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

Episode Date: December 31, 2017

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Welcome to the shutdown full cast for the Sugar Bowl. A semifinal in the playoff held in God's own territory for a bowl game that you have to play if you can't play in the Rose Bowl. Diabetes. Diabetes, that's correct. That'd be New Orleans. You're going to play in New Orleans where if somebody's already booked Pasadena, Georgia and Oklahoma, you dicks. What kind of person actually books travel ahead of time? Oklahoma and Georgia.

You're the worst person to ask about this. I think Spencer is literally asking. Yeah, literally asking. Who does that? Clemson and Alabama are going to be playing each other. These teams have never played before, so it's going to be fascinating to see how this shakes out, especially on a stage this big.

Well, and Alabama's first appearance in the college football playoff. That's excited. Yeah. Well, I mean, they did win the national title last year. A lot of people forget that Alabama did. Yeah, but that was pre-playoff. That's true. They won the last BCS title game.

Came down to the wire, but the tide hung on at the end. Yeah, the upstart Alabama Crimson Tide. The people who don't actually watch that much football are getting such shit information. Well, nothing new there. Yeah, it's fine. Right? It's all about what you believe. As in Alabama, really sort of trying to embrace the role of underdog.

here against Clemson who's also trying to embrace the role of underdog here my favorite story from this is Jalen Hertz okay I will tell you Jalen Hertz a phenomenally talented five-star athlete who could be a powerlifting champion pretty much right now he wouldn't even need to train right in his weight division play like three or four different sports uh is a brilliant quarterback unfairly maligned by Alabama fans who let's to be fair how would they know when an actual quarterback looks like, right? This ketchup's fine. It says A.J. McCarran on it.

Really, like he, in order to get a little bit of an edge on how to come back after losing a big game, as they did against Clemson last year, because remember, they lost that game on a definitely legal pick play at the goal line to a guy named Hunter Renfro. Oh, the betrayal of losing to a tiny white wide receiver named Hunter. It had to burn Alabama. That's what I'm saying. How'd we mess on him? Yeah.

There's such grit. You know what Saban doesn't recruit? He's got five stars on the field. But what about in the heart? Hunter Renfro is the most New England Patriots player in college football. The most. It's him or a landing. I haven't decided which one.

It's him or Josh Allen. Yeah. Josh Allen's going to. Yeah, but only if they like convert Josh Allen to fullback or some shit. I think it's just oddly shaped white guys. is the Patriot model. Do you have trouble finding clothes? Come play for the pads.

So does Bill Belichick. Take a look at it. It's true. Can you find something for this weirdly robotic-shaped body? I kind of like the way we don't have any shirts that fit that guy. Let's give him. That's good. I think I could see him at a small private school somewhere.

The point being Jalen Hertz had to ask, the guy who beat him last year had a comeback because the year before that Deshawn Watson lost to Alabama and yet came back. So basically we've turned college football into a group therapy session for the Clemson quarterback who beat the Alabama quarterback who was beaten by a previous Alabama quarterback who was beaten by a Clemson quarterback. I'm glad it's come to this is what I'm saying. If I could have both teams lose and just watch Oklahoma Georgia play twice just so we get

something new, that's great. That's nothing against Clemson or Alabama, by the way. it's just this is this is this is a lot like a wrestling storyline where we're on like the third matchup right it's what you're what you're actually describing is star wars where you're like hey I already seen this yeah no he's the mean one yeah no I get it yeah somebody's going to lose a hand right this is the this is the even bigger even bigger death star yeah exactly like come on JJ. It's the death star.

They're twos in there as ours. It's hard to pronounce it. But they're there. The death starkade 86. Well, Kylo ran in this corner, Nick Saban and the other. And me, the hologram of Dusted Rose calling it all.

Yeah, no, I don't want to see something. I'd like to see Rose force projecting himself across the mid-south. He's actually in Memphis. Just across the Mississippi River. He's actually in Huntsville. Snokes' chamber is basically like an Alabama fan's living room.

Nothing but crimps on wall to wall. Why do those guys' helmets, like, they don't have a visor over their eyes? It looks cool. Let them. But they're blind. They can't. They don't need eyes. Not when you look that bad ass.

that was my favorite part the guy's coming after him and I'm like dumb asses they're blind guards I really want to see a scene filled from their perspective they're just like you can't barely breathing

like oh god god Jesus he told us we were decorative he said these were the decorative helmets it's like when you send an English Bulldog out to like you know lead a team onto the field or whatever squeezing so ended Can't see.

Ryan, did you see this movie yet? I did, yes. Okay, good. Surely all our listeners have, too. So, time to let the takes flow. Here we go. Dude, I am so happy that I was right about Luke. And even more so, when he went and he drank like that mysterious liquid that came out of, like, the walrus giraffe sitting derelict animal thing that was on the coast, right?

He just milked it and drank it straight out of a glass. I think that's the first time he did it And he did it just to fuck with Ray He's like, I don't even know what this liquid is He's like, I've passed these teats for weeks And today's the day I do this shit It's just dispensing Kaluwa

It's amazing Oh, it's Shamrock Shake That's where it comes from I think Luke probably looked up it and it goes Please say the animal doesn't look happy Please say it doesn't look ecstatic But it did It did

It looked at Ray Like you went in on this I just With Luke too you know it wasn't the first time I did also cackle in the theater When they showed the X-Wing in the water Luke learned how to fly an X-wing Unlike anyone in the galaxy

But never learned how to land it You just said fuck this thing Star Wars 9 The Search for a Boat trailer I also like people like As if this wasn't a defined enough cultural war I like on Twitter you just put three opinions about it And somebody's like it wasn't a good movie

What kind of a conversation is that? I don't know you I don't care I'm not going to convince you Like oh wow what a novel thing You didn't like a Star Wars movie That's amazing what a bold stand That's like saying I don't know You don't want to watch Clemson and Alabama play again

What a novel opinion. Well, I have some sympathy for the latter opinion. Yes. Thank you. I'm one of like eight people. Like, no, don't you want to see the best play the best? No. No, I don't actually.

No, get Middle Tennessee in here. Let's just call. Why don't you, you know what? Why don't we call America's most important team Wake Forest? That's right. Call Wake Forest Assess. Iowa, Wake Forest Sugar Bowl. Hold up.

Hold up. What color was Laura Dern's? in the movie? That's right, Clemson Purple. That's true. And what happened to her in the movie? She also ran a legal pick play. That was legal. She split the seam, didn't she?

Yeah, straight up the middle. That's true. You know what? Football's a team game. Sometimes someone has to block. That's a problem with cover Hoth. Do you actually, like, by the way, in this do we have do we have any idea what's going to happen because I think people

who are certain about this game either way are just fools like I feel way better about saying yeah George will probably just grind Oklahoma out so I've fucked up looking back at our picks on the SB Nation bowl game schedule app which looks really dope this year

by the way and I don't say that just because my face is on it although God my face is on it is still on it till around 4 o'clock January 1st folks actually I might just leave it on there thank you thank you um yeah I fucked up because I I tried to like overthink these picks and I forgot to do this the only unless you're Jason Jason's the same man we understand that he can see both time and space and the intersection of the two and realities that haven't existed will exist exist right now like all

of it it's all laid bare to him and yet for some reason he decides to work at a sports website cool it's fine yeah I I fucked up because the way you're supposed to pick these games, if you don't have money on them, as I do not, is to pick the outcome that would make you most unhappy, because what you're really doing is emotionally shielding yourself for a negative future. So I should have picked Georgia, and I should have picked Alabama. And that's what I'm going to do now, not based on any logic, not based on any reasonable interpretation of strengths and weaknesses, nothing but looking at what would make. Make me most unhappy. It's Georgia and Bama winning, and it's Georgia winning the national championship. So that's what's going to happen.

Then you get something out of it. Then you get to say, well, I'm unhappy, but at least I'm smart. Right. I'm the sad man.