The Why Luck Left Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Jake Plummer and Nate Jackson to talk about Andrew Luck’s retirement; Billy Cundiff discusses the Chicago Bears’ bizarre kicker tryouts; and Slate’s Christina Cauterucci helps assess the state of the National Women’s Soccer League. Andrew Luck (01:53): What Luck’s sudden departure from the sport says about him and about football. Kicker tryouts (24:57): The right and wrong to audition kickers at an NFL training camp. NWSL (42:00): WhatSaturday’s huge crowd in Washington, D.C. says about the path forward for women’s pro soccer. Afterballs (59:56): Stefan on female placekickers and Josh on a pitcher who got struck by lightning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:10.0	slates National Editor and the author of The Queen.
0:12.8	And this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen
0:15.5	for the week of August 26, 2019.
0:19.1	On this week's show, former NFL players
0:21.5	Jake Plummer and Nate Jackson will join us to talk about
0:24.4	Colt's shocking retirement and what that retirement says about luck and
0:29.3	about the NFL. Long-time NFL place kicker Billy Kundef will also be here to discuss the Chicago Bears long-running
0:36.6	bizarre and questionably successful spate of tryouts to bring in a new kicker.
0:42.3	In slates Christina Kottarucci will join us to assess the state of the National Women's
0:46.1	Soccer League and our hometown Washington Spirit, which just got a record crowd on Saturday.
0:52.0	Joining me in Slates Washington, D.C. Studio
0:54.0	is the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.
0:56.6	It is Stephan Fatsus.
0:59.1	Hey Josh.
1:00.4	Little pause there.
1:01.8	Made me worry, but you're here.
1:03.0	I was waiting for you to say hi first.
1:05.0	Hi.
1:06.0	There you go. This is like my ideal, this is like the Stephan Fats' show.
1:09.0	We've got two of my former Broncos buddies.
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