Ep. 171: Friday Rollin' With Bryan Curtis and Mike Lombardi

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ringer editor-at-large Bryan Curtis to discuss the emotional roller coaster of re-watching Super Bowls (6:00), Chris Berman's farewell (14:00), the end of the highlight era (21:00), Bill's first time meeting Berman (28:00), Berman's ESPN documentary (34:00), NFL Network's relationship with Berman (40:00), and the "stick to sports" audience in the current political climate (52:00). Then, Mike Lombardi hops on to give his final Super Bowl prediction (1:07:00), explain why the Falcons defense doesn't pose new problems for Brady (1:14:00), and the Falcons' "Nobody believes in us" card (1:20:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.9	homepage type in BS. And we're brought to you by the ringer.com. Go there and check out all of our
1:06.4	written audio and video content for the Super Bowl because there's a lot of it. Even a piece about
1:11.2	the commission written by Brian Curtis who's here right now. Say hi, Brian. Hey. I have some bad news
1:16.8	though. My Friday mailbag is not going to be part of this great Super Bowl content. I got annihilated
1:21.9	by strep throat this week. And I have two weaknesses as a writer, Brian. I'm a terrible typist.
1:27.9	I type with two fingers. It's like it's almost like if I was a basketball player, if I had like the
1:33.0	torn left ACL that it was like, oh, he jumped so much higher before the ACL. Me for me, that's
1:38.2	two finger typing. It just takes me two hours longer to write anything than anyone else.
1:42.5	And I can't write when I'm really sick. I've always been MV as some writers who can write when I'm
1:47.6	sick. I'm just I'm just incapacitated and I tried to write a mailbag yesterday and it was terrible.
1:53.6	And my brain was working and I quit. I just quit like Roberto Duran. So no piece for me this week.
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