Casual Diehard

Britt, Jesse, and Keelin are here for a college football episode, including sleeves to spite Jimbo Fisher, sincere feelings about Iowa, a carnival ride invitation for Lane Kiffin, and Thanksgiving weekend games as Thanksgiving foods. There’s a big game at noon on Saturday? Some kind of Big Noon Saturday?

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This is the first episode that we’re officially calling the Casual Diehard podcast, as we do a light to moderate rebrand around here. Willets Pen isn’t going anywhere, but it was born as a Mets book project (and still will be one eventually!) and will be our newsletter.

The subway station where the Mets play isn’t a great namesake for a podcast where we talk about all kinds of sports and whatever other tangents we go on. In this episode, for instance, with Britt, Jesse, and special guest Sophie Ross, we’ve got shared sadness for the effective end of the Bengals’ season and Ferrari’s season continuing exactly as it has. Plus, the tie between F1 and Real Housewives, Travis Kelce captains a new all-star team, and we really, truly, sincerely will miss Joe Burrow’s ass.

What you need to know about the change: We’ll keep posting podcast episodes through the Substack player for a little while, but we’re taking the podcast arm of this thing over to Acast, which offers us better tools for podding. We’ll still link from the newsletter to the pod when we have new episodes, but now you’ll be able to get our podcasts through your podcast player of choice (hello, Spotify users!) and we’ll be able to do some other cool stuff like get We Can Pod It Out a dedicated feed. We’ve got a lot of exciting stuff ahead, but if you’ve been here a bit, you know that the style is to kind of figure it out as we go. Can’t wait!

Here’s the RSS feed for the Casual Diehard podcast, and here’s our new cover art!

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willetspen.substack.com

This is the first episode that we’re officially calling the Casual Diehard podcast, as we do a light to moderate rebrand. Willets Pen isn’t going anywhere, but it was born as a Mets book project (and still will be one eventually!) and will be our newsletter.

The subway station where the Mets play isn’t a great namesake for a podcast where we talk about all kinds of sports and whatever other tangents we go on. In this episode, for instance, with Britt, Jesse, and special guest Sophie Ross, we’ve got shared sadness for the effective end of the Bengals’ season and Ferrari’s season continuing exactly as it has. Plus, the tie between F1 and Real Housewives, Travis Kelce captains a new all-star team, and we really, truly, sincerely will miss Joe Burrow’s ass. 

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Andrew and Roger are back for “The Last Beatles Song” to rate on the Josie Scale.

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Britt, Jesse, Keelin, and Lily are here for Ferdie Schupp and the Great War, a game that got both coaches fired, the Liván Hernandez of college football, Grandpa Elvy, fantasy booking for Iowa in the B1G title game, cursed teams all around, lots of options for Texas A&M, and a warning for swimmers on the Florida coast.

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In this episode…

* Baseball executives had a crappy time

* Addy’s broth (boil 4 cups of chicken soup with 2 cups of water, stir in sliced jalapeño to taste, 4-6 cloves of minced garlic, the juice of one lime, and simmer for 15 minutes)

* Jesse relearns soup history

* Britt hotboxes Vick’s

* Chales Leclerc reverse jinx?

* Checo’s horrible excellent season

* Nothing happened for 69 laps

* Fernando Alonso to Red Bull??? (We’ll take the consequences)

* Logan does race for us?

* George Russell, force multiplier

* The importance of Lance Stroll

* Missing Valtteri Bottas

* Life and death and friendship

* And much more!

Vegas next week…

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Baseball season is over, Formula 1 is coming to a close, and fall has arrived full force, which gives us a lot of emotions to deal with.

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Here is the list of FBS teams to score exactly 69 points in a game, according to data from James Howell’s database:

* Michigan - 1986 (Illinois), 1975 (Northwestern), 1947 (Pitt), 1917 (Mount Union), 

1914 (Case)

* Nebraska - 1997 (Oklahoma), 1990 (Missouri), 1983 (Colorado), 1978 (Indiana)

* Missouri - 2011 (Western Illinois), 2008 (Nevada), 1969 (Kansas), 1913 (Drury)

* Florida State - 2012 (Murray State), 2008 (Western Carolina), 1992 (Maryland)

* Georgia Tech - 2015 (Alcorn State), 2007 (Samford), 1921 (Furman)

* Texas - 2020 (Kansas State), 1999 (Stanford), 1969 (TCU)

* Oregon - 2017 (Oregon State), 2011 (Nevada), 2010 (Portland State)

* USC - 2008 (Washington State), 1931 (Montana), 1923 (Arizona)

* Vanderbilt - 1926 (Middle Tennessee State), 1917 (Samford), 1904 (Ole Miss)

* Notre Dame - 1977 (Georgia Tech), 1965 (Pitt), 1925 (Lombard)

* Baylor - 2022 (Albany), 2013 (Wofford)

* Iowa State - 1980 (Colorado State), 1914 (Cornell Iowa)

* Oklahoma - 2012 (Florida A&M), 1987 (North Texas)

* Texas Tech - 2016 (Stephen F. Austin), UTEP (2015)

* West Virginia - 2012 (Marshall), 1989 (Cincinnati)

* Iowa - 1986 (UTEP), 1904 (Grinnell)

* Minnesota - 1937 (North Dakota State), 1904 (Lawrence)

* Utah - 1983 (Wyoming), 1981 (UNLV)

* Washington State - 2018 (Arizona), 2016 (Arizona)

* SMU - 2023 (Prairie View), 2023 (Tulsa)

* Louisiana Tech - 2019 (UMass), 1998 (Arkansas State)

* Army - 1944 (Pitt), 1916 (Villanova)

* Kent State - 2020 (Akron), 2004 (Eastern Michigan)

* Boise State - 2007 (Nevada), 2004 (Hawai’i)

* Fresno State - 2013 (New Mexico), 2012 (Colorado)

* Clemson - 1949 (Presbyterian)

* Louisville - 2005 (North Carolina)

* Miami - 2021 (Central Connecticut)

* Virginia - 1979 (James Madison)

* Cincinnati - 2010 (Rutgers)

* Houston - 1989 (UNLV)

* Kansas State - 2008 (Montana State)

* Oklahoma State - 2015 (UTSA)

* TCU - 2011 (New Mexico)

* Ohio State - 1983 (Minnesota)

* Rutgers - 1978 (Columbia)

* Wisconsin - 1962 (New Mexico State)

* Arizona State - 1955 (Hardin-Simmons)

* Colorado - 1905 (Wyoming)

* Washington - 2013 (Oregon State)

* Florida - 1988 (Montana State)

* South Carolina - 2010 (Troy)

* Ole Miss - 1969 (Southern Miss)

* Mississippi State - 1946 (Murray State)

* Texas A&M - 1928 (Sewanee)

* Florida Atlantic - 2017 (North Texas)

* Memphis - 1969 (Louisville)

* Tulane - 2021 (Morgan State)

* New Mexico State - 1970 (Lamar)

* UTEP - 1949 (New Mexico State)

* Buffalo - 2021 (Wagner)

* Central Michigan - 1975 (Northern Illinois)

* Air Force - 1963 (Colorado State)

* Nevada - 2012 (Hawai’i)

* UNLV - 2016 (Wyoming)

* San José State - 2003 (UTEP)

* Utah State - 1961 (Idaho)

* Georgia Southern - 2014 (Georgia State)

…and here’s the 1982 Florida football highlight reel, including the game-winning field goal against Auburn.

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In this episode of Willets Pod’s Vroom Vroom hour, brought to you by our Vroom Vroom hat…

* Logan Sargeant, Formula One Points Scorer

* Someone Please Publish The Michigan Manifesto (check out Nick Saban’s reaction and Richard Johnson’s phenomenal story on Connor Stalions - a real person - at Sports Illustrated)

* Get Toto Wolff To Tuscaloosa (where there is, in fact, a Mercedes factory, and where we support the growth of union labor despite, yes, Alabama being a right-to-work state)

* Don’t Bring Your Corporate Espionage Materials To Staples (learn about the 2007 F1 spy scandal)

* Ferrari, the Cy Young Award candidates of the F1 grid

* And, oh yeah, ADDY WENT TO COTA!

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This is a Vroom Vroom episode, but here’s the picture of Jesse with Ellie the Elephant at Game 4 on Wednesday night.

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