Following another opening shot at Erik, who wasn’t in attendance, Fred opened the show with (yesterday’s) news that Wes Welker and Stephen Gostkowski were voted into the Pro Bowl to represent the AFC. Fred was obviously happy about this but obviously less so than the news that Brett Favre was among seven New York Jets players who made the Pro Bowl. Following some locker room activity, the guys talked more in depth about the Pro Bowl and which players they agrees, or more often disagreed with.

After the break Fred introduced today’s special guest, Cormac from Ireland, who told the guys that he had been coming to visit family in Foxboro since he was four years old and Patriots fandom was ingrained in him. Cormac was quizzed about his thoughts on the Patriots season so far and Fred asked if he thought Favre should have gone to the Pro Bowl. He then gave out some gifts courtesy of him and Paul in London which went down really well. Mike in Sharon called in to expressed his disgust about Favre’s Pro Bowl nod before Fred sang a twelve days of christmas poem from Chris in the Bronx, about the Patriots 08 season.

Following a break Anthony in Naples called in with a techinical question about workarounds for listening to PFW in Progress live on his iPhone. Fred then quizzed Cormac about his soccer knowledge, Tom Brady’s fame in Ireland before Erik joined the show to the usual shots from Fred and Andy. He then gave his practise report which included three players missing (Teddy Bruschi, James Sanders and Matt Light) and Matthew Slater switching from offense to defense.

Cormac then gave Erik his gifts of a pink ‘My fairy drawing book’, an ‘Amazing Egypt-o-ram pop up book’ and some ‘Jelly willies’ which didn’t go down as well as the other guy’s gifts (Erik was actually a good sport). Following an email about the Pro Bowl the guys talked about their selection issues with Brett Favre being the main gripe.

The show ended following a quick chat with John Rook who was about to start his Patriots Playbook show.

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Today’s team: Fred Kirsch, Paul Perillo, Andy Hart, Erik Scalavino

Lunch provided by:

Callers in: Mike in Sharon, Anthony in Naples

Special guests: Cormac

Urban dictionary word of the day: Irish alarm clock

Andy Hart Caller: Anthony in Naples Caller: Mike in Sharon Erik Scalavino Fred Kirsch Paul Perillo