They said I’d never make it to 30, then they said 35 was out of the question, next they said 40 was insurmountable for me and now what are they going to say? Forty five can’t be reached, it’s not happening, there is no chance in hell he’ll ever make it to 45. Well they were wrong, it’s true, it’s my 45th birthday and it’s a big celebration. It really is a three day celebration because I have to work tonight and we’ll have the ultimate Ferrall blowout birthday bash show. It will truly be one for the ages that will be unequalled by anyone on Sirius XM. We will have the biggest names, the biggest guests, surprises and utter chaos all night. You are not going to miss it, starting at 8PM East (5PM West) on Sirius XM’s Howard 101!! Read more…
Jack Tatum passed away at 61 yesterday. Think about this guy for a minute would you? How would you like to have the nickname of “The Assassin” basically from college football through the pros. He played at Ohio State and for the Raiders, of course he was traded to the Oilers later in his career, but he won a Super Bowl with the Raiders. You know you’re a bad ass when you get a nickname like “The Assassin”. I mean is there any nickname that can even come close to that when people just know that you’re a head hunter and your one of the most vicious hitters the league’s ever known? I mean he’s taken guys heads off in the Super Bowl, in the regular season games and even preseason games. Everybody already knows the legendary story about what he did to Darryl Stingley of the Patriots on a pass from Steve Grogan. He leveled him so bad he paralyzed him for life, and the strange part of the story was he never talked to him again to the day he died. He never apologized, never wrote him, never called him, never visited him, never said he was in the wrong. He just flat out laid him out and paralyzed him and Tatum just walked away from it like he was just getting done eating a bagel. I mean that’s how vicious this guy was. I remember seeing Gary Fencik and Doug Plank play for the Bears in the eighties, and they were vicious. I mean they played the game the same way where they were just head hunters, knocking guys from here to eternity with every hit. Their goal was to literally fucking kill you as they speared you and did everything else imaginable. They were going to make sure if you came over the middle that you remembered it and never came back over the middle the rest of the game, or if you played them twice in a season, you knew when you strapped in against those two that you were dead meat. I think that when people played against Jack Tatum, they feared him. They knew that they were in store for a whooping and ass kicking and some serious banging and thumping when they played the Raiders. The Raiders were dirty but Tatum was the dirtiest. You know how dirty he was? When guys die usually people come out of the woodwork and say all kinds of nice things about you. When Jack Tatum died yesterday, there were a lot of people that wouldn’t even give a quote about him because they didn’t want to be tied in to being nice to him because he was never nice to anybody, although a lot of people knew him off the field and said he was a great guy and he was awesome and cool and charitable. He did a lot for diabetes and everything else, but this guy was so feared that when he died, no one really said anything except his teammates, and not many Raiders were really talking about it either. I still thought it was a huge passing though because he had a huge influence on the league. Read more…
It was pretty incredible last night seeing Matt Garza of the Tampa Bay Rays toss a nifty no hitter against the Detroit Tigers. It was the first no hitter in Tampa Bay Rays history, strangely enough though they’ve been a part of three no hitters this season (2 against, 1 for). Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden had his perfect game against the Rays on Mother’s Day, then former Ray Edwin Jackson had a no hitter for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Rays in Inter-league play and now Garza tosses the no-hit gem against the Tigers last night if you can believe it. It was a good game that was saved when Ben Zobrist made a huge catch in right field in the early innings on a ball lined over his head where he made a leaping stab of it going back toward the wall. You’ve always gotta love watching a no hitter! You get into the seventh and then you get all the media outlets starting to report on it, like ESPN will say Matt Garza has a no hitter into the seventh, then they’ll do another post after the seventh. Then they do one in the eighth and one after the eighth. Then they do one in the ninth and then again if the guy got it done. Usually when people start talking about a no hitter in the seventh inning the guy gets lit up and somebody gets a hit to ruin it. It just seems like there is weird karma working against the pitcher every time a guy’s close and someone mentions “hey, this guy’s got a no hitter in the eighth inning.” Then boom, next guy will get the hit to break it up. But that didn’t happen last night, Garza closed the deal in the ninth inning and his fans went nuts in the stands and his teammates mobbed him on the field. He got a pie in the face afterwards. I say that it’s nice to go to work on a Monday night, to start the workweek off, and see a guy toss a no hitter. It definitely made the show kick ass. It was good having Bill Romanowski on the show last night and talking a little NFL football as we get fired up now that all the camps are opening up. I’m going out to dinner with my boss tonight at 5PM East (2PM West) right before the show, that should be interesting. The show’s at 8PM East (5PM West) on Sirius XM’s Howard 101! See you then. Shake it up!! Read more…
What’s wrong with Juan Pablo Montoya?!?! The guy’s kicking everyone’s ass in the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, and then with like 30 laps left he has this horrible pit stop where it took him all day, like 13 seconds to change his tires. He got four tires changed and then Jamie McMurray got only two and McMurray goes on to win it while Montoya ends up crashing into the wall. Jamie McMurray, of course, won the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 and then Dario Franchitti won the Indy 500, so Chip Ganassi got the trifecta of the biggest races in auto racing this year. I thought the races were great. The only thing else that I noticed this weekend of any significance was the fact that the Yankees kicked the Royals ass and A‑Rod did not hit his 600th homerun, but everybody thought he was going to. Also, the Angels got pissed on by the first place Texas Rangers in three of four games during which Hunter won his eighth. Now the Rangers have a seven game lead over the Angels in the AL West and that’s a huge cushion as you get ready to get into August. That’s pretty much it from the weekend. We’re live at 8PM East (5PM West) on Sirius XM’s Howard 101. Shake it up!! Read more…
Tonight on the Ferrall Show it’s a Pain Free Friday!! There’s a lot going on this weekend, primarily the Brick Yard 400 in Indianapolis at the 500, one of Nascar’s biggest races. Tony Stewart would love to get it at 10 to 1 odds. There’s going to be some great racing going on. We’ll have Captain Thunder of CaptainThunderRacing.com on the show at around 11PM East ( 8PM West) tonight to preview the big weekend in Indy, and of course the race will be on Sirius 128.
We were talking NFL last night after Dez Bryant signed his contract with the Cowboys and Colt McCoy signed a $5 million dollar deal with the Browns. When I was driving home John Lackey and the Red Sox had a no hitter through seven. Jerry Manuel they say is kind of safe with the Mets but I don’t know, they way they’re playing you got to start asking if you believe any of that hype that he’s safe. Omar Minaya says he’s fine, nothing’s going to happen but they’ve just sucked it up on the road, they stink! Couldn’t believe the Nationals beat the Reds for the second straight day. The Yankees, killed the Royals in the Bronx 10-4 making Sabathia 13-3 now. He’s been amazing this year and he might win another Cy Young. Baseball trade rumors are about Roy Oswalt of the Astros and of course Dan Harren of the Diamondbacks, as well as guys like Ted Lilly, and there’s rumors that the Phillies are going to move Jason Werth, so there was a lot of hype like that on the show last night. Read more…
We had a great day at the Hard Rock yesterday with the NFL Fantasy Draft Party for our new Fantasy Sports Channel on Sirius XM. The place was packed with fans, packed with media, all kinds of TV crews out there, all the big wigs in suits, the hosts agents, Jeremy Roenick was there, Maurice Jones-Drew, Ferrall and Baba Booey. It was great! They did NFL Radio there, broadcasting the draft live on Sirius XM with Adam Shein and Rich Gannon breaking down the picks. Baba Booey and John Hein did the Wrap-up Show and we were just raging. The Afterthoughts is the name of my team from the Ferrall show and Howard 101. We thought we did a great job, we ended up getting DeAngelo Williams, Aaron Rogers, Sidney Rice, Antonio Bryant, Braylon Edwards, Kenny Britt, Greg Olson, Antonio Gates, the Vikings defense, Jay Feely, Correll Buckhalter, Devery Henderson. We liked our draft and we ended up getting all kinds of good players, it was a lot of fun and we like our team and our chances of winning, it should be kick ass. We ended up having Sage Rosenfeld, the Vikings quarterback on the show last night as well as Aaron Rodgers of the Packers. They were both at a bash in Southern California at the Del Mar racetrack with my boy Big Daddy and it was cool to have them on. We had Dylan Mcilrath, the New York Rangers top draft pick from the Moosejaw team and the W. He’s now a New York Ranger and it was cool having him on. Jay Thomas was also on the show. We’ll do more of the same tonight at 8PM East (5PM West). Don’t forget to check out the vent every day and the newly added Fantasy Alarm deal on FerrallRadio.com. Follow me on Facebook at facebook.com/scottferrall79 and on twitter on @scottferrall. Have a great day. Shake it up. Read more…
How great was the show having Jeremy Roenick in the studio last night and my old college roommate Scott Brady for a lot of reminiscing, a lot of laughing and a lot of old stories. It was cool and it was particularly interesting having Roenick in since we’re talking about hockey. The Kovalchuk deal with the Devils is what I particularly wanted to talk about with J.R. It’s unbelievable!! The guy signs a 17‑year deal to stay with the Devils and I don’t think it’s a bad deal either. I mean on the surface it looks like a joke that they would do a deal with him for $102 million over 17 years, but the bottom line is that the deal spreads out so evenly. It’s like $6.5 million per year the first couple years, then he gets it up to around $10.5 million for a bulk of about five years and then really the last six years of the deal are a joke. He gets paid, I think, $750 thousand in the sixth year remaining and then $550 thousand for the remaining five years, the last five years of the deal. It says he’d be 44 if he was still playing in the last year, but you know they’re not going to have this guy playing that many years. He’ll play for at least roughly the 12 years where he’s making the bulk of the money, and it’s a lot of money but, in the end, it will be like writing checks to an old veteran that still does leg work for the franchise. He’ll just be showing up at old timer’s games, showing up at the arena and being a part of their legacy and all the rest. But for the next 12 years you get Ilya Kovalchuk, who is a point-a-game guy, a guy that typically is going to score 50 goals a year if not more. He’s just an incredible player and he brings them to a new level. The Devils will be one of the Stanley Cup favorites having him on their top line and having a guy like Parise playing there, an Olympian who’s just as much of a bad ass. Now he’s going to get a new contract and it’s going to affect him in some way or another because they gave Kovalchuk all this money so they’re going to have to give Parise a bunch of money, or will they eventually have to trade Parise because they can’t afford him. That could be a situation that they might have to deal with, but next year, at the very least, they’re going to have two of the best players in the world playing on their team, and they’re just going to be dangerous. I know they’ve been a quick out in the playoffs the last three years, but I like the Kovalchuk deal. I’m glad he stayed with New Jersey and didn’t go to the LA Kings, and I was really happy to see the deal go down. Don’t forget, Wednesday we’re at the Hard Rock in Times Square for the Sirius XM Fantasy Football Draft, a lot of big names will be there and I’ll be there too. It’s going to be cool, just a giant party from noon to 4PM East, go to Sirius.com to check it out. Read more…
Can you believe this Oosthuizen, the guy who won the British Open?!?! He held the lead ever since passing Rory McIlroy on Friday’s second round in the morning when he was at 12 under before all the bad wind hit, when it was like 40 to 50 mile an hour gusts. Saturday and Sunday the weather was gorgeous at St. Andrews where they had to deal with a little bit of wind but it wasn’t raining and the conditions were ripe and he cruised Sunday. At one point he had a nine-stroke lead and he won it by seven strokes over Lee Westwood. No one had ever heard of him before, he’s from South Africa and now he’s a household name after he won the Claret Jug. It was really the most boring British Open I’ve ever seen in my life. I wish I could tell you differently, that it was kick-ass and great, but when there’s no rain and there’s no cold and rough conditions and slop and gigantic messes when you’re in the rough, divots and the lawn weeds at the British Open, I can’t say it was good. I mean it was dry and the balls were rolling, I mean they were hitting Tee shots onto the green on Par 4s and that sucks. I want these guys to have to suffer during the Majors, not have it easy and certainly not be 17 under. If you give them dry conditions and no wind or rain, they’ll rock and roll and have low scores and that’s just boring. So Oosthuizen wins it and nobody cares. There you go, my favorite Major ruined because of a no name status guy and no rough conditions. I thought the whole God damned thing sucked. So now what do we have? All we have is baseball and that sucks too and Andy Pettitte ripped his nuts and that sucks too. Read more…
What a scene it will be tonight at Yankee Stadium, with the passing of George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard when everything was going down during the All Star break and they were out in Anaheim. The Yankees return home and battle the Rays in a match-up of first and second place teams in the A.L. East. It’s in the Bronx and you know it’s just going to be a scene. They are going to do something all weekend from, what I am hearing, to honor “The Boss” and Sheppard and so it will be interesting to keep an eye on that. There are fifteen baseball games on the schedule tonight, but that one is really the game of the night with everything that has transpired over the last week or so in Major League Baseball. Good to have baseball back. Last night there were seven games with the most surprising being that Texas went into Fenway and roughed up the Red Sox. Read more…
The self-promotion kings were at it again last night. ESPN are the original ass-kissers of the sports world. We just got done watching them suck Lebron James’ dick during “The Decision”, and now we’re strapping ourselves in for another summer of them sucking off Brett Favre with his annual saga of whether or not he’ll come back and play. But last night may be the worst, when they had their own Oscars, the ESPY’s, which no one gives a rat’s ass about. Oh, they get all the biggest names in sports and gather them in Los Angeles for one big night of sucking each other off, is that supposed to be impressive?!? Plus they had their 3-hour red-carpet ass-kissing special with all these athletes that was so painful and I couldn’t believe some of the stupid questions I heard people asking, including Erin “The Wicked Witch of the East” Andrews, although I will say she looked good in her tight dress. But, just seeing some of the stupidity of it all and the sucking up, like listening to Kenny Chesney tell me about the life lessons he learned playing high school football, were just hilarious. I mean, I’ll give it to the athletes, like Lindsey Voon, Drew Brees and the flying tomato, Shaun White, because they do their thing and that’s what we like watching and being a part of. But I get so sick and tired of this bullshit ESPN and their sucking up to these people and playing like they’re all best friends with them and analyzing the awards, trying to break down the categories. Really the only good thing about that whole event is looking at all the smoking hot chicks that were at it, because I really don’t care about the multimillion-dollar players, I’d rather look at the hot chicks and I know you would too. Read more…
