Steve-O, College Football on Life Support, and PGA Championship
Big Cat and PFT Commenter are in mourning. The MAC has fallen, and with the Big Ten expected to follow any minute, the college football season is officially on the ropes. The tragedy of the situation isn't just the lack of Saturdays on the couch, it is the fact that the NCAA refuses to acknowledge the obvious solution sitting right in front of them.
College football would happen if the NCAA paid the athletes and made them employees
This is the one sport where they don't pay their athletes and if they pay their athletes, I actually think it would happen. They wish it'd basically be like, hey, do you want to get paid? Okay... the problem is the NCAA will do everything including cancel a season before they pay their athlete.
While the guys searched for a "cool billionaire" to save the sport, Big Cat noted that the real casualty of a canceled season might be the health and well-being of the coaches themselves. Without the structure of a game week, certain legends might not survive the autumn.
Nick Saban is more likely to die from having no football than from COVID-1{9}
The likelihood that [Nick Saban] dies from having no football is actually way higher than the likelihood that he dies from coronavirus. Exactly. You are putting his life at risk people who are deciding to cancel this.
Despite the doom and gloom, we did have a major champion crowned this weekend. Collin Morikawa won the PGA Championship with an eagle on 16 that was pure filth. Big Cat was quick to jump to the defense of his good friend Brooks Koepka, who struggled on Sunday while clearly dealing with some physical issues.
Brooks Koepka was clearly injured at the PGA Championship and everyone mocking him should go fuck themselves
Brooks lost the course one. What the fuck do you want from us? Of course one this weekend. He didn't have he was hurt... if we were to make an excuse for Brooks, he was so clearly hurt and anyone who's talking bad about him right now can go fuck themselves.
Steve-O Joins the Show
The guys were joined by the legend himself, Steve-O, for an interview that felt like a total Chris Farley moment. Steve-O talked about his new special, *Gnarly*, and what it’s like to be over a decade sober while still doing the most insane stunts imaginable. He explained that his motivation hasn't changed just because he's off the drugs.
I didn't need drugs or alcohol to do stunts because I am just a sober attention whore
I just learned that you take away the drugs and the alcohol from the waste an attention whore and then you get a sober attention whore and that's like really that's all there is to it. I never took painkillers for pain and I never did stunts because I was loaded. I just am an attention whore.
Reflecting on the legacy of *Jackass*, Steve-O shared his perspective on why the show resonated so deeply with people across the globe. While others saw it as chaos, he saw it as something far more positive.
The genius of Jackass is its wholesomeness and lack of mean-spiritedness toward third parties
There's also finally something I believe actually pretty wholesome about the fact that and there's nothing mean-spirited and what we're doing... we're Reckless or we do terrible things to ourselves and to each other, but we're never cruel to third parties or to anybody else. So, you know, It's weird to say Jackass is wholesome but I think it does apply.
Big Cat pushed back slightly, arguing that the secret sauce wasn't just the stunts, but the chemistry of the cast.
The true genius of Jackass is the genuine friendship and laughter between the cast
I think it is also just friendship like you guys always came across as, yeah, you'd fight or there be fucked up things you do to each other, but you'd always make each other laugh and when you make each other laugh it like kind of fills the room of like, oh my God, they're having a great time.
Steve-O confirmed that *Jackass 4* is indeed in the works, and despite production being halted by the pandemic, the footage they already have is some of the most intense they've ever filmed.
Jackass 4 will be a hit because the first week of production was explosive
We were one week into production where when she got shut down, but that's actually a good thing because that week was so barking explosive... in that one week we proved ourselves... there's full confidence for me that it's going to be a hit.
Who’s Back and This League
Who’s Back of the week featured Phil Collins trending on iTunes and the return of Derrick Rose, specifically his new footwear. Big Cat wasn't exactly a fan of the aesthetic, comparing the new Yeezy collaboration to something you'd see in a Sunday morning cartoon.
Derrick Rose's new Yeezy shoes look like a cartoon fish skeleton
The ye ziddi roses... It looks like a fish in a cartoon after they eat it. Pretty much... like a herringbone that's been sucked dry by a cartoon cat.
In the NBA bubble, Damian Lillard has been on a tear, not just on the court but in his post-game beef with the Clippers. After Patrick Beverley and Paul George clowned him for missing free throws, Dame reminded everyone why he's the one guy you don't want to talk trash to.
Damian Lillard's loyalty gives him the right to call out Paul George for switching teams
And then Dame obviously said Paul George like you keep, you know, switching teams. You don't want the hard work, which if you're Damian Lillard you get to say that argument because you are you have it in for the Trailblazers your entire life. You get to make that argument.
To wrap things up, Billy Football returned to the show after his brief exile to warn the world about the "murder seeds" being mailed from China. According to Billy's deep dive, we are currently facing an agricultural threat specifically targeted at our most precious fall traditions.
The seeds from China are 'murder gourds' designed to destroy American pumpkins and cancel Halloween
He planted him seeds and a gourd pops out. Personally I think that the gourd was... going to try to harm American gourds with some sort of disease or murder gourds. And guess what's a very American gourd? Pumpkin. Trying to cancel Halloween exactly.
If the college football season is truly dead, at least we have Billy's impending athletic comeback to look forward to.
