Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Fenway Bowl

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

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Welcome Welcome to the Fenway Bowl Between Yukon and Army Why? Sort of why I think I was going for vomit with that welcome

I thought he was trying to do I thought you were trying to do like stereos around sound with your mic like you were going for one headphone and then the other Oh yeah I probably I probably did do that effect for some of you Folks it's Yukon and Army in the Fenway ball It's actually a pretty good game despite the Fenway part

As you know we are huge Yukon boosters here on this program They play absolutely no one except the ACC champion And they beat almost all of them UCon can get its first 10-win season ever and become back-to-back Finway Bowl champions. Recall last year, this was Bill Belichick's first UNC football event, watching his team lose to Jim Mora. Now he's gone and has hired Bobby Petrino as his O.C.

Jim Mora and Bobby Petrino, of course, are former Atlanta Falcons head coaches. Bill Belichick was nearly a former Atlanta Falcons head coach. I really that's probably the best way to put it. Two other teams that have won this game are Louisville, which is one of several teams that's employed Bobby Petrino as head coach twice, as well as Boston College, whose best player was Matt Ryan, the guy who cleaned up the Atlanta Falcons after Bobby Petrino. I'm not going anywhere else with this.

I just sort of started typing and then stopped it right there. No, I think we're good. Wasabi. What's that? Wasat! And the pizza! The windy city, Boston. And the pizza.

If nobody else, I was afraid that nobody else was going to pick the Fenway bullet, I was going to get stuck with it. So first of all, thank you for falling on that particular grenade. Second of all, my entire plan for this was just to name incorrect nicknames for the city of Boston until I got to like two minutes and then quit. Boston, the windy city, mile high. Pork Bay. Yeah. The city's so nice, they named it twice. Charm City.

Boston, Boston. Oh, God. Da-Bom. Chom City. We're so fucking chommy. We did. Welcome to the horse palace. There we go.

The golden state. Dude, if you called me and you're like, hey, Spence, tonight I got tickets. We're going to the horse palace. I'd be so amped. I wouldn't even ask what it was. Then you discover you're going to Boston. What do you think a horse palace is?

I don't know. It could be a club. It could be a sports. boarding event. It could be a horse, just rich horses. Yeah, it's a little more literal in his head, I feel like. The mystery, the mystery is what I'm pursuing. The result is, I will meet the queen of horses herself.