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Thursday 9-12-02

Todd and Tyler started off their show with a little talk about last night’s 9-11 coverage on TV. The guys didn’t get to see much of it because they were out filming a new commercial that should air on KM3 sometime between 10 and noon on Saturday. They did, however, catch some of the local radio in the afternoon. After getting burned out on 9-11 from the talk radio shows, they flipped to the sports radio to escape. Unfortunately, they found the local and national sports shows also covering 9-11. As they suspected, the 9-11 media overkill is exactly what we got as national and local TV and radio made us all ‘’relive’’ the day. From there, TnT read over several e-mails from listeners that liked the way TnT handled the 9-11 anniversary yesterday on their show.

Another early morning topic that lasted throughout today’s program was talk of the ‘’retirement’’ of Eric Crouch from the Rams. According to the paper, he has decided to ‘’retire’’ just 1 game into his rookie season. Due to some injuries, a deeply bruised leg among them, he didn’t even get to play in the first game of the season and really hasn’t got to practice much in his new receiver roll. Todd and Tyler spent much of the morning discussing how Crouch has quit yet another football team and speculated that much like when he quit the Huskers a few years ago, he may have quit the Rams because he wasn’t a ‘’top dog’’ in their organization.

BW came in with the news this morning. The Crouch story sparked a question in everyone’s mind about whether there was any past Heisman winner who turned out to be a bigger bust than Crouch. They went all the way back to ’65 discussing the careers of each of the winners and as far as they could tell, Crouch quitting after 1 game without even actually playing in the game couldn’t be topped. They then got into a lengthy discussion about characters that used to be on the Captain Kangaroo television show and compared those character’s head shapes and facial features to comedian Harlan Williams. To wrap up the news segment, the gang discussed the body shaving phenomenon that Muslim terrorists do before they kill themselves, a topic sparked by a news story about three men shaving themselves in an airplane bathroom in mid-flight for apparently no reason. It was at this time that the 3-Man Turban Jam sound effect made its way into the universe.

Todd and Tyler announced that they are going to put together a calendar for the year 2003. What they would like to do is find 12 beautiful women, one for each month, and have some professional photos taken of them for the calendar. They would like any interested candidate to mail or e-mail them a full body shot photograph or stop by the station and have your picture taken. You can be clothed in your photos (because the calendar will NOT be nude) but the less you wear, the better chance you have of being selected as one of the 12 ladies by the judging committee called ‘’The guys of the Purple Room’’. Each of the 12 winners will not only get the professional photo shoot (from which the calendar photos will be selected) but they’ll also each receive $500 for participating. In case you would like to mail in your photo or stop by the station and have Donnie take one of you for consideration, the address for the radio station is 11128 John Galt Blvd #192, Omaha NE 68137.

BW returned to the microphone with a sports report because Travis was on his way to Pennsylvania via Georgia to cover the Penn State game. The guys continued discussing Crouch quitting the Rams. They also spoke to coach Mike Hastings of the Lancers about the upcoming season. Mike cleared a few things up about a pre-season tournament the Lancers are involved in and then gave the guys an idea about how the team looks this year. He also discussed the new Council Bluffs arena and from the sounds of it, he’s very happy with it. Keep in mind that the Lancers first home match is going to take place at the new CB arena on October 18^th.

With all of the Crouch talk, the guys thought it might be fun to call the front office of the St. Louis Rams and see if they could speak to the coach. When they called, Donnie pretended to be Crouch after an old woman receptionist picked up the phone. She seemed a little skeptical that Donnie was actually Crouch, asking ‘’Is this really you Eric? You sound different.’’ Donnie replied with a, ‘’Yes, it’s really me’’ and that seemed to be good enough for her so she patched him through to the coach’s voice mail. The guys then left a message for the coach as Eric saying that he had left some shirts and his wallet in his locker and was scared to come get them. They then wrapped up the message by saying that he would like to work things out and possibly return to the team.

Todd and Tyler spoke to KM3’s Greg Petersen this morning. He’s been on vacation recently but returned yesterday to help with the 9-11 coverage. The gang discussed that coverage for a bit and then moved on to talk about Crouch. Greg spent about 6 years in St. Louis and has many connections with the Rams so he shared some insight on the situation. He later mentioned that he’s returning to St. Louis today to continue his vacation and while there, he’s going to do some dirt digging and see if he can’t find out further details on why Crouch really quit the team.

Travis eventually called in from the Atlanta airport this morning. He described finding out about Crouch quitting at 10 after 10pm last night, just before his segment on the news. After that, he talked with TnT about Crouch’s apparent pattern of quitting teams and for the first time in years, Attaboy admitted that Crouch did actually quit the Huskers years ago when he ran back to Omaha to cuddle with his high school coach. Travis did, however, reach deep into his ass and pulled out the, ‘’At least he was man enough to quit’’ spin on the whole situation. As you might imagine, TnT were floored and gave Travis a hard time for finding yet another way to suck up to the former Husker. Before letting Trav go, they played him two sound clips that they’d worked up. One was of Crouch’s NFL career highlights, the other was a clever Elton John tribute song edited to have some funny Crouch references in it. By the way, Trav will check in again tomorrow from Harrisburg, PA.

Brian returned later in the show with the entertainment news. Before he began, former Husker and current Eric Crouch buddy Matt Davidson phoned the show. He told TnT that he spoke to Crouch last night about the whole quitting thing and said that it sounded to him that Crouch was just beat up and getting tired of the rigors of football. He didn’t confirm nor deny that Crouch has ‘’retired’’ for good, but did mention that perhaps St. Louis just wasn’t the right fit for the Heisman winner and that the ‘’retirement’’ may just be a way for Crouch to get out of the St. Louis easily.

When the e-news began, the gang got off to an excellent start with a Z Gee’s rendition of ‘’How Deep Is Your Bruise’’, referencing the alleged injury to Crouch and one of the possible reasons he quit the Rams. BW then did a horrible impersonation of Tom Jones, which was followed up by a rather disturbing ‘’Who does your dad twist off to?’’ conversation. To wrap up the e-news, the haunted news chick scored major American Asshole points by telling us all of a South African bus hijacking of a Corky bus in which one of the poor kids was killed for not evacuating the bus fast enough.

Well that’s the update for Thursday. Tune in tonight at 10pm for the 3^rd Shift Replay of this morning’s show and make sure to rejoin TnT tomorrow morning at 5:30am as they bring this week to a close. Thanks for watching. Good night. -Corby-