one sound bite here from tom brady. tom brady with a little advice from patriot fans. cut your hair. yeah. start drinking early. get nice and rowdy. come out here and cheer for the home team. those 4:15 starts are nice. 11:30 the box is open to 12:00, and by the time the game starts, you have no clue what s happening. 8:00 a.m., i m there, start up the grill. college. college. i ve got my bledsoe shirt on. you ve never been to a patriots game in your life. coming up spring training, super bowl
and it was evident half way through the first quarter that big ten football, midwest football is just highly inferior to sec football. and i don t say this with any pride. i m curious, what happened to the big ten? what happened to midwest football? what happened to notre dame, michigan, ohio state s still good. but you put ohio state against florida or any team or lsu, they re going to kill them. it s speed. if you watch a usc team, they re fast. watch an sec team, alabama, or auburn, they re fast. the big ten teams aren t as fast. and it s proven out. we ll look at every bowl game where the sec plays a big ten team. they ve got faster guys. speed kills and they spread out the field. you talk to nfl coaches all the time. it s the speed of the game. if you re going to a big ten school, are you not going to be
games back, four behind boston for the wild card. you know, mike, what team have i been calling the little engine detroit tigers. i ve been saying your guy. maybe they don t have the biggest payroll, but you know what, willie, what they don t have in payroll, they make up in heart. i think i can. it s about the rebirth of a city. the rebirth of a city. and willie, dare i say, perhaps, in the dark days of 2011, maybe a rebirth of a nation? here s how they do it. the verlander tattoo. the red hot detroit tigers, for their 12th consecutive play. the catcher comes up with a two-run home run. tigers tie the game in the fifth. tigers come back to win 6-5, they need two more innings to clench the a.l. central.
taken care of by the small community up there, and i get to watch him every sunday on nbc? i mean, forget the network. and he s got a great my son is going to notre dame. oklahoma, usc, or alabama comes calling, if they re from the midwest, he s going to notre dame. my friends recruited to notre dame in the last few years, it s been clear that the discussion between parents and kids, you know they stepped up the academic standards in the last few years. that is a real problem? i think it s a real problem. because when you go to these schools and you have to go to school, you d rather go to a place that you don t. so let me ask you this, willie geist. and over the past five years, my conference, the sec has become dominant. saw alabama against penn state, i absolutely loved penn state, i loved their people, i love their coach. they are a great program, a great institution. i can t say enough great things about penn state. and yet i was watching the game
the stadiums, it drives my crazy, the phillies will go on the road and we ll see ncc high school games have more people. what is it with some of these cities? they don t want to come out and see the greatest game. it s september, a lot of teams like houston. i know, when i was growing up, hank aaron s coming to town. go see halladay pitch. it s electric, like seeing gibson pitch, colfax pitch. you don t have to be a winning team to go see a winning team. i love going to games so much. and i love i love the game. i love the tigers. you ve always loved the tigers. the rangers. we talked about people always complain, we re talking about the rangers and the tigers too much every day, i love these kids from mid market. fabulous. they play the game for free. cliff lee. i think i can. the engine that could. he s one of the highest paid people in majors. that guy would work for free.