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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - How a Video Game You’ve Never Played Changed the Biggest Sport on Earth

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sports video games pride themselves on their simulation of reality. But the most popular ones that Americans know and love — Madden, FIFA, NBA 2K, MLB: The Show — cannot compete with an intensely specific and uniquely important game called Football Manager. Which got so good at simulating soccer that it converted a worldwide army of real-life players, coaches, and executives into genuine obsessives — changing the multi-billion dollar soccer industry itself. PTFO’s London correspondent, Kieran Morris, embarks on a global quest to explain the Football Manager revolution… and jeopardizes his impending marriage in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

It's a dangerous, dangerous, almost like narcotic feeling when you're really in the midst of it. It's more than a football game, far more than a football game.

0:15.9

Right after this ad.

0:18.7

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0:28.0

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0:34.6

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0:38.8

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0:41.2

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0:46.0

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0:51.0

Don't invest in as you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:54.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. So, Kiran Morris, my favorite sorts of episodes on this show are Passion Projects.

1:09.7

Until today, I've never been concerned that someone I'm about to talk to has too much enthusiasm for a subject.

1:18.0

So thank you for joining us and I guess preemptively I'm a little worried about you.

1:23.0

I can't say thank you.

1:25.0

I whatever the opposite of that is is what I'm saying to you.

1:28.0

You brought a sickness back into my life.

1:31.0

You brought years and years of hard-won sobriety crashing down as soon as it was the

1:37.0

last thing you said to me in this studio months ago, hey, do you like football manager?

1:41.8

I just thought, here we go.

1:45.0

Okay, so I didn't know how much I'd be ruining the life of Kirid Boris, our 27-year-old

1:54.8

British correspondent, when I assigned him this story, the story about his

1:59.5

particular sickness, known as football manager.

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