Smell the Foam Finger

We discuss the halls of fame for the professional sports baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. There are committees. So many committees.

The Foam Finger ponders if there will be a Super Bowl in 2021, then pops some popcorn and watches the classic 1986 basketball-and-yokels movie Hoosiers.

The ongoing pandemic state of sports in America, where there are bubbles and no bubbles and international complications and some athletes don’t stay out of bars.

The sports of classical Rome, including the entertainments at the arena and chariot racing.

Tom has a lot of experience in televised sports, so we discuss national, regional, and in-stadium sportscasts. And then it turns out Nic has some thoughts about sports broadcasting, too, but they are not very practical. Also, Vegas, baby!

Things are tense at Foam Finger Industries. We talk about the schemes being cooked up so American sports can start up again, NASCAR, and a little bit about, ahem, that team from Washington.

The “sweet science” of boxing, how prevalent boxing is in movies, Sweden’s beloved heavyweight champion Ingemar “Ingo” Johansson and what happened at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

The Foam Finger enters the Octagon (trademark) as we discuss MMA and the UFC. Remember, no fishhooks!

The pandemic still has sports in America in the deep freeze. We discuss what NASCAR, the NBA, and MLB are doing to bring sports back and how labor relations in baseball are hitting a new level of frostiness.

There are still no sports so the lads discuss how fans are coping and the more or less wide-eyed schemes that are being concocted to get athletes back on their fields.