The Super Bowl Mega-Preview, Million Dollar Picks, and Kobe’s Defining Quality With Peter Schrager, Cousin Sal, and Joe House | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by NFL Network’s Peter Schrager to discuss the upcoming Super Bowl matchup between the Chiefs and the 49ers; they talk about Jimmy “nobody believes in me” Garoppolo, possible Super Bowl MVPs, Kelce vs. Kittle, Super Bowl story lines, and more (2:33). Then Bill talks with Cousin Sal, who is on the ground in Miami, about some fun Super Bowl prop bets (36:10). Finally Bill calls up Joe House to briefly discuss Luka vs. Zion and share some memories of Kobe Bryant (57:30) before making some Million Dollar NFL Picks (1:22:29). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Today's special Super Bowl preview on the Bill Simmons podcast on the ringer podcast network
0:06.8	is brought to you by zipper Cruder. Here's the difference between working hard and working smart.
0:12.8	If you're working hard, you might take the chiefs in the Super Bowl. If you're working smart,
0:17.6	like me, you go in the other way. You're taking the nine or Super Cruder as the tools to make higher
0:22.0	and more efficient and effective, smartest way to hire. Powerful technologies, can't staseless
0:26.3	resumes to find people with the right experience for your job. The tech doesn't stop there.
0:30.0	It even learns what kind of candidates you like and invites more to apply. Right now, my listeners
0:34.2	can try zipcruiter for free at zipcruiter.com slash BS. We're also brought to you by the ringer.com
0:41.4	where we've had some awesome pieces this week. I would encourage you to check out the pieces
0:45.8	Brian Phillips and Chase Sarrana, word about Kobe Bryant in the last couple days, as well as all
0:50.7	of our Super Bowl coverage. If you follow us on the ringer's Twitter or the ringer's YouTube
0:58.3	channel, which is over 200,000 subscribers, we doubled our number of subscribers in 2019.
1:04.4	You can check out Slow News Day with Kevin Clark. He's been doing a bunch of Super Bowl shows from
1:09.9	there. Ryan Resill has had some Super Bowl previews from there as well on his podcast, which I
1:16.8	hope you're listening to. Against all odds, I went on and talked about props with Cousin South.
1:22.5	We just have a whole bunch of stuff going on. If you like the book of basketball,
1:26.4	ESPN was gracious enough to let me run the Grantland basketball that I did with Kobe Bryant and
1:31.6	Jalen Rose in 2015, right after Kobe tore his rotator cuff and was starting to see the end of the
1:38.3	road for him as a basketball player. Also, a really tumultuous season for the league, new teams,
1:44.8	the Warriors were taking off that year. Durant Westbrook was starting to combust. All this stuff
1:49.8	was going on and we just had an hour long, basically a podcast with cameras about it and he's
1:55.7	great at it. And I thought it was fitting to run that on the book of basketball 2.0 podcasts this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.