Must Wins & Media Row: Trolling ESPN and Talking Shop with Matt Hasselbeck

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We made it! All the way to San Francisco. Host Dave Dameshek strolls down Lombard Street. Then travels down to media night in San Jose. Did ESPN anchors fall for his long running bit? (Coach, is this a must win game?) Of course they did. Then we chat with Seattle Seahawks great Matt Hasselbeck and Handsome Hank Hodgson on media row. Are we ready for the season to end? No. But we're going out in style on this episode of Football America! (Photo by Vera Nieuwenhuis/via AP) AUDIO Football America! is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/football-america/id1831757512 Follow us: Dave Dameshek: https://x.com/dameshek Henry Hodgson: https://x.com/nflukhank Host: Dave Dameshek Guests: Henry Hodgson Team: The Super Fuentes Brothers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Director: Danny Benitez Senior Producers: Gino Fuentes, Mike Fuentes Executive Producer: Soup Campbell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi and hello, my fellow football Americans, I've come to San Francisco.
0:04.0	Why?
0:05.0	Super Bowl 60, obviously.
0:08.0	Seahawks, Patriots, a sequel of Super Bowl 49 played in the home of the San Francisco 49ers,
0:16.0	which is really nowhere near San Francisco. It's like an hour away.
0:20.0	I know, it's weird. But let's not
0:21.7	get bogged down with nomenclature or as I say we get bogged all the way up. Whose name
0:28.6	the most valuable player in society's most watch game does matter given the degrees of
0:33.8	pigskin legend achieved not to mention more, more importantly, the commercial opportunities.
0:38.3	Unfortunately, the MVP has been misnamed a number of times in Super Bowl history.
0:44.3	Consider Broadway Joe Namath. Yeah, he deserves credit for prophesizing the Jets victory over the Colts,
0:49.3	but in the actual game, Matt Snell's the guy who ran for 121 yards and scored a touchdown, which is more than
0:55.7	Joe Namath scored in the whole game. So Matt Snell, you are the actual MVP of three.
1:01.7	But that's nothing compared to Tom Brady, who's from San Mateo, which is a lot closer to where I
1:06.6	am right now than Santa Clara is, but let's not get distracted by that and instead talk about his first Super Bowl win injustice for Thai law going up against one
1:16.0	of the best if not the best offenses the world has ever seen the greatest show on
1:20.2	turf his pick six is enough to make him the true MVP of that game but that may
1:25.2	not even be the worst one Brady got. 28 to 3 rally. Brady
1:29.1	threw for 466, but how about James White? He caught 14 of those passes. One went for a touchdown.
1:34.3	Plus, he ran two more in, one that forced overtime and then one that ended overtime. So it's pretty clear he should have been the MVP. You know what I'm talking about, right?
1:43.3	Yeah, no. we're talking about.
1:45.1	I mean, common sense.
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