WEDNESDAY SHOW RECAP: RAY ELGAARD JOINS!

Wednesday was Episode 195 of The Rod Pedersen Show with more big guests. Here are the highlights!

• Rod and Dupes opened with The Rollout for Flooring Superstore covering these Quick Six show topics: 1) The CFL’s hopeful their season will start on time (Rod reiterated that he made the report Tuesday afternoon as a ‘good news’ story, and to inject some confidence amid an otherwise dismal, scary time), 2) Tom Brady to Tampa Bay, 3) The Buccaneers haven’t made the playoffs since 2007, 4) An Ottawa Senators player has tested positive for the Coronavirus (Rod asked if players’ privacy is an issue amid all the news reporting), 5) Peter Loubardias’s viral rant on helping each other out in society during the pandemic, and 6) Rod admitted that they may find the shows long if the crisis hits 30 or 60 more days.
• Derek “Duke” Meyers joined the bunker in Segment 2 for a continuation of these show topics. They discussed the NFL’s “Full Steam Ahead” approach, and the fine line between arrogance and confidence. They like the NFL’s approach.
• A real treat was a video chat interview with Baltimore sports writer Ron Snyder who’s penned a book on the Baltimore Stallions brief history in the CFL. The entertaining chat talked about the CFL’s American experiment/expansion in the 90’s and several humorous stories. Snyder told tales of Stallions players Tracey Ham, Mike Pringle, Elfrid Payton, coach Don Mathews, GM Jim Popp and owner Jim Speros. Snyder’s book is available now on Amazon.
• Rider great Ray Elgaard joined the show from his home in Las Vegas to discuss how the Coronavirus as impacted the world’s entertainment capital. “It looks like a scene from Walking Dead,” Elgaard reported. Ray works in the financial services industry and said it’s tough to talk about sports given the havoc that’s been wreaked on global commerce. #81 also talked about the popularity of the Golden Knights, the addition of the NFL’s Raiders, and told some stories of the CFL’s American invasion. “It shouldn’t be celebrated, nor forgotten,” Elgaard observed. “It was what it was.”
• Jim Lang, Canada’s foremost expert on the NFL, joined the show from his home in Southern Ontario. He talked about the Brady-to-Tampa Bay story, where Cam Newton might end up, and the reasons behind Deandre Hopkins’ exit from Houston (a reported spat with Texans coach Bill O’Brien).
• A viewer from North Dakota asked Rod’s perspective on the 2009 Grey Cup and he went into great detail, from arriving in Calgary on the Monday of Grey Cup Week, and flying home the morning after the 13th Man debacle.
• The daily Capital Auto Mall/Universal Collision Centre poll question was: Will the Buccaneers make the playoffs for the first time since 2007 with Tom Brady? 58% of respondents said yes.
• Wednesday’s show is available for viewing now on our Facebook page, you can listen to the podcast by clicking on the PODCAST tab, or you can listen anytime on our 24-hour live streaming audio service at RodPedersen.com/ListenLive presented by SUDS Full Service Car Wash in Regina.
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