TNI: Thursday Night Importance | TNF Memories With Tony Gonzalez | Defending the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: It’s time for Thursday Night Football as the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs will entertain a Big Division game against the Denver Broncos,

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Speaker 1: looking for a sixteenth consecutive victory over their arrival that

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Speaker 1: dates back to nineteen sixty. On this show, we will

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Speaker 1: talk about the importance of these Thursday Night games down

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Speaker 1: through the years, and no better person to have on

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Speaker 1: the show than Pro Football Hall of Famer and Chiefs

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Speaker 1: Ring of Honor member tight end Tony Gonzalez. It’s all

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Ticketmaster thirteen thirteen. Tie, third down

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Speaker 1: and go to go for Mahomes and the Chiefs at

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Speaker 1: the eight yard land of the Vikings rush to the

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Speaker 1: Hiroshi Rice with this second catch of the drift. The

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Speaker 1: wide receivers show up big time. And Hi everyone. I’m

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Speaker 1: Mitch Holt’s voice to the Chiefs along with senior team

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Speaker 1: reporter Matt McMullen. Thursday Night Football, short week. Tough on

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Speaker 1: the players, tough on teams, tough on the coaches. But

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Speaker 1: here we are and this edition will be called TNI,

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Speaker 1: not TM. I like too much information, but T and

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Speaker 1: I Thursday Night importance because it’ll stun you when you

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Speaker 1: travel back in time and see how many Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: games have actually dictated what happened throughout the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season. So interesting. But before we do so, let’s

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Speaker 1: do our Thursday Night edition of Traveling around the World.

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Speaker 2: Yep, we got six of them today. Brian Cook who

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Speaker 2: had a nice game on Sunday against the Vikings, and

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Speaker 2: I’m still buzzing about his open field tackle on Breeze

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Speaker 2: beat the Jets. So six people around the world today.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to Charles at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

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Speaker 2: I met Charles when I went over to Germany in

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Speaker 2: May for kind of like a going out to Frankfurt

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Speaker 2: to meet German fans and to also visit our men

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Speaker 2: to you. We’ll see you in about a month in Frankfurt.

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Speaker 2: Candy in Orlando. Candy recently became a fan, so welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Chiefs Kingdom. Candy, thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 2: Keith is in Virgil City, Missouri. You familiar with Verdion.

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Speaker 1: I’m not familiar with Virgil City. But I love it

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Speaker 1: when we dig these out because I immediately become familiar

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Speaker 3: You’ll drive by it in like twenty years and go,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, Virgil City. I remember Matt mentioned man Pat

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Speaker 3: is in Awaso, Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it’s Tulsa.

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Speaker 3: Yep, just north of Tulsa.

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Speaker 2: And then a shout out to Bo and Reid’s Spring,

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, you know Reid Spring.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Bo will be at Thursday Night Football with

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Speaker 2: his wife.

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Speaker 1: Hotbed Chiefs Kingdom Hotbed, Reid Spring.

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Speaker 3: I believe it.

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Speaker 2: Then lastly, shout out to Hayden. I met Hayden in

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Speaker 2: person at Octoberfest in the Crown Center area last weekend.

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Speaker 2: I was walking around with my wife and Hayden came

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Speaker 2: up and said hi and said he loves the show.

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Speaker 3: So shout out to you, Hayden. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: Awesome Thursday night football.

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Speaker 3: Here we are.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, congratulations at getting your lawn mode.

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Speaker 1: We were listening to the Chiefs Kingdom show while you

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Speaker 1: got your lawn mood. That’s great. It’s Thursday night football

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Speaker 1: because you’ve got to get so much done and including

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Speaker 1: mowing your lawn right for your Bronco father in law

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Speaker 1: who’s coming to visit. That’s big now, but everything’s condensed.

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football is tough. It’s tough on players, it’s

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Speaker 1: tough on coaches. There really is not enough recovery time.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs just had a tough game against the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: We know about Kelsey’s injury. We’ve seen the injury port

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Speaker 1: this week, but to get this turned around, and it’s

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Speaker 1: also very tough, maybe especially tough on the Broncos who

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Speaker 1: lose a day. Essentially they need three or four days,

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Speaker 1: both teams do, but to lose a day when you

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Speaker 1: travel on Thursday night football is really a challenge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you trunkate basically five or six days into like

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Speaker 3: It applies to us too.

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Speaker 2: That’s why I was mowing my lawn on a Monday

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Speaker 2: night because in the dark, in the dark, yes, well,

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Speaker 2: I listened to Mitch doing The Kingdom Show while mowing

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Speaker 2: and made it go by.

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Speaker 1: He gave you a shout out, the crowd roared, and

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Speaker 1: one fan even goes, I love him. So you just

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Speaker 1: have this awesome following around the world and with the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom Show folks that were live listening to Mark

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Speaker 1: Collins actually on the show, but while you were mowing. Again. Tough.

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Speaker 1: But when you look back at these Thursday night games,

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Speaker 1: and that’s why this episode will be we’re going to

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Speaker 1: title it t NI, that is Thursday Night Importance And

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Speaker 1: we’re gonna have Tony Gonzales on here in just a

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Speaker 1: few minutes, and so awesome to have him on the show.

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Speaker 1: You think about what a career he had. He really

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Speaker 1: redefined the tight end position. Now we’ve seen Kelsey do

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Speaker 1: that made the tight end become something way different than

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Speaker 1: the league had really viewed it prior to Tony.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should ask Tony about that because we think

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Speaker 2: about the tight end position is now it’s essentially an

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Speaker 3: It’s like a hybrid wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: Every team seems to have their guy who’s their really

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Speaker 2: like I could go on and on. There are so

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Speaker 2: many good tight ends in the NFL nowadays. You didn’t

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Speaker 2: see players like that twenty years ago. Tony Gonzalez was

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Speaker 2: the guy, and he really led the way for what

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Speaker 2: we know tight ends are in today’s game for.

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Speaker 1: Sure, and he became kind of the first college basketball

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Speaker 1: I know college basketball anymore. I did it for years, right,

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Speaker 1: but our scouts would say, hey, when you’re out there,

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Speaker 1: look for a guy, right, maybe the next college basketball

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Speaker 1: tight end guy. But Tony really started that and there

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Speaker 1: have been a mini down through the years. But we’re

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Speaker 1: going to bring up some very important Thursday Night games

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Speaker 1: when you look at it in context of Chiefs Kingdom history,

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Speaker 1: and the first one will involve Tony Gonzalez because it

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Speaker 1: was a dream of our founder, Lamar Hunt to host

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Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving game, and he had worked with the league.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Detroit always has that early game, Dallas has

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Speaker 1: the next game. But Lamar Hunt was trying to get

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Speaker 1: the league to have a Thursday night Thanksgiving game. He

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Speaker 1: got it. It was on November twenty third, two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six, ironically, against the Denver Broncos, and it was

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Speaker 1: a nineteen to ten victory. But it was a big

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Speaker 1: night for mister Hunt. Unfortunately, twenty days later we would

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Speaker 1: lose Lamar Hunt in his battle against cancer. But to

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Speaker 1: Night Football has become. But that night was the alpha point,

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Speaker 1: the start of what we know now as Thursday Night Football.

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Speaker 2: I was at that game as a fan with my dad.

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Speaker 2: I’ll never forget it. It was so cold, but I

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Speaker 2: had my brand new Jared Allen jersey on and I’m

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Speaker 2: brand new Jared Allen jersey. And that was a huge

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Speaker 2: win for the Chiefs. Looking back at those years of

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Speaker 2: the rivalry, it seemed like every year they might get

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Speaker 2: in Kansas City and they were always tough games that

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Speaker 2: happened in the cold. But some of my best early

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Speaker 2: memories as a Chiefs fan were Chiefs Bronco games. I

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Speaker 1: Larry Johnson only had thirty four carries in that game

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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs as they wanted nineteen to ten.

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Speaker 3: One different game right there.

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Speaker 1: One fun note, though, one fun note, the Chiefs leading

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Speaker 1: defensive back in the game Ty Law had an interception

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Speaker 1: was Patrick Certans playing in the secondary for the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs and now his son, of course, Patrick in

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Speaker 1: the second is one of the top corners in the

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Speaker 1: NFL and he plays for the Denver Broncos, who will

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Speaker 1: be here on this Thursday Night game. Before we talked

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Speaker 1: to Tony g though, we’re going to try to cover

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Speaker 1: some of the important Thursday Night games in Chiefs history

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Speaker 1: prior to Patrick Mahomes and then TG we’ll have a

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Speaker 1: chat with him and then once TG we let him

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Speaker 1: go to get ready for the Thursday Night game because

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Speaker 1: he’ll be part of the coverage of that is we’ll

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Speaker 1: go into the Patrick era of Thursday Night football. But

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Speaker 1: there were some other huge games that really led to

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Speaker 1: that were just important points for the season that led

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Speaker 1: to something greater, including a trip to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let’s talk about the game in twenty thirteen. It

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Speaker 2: was Coach Reed’s first Thursday Night er as the head

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Speaker 2: coach of the Chiefs and it was a big one

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Speaker 2: considering he was going back to Philadelphia to take on

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Speaker 2: the Eagles.

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Speaker 3: They had Chip Kelly.

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Speaker 2: They’re gonna revolutionize the game, right, Well, what did Coach

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Speaker 2: Reed do? He goes in there and beats him. That

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Speaker 2: Really brought life back to the Chiefs kingdom that early

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Speaker 2: part of the season. Did I remember being at Miszoo

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Speaker 2: and just proudly wearing my Chiefs jersey around all the time,

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Speaker 2: like we are back baby, And that game was part

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Speaker 2: of it. Twenty six to sixteen victory. Eric Barry had

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Speaker 2: that pick six early in the game. Great play, Donnie

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Speaker 2: Avery had seven catches for one hundred and forty one yards.

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Speaker 2: Awesome game for the Chiefs and awesome moment for Coach

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Speaker 2: Reed to go back to Philadelphia and get the dub.

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Speaker 1: I just reamed member the faces of the guys getting

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Speaker 1: on the plane because the whole short week and now

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Speaker 1: we’re on the road, so we’re dealing with a Thursday

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Speaker 1: night road game with a distance. Now we’re going all

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Speaker 1: the way to Philadelphia. It was early in the year,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn’t everybody’s beat up, but still it was

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Speaker 1: this Everybody got on the plane with basically forty eight

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Speaker 1: going there to lose. We were not going to lose

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Speaker 1: that game. Taking kochried back to Philadelphia and that’s the

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Speaker 1: way it went. Twenty fourteen was interesting. You talk about

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Speaker 1: Eric Berry. That game reminds me of, well, not a

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Speaker 1: good memory. Latavius Murray had a nine yard run for

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Chiefs lose that Thursday night game on the road,

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Speaker 1: But that’s the night right after the game where Eric

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Speaker 1: Barry was diagnosed with his non Hodgkins lymphoma and of

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Speaker 1: course changed everything for him in his career, although he

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Speaker 1: came back, but still I remember him just like something

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Speaker 1: was wrong. I just saw in that Murray run like, wow,

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Speaker 2: That Tyreek punt return still gives me chills, like one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I’ve said this before. He’s a dolphin. He only

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Speaker 4: No probad all, Mitch. You know I love hanging out

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Speaker 4: I’m still connected to that community. But to see people

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Speaker 1: Well, you’re gonna be covering this Thursday night game with

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Speaker 5: I don’t know, it’s just weird though that they’re a

423
00:20:05,400 –> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 5: running football team slash defensive football team right now.

424
00:20:08,720 –> 00:20:10,439
Speaker 4: But you know that’s not going to happen last for

425
00:20:10,480 –> 00:20:11,119
Speaker 4: too much longer.

426
00:20:11,760 –> 00:20:14,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Isaiah is averaging almost five yards per carry right now.

427
00:20:14,760 –> 00:20:17,120
Speaker 2: There’s having a really nice start to his season. I’m

428
00:20:17,160 –> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 2: curious for you when you look at this matchup, what

429
00:20:19,080 –> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 2: are some keys do you think for the Chiefs offense

430
00:20:21,160 –> 00:20:23,400
Speaker 2: to really get going against this Denver defense?

431
00:20:24,000 –> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 5: Well, this Denver defense is it’s to put it, to

432
00:20:29,040 –> 00:20:32,400
Speaker 5: put it politely, they’re not very good. They are one

433
00:20:32,400 –> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 5: of the worst defenses in history right now going on

434
00:20:35,680 –> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 5: that right now, at this point, they cannot stop the run.

435
00:20:38,440 –> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 5: So if the Chiefs want to, they could probably go

436
00:20:40,560 –> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 5: out there and just give it to Isaiah, you know,

437
00:20:42,520 –> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 5: give it to them thirty times and he’ll run for.

438
00:20:44,960 –> 00:20:48,239
Speaker 4: You know, one hundred and eighty yards if you wanted to.

439
00:20:48,840 –> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 5: But I look at the defense, I mean offensively, I

440
00:20:51,640 –> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 5: think the defense is going to show up against Russell Wilson.

441
00:20:55,040 –> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 5: But offensively, that’s what I think they need to work on.

442
00:20:58,440 –> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 5: Kind of like when they played against Chicago team that

443
00:21:00,400 –> 00:21:01,800
Speaker 5: they should have beat, and they went out there and

444
00:21:01,800 –> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 5: beat them put forty one points. I think it was.

445
00:21:04,359 –> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 5: I’d like to see this this offense get going. I

446
00:21:06,560 –> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 5: want to see these guys create some confidence. Going back

447
00:21:10,000 –> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 5: to the drop balls, that’s that’s just that’s just a

448
00:21:13,600 –> 00:21:16,160
Speaker 5: confidence thing. These guys get there, pro they’re pro athletes.

449
00:21:16,200 –> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 5: They can catch the football, but create that separation, start

450
00:21:19,840 –> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 5: to believe in yourself. And there’s no better way to

451
00:21:23,200 –> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 5: do that than going against, you know, an an inferior opponent.

452
00:21:26,359 –> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 5: Call it what it is, but never you know, but

453
00:21:28,600 –> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 5: don’t take it too lightly. Obviously, this is pro football.

454
00:21:30,800 –> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 5: Anything can happen. And so I’m looking forward to seeing

455
00:21:33,320 –> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 5: that that offensive game kind of kind of get going

456
00:21:36,160 –> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 5: and get back.

457
00:21:37,160 –> 00:21:37,719
Speaker 4: To where it was.

458
00:21:38,720 –> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, worked out for you one hundred and eleven touchdowns,

459
00:21:41,200 –> 00:21:43,600
Speaker 1: because I think you got to figure it out. But

460
00:21:43,640 –> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about something because Matt and

461
00:21:45,160 –> 00:21:47,880
Speaker 1: I are talking about the challenges of playing on Thursday

462
00:21:47,960 –> 00:21:50,119
Speaker 1: night when you have a short week, and then I

463
00:21:50,160 –> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 1: want to ask you to go back in time because

464
00:21:52,240 –> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 1: really the first Thursday night game, as we think about

465
00:21:54,920 –> 00:21:57,440
Speaker 1: it now, you played in it. It was the Chiefs

466
00:21:57,440 –> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 1: against the Broncos on that Thanksgiving Thursday and twothdayan and six.

467
00:22:01,200 –> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: But to play on Thursday night and then what memories

468
00:22:04,000 –> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: do you have of playing in that Thursday night game?

469
00:22:07,240 –> 00:22:11,199
Speaker 5: Well, I it’s hard, uh, And I think that the

470
00:22:11,280 –> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 5: Thursday night football game, you got to be really ready

471
00:22:16,080 –> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 5: emotionally and mentally because and that’ll help you physically. Some

472
00:22:20,800 –> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 5: guys have a hard time with it, but it is

473
00:22:23,040 –> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 5: what it is. It’s it’s it’s what the NFL wants.

474
00:22:25,720 –> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 5: It’s prime time. Everybody’s watching, so you got to bring it.

475
00:22:30,000 –> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 5: I don’t no excuses. I know your body’s hurting, it’s

476
00:22:32,880 –> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 5: a shorter week, but make it happen and.

477
00:22:36,800 –> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 4: Play it.

478
00:22:37,160 –> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 5: In that first game like we’re part of history now.

479
00:22:41,359 –> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 5: It was different Thanksgiving, so I knew, hey, go out there,

480
00:22:43,960 –> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 5: let’s let’s let’s play hard and then go home and

481
00:22:45,920 –> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 5: get some kneat.

482
00:22:46,640 –> 00:22:50,199
Speaker 4: Let’s go, let’s go go. So that was it was

483
00:22:50,200 –> 00:22:52,200
Speaker 4: a fun I can’t remember we won a lost though

484
00:22:52,359 –> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 4: I know.

485
00:22:52,640 –> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: You probably nineteen to ten. LJ had thirty four carries

486
00:22:56,119 –> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 1: in that game.

487
00:22:57,359 –> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 4: Well he deserved a big old turkey stick for that. Then, good.

488
00:23:02,240 –> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 3: Tony.

489
00:23:02,600 –> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 2: When you think about coming back here to Kansas City

490
00:23:05,400 –> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 2: for this Thursday night game, you’ll of course be part

491
00:23:07,680 –> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 2: of the broadcast. You were here in Kansas City last

492
00:23:10,200 –> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 2: year for the Thursday night game. What’s it mean to

493
00:23:12,440 –> 00:23:14,360
Speaker 2: you when you come back to Kansas City. You feel

494
00:23:14,400 –> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 2: the love from the crowd, You see your name up

495
00:23:16,080 –> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 2: there in the Ring of Honor, and you kind of

496
00:23:17,840 –> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 2: remember all your great times here.

497
00:23:19,800 –> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, it’s coming home.

498
00:23:21,240 –> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 5: It’s coming home to see everybody, to see where it

499
00:23:24,400 –> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 5: all started for me to see, you know, the memories

500
00:23:29,520 –> 00:23:32,120
Speaker 5: that come back. I was just talking about this previously

501
00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 5: before I was talking to you guys. I remember playing

502
00:23:34,400 –> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 5: against the Broncos in that playoff game in nineteen ninety

503
00:23:38,400 –> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 5: seven that we lost fourteen to ten.

504
00:23:41,280 –> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 4: But my spoon are producers sitting over me. He’s like, hey,

505
00:23:46,040 –> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 4: do you remember this game?

506
00:23:46,840 –> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 5: And it was the first time that I ever dunked

507
00:23:48,440 –> 00:23:51,119
Speaker 5: the ball over the gold post in the playoffs. So

508
00:23:51,160 –> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 5: you like, all these all these memories come back. It’s

509
00:23:54,440 –> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 5: like going back to where you grew up when you

510
00:23:56,240 –> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 5: were a kid, fulled.

511
00:23:57,840 –> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 4: With nostalgia and love, appreciation and heartache too.

512
00:24:02,760 –> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 5: I mean, we didn’t get it done while we were

513
00:24:04,400 –> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 5: out there, so it’s a it’s I’m but I’m so

514
00:24:07,160 –> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 5: happy to be able to come home in these circumstances

515
00:24:09,200 –> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 5: where you’re watching a successful team. I’ve always said it,

516
00:24:12,359 –> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 5: I’m not I’m along for the ride with him. I

517
00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 5: feel like I’m along for the ride. It’s not me

518
00:24:16,680 –> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 5: driving or anything like that. But it’s so much fun

519
00:24:19,200 –> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 5: to watch these watch these guys have so much success.

520
00:24:21,800 –> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 4: It’s been great TG.

521
00:24:24,040 –> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: I’ve often said after Super Bowl fifty four and fifty

522
00:24:26,440 –> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: seven that everybody that ever wore the uniform would feel

523
00:24:28,800 –> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 1: that victory, and I sense you felt that. But we’re

524
00:24:31,359 –> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 1: going to close this out and ask a question because

525
00:24:33,160 –> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: you’re talking about Thursday night football, no excuses. You got

526
00:24:35,440 –> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: to get ready, and Matt I will tell you this

527
00:24:38,359 –> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: young man was the first I’d ever seen. He was

528
00:24:40,600 –> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: ahead of his time in the way he prepared to

529
00:24:43,480 –> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: play physically, mentally, emotionally, your nutrition, your work habits. It

530
00:24:48,119 –> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 1: blew me away. I remember you know we had that

531
00:24:50,320 –> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: serial bar. You’d be in there like working out. It

532
00:24:53,480 –> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: was crazy to see what it takes now to play

533
00:24:59,240 –> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: in this game. And then to another question as we close,

534
00:25:02,160 –> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: you really redefined the position. We know what Titan is today.

535
00:25:05,960 –> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: We’ve seen what Kelse has been able to do, but

536
00:25:08,600 –> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: you were really the first to do what we see

537
00:25:11,040 –> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 1: today on a regular basis. How do you feel when

538
00:25:13,880 –> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: you hear that and to the fact that you were

539
00:25:16,400 –> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: way ahead of everybody else in the way you prepared physically, mentally,

540
00:25:19,560 –> 00:25:20,160
Speaker 1: and emotionally.

541
00:25:20,880 –> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 5: Well, I I look thank you for saying that. I

542
00:25:26,280 –> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 5: once again I was watching that tape of the playoff

543
00:25:29,240 –> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 5: game and it didn’t count. But right before halftime, they

544
00:25:33,119 –> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 5: split me out wide and threw me a fade route

545
00:25:36,240 –> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 5: to the back of the end zone and I caught it,

546
00:25:38,720 –> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 5: and I thought I scored a touchdown, but they called it.

547
00:25:40,680 –> 00:25:41,239
Speaker 4: They called it back.

548
00:25:41,320 –> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 5: But just doing something like that, that was that had

549
00:25:45,040 –> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 5: never been done before. And so I think Paul Hackett

550
00:25:48,720 –> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 5: was an opposive coordinator, and I credit people like him

551
00:25:51,520 –> 00:25:55,239
Speaker 5: and Jimmy Ray to use me in a way that

552
00:25:55,359 –> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 5: wasn’t traditional, like you put your hand in the dirt,

553
00:25:58,000 –> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 5: which I’m a big believer that, Well maybe it’s a

554
00:26:00,000 –> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 5: evolving away from that now.

555
00:26:01,080 –> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 4: For some tight ends, but you put your hand in there,

556
00:26:03,640 –> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 4: you block.

557
00:26:04,280 –> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 5: But then for them to use me in the slot,

558
00:26:06,600 –> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 5: to use me as the X, the Y, the Z,

559
00:26:09,600 –> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 5: the F and the backfield all these different ways, I

560
00:26:14,000 –> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 5: credit them for trusting me to be able to do that,

561
00:26:16,720 –> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 5: because that’s that’s what you see a lot of these

562
00:26:18,560 –> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 5: receiving tight ends do now, I mean, And so I

563
00:26:21,640 –> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 5: take a lot of pride in that, and then i’m

564
00:26:23,640 –> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 5: you know, I’m satisfaction about about doing something like that,

565
00:26:27,520 –> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 5: and it helped me a lot to catch a lot

566
00:26:29,080 –> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 5: of football because it’s so much fun to catch footballs

567
00:26:31,280 –> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 5: instead of blocking power all the time. And then the

568
00:26:34,600 –> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 5: nutrition stuff. I got really into that really right around

569
00:26:39,119 –> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 5: year nine ten. That’s when it really kicked in for me, Like,

570
00:26:42,520 –> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 5: you better get your sleep. That’s the number one performance

571
00:26:45,320 –> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 5: enhancing thing you could do. Legally, You better you know,

572
00:26:49,960 –> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 5: be conscious of what you’re putting in your body, hydrate right.

573
00:26:53,240 –> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 5: And then emotionally too, like you know, the whole meditation

574
00:26:56,520 –> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 5: or visualization, like really start to see yourself having the

575
00:26:59,440 –> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 5: success and put that work in that constant, constant grind.

576
00:27:03,359 –> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 4: Take it home with you.

577
00:27:04,640 –> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 5: You know, it’s not about doing it at practice, showing

578
00:27:07,280 –> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 5: up for that two and a half hour practice and

579
00:27:09,440 –> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 5: then shutting off for the rest of the day. It’s

580
00:27:11,040 –> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 5: like you got to take it home with you and

581
00:27:12,680 –> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 5: think about how you can get better. You have to

582
00:27:14,160 –> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 5: be obsessed with this, And so that was something that

583
00:27:16,640 –> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 5: I took a lot of pride in. I did that

584
00:27:18,160 –> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 5: until until they you know, until I retired from the

585
00:27:21,040 –> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 5: league year after year seventeen. So when I look back,

586
00:27:24,480 –> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 5: I’m pretty I’m satisfied. I know I couldn’t have given more,

587
00:27:27,840 –> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 5: and I think that’s that’s what any player wants to do.

588
00:27:30,200 –> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 5: But at the end of your career you want to

589
00:27:31,920 –> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 5: look back and say, hell, I gave it everything I

590
00:27:34,600 –> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 5: got and if it didn’t turn out to a super

591
00:27:37,960 –> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 5: Bowl victory, like for me, I still take a lot

592
00:27:40,760 –> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 5: of satisfaction and I don’t feel like anything was lacking.

593
00:27:44,920 –> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 5: I would have loved to have won a super Bowl,

594
00:27:46,440 –> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 5: but just didn’t turn out that way from me. So

595
00:27:48,480 –> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 5: but I’m still very, very glad for the way my

596
00:27:51,119 –> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 5: career went.

597
00:27:52,200 –> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 3: And Mitch before we let him go.

598
00:27:53,359 –> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: One more thing because you still have that mentality now

599
00:27:56,320 –> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 2: as a broadcaster. I mean, you had an incredible career

600
00:27:58,640 –> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: obviously as a player of a Hall of Fame career,

601
00:28:00,480 –> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 2: but you’re having an incredible secondary career now as a broadcaster.

602
00:28:04,200 –> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: Tell us about your time as a broadcaster and what

603
00:28:06,280 –> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 2: you’re doing now on Thursday Night Football.

604
00:28:08,560 –> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it. I’m working.

605
00:28:10,720 –> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 5: I’ve sually I’ve been doing going on ten years now,

606
00:28:12,640 –> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 5: which is crazy that it’s gone by that fast. And

607
00:28:15,480 –> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 5: I’ve worked at some incredible places, got to see some

608
00:28:18,320 –> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 5: of the best of the best do it and what

609
00:28:20,440 –> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 5: we have now with with Carissa Thompson, with Ryan Fitzpatrick,

610
00:28:25,200 –> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 5: with Andrew Whitworth and Richard Sherman. It’s we have the

611
00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 5: most fun ever. The chemistry is there because we actually

612
00:28:34,880 –> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 5: like each other. So we love going to work, which

613
00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 5: is a good team indicative of a good team. But

614
00:28:39,760 –> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 5: being there at the game, well, you know, on the

615
00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 5: sideline before the game, giving everybody hugs. I can’t wait

616
00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 5: to see you Mitch on the field. I can’t wait

617
00:28:47,200 –> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 5: to see Travis out there, you know, Salo to Andy

618
00:28:50,200 –> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 5: if he’s walking around like Alan Wright. Like you said,

619
00:28:52,920 –> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 5: you get to do that at each stadium each week.

620
00:28:54,960 –> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 5: It’s like a traveling circus for us. And then after

621
00:28:57,760 –> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 5: the game we go out and we have fun. It

622
00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 5: really is one of the best gigs. I’m thankful for it,

623
00:29:04,280 –> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 5: and people are loving it now. I mean the streaming service,

624
00:29:07,680 –> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 5: we got all the alt streams and all that stuff.

625
00:29:09,760 –> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 5: I think we’re kind of moving in the new territory

626
00:29:12,160 –> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 5: on how you view football, and I’m glad to be

627
00:29:14,400 –> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 5: a part of it.

628
00:29:15,560 –> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: Just like you revolutionize the game, you’re revolutionizing now in

629
00:29:19,720 –> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: the way you are approaching Thursday night football. I just

630
00:29:22,280 –> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: remember being emotional when I saw you put on that

631
00:29:24,600 –> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: gold jacket. It’s the same emotion when I see when

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00:29:27,320 –> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: I hug you before the game. TG thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us, and we’ll see you Thursday night always.

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Speaker 4: Good man, thanks for having me, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: See you Tony. So awesome to catch up with him,

636
00:29:37,760 –> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 1: and you had a chance during the draft he and

637
00:29:39,720 –> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: I did an event. You know, there’s so many things

638
00:29:41,240 –> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: going on that whole week, but he and I did

639
00:29:43,200 –> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: an event downtown and it was folks coming in from

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00:29:46,840 –> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 1: all over the country. But it was great just to

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00:29:48,520 –> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: sit down with him and just chop it up and chat.

642
00:29:51,480 –> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: What an amazing human. I am so blessed to be

643
00:29:54,680 –> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: around that guy during his whole time is twelve years

644
00:29:57,960 –> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: as a Kant City Chief.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:29:59,360 –> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 2: I had a chance meet him for the first time

647
00:30:01,080 –> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: before the Chargers game on Thursday Night Football last year.

648
00:30:04,320 –> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: I did a quick interview with him because of course

649
00:30:06,120 –> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: he’s part of the TNF broadcast. And for me, that’s

650
00:30:09,800 –> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 2: my era of Chiefs football growing up. It’s watching Tony Gonzalez.

651
00:30:13,320 –> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 2: He’s one of the players that got me into football.

652
00:30:15,360 –> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 2: He’s the first jersey I ever had, so catching up

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00:30:17,720 –> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: with a guy like Tony Gonzalez for me, if I

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00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: told twelve year old Matt like, Hey, you’re gonna talk

655
00:30:22,240 –> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: to Tony Gonzalez about football one day.

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00:30:24,160 –> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 3: He would not believe it. So quite a thrill.

657
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Speaker 1: So we go into the Patrick Mahomes era of TNI.

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Speaker 1: That’s Thursday Night importance as we get ready for this

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Broncos Thursday Night game in twenty eighteen. I mean,

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00:30:36,680 –> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: you can follow these The Chiefs are nine and six

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Speaker 1: on Thursday Night football. But there has been triumph and

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00:30:41,400 –> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: there has been heartache. There has been triumph that’s led

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00:30:43,440 –> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: to further triumph. But in twenty eighteen, more heartache. Another

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Speaker 1: division opponent at home. Mike Williams catches a two point

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00:30:49,760 –> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: conversion four seconds to go and the Chargers walk basically

666
00:30:53,960 –> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: walk it off and getting that Thursday Night game. But

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00:30:56,520 –> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: that was a gut punch.

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Speaker 3: That was not fun. I remember that.

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Speaker 2: That’s one of those games where you’re playing a divisional opponent,

670
00:31:01,920 –> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: you have the lead laid at home.

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00:31:03,640 –> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 3: Kudos to the Chargers for going for two.

672
00:31:05,920 –> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 2: They could have just tied it there with the extra point,

673
00:31:07,840 –> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: but they went for two and got it, got the victory.

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00:31:10,080 –> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: I remember Philip Rivers walking out of the stadium quite

675
00:31:12,280 –> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: proudly after that.

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00:31:14,000 –> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 3: Heck of a game just didn’t go our way.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen Thursday Night Football on the road. Division opponent. Oh

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00:31:19,600 –> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: it’s the Denver Broncos. Patrick Mahomes on a quarterback sneak

679
00:31:23,560 –> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: Dix locates his kneecap. The Broncos think we got the Chiefs. Now, whoops,

680
00:31:28,280 –> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: maybe not. The good old fifty seven yard touchdown pass

681
00:31:31,520 –> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Kiel from Matt Moore and the Chiefs were

682
00:31:35,120 –> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: able to basically route the Broncos in that game. When

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00:31:38,120 –> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: the Bronco crowd thought we finally got these guys.

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00:31:40,640 –> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 2: And the injury didn’t look good at first, I remember

685
00:31:43,160 –> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: scrolling Twitter and you saw people saying, like, man, season’s

686
00:31:46,520 –> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 2: over for the Chiefs. We won the Super Bowl, so

687
00:31:49,240 –> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 2: it worked out.

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00:31:49,840 –> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 3: Okay.

689
00:31:50,200 –> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 2: Of course Patrick got back and Matt Moore played great

690
00:31:53,040 –> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: in Patrick’s absence in.

691
00:31:54,520 –> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: These fifteen games. Were counting those openers. Remember after winning

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00:31:58,120 –> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and Super Bowl fifty four, you get

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00:31:59,880 –> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: to open the next season. We beat Deshaun Watson and

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00:32:03,360 –> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans to open up the COVID season of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: It was weird.

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00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: Basically, twenty percent of Arrowhead, a Geha field at Erahead Stadium,

698
00:32:13,200 –> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: was there and it was just a strange night. But

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00:32:14,840 –> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs won it, and that was on a Thursday

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00:32:16,960 –> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: night victory. Part of the nine wins that we’re talking

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00:32:19,160 –> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: about here in TNI Thursday Night importance, but a really

702
00:32:22,640 –> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: good Thursday night game, another road game on Thursday night

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00:32:26,960 –> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: division game. But one of the great Thursday Night memories.

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00:32:30,280 –> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one is that you’re talking about, sir.

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00:32:32,320 –> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite regular season wins as

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00:32:35,240 –> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: a Chiefs fan. This is one of those games where

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00:32:37,560 –> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: the Chiefs started three and four to start the year.

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00:32:39,840 –> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: We all remember it well, and it kind of felt

709
00:32:41,560 –> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: like the uphill climb to get our division title back,

710
00:32:45,320 –> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: and this game was the game that really kind of

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00:32:47,400 –> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: sealed it late in the season. It was so satisfying.

712
00:32:50,560 –> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 2: During the twenty twenty one season, we were still dealing

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00:32:52,760 –> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 2: with COVID protocols, so you and I couldn’t really spend

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00:32:54,960 –> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 2: a lot of time together in person. So you and

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Speaker 2: I were on the phone at the hotel in our

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00:32:59,640 –> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: respective hotel rooms talking about the game, and I just

717
00:33:02,760 –> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 2: remember saying like, man, I don’t think I’ve wanted a

718
00:33:05,120 –> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: regular season game this badly in a long time. And

719
00:33:08,600 –> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 2: the game was crazy, such a wild game. We held

720
00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: the Chargers to two of five in the red zone,

721
00:33:14,640 –> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: there was the turk Worton forced fumble at the one

722
00:33:17,440 –> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 2: yard line. The Chiefs got the ball back. Just a crazy,

723
00:33:21,040 –> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 2: crazy game. The Chargers took the lead with two minutes left,

724
00:33:24,120 –> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: but the Chiefs tied it with a minute left with

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00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 2: the pass Travis Kelcey, and then the Chiefs won it

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00:33:28,720 –> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: in overtime with a thirty four yard touchdown pass to

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey. I remember being in the press box for

728
00:33:34,440 –> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: that game and our social media director Alex Mary was

729
00:33:36,920 –> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 2: trying to tweet, you know, and get everything ready, and

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Speaker 2: I’m on the back of her chair just rocking the

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Speaker 2: chare because Travis is running toward the end zone because

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Speaker 2: I’m like, I cannot believe we pulled this off.

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Speaker 3: What a huge victory.

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Speaker 2: That game, to me, put an exclamation point on one

735
00:33:49,880 –> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 2: of the most impressive coaching jobs by coach Reid and

736
00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 2: just quarterbacking jobs by Patrick Mahomes. To start three and four,

737
00:33:56,560 –> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: everyone wanted to bury us. The Chiefs said, Nope, We’re

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00:33:59,120 –> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 2: just going to go win the division again, and that

739
00:34:01,200 –> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: game right there really put the nail on the coffin

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00:34:03,480 –> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: for the division.

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Speaker 1: Our vantage pointed so five where I call the game

742
00:34:06,960 –> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: is in the corner like a lot of these new stadia,

743
00:34:09,560 –> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: but it was Kelse running right at me and I

744
00:34:11,800 –> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: could see it kind of develop, going, oh, this might

745
00:34:13,880 –> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: be really good yep, and it ends up being a

746
00:34:15,800 –> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: runoff touchdown by Kelsey. But when I called that play

747
00:34:19,400 –> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: and go back and listen to it, I said, this

748
00:34:21,360 –> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest victories in the history of

749
00:34:24,000 –> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: the AFC West. To be that late in the season

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00:34:26,920 –> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: on a Thursday night on the road and basically get

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00:34:29,840 –> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: that done under the circumstances you just mentioned, an incredible

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00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: victory and incredible memory. And then in twenty twenty two,

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00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: the Chiefs beat the Chargers again on Thursday night, but

754
00:34:38,840 –> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: this time it was a ninety nine yard interception return.

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00:34:42,440 –> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 1: That was fun.

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00:34:43,120 –> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, unbelievable game.

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00:34:45,000 –> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 2: Beating the Chargers never gets sold and to do it

758
00:34:47,160 –> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: on Thursday night football certainly a lot of fun. We

759
00:34:49,560 –> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: always had some great memories against the Chargers.

760
00:34:51,800 –> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 3: Don’t we.

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00:34:52,360 –> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 2: And for Jalen Watson evolved, I mean the guy to

762
00:34:54,880 –> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: be a rookie seventh round pick. The Chargers were driving there,

763
00:34:57,960 –> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 2: they had a lot of momentum and for our defense,

764
00:35:00,400 –> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 2: our young defense, to stay on the field, to not

765
00:35:02,960 –> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: get tired and to make a heads up play like

766
00:35:05,080 –> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: that just incredible stuff, and to do it in week

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00:35:07,760 –> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 2: two really set the tone for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: So what memories will be made this time in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three and Thursday night football with a divisional opponent

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00:35:16,719 –> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: and what could it lead to because we have seen

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00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: now in fifteen games going all the way back to

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Yep, it’s TNI Thursday Night importance.