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First Things First

Storytime With Wildes: The Steelers Are The Appendix Of The NFL

First Things First

Fox Sports

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the FIRST THINGS FIRST YOUTUBE CHANNEL Kevin Wildes tells the story of his son's appendix getting removed last week and explains why that led him to believe the Steelers should draft a QB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So there's a lot of ways you can end up with a sports take. Observational. You watch the game and you saw

0:37.1

something. Empirical. I saw the data and I came up with a sports take. Observational. You watch the game and you saw something. Empirical. I saw the

0:39.3

data and I came up with something. Comparative. This event reminds me of that event. Experiential,

0:46.8

mostly for former pro athletes. I played in this, so here's my personal experience. Very rarely does a theory come out of what I'm about to say.

0:57.4

My son had his appendix removed, so now I think the Steelers need to draft a quarterback.

1:03.1

That's what I would call an out-of-left field sports take. But it's an honest one, and I'll tell you the

1:09.0

story behind it. I missed Monday's show and when i got back

1:12.1

on tuesday we're talking about aaron rogers going to pittsburgh and what should the steelers do

1:16.5

and i had a whole new outlook on life which boils down to don't assume everything is going to be

1:22.7

fine you'd be optimistic but just don't assume everything is going to be fine because that's how I was

1:29.4

kind of cruising along and I got a stark reminder.

1:32.7

And here's the story.

1:34.6

Sunday night, my son's almost done with his science fair experiment.

1:38.7

And he's like, oh, my stomach hurts, this amorphous stomach ache.

1:43.2

And we're like, faking is on the board.

1:46.9

Not saying he's a liar, but he did once tell me after an intense recess,

1:54.1

Dad, pop my Achilles, but I was okay.

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