Although they're young and they may, you know, but they've sort of caught a break here. Right? In each of their... I would argue. 100%... 100% They had easy schedule and even their playoffs schedule. And now they get a backup quarterback against a one-seat, no one believes in. Anyway, so this Seattle LA feels... But I'll admit, I'm the biggest bet regret I have. Is San Francisco last week. Yeah. And just not... I don't know how many times Seattle has to teach us that their... their defense is just that good. So there is a great statistic that I used the other day, given to me by Matt Kelleyhur, that... Kyle Shanahan has coached 163 games for the San Francisco 49ers. In only four of those games was his team held under seven points twice in three weeks by Seattle. Twice in three weeks. It's a lot of games. You could argue that Seattle's hiring that had coach... He's what led to the demise of John Harbour on Baltimore. Yeah. Yeah, because he brought defense with him. I mean, the ability to teach defense, their defense is wonderful. McDonald is... Yeah, he's done great. All right, we wish you all the luck in the world. We'll talk to you next week. But we can't... I even know if it's 500 even possible. You're 72 and 71. You're over. But you had a bet you were one in four. You can't catch Jeff Ma. You can't... Well, you know, he needed a win. He isn't a win in a couple years, right? Well, I don't know. Jeff Ma's... He's about nine games over and he's done pretty well. Yeah. He wasn't Carville last year, but nobody... Carville was ridiculous. Yeah, it's a blessing. And Ma's got to remember. Carville's always got the 12 star special kind of... Kenny's also got his own spreads. So, also got his own spread. It is not going to surprise me if I say, you know, wow, you... You went under 47 and I have him. You just had 48 and you're... No, 148. No, no, 4 and a half. Oh, okay. All right, thank you, Chuck. Bye, guys. And if we gave you Chuck Todd alone, we were giving you... Giving you all you need. But we give you a monkey. Hey, you know, with Bud and Grand Tap, tap, tap, tap, and on his purple hat as she... Nigel's going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, Reginald's got the fags. How can people hate him so much? How can people? Sometimes he throws his cring. Oh, when he's had too much Johnny Walker blues. This is for Spioff. Virginia Coalition. Great to just watch the snow pile up outside. Just beautiful. Exactly. Reginald had a great week. Reginald was four and one. He's 27 and 35. He cannot get to 500, but... But he's finishing well. Yes, he's... That's what matters. Yes. That's what matters for him. He's a playoff champ. That's what matters. Yes. Okay. So, I went down to the... The National Zudicy Reginald, and it was very busy seen as it often is when I go down to see him in his flat. He was busy meeting with city officials. As the city gets ready for this big winter storm, headed towards DC. As you know, his company, Ploughchimp, has all the contracts with the city. Ploughchimp? Well, that's one of his competitors. You know, but they think they can do a better job and they've got the contracts to prove it. Of course, this is a business he formed years ago with three great friends and a rangatame named Weezy. Apparently he's a big smoker. A lemur named Tiberius and former Major League Reliever, Alpharaboscis. Okay. So, sure. That's the team. And they're going to get the streets clean. Anybody's worried about it? Ploughchimp's on the job. So, what does he like? So, the first match we gave him was on the pants, giving five and a half on the road at Denver. And Retrochemi, a very old photograph of him stomping on grapes. I guess this is an isvenured in Tuscany, making wine joined by Robert Parrish, Bill Spaceman Lee, and Victor Kaya. So, he wants New England. Yes. He wants New England. He's agrees with Chuck on that one. Okay. I mean, I don't think you can really take Denver. It's difficult, even with the points. Now, next one gave him was obviously Rams, getting two and a half at Seattle. And Retrochemi, an old photograph of him, competing in the Paris-Tout d'acar rally, one of his favorite events. Alongside Steve Garvey, Davey Loops, Bill Russell, and Bronzay. The entire infield. Yeah, well, he wanted to go with a... He wanted to go with a shorter group, but a smaller group, but you can't break up that infield. So, so for you guys, come on. They are shorter groups. They're all about five tenning down. No, they were gathered. They were great. They were great. So, we'll take two visiting two. Yes. All right. This week's picks with Chuck Todd and Reginald and the monkey have been brought to you by Fandall's sportsbook. Make every moment more. We will come back with email and jingle. I'm Tony Cornheiser. You're listening to The Tony Cornheiser Show. The Tony Cornheiser Show. cheering And if you think that's good, Remember that Ian Warrington is also an emergency room doctor. It's a medical school grad. And playing every single instrument in that. Doctor. Yeah. You want to do the Bethesda Bagel ad for us? Yes, Bethesda Bagels. We love them. You will as well. Just go to BethesdaBagels.com, forward a location in the DC area in Areshu, then pop on in, and you'll be thrilled. Before we get to the mail bag, let me just say my dog Sam eats purple flowers. We ain't got much, but we got zowers. We did snow and rain in the bright sun, shine, dragon, and last Tommy James in the shine delts. I like that song. That's all. Thanks to our guest today, Michael Wilbun, Chuck Todd and the great Kevin Shean. Thanks as well to today's sponsors. Remember you can listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Odyssey if you get to show through Apple. Please leave us a review. I want to send my thanks and condolences to Ricky Herb and Barneygut, New Jersey, for a lovely email. I appreciate that. We have an email from Mark Corrier, or Corrierian, Ellicott City, Maryland saying that Brian Polian is about to be named as the head coach at John Carroll, which is where he went to school and which is the cradle of coaches. That's fantastic. That's great. Congratulations. It was a head coach in Nevada. You know, and he worked for a long time for Brian Kelly. Yeah. No, we're happy with that. Happy with that. And I might also, my thanks and going into special pile to John Lyle. I won't say any more than that on the air, but thank you very much. The smile on your face. Oh, yeah. Very much to John Lyle. All right. This one is a long one from Jonathan in Berkeley. And he goes, can Cal be the next Indiana, please? Well, you have the guy. Yeah. You have the guy. My father was 92 years old, forged in Fort Wayne, Indiana, go pistons, educated in Indiana University in the mid 1950s, after a stint in the Army and possessed of a sporting so long condition to disappointment when it comes to Indiana football. He was born into futility, a competitive wasteland. So barren, it felt not merely cyclical, but eternal. As a younger soul, still looking at my father for sporting guidance, my most indelible memory was watching this otherwise measured man. He rubbed into something approaching religious ecstasy when Keith Smart hit the shot to win the 1987 national championship. It was the last time I saw him leave vertically without prior consultation with his knees. And one of the last times I saw him proudly drape himself in Hoosier, Crimson. Time is a tends to do as taken some of the spring from his step these days, he no longer rises with any modicum of spontaneity, no matter the circumstance. But last night, as Indiana claimed a football national championship, a sentence I never expected to write let alone believe we watched together. My older brother and I along with our children did the jumping and the hugging on his behalf. He did the smiling, the head shaking and the occasional plea for an explanation as to why the refs, through the flag exhibiting the quiet disbelief of a man who had waited his entire life for a thing he had long since stopped expecting. It was every bit as sweet as Indiana's basketball glory days. I'm not sweeter for the waiting. I am unspeakably grateful that my father lived long enough to see this day to have utility finally yield to joy. Thanks for a great show. Go Hoosier, isn't that lovely? Isn't that lovely? Yes, it is. From Steve's to Sikoffan. Dear Toby, to update a comment I made last week, the sports event of all time has occurred. Indiana's number one in college football and Nebraska is number seven in basketball. The world is coming to an end. From Andrew and L.A. who writes Admiral, I couldn't help but think of the final interception happened in last night's championship game at the end of Dan Yankees. I would have been surprised if Kurt Signetti had run off the field, never to be seen again. You played that role. You know how it goes. How old Joe, right? Leslie Thomas, Hillsboro, North Carolina. You mentioned snow, qualamy the other day and I sat up. My dad was born in snow, that's a town. I don't know it. Snow, qualamy. One was a member of the class of 1952 of the United States Naval Academy along with his classmates, Jim Stafford, Jim Lovell-Don, and Edward Gibbons, all astronauts. Many thanks for letting me join in from Travis and Austin. I don't know any astronauts. I thought you'd like to know. I don't either. A Warren Francis in effort, Pennsylvania, me and my wife booked a meet and greet with an astronaut at Kennedy Space Center for our grandsons. Our younger grandson was totally expecting an astronaut in training or a plebe, in walks north, they guard. One of the most, I hope I pronounced that correctly, they guard a thagart. One of the most decorated astronauts. He couldn't have been more down to earth. We then proceeded to pick up our grandsons, Joe off the floor. Alex Lough, New York City. Does every listener to the show, besides me, know an astronaut? I must be running with a wrong crowd. Then again, I was always more of a science for English, major type than the AP Physics type. I guess tell every astronaut to eat it for me by making me look bad for not having introduced themselves to me. I never met one. And Jason Bullitt, Saratoga County, New York, Chuck and Roxy, 31, dear Captain Potato Farmer, since the newest trend in the mail beg these days is running with astronauts, I would like to up the ante and recall when two Russian cosmonauts, not astronauts, spoke at our high school. During my sophomore year at Saratoga Springs High School, two Russians named Evgeny Krunov and Vasily Yeleseev visited us and fielded questions from the audience. Both cosmonauts participated in the Soyuz-5 mission. The first were in two spacecrafts, were docked together and each ship's crew went into the other. Wow, the other crafting question being Soyuz-4, that's amazing. That is incredible. That's just amazing. From Kenny Smith, formerly from Front Royal, now in Colorado Springs, not sure if you're still playing, have you met the astronaut? Can we have to stop playing? But I did too. The most recent astronaut I know is Scott Kid Potit, who was part of the first all civilian human spaceflight mission to Polaris, Dawn, Scott and I flew F-16s together in the United States Air Force. Scott is an Air Force weapons school graduate, think top-gun as well as a former Thunderbird pilot. Simply stated, Scott is one of the finest humans I've ever known. The second astronaut I've met is none other than Buzz Aldrin. That Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, I was fortunate to meet him when station in Korea in 2007, while US forces Korea was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the US Air Force, the command decided to fly out a bunch of US Air Force Korean war fighter pilot veterans, and I was one of the lead coordinators. Along with Buzz, I should say Colonel Aldrin, of Gnottees, since spring promoted to honorary Brigadier General, we had eight other Korean war fighter pilots to include three Korean war races. We spent more time talking about fighter pilot things than this time as an astronaut, and nonetheless our team and I enjoyed every minute of it. It was a once in a lifetime experience. That's great. Colonel Mike from North Hero Vermont, Mike Colburn. I realize I'm late to the astronaut game, but just in case you're still accepting entries, one of the most cherished summer traditions in DC is the Friday evening parade ceremony that happens weekly at the Marine Barracks, 8th and I, the oldest post in the Marine Corps. It's an event built around a traditional military pass and review and features a ceremonial musical elements of the barracks, including the celebrated silent drill platoon. While the Marine Band is an element of these programs, we're hardly the stars of the show. So I was somewhat surprised to learn that John Glennon was the guest of honor at one of these parades in the early 2000s, had requested to meet with Marine Band leadership before the event. It turned out Senator Glennon served in the Marine Corps before he became an astronaut. How do you need Giffross? A Marine Band CD he brought with him and listened to on his space shuttle mission in 1998. He told us he knew we had plenty of Marine Band recordings, but suspected we didn't have any that had circled the earth in orbit. By the way, do you know who John Glenn's wingman was when he flew combat missions in Korea? Ted Williams. Ted Williams. Charlie Bird, Springfield, Virginia. I have a twist on the astronaut game. I haven't just met one. I've taught one. 25 years ago, Andre Douglas was a freshman in the high school band I directed and Chesapeake Virginia. He's now an American Systems Engineer, Coast Guard Reserve Officer in a NASA astronaut currently serving as a backup crew member for the upcoming Artemis II mission. You can only imagine how incredibly proud of him we all are and how hopeful we are. He'll get to space soon. I'm suggesting he have a RFK junior slipping case to the measles to one of the current flight crew, Al-Akevan Bacon and Gary Sinese. Patrick Chen-Cio or Vincent C. L. Loral, Maryland, when I hear stories about your customer service experience, I'm dumbfounded how there is a lack of customer service these days. I want to go full sunny on the representatives you deal with. They should sleep with the fishes. How often do you stop payments on your checks? The customer service rep should have looked at your history. Never is the correct answer of stop payments in your relationship with your bank. They could have offered as a courtesy to wave that stop payment fee. As an employee of a credit union, I have reviewed my customer's history and I would note the account to justify why I waived a fee. It's too bad that customer service reps cannot go that extra mile for their customers. It's not like you went mo green on them. Do you know who I am? They should have said Mr. Corners, I see you've been with us for so long. This is your first stop payment. I'll waive that fee for you. I suggest either to go into your local bank or risk calling their customer service and ask for a courtesy waiver that stop payment fee. If the position has not already been taken, might be the official customer service consular that comes a year ago. Yes. I want to pronounce that form. Consular. Yeah, I'll pronounce it wrong. After 40 years, California is about to exhaust its license plate numbering system. Nine ZZZ999 will be the last before they transition to a 00AAA1 format. Where do you rank those among desirable numbers? I recently saw a 9V plate. Lechisserie from a West Coast little words, 8 degrees last weekend. In your ancestors for picking the cold air. Are you more of an evener odds guy for license plates? Odd. Odd. And you like to see it, you repeats or doubling the triples. I like to see completely different in order. Like I would like 1,357 or something like 2,468, you know, anything like that is great. Yeah, odd or even, but odd has, you know, just looks better on it. A little sharper. Yeah, like yes, I do. You know, but I could go the other way. Brett Bossy or Bocey and Lee New Hampshire, you mentioned in Monday's mail bag that one of your friends is a novelist. Does he dabble in real estate? Does he get you your drinks for free? Is he quick with a joke? Will he light up your smoke or is there some place that he'd rather be? It's brilliant. If you're on your bike tonight, as always, do wear white. Who made the AAA silent sandwiches? Good. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. 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