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Endless Thread

And... It's Good!

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hey football fans, ever heard of the Chicago Bears Principle? How about Winter Magic? Or the UFL? In this Super Bowl-themed episode, Redditors educate us on the stats, the halftime history books, and tackle football on wheels.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.

0:07.0

Emory, name every football position you know in 2.72 seconds. Ready, two bad go.

0:15.0

Quarterback.

0:18.0

Nickelback.

0:19.0

Sorry, you're done. You're done.

0:21.0

All right, it's tough though, right? You want to do it to me?

0:24.0

Yeah, obviously. Okay, ready, go.

0:27.0

A blitz. Okay, a full back, half back, back back. Is that one?

0:32.0

Why did we do this to each other?

0:34.0

Because three seconds is around the time your average professional badass quarterback has to throw the ball on a given play before it's too late.

0:42.0

Also, to demonstrate our just really horrible knowledge of football.

0:47.0

Ooh, yeah. I think it's fair to say that we are below average when it comes to sports knowledge.

0:52.0

Definitely. But you know what? We're still probably going to watch the Super Bowl, at least I am.

0:56.0

As is our custom in America. I know. For me, it's a reason to make slam and not chose.

1:02.0

For me, it's a reason to eat all the food and watch none of the football.

1:06.0

Okay, today we're going to do the damn thing. We're going to do the Super Bowl.

1:11.0

Do you have a favorite football fact, Emory?

1:14.0

My favorite football fact is that after the Super Bowl, the season is over.

1:19.0

You.

1:20.0

I think it's one I just learned about the Chicago Bears from a couple of the moderators of the NFL community or subreddit.

1:28.0

Yeah, the Bears principle wherein the Bears are the principal guiding force of who wins and who loses in the playoffs this year.

1:35.0

Which is really great for the Bears because now they're playoff relevant, which is, you know, not often for them.

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