Amin's Insightful Weekend Observations | Hour 3

There is nothing casual about football season. You can tell yourself, you're just going to watch one game, and six hours later, you're emotionally invested in a fourth quarter between two teams you don't even care about. That's what I love about this time of year. The entire weekend becomes football. Your text and friends, tracking games, second guessing coaches, convincing yourself you saw something before everybody else did, and then Monday comes around and you get to do the whole thing again. You saw the weekends you remember, and for me, some of the best ones have usually involved some good people, a great game, and a cold, Miller light. No matter what triumphs are in store this season, legendary game days start with Miller Light, cold, crisp, refreshing, that clean finish, and it's part of plenty of memorable football weekends. Make, game day, legendary. Go to MillerLight.com/dan to find delivery options near you, or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Game time is Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company will walk you Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. They are listening to the damn levatar show, in partnership with the Draft King Sports Act, now live in all 50 estates. We can observations is brought to you by Miller Light, legendary moments, start with a light. Dan, I love performing this segment, but I do not like writing it. Week after week having to come up with something both insightful and insightful, both spell this. But there's a reward to working on this. The gift of knowledge by the Socratic method. By the simple act of repeatedly asking questions, I shall gain the wisdom. Last week I learned the answer to, are the readers real? This week I move a step closer to the answer is Arch Manning Good. Spoiler alert, he isn't. Didn't they just take away his first team rep, SAS? They are giving the back up some reps this week with the first team, which could of course lead to them benching Arch Manning. You know about that Wally Pip? Wally Saturday, five of the top seven teams lost in college football and a sixth Miami needed double OT to survive the night. I haven't seen that much royalty taken out on one day since the Red Wedding. Thank you. Does that make the Cain's already a start? Two is after Red Wedding, you guys don't know? You can get in though. Show me outside, she has a CDN. Guess list was tight. Yeah. The door. He missed his first kick this year right before that, I thought he was going to miss again, pronounces what, his name. Wow. There's not a single vowel in his last name. Don't give that sometimes. Why? An instrument? Is it? That would be amazing if his name is Schmidt. Isn't it? Well, kind of cynical. His name, by the way, he's a white guy named Andre. That's another Caleb Williams, return action after missing three weeks with a severe case of the dramatic, we'll never forget that. I started a substack, Jeremy, I don't know if you know this, it's dedicated to recapping Jeremy Tasha substack on gossip surrounding Greg Cody, 10 day Tony on any libertart show adjacent substack. We'll get to work because there's a new substack out right now. I, you know what? Already updated. Yours is? Mine's already updated. What's the handle for yours? Oh, I don't know. All right. Mine is Jeremy's levitart sub sub. I didn't know how to change the name. I, like, there you go. So it's like a mean E6745, so something like that, so I'll go check it out. Yeah. Everyone has a substack then. Everyone. You don't have a substack. You know what it means? The huge loser. Exactly. Thank you. Do you have a substack? I don't even know what it is. Okay. BYU beat Notre Dame. Which means there was a lot of jumping up and down on beds this weekend. It's a, it's a soaking joke. So Florida Panthers. First team in NHL history to have a natural hat trick and back-to-back-to-back games. Not to be outdone. FBI director and about hockey fan Cash Patel, not his own unnatural hat trick by going back-to-back-to-back night-sleeping. Nevermind. Just a little past that one, I gotta start editing these. Golden State Valkyries. Take a 1-0 lead in the WMBA finals despite shooting only 32% from the field. Game 2 is tonight in Balhalla. It's a cool nickname for your home court. The problem is if you say it three times Cash Patel shows up with a keg. I'll see you in Balhalla, brother. Game 2. Here's the science. A bar rescue podcast hosted by Chelsea Reynolds, a real-life bar and restaurant consultant. Colin Casser, a real-life veteran of the commercial kitchen and food trucks in Portland, and two guys who would never let shooting poorly stop them in a bar, me and Zach Harper. Here's the science where we get podcasts, also live watch-alongs every Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern now. I do that every week then, you know, and talk about me and Zach knowing our way around a bar or whatever, right? And the joke is I never pass a bar and not stop in, except for in China. Where I also never pass a bar and not stop in, but I'm hoping somehow the fact that I brought up a foreign country will confuse the assemble court of media, covering the most intense beat in all the land, and see further questions on the matter. Also, they told me while I cannot say I'm an attorney, I can't say that I'm a practitioner of bird law. Five days. That's what she last. Five days. That's quite, yeah, quite the accomplishment. One, for the love of everything, stop sending me Luke Windsor doing Obama. First, when you see something that's wildly viral, assume that I, a product of the internet, have already seen it. Second, I'm not the patron saint of Obama impersonations. Doc Rivers, on the other hand, I mean, Ben Simmons, he has a documentary that has dropped yesterday when he has been a plus in it. He called me a real piece of what I said in a press conference after game seven versus that land in 2021. You know what? He's right. I had a terrible press conference after game seven, and then Joel had a bad press conference after game seven. You know what Ben had? A horrible game seven. The Sean Watson, the type of success from an accused sexual assault, are you typically suspect on election day, accused, people who can't sit in a seat without launching themselves like a cruise missile. Get the hell out of here. Guys sitting in front of me on a red eye, cannonballed it to see so hard, it popped my iPad from the device holder and into my chest. I felt like I got shot by my own iPad, woke me up from the quality of sleep you can only get on a red eye flight. Can I tell you what I can't stand on flights? What's that? When the person who is getting in the seat behind me, why do they got to like, jar my headrest to sit to it? It's rude. I don't understand. Zaz, red eye flight. I'm going to demonstrate for everyone who's watching on YouTube. Red eye flight. I'm behind this guy. My iPad is stuck to obviously to the back of his seat with that device holder. American. He sat like this. Yeah. Like it was, it was insane. He speared the damn chair. I'm like, buddy, and not even a, oh, my bad or anything. Just kind of adjusted himself and bugled his seatbelt, I'm like, what are you doing? Reminder to, sorry. Seeing Serena Ocho promo the new season of Yellow Jackets reminded me of how awful Jeremy was at being an MTV news host. Terrible. Hell, man. It's another reminder to subscribe to my substack that recaps Jeremy substack the reports on the gossip surrounding 10 day Tony Gregg Cody and every other led to Levitar Joe adjacent substack where we get substacks. So my wife and I stopped watching Yellow Jackets after season three. And then I saw the Serena Ocho clip where they found the girls, the girls are rescued. I got to watch. I got to get back. I got to get back. Zaz. I got to get back. I'm scrolling and it just starts the MTV. I'm like, that's like the MTV news. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, what is this like a throwback to what happened on this day, and then she starts talking about the Yellow Jackets like, oh, my God. I got to get back. I got to get back to the New York City. Look at that. In the book, OJ described a hypothetical friend named Charlie, who accompanied him on the night of the murders, stood by as a horrified bystander, and then helped dispose of the weapon and the bloody clothes. In real life, the time discovered this accomplice existed, and his name was Joey Ipleito, a mafia associate and convicted drug runner. Unfortunately, Ipleito is long passed away, so we can't confirm this with him. But I have a feeling both he and OJ will reunite somewhere warm to welcome Wiener Messy and the rest of Argentina. Speaking of hell, Art Briles, Argentina, all of it, these are the weekend observations, and a quick reminder to everybody. Should've done this last week, I apologize. I'm sorry to all the listeners, because I should've let you know, you can win a VIP trip for two to Miami to hang out with the Levitac show. That's right, enter the weekend observations, picks contest, presented by Miller Light, by October 26th, for your chance to win, must be 21 or older, visit DraftKings.com. For all, the details. Look, between getting up early for the show, watching hockey late at night and everything else going on, I'm trying to do a better job at taking care of myself. But I'm not trying to take a whole bunch of different supplements every morning. That's why I started using I-M-8. 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Oh, and building your new stadium in a state-your-team actually plays in. It sports. Some things just make sense. You know what else makes sense? Drinking jagermeister shots. Ice cold. Drinking it any other way would be like hunting on first down. Or letting you worse hit her that first. Or like going for two when you're down three with a second to go. It wouldn't make any sense. So don't let the team down. When it comes to jagermeister, drink it cold. Or don't drink it at all. Jagermeister, damn that's cold. Pretty responsibly, jagermeister to cure. 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by mass to jagermeister US. White planes to New York. Folks, listen up. You know what nobody thinks about until it ruins your entire afternoon, glare. You've got the TV exactly where you want it. You've got the couch. You're ready for seven straight hours of football. And then the sun moves three inches. And suddenly you're watching the game like this, like, oh, leaning, I'm squinting and I'm trying to figure, is that a touchdown? And instead of fixing the actual problems, we'll just live with that. Yeah, around 415, you just can't see the TV. No problem. Yes, problem. That's insane. Your windows matter. The right window treatment can change the way a whole room looks, feels, and most importantly whether you can actually see what you're watching. Blinds.com makes it easy. Go DIY or have a vetted pro handle everything for measuring to installations. You can talk with an award-winning design expert for free, virtually with no awkward in-home visit. They'll even send up the 10 samples fast and free and everything is backed by their sure-fit guarantee. A couple of NFL things before I head to the weirdness that happened after the BYU Notre Dame game. Jordan Love, if you're watching last night, late last night, Jordan Love continues to look exceptional, even though his receiver's dropping off a lot of passes, they've got 18 drops this season. The next closest quarterback to have that many drops has 11, so it's not particularly close. And then also the BILS offense after six weeks, number one in EPA per drive, number one in explosive playwright, number one in rushing success rate, and number one in quarterback does crazy things, then bends over and farts the ball out of his ass for a 12 yard touchdown pass. That's going to happen at some point this season, I assume, where he's just going to bend over and shoot the ball out of his butt. We have said that he has grown the ball backwards while throwing it forward. He has now flipped the ball with Greg Cody's dismissive hand motion, which is not the throwing of the ball at all, and somehow it ends up in the right place. It's the second time this season, Josh Allen has done one of those crazy flips in a desperate situation and it ends up working for a big game because you think you've solved everything that needs to be solved with Josh Allen. You're feeling good about yourself because on two or three of the plays, you have held him down and not allowed him to get to the 10 yards, and then he does something desperate and crazy. He's the only quarterback still doing that, right? My homes have stopped that. There is no other, when I was telling you before about CJ Stroud through his first interception, the quarterbacks are all brainwashed into you cannot, under any circumstances, turn the ball over. He's the only one still playing like this, correct? I can't more does it occasionally, get some in trouble. By the way, another update on the Jalen Hurts thing, while you can get blood clots without football happening to you, that is not the case when it comes to Jalen Hurts. You can responsibly say, this was brought about because of football. From a football standpoint, this is from Ian Rappaport, Jalen Hurts should be able to recover after these three months of treatment. The blood clot was provoked, which means there was a cause and it was getting cleeded in his half. Now that is actually pretty good news as Ian Rappaport alludes to, which is in terms of worrying about having a second one pop up and having to be on lifetime blood, then there's less likely when you have a provoked one like this. I think it's okay for us to continue to wait for more reporting. We've talked about this a lot like where doctors and doing our own diagnosis when what we have is just the Chris Bosch sort of short circling of a career. And that's the reference that we have for this. And it was something that altered Chris Bosch's career and the future of the Miami Heat. But it is okay for us to wait for more reported details when we're guessing on some diagnosis here. No. It's more fun to guess, man. It's way more fun to play a doctor. Come on. Give me a white lab coat and a stethoscope and I'll give you all the diagnosis you need. So at the end of the BYU Notre Dame game and I'm going to say it again, okay, these are the things that happened at toward the end of that game. First of all, Bearbock Meyer throws a touchdown pass for BYU that the referee had to duck to avoid it, came very close to hitting the referee right in the face, which would have been a message. It would have been cool with it. Then after the game, the conference says, "Hey, our bad, there should have been another play for Notre Dame. There should have been another second on the clock." But then Bearbock Meyer, the quarterback of BYU, does and says this after the game. I had a high school Notre Dame disrespect to me and my family pretty badly and I wasn't going to lose to those guys. What happened? Yeah, I shouldn't have said that, but there were some receipts kept in. I'm glad we won. What is that? Okay. Hold on a second. So you're volunteering something that none of us knew that you're the only one who has the receipts on and then we ask you a follow up question and you're like, "Yeah, I shouldn't have said that." Let's just play that sound again. This is the winning quarterback after the biggest victory BYU has had in a while and you could make an argument that BYU should be the number one team in the country. What happened? Yeah, I shouldn't have said that, but there are some receipts kept in and I'm glad we won. That does sound a lot like my homes. It does, right? The gravel? The permit gravel? I shouldn't have said that. I don't know about you guys because I was thinking about this yesterday, because I'm sitting there watching the Packers game and Jordan Love with his helmet off looks different to me than I thought Jordan Love looked. I know what Jordan Love looks like, but many of these guys in the NFL are wearing armor and uniforms and you know them wearing that armor and uniforms and so there aren't many guys in the NFL that you would recognize if you saw them. But I was thinking about this this weekend when they went to say in on the sidelines with his sling and I'm like, my God, he's a child. Like that's not an adult. That guy's, that kid's face has not even grown into being an adult and the pressure that we're putting on these games, the amount of money he has plans about to pay $300 million to expand this playoff. for Matt to 24 teams when you do not need 24 teams. 12 already gives you a James Madison. You don't need 24 teams playing these games. We are pressurizing these games so much and putting so much money on these games that we are forgetting all the time because they're high stakes games and because of how we care about Saturdays that these are kids. And every time one of these quarterbacks takes his helmet off on the sidelines, I'm noticing they're children. Like they are, they do, they look like, saying looks like something out of high school and he's one of the experienced ones. - I mean, they're not children. But I get the point, they are still young and they're likely to make mistakes. You just mentioned ESPN paying $300 million. It's funny because they're paying $300 million for something they don't want. Behind the scenes, ESPN did not want this expanded playoff. It actually hurts their television product if you mitigate some of the importance of the regular season matchups, which this undoubtedly does. Look at how much fun we had this past weekend. It's because all those results had big consequences for the 12 team CFP. In a 2014 CFP world, you view this weekend totally different. - None of the losses this weekend and of those top 10 teams, you don't really feel any impact this year. - ESPN had to go with something. - Not next year? - ESPN had to go with something that was driven by the conferences. The conferences that think, well, look at it how big we are. It's not fair we play each other so much. So we have to reward the likes of Northwestern for operating in this conference that had Oregon and USC and UCLA added to it. It's the hot dog meme. We're all looking for the guy that did this. These mega conferences destroyed the sport, made it hard for the top end of their conferences to look as impressive as they used to. And now we're going to end up with a really diluted version of what has worked over the last few years, which is the 12 team CFP. - So you think if what happened this year to Texas happened next year? - Texas is still the formally in the playoff picture next year. - Yes, firmly. - And Florida's firmly in the playoff picture. - Yep. - Greed obviously is pushing a lot of this, but we started the show by saying a three loss team is going to make this year's playoffs. Not next year's playoffs, not the 24 team play. I think there's going to be a three loss. If Alabama loses three times, they'll figure out a way to try to get Alabama in there this year when no SEC team right now is undefeated. Alabama just lost a Tennessee. And I mentioned that last week, the Alabama Georgia game doesn't end up costing Alabama anything. I think Notre Dame can lose both the Miami and BYU games and still somehow get in with two losses, even though they don't play anybody else, just by virtue of being Notre Dame. But if you obviously double the 12 team playoff, and I'm sitting here telling you, I think a three loss team is getting in this year, if you make it 24 teams, you're going to see so many games in which early on, a team is just thoroughly outmatched, I think. But what I just watched this weekend suggests to me that everybody is the same kind of flawed, that there is nobody. I cannot look at Miami the same way after this weekend, and I don't even mean it as an indictment. I'm just saying, whoever you're putting at number one so far this season, you've been wrong in putting them at number one. When I see a team atop the college football standings at number one, that is not a team that can lose consecutive weeks to unranked opponents the way the Texas just did. In my entire lifetime covering the sport, there's never been a number one team that would lose to unranked team as a consecutive weekends. Number one, you used to mean something. - I don't think it's as much about in the 2014 playoff that in the first round, you're going to have a team that's wholly unmatched. Like right now, North Western, if you want to do by the AP rankings. No, Paul, North Western would play at UCLA, or SMU would play at Utah on the first round. I don't think it's about those teams that they would get smoked by those teams. - Right, the better teams would be rewarded, rewarded with a buy, but it's also an additional round. So it's not much of a reward. They're still having to play an extra game. - Yeah, I just think to me, it's like, you think North Western should be competing for a championship? Like that's a championship contending team. You think SMU, 'cause they're number 23 right now in the AP, like they should be competing for a championship. - How is this any different though than James Madison getting smoked when they got into the playoffs? - It's what's trying to allow. We're trying to be fair. - They earned it. - We're trying to be fair by allowing a group of 16 in. - Yeah, the rules are changing. This is a bad evolution. - Yeah. - Yeah, it kind of felt like we were right there at the right moment in college football. - There are not 24 championship teams. - Right, there's right now about like seven. And if some teams put together, maybe a few more, but there aren't 24 championship title contenders. And it's, I know we're all gonna be watching. We're all gonna like the extra games come that time. But you're just kicking an excitement can down the road. Yeah, I'll get it up for the extra playoff games in December. That's cool. You just kind of ruin October. You just kind of ruin November. - Yeah, I hate the 2014 playoff because I think that it ruins so much of what makes college football's regular season so great. At the same time, you are at least allowing teams to compete for a championship. Because exactly like you just said, we basically decide before the season up until the last couple of years. Oh, there's like eight teams that can compete. And if one of them beats another one, we're not gonna move them down the rankings and we have this sort of anything from objective competition that's happening. We have a totally subjective thing that's an invitational by a network that was limited before. 12 at least requires, hey, you've got your powerful conference champions, you got the best group of five team. And likely the runner-ups in those conferences. So now you're debating a few teams on the margins. But now when you get to 24, all these at-large teams are just gonna be totally subjective. - You can't do the ruining October and November when we right now are in the middle of 61 straight days where football is on your television, college and pro every single night. We right now, every single night for 61 days, there is a football game on television because more is always the answer on this stuff. And so of course, we go from four teams to very soon there after six times as many when we already made it, three times as many because more footballs always the answer. - But consequence was what made Ohio State Indiana compelling. In a 2014 playoff world, that is not a compelling game. That is compelling, entering it because you realize, hey, Ohio State lost the Texas, which by the way looks really funny in the light now. And if they lose against Indiana, they can't afford to lose another game. They can, they might be not because a three-loss team is gonna get in the shoot. - Well, that's your take, but that's not the take that you should take away from that. - But you're sitting here, when we were at four teams, everyone was clamoring for more, for every time the fifth team left out. When we were at 12, everyone was wondering, why aren't Notre Dame and Alabama in? They're gonna air on the side of excess instead of restraint because the money is excessive. - Right, but this one's wrong, and I don't know why we're not asking the question, how is this allowed? Seriously, what happened here? The CFP is not a governing body. They are not, they are not the NCAA. What can they enforce? They enforce who gets into a tournament that they create them. Who is the CFP? We still don't know. It's the conferences. The conferences that ruin the sport by getting conferences too big in the first place that aren't actually a governing body. - They can enforce anything. - They haven't ruined the sport. - But ESPN doesn't even want it. ESPN's having a right up a $300 million check to have something that is wildly unpopular with the base. It's like 80% of people do not want this, and we're all getting something that we don't want, shoved down our throats by a governing body that is not a governing body. - But here is where greed is a dilution because I think this part is fairly obvious here. When it was four teams, Indiana, Ohio State is an eliminator. When it was four teams, that game ends one team season. I don't think Indiana deserves to have its season ended based on losing that way. I don't think Notre Dame deserves to have its season ended by that. It used to be, and we know this is so, right? It used to be you couldn't have one loss. One would be something that would end the season. Now we're getting to two and three losses are okay, and it didn't make Ohio State Indiana any less interesting. - That's why 12 is good. It's going to be less interesting, which 24. - And four was good. - Four wasn't bad at the time that we had four because there were four elite teams loaded on both sides of the ball. They're hogging up in the town. - And it was better than nothing. This day and age in college football, 12 seems to work. 24 does not. We still have CFP eliminator games. I know it doesn't have as much juice as Ohio State, Indiana, but LSU, Mississippi State, that's an eliminator game. - Tony, you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks. - I know it well. It's usually when I show up. Everybody goes crazy. - Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with queer blocking like this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The queer voe is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. - It has that effect on people. - It does. You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the queer voe of. In fact, it's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it square, folks. - Keep it square, baby. - Ah, folks, listen up. You wouldn't want an offense alignment to play Wild Receiver, would ya? Nah, you wouldn't. You need the right person. You need the right equipment for the job that applies to football and it definitely applies below the waist. That's where the lawnmower lineup from Manscape comes in. Trusted by over 14 million men worldwide, the lawnmower go is slim, sporty and straightforward. 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Chris Ballard, least of all. And we got that game anyway because the error here is gonna always be made on we'll give you too much until you complain. Not too little if there's money involved and $300 million for a 2014 playoff so that you can have a round robin. We've been mentioning for a couple of years now the idea that college football is our second biggest sport in America. Why would they ever err on restraint? When do you ever know? When do you ever know scarcity leads to more demand? Scarcity is a chief governor of when it is that you get demand. They're gonna keep pushing this envelope to get the most money and they might not stop at 24. Why not just keep grabbing it money when there's money available? - Okay, but there's an irony though to what you're saying, right? Because for years we were asking for a playoff. Years. And then in such a short period of time where finally we got to a 12 team play of which everyone seems to like. They're doubling that like. Dan, how many years were we asking when we're doing the BCS and we're asking for some kind of playoff and even when we were doing the 14 playoff, how many years were we asking for? Can we make it eight, you know? But now we're in this rush to expand. It took us forever to get here. - You've gotten here though with what is a laughable measurement system. The idea that we're still doing this with AP voters and committees, the idea that all of this conversation around the sport is good for the sport. It's not ruinous for the sport. What's ruining the sport? There's, I understand warning and predicting of an apocalyptic future, but there's been no tapping the brakes on how popular football is in this country. Both college and NFL football are bigger, better, and better than they have ever been. Correct? Like, there's more interest now in these two that there have ever been. So what's ruining it? - For football, but there's plenty of examples in major sports that either grew too quickly or made mistakes or were too slow to change their game and they lost their momentum and the arrows started going downward. Look at the NBA. Look at Major League Baseball. Look at what happened with UFC. NFL is not immune. Football is not immune. College football certainly is not immune. And for college football to want to swell these conferences up which was unpopular enough. And as a byproduct, impact what we love about the sport so much which is the weekly tradition and this game matters to rip that away. This is a huge mistake and they may not come back from it and the ratings are already down there. - You guys sound like Francesca. - It's too much football in one day. It was never special. Now if you have just Sunday games one and four o'clock window and then have a big game one day, you got 24 hours build up. You got a big stand alone game. Now you hit people with a Sunday night game after, you know this idea we waited all day. Well, it's a stupidest song that ever was created. No one waits all day and they watch football all day. Wait, I waited all day for Sunday night. No one waited one minute for Sunday night. I watch football all day. The dumbest I whoever thought it as the. I always says the dumbest thing I ever heard in a lyrics. I waited all day for Sunday night. No one ever waited one minute for Sunday night. I watch football all day on Sunday. Get ready for Sunday night. That's a dumbest song ever created. It's hard to disagree with that part. - I disagree on these grounds. I want football between 7.45 pm and 8.15. I don't like that half hour break. I want them to stick another college football game in there and just play 30 minutes of football. - So you've waited all 30 minutes for Sunday night? - I've waited 30 minutes for Sunday night. All of us have a little bit. Once that last game goes off the air, first of all that four o'clock window, little light from being honest. - Yeah, I don't like the three game windows. That's by weeks. We'll fix it by expanding the league. But Dan, look at what happened with the NHL. For them, it was a lockouts and changing TV networks, MBA. We've talked about the challenges facing the game and how it may need to evolve. Major League Baseball was a national pastime. It stopped. For the NFL and for college football, the competition, these are all antitrust leaks. They don't actually have competition. The competition is your hand held device. And if you're ripping away the importance of, well, if Ohio State loses this game, they have to win all the rest of their games. If you lose that in mid-October, then I'm gonna check out my device and I'll be like, I'll check in on the sport in mid-November when some of those games have some meaning. And if you look at the ratings already, they're down this year. You can only do so much of this before you actually start finding yourself in the position that those other leagues found themselves in. - I just don't trust ratings in general the way that we're doing all of this stuff. And I also don't think that football occupies the same class in the culture that all of these other sports. - There's one. - It was a national pastime. - I know, come for everybody. - Yes, one used to be the national pastime at a time that was much slower. Football doesn't have a slow problem. They are flooding the zone that make Francesca say, it's too much like he's swatting bees away from his face. - I got an idea for a mini league to be played in that 30 minute span that you're talking about. Seven on seven and the clock ends at 30 minutes no matter what and they just go play. And that league only gets played in the in between time between the four o'clock game and the Sunday night game, what do you think? - It's a good window. Somebody's got to do something in the 745 to 815 window. When some people choose to shower, some people choose to slow down that they need a break. Now that 300, did you guys, were you guys aware that there had been 17 seasons of the Red Zone channel, which Roderick Adele in celebrating the 300th episode of the Red Zone channel called it one of the great inventions in the history of sports? - I thought it was like 57 years. Wasn't that like a 3000 episode? - It's also an invention that they stole from direct TV. So is that 17 years going back to the original inception of Andrew Sicilianos version that they decided, hey, we can do this ourselves 'cause we're the NFL? Didn't John Taffer claim to have invented that? - Sunday take it. - Sunday take it is what he invented. - Yeah, and the butt funnel. - No, that's a butt funnel? - Put it on the poll at Lebitar Show, do you know about that butt funnel? So the Ben Simmons documentary that comes out was it literally the day that he tears as a Kelly? - Yesterday. - The mention that you had in the weekend observations of Ben Simmons calling Doc Rivers a piece of bleep. - Have you seen it or have you seen, what have you heard of it other than what he said about Doc Rivers? - Well, I interviewed Mark Spears, who was the guy behind the diamond, the Hall of Emerald Mark Spears. And he talked about, I asked him straight up, I said, like, weren't you worried that he was not gonna be forthcoming? And he said, yeah, but he was incredibly forthcoming and very honest and open and talked about all these things that he really hasn't talked about on the record ever. And talking about his feelings being hurt by what he felt like was a betrayal and an abandonment at his lowest point by his head coach and his teammate, Joel and B. - What were your thoughts when you heard the news that Ben Simmons was injured as a member of the Sacramento? King's people said that he was looking good, but I had assumed that just about everybody had checked out on the idea that Ben Simmons would be anything other than a disappointment and a bust. In first reference. - I think the hype around Ben Simmons before the injury was a little bit much like this idea that it's this great comeback story. I like, he quit on the Sixers. He quit on them. I don't know that to me that's a great comeback story. And by the way, maybe he was gonna be great. good this year. But how many years in a row before last year where he was in the league? How many years in a row did we get the summer workout videos? Oh, Ben Simmons is back. Ben Simmons is back. Like, how do you got to miss me with that? I asked Mark that same question. I said, Mark, I'm a skeptic. How would he argue against me in the sense that like, why is this summer different? Yeah, I've seen so many times. Right. He said, Oh, shoot three is now. And it's like, and the same thing happens when we get to the season. And Mark said that basically Ben points to number one. He's healthy for the first time and number two, at no point were any of those other things, those clips that we you and I are talking about, real game footage. And I said, if you see him against Golden State the other night, you see him against the other San Antonio the other night. That's real game footage against real NBA competition. And he played confidently and like loosely and freely. And I think that's the big thing. I don't think that it was going to be this great story. I don't think to me, he doesn't come off as someone who really loves basketball. But I do think it's a bummer that he got hurt yesterday because I do think it was going to be interesting at least to see how he was going to perform this year. He does seem like someone who loves basketball. Just listen to him. All these people talk about, I don't love the game. That's bullshit. I played two injuries. I've broken my foot. I've rehabbed that multiple back surgeries. You know, I've been through it all. If I didn't love the game, trust me, I would be at home, you know, I'd be fishing. I could go to Australia now, go get a nice home, be on the reef, fishing, get out, you know, find a wife, get some kids and call it a day. But that's just, I love the ****. Yeah. He just tells you to go after yourself. First of all, in that clip. Second of all, that's this is, this is, that's what the comeback is all about. Right. You have to be at your lowest point. This guy was anointed. He was a number one overall pick. He was in all it. Also, I'll defensive team, all these things. And then he had his lowest point and his life unraveled from that point. And so had he played this season and, you know, played like he did in the, I was interested in the story. I was it was going to be a big story. I was interested. But like I, I, you know, prove it. We would have seen now. Now, unfortunately, he doesn't have the opportunity to prove it. I was interested. Put it on the pole at Levitard show. Can it be a big story if it involves the Sacramento Kings and also just from the perspective of today. I would like to marvel for a second because I do think it sort of gets lost. A basketball team was losing on purpose for 10 years so that it could get draft picks. It gets Markelle Foltz, who short circuits. It gets Ben Simmons, who short circuits. And it gets Joel M.B. who short circuits. That's amazing. Like that's hard to do to have that kind of failure. And they just signed LeBron James and got Jaylen Brown from the Celtics. That's a great story when looked at from that perspective. When you, that's the biggest argument against tanking. It's like, even if it works and you get the number one overall picked, there's no guarantee that to have three of those though. Like Joel and Bid physically and Ben Simmons and Markelle Foltz mentally and physically for both of those guys. But the, the three, to have three of those is just an uncommon amount of bad luck where you get a fundamental short circuiting. Okrefer was also kind of part of that. Not a number one overall. Number two wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. You tank to get one of those picks. I mean, he was the one who played the most. Raise guardians tonight. Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks. I know it well. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Quarevo. I'm blocking my piss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quarevo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it. But again, it's the Quarevo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it quarevo. Keep it quarevo, baby.