Hang Up and Listen - The Quarterback Named Buckshot Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by SB Nation’s Spencer Hall to discuss college football. Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders also joins to talk about NFL tanking, and Ed Cunningham explains his move to quit his job as a football announcer for ESPN.
College football openers (2:14): Spencer Hall talks about Texas A&M’s crushing loss to UCLA, Howard’s exhilarating win over UNLC, and other scenes from college football’s opening weekend.
NFL tanking (21:08): Aaron Schatz explains why and how the Jets, Bills, and Brows are losing on purpose; whether tanking is a sound strategy for NFL teams; and what the league should do to address it, if anything.
Ed Cunningham (37:43): The longtime ESPN announcer explains how he came to the decision to quit his job as a college football analyst, why he developed ethical qualms about the game, and why he doesn’t enjoy watching the NFL.
Afterballs (57:48):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for Labor Day Week, the week of September 6th, 2017. |
| 0:19.5 | On this week's show, Spencer Hall of SB Nation, will join us to talk about the first big college football weekend and how to get yourself fired probably by blowing a 34 point lead in under 20 minutes. |
| 0:31.5 | Go Aggies. |
| 0:32.6 | Aaron shots of football outsiders will also be here for a conversation about the NFL and tanking, |
| 0:43.5 | whether teams like the Bills, Browns, and Jets are going to usher in a new era of losing on purpose. |
| 0:47.8 | And finally, we'll interview Ed Cunningham, the announcer who quit his job with the SPN because of his ethical concerns about football and brain injuries. |
| 0:52.2 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. Labor Day weekend was a great sports weekend. I watched a lot. I came out of it feeling very pro sports. I've decided, Stefan, I am a sports fan now. Did it rekindle your love of sports? I don't think I ever actually like sports. |
| 1:12.1 | It kindled your love of sports. |
| 1:13.2 | I like it now. |
| 1:14.1 | There were good games. There was lots of games on. I watched way too much television. Too much games. Too much games. Lots of tennis. Lots of soccer. Did you catch Azerbaijan against San Marino? I did not, but I was on the watch ESPN thing mobber because I was watching various |
| 1:30.5 | side courts of U.S. Open tennis as one does, and noticed that they were showing a European |
| 1:37.3 | World Cup qualifier between the Faroe Islands and Andorra, comma, in Spanish, which I was wondering, that was the least watched stream in ESPN history. |
| 1:50.4 | Or if it was so undesirable that it kind of came around to being desirable again? |
| 1:55.8 | Oh, I would have, yeah, the latter, definitely. |
| 1:57.7 | I mean, at the very least, it had to be one of the games involving |
| 2:01.9 | the fewest inhabitants of the two places competing against one another. Farrow Islands won |
| 2:07.7 | and Dora Nill. It was a, it was a tight game. Predictable outcome. In the Faroe Islands. |
| 2:12.0 | Don't fuck with the Farrow Islands at home. Now it is time for the non-Farrow Islands content |
| 2:17.2 | of the show, which will be ample. |
| 2:20.9 | Here's a premise. |
| 2:21.8 | College football fans are very angry much of the time, but particularly angry in early September. |
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