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#PMT-2015-1022-20212
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Interim head coaches are the best part of the NFL

Interim head coaches are without a doubt the best part of the NFL.

Subjective comedic opinion elevating interim coaches to the best part of the league
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#PMT-2015-1022-20213
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Interim head coaches are the uncles of the sports world

These are interim head coaches and they are the best. They are the uncles of the sports world. They pull into town for a couple weeks when your old man's away on a business trip, and they let you have a beer if you introduce them to your hot teacher. You can learn more from six hours in a Hooters with your uncle than you do in six years with a guy that has to stick around to deal with the consequences.

Satirical but genuinely insightful analogy about the freedom interim coaches have without long-term accountability
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#PMT-2015-1022-20224
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How much of a loose cannon do you have to be to not be fit to coach the Browns?

How much of a liability do you have to be to alienate the Raiders? How much of a loose cannon do you have to be to have a group of people decide that you are not fit to coach the Browns?

Satirical commentary on the low standards of the Raiders and Browns organizations at the time
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Take Slip·Oct 22, 2015
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The correct touchdown dance is handing the ball to the ref and acting like you've been there before

Both are incorrect answers. The answer is you hand the ball to the official and you act like you've been there before.

Satirizing the old-school 'act like you've been there' anti-celebration crowd. The NFL actually relaxed celebration rules in 2017.
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#PMT-2015-1022-20254
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Joe Flacco is not elite - Serial investigation

Is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback? This week's episode: he gets paid like one. Could it be a coincidence that Flacco had bet on himself going into the best season of all time? You have to ask yourself, who stood to gain from Flacco's Super Bowl victory? And the answer is, you guessed it, Joe Flacco. Just weeks after winning the championship, the Ravens rewarded him with a six-year, $120 million contract. You can't make this stuff up, folks. It's as plain as the nose underneath your eyebrow. Not Elite.

The 'Is Joe Flacco elite?' debate was a signature PFT bit. Presented as a parody of the Serial podcast (hugely popular in 2014-15), treating Flacco's competence like an unsolved mystery. His verdict: Not Elite. Flacco's post-Super Bowl career largely supports this take.
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#PMT-2015-1008-20177
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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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#PMT-2015-1008-20178
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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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#PMT-2015-1008-20179
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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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#PMT-2015-1008-20180
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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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#PMT-2015-1008-20181
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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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#PMT-2015-1008-20182
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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
#PMT-2015-1008-20201
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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
#PMT-2015-1008-20200
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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.