Transcript of Old Heads Love Tom Dempsey | Postgame Show

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Juju.

Yes sir, Thursday Thunder. Guess what, guys? I got the hookup. Holla if you hear me. Uh, first leg, man, I'm going with the young brother. Khalif Raymond for over 3.5 catches. No matter who throwing 'em, Chicago got some good QBs over there. You dig it. Next leg, big rivalry game on Monday. I'm going with my brother Drake London for over 5.5 catches against the Saints.

That is such a great rivalry for people who really hate each other and franchises that do not matter. They really hate each other. Yeah.

Exactly. And last leg, I'm sticking with that rivalry and— oh, whoop. Yep, I'm already gonna put it on there. Bijan Robinson for over 19.5 carries on Monday night. Lock it in. DraftKings Sports now available in all 50 states.

I want to articulate something that I am feeling that the audience felt and the room felt, and I just want to see if I get honesty from the group on this. Did Amin torpedo our show?

Keith Rock!

Yes or no?

What's your definition of torpedo, I guess?

Well, we were having fun before then, and then at the end we were dead in a submarine.

The definition is what happened. Yeah, yeah.

Yes. Okay, I did— okay, I did that accurately. No, uh, you know, we had fun. All right, good team player. Uh, we're going to get to the polls in a second, but what were some of the headlines that we missed today, Juju? What were some of the things that we did not get to.

Very quickly, Arike Ogunbowale, most points in WNBA playoff history with 45 big ones to extend the series last night. Jessica Shepard, where are you? So if you know, you know. 4 points last game.

You're on the New York team that you own.

Exactly. And then, uh, and then 0 points game 1. You got to show up, sis. Moving on. Next, did you guys know Breaking news, D'Angelo Russell, the guy with the heroin you said earlier, he is now a Shanghai Shark.

Wow.

Did not know that. Put that on the poll.

That makes me sad.

@Le Batard Show, did you know that D'Angelo Russell was now a Shanghai Shark? It makes you sad, huh, Tom?

Yeah, 'cause he's got some juice. He's still playing in the NBA. He's going to Shanghai.

It's like— Also, did you hear that Jared McCain is partnering with Hinge to help men find other men to build meaningful friendships with a combat male loneliness situation going on. To combat male loneliness. I think my brother needs to be commended for that.

Yeah.

Pioneer.

I think that Chris Cody needs to be commended for, uh, toughing out that pickle costume and punctuating the show in about as embarrassing a fashion as is possible. Mike undressed the pickle, and there were a number of circumstances in which the pickle was in an unfavorable situation. I don't know if you guys noticed that there There was some skin showing.

There was some crack.

There was some crack showing.

There was— Oh no.

There was a bald spot. Yeah, there was some unpleasantness there as well.

This is definitely HIPAA.

We're gonna, we're gonna get to the polls in just a second, but I actually wanted to bring up, Zazz, something from yesterday that we skipped Greg Cody announced that he's a man's man because when he's inaccurate about someone having a clubfoot, he says it. And so, we were talking yesterday about Tom Dempsey. We were talking about the long field goals. And I want to introduce the audience again to a show favorite. This is an old Saints kicker, and he used to hold the record, quaintly, for the longest field goal in history, 63 yards. He had half a foot. He had a specially made cleat that helped him kick straight ahead. He didn't come at the kick from an angle. What do you like about this kick? What were you laughing about back there, Tony?

I told Juju, I wrote down on my paper because I heard you talking about it earlier, uh, this note: old heads love Tom Dempsey. My dad and my father-in-law went like 10 minutes on Tom Dempsey and kicking it for the Saints, and he had a clubfoot and a steel toe.

He doesn't have a clubfoot.

We said— we did this yesterday.

You guys love this guy.

It's not a— well, how can I not love a guy who's got half a foot and is making the longest field goal in, uh, NFL history at 63 yards?

But I also want to say that that foot, while not a clubfoot, foot, that was a cheating device.

Like, he had a special extra propulsion that he was able to get by the fact that he did not kick from the side. He just went straight ahead and kicked it with what would have been his toes. No one kicks like that because it would hurt your toes to kick like that. You can't kick it accurately like that because he had half a foot that was shaved across the front. I think that Tom Dempsey— I may be an old head in thinking this— was cheating.

I believe it helped him. Do I, do I have this wrong?

I'm late to this controversy. If I was doing sports, if I was doing back in the day, First Take in the late 1960s, and I was coming on and I saw the 63-yard field goal that was a record, I'd be like, Tom Dempsey, cheater. That doesn't seem fair or legal that he just kicked straight ahead. He doesn't even come from the side because he doesn't want to kick it with the top of his foot. He wants to kick it where his toes used to be.

Wait, you don't have to go from the side? I thought you had to go from the side.

No, he did it straight ahead. He did it straight ahead. He was a big fat guy and he just— and he kicked it straight. He was. He was a big fat guy. Look, I miss the fat kicker. I'm thrilled every once in a while when I see a guy fat kicker in college football.

Mevis.

Uh, is it Mevis or Meaves?

Whatever, it doesn't matter.

He's—

I see him roll out and I'm like, oh, here we go. I forgot we had those.

Uh, let's update the polls here at Le Batard Show and also put up there, was Tom Dempsey cheating with half his foot?

Is a dead pig happy in the sun? 54% of the audience says no, they are not.

Absolute turd from Jeremy today.

He ran in here to give us that, like, dog whistle.

Like, what was that?

Should they bring back movie poster taglines? 96% of the audience says yes, they should.

No!

Also, the Atlanta Dream are in the semifinals. Holy F. Is Tommy Lee Jones always there with a furrowed brow?

Nice set of eyebrows on him, by the way.

98% of the audience says yes, he is.

I'm drunk!

And last poll, enough from Dan Lanning.

Oh my God.

94% of the audience says yes. And those are your polls.

Thank you so much.