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CNN Live At Daybreak
Talking Sports with Chris Cotter
Aired October 18, 2002 - 06:42 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The World Series is but one of the topics we'll discuss this morning with Chris Cotter of 790 The Zone right here in Atlanta.
Let's talk about the World Series a bit shall we?
CHRIS COTTER, 790 THE ZONE: Some good news. Some fun stuff to talk about. Boy, what a dreary day in the world of news today.
COSTELLO: I know. Poor Chris was sitting back there listening to the news and he was getting increasingly depressed.
COTTER: If it wasn't for Chad, I'd be...
COSTELLO: Stop that.
COTTER: ... head in hands in tears right now.
COSTELLO: Well we're talking...
COTTER: It's so beautiful. The weather is so beautiful. It's not because of you, it's just because of the weather.
COSTELLO: Just the weather, yes.
COTTER: That's right.
COSTELLO: Anyway, we're talking about the World Series and Barry Bonds and that might be exciting.
COTTER: No, it's going to be exciting because, as you were saying before you went to break, 17 years Barry Bonds has waited. And he is the best player in baseball, one of the best of all times.
COSTELLO: And they say they're going to pitch to him.
COTTER: Well, you know what, I think that you have to pitch to him to some extent. I mean you're not going to pitch to him if you have second and third and you know, especially two outs and first base open. You're going to walk him in that situation. But throughout times in the game, you're going to have to pitch to him, especially as well as Benito Santiago has hit behind him.
COSTELLO: Oh yes.
COTTER: He's hitting in the fifth spot and he's really hit well during the post season. COSTELLO: Kenny Lofton, too. Of course he's before Barry, isn't he?
COTTER: Kenny Lofton is the leadoff man for the Giants. And we should just talk about Barry. I don't want to talk about Kenny Lofton.
COSTELLO: Why, it's so spicy to talk about him.
Actually, I want to talk about my favorite story in sports right now, Terrell Owens signing the football after he's made a touchdown. Have you guys heard about this, it's crazy?
COTTER: You've got to see this. Terrell Owens, of course, scores a touchdown on Monday Night Football, the biggest stage for football, and he -- you know we've seen celebrations with Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and everything over the years. And watch this, a Sharpie out of the sock, signs the football and hands it to his financial adviser, who apparently has done very, very well in a shaky stock market for him,...
COSTELLO: Well that's great.
COTTER: ... well enough to get a signed football.
COSTELLO: But you had a great idea, maybe this will lead to other endorsements, automatic endorsements.
COTTER: I mean you could take out the Sharpie and get the close- up and say when I sign my footballs after a touchdown, I use a Sharpie.
COSTELLO: We were thinking Power Bars might be another idea.
COTTER: Power Bars.
COSTELLO: I eat these Power Bars to give me more energy on the field right after the touchdown.
COTTER: You mean -- well you got the Nike shoes that they do the close-ups on and everything like that, why not? I mean Sharpie -- we know he signed it with a Sharpie. Everybody has been talking about Sharpie since he signed it.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
COTTER: Tremendous free publicity for them.
COSTELLO: So the NFL is not going to fine him for this?
COTTER: Ironically you know he got fined for -- he did get a fine.
COSTELLO: Oh!
COTTER: He got fined because his socks were not regulation height. I am not kidding you. The NFL fined him for his socks and nothing to do with the Sharpie.
COSTELLO: There's something wrong with that -- Chris.
COTTER: If the Sharpie would have broken in his sock, they would have fined him for having Sharpie ink on his sock and not for having a pen in his sock.
COSTELLO: Perhaps that will happen next time. Hopefully we won't see that again. That was just crazy.
Hey, let's talk about this helmet-to-helmet contact, because that was the big controversy last year.
COTTER: Tremendous. Been a big controversy the last couple of years. And Kenoy Kennedy for the Denver Broncos on Sunday night was fined -- actually he hit Chris Chambers of the Miami Dolphins. Here you'll see the hit. Chambers coming across the middle and boom.
COSTELLO: Oh jeez!
COTTER: Now that's a big hit.
COSTELLO: Oh!
COTTER: And it was ruled helmet to helmet by the NFL. So Kenoy Kennedy has to sit out a game which means he will lose $25,000 in salary. And the thing about it is is when you talk about the greatest football players of all time, who's the greatest middle linebacker, Dick Butkus. The greatest two-way down lineman, Dick Benari (ph), right?
COSTELLO: Oh the game was so much rougher back then though.
COTTER: Right, but what I'm saying is these are the greatest players of all time that you consider. You consider them the greatest players of all time and that's how they played the game. That's how the game should be played. That's how it was played. Kenoy Kennedy could do nothing about that hit.
COSTELLO: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
COTTER: When you come over the middle -- when you're receiving and you come over the middle, you better expect to get hit. What is he going to do measure himself? How low do I have to come, how high do I have to go so I don't hit him helmet to helmet? That's why you wear helmets, you know.
COSTELLO: Yes, but it was getting out of hand where players were doing that on purpose. And maybe the NFL is overreacting to stop...
COTTER: That's...
COSTELLO: ... that sort of thing from happening at all.
COTTER: That's what it is. And players were going helmet to helmet too much. It's dangerous for both the receiver and the defensive back. So the NFL has gone too far. They need to take a little bit of a step back. Kenoy Kennedy did nothing wrong on that play. He's going to lose $25,000 and there are players...
COSTELLO: And Terrell loses not much.
COTTER: Loses like $5,000 for not having his socks pulled up. Shame on you.
COSTELLO: Chris Cotter, thank you. We enjoyed it as usual.
COTTER: Fun.
COSTELLO: And we'll see you on Monday.
COTTER: OK.
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Aired October 18, 2002 - 06:42 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The World Series is but one of the topics we'll discuss this morning with Chris Cotter of 790 The Zone right here in Atlanta.
Let's talk about the World Series a bit shall we?
CHRIS COTTER, 790 THE ZONE: Some good news. Some fun stuff to talk about. Boy, what a dreary day in the world of news today.
COSTELLO: I know. Poor Chris was sitting back there listening to the news and he was getting increasingly depressed.
COTTER: If it wasn't for Chad, I'd be...
COSTELLO: Stop that.
COTTER: ... head in hands in tears right now.
COSTELLO: Well we're talking...
COTTER: It's so beautiful. The weather is so beautiful. It's not because of you, it's just because of the weather.
COSTELLO: Just the weather, yes.
COTTER: That's right.
COSTELLO: Anyway, we're talking about the World Series and Barry Bonds and that might be exciting.
COTTER: No, it's going to be exciting because, as you were saying before you went to break, 17 years Barry Bonds has waited. And he is the best player in baseball, one of the best of all times.
COSTELLO: And they say they're going to pitch to him.
COTTER: Well, you know what, I think that you have to pitch to him to some extent. I mean you're not going to pitch to him if you have second and third and you know, especially two outs and first base open. You're going to walk him in that situation. But throughout times in the game, you're going to have to pitch to him, especially as well as Benito Santiago has hit behind him.
COSTELLO: Oh yes.
COTTER: He's hitting in the fifth spot and he's really hit well during the post season. COSTELLO: Kenny Lofton, too. Of course he's before Barry, isn't he?
COTTER: Kenny Lofton is the leadoff man for the Giants. And we should just talk about Barry. I don't want to talk about Kenny Lofton.
COSTELLO: Why, it's so spicy to talk about him.
Actually, I want to talk about my favorite story in sports right now, Terrell Owens signing the football after he's made a touchdown. Have you guys heard about this, it's crazy?
COTTER: You've got to see this. Terrell Owens, of course, scores a touchdown on Monday Night Football, the biggest stage for football, and he -- you know we've seen celebrations with Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and everything over the years. And watch this, a Sharpie out of the sock, signs the football and hands it to his financial adviser, who apparently has done very, very well in a shaky stock market for him,...
COSTELLO: Well that's great.
COTTER: ... well enough to get a signed football.
COSTELLO: But you had a great idea, maybe this will lead to other endorsements, automatic endorsements.
COTTER: I mean you could take out the Sharpie and get the close- up and say when I sign my footballs after a touchdown, I use a Sharpie.
COSTELLO: We were thinking Power Bars might be another idea.
COTTER: Power Bars.
COSTELLO: I eat these Power Bars to give me more energy on the field right after the touchdown.
COTTER: You mean -- well you got the Nike shoes that they do the close-ups on and everything like that, why not? I mean Sharpie -- we know he signed it with a Sharpie. Everybody has been talking about Sharpie since he signed it.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
COTTER: Tremendous free publicity for them.
COSTELLO: So the NFL is not going to fine him for this?
COTTER: Ironically you know he got fined for -- he did get a fine.
COSTELLO: Oh!
COTTER: He got fined because his socks were not regulation height. I am not kidding you. The NFL fined him for his socks and nothing to do with the Sharpie.
COSTELLO: There's something wrong with that -- Chris.
COTTER: If the Sharpie would have broken in his sock, they would have fined him for having Sharpie ink on his sock and not for having a pen in his sock.
COSTELLO: Perhaps that will happen next time. Hopefully we won't see that again. That was just crazy.
Hey, let's talk about this helmet-to-helmet contact, because that was the big controversy last year.
COTTER: Tremendous. Been a big controversy the last couple of years. And Kenoy Kennedy for the Denver Broncos on Sunday night was fined -- actually he hit Chris Chambers of the Miami Dolphins. Here you'll see the hit. Chambers coming across the middle and boom.
COSTELLO: Oh jeez!
COTTER: Now that's a big hit.
COSTELLO: Oh!
COTTER: And it was ruled helmet to helmet by the NFL. So Kenoy Kennedy has to sit out a game which means he will lose $25,000 in salary. And the thing about it is is when you talk about the greatest football players of all time, who's the greatest middle linebacker, Dick Butkus. The greatest two-way down lineman, Dick Benari (ph), right?
COSTELLO: Oh the game was so much rougher back then though.
COTTER: Right, but what I'm saying is these are the greatest players of all time that you consider. You consider them the greatest players of all time and that's how they played the game. That's how the game should be played. That's how it was played. Kenoy Kennedy could do nothing about that hit.
COSTELLO: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
COTTER: When you come over the middle -- when you're receiving and you come over the middle, you better expect to get hit. What is he going to do measure himself? How low do I have to come, how high do I have to go so I don't hit him helmet to helmet? That's why you wear helmets, you know.
COSTELLO: Yes, but it was getting out of hand where players were doing that on purpose. And maybe the NFL is overreacting to stop...
COTTER: That's...
COSTELLO: ... that sort of thing from happening at all.
COTTER: That's what it is. And players were going helmet to helmet too much. It's dangerous for both the receiver and the defensive back. So the NFL has gone too far. They need to take a little bit of a step back. Kenoy Kennedy did nothing wrong on that play. He's going to lose $25,000 and there are players...
COSTELLO: And Terrell loses not much.
COTTER: Loses like $5,000 for not having his socks pulled up. Shame on you.
COSTELLO: Chris Cotter, thank you. We enjoyed it as usual.
COTTER: Fun.
COSTELLO: And we'll see you on Monday.
COTTER: OK.
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