Heights Hotline | Surviving Super Bowl Hoopla, Keep Sake Jock Straps and How to Stay Locked In

0:00Do you practice next to the electrical substation? No, you can't. You got to stay the f*** away from that s***. Dude, I'm all in on this. Somebody's going to be at the... The AFC, it's the Patriots. Is it always just switch, or does it go to the team with the best record? That's the home team? I think it switches every year. Because it's whoever the home team is for the Super Bowl.

0:22Hey guys, welcome to this bonus episode of New Heights, a wonder show brought to you by Allstate. We're your hosts, I'm Travis Kells, this is my big brother Jason. same name same name subscribe on youtube 100 plus wherever you get your podcasts probably on 100 plus already so hey now how about that follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s if you didn't know you could also visit the new heights kelsey club.com where you get anything new heights and anything kelsey uh and jason why don't you tell the people what we have coming up on this amazing bonus episode of new heights well 92 percent is on today's bonus episode we are going to check the heights hotline to answer your super bowl questions that's right We've asked you to submit them.

1:03You have. We will now listen to them. Let's get right into it. Heights Hotline, Super Bowl edition. Hey, Jason and Travis. No dumb question. What's the least glamorous part of the Super Bowl that fans never think about, but players deal with all the time? Thank you. Least glamorous? I mean, everything about the Super Bowl is glam. There's nothing that's like the least glamorous. The least glamorous is probably, I mean. Playing the game? Yeah. I think she's asking like what's the one part of the Super Bowl that we don't enjoy if we're in it maybe it's easy that's the media the media day is the most like necessarily unnecessary thing ever I mean there's some of it's cool just because there's like so many people there and it's like that's fine it just is a long thing that you're done with and by that point you don't want to answer the same questions you've been asked a thousand times there's some people that go to it and like Nickelodeon the ones that have some interesting questions that make it kind of worth it but i don't know i i that's probably the part that you're more most like i'm kind of over this yeah it's definitely the one that the players uh hate the worst or yeah i hate the most there was also something we did where there's like a lot of like corporate sponsors that i think was at like a mall of america at one point and it just was like another it was like a basically just a giant appearance that was a pain in the ass but yeah basically all the stuff that doesn't involve you just playing football and doing what you always want to call it hoopla you just got a bunch of fucking hoopla during the biggest game and the hoopla means something to the excitement of the game for sure like a lot of the sound bits and everything and to be honest it was kind of fun when we were in the super bowl together because we got to just talk about our family and how amazing our mom and dad and uh the city of cleveland heights were but um it can definitely get uh pretty it's just a long week yeah glamours g l a m o o u r o u s there's no two there's not two oh there's no oh you are there's no there's only one it's whoever said they just spelled it wrong fergie knows how to spell it g l a m o r o u s i'm right first class up in the sky all right let's get to the next one.

3:23Jason and Travis, I know you guys have been to your fair share of Super Bowls and notoriously gotten those reins as you know, memories, souvenirs and everything. But I was wondering what is the weirdest item that you've gotten or captured yourself from one of the Super Bowls that you've been to? Okay, let me know. Bye.

3:54Oh, shit. I almost just fucking choked on laughing. Do you have a good answer to this? Do you still have that luchador mask? Oh, man. I owe that back. That's not a Super Bowl that I was in, though. I don't think I can count that. You can't count that. Super Bowl that I was in? I mean, no, not really. I feel like there's got to be something that I kept that is very weird. I have it in a box in storage or something. The media days, everybody comes up to you, and you'll get a handful of souvenirs here and there. So I definitely remember grabbing some stuff and being like, oh, that'd be cool to keep and look at later on.

4:38I want to say I got Selick's jockstrap from the game. Oh, jockstrap. I was going to mount it with his jersey that I had, his game jersey. Where the fuck are you going to put? Jason, are you even going to have anywhere in your house where you're going to mount your teammates' jerseys? Oh, yeah. Yeah? Yeah, in the weight room. Oh, all right. Nice. I mean, all over the place. Nice. I didn't know you were that show-off-your-jerseys kind of guy. Nice. I mean, I'm generally not. But no, I do plan on displaying a lot of the jerseys I've acquired over the years. Nice. Especially guys that I play with.

5:13Are you going to put my jersey up there? Of course. You don't know where my jersey is. i know exactly where it is i have all my jerseys stored uh downstairs they're all in the same you are downstairs no no there's a downstairs to this oh there's a basement i no i do not wash uh anything can't wash them you got to feel the you got to feel the dirt and the sweat you got to feel that i'm not even i i'm not even in on like putting them in glass i kind of want to just I want to be able to, like, touch the fabric. Oh, that's interesting. Just put it on a hanger and hang it on the wall? Yeah, hang them, yeah.

5:49I have confetti from the 2017 game. There you go. Yeah, we got a ring box that doesn't have a shoe bowl. But you got the confetti. That's good shit. Yeah, the confetti. I definitely got some confetti. I grabbed some confetti off that floor, threw it in my pocket. All right. Anything else that's kind of crazy and wacky? No? Nothing too crazy. All right. Thank you to our sponsor, Allstate. Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. That's smart. Not checking the car lights are off before heading in for the night. Not smart. That's going to hurt in the morning. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, nothing says good morning like a dead battery.

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7:39There's actually a lot more nominees that we never really even show you guys. We look through everything from game highlights, what's going on on the internet. I watched a bunch of clips of people in Philadelphia going crazy in the snow. That was my personal stamp of the week. But we can drop everything into one PDF space, and this tool can take it all into one document, put it there, organize it. We can ask the AI assistant, hey, AI assistant, based on everything here, who is the strongest stamp of the week nominee and why? Do we end up just yelling out names to each other? Yes. but before that we can actually have some kind of plan of attack.

8:11Well, I think you intern, Brandon, you're the best intern podcast could ever ask. Faster prep and better picks so we can get more done together. That's right. Learn more at adobe.com slash do that with Acrobat. I'll do the next one. One more. Good morning, Jason. Good morning, Travis. This is Candace. And here's my not so dumb question. With all the excitement and media obligations and other things surrounding the weeks prior to the Super Bowl, do the players as professional athletes mentally prepare and focus for the biggest game of their lives? I hope I hear an answer. Thank you so much. All right.

8:56You mentally prepare for it the same way you do every week. that's one of the things that like the the nfl schedule and like the way you operate each week it becomes so routine and so um kind of second nature that you just are locked into it and even though there are a lot of distractions and there are things that are easy to get you out of your comfort zone you really fall back to like the same training that got you there and you're on your second week of it at that point the same week of the shoot bowl so like you're you're kind of just going through the same thing over and over and over again.

9:33You're going to everything you do that Tuesday is the same thing you did the Tuesday before. Everything you did the Wednesday that week, same thing you did the Wednesday before. So I think that routine and schedule kind of always did a great job for me, at least, of making you lock in on the game and avoid, you know, all the media and family things and whatnot that end up just being like a lot of outside things that can distract you from the task at hand. Couldn't have said it better myself. I think the biggest thing is that you get two weeks. You get a week in Kansas, you get a week at home, and then you get a week at the Super Bowl.

10:10So mental preparation, you typically get the entire playbook. It might switch, they might get maybe four or five different plays when you get down to the Super Bowl, but you pretty much know, or at least this is how we did it in Kansas City, is that you know your playbook before you even go down to the kind of the circus that you're going to be. is the Super Bowl with the media and all that stuff. So mentally, you have everything before you even go to the Super Bowl. Already rep. Exactly. So you kind of already have that aspect of it. And then when you get down there, you just can't lose focus on the game and can't let the excitement of it get too big or can't let your mind wander at all the stuff that comes with the Super Bowl, which can be pretty challenging for a lot of people.

10:54No doubt. Can I ask one follow-up? Oh, God, Brandon. The week, that weird dead week, do you guys like check out in that week and then start like get back into the Super Bowl after that weekend? Or is it like as soon as you know you're in, it starts? No, that's what Travis was just saying. So the week, this week right now, the Patriots and the Seahawks. They're not on vacation. Like right now. Literally right now they're practicing. They're doing the exact same thing they would do if the game was going to be played this Sunday. Okay, that's kind of what I'm asking. Yeah. No, I know. We also kind of just said this, so it's fine.

11:29We'll answer it again, though. Oh, okay. So the exact same thing you do for a normal work week. Well, Brandon, it's clear that you're not listening to anything we're saying, Brandon. I have other stuff going on. What do you got? Birds outside. There's some cool birds outside. I'm like, whoa, these fucking asses are talking about. There's a fucking brown-eyed warbler outside. I saw Scrub Jay. Fuck out of my face. All right. I'll take my answer off the air. Jesus. So typically the way the NFL schedule works is like there's something you do on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, a structured schedule of like Tuesday, you're going to come and get introductory to the team you're playing.

12:07You're going to rewatch last week's film. Also like nice recovery day. Yeah, nice flush. Wednesday, you're getting your first lift in for the week and you're also watching, you're installing first and second down plays, right? Typically the run game especially is a Wednesday day. Call it the base game plan. The majority of the plays you're going to be running, yes. Thursday is a day where you're repping most of the passing game, right? So you're doing like third down, second and long plays. It's a little more special situation, like third down, fourth down, short yardage, goal line, backed up.

12:43It's all those kind of special. And obviously this differs with every team. Some teams might do red zone on a different day. Some teams may do those special situations on a different day. But typically you take one day for base, pass game, third down, short yards, specific situations, and then red zone. Yeah. And then Friday is when we would do the bulk of the red zone install. On Friday, you would hit your two-minute plays that you're thinking about repping in the game. A lot of those other specialty plays that are the last ones. And that's more of like the fast Friday. You're in and out. It's a super quick day.

13:17A lot of heavy walkthrough potential. And then you're going to repeat all of those days when you're in. When you're on site. Wherever you're at. Got it. That's why what Trav was saying, like, you're kind of doing the same thing again, but you've already repped it once. So you don't need to be as like locked into it. You're kind of just re-engineering and kind of bringing that back to the front of your mind. You're just going back through muscle memory, but in a new location. you're sharpening it you're sharpening it up yeah all right that's all i wanted to know maybe getting a different look than you didn't get in the week prior they'll do that too yeah they'll give you if you're they'll ask the scout team yeah they might give you a nickel rep or they'll give you uh you know a certain type of blitz or something like that that they might do at a high rate in that situation whatever it is look at this detailed answer we just gave look at that we got a little extra on that i feel like i've learned something yeah jake get the fuck out of What do you guys do the week before you go to the Super Bowl, though?

14:14Okay, fuck off, Jake. All right. That wraps up another edition of Heights Hotline. Once again, Heights Hotline was brought to you by Allstate. We'll have some more bonus content for you all in February, so stay tuned to what that might be. Once again, New Heights, a Wondery Show. If you didn't know, follow the show on social media at New Heights Show with 1S. Don't forget to check out KelseyClubhouse.com for anything New Heights. and Kelsey and thank you to our production and crew for always making us look better and to making sure that we answer the questions precisely and we get everything out of this show that we possibly can thank you guys I love you guys 92 percenters we'll see you guys next week superbowl week