Sports R Dumb

LSU's Jayden Daniels won this year's Heisman Trophy. All of the contenders for the award were quarterbacks, and the same seems to be true of the NFL. Do the other positions not matter at all? Plus, we're diving into Patrick Mahomes being very upset over an official's call, the NBA in-season tournament, and a sports cliche about when certain sports leagues are at their best. Are you...

Sean is thrilled because his Texas Longhorns are in the College Football Playoff. Florida State fans are less than thrilled after their team finished an undefeated season and won't be included in the festivities. Basic math suggests picking from five power conferences to select four teams to represent the nation's best will lead to controversy. Good thing next year will have more teams in...

This show loves your support! Follow Sports R Dumb on Instagram , Sean on Twitch , and Joey on Fun Fact Friyay . Across social media, but especially on the site formerly known as Twitter, you’ll see quite a few parody accounts — such as Ballsack Sports — that only exist to share news and stories that aren’t real. These accounts are often very obvious, and yet, many fans still fall for them. And th...

It’s Thanksgiving here in America, and we’re celebrating by eating copious amounts of food. But Sean has a handful of things that you will not find on his plate. Let’s count ‘em down! Plus, the voodoo of Aaron Rodgers’ achilles injury, what plant-based eggs are made from, the struggle to going to a game live on Thanksgiving, and what if football stadiums had Black Friday sales? And here’s the glor...

Connor Stalions, a man with so-so decision-making but a fantastic name, got caught stealing signs from opposing sidelines. He likely wasn’t the only one involved, but he’s remained stoic and has not snitched. Sean doesn’t like the discourse around this event. Since Connor Stalions is such a delightful moniker, we look at some of our other favorite names from sports past and present. Plus, Joey has...

World Series champion Sean is still beaming from the Texas Rangers’ championship, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have gripes. In fact, this whole episode is critical of certain types of complaints. We’re covering quite a bit in this episode. Here’s what people are complaining about: World Series ratings, the NBA in-season tournament, college players being paid, and the Tennessee Titans being dis...

It’s Halloween, which means we’re due for a good ol’ fashioned spooktacular! We’re breaking down the top five situations that scare us in sports. Plus, a breakdown on Halloween candy, a mishap at the Museum of Ice Cream, and the benefits of public transportation in Europe.  Here’s the Hawaiian Punch commercial we listen to during the episode.

The NBA is back! It officially tips off tonight with the Los Angeles Lakers playing the world-champion Denver Nuggets, while the Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors welcome new players onto their already pretty good rosters. But we don't really care about those games in particular. Instead, we're looking at the season as a whole as we make dumb predictions. Could two players both get ej...

It's an emergency podcast — against all odds, the Texas Rangers are in the World Series! They won Games 6 and 7 with their backs against the wall, and Sean couldn't be more excited. You want to hear an excited man, don't you? We're also talking about weird airport stories, the fairly obscure The Adventures of Willy Beamish game from the 1990s, and Joey's basketball league got R...

The Miami Hurricanes had the most spectacular loss in perhaps all of college football history. And it largely boiled down to their coach being too macho to follow conventional wisdom and have his players take a knee and win the game. And it RUINED Sean's vacation to the Bahamas. We also recorded this episode during Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, so you might hear Sean joyou...

Sean is feeling exceptionally old today and in full “get off my lawn mode.” What’s the cause of his ire? TikToks and spin classes, naturally, but the main culprit is Photoshopped jerseys. A player gets drafted or sent to a new team but hasn’t played a game yet? Let’s make an image of them wearing the latest jersey. A player is rumored to be traded? Let’s see how they look in the uniforms of every...

NFL fans and Swifties have been crossing paths lately, with Taylor Swift watching Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs. And now everyone is talking about it. Are they just friends? Are they secretly dating? Did she merely want a ticket in a press box? Kelce jersey sales have gone up by 400%, and girlfriends are trolling their boyfriends by saying Swift put Kelce on the map. Surely, we can just...

Recently, Minnesota Vikings running back Alexander Mattison fumbled the ball a couple of times in an NFL game. Also recently, Texas beat Alabama on the road. In both cases, fans were shouting death threats, spouting racial epithets, and just being complete fools. This happens across sports. Why do so many fans feel obliged to personally attack people they've never met and probably are never go...

No matter the sport, fans love complaining about the officials. Sometimes, we want them to blow the whistle, but they opt not to make a call. Other times, we want them to be wrong so that it favors our team or a more fun outcome, and the officials ultimately make the right decision. Don't they know we want to be entertained?! The first down from this nifty New England Patriots lateral was over...

We rank teams at the start of every college football season even though we don't know how good these teams actually are. Then we all overreact and yell about upsets when many of these teams may just actually not be very good. Why do we do this to ourselves? Plus, does it seem like there are fewer roly poly bugs and fireflies out in the world? And we discuss what our player swag bags would be i...

Are you ready for some footballlllll? College football is underway, and the NFL starts this week. That means there are plenty of opportunities for dumb moments. We're covering absurd start times in heat waves, suspensions from the NCAA around transfer rules, coaches getting too cute with late-game decisions , and much more. Plus, dumb predictions for the NFL season, a cliche about misunderstoo...

The movie The Blind Side depicted football player Michael Oher in a less than flattering light. And his adoptive parents, the Tuohys, helped raise him into a man. Well, as it turns out, Oher is saying this "adoption" was actually a "conservatorship." As a result, Oher has missed out on millions of dollars from the movie. It seems like there's a lot of manipulation going on, whi...

We're starting this episode off with FLAIR. James Harden joined the Philadelphia 76ers largely because of 76ers president Daryl Morey. But now, Harden has said Morey is a liar, and he will never be in an organization that he's a part of. And then he REPEATED it. Just in case there was any doubt, you know? This comes on the heels of Harden requesting a trade (specifically to the Los Angeles...

Sean and Joey are dressed in Christmas colors, even though it's early August. But lamenting about how college football is destroying conferences is fashionable any time of year! The Big Ten has 18 teams in it. The Big 12 has 14 teams. The Atlantic Coast Conference is considering adding schools from the Dallas and San Francisco metro areas. It makes no sense geographically, but it does add swee...

After student journalists at Northwestern University uncovered a culture full of hazing within the football program, we're once again left wondering why this barbaric practice still exists. Sean recounts how his innocent charm protected him from any teammate hazing in high school, while Joey shares that his teammates were too goofy for any hazing to actually take place. Plus, a fun challenge:...

This episode is a big moment in Sports R Dumb history! To commemorate, we’re talking about historical contracts in pro sports — particularly, how UP IN ARMS everyone gets about every contract setting a new record of some kind.  Jaylen Brown’s historical deal broke NBA records. Justin Herbert will be making more money per season than anyone before him…at least, until another guy signs a bigger cont...

Damian Lillard is arguably the greatest player the Portland Trail Blazers have ever had. But the team wants to head in a new direction, and Lillard has asked for a trade. The twist: He only wants to go to the Miami Heat. No other options. That's led to a month-long impasse where, nearly every day, we get an update that neither side is willing to budge. Oh, really? We're shocked! In the mea...

In sports like basketball and football, the annual All-Star Game and Pro Bowl, respectively, are filled with low-effort attempts at defense, with flashiness the main item on the agenda. In the Major Leagues, there's TOO much effort, which makes the All-Star Game feel a bit like every other contest of the 162-game season. Ancillary events can be pretty dumb, too. Julio Rodriguez hit 41 home run...

Victor Wembanyama has a wingspan that goes around the Earth. Yet his security team still found it necessary to backhand national treasure Britney Spears. Then, after a terrible first game, Britney stans had a field day mocking Wemby's struggles on the court. What an introduction to the NBA. Plus, awkward moments in TRL history, how Sean's glorious return to the hockey rink was ambushed by...

America is celebrating its 247th birthday today! And as with most Fourth of July celebrations, there are a ton of backyard fireworks going off. That's a great way to injure yourself, disturb others, and ruin the animal ecosystem. Plus, Mel Gibson movies, Bowling for Soup lyrics, and getting dates while buying a mattress. Joey also tells a story about throwing someone out of a bar and ejecting...