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Still Against All Odds

Remembering Franco Harris, Sports Moments Synonymous with the City & NFL Sunday Ticket Transitions to YouTube

Still Against All Odds

Against All Odds

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

It’s a Thursday edition of the Extra Points podcast with Cousin Sal, Dave Dameshek and Martin Weiss! The show starts off with the guys talking about the life and career of Pittsburgh Steelers legend Franco Harris. While on the topic of Harris they also discuss the Immaculate Reception and if there’s other plays in sports history that are synonymous with the city they happened in? They move onto the NFL Sunday Ticket transitioning to YouTube from DirecTV and if this will be better or worse? The trio previews Thursday Night Football and gives their game picks for this holiday weekend. The show rounds out with their PUPs of the week and Eddie Spaghetti says why Pittsburgh Penguins fans are ruining hockey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Extra Points is presented for the people by Caesar's Sportsbook.

0:03.2

You bet you get with Caesar's rewards.

0:05.7

You must be 21 or older.

0:12.1

Welcome to Extra Points.

0:14.6

Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his good, good pals, Dave Damashach and Martin Weiss.

0:21.4

All right, welcome the Extra Points Podcast.

0:23.6

Part of the Extra Points Podcast Network brought to you by Omaha.

0:27.2

Omaha Audio Cousin Sal here on a Thursday morning.

0:31.5

Mikey Meatballs, Eddie Spaghetti, fiddling with the knobs.

0:34.2

We have Joel Solomon, the baby face himself producing this disaster.

0:38.3

And joining me, as always, my dear, dear pals, Dave Damashek, Martin Wysheck, I thought of you all

0:43.0

day yesterday, buddy. We woke up to the bad news, really, really sad news.

0:47.1

It was Frank O'Harris, legendary Steelers running back just a few days before they were to celebrate,

0:56.8

commemorate the Immaculate Reception 50 years.

1:01.6

He had been doing interviews and everything and passes away Wednesday, age of 72.

1:05.5

And I know, Shaq, one of your favorites actually looked a lot like you.

1:09.0

When you experimented with the beard, you really could have been father and son.

1:10.8

And there are side-by by side pictures of you.

1:16.9

Tell us your thoughts. I know you talked about it on minus three, but tell us about you and Franco. Well, listen, I, you know, it was the play in our society's most popular sport. And I find it

1:26.1

interesting that he carried that thing around with him

1:28.9

for the next 50 years. And it didn't somehow overwhelm the guy. Isn't that a little strange?

1:34.9

Wouldn't you think that in most circumstances that it would just be like, that's what that guy did.

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