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00:00It's probably bleeped or deleted.
00:04I have no idea, but whatever.
00:06He swore.
00:07What about on the YouTube?
00:08We had to dump him.
00:09The YouTube, it's there.
00:10Yeah, I don't think there's any getting it out of there.
00:13So then we're on different streams at that point.
00:16Because the bleep backs us up five or seven seconds, but the YouTube doesn't stop.
00:21So then you're really in a vortex there.
00:23Ross, don't get any ideas.
00:24No swearing.
00:26No swearing is still the rules.
00:27Those are still the rules.
00:28Those are still the rules.
00:30It's the host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
00:33Ross Tucker.
00:34You can check him out on social media at RossTuckerNFL.
00:38And by the way, MyFrontPageStory.com.
00:41Mother's Day is in four days here, Ross.
00:43It's crunch time.
00:46Yeah, I was going to say, what are we talking about?
00:48My hockey expertise, the greatest Mother's Day gift ever, maybe football, my food acumen.
00:55I will say this.
00:56The problem with Mother's Day is it's so early in May, and the male brain is not trained to even
01:07consider Mother's Day until it turns May.
01:10But then what happens is it's like May 4th or 5th or like today, the 6th, and you're like, oh,
01:18crap.
01:18Yeah, it's only four days away.
01:20Mother's Day is Sunday.
01:21Yeah.
01:21And you don't have anything yet.
01:23So, thankfully, I've partnered up with MyFrontPageStory.com, loyal WGR listeners, including the people on the Odyssey app all over
01:34the place.
01:35You guys know, by far the best Mother's Day gift ever.
01:38Because you know what?
01:39You usually just do something lame.
01:42You usually just get her flowers or like a card or maybe a gift card.
01:48Your mom is awesome.
01:50Your wife, if she's a mom, is also awesome.
01:53Get her the best gift ever.
01:56MyFrontPageStory.com.
01:57You talk to a writer for 10 minutes or you fill out a quick email.
02:01They write this incredible story.
02:03Looks like it's on the cover of the newspaper.
02:05Framed.
02:06Beautiful.
02:07Just being able to say I had a story written about you is definitely cooler than Mike and Bulldog have
02:13ever been able to say about any gift they've ever given anyone.
02:16Have you guys ever given someone a gift and said something cooler or more powerful than I had a story
02:24written about you to somebody?
02:25I doubt it.
02:26I once wrote out the lyrics to In My Life, John Lennon, The Beatles, and framed it with calligraphy and
02:34a couple other things with it.
02:36But that's maybe my number one effort.
02:39But I did the writing.
02:40That's pretty good.
02:41That's pretty good.
02:42Bulldog, what do you got?
02:43What do you got, Bulldog?
02:44I got a vacuum once, probably, or something.
02:47I don't know.
02:48I'm Jim Belushion, according to Jim.
02:50I could wait for that answer.
02:51I don't know.
02:53Nothing springs to mind.
02:54I'm not that thoughtful, Ross.
02:55Ross, he just took his wife to Montana.
02:57That's a good thing.
02:58I mean, that's pretty good.
02:59Yeah.
03:00You know what's funny?
03:02I get people, because I'm in the media or whatever, I don't know if it's like this for you guys,
03:06but I get sent free stuff all the time, okay, which is great.
03:12It's cool.
03:13I'm appreciative of it.
03:14So I'll get some stuff, and I'll say to my wife, like, a lot of it I don't want.
03:20So, like, I got this hat from Aloe, or I got, like, these, like, slippers, and I'll be like,
03:26do you want it?
03:28And she'll be like, sure, I'll take it.
03:30I'll be like, okay, no, I'm keeping it.
03:32Like, Mother's Day is coming up.
03:34And she'll be like, oh, are you serious?
03:37That's a bad look, Ross.
03:39Can you not get me something thoughtful?
03:40Yeah.
03:41Yeah, can you not get me something thoughtful?
03:43So the answer is, she's right.
03:45I should get her something thoughtful, and that's exactly what MyFrontPagestory.com is.
03:50And I can't remember if it's Bulldog or Mike, but one of them offered to give you guys a money
03:55-back guarantee
03:56if it's not the best Mother's Day gift you've ever gotten them.
04:00So MyFrontPagestory.com, really appreciate whichever one of you it was.
04:05That money-back guarantee, that means a lot.
04:09MyFrontPagestory.com.
04:10I want to ask you what you've learned since taking to social media with your question about NHL playoff overtime.
04:18Do you feel like you've learned anything about why it is formatted the way it's formatted?
04:23Because your stance, I've seen you post this more than one time.
04:26I love it.
04:27That playoff overtime should begin immediately after regulation ends.
04:32And what do you feel like you've learned, if anything, through this process?
04:37I've learned several things.
04:40Number one, I've learned that hockey fans are hilarious in the sense that they all, anytime you ever talk to
04:52a hockey fan,
04:53it really bothers them that people don't talk about hockey more.
04:57You know, like, I mean, you guys do because you just have the Bills and the Sabres.
05:01But, like, I'll just be honest with you.
05:03In Philly, they never talk about the Flyers on WIP until now that the Flyers are in the playoffs and
05:11they won a series.
05:11You know, like, it gets, like, no airtime.
05:15And on the national shows, hockey doesn't get much airtime.
05:19Social media doesn't.
05:20So they clamor.
05:22They desire more people to talk about hockey.
05:27And then as soon as you say something about hockey, they get incredibly defensive and are like,
05:35you're an idiot.
05:36You don't know anything about hockey.
05:38You don't know anything about my sport.
05:39Blah, blah, blah.
05:40What I think is funny is, dude, it's game six, okay, of the Flyers and Penguins, okay?
05:49And I'm watching every second of it.
05:52And so are my daughters.
05:54And it goes into overtime.
05:56And now it's, like, 10 o'clock, okay?
05:59And they have another 15-minute intermission before overtime.
06:05And I'm like, girls, you got to go to bed.
06:07And they're like, no, we stayed up this long.
06:09Like, we're watching it.
06:12And now I'm thinking, like, well, what if it goes to double overtime or triple?
06:15And so I tweeted 1,000% from a fan perspective.
06:22And for my benefit, overtime in hockey should start immediately after third period ends.
06:30And people came out of the woodwork.
06:33Matthew Barnaby is like, you've never skated on ice after playing on it for 20 minutes, LOL.
06:41And I replied, I've never skated on ice at all.
06:47Al Morgani, my buddy, says, Ross, I love your football and food takes, meaning he hates my hockey takes.
06:55So I put that out there.
06:57The funniest part about it to me is all the people that say, you're an idiot.
07:04You can't possibly play on the ice after 20 minutes.
07:09They need to zamboni it.
07:11And the players, you know, you're a fat football player that stands around for 30 seconds after you do stuff
07:18for five seconds.
07:19You have no idea what it takes to be a hockey player and blah, blah, blah.
07:24After 20 minutes, those guys need a rest.
07:27And then I pointed out last night when the Flyers went to overtime again against Carolina or two nights ago,
07:38I said, well, the regular season overtime is five minutes.
07:42So how come in the regular season, the ice is OK for five more minutes and the players are OK
07:49to be out there for five more minutes?
07:52So what I want to know is, when is it the end of the world as we know it?
07:56When is it like, oh, my gosh, the ice is so bad, the players are all going to tear their
08:01AC out.
08:02They're going to fall in the cracks of the ice because it's that happen at seven minutes.
08:07Is it nine minutes?
08:08When is the miracle magic time where all of a sudden there's no way the players of the ice could
08:16possibly continue for one more second?
08:19I want to know when that time cutoff is.
08:22I don't have that answer.
08:25I think it's probably between five and ten minutes.
08:28I think it varies.
08:30It varies.
08:31And especially at this time of the year, springtime and into June here, eventually,
08:36like the humidity and just the heat in buildings can make it hard.
08:40So it's not always the same.
08:42Like it's not all like the ice is different in a lot of, you know, a lot of different buildings.
08:46But I would like to say this, too.
08:48I think this idea is ahead of its time.
08:51You have three or more Zambonis working.
08:55I don't think it's as much the players needing the rest as it is the conditions of the surface.
08:59I agree.
08:59So I've got three Zambonis running.
09:01I think I can get in, get out in like five to ten minutes again to clean the ice and
09:08be ready to go.
09:09And I love this because I'd never thought about this before from a TV standpoint.
09:14But shouldn't we be thinking about everything anymore in sports from a TV standpoint?
09:19Like what's best for television?
09:20Because, yeah.
09:21It is a long 20 minutes.
09:23Yes.
09:23That intermission from the excitement of the end of the third.
09:26I don't know, like it's bedtime and it's different.
09:29You're right.
09:30It is something to consider.
09:31So I bet we will see the day where they short it.
09:34And here's the thing, too.
09:35Yeah.
09:36And here's the thing, right?
09:37You make a great point about I would argue overtime hockey is as good as sports gets because it can
09:49end at any second.
09:50So you're like totally, totally glued to it.
09:55And that's why the purists don't want to change it because they love overtime hockey.
10:03And I get that part of it.
10:05But what I would tell you is we've established they could at least just continue right away for five minutes.
10:12And my research tells me they can Zamboni in four to five minutes.
10:18I Googled this, okay?
10:19And Google's never been wrong.
10:21So they can Zamboni in four to five minutes.
10:24So what I think we should consider is that they just continue.
10:29After the third period ends, they just continue for somewhere between five to ten minutes.
10:37If there's still no conclusion at that point, then we take a five-minute Zamboni break, and then we go
10:45out for another 20-minute period.
10:48But can't someone please think of the guys that like to wake up early to work out at 5 a
10:54.m. or their children?
10:55Can't someone please think of the children?
10:58Yeah.
10:58East Coast dads.
10:59Well, yeah.
11:00It is.
11:01There is.
11:02I mean, it's harder and harder as we get older, Ross.
11:04But, like, in my teens, in my 20s, there's a famous – I just saw the highlight, the anniversary of
11:10it.
11:10Keith Primo, fourth overtime for the Flyers against the Penguins.
11:14Fifth overtime, excuse me.
11:15Mike's holding up five.
11:16Yeah.
11:18I watched that.
11:19I was in my 20s.
11:22And it's like a badge of honor to, like, be up until 2 in the morning watching the hockey game.
11:26I know it's harder for, like, the kids, you know, your daughter's age.
11:31So there's that.
11:32But the fact is, I think you probably heard all this from people that weren't polite about it, and I'm
11:38certainly not going to be impolite about it.
11:40But in the playoffs, you're going to want to have – it's one thing to play five minutes three-on
11:45-three, by the way, in the regular season on chopped up ice.
11:49It's another when the stakes are so big in the playoffs, could be win or go home.
11:55You want to have the surface as credible as it can so you don't have some crappy bounce because the
12:02ice is all chopped up.
12:04So, like, that's, I think, a big part of it.
12:06It's not so much the tradition as much as it is respecting that you don't want the outcome to be
12:12affected by ice that's been chewed up for, you know, 45 minutes of real time.
12:19I got it, and that's what everybody says.
12:22Yeah.
12:23And I would also say I wonder if they're more likely to score a goal sooner if they just kept
12:33playing because with no intermission because those guys would be gassed, right?
12:39Yeah.
12:39So, I wonder, does that make them more likely or less likely to score a goal?
12:43I don't know.
12:43I think more.
12:44It sounds like maybe less likely from what I heard about the goalie said the players being slower helps them.
12:51I'll tell you guys something.
12:52I used to do this show for three or four years on NBC Sports Network.
12:58It was called NBC Sports Talk, okay?
13:02And we would come on after the NHL playoff game would be over.
13:10So, picture me all this time of year, all May, you've never seen someone.
13:17I had a 6 a.m. Sirius XM NFL radio show.
13:21You've never seen someone rooting for a team to score a goal more in your life.
13:27We would sit there because we had to stay there to do the show until the hockey game was over.
13:35So, it was brutal.
13:37It would go to overtime.
13:39And then in overtime, I'd be like, come on, come on.
13:42There'd be two minutes left.
13:43And they'd be like, no, no more goals.
13:45Double overtime.
13:46I'm like, you guys have got to be kidding me.
13:48I mean, there were multiple times it was double overtime or triple.
13:53And that's when I kind of grew to hate hockey overtime, to be honest with you.
13:57That primo goal was scored at 2.35 in the morning in Pittsburgh.
14:02Well, at least, Ross, you could do one thing in those moments in May,
14:05sitting there waiting for hockey games to end.
14:07At least you could remember, like, oh, Mother's Day is this month.
14:10Because it was May.
14:11So, you realized it.
14:12Mother's Day is this month.
14:14It's myfrontpagestory.com.
14:16All right.
14:17So, do your moms or wives listen to the show?
14:21Yes.
14:22Two for two.
14:24Okay.
14:25So, then you can't tell me what you got them for Mother's Day.
14:29I can text you.
14:31My wife isn't listening.
14:32She's sleeping.
14:33She's working overnights.
14:36But somebody will tell her.
14:37So, I don't want to say.
14:38But I did do something.
14:39My wife has already opened her Mother's Day present.
14:41And we are using it.
14:42And it's a hit.
14:43Oh, wow.
14:44But that's not.
14:45I don't want to step on Ross's toes.
14:46Because I think Ross's idea is that.
14:48Oh, that's.
14:49Say what it is.
14:50Say what it is.
14:51It's an electronic calendar.
14:53Because she has been using a whiteboard to keep track of everybody's events and tasks and things.
14:59And everybody has a different color marker.
15:01And so, I bought her a couple hundred bucks.
15:03I bought her an electronic calendar that can, like, be mounted to the wall.
15:08That everybody can add.
15:09My kids are teenagers.
15:11They can add their sports.
15:13And my wife can put in there, I need you to, you know, clean the bathroom or just different things
15:18like this.
15:18And we all have our own stuff.
15:20And I thought it was funny, by the way.
15:21Quickly, Ross.
15:22I don't have to go.
15:22So, like, one of my things that I have just been putting off forever is to clean the basement.
15:27I have a pool table and it's got boxes of stuff on the pool table.
15:30So, every day I'd probably think to myself, I've got to clean the pool table.
15:33But I would never do it.
15:34Until I put it on that calendar and, like, okay, I get a checkmark now.
15:40So, I immediately did it.
15:42Like, I just needed, I had to have that checkmark.
15:44Good boy, Michael.
15:44Which is worth nothing.
15:46I love that idea.
15:48And my wife and I share the same Google calendar.
15:53So, that's kind of how we do it.
15:55That is a good idea.
15:56And now we include our nanny so that she's, you know, she knows our daughter's activities.
16:02Because goodness knows they have too many.
16:04That's a good gift, Mike.
16:06It's not as good as MyFrontPageStory.com.
16:08What could be?
16:09The type of gift that will make your wife or mom cry.
16:12She will cry.
16:13You will win.
16:15It's not quite as good as that.
16:16It's a little bit more practical as opposed to being over-the-top romantic and thoughtful.
16:22Like MyFrontPageStory.com.
16:24But I'll allow it.
16:25It's definitely better than whatever Bulldog did.
16:29I'll take it.
16:30I'm just going to eat that.
16:31I'm just going to eat it.
16:32In his defense, it's not Mother's Day yet.
16:35All right.
16:36Thank you, Ross.
16:37As you were.
16:39See you, boys.
16:40Make yourself talky.
16:41Go Flyers.
16:42Get Porter Martone going and get this series extended here.
16:46You can't have them going out in four straight.
16:48I would love that.
16:49I would love Philadelphia to get.
16:50Yeah.
16:51Get the top.
16:51Get the top.
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