Turning 40

To Quote Mike Gundy, “I’m a man, I’m 40!”

Places listening: Turkey #2, Mexico #3, Spain #4 - UK, Russia, Colombia, Philippines, Ireland, Germany, Egypt, India, France, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, Libya, Senegal, Belgium and more - awesome stuff 

Also - an interesting influx in the amount of downloads in Saudi Arabia lately - that’s interesting timing 

You know the “birds fans” come out when we talk eagles - ambler Pa, cherry hill NJ, and philly were 3 of top 4... Mountain View Ca #3. Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir all rounds out top two cities. Three tukish cities pretty amazing 

Do me a favor and subscribe to the podcast on apple podcast, follow us on twitter @gavinviano and tell 1 friend to check out the podcast 

I’m going to keep grinding on this thing, trying to grow it - and when the freestyle turns 4 this january — Drew Brees (saints QB will turn 40) which means if the saints make Super Bowl, we’d have 2 different 40 years old’s start at QB in consecutive super bowls. I think it’ll happen. Also, why does nobody give Drew Brees the same “ageless wonder” credit they give Tom Brady — he’s also basically 5’11’’ - what he does is amazing 

Biggest issues w jay bilas’ “restructuring of college basketball”

If we take out amateurism- what happens to “max years of eligibility” - if it’s a business- you can’t tell employees they’re too old 

If we downsize division 1 - then many average teams that pad their win totals currently, will be exposed as being bad. Fans don’t flock to see bad teams.

Down sizing also makes it “minor leagues”. Americans don’t like minor league sports en masse. 

College basketball being an “open entry national championship” is the best thing it has going for it. Limiting d1 teams to like 80 is bad Idea. 

Only good way to downsize d1 - would be adopting soccer style promotion and relegation - and March madness would still need to be open entry- in fact it could be like the FA cup. That actually could expand March madness

Players should get to profit from their likeness. Period. Open market decides what they are worth. If they want a salary they should go to the G league or play overseas. If they’re not good enough to get endorsements and/or play in a professional league, then guess what - they’re not professional 

Americans don’t like minor league sports. You remove amateurism ethos- I think you kill the mystique and kill the golden goose 

I hate when 23 year olds on instagram try to give sage drinking advice to their 19 year old selves. Me at 19 vs me at 23. Listen if you can’t find an extra gear at 23, you’re doing it wrong. 

The only thing that should slow you down before age 27 is lack of money and/or having a child - anything else - you’re doing it wrong. 

Instagram

You’re allowed to complain a tad at 27 and then every three years after that. 

Why can’t Biggie say “gats in holsters” w/o getting edited - but anyone can buy a gun. How can a country so in love w guns - allow censorship around talking about guns in  pop song. 

Best rock: pop songs featuring bag pipes. 

Long way to the top of you wanna rock n roll

Shipping up to Boston 

Back in the highlife again

So I married an axe murder version of do ya think I’m sexy (rod stewart) 

Amazing Grace (not fair)

Malibu has essentially burned down and we’re thinking about everyone effected by fires there and elsewhere. 

Thanksgiving is the best holiday to enjoy with your friends and family. Enjoy!!!

Can the Philadelphia Eagles repeat? Mid-term Mania. This Red Sox Parade was more than just Duck Boats!

Was 2018 the first “eff you parade” in Boston sports history? 

Seems like that attitude was pure jubilation and feeling bullet proof as a fanbase. 

Price has his eff you parade for towards then fans. 

The Boston sports fans had theirs towards the philly fans for stealing a super bowl.  

This title was a collective realization that even if Tom Brady is never gonna win another and even if the pats go back to being bad... Boston fans just realized - as long as the Sox have good ownership and tons of 💰- we have a franchise that’s won 4 titles in 15 seasons with 3 diff managers... dozens of different players. Hockey is super random. And Boston Celtics aren depended on outsmarting opponents because it’s tough for them  to get free agents. But the Sox - they can miss and take years off and hit bottom, but they’ll always get it right a couple times a decade

The Sox were our city’s first love and are now our best hope to keep the party going once the pats dynasty is no more 

places listening - Turkey, Ireland, UK, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Philippines, Slovakia, Germany, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory & More 

Philadelphia Eagles What’s the mood right now at 4-4? 

Is getting each team’s best shot week after week what you expected? 

What’s the feeling for the next 8 games? Home & Away vs Cowboys and Skins, at Saints, at Rams, Home Giants, Home Texans

What’s the city’s feelings on your QB situation? 

Can your guys go on the road and get Saints or Rams? What about winning on road in playoffs? 

How was the raising of the banner on the first game of the year? 

Are people still basking in that Super Bowl win or are fans finally more focused on this seasons results? I felt like after Pats first title - i dealt with their 9-7 season in a way of saying well we’re still the champs until the super bowl… i’ve since stopped feeling that way about title teams. 

MID-TERMS!?!?!!? Any hot takes 

Lipscomb, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Peyton Manning and Izmir Turkey - Freestyle Mashup

What’s w people saying you’re fine when you say “excuse me”.  I think Fine is an weird word. 

Izmir Turkey most listens this week - love it. Izmir seems fantastic btw (like as a place in the world)

Ashburn, VA creeping back into listening charts 

Turkey as a nation wins the week, Brighton, Australia is the 3rd place city- it’s on the outskirts of Melbourne / UK is the 3rd place country and Redcar England up by Newcastle has emerged with some serious listeners as well

Props to Norway, Chile, India, Romania, Kazakhstan and Sweden for listening

Litter pick up on exit 28 at 8:45am on a Friday. you can’t wait til 9:30 for that crap ?!?

Best thing about papa johns ditching the nfl is the dramatic lessening of Peyton Manning appearing with papa johns founder John Schnatter 

Also, Pizza Hut slicing into the official pizza of the nfl within about 15 minutes of papa johns vacating it - shows you how strong the nfl brand is

Stock market has taken a dive recently and tariffs on aluminum and steel are a major factor thus far. 

This is where being a populist America first leader veers wildly from many republicans- you mess with their money- that’s a problem. Greed is a much stronger factor than xenophobia- rich Americans want to stay rich

Basketball sneakers that look like timberland work boots - dude on Purdue wore em today. I’m at once in favor of the look and also think it looks kind of whack simultaneously

Lots of basketball - it’s championship week

congrats to Lipscomb on their first ever Big Dance

you know when the ball gets wedged in between the basket and the backboard, and the game awkwardly stops. Instead of going to the possession arrow — it should either be worth 1 points. cuz it’s actually harder to do than put it in the basket. And you can’t “dunk” the ball into the wedged position, it’s got to be a shot and an unblocked / tipped/ defected shot at that. You might be saying, Gavin... Actually, it should be worth negative 1 point — if you put up a shot and miss, so be it, but if you hoist a shot and the game has to stop because of your miss — you lose a point. Either way, it would make basketball have an added wrinkle. 

I’ll put up a poll and we’ll see what people think