Beyond The Numbers (of Sports) Podcast

No Episodes in a while, No Problem?! In Beyond The Numbers of Sports Podcast Season 2 The Intro Episode we talk about our hiatus, what we've been up to and our new format going forward!

🏀⛹🏽🌉⭐️ No Physical Playing Cards, No All-Star Game, No Fans, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 49) A Spotify Original we go Beyond The Numbers of NBA Top Shot, the new blockchain highlight technology that is rapidly gaining popularity with fans of all ages! We explain NBA Top Shot, designed by Dapper Labs, its origins, use & the excitement around it from fans & players alike, like Tyrese Haliburton! Telly explains how it could be used in the NFL & to transform the NCAA landscape to get college players paid. Amit explains the MLB equivalent & how baseball has been reluctant to widely adopt the technology in lieu of playing cards. Also, we hear from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on why there will be a 2021 NBA All-Star game despite the Coronavirus pandemic and despite players like Lebron James & Giannis Antetokounmpo saying they have zero energy & zero interest in the game. 

🏈🦠😷🕘 No More NFL Football, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 48) we go Beyond The Numbers of The 2020 NFL Season: A Look Back at the Biggest Storylines - The highest scoring season in NFL History during a pandemic, A Team with a name change, a cancer survivor and an 'amputee' - The Washington Redtails, and The Champs coming from an unlikely place....home, winning the Super Bowl in your building. We also share the story of MLB Legend Hammerin' Hank Aaron.

🏈🏆ⓁⓋ No More Super Bowl, No NFL Football, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 47) we go Beyond The Numbers of Super Bowl LV Tampa Bay Buccaneers Win: Reaction & Analysis from Just A Kid From Tampa Bay, Florida Telly - Defense wins championships, Patrick Mahomes worst loss as a professional Quarterback, Tom Brady wins MVP and Playoff Lenny became Super Bowl Lenny and now Lombardi Lenny! We also share the story of Kenny Washington, the NFL's Jackie Robinson. 

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#SuperBowl #SuperBowlLV #TampaBayBuccaneers #KansasCityChiefs

🏈🏝🏆💲 No Tom Brady, No Patrick Mahomes, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 46) we go Beyond The Numbers of Super Bowl LV Tampa Bay: Super Bowl Economics, Super Bowl Eats, Super Bowl Ticket Prices, Super Bowl Commercial Costs and Super Bowl Wagers. Additionally, in Beyond The Numbers A Brief Super Bowl History: we dive into the origin of the Super Bowl, or its original name the “AFL-NFL World Championship Game”, how it almost never happened and how it all came to be! 

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How it started: A location picked out 5 weeks before, 2 television stations broadcasting a game blacked out in the area it was taking place, with pigeons, balloons and people launched at halftime.

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How its going:  After 50 years, the Super Bowl has become a symbol of American culture. One of the most watched sporting events in the World, broadcast in more than 170 countries, with elaborate halftime shows, and cutting-edge commercials.

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#SuperBowl #SuperBowlLV

🏈🏝🏆 No More Conference Games, No Aaron Rodgers, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 45) Telly is just a kid from Tampa Bay, Florida and he breaks down his hometown Bucs chances in Super Bowl LV in Tampa Bay, FL and provides a Beyond The Numbers analysis of Super Bowl LV with Amit! We go Beyond The Numbers of The 2020 NFL Conference Championship Round of the Playoffs: Touchdowns beat Field Goals, Tom Brady beats Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes beats Josh Allen, what's next? And congratulations to Sarah Thomas - 1st woman to officiate a Super Bowl! #SuperBowlLV

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🏆🏈🏆 No More Wild Cards, No Mahomes, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 44) we go Beyond The Numbers of The 2020 NFL Divisional Round of the Playoffs HenneThing Is Possible! We break down each game of the Divisional Round: Los Angeles Rams at Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Ravens at Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns at Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints! Aaron vs. Aaron, Rodgers vs. Donald, Momentum and Justin Tucker Misses kicks, the Stefon Diggs Josh Allen Bills Mafia love affair! HenneThing Is Possible! and Breaking down the greatness of Tom Brady! We also go Beyond The Numbers of Tom Brady vs. Drew Brees. Also Baylor Bears Coach Kim Mulkey is saying what we have been saying all along about Covid-19 and the NCAA, so we now have someone on the inside! 

🏆🎓🏈 No More College Football, No Wild Card, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 43) we go Beyond The Numbers of The 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game - Alabama does it again, SEC is the place to be and we make the case why the Florida Gators are the National Champion Runners-Up. In NFL Nuggets we go Beyond The Numbers of Week 18 of the 2020 NFL Season - NFL Wild Card Weekend: Tyler Heinicke our MVP of the week, Lamar Jackson setting records and The Browns keep rolling! Before Martin Luther King Day Steve Sarkisian doubles down on racism and the Houston Texans lose Deshaun Watson for failing to hire minorities to the front office.

And commentary on the Surge on the Capitol this week -  Let us not take for granted the freedoms we enjoy, the fabric of this Nation & Democracy - it can be removed if not for continued & constant vigilance & protection! No different from our very own Faith. 🙏🏾🇺🇸

🏆🎓🏈 No More NFL Regular Season, No Heisman, No problem?! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 42) we go Beyond The Numbers of College Football 2020 - Our thoughts on the last week of the College Football season including the Final 4, the National Championship Game & Beyond The Numbers of The Heisman Trophy Controversy! In NFL Nuggets we go Beyond The Numbers of Week 17 of the 2020 NFL Season - Show Me The Money: incentives guys had to reach to get PAID, Derrick Henry in beast mode and The Washington RedTails advancing to the playoffs! 

And commentary on the Surge on the Capitol this week -  Let us not take for granted the freedoms we enjoy, the fabric of this Nation & Democracy - it can be removed if not for continued & constant vigilance & protection! No different from our very own Faith. 🙏🏾🇺🇸

✌🏾🦠🍾🥳 No More 2020, No Problem! In Beyond The Numbers Podcast (Episode 41) we go Beyond The Numbers of 2020 - Our 2020 Year in Review: Peace Out 2020! You can't talk about 2020 without talking about Covid-19 so we go Beyond The Numbers of Covid-19 in the US & Internationally, we go Beyond The Numbers of New Years Resolutions, and share our favorite 2020 Moments: Hint - Tampa Bay Rays! In NFL Nuggets we go Beyond The Numbers of Week 16 of the 2020 NFL Season - Tom Brady's record setting last 4 quarters of football, Alvin Kamara's 6 Rushing TD performance, and we introduce Ernie Nevers the last man to do it! In 1929 in 8 days Ernie Nevers scored 66 points by himself! Including throwing for a touchdown pass, picking off a Hall of Fame quarterback and kicking an extra point.