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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

Best of The Herd

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

News, Sports News, Football, Basketball, Sports

4.110.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Welcome into The Best of The Herd Podcast! Colin pays his respects to the late great John Madden telling a story about his love for football. The biggest NFL QB move this season proves the Rams made the right move going all in for Matt Stafford. Baker Mayfield receives death threats at home, but this could lead to the freedom Baker and the Browns both want. Plus, Eic Shanks - FOX Sports CEO joins Colin to reminisce his friendship with Madden and the effect his life has on sports for generations to come!

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

Thanks for listening to The Best of Heard podcast.

0:07.2

Be sure to catch us live every weekday.

0:09.1

From 12 to 3 Eastern, 9 to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS1,

0:13.4

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0:16.0

or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd.

0:20.5

This is the best of the herd with colin cowher on fox sports radio

0:25.5

uh here we go it is a wednesday we are packed it is great to have you in live in Los Angeles. It's the herd. Wherever you may be.

0:41.2

And however you may be listening, IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and FS1. Joy Taylor is joining me.

0:49.8

We're going to have a special guest in one hour. Eric Shanks is the CEO of Fox Sports. I don't think he's ever been on my show today.

0:56.3

He has a had a very close relationship, certainly closer than anybody at Fox with John Madden, the late John Madden, who passed away.

1:06.8

We got that documentary done just in time for John to watch it.

1:14.7

And, you know, there's no guarantees for tomorrow,

1:16.3

as Eric Shanks texted me yesterday. And the people here are sad, saddened by the loss of Madden.

1:21.3

But I think happy that John could see how much he mattered to football and them.

1:29.8

It was really, everybody felt so fortunate that they got the documentary done before John had passed.

1:37.9

Because you just, you didn't know.

1:39.0

We knew he wasn't in great health in his mid-80s.

1:41.9

But just a lot of emotions

1:45.7

on this lot today.

1:47.7

It's always special when you can give someone their flowers

1:50.0

while they're still here. So it's very

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