College Football Championship Weekend Preview & is Riley/Kelly villainization fair?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ello, gov'nor! See?! Accents are fun, just ask Massachusetts native Brian Kelly, who will respond in his...umm...southern accent? Andy and Ari bandy about forced and flawed southern accents before reacting to the thick vitriol surrounding the Kelly and Lincoln Riley moves. Should they be villanized for taking higher-paying, and, potentially, higher-ceiling jobs? The guys then dive into their championship weekend preview!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, that's a great way to get started. |
| 0:15.0 | And I haven't even won all my games yet. |
| 0:19.0 | It's a great night. all my games guys. |
| 0:26.6 | It's a great night to be a tiger. I'm here with my family and we are so excited to be in the great state of Louisiana, |
| 0:32.6 | but more importantly, to be with you great fans and to be part of what is going to be an incredible ride |
| 0:43.7 | here at Louisiana State University. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show where I'm going to talk about pocket my car next to the boss. |
| 0:57.0 | And so we're going to mask our natural accents and try to fake some other kind of accent. |
| 1:04.8 | Brian Kelly's southern accent, Ari Wasserman, is the worst sense. |
| 1:11.2 | Was he like, was he like, was that, was that, was that on purpose? |
| 1:15.4 | Or was he like trying to fit in and didn't think anyone would notice? |
| 1:19.9 | I believe they call that code, code switching where you try to talk like the people you're |
| 1:25.2 | around. |
| 1:26.3 | And I believe he tried to pronounce |
| 1:29.1 | tigers the way ed orsron did the way the good lord intended tigers tigers but |
| 1:36.8 | brian kelly's not built to to to say tigers i don't know if you know this about me, but my mother's Israeli. |
| 1:47.7 | So my mom is from Israel and my dad is from America. |
| 1:53.1 | So my mom has a very thick accent, even though she's been here for more than 30 years. |
| 1:58.1 | And it remains. |
| 1:59.7 | And when she's around her family who still live in Israel, my father's name is Bob. |
| 2:05.3 | She calls him Bob. |
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