7/25: Joe Tessitore remembers Nebraska, Michigan State punters who died in car crash
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler were killed in a car accident over the weekend after coaching kids at a football camp. Joe Tessitore, who was at the camp to watch his son compete, joins Bruce and Stew to remember Foltz and Sadler.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel, and it is Monday morning as we tape, |
| 0:17.0 | and we're coming from Chicago, where it is Big Ten Media Days and quite honestly a very |
| 0:24.7 | somber vibe here because of the tragedy over the weekend and we're pleased to be joined by |
| 0:31.8 | our friend Joe Tessator and Joe has a unique connection to the story. I'm sure a lot of you have already heard about |
| 0:41.2 | the tragedy of two kicker, two specialists who passed away in a car accident. We're going to get |
| 0:49.7 | into that in a bit. So Joe, thanks for joining us. Yeah, I wish it was under better circumstances. |
| 0:54.3 | Stu and Bruce is always good to be with you, but this was obviously a very difficult weekend |
| 0:59.1 | with losing Sam Fultz and Mike Sadler, just a horrible tragedy. So to get people the context, |
| 1:05.6 | first of all, if you don't know, Mike Sadler, great punter at Michigan State a couple years ago, |
| 1:10.1 | and Fultz was the all big 10 puncher |
| 1:13.2 | last season in Nebraska would have been going into his senior season and the accident took place in |
| 1:19.3 | wisconsin where everybody was assembled for you know a really major high school kicking camp |
| 1:26.8 | and those guys were counselors. |
| 1:28.6 | Joe, we wanted to bring him on. |
| 1:30.1 | His son was a participant. |
| 1:31.5 | He's a high school kicker. |
| 1:32.4 | He's a participant in the camp. |
| 1:33.9 | And we'll just let you take it from there. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, you know, this is obviously in the world of specialists. |
| 1:39.6 | We sort of are in our own little island of college football. |
| 1:42.7 | But the guy who's probably considered the foremost guru in the world of specialists is Jamie Cole. |
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