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The Steam Room with PFT Commenter - Episode 1

Thursday, October 8, 201533 takes

Finally, a Sports Talk Radio show...FOR MEN

Monologue

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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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If you're not early to my show, you're late -- tune in 15 minutes before air

If you're not early to my show, you're late. So for future reference, you need to be tuning in 15 minutes before I hit the air. Otherwise, what are you even doing here?

Satirizing the 'tough love' sports talk host persona. Obviously you can't tune into a show 15 minutes before it airs.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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This show is an open forum for people of all Christian denominations to talk football

It's going to be a safe place. It's going to be an open forum for people of all Christian denominations to talk football.

The narrow 'inclusivity' of 'all Christian denominations' while framing it as a 'safe place' is peak PFT satire of conservative sports media.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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If you're PC police, you have to tell me -- otherwise it's entrapment

If you're a PC police, you have to tell me. Otherwise, it's entrapment. I know my rights.

Fact ClaimLifeHotSarcastic
This is not how entrapment works. Satirizing the common misconception that undercover cops have to identify themselves, applied to 'PC police.'
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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James Harrison was right to take away his son's participation trophy

He made some news last month when he rightfully stole his six-year-old son's participation trophy because he didn't feel that his son had earned it. And while Harrison was without a doubt correct in doing this, he didn't have to throw it all over the news to get a pat on the back from the national media just for doing the right thing that he's supposed to do.

Harrison did actually do this and it was a big story in 2015. The take that he was 'correct' is played straight but the framing is satirical.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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The Steelers are a team that conducts business the right way

Overall, the Steelers are their team that conducts business the right way. In fact, I think it was team owner Art Rooney that pulled Harrison aside and really backed him up back in 2008 when Harrison got arrested for domestic assault. Of course, I'm not here to condone domestic assault, but you have to look at the facts and wait for all the facts to come out.

Heavy sarcasm. Praising the Steelers' culture while referencing Harrison's domestic assault arrest to satirize the 'they do things the right way' narrative.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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This is a God first league

You have to do that if you're an NFL player. This is a God first league.

Satirical commentary on the heavy religious culture in the NFL.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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Baptism is the ultimate participation trophy

When you think about it, isn't baptizing a child the ultimate participation trophy? They haven't earned shit yet. They're just a little kid. And you're trying to get them into the kingdom of heaven? I'm sorry, maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but that's some bullshit. You have to go out there and you have to earn eternal salvation. All of a sudden, we're giving this kid the keys to the kingdom just for showing up? That doesn't sound like the God I know. My God doesn't like moochers.

Satirical take comparing baptism to participation trophies. Pure PFT comedy.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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Cam Newton hasn't earned the right to get calls from refs

Last weekend he was complaining to the ref, he was whining about beating the New Orleans Saints because Ed Hochuli didn't give him a call. And Ed Hochuli told them, you haven't earned the right to get that call yet. You haven't been in the league long enough to get that call. It's more entitlement.

Satirizing the real story of Hochuli telling Newton he needed to earn calls. Newton went on to win MVP that season (2015), making this extra funny in hindsight.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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Jason Witten with two sprained ankles is hurt, not injured

We got Jason Witten. Two sprained ankles. You know the old saying in the NFL, if you've got two sprained ankles, you don't have one. And I'd rather have both my feet hurt than just one because now at least you're symmetrical. Jason Witten, he's hurt, not injured.

The 'two sprained ankles cancel out' logic is classic PFT absurdist reasoning. Witten was famously tough.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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Jason Pierre-Paul is injured because the game is literally called football, not handball

He's been sitting out the past couple of weeks with a blown up hand, really milking it. And the name of the game is literally football. How important is your hand? This isn't pinch ball or smoke a cigarette ball. And again, it makes sense that a guy who lost both his thumb and forefinger is out there missing snaps. So I'll give this one to him. I'm not happy about it. JPP is injured.

JPP famously blew off fingers in a fireworks accident in July 2015. The grudging concession that losing fingers counts as injured is peak PFT.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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Joe Flacco is elite because he literally blew out the Superdome scoreboard

My subsequent investigation determined that the 21-point first-half beatdown that Baltimore hung all over the 49ers was the highest first-half point total in the Dome that year, up until that point. The scoreboard simply couldn't handle all the electricity needed to keep up with Flacco's lightning, quick-release and high-voltage offense. Quite simply, he blew the scoreboard out. That sounds pretty damn elite to me.

Fact ClaimnflHotSarcastic
The Super Bowl XLVII power outage was caused by a relay device, not by Flacco's offense being too electric. This is PFT's signature 'Is Joe Flacco Elite?' bit delivered as a Serial podcast parody.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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The only degree that matters in the NFL is the temperature of your takes

The game of football, it's become so geared towards stats these days with fantasy football and daily fantasy stuff and all that garbage that it's almost like you've got to have two master's degrees and not getting laid to figure out what's going on. The only degree that matters when it comes to the NFL is the temperature of your takes.

Satirizing the anti-analytics crowd in sports media. This is a foundational PFT bit -- hot takes over cold hard facts.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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John Fox saying you need more than zero points to win is a stats lie

Bears coach John Fox said, 'We need to generate more than zero points to win games.' I fact checked it and went to the archives. Big shout out to the guys at Pro Football Focus. In 1921, the Rochester Jeffersons forfeited to the Washington Senators because the field was unplayable. So Washington literally scored no points and walked away with a huge road win. You've got to be smarter than this if you're a head coach like John Fox.

Fact ClaimnflHotSarcastic
The Rochester Jeffersons did exist and there were forfeits in early NFL history, though the specific details are likely embellished. The absurdity of using a 1921 forfeit to disprove a modern coach's common-sense statement is the joke.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Monologue
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John Fox's name literally translates to 'Fox Toilet'

John Fox's name, look it up in the dictionary, literally translates to Fox Toilet. And if I were him, I'd be more worried about plumbers than numbers.

Fact ClaimnflMediumSarcastic
John does not translate to 'toilet' in any standard sense, though 'john' is slang for toilet. Classic PFT deliberately wrong etymology.

Listener Calls

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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Aaron Rodgers has about 40 wins left in his body before he starts to suck

Quarterback wins are kind of like a woman's eggs. Because most people don't realize it but a woman, she's only born with a finite number of eggs. So with quarterbacks, it's the exact same thing because they've only got a certain amount of wins that are in their system. If they don't space them out, then they start to regress early. I think he's got about 40 wins left in his body before he starts to suck.

PredictionnflFireSarcastic
Rodgers had about 50 more regular season wins after this episode before his play notably declined with the Jets in 2023-2024. The absurd 'finite wins' theory accidentally got close.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Brandon Weeden and Chris Weinke regressed because they won too many games in college

You've got players like spring chickens like your Brandon Weeden's and your Chris Weinke's, two young fellows that made it to the NFL, but they had won too many games in college, and they quickly regressed and kind of became garbage.

Fact ClaimnflHotSarcastic
Satirical. Weeden was a 28-year-old rookie and Weinke won the Heisman at 28. They were old, not 'spring chickens' -- that's the joke. They were bad in the NFL but not because of 'finite wins.'
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Playing on more dangerous surfaces makes football safer

We're making the game less safe by no longer playing it on concrete. And now we're adding like a new bar to the face mask every week. And it's counterintuitive, but if you look at it from a macro point of view, which I am, if you want players to care about their safety a little bit more, then you need to force them to play on more dangerous surfaces.

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Deliberately absurd logic. More dangerous playing surfaces do not make football safer. Classic PFT contrarian reasoning.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Nick Saban was right to not sign Drew Brees to the Dolphins

Nick Saban gets a bum rap for bailing out on the Dolphins. He recruited Dante Culpepper. But in reality, Drew Brees' shoulder, it was the sword of Damocles, and it was hanging by a labrum. If Saban had brought Brees to Miami, then the entire franchise would be hamstrung by that big contract, and they wouldn't be able to go out and afford impact players like your Mike Wallace's and your Ndamukong Suh's that they're bringing to town.

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Saban passing on Brees is widely considered one of the worst NFL decisions ever. Brees went on to break nearly every passing record with the Saints. The 'Saban was right' framing is pure satire, and the evidence cited (Mike Wallace and Suh) are examples of the Dolphins' futility.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Hitler canceling football seasons is an underrated bad thing he did

If you really like football, he probably wouldn't have started World War II, which de facto canceled the 1942 through 1944 NFL seasons. It wasn't called the NFL, but he canceled football. So in the first place, that's kind of fucked up. And nobody really talks about that when they're talking about all the bad stuff Hitler did. So I'd like to kind of raise a little bit of awareness there.

Hot TakenflScorchingSarcastic
The NFL actually did NOT cancel seasons during WWII -- it continued play throughout the war (1942-1945), though many players served. The specific claim is wrong but the satirical point about rating Hitler's crimes by football impact is the joke.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Hitler would have been a Redskins or Cowboys fan

I think without a doubt, he would have been a Redskins fan. He was so small that, ironically, he probably would have seen eye-to-eye with Dan Snyder. And I could see him going the other way, though, actually. Maybe he might have pulled for the Cowboys, too. The Cowboys got an insane old guy running the team that likes to put stars on the side of their players' uniforms, so that seems like he'd be right up his alley.

Hypothetical comedy question. The Dan Snyder short joke and Cowboys stars-on-uniforms comparison are the real punchlines.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Concussions aren't real

Concussions aren't real. Well, I probably had my brain nicked up a couple times, but if you can pee straighter than you can see after having sex, then that just means you're doing it wrong.

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Concussions are very real. Classic PFT satirizing the old-school football mentality of denying brain injuries.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Terry Bradshaw was the first NFL player to thank God, making all pre-1972 players blasphemers

My understanding is that the honor belongs to Terry Bradshaw. It was after the Immaculate Reception. And if you look at it from the other way, you can honestly say that every player that played in the NFL before 1972 is probably burning in hell for blasphemy.

Fact ClaimnflFireSarcastic
There is no evidence Bradshaw was the first to thank God. The logical leap that all pre-1972 players are in hell for not thanking God is absurdist PFT comedy.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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There's no correlation between Obama and the Bears being 0-3

I think if you look at the correlation between the Bears and Obama, it's only a coincidence. I don't think that there's anything dastardly going on. A lot of people forget that Mike Ditka was actually running for Illinois State Senate against Obama back in the late 90s.

OpinionnflHotSarcastic
Ditka was indeed considered as a potential Republican Senate candidate against Obama in 2004 (not the late 90s), for the U.S. Senate (not State Senate). The Bears were indeed bad in 2015. The conspiracy framing is satirical.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Mike Ditka would have beaten Obama in a debate and maybe become president

To be a fly on the wall at those debates would have been all time. There's no way that Ditka loses. No chance at all. Obama starts talking about mumbo jumbo about how vouchers destroy inner city schools. And Ditka just pulls out a Super Bowl ring and sticks it in his face and lights a cigar. And maybe Mike Ditka would be president of the United States now.

Satirizing the idea that a football coach could win political debates with a Super Bowl ring. Ditka himself later said not running against Obama was his biggest regret.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Ditka's would-be supporters went on to root for Donald Trump after having a stroke

Instead, I guess he's got all of his supporters that would go on to root for Donald Trump after they had a stroke or something.

OpinionPoliticsFireSarcastic
This was October 2015, months before Trump won the GOP primary. PFT connecting Ditka's hypothetical conservative base to Trump supporters was actually quite prescient about the populist overlap.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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The elite Frankenstein quarterback starts with Johnny Unitas' flat top and Peyton Manning's forehead

If I'm building it from the top up, you've got to start with Johnny Unitas' flat top. You've got to go down to Peyton Manning's forehead, which would just be incredible with a flat top on it. I would do Joe Theismann's left leg, the good one. I go with Sammy Baugh's right leg. Ben Roethlisberger's crotch now that he's married. Brett Favre's crotch filling in. Tom Brady's brain for his cheating abilities. John Elway's arm. Joe Flacco's heart. And Joe Montana's intangibles.

Hypothetical comedy bit. Every body part chosen is a joke: Theismann's 'good' leg (his other was famously broken on MNF), Roethlisberger's crotch 'now that he's married' (sexual assault allegations), Favre's crotch (dick pics scandal), Brady's brain for 'cheating.'
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Sammy Baugh led the league in interceptions while also being a punter and quarterback

A lot of people forget that Sammy Baugh was a punter and also a quarterback and also led the league in interceptions. You don't see that too much because players are pussies nowadays.

Fact ClaimnflMediumSarcastic
This is actually true. In 1943, Sammy Baugh led the NFL in passing, punting, AND interceptions (as a defensive back). One of the most remarkable seasons in NFL history.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015·Listener Calls
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Joe Montana was the first white quarterback to win a Super Bowl after a black quarterback won one

A lot of people forget this, but he was the first white quarterback to win a Super Bowl in NFL history after a black one won one.

Fact ClaimnflHotSarcastic
This is garbled and wrong. Doug Williams was the first Black QB to win a Super Bowl (1988), which was after Montana's first two wins. The 'Broadway Joe' reference at the end confuses Namath with Montana. Classic PFT mangling history.

Interview

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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015
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North Platte, Nebraska is basically the Garden of Eden because two rivers meet there

So two rivers meeting -- isn't that like what they said about the Garden of Eden too?

Fact ClaimLifeMediumSarcastic
The Bible does describe rivers meeting near the Garden of Eden (the Tigris and Euphrates). Comparing North Platte, Nebraska to Eden is the joke.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015
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Danny Woodhead is not deceptively athletic, he's undeceptively athletic

Some people say that you're deceptively athletic, but I just think that you're undeceptively athletic, and it should be plain to anybody watching you.

Satirizing the way white NFL players are described as 'deceptively fast/athletic' -- a coded racial trope PFT frequently lampooned. This became a recurring PMT bit.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015
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PFT and Danny Woodhead are the same size so PFT could play in the NFL

That's actually about my exact size, too. You probably have a little bit more lean mass than I do. We're the same size, so basically you're saying that I could play in the NFL if I wanted to.

Hot TakenflMediumSarcastic
Being the same height and weight as an NFL player does not mean you can play in the NFL. Pure comedy.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015
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Danny Woodhead not getting a penalty is like Cal Ripken's streak but shouldn't be celebrated

I respect the fact that you have never been penalized in the NFL. I think it's impressive, but isn't it a little bit silly that people are celebrating you for not breaking the law? Like, it's sad that it's come to the point where you've got literally only one player in the league who plays by the rules. It's like I don't get an award if I complete my probation without breaking back into the pet store.

Woodhead's zero-penalty streak was real and written about. PFT's framing of it as just 'not breaking the law' and comparing it to completing probation is classic satirical reframing.
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Take Slip·Oct 8, 2015
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Grit Coins are legal tender in many states

I made my own electronic currency. Well, somebody actually, someone else designed it for me, but yeah, those are actually legal tender in many states.

Grit Coins were a PFT joke cryptocurrency/meme, not actual legal tender anywhere. This predates the crypto boom by a couple years.