Green Bay’s Statement, Drake’s Hot Streak, NFL Blowout Day, Flash Sales, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal right after the Sunday-night matchup between the Packers and the Steelers to recap Week 8 of the NFL season (2:29). Then, they guess the lines for Week 9 before reacting to the NBA gambling scandal and ending with Parent Corner (58:52). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo #ULTRACourtside could get you closer to the game! https://michelobultra.com/courtside ENJOY RESPONSIBLY © 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook. We are also brought to by the
0:04.8	Ringer podcast Network, where it is Halloween week, my favorite week of the year. I've always loved
0:11.1	Halloween, really since the movies, but obviously as a little kid, but then Michael Myers,
0:16.8	basketball, football, just felt like when everything was happening. And then, of course,
0:22.1	my son was born. We thought it was going to be on Halloween, but I ended up being on November
0:25.5	1st. Would we have called them Michael Meyer Simmons? You'll never know because he was born on November 1st.
0:31.3	We're doing Halloween 2 for the rewatchables. We've done Halloween 1. We've done Halloween 4 and 2,
0:37.3	which I think is probably now a comedy,
0:40.9	but we're going to tackle it.
0:42.4	And it's coming at some point late Monday night.
0:45.3	So stay tuned for that one.
0:46.8	You can get it wherever you get your podcast.
0:48.8	Coming up on this podcast, Cousin Sal and I went live on YouTube right after Packers, Steelers, an entertaining game that wasn't as much of a thriller as we thought it was going to be.
0:59.5	That didn't stop us.
1:01.1	We dedicated the podcast to Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier and David Jones and Pookie and Black Tony and Albanian Bruce and who else?
1:44.3	The whole crew. Shout out to those guys. It's all coming up. We're going to take a break. And then we're going to bring in Pearl Jam. And then Cousin Sal, Sunday night, football. Next. This is the Bill Simmons podcast presented by Fandall. If you're betting on the NFL, come on. Fandle is the place to do it. They've got everything. Same game parlase, quick bets for when you want to jump in live, your way. So you can set your own lines on just about anything. The app's fast. It's easy to use, the best of all. When you win, you get paid instantly. I've been in Boston, Massachusetts recently. Guess what I did? Use Fando.
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