042: Beer, Brackets & Adult Rec – Dive into Grown-Up Sports Culture

From beer league hockey to fantasy football heartbreaks, we dive into the wild, laugh-out-loud world of adult rec sports. We'll break down the glory, grit, and group chats that make beer leagues legendary—plus the excuses, post-game beers, and player personalities that keep the stories alive long after the final buzzer. Whether you’re chasing stats, beers, or bragging rights, this episode celebrates the athletes who play for fun, pride, and maybe a duct-taped trophy. 

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Chapters

• 00:00 - Kwik Trip Favorites: A Culinary Journey
• 09:38 - The Beer League Hockey Experience
• 18:17 - Fantasy Football Insights and Rivalries
• 22:37 - Team Dynamics and Player Management
• 24:46 - Taylor Swift's Impact on Football
• 26:39 - Start, Sit, Cut
• 33:44 - Quickfire Trivia and Opinions
• 37:00 - Swipe Right or Left: Sports Opinions

Transcript

Teryn (00:00)
speaking of vibes, what are the vibes of beer league hockey to someone who's never played?

Jake (00:04)
⁓ it's really just a lot of, wouldn't say washed up, but it's people that are done with their athletic careers that are still trying to live it out. a lot of times it is being played at odd hours on weekday nights. and sometimes it's also competitive and most of the times it's not competitive, but, I think it's really just all about, you know, to get out there, skate again.

hang out with people and then kind of as the unofficial term of rec league of beer league, you might be also enjoying a couple of soda pops in the locker room with the fellas after a big, you know, 10 to seven hockey game.

Teryn (00:40)
Just an absolute game. The game of the game of the year.

Jake (00:43)
The 10th football scorer.

Ambre (01:12)
right, Jake, we're going to kick things off with a Kwik top three, and it's not related to sports at all. You just drove from the Twin Cities to Madison for one of our daytime work, day meetings, whatever, sessions, collaborative day job, that. And during that four hour each way commute,

Teryn (01:28)
Day job.

Jake (01:31)
Mm-hmm.

Ambre (01:37)
You had the pleasure, honor, privilege of stopping at several Kwik Trips, which is, for those of our listeners, not in the Midwest, is basically the best gas station ever. People near Buc-ee's might have something to say about it, but we won't listen. tell it. Yeah, they're wrong. Tell us the top three foods to get at Kwik Trip.

Jake (01:42)
Yeah

Teryn (01:53)
wrong.

Jake (01:58)
This is hard. I'm a huge Kwik trip fan and that drive, like there's a Kwik trip, like every 20 minutes. So it's just like whenever you need to stop, can stop. usually stop at an average of about two to three Kwik trips per that four hour drive. ⁓ shout out to the Eau Claire Wisconsin Kwik trip. Definitely a favorite there. it definitely depends on the time of the day, but I think my like staples when I go in there is like, want something.

Ambre (02:11)
You

Jake (02:23)
party. want something as a little treat and I also want something to drink. So I think I'll hit my Kwik trip breakfast sandwich. It's a egg and sausage croissant. Or if you're feeling a little saucier, you can also do a waffle instead of croissant. But that will put you out of order if you are having to drive for four hours. ⁓ Second for my sweet.

Ambre (02:40)
Thanks

Teryn (02:40)
⁓

Yeah, that would put me right to sleep.

Jake (02:50)
I mean, you can obviously do a glazer's donut. If I'm already doing the waffle, I probably won't do a glazer's donut, but I'm going to say I've been really loving the Reese's Outrageous Bar, where it is a chubby child like myself's dream where it was, it's a Reese's candy bar with extra Reese's pieces on top of the peanut butter. And then they put chocolate on it. So that's like been my, gas station sweet treat, which I really enjoy. And then, ⁓ you know, just to balance out all of.

Teryn (02:52)
Hmm.

Okay, I'll take one.

Ambre (03:14)
Good double

decker, Reese's.

Jake (03:19)
that sweetness and savoriness, I'll probably wash it down with like a big, ⁓ just sparkling water just to try to get all those bubbles and get all the sugar out of my mouth. So I'm really, I'm a pretty basic like drinker guy. I just like water most of the time. So I'm going to say a big can of sparkling.

Teryn (03:38)
Wow, you and Ambre, love your H2O. ⁓

Ambre (03:39)
All right, all right. Yeah.

Jake (03:40)
Teryn, what

about you? What's your Kwik trip pick?

Ambre (03:41)
Love that water.

Teryn (03:43)
You know, honestly, I was just there the other day and the only thing I wanted at that store was this really hot guy that was in there and

ran out so fast. My initial, why am I this way? Like I see a hot man, my initial reaction is to run as fast as I can away.

Jake (03:50)
⁓ wow.

Ambre (04:00)
We need to change that please.

Teryn (04:02)
I have committed after that day, so thanks for bringing this up, Jake. I really appreciate you bringing this up so that I could talk about this. After that day, I decided that I'm no longer going to wait for men to ask me out because they won't.

Jake (04:17)
No. We're scared.

Teryn (04:17)
They're not going to.

So guess what I'm to do? I'm just going to start asking men out. Guy from Kwik Trip Man, if I was two weeks older, I would have asked you out.

Jake (04:30)
I think that might be the most flattering. Like if I was a guy, especially the Kwik trip, Kwik trips probably like the most romantic gas station in the country. Like if somebody came up to me at a Kwik trip and asked me if they wanted to grab coffee or something, I would be so flattered.

Ambre (04:30)
⁓ like later in time.

Teryn (04:38)
It must be.

Jake (04:44)
So I think any, and he clearly has good taste if he's going to Kwik trip for his gas or bathroom break or something. like that's a man of means. That's a man that you'd want to date. So like, I think he would say yes easily.

Teryn (04:44)
Yeah.

Yes, right.

Ambre (04:49)
Mm, yeah.

Teryn (04:58)
That's what I need to know. need to know from all the men out there, is this something that would be flattering to you? I mean, I've heard from a couple of people they think it would be, but I'm like, is this flattering or is it scary? Because I think for women, like, it will depends on how hot you are, right? Like if you're like a troll, then like it's a little creepy. You don't want to be asked out by like a homeless man, right? But if you're hot, you're like, absolutely I'll go out with you. That's amazing. But I mean, first of all, that never happens.

with anyone, but yeah, I need to know from all the guys out there. Give you some feedback.

Ambre (05:29)
Okay, but

I have a question, Teryn What's your approach? So there's probably standing in line, but not long because KwikTrip is super speedy and great customer service, right? You're standing in line, you've got your tables of glazed donuts and the frosted cinnamon rolls on one side. On the other side, there's maybe some bananas and apples and oranges. You're standing in line behind him. What do you say?

Teryn (05:35)
Yeah, fast.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I think my approach is going to have to be like, just, just so direct. Like, hi, I think you're good looking. Do you have a girlfriend or a wife? I guess at our age, ⁓ if not, would you like to go get a drink or coffee with me? They have an out, right? Then he has an out. If he, if he doesn't want to go out with me, then he can be like, no, I have a girlfriend. can just lie to me. And if he does, then I just did all the work for you, my guy.

Ambre (06:09)
I love that.

Jake (06:09)
And then he's like,

yeah.

Ambre (06:19)
Yeah, I love it.

Jake (06:19)
I mean, he's probably

got good taste. He's that Kwik trip. He's probably getting his Karuba 24 ounce black coffee. I mean, it doesn't make a difference though. If he has, like if he has a pack of glazers versus grabbing a banana, you know, is that, is that kind of a turnoff maybe being like, ⁓ yeah, like what does he have? What do you have? Are you just filling up your gas? Like a lot of questions.

Teryn (06:25)
sherova

Mmm, mm-hmm. ⁓

Ambre (06:32)
⁓ what's he shopping?

Teryn (06:35)
No.

Yeah, well, if I'm just filling up my gas,

I'm not going inside because that's Pay the pump. ⁓ that's true. Maybe I got start 20, 20 on number 15, please.

Jake (06:45)
Well, you never know who's gonna be in the Kwik trip now. I think you gotta start just perusing.

Ambre (06:49)
You gotta get more gas!

Jake (06:53)
Yeah.

Ambre (06:53)
Ha

ha!

Teryn (06:54)
No, I mean, I don't care if he has glazers, great. If he has a banana, I mean, great too. Like he cares about his health. I don't know. I'm not gonna judge you.

Ambre (07:02)
Is

there anything that he could be buying? Okay, that's what I was going to say. Nothing else, right? Is there anything else that would be game deal breaker?

Teryn (07:05)
cigarettes. No.

I mean, like any of that like

nicotine stuff, no thanks. Yeah, I'm not into that.

Ambre (07:16)
It doesn't have to be a Kwik trip, right? Like this could be a grocery store. This could be like any public place.

Teryn (07:21)
Yeah,

you're right. could be honestly like I need we need to get out more because like I was telling some friends like with like one drink like one Savvy B in me. I'm great. I will ask anyone out right now that I have built myself up with the courage but like in it's so vulnerable to be just like walking down the street of Madison asking people out. You just don't know.

So I don't know.

Jake (07:48)
This is a sign for Kwik trip is just like the Taco Bell Cantina. We need a Kwik trip, a little Kwik trip bar. It probably doesn't mix well with people driving and the gas station and also having serving alcohol. But think about how many lights could be changed from just being able to have a casual setting in a Kwik trip.

Ambre (07:49)
you

Teryn (07:58)
Yeah. So many lives, all of us single women out there. Yeah,

Ambre (07:59)
Yeah.

Teryn (08:08)
I don't know. mean, listen, I haven't done it yet. So who knows if I'll ever get the courage or if I'll ever see someone again who I'm like, I'm interested just based on their look and they're not wearing a ring. And they're and I like their gas station choice. This guy that I saw

Ambre (08:20)
Yeah.

Jake (08:21)
Yeah, station choice.

Ambre (08:22)
Yeah.

Teryn (08:26)
he had white backwards hat on. Oh, it's just my vibe, right? Give me the white backwards hat. And then like he was dressed like he didn't care too much, but like he didn't look like a slob. It was perfect. It was just like me. Like I don't want to be too fancy, but not a troll.

Jake (08:40)
What time of day was this too? Because I think that's a big thing.

Teryn (08:42)
Ooh, it was like 6,

6 30 ish. was like I had got, had worked, went to the gym and then stopped it. Kwik trip on my way home. Yeah. Middle.

Jake (08:49)
That's prime Kwik trip hours right there. That's good. Like you don't want to be doing it like me last

night where it's 11 o'clock in the middle of the night. Like, nah, you gotta have it in your. Yeah, that's a great, that's a great one. But I'm curious. would, I would support you asking people at a Kwik trip if they want to go on a date. And I'm sure a lot of other people would too.

Teryn (08:57)
Or middle of the day, like, do you have a job?

Alright.

If

you say so, Drake, listen, but you're special. You're such a special guy. You're taken though. Happy engagement, by the way. Since the last time he's been on, he is now an engaged man.

Jake (09:17)
Thank

Ambre (09:19)
Mmmmm.

Jake (09:22)
Thank you. I did not do it at a Kwik trip, but we did stop at a Kwik trip after the engagement weekend. So yeah, I mean, we have to support it. I know this is just a whole big ad for Kwik trip. It's really great. ⁓

Teryn (09:24)
UGH!

You did? You had to.

Honestly, Kwik trip, we are taking sponsors.

Ambre (09:34)
haha

hahahaha

Teryn (09:38)
That's amazing.

Okay, Jake, let's get back to you. Enough about me. I'm over it. Okay, we're gonna get into, know, what some might say the most elite form of competition out there, which would be bare-leg hockey. Would you say that's true?

Jake (10:45)
Yeah, mean, ⁓ based off of vibes for sure. mean, talent wise, you know, it's, that's not there, but it makes you feel like an Olympic athlete when it's 9.30 PM in an ice rink on a Tuesday.

Teryn (10:49)
Alright.

Speak. Yeah, for sure.

Ambre (10:57)
you

Teryn (11:02)
Speaking, speaking of vibes, what are the vibes of beer league hockey to someone who's never played?

Ambre (11:02)
Tuesday

Jake (11:08)
⁓ it's really just a lot of, wouldn't say washed up, but it's people that are done with their athletic careers that are still trying to live it out. ⁓ a lot of times it is being played at odd hours on weekday nights. You have a lot of guys coming together. Sometimes it's friends, sometimes it's new people. ⁓ and sometimes it's also competitive and most of the times it's not competitive, but, I think it's really just all about, you know, to get out there, skate again.

hang out with people and then kind of as the unofficial term of rec league of beer league, you might be also enjoying a couple of soda pops in the locker room with the fellas after a big, you know, 10 to seven hockey game.

Teryn (11:49)
Just an absolute game. The game of the game of the year. Gatton's football score. What's the most beer league thing you've ever seen happen during a game?

Jake (11:52)
The 10th football scorer. Yeah.

Ambre (11:54)
Ha ha ha.

Jake (12:00)
I think a lot of the times, you know, you have defensemen pushing up, getting into the play, and then you'll have a lot of breakaways and you will then also have a lot of failed breakaways. As in somebody has the puck, there's nobody around them and they whiff on the shot.

They miss the net. They don't score. This just happened in our last game, ⁓ which was very sad to see, but it was a three on O there is three forwards, zero defenders.

And our puck carries in the middle of the ice bringing it up. We have two guys on the wings ready for him if he wants to pass it or shoot it. And he was about to shoot it. And then he stopped and tried to pass to the guy. But at that point, it was too late. And they missed the pass. It went all the way around the boards. The other team picked it up and then scored on the other side. So that's very just beer league things to happen where you don't see that in any sort of other organized.

Ambre (12:50)
Oh-hooo.

Jake (12:56)
other than, you know, again, 10 p.m. on a Wednesday night.

Ambre (13:00)
Simmons, Do all the people on your team take warmup seriously or is it just sort of like a hop on the ice, drop the puck and let's rumble?

Jake (13:08)
Yeah,

I mean, it's usually have about five to 10 minutes probably to like warm up because a lot of times they'll be having our league games back to back to back. So you want to at least get out there to skate around and hopefully warm up your goalie a little bit. But as we said, especially in the league that I'm playing in right now, it's again, big 10 football scores. So our goalies are going to get a lot of shots faced Adam. So you got to just want to make sure that everything's warmed up a little bit, but.

Ambre (13:17)
yeah.

Yeah.

Jake (13:35)
I've seen it plenty of times where people kind of blow their tires out in warmups. They're skating a little too hard in warmups. Then they got nothing left in the tank after their third shift of the night. So yeah, you want to take it easy. Let's get the legs pumping. I've also done a couple of late night matches. You take a pre-sleep pregame nap or you might go to bed at nine and then wake up at 10 30. And then you drive to a rink in pitch black and you're just alone in your car and you're like, wow, I paid to.

Ambre (13:55)
You

Jake (14:04)
come do this. ⁓ So yeah, it's very for the love of the game, but at the end of the day, everyone's there to help each other out. There's usually really never any fights or, ⁓ you know, roughhousing with the other team. It's just a lot of people out there having a good time. And I think that's the main part, which brings people back every year.

Ambre (14:05)
That sucks.

Teryn (14:25)
I'm actually still dying over the fact that you said they're big 10 football scores. Like anyone who knows football just gets that reference immediately and I hate it and love it.

Ambre (14:25)
Love that.

Jake (14:32)
Yeah.

Yeah, our first game of the season was probably like a little pack 12 RIP to the pack 12 football conference, but it was a, it's a hockey game and it finished 21 to 18 ⁓ in three full periods of hockey. So I also scored two goals on one shift. So I felt like I was Connor McDavid out there.

Teryn (14:40)
You

Ambre (14:47)
my gosh.

Teryn (14:56)
my gosh. So funny. Okay. I want to give you a power ranking and you tell me best to worst. Are you ready? This is player archetypes. So best to worst, the ringer, the guy who thinks he's the coach, the lazy goalie and the overly competitive dad guy.

Ambre (14:57)
Wow.

Jake (15:04)
Yeah.

best is going to be the lazy goalie because I goalies are getting too much crap, especially for talking beer league. Like as long as they show up, that's all that matters. You just want, you just want to have somebody in that. they're, definitely the best. They take a lot of the brunt of the team. A lot of people not coming back on defense for them. So I don't even know, even if they were just sitting down, taking a nap, if that's lazy, they're still doing a great job. I think the, was it the coach?

Teryn (15:23)
Ha

Ambre (15:25)
Yeah.

Teryn (15:31)
Yeah.

there.

Yeah, the guy who thinks he's the coach.

Jake (15:45)
Uh, the ringer, I'd say

the ringer, ringer at number two. mean, you know, you just, you just need one on the team. Get, the boys together for that. And then I'd say, I don't like the overly competitive dad. Um, what I say a lot of the times, especially if people are getting a little chippy, um, and I'm a bigger guy, so I can kind of hold my own, but if people are getting chippy, I kind of look at them be like, Hey dude, we're both paying to be here at nine 30 on a Tuesday night. And you probably have kids. So like,

Teryn (16:14)
Chill.

Jake (16:14)
Let's take it down a notch. Let's just take it down a notch. So those guys, you just want to talk them down, but they they're living out their dreams too. I mean, I was even in a rec league kickball this fall and we had a 40 year old hit a home run and it looked like he was in the world series by how fast he was running and celebrating with his team. and then, yeah, I think just the.

Teryn (16:33)
The guy who thinks he's the coach.

Yeah.

Jake (16:35)
The

guy that thinks he's the coach, again, it's kind of that one where if you are the best player on the team, then by all means, please help us set up our triangle. Let's get somebody on the point directing the puck. But if you are the rest of us mere mortals and you're just kind of showing up, we don't need any coaching. We know that you're open. We just can't get you the puck or we're not gonna back check. We're tired. It's all those sort of things.

Teryn (16:57)
You're just being selfish today. I want to take this one.

Jake (17:00)
Yeah, yeah, everybody should deserve their chance to get their breakaway that they don't score on. You know, like, hey, I know the goalie is not saving it on his glove side tonight, but I can't get the puck there when it's, you know, I just got it. I just, I'm just trying to shoot. So I think those, those, those guys at the end, those last two, um, let's leave that at home, you know? Yeah.

Teryn (17:19)
They can go.

Ambre (17:21)
Jake,

which archetype are you?

Jake (17:24)
I mean, I think I'm just kind of the guy who's just out there. I end up talking a lot too, just to the other team. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. I don't try to do it to be chippy, but more just to like, no, just to get people involved. Like, ⁓ how's it going? Like my Minnesotan just comes out the whole time like, buddy, we missed that one. Or like, ⁓ nice save there. Sorry for no back check there. Like, hold Lee. So I think I'm just kind of talking and skating around there. I try to be like a guy who's gonna

Ambre (17:33)
Like trash talk?

⁓

Jake (17:52)
be back on defense for the goalie. think most of the time we get scored on. I'm like, I'm sorry. I did not want to back check there and we got scored on. So I'm very apologetic to our, to our goalies, but I just try to kind of skate around out there. And sometimes you're just doing cardio, you know, you don't touch the puck that much. So it's a good cardio workout too, that late at night, but it's not what you're usually expecting for late night cardio, but you know, what are you going to do about it? Karen knows what I'm talking about.

Teryn (18:16)
I've

listened. I'm just here for the cardio.

my gosh. Okay, let's switch it over to fantasy football. We're all in a work fantasy football league and I need to know ⁓ how's your fantasy team doing this year? me the true, honest truth. Are you still emotionally invested or have you just checked out and you're just checking the scores like Ambre is?

Jake (18:37)
Yeah.

Ambre (18:43)
I'm not doing that.

Jake (18:43)
Yeah, I did crush Ambre

Teryn (18:45)
We all

did. We've all crushed Ambre.

Jake (18:46)
last week, freehandedly. well, yeah, just put my kind of, put my like owner GM coach hat on. mean, the guys are playing really hard right now. I'm really proud of them. We're one of the highest scoring teams in the league. our offense is playing really well. ⁓ we're getting good development from our bench, which is something that you really like, in a team you want to have a deep team. ⁓

Teryn (18:55)
⁓

Ambre (18:57)
Hahaha!

Teryn (19:09)
In love.

Jake (19:11)
And I think the draft just went really smoothly, especially when you have 16 people in a league, you're definitely going to get, you know, not your top picks, but I think everyone's really performing well. Justin Herbert is such a leader for our football team. He is not only dating Madison Beer, but he's thrown touchdowns. Yeah. Yeah. I'm in my coach speak right now. ⁓ Some things that I think we do need to just focus up on a little bit is.

Teryn (19:26)
The way you're talking in the like hour.

Ambre (19:34)
He's a GM, yeah!

Jake (19:40)
we're, definitely one of the top scoring teams in the league, but we, we're still kind of in the bottom of the stand. I think we're fifth in the league right now, but we should be up there. So we've, we've dropped some games late, some of those Monday night fantasy football games. ⁓ David Montgomery, but I think like a 50 piece, 50 points on our head. on a Monday night, we ended up losing by six points. So that's one that's kind of inexcusable for the, defense, you know, like we can't be having.

our opposing team, we can't have a player scoring 50 points on Monday night football to lose that game. So I think we're in a good spot though. think once we get to the playoffs, we're going to be really competitive. And I think we kind of like being underdogs a little bit versus, you know, having the target on our back as the number one team. So yeah, is that really good enough kind of coach speak? And I don't think any trades are going to be happening ⁓ as well. think we kind of have, we like what we have in the locker room. So yeah, just.

Ambre (20:09)
Thank

Teryn (20:28)
Ugh.

Ambre (20:34)
locker room.

Teryn (20:35)
my gosh.

Jake (20:36)
Just got to keep setting our lineup every week and ⁓ we actually had a buy. So players got rested up somehow. Pukinakua got injured during my buy week. ⁓ Again, I don't Pukinakua, Pukinahua. ⁓ He's, he's, he's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL this year. Ambre, he plays for the Los Angeles Rams. ⁓ But he had a little bit of an injury, which now I'm trying to figure out which of my bench wide receivers I need to start.

Ambre (20:45)
Pukina who?

I heard that name.

Teryn (20:55)
Yeah.

Ambre (20:58)
Hello?

Jake (21:05)
perform. ⁓ yeah, I mean, it's, going really well so far. And I know Teryn, you're still being very competitive. You know, you're fighting in there, ⁓ versus Ambre is kind of, you know, giving people some free wins, which I also appreciate.

Teryn (21:13)
yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

Ambre (21:19)
I just, just yesterday figured out how to add players to my.

Jake (21:25)
That's

huge. That's like half the game right there.

Teryn (21:28)
the game.

Ambre (21:29)
Yeah. It seems so simple.

And then I had to add them and then wait for two days. I like, this stupid.

Teryn (21:38)
You guys!

Jake (21:38)
Do you really connected to your players?

Teryn (21:41)
just have to share something.

have to share something. I literally, while you were talking, I pulled up my fantasy team because I was like, I haven't checked my lineup today, right? It's Thursday when we're recording this for everyone who's listening. And I literally was like, I need to switch out my defense. And I picked up the chief's defense and I just got a text from Jake Fergus and he goes, you bleep bleep. I literally hit the chief's defense and it gave me an arrow and then the notification came across.

Ambre (22:10)
Wow, well done.

Jake (22:11)
You guys have a little bit

of a rivalry. You guys have kind of a rivalry going on right now. You kind of are like the, you know, Steelers and Ravens in our league where there's a lot of headbutting between those two teams.

Teryn (22:15)
You

⁓

my gosh, that made me laugh so hard.

Jake (22:27)
Yeah. I mean, he obviously he was here for your fantasy podcast, but he is a huge fantasy football head. I mean, I think he has like what four leagues and yeah, I think he's always just on his multiple monitors up, like setting his roster. So good pick up there though. Good pick up.

Teryn (22:34)
Yeah.

Ambre (22:37)
Yeah.

Hahaha

Teryn (22:42)
So, it's so much. Thank you. You know, just

got to be out there working my magic quickly. Making deals, making trades. Ambre, keep up, okay?

Jake (22:48)
making deals.

Ambre (22:50)
Thank

Jake (22:53)
Yeah. Ambre, have you gotten attached to your team or you feel bad like dropping a player or?

Teryn (22:57)
Ambre has no idea who's on her team. She's not

attached to them. She doesn't even know who is on her team.

Ambre (23:03)
I just recently learned very importantly that red letters are bad and you should not have them on your active roster. So that is what I have been working on this week.

Teryn (23:11)
Hmm.

that and when they're projected to get 0.00 points, it's kind of a tell.

Ambre (23:19)
I don't look at that at all. I just look at the red letters and do they have a buy? Baby steps here. Baby steps.

Jake (23:20)
Yeah.

Teryn (23:24)
Mm, okay.

Jake (23:26)
That's a,

Teryn (24:08)
sure.

Jake (24:07)
I have a good story of my cousins back in the day, but she got season tickets to Gopher football team and they were like, oh yeah, yeah, maybe we should go to the game for somebody's birthday. Like, who are they playing that week? And she goes, yeah, it says they're playing BYE. I remember we said, that's their bye week.

Ambre (24:27)
⁓

Teryn (24:29)
It could

be confused with BYU, but one letter different. that's so sad, poor thing.

Ambre (24:32)
Yeah.

Jake (24:34)
Yeah.

Ambre (24:37)
Hey guys, going back to the Chiefs What is your take on Taylor Swift and football?

Jake (24:38)
Yeah.

Did my mic cut out? No, I'm kidding. This is dangerous because I know I'm not, again, I'm kind of like Switzerland on this. ⁓ I'm say very neutral when it comes to Taylor Swift takes. ⁓ mean, again, I think she's grown the game and you've seen it with your other fellow podcast colleagues, ⁓ the Kelsey brothers too. Like she's kind of has helped them start their own podcast empire ⁓ as well. So I think it gets,

Ambre (24:48)
HAHAHAHA

Teryn (24:48)
silence. Yeah.

Jake (25:15)
think it's more people enjoying it. Again, I tend to just not enjoy the Chiefs that much in general, just as a sports fan. But yeah, she kind has the Jerry Jones effect, where Jerry Jones is the owner of the Cowboys. And like whenever the Cowboys score a touchdown, the camera always cuts to him in the stands clapping. So like she's become that for the Chiefs, where they're always like, oh my gosh, did Travis Kelsey just get the ball? Let's go see what Taylor is doing.

Ambre (25:24)
Mmm.

Teryn (25:25)
That's fair.

The weird thing is far more people care what Taylor think than what Jerry Jones is doing. ugh.

Jake (25:44)
Yeah.

⁓ yeah.

Ambre (25:48)
Yeah.

Jake (25:50)
think Jerry Jones as an owner of the NFL probably wrote in to those sports teams and the broadcast partners are saying you must cut to me in the stands.

Teryn (25:53)
Yeah, I must be shown cut to me at least six

times per game. Sorry, buddy. And in that case, five out of the six are going to be your pouting.

Jake (26:02)
Yeah.

Yeah, but I think that was a pretty good non-answer, Ambre, on my opinions on it. Good coaches speak.

Teryn (26:10)
Yeah, was political.

Ambre (26:10)
Yeah, that was like a super neutral. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Teryn (26:15)
Yeah, that was

great. Okay, we're on the, we're on the topic and I, we have to hit this before we can be off this, this podcast episode, because it's just part of, we have to talk about it. I'm sorry. I'm like my word, I'm losing my words because we have to hit it. So for those of you who are familiar with the game FMK, I'm not going to say what they are, but figure it out. You could Google it. ⁓

Ambre (26:17)
Well done.

Teryn (26:39)
We're going to play a version of that with Jake, but we're going to just call it, starts it cut starts it cut. So you have to start the player or cut them off. Yep. Drop them from the roster. Okay. And we've got a couple different, I mean, we've got some, we got a couple of different topics here, but I'm going to give you one. Ambre, we can see how many of these we want to give him. First one is hottest coaches.

Jake (26:48)
We're gonna start the player, we're gonna sit him on the bench, or we're gonna drop him from the roster. Okay.

Teryn (27:07)
starts at cut, Sean McVeigh, David Canales from the Panthers or Matt LaFleur.

Jake (27:13)
I mean, Liffler, you're starting him for sure. I mean, what a guy. ⁓

Teryn (27:16)
Okay.

Jake (27:21)
I mean, I think it's gonna have to be McVeigh. ⁓ We're gonna sit him down. Still brilliant mind. There's just something about that weird goatee, like spiky. Like I used to have that haircut in eighth grade. And so maybe I'm kind of a little, like I'm like, I don't want to cut him because I also had that same kind of haircut. And then that Dave Canales, I'm sorry, but yeah, we're gonna cut him from that.

Teryn (27:31)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

my gosh,

Ambre's Googling him. can see her right now.

Ambre (27:46)
I'm Googling

Jake (27:46)
Okay,

Ambre (27:47)
all

of these.

Jake (27:47)
just a second.

Teryn (27:48)
Dave Kanalis is so good-looking. You can't, I can't, I'm done. I can't. If this was, I mean, I get it. If he was, we wouldn't kill him. I wouldn't kill him. would probably also not marry him. So if you can see where I'm going there, that's what I would do with Dave.

Jake (27:49)
Leave Canalus.

Ambre (27:52)
You're gonna cut him? You can't have cut him!

Jake (28:02)
Yeah.

Again, in terms of looks, I'm just a little biased to the Sean McVeigh haircut, because I'm like, hey, I had that haircut in eighth grade, but I don't know why he still rocks it.

Teryn (28:11)
That's fair. Okay. I'm going to give you, okay.

Okay. There's a shocking amount of good looking coaches in the NFL right now. So let me give you part two. Okay. Part two starts at cut for the people because they're asking for it. I can hear them. Correct. Kevin O'Connell, Dan Campbell or Kyle Shanahan.

Jake (28:23)
for the people.

Especially my opinions.

Amen. Amen.

This is going to be easy. I'm doing that same order. I'm going, I'm starting KOC hometown guy, obviously, family man. I've seen him. saw him at a Timberwolves game a couple of years ago and he looks great in person. ⁓

Teryn (28:41)
Yeah, sure. Vikings.

Ambre, he's the one with

the great jawline.

Ambre (28:50)
⁓ okay. Yep.

Jake (28:51)
Yeah.

And then I'm a Dan Campbell guy. We're putting Dan Campbell at number two. We're just going to sit him out and we're cutting Shanahan because just what's happened. He's kind of fallen off. He's kind of like the divorced dad. That's kind of, you know, like something happened from those Super Bowls. If you would've told me like 10 years ago, I'd say Shanahan number one. But like, if you've seen any recent pictures of him, he's kind of graying in the hair. doesn't seem like he's

Teryn (29:03)
⁓

He's changed.

Jake (29:17)
taking care of himself as much. like, we just got to cut him out. We got to cut the toxic out of our life right there. Yeah, yeah. So I think that's my order right there. I think that was the pretty easy one there.

Teryn (29:20)
He still wears the flat build hat though, which we love.

Ambre (29:24)
Mm-hmm.

Teryn (29:25)
love it.

All right.

Ambre, do you want me to just keep running through these because I not even convinced you could say any of their names, right? Okay, great. ⁓ players start, sit, cut Christian McCaffrey, Joe Burrow or Jalen hurts.

Ambre (29:34)
Yeah, go. I think I can say them right, but I'd rather just Google them.

Jake (29:47)
This is going to, this might get a lot of hate, but I'm a Joe Burr guy all day. I'm going Joe Burr number one, Joe Burr number one. I mean, I'm trying, I'm trying to get that Joe Burr hair a little bit. Um, so I'm going to go Joe Burr number one. I'm going to go Jalen Hertz as number two and Christian McCaffrey respect them. Great player, but we're going to cut them just from this. I mean, it's hard to compete with Jalen Hertz and Joe Burr. You're getting a little bit of everything with those two guys.

Teryn (29:49)
Give us Joe!

Yeah,

that's really running the gamut there too. I couldn't do it. I'm just all, I want all of them. It's not, it's not.

Jake (30:21)
You pick any of them.

What about Kwik Trip Guy? ⁓ As one, Gino and Hertz, Chris McAfee?

Teryn (30:24)
Kwik trip guy? No, I would pick any one of them over Kwik trip guy

for sure. Okay, I have one more, one more starts at cut. Broadcasters. Tony Romo, Kirk Herbstreet or Pat McAfee.

It doesn't have to be hottest. Let's go, let's go like based on their broadcasting skills. Yeah.

Jake (30:39)
This is tough. Just who you like.

Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of a Kirk guy, ⁓ unfortunately or fortunately. I don't know. Just something about him. I'm just, yeah, but just I'm an early college game day fan. You know, I was big when I was growing up. So I'm going to go Kirk at number one and Pat number two. Again, he's kind of that younger energy. ⁓ Sometimes a little bit annoying, but who's not from time to time. We're going to go Pat. We're going to bench Pat.

Teryn (30:47)
Really, Ohio State? Ugh.

Yeah.

Jake (31:07)
And we're cutting Tony. He's just, he's gotten a little too, a little too boisterous ⁓ for me. You know, I don't know, Jim, I don't know. Let's see if he'd do it. Jim, ⁓ he's stretched for it. Look at that, Jim. And then just Jim Nance. I mean, Jim Nance Hall of Famer, but Tony just kind of having to work with them and just, it's, it's not, I don't know. Let's see, Jim. Just.

Teryn (31:08)
Aww.

Ambre (31:13)
Holy stress.

Teryn (31:21)
That so good.

love Tony Romo. Anytime Tony Romo's calling a game, I love it. That is so accurate.

Jake (31:35)
It's almost like he needs to like, he's like holding onto his bladder or something. He has to like go to the bathroom. He's like, can we cut to commercial? Did he get it? ⁓ like, ⁓ I just. But then you get Pat McAvee, that's a lot more boisterous and he's got to go like that. Yeah. ⁓ Come on. Come on. So kind of get those two sides and then Kirk, you know, he's that older presence. But I mean, all I'm saying is just.

Ambre (31:39)
⁓

Teryn (31:59)
He's pretty chill.

Jake (32:02)
Al Michaels loved the guy, but just having Kirk and Al on Thursday night of a weird balance. Kirk's just trying to carry, carry the team. Al's getting a little tired, I think on Thursday night, especially when it's a tough matchup. He's kind it's kind of getting ready for bed and Kirk's carrying the broadcast.

Teryn (32:07)
a dream?

He is.

Michael looks like he's wearing

too much makeup. Like when you cut to like videos of him, I'm like, he just looks like he's actively dying.

Jake (32:26)
Yeah, yeah, but are you a Collinsworth guy?

Teryn (32:29)
No,

no, get out of here with him. Yeah, exactly the slide in. ⁓ I hate it. He loves Patrick Malm's with his whole heart. No, for those of you who couldn't just see Jake, He just slid into the screen like he always does. ⁓ it's so annoying.

Jake (32:33)
It reminds me of Patrick Mahomes.

Yeah, and now here's a guy that can, you know, he's kind of just always so excited to watch football. my goodness. Woo. Yeah. mean, there's some, some interesting broadcasts out there. ⁓ But I think the best broadcasters, the game that you're watching, you know, that's, that's what it is all for the love of the game.

Teryn (32:49)
⁓ my-

That's so good.

Ambre (33:06)
Switzerland again.

Teryn (33:08)
Yeah.

Jake (33:08)
Yeah.

Ambre (33:44)
Okay, Jake, let's do some Kwik fire trivia, but mostly Kwik fire opinions. ⁓ They're sort of all over the place. First one is most overrated sports movie.

Jake (33:57)
⁓ I'm going to say.

Sandlot, just because I've never seen Sandlot. And I know we talked about it, I the last time I was on here, but I'm just going to say Sandlot, not a baseball guy. I'm so sorry.

Ambre (34:02)
What?

You're not going to be invited back. So sorry. Yeah, you're going to need to watch that before your next Yeah, full movie. If you could add one beer league rule to the NFL, what would it be?

Jake (34:09)
Yeah.

Teryn (34:10)
That was nice knowing ya.

Jake (34:16)
give a full movie review of it.

to the NFL or the NHL, or just in general.

Ambre (34:27)
NFL football.

Jake (34:29)
NFL like a buried NFL at all. I think ⁓

there should be running time. I think, I think if you get some of those mismatched games where you're, know, it's a 35 point game, let's, you know, I don't want to see another KFC commercial. Like let's, let's get to the end of this thing. You know, I want running time. If it gets the score gets up there.

Ambre (34:36)
Yeah.

Teryn (34:41)
Yeah.

Ambre (34:45)
Yeah.

Teryn (34:45)
Yeah.

I love that. That

Ambre (34:49)
That's

Teryn (34:50)
is

Ambre (34:50)
genius.

Teryn (34:50)
such a good, that was such a good answer.

Ambre (34:52)
Mm-hmm. The funniest or most random sports stat you know.

Jake (34:58)
Um, there's just too many. And I know all my buddies and friends are like, you know, Almanacs where they just know like, Oh, the Packers and week 16 have actually fared better when it's 61 degrees outside of the Lambeau field. Um, but I think for me.

You know, I just don't, don't have a fun one, unfortunately. Yeah, I'm like, I don't.

Teryn (35:17)
would never have an answer to that question. I would never know.

Ambre (35:19)
Hehehehehe

Teryn (35:21)
But there are some funny stats

about like the Packers and like the cold and we'll have to look some up

Jake (35:27)
you can just like voice over a Taron fact toy that comes in my head. Yeah.

Teryn (35:30)
Beep beep beep beep. Yeah, exactly.

Ambre (35:34)
if you could swap the uniforms of two sports, what would you do?

What would be the biggest chaos?

Jake (35:40)
The biggest chaos, I think it would be really funny to see like baseball jerseys on like basketball players. Like they're just kind of wearing like a belt and like a button down. Yeah. Then could flip flop and put like a basketball. I mean, yeah, I've seen baseball players in a full basketball jersey. Just showing their arms

Ambre (35:51)
Yeah. ⁓

Teryn (35:54)
Like the tight leggings, like the tight capris.

Ambre (36:04)
Hahaha

Teryn (36:06)
Tank shops,

Jake (36:07)
a little. I think that'd be a fun flip-flop. See how that works.

Teryn (36:09)
It is funny.

Ambre (36:10)
Finally, is a hot dog a sandwich?

Jake (36:13)
No, it's a hot dog.

Ambre (36:14)
It's in a bun. meat in a bun.

Teryn (36:16)
There it is, people.

Jake (36:18)
Yeah,

but that bun's one singular piece. A lot of times you're not splitting that. It's coming into the bun and it's wrapping around. It could be more of a wrap, but it's not a sandwich. It's on top.

Ambre (36:23)
You

Mm. All

Teryn (36:30)
Interesting.

Couldn't you put a bun sandwich like where it's connected on one side? Like a what do call it? Like a pulled pork sandwich?

Ambre (36:32)
right.

Jake (36:38)
But isn't that usually a hamburger bun that's separated? I mean, I will be the sandwich police and I'll go around making sure people's buns are separated if they're eating a sandwich versus a hot dog. Like, we got some sort of control here in this country.

Teryn (36:50)
We need, this is too

much. Yeah. Okay, Jake, I have a new game for you since we were on the topic of dating for me, I guess, not you, but me. ⁓ nope, that's not the game. The game is swipe right, so are you into it? Or swipe left, no thanks. So here is the example. Mic'd up players during games.

Jake (37:00)
Yeah, let's matchmake this. ⁓

Swipe right, so fun.

Teryn (37:18)
So fun. Yes. Swipe right into it.

Ambre (37:18)
Wait, does that mean yes? That means yes. Okay.

Jake (37:20)
Yes, I

would pay like, I'd pay $10 a month to like, listen to the unrated cut of like, you know, because they always have to see the clean things that are happening. Like I would pay $10 extra a month to watch games with like, swearing on it. Yeah.

Teryn (37:29)
Yeah.

Ambre (37:30)
Yeah.

Teryn (37:34)
Little Patreon.

That's so great. Okay. ⁓ Athletes crying after losses.

Jake (37:40)
Swipe right, I mean, we gotta support men crying in today's America, know, like we have to be able to be vulnerable around each other. but, you know, if that was a big deal to you, who am I to say, don't cry about that.

Teryn (37:42)
Yes!

We look.

Yeah,

I love that. Okay, instant replay challenges.

Jake (37:58)
And just swipe left. Like, what are we doing? Tony Romo up there for five minutes looking at every angle and he's not even the ref. So it's like, let's, let's, let's get a little bit like, want to shot clock on the officials for reviewing plays. Like they should have 40 seconds to review the instant replay and not look at it for five minutes and then say, actually we're bringing the ball back five yards because this guy was just over the line. It's like, what are we doing?

Teryn (38:00)
We're done with it.

Gotta get it right, Jake, gotta get it right. Okay, last one, AI replacing refs.

Jake (38:26)
Yeah.

And one of my one of my dear friends is a is a youth hockey ref. And I just, you know, I got to say that in the ref's union, you know, we got to keep those jobs. We got to keep those jobs there. And that's kind of what makes sports fun to see if somebody's a yellow. You know, he's been yelled at plenty of times by middle schoolers, high schoolers, high schoolers, parents. And he's like, Hey, your kid is playing JV hockey right now. It's nine a.m. on a Saturday and I'm

Teryn (38:42)
Yeah.

Ambre (38:57)
You

⁓

Jake (38:57)
And he's like,

had to drive from Milwaukee to be here. So why are you yelling at me? So I got to support my friend, ⁓ a ref. So I'm going to say, hey, let's keep those ref jobs alive and well.

Teryn (39:01)
Precisely.

That's, that's so true. love that. Well,

Jake, this has been absolutely hysterical. Thank you for being on with us today to talk to us all about your feelings and your thoughts and your perspectives on sports. We, we, we love them and we, and dating and also dating. Yeah. Because I do respect that too.

Ambre (39:15)
Thank

and dating and snacks.

Jake (39:28)
And there's nothing people love more than to hear about other people's fantasy teams. Like that's, you know, that's great water cooler talk. People love that. Yes. Yeah.

Teryn (39:33)
Nothing. And Taylor Swift and other people's dating lives.

Ambre (39:34)
What the fuck?

Teryn (39:40)
And honestly, who is listening to this podcast and a Anything

Jake (39:44)
Yeah, you

I'm going to watch Sandlot in the next two to three months, and then I will give you my review of the Sandlot from a haters perspective. We'll see if it turns me around. Yeah. So thanks. Thanks again. This has been very fun and probably not that educational, but we're almost fans. I'm almost an athlete. I'm almost a podcaster, I guess.

Ambre (39:48)
Yeah.

Teryn (39:52)
Great. Great.

Yeah.

⁓

you pretty much are at this point. thanks again, Jake. You have a good one.

Ambre (40:08)
Thank

Jake (40:10)
You too.