Hang Up and Listen - The Greatest Football Weekend Ever
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🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Lindsay Jones to discuss the NFL playoffs. Then, Ben Proudfoot joins for a conversation about Lusia Harris, the subject of his documentary short “The Queen of Basketball.” Finally, they speak with Oliver Roeder about his book Seven Games.
NFL (2:21): How did the Chiefs-Bills magic happen? Are Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers done?
Lusia Harris (30:12): The life and legacy of a basketball pioneer.
Seven Games (50:24): How machines have changed our favorite games.
Afterball (1:09:30): Josh and Stefan on Hang Up listeners’ goofy ideas to fix sports.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 24, 2021. |
| 0:28.6 | On this week's show, the athletics Lindsay Jones will join us to discuss the best weekend of playoff football maybe ever. |
| 0:35.6 | Then Ben Proudfoot will be here to talk about Lucia Harris, the subject of his documentary, |
| 0:40.5 | The Queen of Basketball, who died last week at the age of 66. |
| 0:45.1 | And finally, we'll have a conversation with Oliver Rader about seven games, his new book |
| 0:50.0 | on why and how we play, the things we play. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast |
| 0:57.6 | one year. |
| 0:59.2 | Our pal, Joel Anderson, is off this week, and so we have but one representative of the NFL |
| 1:04.9 | playoffs are surely going to stink because there are too many games party, that being |
| 1:09.1 | Stefan Fatsis, famed DC resident, author of the |
| 1:12.4 | book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, and Wild and Outside. I hope you managed to suffer |
| 1:17.0 | through the weekend, Stefan. I did, yeah. Oh, so many NFL games. What can you even say about them, |
| 1:23.8 | Josh? They really weren't. There's probably not much to talk about. As I recall from last |
| 1:29.2 | week, I was just arguing for the sake of arguing. And so I'm sorry for wasting your time with my |
| 1:33.4 | pitiful discussion about why the NFL playoffs weren't totally mangled by the 17-game season. |
| 1:41.3 | Four games all won on the final play. Three of those decided by field goals as time expired. Two of the best quarterback performances in postseason history and maybe the greatest playoff game ever. One trillion jokes about Aaron Rogers now having all the time he needs to do his own research, and zero Super Bowl rings for Tom Brady, |
| 2:01.5 | despite the Rams and the universe trying to conspire to give him his eighth. |
| 2:06.7 | Joining us now is Lindsay Jones. |
| 2:08.5 | She's a senior writer at The Athletic and the president of the pro football writers of America, |
| 2:13.3 | meaning that perhaps she can reveal who wrote the script for this weekend's NFL divisional round. Welcome, Lindsay. |
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