College football clichés bracket
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In honor of March Madness (and to avoid the wrath of fans who wanted us to create a bracket), Andy and Ari list their favorite college football cliches and pit them against one another in a single-elimination tournament. The pair canvass the bracket's regions; False Motivation Region, the Cliche-Because-It’s-True Region, the Code Words Region, and the Jokes About Schools Region, and discuss key cliche matchups. Plus, Gators wear jean shorts, Stars Matter, and a family atmosphere leads the guys into some fun conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.5 | It is the week of the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:13.5 | By the time you've heard this, there will have been a couple of first four games. |
| 0:17.0 | There are a couple more first four games on Wednesday night. |
| 0:20.5 | This is my last show before the tournament starts in earnest. |
| 0:24.8 | And as such, I learned this week that I would be fired. |
| 0:29.4 | This podcast would be canceled, would be nuked off the face of the earth if we didn't |
| 0:33.5 | give you a bracket of some kind. |
| 0:35.5 | So I put it out to the people. |
| 0:38.0 | Bill Landis, our Ohio State beat writer at the Athletics, said I should seed seeds. |
| 0:43.4 | I thought about it for a second, and I realized sunflower seeds will beat sesame seeds in the |
| 0:47.2 | national championship game, and I can't come up with 64 different kinds of seeds or things |
| 0:52.2 | to say about them. |
| 0:53.6 | Ari and I texted back and forth. |
| 0:55.5 | You guys had some good ideas, but Ari had the best idea, and we decided to do college |
| 1:00.5 | football cliches. |
| 1:01.8 | It is the college football cliche tournament, and me and Ari Wasserman are going to play it out |
| 1:07.2 | today. |
| 1:08.2 | Ari, you have contributed most of these, I must say. |
| 1:12.1 | Your knowledge of college football cliches is tremendous. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | I mean, yours is too, but it's so funny because you have to take them through the regions |
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