The Game - A Football Podcast

No six stories this week. The NFL was too chaotic to box in, so Victoria and JoJo talk about the craziest things they saw. JoJo calls in from London, where she watched the Bills in bed with wine and Domino's.  We get into the Bills Mafia panic, Case Keenum's night against the Eagles (and his daughter's outfit), everyone who got mean about Caleb Williams' injury, and the new pus...

Welcome to the Her Game Days Pod!  Victoria and JoJo sit down for this week's Pick Six. We talk about the Bills-Lions opener we were able to attend in the new stadium, so we give you our take from the stands: what we loved, what needs work, and why the chicken tenders deserve their own review. Then we get into Zach Ertz's return to the Eagles, a brutal week of quarterback injuries, the t...

Pick Six: The Highest Scoring Week One Ever, and See You in Buffalo Episode description Week one tied the record for the highest-scoring opening weekend in NFL history, and Victoria and JoJo are yapping about it. They get into the Bears putting 59 on Carolina (and why nobody should sleep on the Panthers), Ben Johnson's contract, the Rams flying fifteen hours and losing to sleep science, and w...

Pick Six: Week 1, and Meet JoJo Episode description It is the first day of the 2026 NFL season and the Pick Six has a new co-host. Victoria is joined by JoJo Cash, a Bills fan who has been playing fantasy since 2012 and now works as a programmer in the sports prediction market industry. They get into Josh Allen becoming a studio CEO the week before kickoff, how Cleveland treated Shedeur Sanders, w...

Vanessa Giolito has spent a decade in sports media at ESPN, Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports, Bleacher Report, and TikTok, and she started out clipping college hoops highlights for three hours a night. This week, she and Victoria get into the version nobody puts on LinkedIn: what a decade as the only woman in the room actually taught her, the layoff that turned out to be a blessing, the Friday of th...

Clear My Sister's Classroom Wishlist !!  NFL, training camp, Aaron Rodgers, contracts, Deebo Samuel, Bijan Robinson, Kristen Juszczyk, Brock Purdy, football news ### Summary In this episode of Her Game Days, Victoria discusses the latest stories in the NFL, including her experience at Rams training camp, insights into the upcoming season, and highlights from Aaron Rodgers' chaotic interv...

The Football Social Club | Episode released July 28, 2026 The Game has a new name — and it's ours. Victoria kicks off this episode with the official rebrand to Her Game Days , why it captures what this community has always been about, and her own origin story (a lost bet on a second date, a Detroit Lions jersey, and a friendship group that turned into a movement). Then it's straight into...

Pick Six Big news first: The Game is becoming Her Game Days Fantasy League pre-registration drops at the end of this month; league opens in August. Last year: 1,300 girls, 17,000 draft picks, and Ja'Marr Chase as the unanimous No. 1 pick (100% of leagues). Expect Josh Allen to repeat as the top QB pick again this year. And the bigger news — the brand is renaming from The Game to Her Game Days...

Pick 6: The Women Are the Whole Story This Week The men make the headlines. This week, the women are the story — in nearly every single one. Here's your Pick 6. In this episode: 00:00 — A little pep talk: "But did you grow?" 04:12 — The Seahawks just sold for $9.6 billion — and a woman is running the show ~17:30 — Juju Smith-Schuster gets married, Taylor and Travis crash the wedding...

Send us Fan Mail Pick Six: Taylor & Travis Tie the Knot, Jonathan Cooper's Case Escalates, and Baker Mayfield Draws a Line in the Sand Victoria is broadcasting from Miami for the first time — new apartment, new city, same Pick Six energy. This week: the wedding of the decade, an engagement that's been a long time coming, a beef that's either staged or very real, an assault case...

Send us Fan Mail Victoria's back with the third installment of Pick 6; this segment is officially a permanent fixture on The Game. Offseason doesn't mean quiet: this week delivered a locker-room bombshell, a franchise-record payday, a gut-punch health reveal, and a felony arrest, all in the same seven days. Rate, review, and share. If The Game has a permanent spot in your rotation, a fiv...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks for listening! If you like the show, please share it with a friend who may enjoy the community!  Pick Six | The Game This week: Tight End University, a Cowboy wedding, Pat McAfee's PB&J money, Dan Quinn's hot seat, Shedeur trade talk, and Kyle Pitts's $54M week. Timestamps 00:00 — Intro 00:30 — Story 1: Tight End University takes over Nashville (Taylor Sw...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 47. Bettina Braga — Detroit Lions International Fan of the Year with Mind the Snap Podcast She moved to Ann Arbor as a 15-year-old exchange student from São Paulo, walked into the Big House on her second day in the US, and came home a Detroit Lions fan. Now, over a decade later, Bettina Braga is the Detroit Lions International Fan of the Year, and she is very much the main...

Send us Fan Mail Every Wednesday, Victoria breaks down the six stories in and around the NFL that you actually need to know about. This week's debut Pick 6 covers Patrick Mahomes' historic half-billion dollar contract, Fernando Mendoza turning down NIL money (and why Victoria actually gets it), Rashee Rice's 30-day stay in one of Texas's most notorious jails over a THC probatio...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Description: This week on The Game, I sat down with Adrianna Ebron, the founder of Black Girls Love Football, and I left this conversation feeling genuinely moved. We got into how Black Girls Love Football started, why it had to be called exactly that, and what it really means to build a community where women feel seen and safe, not just tolerated. Adrianna is also a mom,...

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Gilmore is back — and she's got receipts. The Game's first-ever repeat guest returns to give us the full Super Bowl LIX debrief: what it was actually like to help orchestrate one of the biggest events in sports, from flipping traffic lanes to managing duffel-bag-toting autograph stalkers to oyster shucking at the Bay Area kickoff party. Taylor is the Director of E...

Send us Fan Mail Victoria sits down with Lily Shimbashi — the woman who built Sportsish from a glow light, an Amazon mic, and a business plan she started years before Sportsish was created. Before she was interviewing athletes on ESPN red carpets, Lily was a broadcast assistant, making $7.25 an hour as a PA for the Utah Jazz, watching the men around her tear down the woman she wanted to be someday...

Send us Fan Mail Find Kellie on Instagram & TikTok Kellie Finlayson's Book: There Must Be More: Finding Purpose in a life with cancer Kellie's Symptom Tracker Guest: Kellie Finlayson — AFL WAG, stage 4 colorectal cancer survivor, author, and advocate based in Australia. Episode Description: Kellie Finlayson flew from Australia to Dallas to catch a Cowboys Thanksgiving game — and ende...

Send us Fan Mail A Super Bowl that felt like a slog on the field still delivered a story worth telling: pressure beats plans, patience wins possessions, and sometimes a running back defines the biggest stage. We unpack how Seattle’s defense squeezed Drake May into sacks and hurried throws, why five field goals quietly controlled the scoreboard, and how Kenneth Walker’s vision and timing earned a l...

Send us Fan Mail Find Steph on Instagram: her personal account & photography account Follow The Game on social:  The Game: Instagram | TikTok  Victoria Henderson: Instagram | TikTok Ever wonder how someone goes from a 911 console to the Detroit Lions’ sideline with a camera in hand? We bring you an intimate, step-by-step look at how freelance photographer Steph Van Wagner built a career in pro...

Send us Fan Mail Follow Bri (Hot Girls Talk Sports) on Instagram & TikTok A snowstorm rolled into Denver right as New England took the lead, and suddenly every inch mattered. We dig into how weather, special teams, and culture swung Patriots-Broncos, including the wild sequence of a practice-squad elevation tipping a potential game-tying kick and a holder setting up a yard too shallow in white...

Send us Fan Mail In this engaging conversation, Carly Teller shares her journey as an NFL wife, her relationship with Wyatt Teller, and the dynamics of navigating life in the public eye. She discusses the challenges of free agency, the importance of community engagement, and her approach to social media. Carly emphasizes the significance of open communication in her marriage and reflects on the tr...

Send us Fan Mail A weekend this wild doesn’t teach one lesson—it teaches five. We unpack how the Bills coughed away a winnable game against the Broncos, why a single backward toss can tilt an entire locker room, and what clean, boring, effective football looks like when Denver plays it. From there, we go deep on the officiating confusion—PI standards, catch rules, and the gap between the rulebook...

Send us Fan Mail In this lively conversation, Victoria Henderson and Allie Anthony discuss the recent NFL playoff games, focusing on the Rams vs. Panthers matchup, the Bears vs. Packers rivalry, and the challenges faced by quarterbacks like Trevor Lawrence. They also touch on coaching dynamics, the emergence of teams like the Texans and Seahawks, and the significance of women in sports. The discus...

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Abigail Lee to trace her rise from reworking thrifted Bills gear to landing a 70-store wholesale deal, and we unpack how Buffalo’s culture, women fans, and smart social media turned a local idea into a regional brand. Stadium nostalgia, fashion that keeps you warm, and a candid look at scaling without losing soul. • Buffalo game day as identity and community  • Fr...