48 hours before the Super Bowl.
I think predictions are predictable and boring. And I'm
not really entertained by them, not to mention. I know what
y'all stand, you come to find out this week or an Eagles fan,
so I know you pick in Philadelphia. You have been
an Eagles fan for most of the year. So I know you picking
Philadelphia Eagles fan for the playoffs just playoffs.
Okay specially against San Francisco. Good timing. Yes,
especially good timing.
I'm not gonna go print. Options. But I'm gonna ask you
this because we're all storytellers that I don't know
a bit of Storytelling and you Michael. So too far do
you have any like a
two-part question?
Yeah
double barrel to park when I'm making my own rules.
What to you
is the biggest of many storylines going into Super
Bowl fifty Seven and what will be the biggest story line
coming out of Super Bowl. 50 7, biggest story going in and some
potential coronation
of Patrick Mahomes. As next in line it was poetic
Tom Brady retired
before the Super Bowl.
And could anybody be the next Tom Brady? Could anybody do
would Belichick and Brady did? And so here you have read and
Mahomes Patrick Mahomes added to his legend
in the AFC Championship game playing
on a high ankle sprain,
and he's already been to a Super Bowl. He's already got
a nice tattoo.
He has won a championship already. Got a Super Bowl MVP
if he wins this one. One.
Now we starting to talk, okay? How far can this go?
He's not even close because like we've already been having
that conversation right now it's like here. Here it is.
Yeah,
coming out, that's good. That's going in coming out, let me
out. There's a picket Eagles,
Eagles being able to, I think it's pretty impressive. You know,
you know, for my 49ers
hatred, aside
Sports hatred.
They will be hit with a will be a team that has won two
championships,
two different quarterbacks, two different head coaches in
a five-year span.
With two different approaches, they have some leftover
players from the 2017 Super Bowl champions,
a few of them. But this is a new batch, this is a new
approach
and I think Jalen hurts in the Eagles will cap it. I don't
think hurts and you know like predictions but just
I can't
help myself. It's going to be the MVP. Okay, Natalie a Mike.
But I think Hertz is going to be a significant part of this
game when Philadelphia does win it and, and when's it
convincingly.
Okay,
Natalie. How about you?
Yeah, journalists of the week that you've been?
Well, I actually think that will be one of the surprise
stories coming out the way Jalen's going to perform.
I feel like it's not expected
Philadelphia has like, a great team all around, right? And so
we had a Kai Williams
on Keith and she was saying that That you know, they're
going to win it in the trenches, a lot of people
talking about that just talking about you know, all around
everything that they have. And so I think like the way
everyone talks about where I
hear many talking about this, matchup is Pat Mahomes and what
he's going to do to uplift the Chiefs. But then when they talk
about the Eagles, it's like, oh, well, you know, Joanne
doesn't have to do much and also, he's also coming off
an injury. I
just want to remind people because like that's being
overlooked, so, I think he's gonna be the surprise story.
I think he's going to rise to the occasion. Asian
and
surprise people. When they get that Victory there and what
would you say has been the storyline of this week? Or
the biggest story line coming into the game for you? And for me,
I do think it is the, the historical significance of
the two
black quarterback. Yep.
Yep. No, I agree. And that's why I want to take it. I want it
to get one last word in
on that because I think back
to what black quarterbacks have meant to the history of this
game.
The as in in professional football in America.
And this game, the Super Bowl
and the first Super Bowl that I ever, watched
was Super Bowl. 22,
I was your first month, I was the first one I ever watch
because that would have been January of 1988 following
the 87 season
and I would have been Nia. Eight years old
going on nine.
And
I watched it because I had a not who made sure that
I watched Doug Williams. Eames perform
as the starting quarterback and eventual Super Bowl MVP,
throwing four touchdown passes for the then Washington
Redskins where we don't say anymore
and making history and not just making history, making history
at the expense of the quote-unquote, prototypical
quarterback for that time and maybe all time John Elway.
And that moment that game was so instrumental in my love
affair with the NFL.
And Jalen hurts alluded to this and he was speaking more in
general. But alluded to this, when he gave that thoughtful
answer to your thoughtful question, the other day about
kids, watch him.
Now, think about the kids that are going to watch
these two quarterbacks
perform in a Super Bowl,
one of them win, it
one of them, more than more than likely become
MVP, and go to Disney World.
And this is going to be normal for them.
Like right now, a black and I've been saying this all week
and it's not that no way to diminish the significance or
the Milestone nature of this but this isn't a watershed
moment because black quarterbacks are so commonplace
in black. Quarterbacks
thriving is so commonplace
in today's, in FL the best, quarterbacks in the league.
Many of them are black.
If not multiracial,
the, the highest paid the most high-profile Petra Mahomes all
ready to face, Italy,
you know.
The game is played in a way that when black quarterbacks
our planet this way, it was frowned upon. Yeah. So the game
has evolved as such to where we're past.
We're past proving when it comes to black quarterbacks
we're past the point of
a black quarterback success. On the biggest stage
in American Sports and maybe American pop culture
being somehow
a watershed moment or time, that is going to change hearts
and Minds about whether or not a black quarterback. Can
Be successful at the highest level.
We know that. If you don't know that
you're probably somewhere in employed at this point, that it
doesn't mean the conversation around. Black, quarterbacks is
evolved only much. It's still double standards. Welcome to
America.
They're still double standards. They're still coded language.
They're still rate, racism involved with how they're
covered, are there? How they conversed about how
the commentary around them?
That's any of us in any Walk of Life in this country, but when
it comes to the opportunity
and when it comes to
being compensated
and and being held up,
As faces of franchises. If not the league black quarterbacks
are already there but some little kids are going to watch
this game. That has never watched football before like
Michael Smith back in 1988. It's never watch football
before
and their love affair
with this game is going to be colored pun intended. Yeah.
Right by there being two black quarterbacks
in the in the Super Bowl and they're going to say oh yeah
that's normal in me. I can do that or I this is all I know is
black quarterbacks whereas once upon a time to see a black
quarterback on his game
was rare weather.
McNair. Whether it was cam, whether it was, you know,
McNabb,
right, oh, Russell Wilson
or
I'll rent, you know, it is, it was, it was like, oh, a black
quarterback. Not I'm Randall. Gotta call. Because why did you
become a Philadelphia Eagles fan? You're from Philadelphia
watch control of Eagles fan, because of their history and
Legacy of black quarterback.
You know, I think it's a there are many layers to the story
and I think inspiration
clearly is one of the big,
big parts of it inspiration will happen to happen for me.
Watching Washington Beatdown, Denver, remembered ever. Got
off to a 10-zip lead in 3510
and then Washington just
shut them down
after that and Doug Williams and I think was Tim Smith yes.
Amy Smith. Yeah, George
yards
and so it was so much inspiration so much.
Aw for me, I was in high school. I had seen that before.
I remember Public, Enemy
Flavor Flav talking about, we got a black At quarterback in
the Super Bowl. Now, take that, you know, it was like a whole
thing. It was like a lot of Pride over this moment so
inspiration will happen. But I think the other thing
and this is not something I necessarily am excited about as
a parent
with inspiration, there may become Revelation to
ball cuz now
Now you've watched this as a kid
and you see that this is possible. Now you're going to
start your eyes are open? Yeah. To some of the other
inconsistencies, right? Head coaching
part of Italy. Yeah. Your eyes are open
to Jim Trotter. Ask you a question of the creation of
the earth.
Do you have a problem? Is there some kind of discomfort with
black leadership? Yeah. All right. Your eyes are open,
whatever the Indianapolis Colts are going to do with their
head, coach composition far, but it just illuminates, how
far we got to go. Go and what happened. Now the Steve Wilkes
is a defensive coordinator and Brian Flores is defensive
coordinator. So yes, that inspiration will also. Yeah,
open some eyes.
I like that. I like
that. It it should not just be
yeah, from Children of color. We have not arrived.
We're on our way though.
So I'll wrap it up with answer. My own questions. That's
the story going in for me. Coming out
you mentioned coronation
in conversation about the quarterback for the Kansas City
Chiefs.
I'm picking the Chiefs
are Back and forth because I agreed at the,
the physicality of the Philadelphia Eagles in on both
lines offensive and defense is that's gonna be a lot. But I'm
going to pick the cheese. I think a kingdom becomes
a dynasty
and Andy Reid
enters into that Pantheon of all-time great coaches. I mean,
it's hard to pass Bellows out there. Well,
I think he's there, but I don't know if he's
mainstream there. I don't know if he's constantly refer, you
know. Yeah, they're brought up in the Lombardy and land. Jury
and Paul Brown and Bill Belichick and Parcells, I don't
know, but
not just winning a Super Bowl,
which, you know, he's already done with
always, he's done.
He's taking two teams to someone. I beg your pardon
wanted with the second team
now, going to beat his former team. So there's some full circle
closure there.
I think now, having a multiple Super Bowl champion, which
I think he will be after Sunday, put Sandy read in a different
level.
And look at the way he's evolved with the game,
the quarterback whisper, he's been the quarterbacks he's developed
that he's won with, we talk.
If it doesn't come up enough, when it comes to all sounds
great coaches, in my mind is, Joe Gibbs. Mentioned up
Williams, Joe Gibbs, three Super Bowls, three,
quarterbacks three running backs,
Andy Reid, the success, he's had with Donovan
and Michael and Alex. And Patrick
the offense, these men up there at the avant-garde at
the Forefront of offensive Ingenuity and evolution in
the NFL,
Andy Reid, man. I think he's gonna be a big conversation
once the Chiefs sorry beat, ya'll Eagles
and a kingdom. Like I said, becomes a diner. Okay,
but by the way, it's not just me.
Become a dynasty until you get your third row that the rule?
Yeah. Third 334 Dynasty in a short span. Okay? That's for
Dynasty and then for an all-time go
to be able to go far for quarterback, okay?
For okay. So, so
she's win Mahomes be halfway to the goat farm. Well, speaking
of three,
I kind of like this little three-way thing we got going here.
I enjoyed it.
Thank you, thank you. Thanks for hanging out.