Mina Kimes previews the most exciting AFC/NFC Championship storylines
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Sports Gossip Show is delighted to announce its first-ever guest — and she sets a high bar. She’s an NFL analyst for ESPN’s NFL Live, appears on Get Up, SportsCenter, First Take, and more…you may also know her from her podcast The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny and on her Love Is Blind recap show, Love Is Kimes.
Please welcome the Sports Gossip Show’s first ever guest, the one and only Mina Kimes!
Mina joins Madeline and Charlotte to preview the AFC/NFC Championship games this Sunday, and the conversation covers everything you need to know to make watching the games even more interesting. They talk about the Taylor Swift vs. Hailee Steinfeld bowl (Chiefs-Bills), the incredible rise of Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels and why moms taking pictures with celebrities is one of life’s inevitabilities, the karmic justice of Washington being great after Dan Snyder sells the team, Eagles running back Saquon Barkley’s “inner glow,” the Taylor Swiftification that would be a Chiefs three-peat, and much more.
Plus: Mina shares her Roman Empire of sports gossip — aka the story she still thinks about seven years later. Hint: it involves Jimmy Garoppolo and a specific date he went on.
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| 0:00.0 | You know her as an NFL analyst for ESPN's NFL Live. |
| 0:22.4 | She also appears on Get Up, SportsCenter, First Take, and more. |
| 0:25.6 | Also hosts the amazing podcast, The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, |
| 0:30.1 | and has a Love is Blind Recap show. |
| 0:32.7 | And you're in dear to my heart, love is Kimes. |
| 0:34.4 | Please welcome the sports gossip show's first guest, Mina Kimes. |
| 0:39.9 | Wow. What an honor. Oh, my goodness. I didn't know I was the first guest. It's a lot of pressure, |
| 0:45.9 | but I'll do my best. Truly, no pressure at all. We weren't sure how to have guests on, to be honest, |
| 0:52.6 | because once again, we're doing this |
| 0:54.6 | ourselves. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.8 | But, you know, hopefully this tech works and people will be able to hear and see what you have |
| 1:01.1 | to say. |
| 1:02.0 | Fingers crossed. |
| 1:03.8 | We're so excited to talk to you, though, because obviously, Championship Sunday coming |
| 1:08.9 | up. |
| 1:09.2 | And I heard you and Bill Barnwell, shout out Bill, |
| 1:11.9 | talking about how you prefer championship Sunday to the divisional round. |
| 1:18.3 | How excited are you for this weekend coming up? |
| 1:21.2 | Pretty excited. |
| 1:23.0 | The matchups that we ended up with are, I think, good ones. |
| 1:27.3 | Get Mahomes, Allen rematch on the AFC. Mahomes is 3-0 against him, so if he wins again, it'll be a little bit of a like a Serena Sharapova thing, right, where everyone's like, it's a rivalry, but isn't it really? The other thing, I mean, on my pod, we dig into all the matchups and X's and those nerds stuff. |
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