Ep. 226: Very Superstitious

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode Amira Rose Davis, Shireen Ahmed and Jessica Luther dive into sports superstitions. But first, they start the show with some recent headlines that had them ROFL. Then they discuss some of the most infamous sports superstitions and rituals of athletes in hockey, tennis and global football as well as their own sports superstitions. They also discuss the how fans' superstitions form, the murky line between a tradition and a superstition and the ways sports superstitions often mirror religious rituals. Following this superstitious discussion, you'll hear a preview of Amira's interview with authors of Hail Mary, Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo. Then, the team burns all that needs to be burned in sport this week on The Burn Pile. Next, they lift up those making sports better, including Torchbearers of the Week, nine student activists from Northwestern University that stormed the football field during a game to demand better from their university. They wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the sports podcast that you absolutely need in your life.
0:14.7	Amira here.
0:15.5	I am joined by Jessica and Shereen today, and we are going to be talking about sports superstitions.
0:23.5	Of course, we're going to be burning things and telling new torchbearers and what's good in our lives,
0:27.9	but before we dive into all of that, there are some ridiculous things happening in the world of sports.
0:35.1	And I would like to just read tweets and maybe a headline to see your reaction to some
0:43.1	of these ridiculous things happening.
0:45.3	So first, there was a tweet that's a very online tweet.
0:48.8	This is coming on the heels of Aaron Rogers being ridiculous.
0:54.5	Have we considered the possibility that Aaron Rogers is Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend?
1:01.6	Oh my God.
1:03.9	That is so funny.
1:05.9	So Aaron Rogers, it turns out, is not vaccinated, has COVID, lied about being vaccinated by doing some like skeezy wordplay saying, yeah, I'm immunized in response to are you vaccinated?
1:22.6	And then he went on, I don't know, Pat McCaffrey to just like, I mean, checklist of the anti-vax nonsense.
1:32.2	Like just bingo card of it.
1:35.2	I heard from my good friend Joe Rogan.
1:37.5	If you can get COVID once you have the vaccine, what's the point?
1:41.0	But it was peak Twitter.
1:42.8	It was peak Twitter.
1:44.1	I bet he's quote unquote allergic to latex too.
1:51.8	That's one of my favorite.
1:53.4	She's no longer a romance author, but she was for a long time.
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