Hang Up and Listen - The Rooting for the Mustache Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by The Football Girl’s Melissa Jacobs to discuss the NFL playoffs. They also talk about the state of black coaches in the NFL and Racquet’s Caitlin Thompson helps assess the career of the (possibly) retiring Andy Murray.
NFL playoffs (1:16): What we saw in the divisional round—Pats! Chiefs! Rams! Saints!—and what to expect in the conference championship games.
Black NFL coaches (23:18): There were recently 7 black head coaches in the NFL. Now there are 2. What happened, and what should be done to increase minority representation on the sidelines?
Andy Murray (36:27): Is the fourth member of men’s tennis’ Big Four really done with the sport? And why does everyone love the three-time major champion?
Afterballs (53:51): Stefan on Penn basketball player Matt White and Josh on odd football tiebreakers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of January 14th, 2019. |
| 0:20.9 | On this week's show, Melissa Jacobs, aka the Football Girl, |
| 0:25.1 | will join us to talk about the NFL's divisional playoffs. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll also discuss the league's sudden dearth of black coaches, |
| 0:32.5 | with the total going from seven at the start of the 2018 season, |
| 0:36.1 | down to the current number of two. |
| 0:38.7 | And finally, Caitlin Thompson of Rackett Magazine, will be here to talk about Andy Murray, |
| 0:43.6 | who's talking about retiring from tennis due to a painful hip injury. |
| 0:47.7 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio, Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak |
| 0:52.1 | and A Few Seconds of Panic. |
| 0:54.3 | Hello, Stefan. Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:55.5 | Hello, Josh. |
| 0:57.0 | Andy. |
| 0:58.2 | I have to bid farewell to Andy. |
| 1:00.8 | That's one of my favorite things about tennis tournaments is hearing British fans scream, Andy. |
| 1:08.0 | Hopefully there'll be another British player named Andy to help fill the gap. |
| 1:12.1 | It doesn't have to be over. |
| 1:13.9 | Andy! |
| 1:17.4 | ESPN's Bill Barnwell has a piece up on Monday morning saying that we're set for what might be the most exciting conference championship Sunday in NFL history. |
| 1:27.6 | The flip side to that is that this past weekend's divisional round was not, in fact, the most exciting divisional round in NFL history. |
| 1:35.1 | All of the favorites, the chiefs and the Patriots and the AFC, the Rams and the Saints and the NFC, won their games. |
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