Pardon My Take

We have a book called The Big Game or Big Game. The NFL in troubling times.

Author Mark Leibovich joins the show to talk about his new book on the NFL "Big Game : The NFL In Dangerous Times" and the story of Jerry Jones masturbating into a shoe.

Big Game Big Game the NFL in dangerous times now before I want to first ask what made you want to write this book but I also want to say everyone should buy this book because we're actually in it you're part of my take is in this book as it should be it pardon my take is in this book

I have actually never masturbated into my shoes or any shoes really. I kind of approved move but yeah it was a bit of a prank but but I wanted to you know look transparency or for the New York Times we have to be very transparent at all times and I didn't want to make it sound like

I read Jose's book when it came out and it was filled with spelling errors. It was insane.

Merril Hoge has a new book out uh i think i think we explained our side pretty pretty well in the interview but basically sum it up we think that maro hodge the the plot part of his book is crazy so that makes him a little crazy that kind of takes away from what probably are some decent points about cte being an ongoing thing

We don't know what causes it and we don't know what it causes we have cases where people have played football people who have played sports and people have not played sports and not had concussions and not had history ahead trauma and i'm like well how can we only hear about the football ones right or the ones in sports

The science is still very young so to your to your credit from your your perspective you are clearly right the science is still here observing and the media is out here right

The scariest thing in my mind is players the suicide rate going up and with players which has happened since 2009 and the biggest problem to me is guys are self-diagnosing cte when we don't even know how to diagnose it ourselves in living human beings

leave out that book what's that book the Stewart Stewart little is that the mouse mm-hmm mouse that like sales around may oh maybe make it a little sailboat and see if it will just maybe make it the tank just leave

I was reading a book chocker but i read the first while i read the first fifteen pages of a book and it reminded me of uh you're a little spat that you had with adam shifter and many of the haters and losers last year when you said that josh mcdonnell was having second thoughts about joining the colts

what is it you get to page 41 of mark liby vich's book i did yeah yeah let me tell you that's a really good book and you guys should get liby vich on you

I like the book yeah.

The idea of making a film project with them it was sort of a reason you know a way of forcing myself to actually start putting in the work and working on this this project that I've been dreaming about for so long but sort of intimidated to start

it is called grid iron genius a masterclass in winning championships and building dynasties in the NFL it is Mike Lamarty

the books basically about culture how to build a team bill was told me in 1984 there's only we're only competing against eight teams and that was when it was a 2018 league because no team really had great culture in their building and so that's really what it's about

we have the return of our good friend Ryan Whitney plus a very fun interview with author Jeff Perlman talking about his new usfl book some wild stories wild stories with the usfl.

Um, I shot in the Scientology Center once and they had the dionetics book and I so I had a lot of time on my hands Oh, and I read and you know guys what the tone scale was did the tone scales my favorite part about Scientology

It is the leagues worse nightmare the book the NFL doesn't want you to read oh

Friday Night Lights but this time it's Buzz Bessinger who wrote the book Friday Night Lights and just like update us on his leather shopping yeah how many how much money have you wasted

Former Louisville coach Rick Patino says he is starting a podcast and conjunctions his forthcoming book do out on September 4th.

We're going to read one chapter a week and then we're going to do 15 second movie reviews.

it's actually coming out in hardcover but the books they they turn in soft covers.

The book is don't bullshit yourself crush the excuses that are holding you back

it's one of those you know it's when you walk into a bar and you see something that you like boom this book just screams to you

your excuses how you listed are fear knowledge time circumstances ego and scarcity

Tom Moore, great book out right now, one of the best reads I've ever had.

I bought a book, and I started reading a little bit of it. It's Bill Walsh's book.

Yeah, as Bill Walsh said, and I was like, you know what, I'm going to buy that book.

But it's a famous part in the book where Bill Walsh essentially says how an NFL franchise works is you have an owner, you have a GM, and then you have the coach.

By the way, if you see this right in front of us, uh, if you're watching it right now, I'll explain it, but it is the part of my book. The cover is out. You can also pre-order it on Amazon. Now it's going to be coming out this summer and, uh, pre-orders are very much appreciated

If we are New York times bestsellers, it's, it makes no sense. Henry Lockwood, a New York times bestseller. How about that.

My chapter is about ice cream heavy.

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He has a new book out called We Are the World Cup.

We Are the World Cup, a personal history of the world's greatest sporting event. You wrote this book.

The book is out now. We Are the World Cup. You are such a lovely human being.

I mean, hands down, like without question, Gary Larson, the Far Side, ... hands down, like without question, Gary Larson, the Far Side, ... I love that.

We'd like to pitch a Far Side series ... Gary Larson and his estate ... we would take a panel and reverse engineer it into a halfhour miniplay.

I think that... the Far Side is a cartoon that we loved, you know, it's a comic strip with published collections that many of us grew up reading.