The New York Jets are going to be sold to Gary Vaynerchuk in 2021

The Jets are the first 2-13 “Nobody Believes in us" team which is why…
The Jets are going to be sold by the Johnson Family to a new ownership group headed up by Gary Vee

0-3 - coming off 2 straight blowouts. Played Denver tough, lost by 9 to go 0-4

Then lose by 20 to Cardinals, by 24 to Dolphins, by only 8 to the Bills, and then lose by 26 to the Chiefs to go 0-8.

Something snapped in the Jets and the very average NE Patriots needed a miracle to beat the Jets by a field goal. 0-9

Game 10 - a below average by exciting Chargers team beats the Jets by 6. now they’re 0-10 and in game 11 the Dolphins stomp them by 17, now they’re 0-11

Game 12 - Gregg Williams send the house on a blitz against the Raiders. Jets essentially lose on a Hail Mary. Williams Fired (Williams was the Mole).

Williams gets Fired — but Adam Gase is definitely gonna get fired, and the Johnson’s likely give Williams some type of golden parachute and/or a wink/nod on coming back as DC next year with new HC

Game 13 - Jets get stomped by the Seahawks 40-3

Now 0-13 — something snaps again. Like that scene in “Pulp Fiction” between Butch and Marcellus Wallace. “PRIDE STARTS MESSING WITH THEM”.

Week 14 - Jets blow their number pick, but the players and the coaches avoid going 0-16 and kind of screw up the Rams season in the process (Rams had just smoked the very average Patriots)

Week 15 — Jets already essentially doomed to get the number 2 pick even if they lose the rest of their games due to a strength of schedule technicality — Jets go out and beat the Cleveland Browns — which basically ends the Browns chances at winning the AFC North — cuz the Steelers came back to beat the Colts.

Now they’re 2-13 and face the very average Patriots (whole they almost beat earlier this season). Win on lose in Game 16- the Jets get the number 2 pick.

If the Johnson’s can’t have #1 Pick and Trevor Lawrence… then they don’t want to own the team for the next decade plus any way — and now they guarantee that if Gary Vee does get the team - he won’t have Trevor Lawrence, either

Historical Fan-Fiction; laced with an Outlandish Projection for the future — but, when it comes to the Jets, no matter how far flung the theories are… they’ll likely find a way to do something even more inexplicable.

But, what about this for fan-fiction? The Jets get sold to Gary Vee… the Jaguars and Lawrence never quite make a Super Bowl… and Gary Vee’s positive thinking and outside the box thinking helps to reset the culture. Sam Darnold turns into the real deal. Jets win a Super Bowl, now that the Johnson’s aren’t around to mishandle the fortunes of the franchise.

Christmas List for the New England Patriots

The 2-5 Patriots would be 4-3 at best if they still had Brady -- so who cares, moving on was still the right decision for Tom and for the New England.

Bill is still rolling the dice that this season might not finish or that other teams will get caught with bad health luck and they could be in the mix at 8-8 or 9-7 for that 7 seed

Bill chould pull a FULL TANK and lose 9 more in a row, including 2 to the Jets — just to troll them in the most inexplicable way possible

Christmas List, what Christmas List? JJ from ManCookGood says “keep Cam for 2 years 40 million and see what happens”… don’t hate it!

Christmas comes to Baltimore Ravens early

Christmas comes to Baltimore early - The Ravens could be a juggernaut

Places listening

Australia, Philippines, UK, Angola, Germany, Spain, Tunisia and Fiji

Walpole, MA. Chicago, Waxhaw, NC Philly, NYC, Irving, TX, Rockaway Park, Miami, Zulpich Germany / Luanda Angola, Heatley Australia

How Badly have the Patriots WR corps fallen since the Antonio Brown experiment ended?

How much did the loss to the Ravens matter (relative to the rest of the season)?

Are the Baltimore Ravens peaking too early or are they simply a juggernaut?

How much do the Pats need the win against the Eagles?

Antonio Brown joins the Patriots and the Pats Fanboys let the other 31 teams have it

Antonio Brown signs with the Patriots — Pro Wrestling has come to the New England Patriots?

Places listening: Yakutsk Russia is #1 again, Cornelius, NC and Boston round out the top 3 - other cities include Calamba City Philippines, Mittagong Australia, and Dresden Germany

Countries listening: US #1, Russia #2, Philippines #3, followed by the UK, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, France and Spain

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AB is a fantasy football legend, he’s a real football legend. He was having a Hall of Fame career in Pittsburgh.

He no-shows the regular season finale of 2018 for the Steelers.

He signs with the Raiders.

He shows up for camp in a hot air balloon.

His feet have frost bite from a Cryongenic Freeze chamber treatment thing in Europe.

He refuses to play with a league approved helmet for like 2 weeks.

Finally gets beyond the helmet thing… and then after all that … the weirdness goes into overdrive

He gets fined… he puts the fine on social media.

The then has an altercation with the team GM

He then says he’s sorry.

He then has some video montage paired with a phone call of Jon Gruden and AB as the audio and tweets out - Release me @Raiders

Raiders comply… and the jokes about the Patriots signing AB begin immediately.

Then like 2 hours later the Patriots actually sign Antonio Brown.

This is like the signings of Randy Moss + Corey Dillon + Chad Ocho Conco + Albert Haynesworth x 6pounds of crazy pills combined

On the spectrum of Patriots have lost their minds on one end and the Patriots are playing chess while the league plays checkers on the other end… where does this roster move rate for you right now?

With the Patriots playing the Steelers tonight - isn’t this timing and hoopla the exact type of thing they Patriots work so hard to avoid?

3 to 4 months from now — what’s the most likely result of this experiment

What does this mean for Josh Gordon? What does this mean for Jakobi Meyers?

Does it worry you guys at all that the Pats felt the need to do this?

Also very interesting that Drew Rosenhaus is AB’s agent and he was Gronk’s agent.

To me this means Gronk ain’t coming back

To me this means Edleman might have a Wes Welker 2007 type season

Both the Raiders and the Steelers are now doing the “this group of guys in the locker room are more focused” - do you buy it?

Best Man Speech Podcast (Ep3) - plus taking the MARTA with Urban Meyer at Super Bowl 53

Tony Frangie - living the dream at Super Bowl 53 plus Best man Podcast 

Start with how you acquired the tickets

Urban Meyer on the MARTA

The reemergence of Todd Flaman 

What were the highlights of pre-Super Bowl?

What were the highlights of the Super Bowl itself and Mercedes-Benz Arena? 

Highlights of Post-Super Bowl?

How was the ride back to Charlotte and Flight back to Boston? 

Did you go to Parade?

Best Man Story — your brother did what on the lawn? 

Started a band at age 40

People and teams the patriots usually avoid en route to Super Bowl titles 

Tom Coughlin - obvious!  plus Jags almost winning AFC threw wrench in Pats mojo before SB 52

Eli Manning - obvious 

Peyton Manning - On way to Super Bowl 50 and 48 with Denver and super bowl 41 with Colts 

The Ravens - bounced pats a couple times 

The Broncos in Denver - even before Peyton got there 

Voice Actor Keith Norton joins the Filibuster to discuss Gary Vee, the Jets, wedding toasts and more

Keith Norton podcast. www.keithnorton.com 

Where do you get background music for the bits you do on the character demos? Do you do that editing yourself and if so, do you enjoy the part of the process, as much as the crafting of the voices? 

With Commercials:

Do you get any ability tweak the script? Or are you reading script verbatim? The tonality you use in recording these, do nuances of your characters ever get utilized?

With Promos: 

How hard is it not to hear John Bailey “movie trailer voice legend” when you’re reading the words. 

It’s Super Bowl season and I’ve been hearing a lot of John Facenda’s voice - aka the NFL Films voice over legend. Guy died in 1984, yet he’ll live forever

Fake band name of the week: Magically Ripe

I’d like to thank you for introducing me to Gary Vee on Instagram 

When did you get interested in pursuing voice acting? 

Who are the voice actors you most admire? John Bailey (Nissan Commercial “Movie Trailer Voice Guy”), Brent Allen Hagel (Sp?) - doing promos for NBC - rarefied air.  

What type of projects and/or work do you aspire to do. Dream Jobs. SNL Announcer. Cartoon Voice. 

Corporate narration and E-Learning are the major places to make some money 

Getting an agent? what’s that like. Having an agent? What’s that like. The good the bad and the ugly of Traveling (where has Voice taken you?), but also stories of the Day Job and a V/O deadline coming to pass. 

Talking about the backstory’s of his characters. (See below notes from the character Demo)

Do you have any voices, characters, you can do for us today? 

From character Demo: (partial quotes to jog memory)

1. “It is amazing what people throw in the garbage” 

2. “now it’s up to me, you and Kodor to kill this alien scum…”  (Hero type voice)

3. Of course boss, whatever you need, Nicky get your a** over here” (Mobster type voice) 

4. “I surely would’ve let him pass, you have to believe me”. (Wimpy type voice)

5. “Jimmy would love to be in your project” (Agent)

6. "Crabs are delicious” (Zany dude)

7. “Yesterday I told you that I was planning to take out the garbage, I overreached”. (matter of fact excuse maker dude)

8. “No, you listen to me, you’re not letting me down, you’re letting the world down” (seems like a older gent who’s a tad disgruntled and a tad used to not getting his way) 

Idea: Let’s pick a few of these and have them answer a couple of questions related to Super Bowl 53

Voice 7: The NFL Referee who missed the blatant pass interference call in the Rams Saints NFL Championship Game

Voice 3: Telling Nicky to go place a bet on the over of 1:47 for Gladys Knight signing the national anthem and placing $1,000 of Blue Gatorade for the winning coach at +375

Voice 6: Giving a pep talk to the Rams during pre-game

Voice 2: Getting his team ready to lead the game winning drive with Kodor 

Tom Brady is the GOAT

Tom Brady is the GOAT 

The debate is over. Only take - Peyton Manning was close and he came in with more raw talent and an unbelievable work ethic. But, Brady’s competitiveness drove him to work as hard as Manning. It’s like Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. They drove each other. 

But the crazy thing is Brady is getting 2 different careers: Brady and Manning were like Larry and Magic — the two of them cost each other at least 2 more championships each.

No Tom Brady and Peyton Manning probably wins 4 and goes to 7 super bowls.

No Peyton Manning and Tom Brady probably wins 7 and goes to 11 super bowls.

But, Brady somehow extended his career, and with manning gone he’s more like Michael Jordan — basically peerless, and more competitive and more experienced than anybody left standing. 

Did you ever have a doubt last night about Pats winning in Kansas City? 

Where does this AFC title win rank amongst the other 8 of the Brady / Billy B era?

Do you really think Patriots by a million for Super Bowl 53 pick? 

Are we going to Atlanta? 

What if anything would you have to say to Philadelphia Eagles lineman and Patriots Troll, Lane Johnson?

what’s the mood in Boston right now? 

What’s the Super Bowled theme t-shirt going to be this year - it was “Squish the Fish” in 1986 - is it gonna be “Slam the Rams”? goodness I hope so!

LA and Boston squaring off for 2 world titles in 2 different sports in like a 4 month window — and the Celtics are Lakers aren’t involved  

Crazy KC Chiefs fan/neighbor update

rematch of the Super Bowl that started it all: Rams vs Patriots 

A couple of weeks ago we said that the teams we’d like to see in the Super Bowl ranked most to least:

Patriots 

Chargers (tortured base, that was just abandoned)

Chiefs (officially a tortured fan base)

Saints (starting to become a tortured fan base) - and for decades they were before Brees ad Payton showed up

Rams (abandoned their fan base, but also returned to their original home, so I feel like their mojo is just getting started) — Several parallels to the 2001 Patriots 

3 way tie for last Cowboys, Colts, & Eagles. 

Patriots 10 super bowls - played Bears, Packers, Rams, Panthers, Eagles, Giants x2, Seahawks, Falcons, Eagles (0-2 vs NFC north, 2-0 vs NFC South, 1-3 vs NFC east, 2-0 vs NFC west) 

This is the Patriots 11th Super Bowl - And they’ll be playing a team from the NFC west 

You know who the forgotten victims of this Super Bowl are… former St. Louis Rams fans 

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Best Tailgate Food - 2019 NFL Playoff Edition

2019 Best Tailgate Recipes w/ Jeremy Johnson- ManCookGood CEO & Founder 

FilibusterFreestyle.com 

Here’s who’s left:

Dallas Cowboys at Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles at New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Chargers (of San Diego) at New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts at Kansas City Chiefs 

What i’d like to see:

Rams win big. What I think will happen Rams win ugly. 

Saints win by 1 or more. What I think will happen, Eagles win by 1 (actually i think saints win a squeaker, but I just want Eagles out).

Pats win by 1 or more. What I think will happen, I think Chargers take it. But, the Pats with a bye week might have 1 last trick left in the bag.

Chiefs win big. What I think will happen, Chiefs win ugly 

Teams we’d like to see in the Super Bowl ranked most to least:

Patriots 

Chargers 

Chiefs 

Saints

Rams

3 way tie for last Cowboys, Colts, & Eagles. 

trying to think who I like less than those teams… AFC east teams (nope, they hate us). Giants - meh? Ravens (definitely, but they’re out). Broncos (same boat as the Ravens).

Patriots 10 super bowls - played Bears, Packers, Rams, Panthers, Eagles, Giants x2, Seahawks, Falcons, Eagles (0-2 vs NFC north, 2-0 vs NFC South, 1-3 vs NFC east, 2-0 vs NFC west) 

Rams or Saints — most dangerous —but Pats will be underdogs and ME LIKELY THAT !!!! 

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Game of Thrones as 2019 NFL Playoff Teams PART 2 Podcast

Filibuster Freestyle’s 4th annual NFL Playoff teams as Game of Thrones Characters is here and these are the Part 2 podcast notes:

LA Chargers  - Daenerys Targaryen (while she was still in Meereen) - Essentially displaced/ homeless and they have to go east if they want to “go west” aka win the title. Her Dragons were young, the cards were stacked against her, she wasn’t even beloved in her home town, she had to leave her home town due to a lack of support. The chargers have had terrible luck with Kickers, people question their QB and coach a lot, but there is potential for greatness. They’ve won on the road despite  history of not doing so. Nobody is sure how much trust to put in the Chargers, but no one seems to want to face them, and no one seems to hate them.

Baltimore Ravens (House Stark after killing Little Finger) - The Ravens seemed to be left for dead with Joe Flacco at the helm. There was talk of John Harbaugh not coming back, enter Lamar Jackson at QB and everything has changed. The Ravens seem to find a way to win ugly and/or survive to fight another day. Jon Snow at Hardhome, John Snow when he was saved by Uncle Benjen stark after the Night’s Kings killed Viserion the Dragons.) Now House Stark has Bran reunited with Arya and Sansa, and their slitting little fingers’ throats, they killed Ramsay Bolton with his own Dogs, they are poised to recover from certain defeat. 

Philadelphia Eagles - Welp this is a story about the ability to hang on to power when all seems lost. Nick Foles is the “wildfire”. This is Cersei Lannister using Wildfire with Maester Qyburn and blowing up all of her enemies at once in the Sept. The eagles were having the classic super bowl hangover. Everybody was coming for them and coming for them hard. They seemed to have painted themselves into a corner with no plausible escape… and then the ineffective Carson Wentz is “injured” and they insert Nick Foles. Nick Foles is the Wildfire. He allows for an inexplicable change of momentum, just like Cersei’s stunt at Great Sept of Baelor.

Chicago Bears - Night’s King Army and Khalil Mack is the ice dragon, Viserion. They were going to be tough to defeat, but they were outgunned in terms of game changing dragons, and then Jon Gruden gifted the Bears an asset who takes them to another level. 

New England Patriots - The Patriots have always been featured as somebody like Tyrion Lannister or the Night’s King. But I think this year’s Patriots are Jamie Lannister at the battle in Season 6 or 7 with Sam Tarly’s dad and Dickon Tarly. When Dany had three Dragons, and only a heroic move by Bronn saved jamie from being burned alive. The patriots are a shadow of their former selves, as is the 1 handed Jamie, and they are out gunned. But, they are wiley, so there’s a small chance they survive, but not because they are the best team. 

Kansas City Chiefs - Missing Karim Hunt really changed things a bit for the Chiefs —so this was my toughest team to provide a game of thrones character. But here it is… This whole tale started after a young Robert Baratheon struck down Rhaegar Targaryen at the Trident (and then Jamie Lannister killed Aerys the 2nd (the Mad king). If the Chiefs win the super bowl, they are young Robert Baratheon and if they get knocked off, they are Rhaegar Targaryen. And the beauty of this comparison — Rhaegar is actually Jon Snow’s dad. And I’m convinced that Patrick Mahomes will lift the Lombardi Trophy one day, if not this year… just as Rhaegar lost the battle of the Trident, but “won the war” by conceiving Jon with Lyanna Stark. 

LA Rams - Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne — The NFL Season is long and drought with peril — The Rams came out of the gates like Oberyn Martell against the mountain and seemed destined for the Super Bowl but, after the past month, I’m increasing concerned that one of these NFC defenses might squish their heads like a Giant Grape. (Fake band name of the week, “Giant Grape”)

New Orleans Saints - The Unsullied. The saints seem to have all the weapons and the home fortress to defend. They might be a little one dimensional, but at the end of the day, if they can play their game on their home turf in the style in which they’re accustomed, aka no gimmick football - they’ve got a it handled. 

Merry Christmas Podcast / Happy Holiday - 2018 podcast from the Filibuster Freestyle

New Podcast drinking game. Any time there’s a random “dog bark”, or police siren, or freight train horn, or most notably an uninvited guest offering peanut gallery comments, etc — the listeners drink. We’re calling it, “More inebriated than you want”

Fake band name - faux pax - “Jackie Onassis’ corpse” 

Fake band name of the week for realzzzzies: “Fat third basemen”

Patriots update week 16 - their D is good - but Brady and Gronk are backsliding hard and fast.

The 2018 Patriots team has three outcomes for the post season:

1) They’ll ride a “Solid D” and “Ball Control Offense” to a Super Bowl title like the 2001 Pats.

2) They’ll somehow make the Super Bowl and get routed by a superior opponent like the 1985 and 1997 Pats.

3) They’ll lose in the first round like the 2005 and 2010 Pats — signs point to Door Number 3.

Very outlandish Ravens / Eagles super bowl 53 prediction 

Is there a band that listens better while “partying”, but worse sober than Sublime? Maybe Pink Floyd?

Facebook is the worst rant = Mark Zuckerberg is Lex Author

Honestly - and we mentioned this on a pod post World Series... if Sox win every 5ish Years - that model works for me. They have the money to do that and unlike football (stud QB), basketball (two top 20 players) or hockey (great goalie and injury luck)... money and health are all that matter in baseball and while health is random only 4 teams have money in mlb 

Thirsty beaver pub hat story - next time

Philadelphia Eagles in for a bumpy ride? Just askin' Dude

Places listening: Phillippines, India, Senegal, Canada, UK, Germany, Peru, South Africa, Nigeria (first time), UAE, Japan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia,

Rant of the month - girl on the Mobike asking me for money while i was running

US Open - Djoker is back, Nadal is back, Federer is he wins tonight is essentially back. Del Potro has been very dangerous at US Open lately. Who’s winning this thing? 

Labor day is for the laborers — any fun work related stories you’d like to share with us. 

Do the eagles have a potential QB controversy on their hands? 

SCOTUS Hot takes on Anthony Kennedy retirement, plus Celtics, Red Sox & Patriots

Why is nobody upset with Justice Anthony Kennedy for announcing his retirement before the mid-term elections?

I mean you were appointed by Reagan and you’ve been the swing vote on the Supreme Court for decades. GOP already stole Garland’s spot — the timing of this announcement in July instead of December (post election) is dastardly at best. 

Latest and greatest from the Worcester Food Scene/ East Coast Wing

Favorite Worcester Summer time story (from back in the day or now) 

5 mins on red sox and pats - Do the sox have enough to win it? Will this be the year the Pats regress from AFC Title Game level of success? If so, will they ever get it back? 

5 mins on Celts and NBA Free agency Boogie to Warriors, Marcus Smart stays with Celtics, DeRozan for Kawhi, LeBron to the Lakers - does he get a title? does he get multiple titles?

Marky Sal Wall Decor & Man cook good

"Handmaid’s Tale" and Season Two of "Big Little Lies” w/ Chloe Peterson

Interview Jeremy Johnson, Marky Sal and Dan Ruttle - Ask the same question of 3 guests

If corporations are running the nation and the world, instead of nations — then shouldn’t we at least stop choosing the federal gov’t officials we elect based on a “state by state” basis? If Wyoming as a state, with 600,000 people deserves 2 senators — then I propose that cities larger Wyoming deserve 1 senator (in addition to the two their home state gets).

Westworld Season 2 Preview Podcast

Westworld Season 2 Preview - premiers on April 22nd on HBO

Westworld’s first season ended on Dec 4, 2016 - we’re going to look at the craziest things that have happened since then.

188 listens in Athens, GA this week, Alexandria Egypt #2, Ashburn, VA #3

Australia as a nation third place

UK, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Singapore & Poland listened as well.

Ashley Howard, new HC at LaSalle University!

Patrick Reed wins the Masters

Clearly Trump being elected 2 weeks prior to the end of season one, and everything associated with Trump since that time could take up spots 1-200 on this list — but let’s try and keep this as trump free as possible

The women’s march in Washington, which in some ways can be viewed as significant factor in the #MeToo movement

The Patriots have won a super bowl in Dramatic Fashion and Lost a Super Bow in Dramatic fashion - to the Eagles who’d never won one before

We had the Oscars’ best picture of 2017 mix-up with Moonlight belatedly winning after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunnaway messed up the announcement and said the wrong film first

United Airlines went viral for dragging a passenger off of a plane — somehow making every other airline look much better by comparison

We had a congressman - Steve Scalise - shot at a baseball practice for a congressional baseball game - which is very scary stuff

White Nationalism at Charlottesville ripped open longtime wounds and shined a spotlight on how emboldened racists and racist nationalism have become

Hurricane’s wreaked Havoc on Houston and in Florida but most notably destroying a modern day way of life in Puerto Rico - a way of life “electricity and fresh water” that is still not fully back on the island for its citizens

Floyd mayweather and Conor McGregor finally have a boxing match / 8 months later Conor gets arrested for crashing a ufc pay per view and assaulting fellow fighters and attacking a bus

The Las Vegas concert shooting - nuff said

Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and scores of others in Hollywood, business, etc - were all torn to bits by the #MeToo movement

Roy Moore almost wins a senate seat in Alabama despite overwhelming evidence they he is essentially a serial pedophile  

There was a total solar eclipse

Facebook is massively involved in the election tampering by Russia in 2016

The aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas School Shooting - winter 2018 — has been pretty significant

The Mueller investigation seems to be just getting started

Loyola Chicago went to the final four

Super Bowl easy recipes

Mancookgood - Filibuster Freestyle - NFL Playoffs. We give you EASY & DELICIOUS playoff football party recipe ideas. 

Minnesota Vikings - Hot Dish

Philadelphia Eagles - Cheese Steak Nachos

New England Patriots - Italian Grinders

Jacksonville Jaguars Teal Beer, Teal Hamburgers, and Seafood Gumbo

Food Blog, Pulled Pork, Atlanta Flacons, New Orleans Saints, Hot Chicken, Tennessee Titans, Pittsburgh stealers 

NFL playoff teams as Game of Thrones characters

 2018 NFL Playoff teams as GOT characters 

Which fan base Eagles fans hate (of the playoff teams)

Also - playoff teams as game of thrones characters = DOPE idea

Congrats to Dan O’Brien of “Paul is Dead” on winning the Filibuster Freestyle Fantasy Football Championship

Places listening Des Moines, Iowa 

Ashburn VA , Athens Greece #3 

Mountain View, CA new comer in Middletown RI

A Coruna Spain - beautiful Costal / port city in northwestern Spain. 

And Anchorage Alaska - we’re on the crab

Greece, Uk, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland

Ukraine, Kuwait, Lebanon, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka Saudi Arabia and Philippines

New England Patriots - Tyrion Lannister - they know everything, equally hateable and admirable - -but sometimes get too cute for their own good and/ or get beaten in obvious ways

Pittsburgh Steelers - Oberyn Martell - flashy offense could defeat anybody - but ultimately a little too predictable to exploit their faults

Jacksonville Jaguars - Bronn - finding a way to get it done via one or two skills and nothing else. Won’t be surprised if he dies at anytime - but also not surprised that he keeps living

Kansas City Chiefs - Cersei Lannister - one day they seem like geniuses, the next week they seem doomed - can’t figure out the role that they will play at the end of the narrative, but getting the feeling they’ll be central to the story

Tennessee Titans - the Sand Snakes of Dorne  - want to be interested in them, want to see their story become interesting - but in the end, they appear to be fodder for mainstream characters

Buffalo Bills - Theon Greyjoy - they’ve had an un-redeemingly bad run. They sold out their own family (playing games in Toronto), and jumping overboard on Yara aka Tyron Taylor. 

nobody thinks they still belong alive - but they are and they recently came through in their darkest hour. 

Philadelphia Eagles - Daenerys Targaryen- with Carson Wentz - they were seemingly unstoppable- but losing him was like losing Viscerion - only difference is he isn’t now playing for the night’s king (ahem Jimmy G is)

Minnesota Vikings - Jon Snow - seemed like they were left for dead - killed by getting QB’s hurt in practice or during games, only to find out that the answer was within them the whole time - Case Keenum is the unlikely leader of a fierce army in the north

New Orleans Saints - Jamie Lannister - all the skills but one major hindering factor - for Jamie it was losing his hand (or and terrible choice in ladies), for the saints its leaving the dome in cold weather

LA Rams - Arya Stark - have all the tools to be deadly assasins - but very young and maybe not yet ready to defeat everybody

Carolina Panthers - Sam and Gilly ? Boring but potentially important?? Hodor ? One dimensional but effective??? Gendry? Forgotten but possibly a baller ?? Daario Naharis? Flashy yes?! Important two years ago, definitely ? Important now? That remains to be seen

Atlanta Falcons - Brann Stark - all the tools to absolutely destroy everyone in their path - but seem to be missing the ability to harness their powers consistently

Most fan bases hate eagles fans, who in the playoffs do eagles fans hate the most ??

Where was the confidence level before Wentz got injured? Has it ever been higher ?

Ultimate Tailgate Party Playlist

Ultimate Tailgate Play list  from Parking Lot Carl

This has a heavy “northeastern US” influence and heavy Pro-football influence

College Football and College Baseball (for southerners) is clearly going to be a lot more country influenced

This original playlist has some songs that I think are perfect for Eagles Games, but not say Patriots Games or New York Giants games. (So I made a couple of substitutes) 

Replace “Fly like an Eagle” with Outkast’s “Bombs over Baghdad” 

Replace “Dropkick Murphy’s” Barroom hero with “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”

We also need a Ballard and/or Power Ballard for comedic irony purposes — I’m Thinking “Oh Sheri” By Steve Perry — or perhaps a better Choice is “Unforgiven" by Metallica

And I need “Symphony of Distraction” by Megadeth on here.

I need “One More Time” by Daft Punk

We gotta have “Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson

We gotta have some Tribe called quest - so I’m going with “Award Tour” 

Love the “Everybody’s working for the weekend” call - how about “Smells Like Teen Spirit” right after it

“Nuttin but a G thing” — and depending on the time of year — “Summertime” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Any song from RHCP “Californcation” and most early “U2” hits also are tailgate worthy

Sprinkle in some Dave Matthews any time too. 

The rocker and beer run are off my personal list 

Lady Gaga's QB from Super Bowl LI - Brian Mann joints the Freestyle

Lady Gaga’s Quarterback at Super Bowl - Brian Mann

In the Boston Globe - I read about you being dressed in black and Gaga being able to see the ball. Were the rehearsals with full Stage lighting etc? 

Would Charlie Stevenson have allowed xaverian to use bedazzled footballs if they helped receivers see them during night games? 

Was the PSI of gaga's ball regulation? 

Did having a halftime job/role make first half easier to endure as a pats fans?

Assuming you gave up or had your doubts on a pats win - when did you hit rock bottom that pats were not gonna come back?

What's it like to be there when your fave team wins it all? 

How visceral was the heat Roger Goodell got from the fans ?? 

Former Dartmouth QB buddy teevens was in an SB commercial / you're part of the SB halftime - Brady and Ryan are repping Michigan and BC respectively - but let's face it you had the  highest QBR that night - 1-1 for a TD

Was there ever a discussion of Gaga taking a handoff of lateral instead? Or of her throwing a pass instead of catching it? Or perhaps her sacking a backup dancer/ QB? 

Did you hone your craft as a kid by having friends jump off of diving board trying catch nurf balls?

Do you think more artists will incorporate a post mic drop show stopper  with a athletic move? If so any predictions?

GV prediction : What if pitbull or Beyoncé does halftime of the World Cup final - will leonel Messi corner kick them a header opportunity or a chance to score of a bicycle kick?

Based on your knowledge of filming could you serve as both Sandler and Marky mark's stunt double in a football moving they were both starring in?

Did you ever get lit up (tackled hard) during filming? I.e. How real is the contact. Would you have passed today's concussion protocol? 

How has Sandler acquired some of the his "crew of movie regulars". 

Arena league - any favorite stories from those days? How pumped were you to be playing in LA vs say Des Moines like Kurt warner did w/ Iowa barnstormers? 

Hanover/ Dartmouth speed round - murphys or canoe club? 

Would you rather go to salt hill pub for trivia night or karaoke? 

What's been most different thing about living in Texas vs New England?  What do you miss most about New England ? 

Patriots Falcons Super Bowl 51 Hot Takes & Women's March in DC Hot Takes

P-word Power March hot takes - Women’s March on Washington 

Amazing to see that many people (mainly comprised of women) band together around the nation - and throughout parts of the world

Couple questions / takes

Where was this mobilization and energy during october and november? More importantly why wasn’t it there? Were people too confident that Hillary would prevail? 

Can women band together like that to drive the result of the 2018 midterm elections? 

They only way to beat small minded voters and essentially Tea Party voters is by finding a way to get Congress Back — essentially it’s time to think globally and act locally about politics and liberals have a nasty habit of being less focused during the midterm elections. The issue is 2/3’s of congress gets elected during the midterm elections. 

I’m starting with the man in the mirror on this one — i’ve only voted in a midterm election once, and starting in 2017 I will. I’m even going to start voting every local elections

We are less than 22 months away from the midterm elections — the nasty women need to nasty then — do you think they can sustain this momentum? And/or summon it when it’s time? And to all the “Dead Beat voters” aka the 50% of the electorate who sat 2016 out — get your crap together and vote — even if you right in mickey mouse — do not no show — it’s a shame that 25% of the country voted for this guy and he won cuz 50% of the country didn’t give a crap — and i’d say the same for hillary winning.

Aziz Ansari’s Saturday Night Live hot take — The Closet Racists who have flung open the closet because they think Trump winning is a license to be openly racist are really jamming things up. One: The majority of the country won’t be swayed to be racist Two: Trump got elected because of how many “never hillary people existed” — Next time, he ain’t facing hillary and the non-racist Trump voters are going to run away screaming from this now openly racist base of voters

Home about the split screen image of Obama’s 2009 inauguration and Trump’s in 2017— Very Telling. 

Outlandish ideas to agitate Trump and his supporters for the next 4-8 years

1. Jon Stewart needs a new weekly show on HBO dedicated to Slamming Donald and his Cronies 
2. Jon Stewart’s show should coax Rage Against the Machine to Reunite and become Stewart’s house band
3. If Zach De La Rocha won’t rejoin Rage - Bruce Springsteen Should — this would really tick of Rosco P of Drilling 3’ by the way 
4. Michael Bloomberg should run as a Republican in the 2020 Primary - Forcing Donald’s hand to spend money to get nomination
5. Michael Bloomberg should then run as in Independent in the 2020 General Election — 67% change Either he’ll win, or the Dem nominee will win and trump will get way less than total of 50% of total vote — further diminishing his fake mandate 
6. People should refer to Trump as “Interim President” until and unless he can win a second term in 2020

Hot takes from NFC and AFC Championship Games - Football in LA /// Tom Brady’s 7th

How confident were you before the game started? Tavern in the Square

How confident at halftime?

Who do you think has better groupie stories Gronk or Jon Bon Jovi? 

How confidently are you in the Super Bowl against the falcons?

What scares you most about the falcons? 

Jon Bon Jovi narrated the patriots voiceover promo video - interesting choice. I mean he's bill's idol

CBS showed gronk and JBJ together

Chris hogan - beasted a whole series for the pats first TD

2 quarters later - Chris hogan is beating this whole game

If Pittsburgh always runs its zone and if it's Achilles heel is always an all pro QB - why keep running it against TB12 in the playoffs ???