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In this week’s episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and special guest Nate Jackson talk about the Green Bay Packers’ win over the Dallas Cowboys, Antonio Brown live-streaming his coach’s postgame remarks, and other news from the NFL playoffs. They also talk with agent Don Yee about his new venture, Pac Pro Football, and whether it can become a legitimate minor league for the NFL and an alternative to the unpaid labor of college football. And ESPN’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss joins the show to assess the Golden State Warriors’ blowout win over the Cleveland Cavaliers and where the Warriors are at the halfway point of the NBA season.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:
- Aaron Rodgers described his late-game throw and catch to Jared Cook as “just kind of schoolyard.”
- The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Antonio Brown live-streamed his coach Mike Tomlin’s postgame remarks.
- ESPN wonders: Is Matt Ryan a champion?
- The Seattle Seahawks’ Michael Bennett asked a reporter who’d survived Hodgkin’s lymphoma if he’d ever gone through any adversity.
- The website for Pac Pro Football, the proposed pro football developmental league that’s scheduled to launch in 2018.
- Stories on Pac Pro Football from the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and ESPN.
- Wikipedia’s list of defunct pro football leagues.
- Follow Ethan Sherwood Strauss on Twitter.
- Ethan’s game story on the Golden State Warriors’ blowout win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Ethan’s piece from last year on “Golden State’s Draymond Green problem.”
- Were the Warriors “assist-whoring” in their win over the New York Knicks last month?
Hang Up and Listen’s weekly two jet all gos:
Nate’s two jet all go: Pro football players shouldn’t feel lucky to play in Thursday night games or to do anything else associated with the NFL.
Stefan’s two jet all go: I took beta blockers during a Scrabble tournament. Am I a drug cheat?
Josh’s two jet all go: The 1967 Baltimore Colts went 11–1–2 and didn’t make the playoffs. Huh?
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Stefan, Josh, and Nate Jackson discuss their time together on the 2006 Denver Broncos, the source material for Stefan’s book A Few Seconds of Panic. Visit slate.com/hangupplus and try it free for two weeks.
Podcast production and edit by Mickey Capper and Efim Shapiro.
You can email us at hangup@slate.com.
