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Take Slip·Dec 17, 2025·FAQ
#PMT-2025-1217-19842
MemesMemes

Jayden Daniels is the worst quarterback from the 2024 draft class

My preemptive take of the year was right. Commanders would miss a playoffs and Jayden Daniels be the worst out of all the quarterbacks in 2024. [Big Cat: 'Michael Penix?'] He looked pretty good before the injury.

By most statistical measures and eye tests, Daniels was far from the 'worst' of the class, having won OROY in many circles.
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Take Slip·Apr 5, 2023·FAQ
#PMT-2023-0405-8815
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Brandon Staley was supposed to turn the Chargers into a championship team

I thought Brandon Staley was gonna turn this whole Chargers thing around. I was like, this guy knows Ball. This guy has, it's a new C word team. Forget your father's Chargers.

Staley was eventually fired mid-season in 2023 after a period of historic underperformance and late-game collapses.
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Take Slip·May 5, 2021·FAQ
#PMT-2021-0505-18860
Big CatBig Cat

Swimming is not a real sport, it is just a hobby to stay alive

I'll just say it. Swimming is not a real sport... It's a really good hobby. If you do it really fast, I'm not saying Michael Phelps isn't impressive. I'm saying swimming is not a sport... It's just a means of staying alive that you can be more efficient at.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Swimming is objectively recognized as a sport by all major athletic bodies.
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Take Slip·Apr 7, 2021·FAQ
#PMT-2021-0407-3418
Big CatBig Cat

You must eat only white cheese if you want to live to 100

I had a cab driver once from LaGuardia who was like, if you want to live to 100, you got to eat only white cheese. He's like, the minute you eat yellow cheese, you're going to kill yourself... He said it was such authority that I was like, damn. He must be right.

Fact ClaimFoodMildSarcastic
There is no medical evidence that the color of cheese correlates with living to 100.
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Take Slip·Mar 24, 2021·FAQ
#PMT-2021-0324-10303
Billy FootballBilly Football

If I get into a fight, I would be charged with murder because my hands are registered weapons

I got legal hands, I can't fight anybody. No seriously, like legally I'd get murder not manslaughter if I get into a fight with someone... because I was registered in a professional boxing match.

The idea of 'registered hands' as lethal weapons for boxers is a common legal myth; no such registry exists for the purposes of automatic murder charges.
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Take Slip·Mar 24, 2021·FAQ
#PMT-2021-0324-10304
Big CatBig Cat

I am going to retire from podcasting in three years

I'm going to retire in like three years... I think as soon as I'm like, it's funny being old right now, but then when I'm real old, old, it'll be like, this sucks.

As of March 2024, Big Cat is still actively hosting PMT and has not retired.
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Take Slip·Mar 17, 2021·FAQ
#PMT-2021-0317-8992
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I will cut my hair if Ryan Fitzpatrick wins a playoff game for Washington

When Ryan Fitzpatrick wins a playoff game, I will cut my hair. For the football team. I'll say it with my chest: when Ryan Fitzpatrick wins a playoff game, I will cut my hair.

Fitzpatrick never won a game for Washington, let alone a playoff game, so the hair remained long.
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Take Slip·Jan 17, 2020·FAQ
#PMT-2020-0117-9813
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

There is a 50% chance I get signed to an XFL contract

Let me say, I think that there is actually like a 50% chance that I do get an XFL contract, that I am signed to the XFL. I'm going to find out on Wednesday night and be able to report on Thursday morning what happened.

PFT Commenter did not receive a contract from an XFL team following his tryout.
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Take Slip·Jan 10, 2020·FAQ
#PMT-2020-0110-7346
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Human hearts have a finite number of beats, so running is bad for you

As far as I'm concerned, your heart only has a finite amount of beats programmed into it at birth. It's like eggs in a woman. So I don't want to raise my heart rate too high because then it's not going to be around to beat when I'm past the age of 70.

Fact ClaimLifeFireSarcastic
This is a long-debunked biological myth (famously associated with Donald Trump). While a human heart has an average number of beats over a lifetime, cardiovascular exercise improves heart efficiency, lowering resting heart rate and typically extending life.
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Take Slip·Sep 6, 2019·FAQ
#PMT-2019-0906-16126
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nobody can ever truly achieve a first down because of Zeno's paradox

If you really want to get philosophical ... Nobody can ever truly achieve a first down because in order to get ten yards you first have to go five yards. And then you have to get five yards. You have to go two and a half yards and so you will never actually make it all the way to a down.

OpinionLifeMildSarcastic
It's a satirical application of Zeno's paradox of motion; in reality, first downs are achieved.
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Take Slip·Aug 23, 2019·FAQ
#PMT-2019-0823-16002
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Zeke Elliott should sit out the entire 2019 season

If I'm Zeke, I'm sitting out the whole season. I got more power to Zeke on this one. Zeke, don't play this year at all.

Ezekiel Elliott did not sit out the season; he signed a massive 6-year, $90 million extension on September 4, 2019.
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Take Slip·Aug 2, 2019·FAQ
#PMT-2019-0802-19484
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am officially running for President of the United States in 2020

I'm hereby declaring myself... I'm opening my candidacy for president of the United States of America. All I need is 125,000 individual donors. If 125,000 of you gave me $1, then I would qualify for the next debates. So I don't see why not.

PredictionPoliticsFireSarcastic
PFT did not run for president or appear in any debates in 2020.
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Take Slip·Aug 2, 2019·FAQ
#PMT-2019-0802-19485
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The day after the Super Bowl should be a national holiday

Day after the Super Bowl, national holiday. Done.

This has not happened as of 2024, despite numerous petitions and popular support.