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For a very special Fourth of July episode, we discuss another story of overthrowing some Imperial Brits: Star Wars! By comparing schools to characters and sorting them into conferences based on their role within the galaxy far, far away. We also add some characters into a defense. And somehow, real football talk returned...

Geeky Jerseys (not a sponsor, but where Geoff got the jersey): https://www.geekyjerseys.com/

Wookiepedia: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

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Blu, Josiah, and Geoff discuss how people learn about sports, sports video games, our hopes for the new NCAA college football game, and how we personally enjoy the hobby of gaming. Yes, that was written to be very vague and broad, from sports video games to rogue-likes to table top RPG mind melts. And Geoff expresses his love of Ohio.

Quantric Foundry Gaming Profile Survey: https://apps.quanticfoundry.com/surveys/start/gamerprofile/

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Blu, Josiah, and Geoff are joined by Boise State law professor (and UMass band and Madison Scouts alumni) Sam Ehrlich to discuss how teams do (or don't) do branding to stand out, Joe Manchin and Tommy Tuberville's drafted NIL bill, and CFL team names. Yeah, we think that bill has some issues. The Chicago Fire also get discussed, despite NBC's best efforts (and, um, the Chicago Fire's best efforts).

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Full text of the NIL bill draft: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:702a6987-17ef-3bc5-92d0-9ab40b6ffdb4

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Crue v Aiken: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14594875101335864684

Putting the First Amendment in Play: Name, Image, and Likeness Policies and Athlete Freedom of Speech: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/lawandarts/article/view/8954

Join Blu, Josiah, Geoff, and special guest Pitt Girl going through the incredible past, present, and future for Bethune-Cookman University, in our first installment of Soul Food. Soul Food will be a recurring series on the unique history and traditions of the many great HBCUs around the college football universe. Ed Reed's short tenure might have been a spotlight, but this institution has had an incredible history, which we dive into along with discussions of historiography and accounting.

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Prideraiser: https://www.prideraiser.org/campaigns/the-american-outlaws-2023-ao-x-play-proud-prideraiser-ZgPEqkoX3MjNZ/

Find Pitt Girl on Twitter https://twitter.com/the_opg_?lang=en, on Bluesky @opg.bsky.social, and on the Sickos Committee Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4zQLV3eheXXpQ1PY96b454?si=63b664d11a4943d4

Join Josiah as he discusses the concept of cultural infrastructure as it relates to college football, sports, and society writ large, how its built, what it means, and how it can be impeded.

Oklahoma A&M Women's Basketball: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2020

Old Timey Iowa Hawkeyes Women's Basketball: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Aictcs_6519

Content warning: Between 31:30 and 1:11:14, we go into a discussion of indigenous mascots in American sports, which touches heavily on the topic of genocide toward those communities. If you do not feel comfortable listening, skipping to 1:11:14 we discuss a much lighter topic.

This week, we discuss Carb Day and when exactly is the Indy 500, why and how we connect with our school's preferred naming and mascot, why the use of indigenous mascots is so pervasive in the US, and our sports bucket list.

Engineering Fountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_Fountain

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Blu, Josiah, and Geoff are joined by special guests Ari and Guapo to discuss the history of Jewish-Americans in college football, as players, coaches, fans, media members, and conference administrators. And then we do a college football version of the Lenny Bruce "Jewish and Goyish" bit.

Wisconsin, The New Home of the Jew book link: https://cjs.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1258/2020/01/Pollack_book.pdf

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Geoff does a solo show to follow up with per-capita numbers of combined FBS and FCS schools, mostly to dull the pain of doing a triathlon that morning.

Charitibundi Bowl link: https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/4Y9QjQ?vid=ysdsx

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We discuss: models, commentary, how playing impacts watching, our gameday routines, and somehow RGIII relates to all of them.

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This week, we discuss comics and manga, whether or not anyone of us knows what scheme is, why Bedlam isn't happening, other rivalries that have fallen away, and our favorite hatin' arse traditions.

And Geoff left out one of his favorite phrases, so its in the title.

FYI, Saturday 6 May is Free Comic Book Day! See more info, and join us in nerdom at: https://www.freecomicbookday.com/

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