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Week 9 Sunday Night Freestyle: Michael Thomas gets the call, Brady out-goats Rodgers

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Week 9, New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas received a flip-phone call from destiny on national television with one of the most memorable touchdown celebrations of the year. Yahoo Sports' Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson talk about Thomas' moment in the spotlight and why they think it's all an act as he tries to become the highest paid wide receiver in the league.They also go around the league and talk Packers/Patriots, bad times in Detroit and impressive wins from the Falcons, Panthers, Chargers and Texans.Stay up to date with all the latest news and coverage from around the NFL on Twitter @YahooSportsNFLFollow Terez @TerezPaylorFollow Charles @CharlesRobinson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports, NFL Sunday Night Freestyle,'m Torez Palin as always joined by my main man Charles

0:16.7

Robinson and Charles I got a question for you when was the last time you had a flip phone

0:21.3

I actually I have a pretty good flip foam store I've only

0:27.0

had one flip phone in my entire life and I'm pretty sure it gave me cancer.

0:30.0

Yeah they do that.

0:33.0

Yeah, let me, I'll give you the quick rundown of this.

0:35.0

Okay, so I'm working for the Detroit Free Press as an intern, right?

0:39.0

This is way back, long time ago, like almost 20 years ago.

0:42.0

And they send me out on a story and they said here's a cell phone and I'm like oh my god I've never had a cell phone before this is amazing it was like a brick I swear to God it weighed like six pounds. It was a flip phone with it. You know used to have like the plastic antenna you would like pull out right right? So I take that thing and I go out to work and I remember I turned it on and I was using it and

1:05.4

you know it had that huge battery.

1:07.6

It got so hot next to my face after like 60 seconds of use. I could have taken like a potato and put it between my ear and the

1:16.2

phone and probably cooked lunch. They were as big as potatoes, man. Was it gray?

1:21.8

Because I had one of those. That is exactly what it was. It was that gray crappy Motorola and I put it in my computer bag and this is how it's life ended. I flipped my computer bag over my shoulder. It flew out and I

1:35.6

like watched it go like 10 yards in the air, hit the ground and explode into 150 pieces. So the Hazmet team showed up quickly afterward to put the has met

1:43.3

met team showed up quickly afterward to put it back together.

1:45.6

You know, I had one of those big gray clunky phones too, man, and I was so happy to get my first cell phone.

1:51.9

I was, you know, I'm like, great, this this is awesome but this thing was like five

1:55.2

years old by that point right so I'm pull it out around my boys bro they start

1:59.3

roasted me with this phone. They were roasted me with this phone. The Zach Morris phone.

2:04.0

They were roasted me for this phone.

2:06.0

So one thing I can tell you is that the phone...

2:09.0

But did you have two?

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