Maye Vs. Stafford, Week 18 Picks & the 21 Best 21st Century Sports Movies With Peter Schrager, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Peter Schrager and Joe House to talk about the NFL MVP race before making their Ringer 107 picks (3:06). Then, Sean Fennessey joins the pod to discuss Bill’s 21 best sports movies of the 21st century (01:22:47). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo 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 Fandul Sportsbook.
0:08.7	We are also brought to by the Ringer podcast network.
0:11.1	I put up a rewatchable's on Monday.
0:13.3	It was my 50 most rewatchable movies of the 21st century.
0:18.2	It was my list.
0:19.8	There were a lot of caveats to it, including they were just
0:22.1	movies I had seen the most times because of family, wife, because I liked having just a movie
0:28.1	on in the background as I was working, whatever it was. It was my most rewatchable movies. Needless to say
0:33.4	people had some opinions on it, but I loved it. Anyway, you can check that out. Then we'll watchables on Spotify, on YouTube, wherever you get your pods.
0:41.5	We have another episode coming.
0:43.3	I think we have two next week.
0:45.4	Stay tuned for two.
0:46.7	I think we're going to do a mailbag episode on Monday and then a movie episode on Wednesday.
0:51.2	So be ready for that.
0:53.6	Coming up on this podcast, we're going to do
0:55.4	Week 18 picks, Joe House, Peter Schrager. We're going to talk about the MVP and a whole
1:00.8	bunch of NFL stuff heading into the long weekend because I think most people have Friday off.
1:08.4	And then special segment just recorded today with Sean Fantasy, my 21 best sports
1:16.6	movies of the 21st century. This was not a me personally. These are the movies I genuinely
1:22.6	feel like are the 21 best movies, sports movies of the 21st century. As you know, I love sports movies, care about
1:29.4	them, have been writing about them my entire career back when I used to write and have a lot of
1:34.6	thoughts. So Sean helped me do, help me basically react off the top 21 and then came up with a
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