00:00Okay, so my four were going to be, and I'm probably going to change this,
00:05800-636-1067, Ovi, along with Daryl Green, which is a tough one over,
00:15Theismann, who was my quarterback of my youth,
00:17and I was a huge Gary Clark fan.
00:20Still am.
00:20Love Gary Clark.
00:23Baseball's easy because it's Steven Strasburg, without a doubt.
00:26But two wins in the World Series, including the crucial Game 6 to make it a Game 7
00:30with Howie Kendrick, donk, off the fair pole to win the thing.
00:36And then as far as basketball goes, you've got to go way back to the ancient bullets
00:40because everything since then has been such trash.
00:43I guess it's a coin flip for me between Wes Unseld and Kevin Grevy.
00:47Grevy was not much of a player compared to Unseld.
00:50Unseld was all NBA, but Grevy had the restaurant out in Vienna all those years, Grevy's.
00:55So from a personal standpoint, I'm like, yeah, Kevin Grevy.
01:00But do you have to have one from each sport?
01:02No, you don't.
01:03Yeah.
01:03And there you go.
01:05Because I think the question pops up all the time, Sugar Ray Leonard.
01:08And there's another figure.
01:10And if you add Sugar Ray into it, there's no way he's not on it.
01:14I would agree.
01:15Yeah, because the stuff he did with Olympics and the way he was as a pro boxer,
01:20there's no way you leave him off of it.
01:22Okay.
01:22Let's go to the phones.
01:24Jim and Silver Spring, you are first up on this.
01:26With Ovi possibly retiring at the end of next week,
01:30what do you say is the Mount Rushmore of D.C. sports figures?
01:35Well, without a doubt, it's Sammy Ball.
01:40Ooh.
01:40And first of all, I'm not penalizing the players because people never saw him play or whatever.
01:48It is what it is, Sammy Ball, Walter Johnson, Ovi, Ovi.
01:55And the last one, I have a tie between Daryl and Wes, but I'm not penalizing Wes because he played
02:04in Baltimore.
02:04He did play for the same franchise only.
02:07So all five of those people played for the same franchise their entire career.
02:12That's a great point.
02:15Yeah, Walter Johnson played, what, 20 years for the Senators?
02:19Absolutely.
02:19Yeah.
02:20That is a great...
02:21Well, I think it was like 22 years, I think.
02:23That is a clean four, Jim, because they're all OTOFs, one-team Hall of Famers.
02:29And Ball and Night Train were the absolute, or Big Train, excuse me, were the absolute titans of their day
02:39in the games they played.
02:42Oh, that's a good list.
02:44I like Sugar Ray, but he was great for a decade, but the others, you know, you're talking two decades,
02:52keep it in a team sport type of deal.
02:55You're getting punched in the head, you're not going to be doing too many two decades.
02:59No, no, boxers are not supposed to box for two decades.
03:04Then you become Evander Holyfield, and you can't understand what he's saying.
03:08Michael in Fairfax, next up, Mount Rushmore, D.C. Sports, what do you got?
03:13Hi, my three, in addition, Ovi, are John Riggins, Wes Unfeld,
03:27and in the Georgetown Hoyas world, not Dikembe Mutombo, not Alonzo Mourning,
03:35but Patrick Ewing, who started the whole thing off of the Superstars.
03:39There's a reason for Wes Unfeld.
03:41I've got to put it out there.
03:43Wes Unfeld's got to be there, because not only did he give us the NBA championship,
03:48but there is no other player better than LeBron, better than any of the new guys.
03:56He was not only Rookie of the Year, but he was MVP of the League in his first year.
04:03He got MVP and Rookie in the same year, and he's the only player that Will Chamberlain
04:09said he was scared of.
04:12Oh, yeah, no, Wes was mean.
04:14That's a badass right there.
04:15Yeah, Wes's rebounding technique was to step on other guys' feet
04:20right as they're about to jump.
04:22He wouldn't even have to jump himself.
04:24He'd be like, bonk.
04:26You're not going anywhere, because Wes went 6'9", 270, basically.
04:30This name popped up, Xavier.
04:32I don't think anybody would say it, but you look at what this young lady did,
04:38Katie Ledecky.
04:39Oh, yeah.
04:40See, like, I know people would never think about swimming,
04:43but the only person who's probably got more medals than her is Michael Phelps.
04:46Yeah, no, Katie Ledecky has all the medals.
04:49Yes.
04:50She's got Fort Knox of medals around her neck.
04:53Joe in Rockville, you are next up.
04:55I'll rush more D.C. sports.
04:56What do you got?
04:58Yeah, so they stole my thunder with Wes Onso.
05:01I just can't say enough about Wes Onso being with the Bullets,
05:04then the Wizards, winning it with the Wizards, then becoming a coach.
05:08Just a great guy.
05:11I also have now Doug Williams, because he won the championship, won the Super Bowl.
05:17He's the first quarterback to win the Super Bowl with the Redskins,
05:21and I can't leave him off.
05:24Then I got to go with Darrell Green and P. Mitchell, right on point.
05:30When you're going to a single score, Katie Ledecky, without a doubt.
05:37That's it.
05:38Okay, that's a good list right there.
05:40Thank you for that.
05:40Let's go to Rodney in D.C.
05:43You are next up.
05:44Hello, Rodney.
05:45What's your four?
05:47Hey, gentlemen.
05:48Got to be Joe Gibbs, Daryl Green, Ray Leonard, John Thompson.
05:53And if you ask my dad, he would be mad if I didn't put Elgin Bell on there.
05:58But John Thompson, what he did for the city, you know, Gibbs, of course.
06:03And Ray Leonard was a monster.
06:05I mean, he was a monster.
06:06He grew up here at Palmer Park.
06:08But the whole, you know, his whole life story.
06:11And, of course, you know, Daryl is Mr. Redskins, in my opinion.
06:14So those are my four.
06:16All right.
06:16All right.
06:17Very good.
06:18Looking at the Daryl Green profile, 20 years, nobody's ever played that long on defense ever in the NFL.
06:27Most consecutive seasons with an interception, 19.
06:31Most games played by a defensive player, 295.
06:3525, two Super Bowls, and was 42 years old playing the most high-demand, physically impossible positions.
06:45And he had three of the greatest highlights of all time.
06:51One of them being the punt return with the busted rib against Chicago.
06:55And then the other two were running down Tony Dorsett and Eric Dickerson, which were electric factory in terms of
07:03going,
07:04Oh, my God, he's going to get them.
07:05Yeah, yeah.
07:06So great to watch.
07:07I talked to him last night.
07:08And a super nice guy.
07:10Still running.
07:11Of course he's still running.
07:13He was telling me about the little.
07:14He wants to be in the flag football.
07:16He told me about it.
07:17He said, man, you know, the hammy locked up on him a little bit.
07:21I bet it did.
07:23It sure he's 66 years old.
07:25But he can still fly.
07:26Hell yeah, he can.
07:28Let's go to Daryl in Fairfax.
07:29You're next up.
07:30Hi, Daryl.
07:31Hey, guys.
07:32Zade, I had a chance to welcome you back to the area.
07:35So welcome back.
07:36Appreciate it.
07:37I'm going Ovechkin, Bondra, Monk, and Riggins.
07:42Bondra?
07:43Two caps.
07:44He was, he was, yeah.
07:46You know, I'm a big caps fan.
07:48And so Bondra was our Ove, our Yager, our Hall before any, you know, that was our guy.
07:54Right.
07:55My golf buddy.
07:56He was electrifying on the ice.
07:57Yeah, he's a good golfer.
07:59Play golf with him now.
08:00I'm going to play golf, but I'll take your word for it.
08:02But, yeah, those are my two.
08:04Riggins and Monk, just when I got back to the area in 82, those guys just dominated.
08:08You know, if I had an honorable mention, I'd go Langway and Daryl Green.
08:14But those four that I mentioned are my Mount Rushmore.
08:16Okay, I like that.
08:17Bondra had that lefty cut.
08:23Let's go to Stephen Crofton.
08:25You are next up.
08:26Mount Rushmore.
08:27Who do you got and why?
08:29I'm going with Art Monk, Daryl Green, Ovechkin, and Weston Sell.
08:36All right.
08:37Any notes on that?
08:38It's a great four, by the way.
08:40Love, Arthur Monk.
08:41Art Monk with all the records.
08:42Art Monk and Daryl Green with the Hall of Fame.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Yeah, no, that's a good combo right there.
08:49B. Mitch, I need to get you on record here before we close this one out.
08:52Your official.
08:53I do.
08:54I say Ove.
08:56Ove, D. Green, Ray Leonard, and Gibbs.
09:02Okay.
09:03All right.
09:03Behind the Glass Boys, the youngsters.
09:06Let's see who the youngsters put up there.
09:08By the way, even some of these older dudes, like, I barely remember them.
09:12So, we don't expect you to really remember and know the old school greats.
09:17Yeah, no, I would say Brian Mitchell, but I never watched him.
09:21Ha!
09:23If there was a Mount Rushmore for starting fights on the field, he's on it.
09:28He's going to kill me after I said that, so I'm in trouble after this break.
09:31Listen to that.
09:32Big laugh.
09:34Oh, yeah.
09:35He's going to put me in a headlock.
09:36I've got Max Scherzer of mine.
09:37That's my guy.
09:3820-strikeout game.
09:39Loved Max.
09:40Max Scherzer was awesome.
09:42Mad Max.
09:43Alex Ovechkin makes the cut for me.
09:45A personal favorite, Santana Moss growing up.
09:47That was my first jersey ever in sports.
09:50Yeah, man.
09:51Santana was awesome back in the other day.
09:53Cowboy killer.
09:54My fourth one, I got to give it to John Wall.
09:57I love John Wall.
09:58Standing up on top of the scorer's table, that was an awesome moment.
10:02All right.
10:02All right, Walker, what do you got?
10:04I got to go Ovi.
10:06Yep.
10:08John Thompson.
10:09And the only reason why I say that, even though I wasn't around, really to watch his career,
10:15the impact that he left, the impact that he left, even when he passed, just so many people
10:22just felt his impact in this area.
10:24I have to go with Daryl Green because even when I was a kid, I got little glimpses of Daryl
10:31Green
10:32when I first started watching football.
10:34But to see how everyone embraces this man, I was hearing about Daryl Green running a 40 backwards
10:41as a kid, and people were just amazed by it.
10:45Right.
10:45The way Washington fans received him when they retired his jersey, it was crazy, dude.
10:52Grown men were in there losing their minds, crying, and some more.
10:56And my last, I got to, y'all know I'm a boxing boy, Sugar Ray Leonard, man.
11:01Sugar Ray Leonard.
11:02Growing up, just watching the sport, looking at it, my uncles used to be like, man, you got to watch
11:09Sugar Ray.
11:09He made a man say no more in Spanish, and I was like, I don't know why.
11:13No mas.
11:14I was intrigued by that.
11:15I was just so intrigued by that.
11:17For real, he made him quit, like really stop, and I just watched it, and then took my time to
11:22Sugar Ray Leonard Boxer,
11:24gym right there in Palmer Park.
11:25So I got to put Sugar Ray on there.
11:28Yeah, he was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, but he grew up in Palmer Park in Maryland,
11:34and he moved there at the age of 10.
11:36So he's really considered one of ours, and not just one of the great boxers who did cause one of
11:43the greats to say,
11:43no mas, I'm out, but a showman, Flair.
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:47Beautiful boxer.
11:48One of the best pound for pounds ever.
11:50One of the best pounds for pounds ever.
11:51Beat you up while dancing.
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