Throw The Game

We're back to talk about the pleasures and pitfalls of outdoor hockey when the rivers freeze over, the realization of Harry's greatest dream in the Miami Heat's "vice" City uniform, and the many adventures of swole NFL referee Ed Hochuli.

Join us for a lively holiday discussion of Disney's The Mighty Ducks (1992, dir. Stephen Harek), the film that launched a real-life professional sports team. Up for discussion: the hockey ghost of Werner Herzog, a distinct lack of Minnesota North Stars apparel, and ducks' reproductive anatomy. Pull up a seat, roast some chestnuts, and ask "breath, blood or urine?"

No full episode this week as Sky and Harry prepare for the holiday season, but join us on Christmas Day for our very own Players' Ball, the Throw The Game Christmas Spectacular! We'll be discussing the 1992 Disney sports comedy classing The Mighty Ducks starring Emilio Estevez (currently streaming on Netflix) and celebrating the Christmas season with other special surprises. Come party with!

Sky blames Joel Embiid's recent injury on an infamous sports curse. Harry gets embedded for Season 3 of Serial. We talk about whether we'd eat grasshoppers at a Mariners game. Like the mighty Fightin' Cicadas emerging from the earth, it's our 17th episode of TTG!

After a not-very-well-researched discussion of the Windsor Spitfires Junior Hockey team (congrats on your 2017 cup win, boys!) we play at Mad Men in our segment "Egad Bad Ad!" trying to improve bad TV ads starring athletes. Between Tony Siragusa's depends and Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays in baby bonnets, it's our Adult Baby-est episode yet!

Harry got sweet tickets to a 76ers game and reports back on what Joel Embiid smells like and the Sixers' missed opportunity of a mascot. Also: Chain Game Revisited & was Manute Bol an old timer on the court or an ancient space alien from beyond the stars?

This episode begins with a simple discussion of the Nigerian women's bobsled team but we spend most of our time discussing the badly-designed but fun fictional sport quidditch and by the end of it we have become horrible stat junkies for real actual quidditch teams. Plus, the triumphant/abundant return of the Yakima Sun Kings! Cue the air horns - we'll see you at the Yakima Valley SunDome in 2018!

We bring you not 1, but TWO sports games on TTG this week. First, we compare athlete's bling to the U Miami turnover chain. Then, we create imaginary rap songs in the grand tradition of Will Smith's "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson." It's a TTG hip-hopstravaganza!

Do you want a bobblehead? The answer is yes, you do. Everybody wants a bobblehead, it doesn't matter its likeness. This week on TTG we talk tanking while your team is in the playoff hunt, the player traded halfway through a game he was playing, New York pizza, Philadelphia sandwiches, and Philadelphia sports fans.

In this episode we discuss Kyrie's status as NBA court jester and his run-in with the Bucks' 1977 Robert Indiana court. Plus, Harry's purchase of an 1857 throwback soccer jersey prompts us to play a new game "Would Harry Buy That Throwback?" It's our art-historiest episode yet on this Important Sports Podcast. Check out our website/twitter/instragram for the throwback images discussed in this episode.