Sports R Dumb

It's a new year, but sports continue to be dumb! We're chatting through some of the silliest moments of the NFL season, perhaps best enshrined by the NFC South champion Carolina Panthers finishing 8-9 and making the playoffs, while the entire NFC North finished with a winning record (and two of those teams didn't make the playoffs).

Plus, we're sharing some New Year's resolutions around sports, Sean is thrilled that he has continued to avoid playing fantasy football, and Joey helped a lost dog return home. And how about those Miami Hurricanes?! The College Football Playoff is wild, gang!

We also talk about Leslie Jones's terrific memoir. You can check it out here or listen to the audiobook wherever audiobook are available.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and wouldn’t you know it, sports are still dumb. We’re in a nostalgic mood as part of our last episode of the year, so we’re diving into some of our favorite, most memorable, and dumbest moments from 2025. You’ll hear about the Luka Doncic trade, a bizarre stretch of behavior from Puka Nacua, and an insane amount of wild games on March 27.

Plus, Sean received a lovely box of cookies as a gift but has to contend with ants. And many years ago, Joey missed the opportunity to play basketball with Adam Sandler. It still bums him out to this day. 

Thank you as always for listening. Hope you have a wonderful holiday season and we’ll see you in the new year!

Sean and Joey both attended the University of Miami (Sean in grad school, Joey in undergrad), and they're thrilled the Hurricanes are participating in the College Football Playoff. Does that mean they understand how they got here? Certainly not!

Notre Dame was ranked ahead of Miami in every previous installment of the rankings, continued beating teams by a lot, and then dropped out. BYU beat every team on its schedule not named Texas Tech and fell out of the rankings after sounding losing its conference championship game. Alabama also badly lost its conference championship game and suffered no consequences. Miami was rewarded for not playing a conference championship game.

If all this back and forth doesn't make your head spin, kudos to you. You're very brave.

Plus, Joey and Sean share highlights from their trips to New York City and St. Lucia, respectively. And we might be doing a future episode from the top of a mountain. Unclear.

We're a month away from the NFL playoffs, and...is any team good? Are typically good teams bad? In any given week, it seems like a team could emerge victorious, then turn around and completely fall apart a mere week later. Do you trust any of these squads to win a stretch of games en route to a Super Bowl? We sure don't!

Due to scheduling conflicts, this episode was recorded a week ahead of its air date. If more pandemonium unfolds in the meantime, that just feels incredibly on brand.

The monetization of every aspect of college football has caused the sport to lose some of its charm. Remember when it was exciting to go to a bowl game? Now, it's just a seemingly endless stream of discussion and complaints of teams missing out on the playoffs.

And then you've got situations like Lane Kiffin leaving for a conference rival after leading his former team to its best regular season record ever. Wild stuff.

We're also going down on a rabbit hole of classic sports video game features. Thanks for listening!

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for our listeners being just the best dang listeners in the world. We're sharing some of our grateful sports moments for the year. We're also diving into the best Thanksgiving sides. What a treat!

Since our last episode, the Dallas Mavericks fired Nico Harrison, architect of perhaps the worst trade in NBA history. Finally, Sean and the city of Dallas can begin to heal.

Plus, Joey visits the Grammy Museum, and how early is too early to begin playing Christmas music?

The NHL is about a month into the season. The official NHL social media accounts are posting "if the playoffs started today" content. The playoffs start in April, notably five months from now. It's the same deal with the College Football Playoff—there are still several games to be played. These types of hypotheticals are not worth stressing over.

And we had a scorigami this weekend with an NFL score that's never happened before! Plus, do you think you could throw for at least 12 yards during an NFL game? Surely not, but, like...it feels kind of attainable, doesn't it?

Here's the Jayden Daniels play Sean referenced: https://youtu.be/5X5fC7DSokM

We just saw one of the most entertaining World Series matchups we'll likely ever witness. Yet so many arguments after the fact boil down to nitpicking certain plays, criticizing the Dodgers for spending money and "ruining" baseball, and calling people stupid for not doing a specific thing. Sure, fans of the teams actually playing can go a little bonkers, but the rest of us? We can probably all just enjoy high-quality sports at their finest.

Speaking of bonkers, how about the end of that Bears/Bengals game? Plus, a few other NFL shenanigans, one of our favorite touchdown celebrations of the year, and a surprisingly deep dive into The Beach Boys, who Sean just saw live in concert.

Rico Dowdle's fantastic "Key & Peele"-inspired touchdown celebration: https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1omrklb/highlight_rico_dowdle_flagged_for_twopump/

It's fine to tell someone they look like someone else, but just do it once. Repeatedly yelling "You look like [insert person here]" is just perplexing and no one knows how to respond. Concurrently, sports fans love to dub things the "catch/dunk/play of the year" REALLY early in the season. Are we just assuming everything else will be a dud?

Plus, we wonder how things would be if we had Pokemon trainer encounters in real life. And Joey has started a new rec basketball league and had an interesting first game. He also tries to teach Sean a few new American Sign Language words, but he mixed up a couple. What a dork!