Special Guest: Sam Schwartzstein
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:32.1 | The Welcome to the Andy Staples show. Happy Labor Day. Today we're going to talk about a labor of love because we've got a guy on the show who I've wanted to have on for a long time because he did one of the coolest football things that you saw this year. And it actually goes back a couple of years. And I wanted to get him to talk about it because |
| 1:12.4 | if you listened last week, you heard me and Max Olson raving about the RPPO and we have some |
| 1:18.4 | definite ideas about the game of football and some innovations. But this is a guy who actually |
| 1:24.2 | innovated within the game of football. Sam Schwartzstein, former Stanford Offensive lineman, the guy who created the XFL's rules. |
| 1:32.1 | He created the XFL kickoff, which if you listen here and read my stuff, you know it's one of my favorite football innovations of the last 20 years. |
| 1:41.7 | So, Sam, how you doing? |
| 1:43.9 | Good. It's a pleasure to be on ass. I'm excited |
| 1:46.8 | to finally get to be on ass. It's been a dream for me to be on ass. You're actually getting some |
| 1:51.5 | ass right now, and that's good. I mean, it's really a dream of everyone's, and when we finally |
| 1:56.7 | achieve it, you know, it's special. And we don't always tell everybody right away, but those closest |
| 2:04.0 | to it, I'm sure, I'm sure you're going to tell right after us. Every listener is not one of my |
| 2:07.8 | closest friends. So yes, of course. That's exactly right. Exactly right. So, Sam, I wanted to start |
| 2:16.2 | off by just encouraging everyone if they haven't read it yet. |
| 2:18.9 | Go to your Twitter feed and read the thread that you started the day the XFL stopped operating. |
| 2:25.3 | And it's Schwartzstein S, at Schwartzstein S on Twitter, because you go through the whole process of getting hired by Oliver Luck and then basically being told what |
| 2:35.4 | the job is and then how you came up with all these different rules and how you tested them |
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