The Kicker Podcast: A Sports - Comedy Show

The Kicker Podcast: A Sports - Comedy Show

Rob King and David Ingber, two writers for the sports comedy site The Kicker, put each other on the defensive by forcing one another to take the other side of various debates, as they discuss the biggest, silliest, weirdest, and most volatile topics in sports. With fast-paced jokes and a flat-out refusal to do real research, these two give sports fans exactly what they want: ridiculous hot takes. All while attempting not to destroy their decade-long friendship.

Episodes

January 29, 2019 35 mins

Two things are certain this time of year: the Patriots will be in the Super Bowl, and Rob will delusionally think the Jets are there instead. What’s left to say about Brady and Co at this point?? Rob and Dave say all of it.

Also, some tennis discussion about who has the highest highs of the men’s Big Three. There’s some major Harden love and hateration as he continues his scoring tornado.

But most importantly, stick around for th...

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Rob and Dave are back with an old standby: the improvised sports TV pilot idea. It's "Pitch" meets "The Replacements" meets "Draft Day" with a whole bunch of other weird stuff thrown in there. And if you'd like to steal it, the guys kindly ask that you don't? Honor system, folks. 

Plus, Dave has the drop on an epic reverse jinx to make sure the Chiefs crap the bed, and Rob is a firm believer that everyone in the NFC is a big old fr...

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Remember the Titans? Well, Rob and Dave do. They welcome in the New Year starting with the College Football Championship, and Clemson's blowout win led by Trevor "Sunshine" Lawrence.

Also, get ready for some hot takes with the NFL playoffs. Will Andrew Luck's blue collar QB play be enough to take down Patrick Mahomes' flashy game? Dave thinks so. 

Lastly, Rob has some weird info to reveal about the anatomy of Rams coach Sean McVay....

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December 18, 2018 37 mins
The Patriots' run is OFFICIALLY over. LeBron, Lonzo, AND a mystery guest had an unprecedented triple-triple-double on the Lakers. And Dave has finally settled on the best quarterback in the league. No spoilers, but it's definitely Josh Allen. 
 
Plus, there's some ranting about Christmas music, the Eagles have an insane new nickname, Dave makes Rob VERY uncomfortable with some new basketball terminology, ...
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If you re-drafted this season, who would be the top five quarterbacks? If the ball family got a spin off, who would be the star?

If Dave could coach the Patriots, what would be the all-time super duper crazy insane fantasy play that would never actually happened but that we can still dream about happening?

All these questions and more get answered in the most recent edition of the Kicker Podcast. Oh, and what would this episode b...

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Rob and Dave are digging in to this week's best (primarily football) sports stories, including the way that Eli Manning has learn how to bend the spacetime continuum when throwing passes this year. 
 
Also, they talk about how Bill Belichick's nefarious plans to take over the NFL over the next 60 years factors into the Packers' big decision, now that Mike McCarthy has been shown the cheesy Wisconsin door....
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WE'RE BACK! So many things are going wrong in the NFL right now: Jon Gruden's losing control of the Raiders, lies are swirling around the Cleveland Browns head coach interviews, and NATHAN PETERMAN is still in consideration to play in the NFL! Listen as Rob and Dave ponder on that mystery.

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Sometimes, the news stories just conspire in the world to create a special day where Rob and Dave have something very passionate to say about everything. This is one of those days. 
 
Dave gets VERY excited to bash a certain player on the Celtics (!?!?), and Rob has a whole lot of thoughts on his best friend/younger brother/favorite nephew LaMelo Ball finally being released from his Lithuanian gulag. 
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November 6, 2018 31 mins

While Rob has been off being a movie star Dave fixed the NFL's QB problem. If you're tired of seeing Nathan Peterman, Brock Osweiler, or whoever the heck is starting for the 49ers right now, then listen to this episode! Let's fix the NFL QB problem once and for all.

Oh, also Rob is starring in a movie and he may have gone all "Hollywood" on us.

(For anyone experiencing issues downloading new episodes directly from Facebook, make su...

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Word on the street is that Kevin Durant is going to the Knicks next season. So Rob and Dave put their incredible brains together to improvise what a "Durant to the Knicks" movie would look like. Spoiler Alert: David Fizdale will yell at many people, and the new Knicks may go over Niagra Falls!

This movie WILL be made. Hear it here first.

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It's a little bit of everything today. A smorgasbord, if you will, of topical sports news. LeBron's Lakers stumbling out of the gate, the Red Sox being the most fun team to root for, and even a little update on everything that LaVar, Lonzo, and LiAngelo Ball have been up to. There might even be a little millionaire matchmaking taking place?
 
Oh, and the biggest Fantasy Football controversy ever... caused...
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Yeah, it's episode 100, and since Rob and Dave put out one episode every 10 years, that means they're both at least 1,000 years old. Math!
 
But as such, it's time to sit back and figure out -- what are the ten "cranky old man sports takes" that you actually believe in? Any sport, any aspect of the sport, could be on the court or off. But what turns two men in their thirties (okay, we were lying about the...
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Guys, they really tried. They really, really did. Astros versus Red Sox, one baseball fan and one decidedly non-baseball fan gave it their all, and they learned a thing we'd kind of always assumed: baseball is a LOT of dead time. 
 
Does the conversation descend into a cantankerous discussion of why lefties can't beat the shift and a healthy does of Rob's Lando Calrissian impression? Yes it does. And this...
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Well, we can put that experiment to bed. 
 
You know, like every NFL fan who can speak in full sentences, Rob and Dave have long thought that they could do play-by-play better than the jamokes who are actually on television. That they'd be funnier and more insightful and just a hell of a lot more entertaining.
 
Well... you be the judge. They do the first quarter of the marquee match...
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We’re talking Red Sox sexiness in beating the Yankees. Jamaal Charles making every 31 year old on the planet feel super old. And of course, the descent of UFC into one notch above the WWE, the way it was kind of always destined to be.

That's right, it’s time for another edition of all-in/not a fan. Rob and Dave are diving super deep into the front page of most major sports web sites to select the biggest, weirdest, and let’s be hon...

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The one we've all been waiting for. Can LeBron make the Lakers a contender? Can Melo gel with The Beard? Will Derrick Rose ever retire? All these questions, and a few more that no one is asking, will finally be answered.

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Okay, we're really sorry, but the first ten minutes of this podcast are just Rob and Dave getting super angry at each other about a MAJOR FANTASY FOOTBALL CONTROVERSY. We know, we know, you don't care about anyone else's league, but really, everyone's souls are at stake here. Feel free to skip past this if you're just here for the hoops. 
 
But then we get into which teams have a chance of making noise in...
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Oh yeah, it's time for your classic mid-week news dump. Some storylines from around the NBA and NFL. We're talking Le'Veon Bell (finally coming back). We're talking LeBron (what sort of year is he going to have? Because he's going to intentionally score about 8 points per game.) 
 
We're even talking some baseball (what??) led by Rob (WHAT??!??!), who has a simply delightful story that almost sounds like ...
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If you're one of those sports fans that thinks the NCAA is just perfect and nothing about it could be better, then maybe this episode just ain't for you. But if you're one of the 99.99% of fans who enjoy college sports to some degree but wish there were a bit less guilt or shenanigans associated with it, then this IS for you!
 
We're addressing scoring systems, overtime procedures, and of course, the outr...
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Have you ever heard a man who has just been beaten by life? Well now you have. Dave has taken this loss to the Detroit Lions hard, and it's leading to all sorts of stress eating and Belichick conspiracies that take back all the way to 2001. 
 
Plus! Some more uplifting NFL stories, like the ascension of Pat Mahomes (and his new weird-as-hell nicknames) leading the best offense in all of football. And they...
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