Welcome to Extra Points. Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his good, good pals, Dave Damashak and Martin Weiss.

All right, welcome to the Extra Points podcast. Cousin Sal coming to you Friday morning leading into Super Wild Card weekend. Look who we have here. Spaghetti and Meatballs. Fiddling is always with the knobs. Babyface Joel Solomon producing this mess and joining me as always my dear, dear pals, Dave Damashek, Martin Weiss. Shack, you're wearing, I don't know, what is that, a Pompu? What is that? A parca? You have the, what is this Steelers? What, I don't know. What are you going for there? A papusa? I don't know. But yes, it is a custom made by my pal. In fact, our mutual pal, Dick Banks, his mom made this for me. A long time ago stitched together a bunch of terrible towels. Oh, that's cool. That's what that is. And what material is at? So this is a steel. It's terrible towels. Oh, it's made out of terrible towels. Wow. It's literal terrible towels. Yeah. Oh, wow. You don't wear it. See, I'm an old school Steelers fan. You don't wear it. I agree. You don't wear it. But go ahead. Where are you going to go from there? Well, the rules go for the old school people, Myron Kopp, who invented the thing, is you're supposed to keep it on the shelf until the playoffs. You don't deploy it in regular season like you see. Like you see contemporary fans waving that thing. It's technically wrong. You're wasting the power, the juice of it, which is supposed

to be preserved for January football. But either way, the way you're not supposed to make a shirt

out of it or whatever this is. A jacket. Martin, you're the stylish one of the three of us. What are you

working at there? Well, I just think it's impressive that Damashek continued his dedication to those types of shirts. Like, if you notice that every time Damashen ever does the show with us, he's got on. I don't know what it's called like a Western shirt or whatever, but it's a button down on the lapels. The only thing you're missing there, buddy, is two double-breasted pockets. So I'm mad that Dick Bank's mom didn't saw you went two double breasted pockets on the chest there. But otherwise than that, it just would be, I mean.

All right. All right, Cheney McGee. I don't weigh in on every fashion choice you made.

I was asked to do so. I mean, I personally think, I mean, personally, I wouldn't wear it,

but I'm an adult. I'm not going out on the streets or anything. I'm wearing it for our little podcast on here. We're going to put it on the video and everything. Cheney McGee, that is an interesting name, Cheney McGee. If you don't pick the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend, just take it off now. That's the whole thing. The video, because if you're not, if you're not going to put your mouth where your shirt is, the other one is, I don't want to hear it. I'm not in the line, you mean? Whatever. One thing, you got a lot of points to play with there. We'll get to that point. Babyface Joel Sommon, and you agree as a fellow Steelers fan, And he kind of has to back the team at least with the 12 and a half at this point, right? I love it that Dave is wearing his heart on his sleeves and the rest of his whole body there, but I agree. Will he be a wolf and sheep's clothing? He's got to put his money where his mouth is. Unlike the last two weeks where he went against the black and a game. Dave. Hey, it's worked, but you know what? I don't believe, I believe we talk. I'll stop. Stop. Stop. We talk about like do as I, uh, yeah, don't do as I say as I do whatever. Uh, this is one of those double standards. Of course, you can't curse a team.

You can't make a team play better with good luck charms,

especially from 2,500 miles away or whatever.

Although maybe I am the exception to that.

Everybody else's little rituals.

No, of course, listen.

I'm doing what I can to be supportive here.

But listen, I feel like we're at a crossroads.

And, Sal, I know you have mentioned it and you are aware of it.

And I don't want to be a harbinger of doom and gloom any more than I do.

But let's just take a moment here.

These playoffs, it's exciting, great storylines. Football's almost over everybody. Let's just like, no, don't let it. Don't ignore it because then you're going. They're going to keep it going. They made 18 weeks. So they'll keep it all, they'll make it 22 weeks and then 24 weeks. We'll be playing in May, right, Martin? We don't have to worry about it. You know what Damashek just did was equivalent of like the day before Halloween and you ready for Christmas shopping? Like, sure, it's on the way. But it's not impending. It's not eminent. Like we have things to do before that before that happens. Keep your own to say in Cheney McGee. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm asking, I'm, I'm, I'm asking, I'm, if you have, I, I don't know, I'm, if you'm asking Martin if you have to... Except one of the two. I know you don't like either. I was saying, I had to say, Cheney better, because if anything else, but... At least it sounds like an old school football player. That's true. Cheney McGee played... Cheney. I thought he anchored the line with me and Joe Green back in the day.

Cheney McGee is going to jump in for Big Ben after he posts a two for 23.

And they're going to like, all right, that's enough.

That's enough.

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