Best Man Speech Podcast (Ep3) - plus taking the MARTA with Urban Meyer at Super Bowl 53

Tony Frangie - living the dream at Super Bowl 53 plus Best man Podcast 

Start with how you acquired the tickets

Urban Meyer on the MARTA

The reemergence of Todd Flaman 

What were the highlights of pre-Super Bowl?

What were the highlights of the Super Bowl itself and Mercedes-Benz Arena? 

Highlights of Post-Super Bowl?

How was the ride back to Charlotte and Flight back to Boston? 

Did you go to Parade?

Best Man Story — your brother did what on the lawn? 

Started a band at age 40

People and teams the patriots usually avoid en route to Super Bowl titles 

Tom Coughlin - obvious!  plus Jags almost winning AFC threw wrench in Pats mojo before SB 52

Eli Manning - obvious 

Peyton Manning - On way to Super Bowl 50 and 48 with Denver and super bowl 41 with Colts 

The Ravens - bounced pats a couple times 

The Broncos in Denver - even before Peyton got there 

Tom Brady is the GOAT

Tom Brady is the GOAT 

The debate is over. Only take - Peyton Manning was close and he came in with more raw talent and an unbelievable work ethic. But, Brady’s competitiveness drove him to work as hard as Manning. It’s like Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. They drove each other. 

But the crazy thing is Brady is getting 2 different careers: Brady and Manning were like Larry and Magic — the two of them cost each other at least 2 more championships each.

No Tom Brady and Peyton Manning probably wins 4 and goes to 7 super bowls.

No Peyton Manning and Tom Brady probably wins 7 and goes to 11 super bowls.

But, Brady somehow extended his career, and with manning gone he’s more like Michael Jordan — basically peerless, and more competitive and more experienced than anybody left standing. 

Did you ever have a doubt last night about Pats winning in Kansas City? 

Where does this AFC title win rank amongst the other 8 of the Brady / Billy B era?

Do you really think Patriots by a million for Super Bowl 53 pick? 

Are we going to Atlanta? 

What if anything would you have to say to Philadelphia Eagles lineman and Patriots Troll, Lane Johnson?

what’s the mood in Boston right now? 

What’s the Super Bowled theme t-shirt going to be this year - it was “Squish the Fish” in 1986 - is it gonna be “Slam the Rams”? goodness I hope so!

LA and Boston squaring off for 2 world titles in 2 different sports in like a 4 month window — and the Celtics are Lakers aren’t involved  

Crazy KC Chiefs fan/neighbor update

rematch of the Super Bowl that started it all: Rams vs Patriots 

A couple of weeks ago we said that the teams we’d like to see in the Super Bowl ranked most to least:

Patriots 

Chargers (tortured base, that was just abandoned)

Chiefs (officially a tortured fan base)

Saints (starting to become a tortured fan base) - and for decades they were before Brees ad Payton showed up

Rams (abandoned their fan base, but also returned to their original home, so I feel like their mojo is just getting started) — Several parallels to the 2001 Patriots 

3 way tie for last Cowboys, Colts, & Eagles. 

Patriots 10 super bowls - played Bears, Packers, Rams, Panthers, Eagles, Giants x2, Seahawks, Falcons, Eagles (0-2 vs NFC north, 2-0 vs NFC South, 1-3 vs NFC east, 2-0 vs NFC west) 

This is the Patriots 11th Super Bowl - And they’ll be playing a team from the NFC west 

You know who the forgotten victims of this Super Bowl are… former St. Louis Rams fans 

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Lipscomb, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Peyton Manning and Izmir Turkey - Freestyle Mashup

What’s w people saying you’re fine when you say “excuse me”.  I think Fine is an weird word. 

Izmir Turkey most listens this week - love it. Izmir seems fantastic btw (like as a place in the world)

Ashburn, VA creeping back into listening charts 

Turkey as a nation wins the week, Brighton, Australia is the 3rd place city- it’s on the outskirts of Melbourne / UK is the 3rd place country and Redcar England up by Newcastle has emerged with some serious listeners as well

Props to Norway, Chile, India, Romania, Kazakhstan and Sweden for listening

Litter pick up on exit 28 at 8:45am on a Friday. you can’t wait til 9:30 for that crap ?!?

Best thing about papa johns ditching the nfl is the dramatic lessening of Peyton Manning appearing with papa johns founder John Schnatter 

Also, Pizza Hut slicing into the official pizza of the nfl within about 15 minutes of papa johns vacating it - shows you how strong the nfl brand is

Stock market has taken a dive recently and tariffs on aluminum and steel are a major factor thus far. 

This is where being a populist America first leader veers wildly from many republicans- you mess with their money- that’s a problem. Greed is a much stronger factor than xenophobia- rich Americans want to stay rich

Basketball sneakers that look like timberland work boots - dude on Purdue wore em today. I’m at once in favor of the look and also think it looks kind of whack simultaneously

Lots of basketball - it’s championship week

congrats to Lipscomb on their first ever Big Dance

you know when the ball gets wedged in between the basket and the backboard, and the game awkwardly stops. Instead of going to the possession arrow — it should either be worth 1 points. cuz it’s actually harder to do than put it in the basket. And you can’t “dunk” the ball into the wedged position, it’s got to be a shot and an unblocked / tipped/ defected shot at that. You might be saying, Gavin... Actually, it should be worth negative 1 point — if you put up a shot and miss, so be it, but if you hoist a shot and the game has to stop because of your miss — you lose a point. Either way, it would make basketball have an added wrinkle. 

I’ll put up a poll and we’ll see what people think