Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 GameAbove Sports Bowl

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for askingNow through December 31, 100% of proceeds from all PTKU merch sales will be donated to Trans Ohio. Visit preownedairboats.com to purchase BRAND-NEW BLUE SHARKS GEAR #EXCLUSIVEThis episode was produced by Michael Ray SurberFullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell PowellFullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by MattDID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s notBefore the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other workTravel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot existCheck out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

Welcome to the Sports Bowl Preview. Is that good? Seamless. Killed it. Killed it. Can you give me one more, but can you make it sound like you recorded each word separately? Welcome to the sports bowl preview.

Thank you, perfect. Brittany. Please leave a message for sports bowl. I mean, this is, given the history of this bowl game, it would be very likely that a lot of its business has been conducted by defunct answering services. This was the Quick Lane Bowl, for those of you at home, this is 40, 40, hello, previously known as the Little Caesars Bowl,

fondly remembered by us for when they could not serve Little Caesar's Pizza at the game due to an exclusive hungry Howey's contract at Ford Field. The 2024 edition of the bowl took six overtime periods to decide Toledo won that game 48, 46, sorry, Pitt. This set a new record for the most overtime periods in an FBS bowl game. The most interesting thing about this is that game. There's one thing more interesting than that, which is that it broke the prior record of five over times, which was set two days earlier in the 2024 Hawaii Bowl with USF over San Jose State, 41.39. This is Central Michigan versus Northwestern. Fuck Northwestern. I hope they lose to Central Michigan by as much

as Central Michigan lost to regular Michigan. I have a game, and then we're going to get out of here. Ryan, I have what I believe to be in this game, and you probably would know better than me because you've done this before, the cheapest get-in ticket that I have seen so far this season for a post-season contest. Sure, yeah. And we are going to over under, I'm going to give you guys a guess. Here's the benchmark. Parking for this game is $30 in all Ford Field controlled lots. As of this taping, what is the lowest available get-in price?

I'm using Vivid just because it was the first thing I clicked on. Give me $11. Give me $11. I was going to guess. All right. Serbs. We can get one dollar. I'm going $1.1.

I'm in on 11 with where we're found, we're forming an investment entity. That's funny. 1099. Oh. I was listening to the audience suggesting the prices behind me. Please insert prizes right. There, Serbs, that was a real dick move. I say that with admiration.

However, Spencer's prior dick move wins because the current, and buy prizes. rules the lowest available get in price is nine dollars is that always been a dollar hold on is that with or without fees it's vivid i'm assuming very much without i wonder if the fees come on give me two dollars worth of fees you guys talk amongst yourselves i'm going to see if the fees are more than the ticket price i would also take a dollar 50 worth of fees and server is the one who oh i'm sorry since i started do it since i started right in this preview it has now dropped to eight dollars fees included shit always bet a dollar oh he's bet a dollar wow that is wait now now this is clear let's see sorry this is estimated

fees included sure did you a fucking solid because i'm signing this up with spencer's email you did the thing where you bet a dollar when you weren't last to go yeah yeah but you know i was going to do it anyway. I should have he should have said $2. Yeah. He should have eaten your fucking lunch. He did, though.

Dollar. Bet a dollar. So as we are recording this, the potato bowl is underway. This is news to me. Did you know there is a second potato mascot? Oh. There is a. There is a, besides Sputty Buddy, there is

Gemma the Tater Gym. She is a tater tot. Adorable. Adorable. Oh. Oh, oh my God, you guys, I just tried to, did one of you just snap that $8 ticket from me? Like, did I buy it? Are you asking me if I bought in the old time?

While you guys were talking just now, when I was typing earlier, when I was typing this up earlier this afternoon, tickets were $9. When I logged in today, there was an $8 ticket available while I was trying to remember Spencer's banking information. Don't worry, I couldn't, to put it in there. That ticket disappeared, and now the next available ticket is $10. So if we wait, if we wait like 30 more minutes, we'll Cerber possibly win. Server will win. He'll hit it on the number. Is it possible that like this bowl has given its ticketing system over to AI?

And AI is like, I don't know. How much do you want to whatever? Do you want it for free? I'll give you $50 to go. I don't care anymore. It's entirely possible that's happened. I can get you in the building for $4. It's entirely possible that's happened.

And Jason kind of keyed onto it earlier because the game above sports thing that sponsors this is not a Dave and Buster's knockoff. It is an investment company. So it is super possible. Is that what it is? I couldn't tell from the site at all. It's super. It is vague in the way that like the, it is vague in the way that the creepy military companies that sponsor these Bulldogs are like, we are a sports events and philanthropy company. You're like, sure you are. This is like Black Rock, but golf. Yeah, like MBS is somewhere in the stands. Right. Okay. Black rock but golf is an amazing business investment and we should copyright it right now before we get off the phone. It might just be golf now that I think. I think it is. I was like, wait, yeah.

That's just Saudi golf. I think, I guess statistically black rock is what if golf but money. That's just Phil Mickelson. Right. Chronologically speaking. Has money is debatable there. You're, you guys have money. Money passes through his account. What if Phil Mickelson ever actually started a line of jams? Somebody has to have pitched this. right? But not fig. No, everything, but. And if you ask him about it, he's like, don't bring it up again in a quiet, haunted voice.

It means I'm good, not your good. Why would you get the fig jam? I'm good. You suck. It's not called Fig jam with a Y. That's for ladies. That sounds wicken. Just Phil Mickelson is like, listen, a court in Delaware really wants me to say something on the record about the fig jam company.

And I can't. It's in litigation. Litigation with a Y.