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Take Slip·Sep 19, 2022
#PMT-2022-0919-20175
Big CatBig Cat

I will cut off the tip of my pinky if the Raiders win the Super Bowl

The Raiders are officially my pinky team. I don't know if we're gonna clap. We clapping for that? I guess. So if the Raiders win the Super Bowl, I will cut off the tip of my pinky. I was through the half, I was like, the Cardinals are the greatest pinky team.

The Raiders went 6-11 in 2022 and did not come close to the Super Bowl. Big Cat's pinky survived another year.
Loss
#PMT-2015-1022-20211
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Dan Campbell might be the first interim head coach to win a Super Bowl

I personally think he might be the first interim head coach to win a Super Bowl.

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Dan Campbell went 5-7 as Dolphins interim HC in 2015. He later became Lions HC in 2021 and made the NFC Championship in 2023, but never won a Super Bowl as an interim coach.
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20216
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Jesus was an interim head coach who succeeded like Bill Belichick

Jesus got a start as an interim head coach and it was kind of a Monte Kiffin, Lane Kiffin type situation. God hired his son, let him operate as a coordinator for a while until he proved himself. You got to say it did work out for him in the long term, kind of like a Bill Belichick, Cleveland Browns, Patriots type deal. Ended up in a great position in the long run.

Satirical analogy comparing Jesus's tenure on earth to an NFL interim coaching stint, with God as the owner and Jesus as a nepotism hire who eventually proved himself
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20218
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Practice until there's a compound fracture to let players control practice length

Day two, we practice until there's a compound fracture. You let the players control how long they play. If there's an injury in the first five minutes, guess what? We're done. If it takes us two hours, we'll be out here all day.

Satirical coaching philosophy mocking old-school toughness culture in football
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20219
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Throw away the red no-contact jerseys - all lives matter on my football team

I'd also take the red no-contact shirts that the quarterbacks and the kickers wear. I'd throw them in the trash. We don't discriminate on my football team. All lives matter. If you can't handle your contact, then I can't handle your contract.

Satirical take mocking both football toughness culture and the 'All Lives Matter' slogan simultaneously
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20220
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Replace the training room with a church and a Home Depot catalog

And then what I do is I replace the training room with a church and a Home Depot catalog. And if you can't fix it with a dose of prayer and duct tape, then I'm not sure I want your China doll ass on my team to begin with.

Satirical take mocking the anti-science, pray-it-away, tough-it-out mentality in old-school football
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20237
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Christians are empirically more successful NFL players than any other denomination

Based on empirical evidence, Christians are much more successful NFL players than any other denomination. You've never heard a quarterback thank Satan for winning the Super Bowl. The NFL stands for Never Faithless. And guess what? Jesus is the leading receiver of all time.

Satirical correlation-equals-causation argument mocking the prevalence of Christian thanking in post-game interviews. 'Jesus is the leading receiver of all time' is an all-time line.
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20243
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Brady's pee is excellence and getting peed on by him means second base with Giselle

If you look at Brady's piss, on the other hand, Brady's piss consists primarily of excellence. And plus, with the transitive property of genitalia, if Brady pees on my hands, then I've technically gotten to second base with Giselle. So, gotta lean Brady on this one.

Answer to a 'would you rather' call: Peyton Manning poop on your foot or Brady pee on your hands. PFT chooses Brady using the 'transitive property of genitalia.'
Win
Take Slip·Oct 22, 2015
#PMT-2015-1022-20246
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It's been a tough year for sub spokesmen - Jared and RG3

Looking back on the year, it's been a tough, tough year for sub spokesmen. You've got Jared and RG3.

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Jared Fogle had just been sentenced for sex crimes in August 2015 and RG3 was a Subway spokesman whose career was cratering. Dark but factually accurate observation.
Void
Take Slip·Oct 22, 2015
#PMT-2015-1022-20251
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Defensive ends should jimmy tap quarterbacks to get sacks

If you're coming off the edge, a lot of times you take an angle directly at the quarterback, and that's exactly what the offensive tackle is expecting you to do. So what you could do maybe instead is take an angle just a little bit inside of the quarterback, and while you're running past him, just hit him real quick with a jimmy tap right between the legs. Right in the dick. I don't feel like that technique is emphasized enough in today's coaching environment.

Satirical pass rush technique advice: hit the QB in the testicles. PFT notes it's legal since you can't go high or low but the groin is fair game.
Void
#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.
Void
#PMT-2015-1022-20255
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Flacco disappeared for 15 minutes during the Super Bowl blackout and no one can account for his whereabouts

When asked what he was doing during the half-hour break, Flacco says he doesn't recall, and that he was probably just hanging out with friends and stuff. But that doesn't really check out when you dig into it, especially when you consider that there was about 15 minutes of game time where Flacco disappeared, no stats at all, and no one can account for his whereabouts.

Satirical conspiracy theory treating the Super Bowl XLVII blackout as a mystery and Flacco's poor second half as evidence of suspicious activity. Presented in the style of the Serial podcast.
Void
#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.
Push
#PMT-2015-1008-20183
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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.
Loss
#PMT-2015-1008-20185
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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.
Loss
#PMT-2015-1008-20186
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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.

Hot TakenflFireSarcastic
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.
Loss
#PMT-2015-1008-20189
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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.
Loss
#PMT-2015-1008-20190
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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.
Void
#PMT-2015-1008-20194
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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.'