Oct 7, 2026 · 2 hr 6 min · 16 segments
Words just can't do proper justice to the majesty of the opening of New Ryan Field. The stadium was incredible, the crowd was electric and the team was utterly dominant in their 34-13 drubbing of Penn…
I mean-
... that, that feeling right there was my senior year in high school.
Uh-
... for the...
And, and that's the reason, like, watching the, the atmosphere and watching the everything that surrounded that was the reason that I, you know, went to Northwestern.
It's like that feeling of like that's the c- those are the coolest people, and that's where I wanna be.
And obviously for Northwestern, like, that's so, is so stereotypically anachronistic because we are the nerds, and we wear that label proudly, and we love, we love being that.
Scuzz often pokes fun at my, uh, NCAA football days, playing football, uh, on PlayStation from back in the day, and I was laughing because I was like, "If you would've gone back in, in the day and been like, 'What kind of offense would you run?' I would've been like, 'I'm gonna run the exact offense that Chip Kelly ran in this football game exclusively.'"
[laughs]
But if you're like, "Well, you're gonna create a roster full of guys," the three guys that I would've created first would've been Aidan Chiles, Joseph Hyman, and Robert Fitzgerald.
And the irony there being I couldn't have created Aidan Chiles because it wouldn't have let me put zero on a guy's jersey.
[laughs]
And I couldn't have created Robert Fitzgerald because they wouldn't have let me been like, "Well, which one do you want him to wear? Six or one?" In this particular game.
I mean-
... that, that feeling right there was my senior year in high school.
Uh-
... for the...
And, and that's the reason, like, watching the, the atmosphere and watching the everything that surrounded that was the reason that I, you know, went to Northwestern.
It's like that feeling of like that's the c- those are the coolest people, and that's where I wanna be.
And obviously for Northwestern, like, that's so, is so stereotypically anachronistic because we are the nerds, and we wear that label proudly, and we love, we love being that.
Scuzz often pokes fun at my, uh, NCAA football days, playing football, uh, on PlayStation from back in the day, and I was laughing because I was like, "If you would've gone back in, in the day and been like, 'What kind of offense would you run?' I would've been like, 'I'm gonna run the exact offense that Chip Kelly ran in this football game exclusively.'"
[laughs]
But if you're like, "Well, you're gonna create a roster full of guys," the three guys that I would've created first would've been Aidan Chiles, Joseph Hyman, and Robert Fitzgerald.
And the irony there being I couldn't have created Aidan Chiles because it wouldn't have let me put zero on a guy's jersey.
[laughs]
And I couldn't have created Robert Fitzgerald because they wouldn't have let me been like, "Well, which one do you want him to wear? Six or one?" In this particular game.
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