Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Gasparilla Bowl

Episode Date: December 14, 2017

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Welcome to the shutdown full cast. No, do it better. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, Ryan, I'm, uh, do, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, uh, welcome to the, welcome to the beginning of this, this podcast, uh, episode of our college football. Why are you so nervous? I just, I just, we get, you have a really large subscribership and I don't want to make any of your your sponsors. Nobody, nobody, nobody knows, nobody knows what any podcast's subscribership is. All those numbers are made up. I'm just, I'm very, you guys are really, really famous

college football experts. Nobody knows who we are. It's so true. Nobody knows who we are. Yeah. Oh my God, it's the shutdown fullcast expert. More like the shut up forecast. Okay, got my confidence back. Wow, look at that. John's back. By taking it away from me. Sorry.

Confidence is zero. Let that be a lesson, children, listening to this podcast inappropriately. Confidence is a zero-sum game. You have to take it from others if you want it for yourself. John, now you can defeat him in hand-to-hand combat. I can't do that, Jason. We're going to slap fight during this podcast. Now it sounds like John's confidence has shrunk,

which means I have the golden oscelot at this point. You are the Supreme. You've camped out on the body armor. Sorry, you want to talk about it. I know, I'm sorry. It's time to talk about the motherfucking bad boy mowers, Gasparilla Bowl in St. Petersburg, Florida. Bad boy.

The most bowl game, bowl game of all. all time the bad all right where do we want to start with this yeah i don't know anything about this ball so you guys tell me why you love it okay um this bowl game has previously been the most recently i think it was the bitcoin bowl uh before that it was the magic jack bowl which was the thing they sold at best buy which is basically like what if your computer was a phone um still not sure who that was for or why uh i think there's another sponsor we're probably forgetting in here. Bifo Brady's. Well, yes, duh. The Bifo Brady's with the flying asterisks around the O.

Right, right. Well, it's the horns. It's Satan's fast casual. Yeah, because Texas always wanted to come to this ballgame, but they weren't eligible for some of those years. Right. This game takes place in Tropicana Field, which you and I have discussed is one of our favorite sports venues, at least conceptually at this point. It is now being associated with Gasparilla, which is listeners of this podcast I already know, is Tampa's sad version of Mardi Gras. And it is now sponsored by a mowing, a mower company, despite the fact that it is played on artificial turf. I am looking up this bad boy mowers company, and I'm just like this splash page is just about the bowl. This is just a never-ending loop. I think the bowl is sponsored by the mower, is sponsored by the bowl.

sponsored by the mower so it's it's like a check kiting scheme yeah basically the bull is none of the money is real it's just sort of being passed around before the feds can find it on this web page do you see what your mouse turns into your cursor it's a tiny lawnmower look at that there's no grass so you're mowing like this you're mowing there's a pirate map on the left because gasparilla was a fake pirate or whatever uh in the middle there's like fire like fire gif are you are you are you are you on the bad boy mower site or the gasparilla bull site i'm at gasparilla bowl.com and my cursor's lawnmower are you not seeing this hold on my goodness i see it we were somewhere else yeah it is it's also confusing because i think the pointer is the handle of the mower and not the mowing part

blade that's because it's all about you the customer not the grass so the only thing on this screen that is actually mowable is the hair on the football player's arm where i don't even see that where are you talking about so on the screen i'm looking at gasparilla bowl.com there is a pirate map on the left you see pirate yeah okay in the middle there's like a chasm with with flames trickling up you see that no that i do not see so are you are you all are you on like a on like a on like a on like a we you or something something with a our friend jason is coming to us from the book of revelation that's right jason is it possible that you're having a holy vision and that the angel of gasparilla the angel of gaspar has

visited you on this day to tell you oh wait wait now if i scroll down yeah if i scroll way down on but i have to be in safari instead of like what the shit is this i'm not on safari maybe all are just too poor to uh big screens like me so over on the right there is a football player's arm and it's hairy and you could shave it with the lawnmower cursor yeah 100% don't say that pretty You see prepare ye for battle Yes Temple FIU, bro Prepare ye for battle

That's another biblical thing We just got biblical shit happening Left and right here Yeah Temple and there's the FIU I recall in Florida International When they were mentioned in Colossians This bowl game is always

This ball game is rarely good The setting is fucking awful Because it takes place in Not even So, like, football played in a baseball stadium has, I think, a weird, quirky value to it. Like, it's often as a disaster. Like, that game they played at Wrigley, where I think they, I don't know, I can't remember if they actually did this or not, but they briefly decided, like, only going

one way because the other way was going to be too dangerous. Going to be the wall. Right. Right. Yeah, they did that. That was real. And then there was a pick six and everyone panicked. Right.

Right. But, like, the pinstripe bowl is pretty fun. And, you know, when you have football games in other baseball settings, like, by and large, I think it's interesting as like a novelty act. But this is a football game played at a facility that has just sort of been MacGyvered into a baseball stadium, if you will. So it suits no purpose and fulfills no need whatsoever, which is the most Florida thing about it. So, John, can we get a prediction, Temple versus Florida International? Five. Five.

Oh, man. Look out. Put that million. Five million. Put your money out. Five million. Put your money on five million, folks. Put five million on five.