Shutdown Fullcast - 40 for 40: The 2016 Holiday Bowl

Episode Date: December 26, 2016

Number 19 of 40 bowl previews, in which we may not discuss the Holiday Bowl or the teams playing in it whatsoever! Also, please do not sue us, Lindsey Buckingham. We have no money, as you can tell by the fact that we keep doing these instead of something that might actually improve our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I found out long ago Oh Oh Way down to the holiday bowl Oh Oh Oh Oh

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh I was just

I was just I just like that I just like I feel like that I was actually worse than last year Which is really saying something I just like that Lensing Buckingham will never sue it

us for this because it just he can't even get through it my god you play it to the judge and judge says there there aren't even any notes here there that are the same sir i don't see how you're saying there's similarity here these are not the same notes

you ran it through the program the computer program that detects pitch and matches them and you were not ever matching a single note from that song it actually weren't matching any pitches that we recognize as music Yeah.

You actually hit the ground note there three or four times. We didn't think that was possible. Do you know that Lindsay Buckingham is listed as the only person on this? He did the guitar, the bass, keyboards, percussion. Yeah, it's not a very complicated song. Yeah, you should step up from just a dude noodling around on his Cassio keyboard. And yet, we sound like this at it. Yeah.

Yeah, you should know it, by the, way that like bye dog thanks you should watch the video for that it's really like it's a much darker different video than you think the video for Holiday Road would be right because it should just be a bunch of clips

from vacation it's not it's like some sort of like 1984 dystopian like fascist office with like drones oh it's like lift balloons yeah it's extremely dark speaking of extremely dark to cab Illinois a place without sun

the home of one of the teams in this game, the Northern Illinois Huskies. I love that they, IU the only bowl team. Wait a second. I was about to ask if NYU is the only bowl team that lost to an FCS opponent, but look who they're playing.

Everyone in this game lost to an FCS opponent. Wazoo opened the year as in accordance with the prophecy losing to, was it Eastern Washington this year? Yeah. I lose track of all their season opening FCS losses. N IU dropped 28, 23 to Western Illinois, oh, directional Illinois fight on September 24th. Don't think of it as a loss to an FCS team.

Think of it as the sacrifice Gozer needs to take the form of the destructor. Exactly. This is also, by the way, a classic Mike Leach Washington State. You start the year with two L's, and you end the year with two L's. They're basically some obscure Welsh word every single year. That's their season. Oh, the Washington State fighting Llewellyns. Yeah, you see, we like a pair of bookends on either one.

It's kind of an old ruin sort of thing that we do. What a thing about bookends? Yeah. See, the Vikings use skulls for bookends, and they preferred the Portuguese, because they thought the Portuguese skull was a shapely one that you could, you know, you could put on a shelf. Not a lot of people know that Trotsky was murdered with a bookend.

A lot of misconceptions about that. It's shaped like a mountain climbers axe. I mean, you know, they didn't believe in concussions either. Oh, God. Yeah, let's ask Mike about those. Let's ask Mike about injuries sometime and see how cuddly that gets. The internet's problematic fame, Mike. Listen, Bell has.

two L's as well. I don't see what the problem is here. Yeah, Washington State, of course. This is pretty much Mike Leach team, man. They're going to put up a lot of points when they lose. They'll lose spectacularly when somebody can beat up on them. That's not anything Northern Illinois is going to be able to do, by the way. That's great for Washington State's players. Bad news for Washington State's players is they're being put into an environment where Mike Leach can talk to them at any point about

Coronado about the United States Navy about animals at SeaWorld like this is oh God they're going to be subjected to so so very many speech safaris yeah this is

one of those things where they'll say where he'll go hey you know San Diego's home to the seals and all the players will go yeah that's kind of badass man like you know they train on the beach and stuff he's like no no no no I mean like seals They're different than sea lions And here's why

It'll be like this long biological diatribe When all they wanted to hear about Was like hell weak It's all about the swim bladder You feel like Do you feel like Do you, how long do you think Through the recruiting process

Does it take before a given Washington State player realizes No, he's just like this all the time? Like is that a minute He holds back in the initial visit or do you think he even knows how to do that or cares enough to do that? I assume that he gets people to commit

because that's the only way he'll get out of your house. That's a great point. You know, the thing about tax policy in the 1800s is that it was based on so many different, oh, fuck, man, yes, I'll sign. Jesus, it's 9.30. We ate dinner two hours ago. What is wrong with you?

I would like to point out one actual sort of statistical fact of interest. Luke Falk who, yes, he did survive this season. I don't know what possible Yeah, I know. I don't know what possible injuries he's nursing around hematomas, various

lacerated organs. Who knows? Because Luke Falk took a beating and yet made it to the end and his completion percentage for this year. And it's remarkable even for an air raid quarterback. It really is. He had a 71% completion percentage

on the year, which is nuts because he didn't pass like eight times a game. Nope. He passed 413 times or 582 times this year. His organs is he still got. His original organs has he still got. I mean, how many people in eastern Washington State haven't sold one? Original is so subjective, really. When you think about the fact that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, don't we all have both none of and all of our original organs? you know it's the same principle by which you know a fort and a mission were established in 1769 in san diego by explorer juan rodriguez cabrillo expanded into a settlement for spanish and then mexican rule my glitch is kind of like a walking wikipedia page is like a lot of information is coming out so it's going to be a little bit off yeah yeah like you know when you go over the

report you're like this this these needs sourcing so there's a lot of information citation needed citation needed leach and then it's weird because you get you get to that one week in the season where he's like if everyone just gave a dollar mike leach could continue for an entire year you know you got to go to mike leach's talk page based on economy based today on the military and tourism and international trade and manufacturing funny thing about manufacturing I bet I bet I should pick that up there

but all right I bet Mike Leach is only using the creative comments playbook at this point

it's all open source yeah Northern Illinois on the other hand oh man just I mean it got a lot

easier toward the back of the schedule yeah they started they started the year with four losses

four losses to get even went to Western Illinois? Wait, that's worse. Yeah, no, no, you're like, they lost the three pretty good teams. And then I like this, though, because they lost the three

pretty good teams, got to Western Illinois, and they're like, what is life? And just got another loss. They just tackled another L. They're like, this isn't a conference game. I'm just going to have a good wallow. Like, when you start to pick off a scab, and it starts to bleed a little bit, and then you just start to pull harder for some reason.

Like, fuck that scab. Yeah. Awesomey scab. You don't know my life. Well, this is the hangover. This is, What they did was this, hangover remedy, still hurt, right? So they went like water. Oh, it'll be fine. It's not working. Okay, aspirin, oh, it'll be fine.

And then they were like, oh, maybe I need to take a shower. No, I still feel miserable. Then they were like, fine, I'm going to eat 2,000 calories at the awful house. Think about what a terrible human I am. I'm going to lose to Western Illinois. The hangover is gone, but you have a different problem. Yeah, they were at one point in the season. and I this is they were one and six going into October 22nd and yes five and seven but still made a bowl so I think this is breathtaking bravery in the face of overwhelming mediocrity northern Illinois way to go you're going to get shot up for like eight points in this game