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The Valenti Show

Best Of The Valenti Show On 97.1 The Ticket: Jonathan Smith Fired, Pat Fitzgerald Hired, Rocky Movies Talk, and More!

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico discuss Michigan State's firing of Jonathan Smith and the corresponding hiring of Pat Fitzgerald as their new head football coach. Plus, the guys have a hilarious discussion about the Rocky movie franchise, Rico gives his top 14 NFL teams, and they all react to the Lions' win over the Cowboys.

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0:00.0

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0:11.5

I want to explain something.

0:13.2

I have nothing but loving my heart for Jeremy Otto.

0:15.3

He's a wonderful man, a quality father, and a decent update guy.

0:19.2

But how did we arrive at a point where we are platforming someone who cheated in Spartan

0:26.3

Stadium, who was an architect, one of the biggest cheating scandals in history of the

0:31.1

sport?

0:31.7

And we have a newspaper taking his opinion, which doesn't mean three crumbled up Cheetos to anybody.

0:39.5

His opinion about Michigan State's hire of Pat Fitch Joe, I ain't having it.

0:44.7

You just go elsewhere with that.

0:47.7

His 15 minutes of fame were up about 13 minutes ago.

0:51.1

It's just remarkable to me.

0:53.1

Oh, yes, I have an idea.

0:54.5

Let's go to someone who's a cheat and get their opinion of our, what? I guess they won't the clue. Like, why would I care? What do he has to say? I don't. And that's why I said, you're not putting that in the update. Get out of here with that crap. but hey, while we're here for a moment, before we get to the calls,

1:10.4

the Pat Fitzgerald thing, for people tuning in and going,

1:12.7

oh, golly, gee, there's nothing explosive.

1:17.0

I'm handling this just like the Jonathan Smith hiring.

1:20.0

I don't have a lot of terrible things to say.

1:22.9

I don't have a lot of great things to say.

1:24.7

Here's where I'm at.

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