Fantasyland #12 - Antrim, Ireland. Population: Football

Rotoviz Radio

Blue Wire

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.8 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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(Information correct as of August 31, 2017 - Original release date) The 12th episode of Fantasyland – The podcast that covers everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about fantasy sports. Antrim, Ireland. Population: Football – Fantasy Becomes Reality "Our first game . . . I looked around and I was like, "Whoa, where did all these people come from?"" — Danny McCallion Host: Peter Overzet – Contributor to RotoViz and Producer of the 'Pete Manzinelli' YouTube Channel Guests: Mark McClarnon – Jets Running Backs Coach and Social Media Wizard Neil Adams – Jets Founder, Chairman, and Center Donal McCloskey – Jets Offensive Head Coach and Equipment Manager Danny McCallion (Cuttlefish) – Jets Running Back Tyler Thompson – Jets Defensive Back Neil Kelly – Antrim Politician (Local Councillor) and Jets Chain Operator Jets Social Media: Snapchat: antrimjets Twitter: @antrimjets Antrim Jets Instagram: antrimjets_afc Facebook: facebook.com/antrimjets Website: antrimjets.wordpress.com Sponsor: RotoViz.com – A sports analytics website with over 1,500 groundbreaking articles per year and 20 proprietary apps. Go to RotoViz.com/podcast for 10 percent off a yearlong NFL pass. About the Show: Executive Producer: Fantasy Douche – Founder of RotoViz Producer: Matthew Freedman – Editor-in-Chief of FantasyLabs and Producer of the RotoViz podcasts Producer: Patrick Kerrane – Cohost of RotoViz Radio and Writer for RotoViz Subscribe: iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and others — reviews are appreciated Twitter: @FantasylandPod Email: Fantasylandpod@gmail.com — Contact us if you have any good fantasy stories. We’d love to hear from you. ——— Thanks to the RotoViz Radio Channel for syndicating this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski. Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray. Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no? Was the Raptors even started around that time? Come on, bro. I ain't that old, fam. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, A.J. Wilson, and many more. You won't want to miss this.
0:03.4	Listen to The Do Zone with with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts. We're right here today to prove where we're talking about this fucking league. He's with a Jets. And are we? Jets. Jams! Jams!. Robin! Jass! Robin!
0:38.1	Jass!
0:38.4	Jats!
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0:43.3	Jazz!
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0:45.3	Jazz! You are listening to Fantasyland, the podcast that covers everything you didn't know you wanted to know about fantasy sports.
1:07.2	I'm your host, Peter Roversett, and if you live in North America, you know football is everywhere.
1:13.5	There are 32 NFL teams, 900-some college teams, and over 14,000 high school teams.
1:20.9	And that doesn't even count all of the pee-wee clubs.
1:24.0	As you can imagine, things are a bit different in Ireland, where football as we know it is called American football and rugby is the preferred contact sport.
1:34.5	But every Sunday morning for the past 16 months, a group of 20 and 30-something year old guys known collectively as the Antrim Jets, those are the same guys you heard at the top of the show,
1:46.1	hooting and hollering before a game, have gathered in the small town of Antrim in Northern Ireland
1:52.3	to play American football. Although Mark McLarnan, the running backs coach for the Jets, would
1:59.1	prefer you not call it American football.
2:02.1	Just call it football. I don't like calling it American football. It's just football to me.
2:06.7	Like so many of us, Mark is obsessed with football. He plays fantasy and tracks the NFL.
2:13.1	His team is the Cleveland Browns, which is impressive enough on its own. But he and a few other buddies
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