Skip to content
PMTPMT DB
Open
Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

I will likely outlive Big Cat and PFT Commenter

Wouldn't it be something if I outlive the both of you? That would be something... I promise I'll be there [at the funerals].

All parties are currently alive, so this is pending, though statistically unlikely given the age gaps.

More from this episode

View episode
Win
Mar 23, 2020
#2581
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bringing in outside free agents will backfire for the Falcons by destroying Dan Quinn's 'locker room loyalty' weapon

The Falcons look great on paper, but if you're bringing in all these like new people from the outside that's taken away Dan Quinn's best weapon, which is just having a locker room full of guys that know him and like them... you get these new voices in and they're not going to be going bad for you when you start four and seven.

The Falcons started 0-5 in 2020 and Dan Quinn was fired in October, suggesting the team culture/loyalty did indeed collapse.
Void
Mar 23, 2020
#21247
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A three-quarter-inch bottom-line ticker is unnecessary and sports broadcasts are better without it

I'll take sports back on TV... you can take [the ticker] away, that I can live without... I've seen some games where the bottom line just like not working sometimes... and the games I think are actually better without that, you know, eighth of an inch at the bottom of my screen taken up.

This is a subjective aesthetic preference regarding broadcast graphics.
Loss
Mar 23, 2020
#2578
Big CatBig Cat

Bill Belichick should tank the 2020 season to draft Trevor Lawrence

Is there a chance that the Patriots Bill Belichick is going to tank this year with Brian Hoyer as the quarterback... he's greatest coach of all time. Would that not also make him the greatest tanker of all time and then they somehow get Trevor Lawrence and it's another 20 years.

The Patriots did not tank; they signed Cam Newton and tried to compete, finishing 7-9. Trevor Lawrence went #1 overall to the Jaguars.

More from Mr. Portnoy

View profile
Win
Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

Late-night TV news commercials for products like CarShield are frauds

When I see them up there, those products are fraud... I mean, they wouldn't be advertising there if they weren't a fraud. I have an occasional check with the FTC site and the Better Business Bureau to see various of these companies have all sorts of consumer complaints against them. And what a shock!

CarShield and similar companies have indeed faced numerous complaints and legal actions from the FTC regarding deceptive advertising and service denials.
Void
Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

If a commercial starts by saying 'this is not a scam,' it's probably a scam

When they started with the reverse mortgages... the ad started with a sentence: 'This is not a scam.' I mean, that was the furthest thing from my mind until he put it in my head that this might be a scam. Why are they saying it's legit? It never occurred to me that it's not, but now I'm going to start to investigate it.

While logically sound in terms of consumer skepticism, it remains an opinion on marketing rhetoric.
Void
Mr. PortnoyMr. Portnoy

The New York Times was desperate for Alex Cooper to say something negative about Barstool Sports

It was obvious to me... that the New York Times was salivating to get [Alex Cooper] to say something that would be damaging to Barstool. And she didn't. They couldn't resist getting [the sidebar about Dave Portnoy] in there.

The editorial intent of a publication is inherently subjective and cannot be definitively proven.

Search

Search takes, episodes, and speakers