Sports Debate Shows Are Pretty Silly, Aren’t They?

Sports have become a 24/7 form of entertainment. Even if your favorite sport isn’t in season, there’s no shortage of discussion to be found. And no shortage of people channeling sports debate shows everywhere you turn.

You can discover content on talk shows, online forums, Twitter, or even just randomly walking up to a stranger and making a statement like “striped uniforms are better than solid ones.”

(You just know SOMEONE is very intensely passionate about such uniform pastiches.)

But this “always on” type of mindset means we have a SHOCKING amount of space to fill, whether on air or in a written setting. And that means that, on sports debate shows, chatter around topics that certainly do not matter one bit.

As I may have mentioned once or twice in this newsletter, my friend Sean — you might remember him as the guy who tried to catch a T-shirt at a basketball game and failed spectacularly — and I have started a podcast called Sports R Dumb.

We have an episode that discusses this very topic and I wanted to share it with you. It’s less than 15 minutes because, unlike a talk show, we don’t need to expand content across three hours.

And while sports debate shows are pretty outrageous, appearing on one sure seems like a cushy job, doesn’t it?

Hannibal Buress sums it up nicely in a great comedy bit about the segment “Bold Predictions” (this clip is also featured in our episode):

“I’m not accountable for any of the shit I’m saying up here. I thought we were just trying to fill segments and fill time until the day we die.”

Spot on, Hannibal. Spot on.