League of Futility Podcast: Recent Episodes
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JFRY takes home the honors for his 3rd trophy
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Payouts and other league money-winners
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Mike V finishes last and Dennis has the money off his back (barely)!
RIP Bobby, may the four winds blow you safely home.......
Merry Christmas!
We cover the results of the 2nd round of the playoffs and make predictions about the eventual champion.
Also, it is Hurts to Lose vs Hawk Tuah Guy for last place in the league.
Season recap will be recorded in early January and will be our most star studded, expert-laden pod ever!
This pod is broken into two chunks. We recorded Friday and then again this week with updates on the results of first round of the playoffs.
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JFRY and Dennis get into it over the waiver drops!
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Dennis denies he wants to be the Commish but I provide the receipts that he does
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Kristin joins the experts to breakdown the results from the first playoff and loser bracket (sorry, Dennis likes it to be called the consolation bracket) games
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Kristin is a passionate woman about things that don't matter (and she is wrong about)
Running down all the games:
What is Anthony doing with Josh Allen?
Commish is pissed; throwing out f bombs
Dennis
Explaining why the 4th annual grab bag special wasn't published
Expert analysis of all last week's games
Dennis says he doesn't want to be Commish and then proceeds to tell us why he should be Commish
Run down of all last week's exciting action
MDG and Dave have a bet on Joe B's team
Dennis agrees to get the platinum package (comped) to get him to the playoffs
Is there going to be a competition for Commish next year?!!
Here we go......
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Week 1 coverage of every game
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Expert opinion on what teams make the playoffs (and those that don't)
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Recommendations from the experts on improving your teams
The experts dug in hard this week:
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Deep analysis and potential strategies around the four new rule changes
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Evaluated every teams' keepers
The full league office appears to talk through the voting, although Kristin showed-up late.
Listen in to hear expert insights on proposed changes.....
The next podcast will focus on players and best strategies for 2025.
Football season is looming and the boys are back......
Commish lays out key dates leading up to the start of season XII: Keepers, rule changes, draft, other.
The season recap you've all been demanding.....!
We look at the winners, the losers and every team in between.
Joe B wants to debate the Commish but no one seems to know why!
JFRY makes the case (he is being serious) for why Danny Dimes will win MVP
Breakdown of all week 1 games
Dennis has a message for Antny
RIP "V is for Vagina" but the new name is confusing
Expert previews of every teams' roster
Draft blunders, busts and breakdowns
Commish and VC need to fix the schedule next season (also is the Commish the puppet of the VC?)
We covered it all and can safely say it's time to move away from process discussions and get into talking about players!
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Rules roundup
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Upcoming key dates
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JFRY can't pronounce Kristin's name
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Should Jon be the next Commish?
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JFRY shares his fear of crack cocaine
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Joe B offers sage advice regarding Covid
Quick pod to get you all up-to-speed on the latest developments:
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Proposal to change voting rules -- Commish assigns VC to hold a referendum
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Proposed rule changes
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Early Super Bowl picks
Welcome to Season Xi!
You knew we weren't going to let the NFL draft pass and not bestow wisdom on the league.
The Chairman of the Rules Committee has a whole host of suggested rule changes. Sure, he has some old chestnuts like "the coach rule" and "punter rule," but lots of new wrinkles too.
Lots of questions too about the growing distance between the Chairman of the Rules Committee and the league office. We are going to need Commish and the VC to come on and explain that as well as whether we will see the VC ballot harvesting rule votes again.
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Commish reflects on the season
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Deep dive into week 14 games
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Island of Misfit Toys game
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Playoff preview and predictions
Merry Christmas, we'll be back to recap the season on January 5th. See you in 2024!
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Anthony speaks to multiple lingering controversies about his team and you won't believe what we learned!
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Rundown of last week's games with your panel of experts
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Battle of San Antonio recap and breaking down whether Joe B or Heff will earn the highly coveted final playoff spot
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Toilet Bowl and Championship tier outlook
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Barring a miracle, the playoff teams are decided and your panel of experts breaks down the likely playoff division and toiletbowl misfits
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Breakdown of last week's games
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Dave hates pop culture unless it relates to the 80s and Jessica Fletcher or Matlock
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Dave's playoff chances appear to be going down the drain -- can he save his season as his trades implode upon him?!
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Possible dissension between the League Office and the Chairman of the Rules Committee. The VC weighs in on all the behind-the-scenes intrigue!
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Rundown on all the week 11 games....
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Perspectives on the major controversy of last week and Jon somehow actually sounds sensible.
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Reviewing last week's games and making picks on who is in and who is out of the playoffs.
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SHOCKER! Todd (from last week's unpublished pod) reveals something long suspected about one of our teams.
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Dennis has entered fantasy football stage 4 and hear the text of his annual "resignation" from the league.
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Chairman of the Rules committee proposes nine possible rule changes for next season (of course the "Coach Rule" is one of them).
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Dave's heartfelt message to the league.
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The Teds get their first win (and we're still dissecting Jfry's terrible trade)!
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Coldplay's descent into fantasy irrelevance and sheer madness and futility
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We still have one undefeated team and he might be your only 2 time champion
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Dennis pulls off the Monday night miracle!
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Analysis: who has the best keepers so far
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Dead or Alive game
Programming note: We'll be back in early November, get your grab bags of booze ready
Recap of last week's games
Who deserves credit for Anthony's success?
Dave knows nothing about pop culture other than what he sees on "Murder She Wrote"
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Review of last week's results
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Jon get to answer questions we have been asking all season
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Tequila is strong and one of your cohosts proves it
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Breaking down each game from week 2
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QBs after 2 weeks
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Who are the 2-0 pretenders and which teams can dig out after starting 0-2
We made it! Season X is here along with all your favorite experts (and Kristin).
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Evaluations of every team and season long outlook
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Predictions for Season X champion
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Idiocy of carrying two QBs
Here it is, a full breakdown of the players, keepers, sleepers and more (actually there is almost none of that).
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First look at some new team names
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Dave lets loose on Jon's keepers; also wants to bet him this season
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Much, much more
The votes are in and we have some HUGE news to reveal!
Be sure to stick around into the music at the end for bonus coverage of the draft order being selected live!
Lots of ground covered in the midst of some heated debates:
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Survivor league rules changed by a "majority of three"
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Draft date
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Keeper info
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How to submit a rule change and by when
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A sample of some of the rule changes that the Rules Committee is looking to bring forth for a vote
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Lots of other essential info
We are back for season 10!!
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Welcome back
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Rules update from the Chairman of the Rules Committee
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Parting shots
This season, sponsored by Straus Tobacconist of Cincinnati and Florence, KY
https://www.e-straus.com
Coldplay wins the Championship but should there be an asterisk?
Bombshell revealed
We call the Commish live
Super Bowl predictions
Intro: Getting banned from karaoke at JT Maxies (2/19/2015) and Tubthumping
Outro: Misty Mountain Hop by Led Zeppelin
See everyone in the fall for Season X!
We were right as often as we were wrong, but it's funnier to hear the wrong things, so you'll hear more of that.
We'll be back next week with a live show to recap what has been a tremendous season. This will be our biggest and best show of the year with lots of surprises in store.
Rundown of last week...major disappointments for Lincoln Co and the Hussey
Outlook for Super Bowl, Toilet Bowl and league loser
JFRY says payout for points is regular season + playoffs setting off a major controversy!
Intro: RIP Franco Harris and Mele Kalikimaka (by Bing Crosby)
Outro: Holiday Road (by Lindsey Buckingham)
Joe's memory is not good
Looking back at last week's action in the playoff and toilet bowl tiers
Dennis is uncertain whether Jamaica is an island
Teds are a straight-up ghost ship at this point
The case for the Bengals being the elite team in the AFC
Outlook and predictions for this Super Bowl and Toilet Bowl matchups
Intro: Norm MacDonald and Bertha
Outro: Dire Wolf
Mike V's debut on the podcast and he answers lots of questions we have had about his team
Toilet Bowl preview
Preview of the two real playoff games
Joe B. has the longest parting shot of all time
Intro: John Lennon, "Instant Karma"
Outro: John Lennon: "Watching the Wheels"
Looking at the clinched playoff teams, likely bye teams and scenarios for teams on the bubble
Toilet bowl talk
League of futility sports book for the playoffs
Unplanned semi-deep dive of Fleetwood Mac
Intro: Dr. Johnny Fever (WKRP)
Outro: Don't Stop (written by Christie McVie)
This week's episode fueled by Wild Turkey Rare Breed.....this becomes clear at about the 30 minute mark
Rundown of last week's games
Jon gets duped by Dave in a big trade and won't win another game this year
Dennis made a costly waiver error that could haunt him for years
More predictions
Intro: "The Race is on"
Also, link to full "drink drinking" clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GZhuarbKQI
Outro: "Not Fade Away"
Rundown of last week's games
The Teds decide they don't need a defense
Revisit preseason predictions for playoffs and revised thinking
Joe B picks Xmen to win the Championship
Intro: Alabama Getaway
Outro: Dire Wolf
Rundown of last week's games
Dave doubles down betting against the Ted's
VC for Life
Outlook for this week
Intro: Congrats to Dennis and his Houston Astros!
Outro: MMP crowd singing "We are the Champions"
Breaking down the playoff teams, middle of the pack and absolute loser teams
Dennis comes on to jinx the Astros in game 1 of the WS
Kristin joins to explain to Dave what "in my feels" means and to take a victory lap on her recent strong results
Intro: Jerry Lee Lewis
Outro: Warren Zevon
Rundown of last week's games
Dave and MDG continue their parallel descent into fantasy football ignominy
Dennis has hatched a complex plan to ship bourbon for resale across state lines and Todd has offered to be his "running buddy" with the Trans Am
Lots of Russell Wilson talk (80% of it edited out)
Look ahead to this week's games
Intro: John Fogerty
Outro: Jerry Reed
Rundown of last week's games
JFRY is the luckiest 4-0 team ever
Jon's new love of the Cowboys is everything wrong with America, in a nutshell
Are the Vaginas the odds-on-favorite to win the Championship?
Outlook for this week
Intro: Bill Burr; music by Thin Lizzy (Dublin band)
Outro: Elvis (not the cool Elvis, that would be Costello)
This is a rudderless podcast that we had to edit 61 minutes from. 40 of those 61 minutes are me endlessly repeating myself, talking about my team and wildly careening on various tangents and non sequiturs.
VC wins the Survivor pool
Who is the worst team in the league?
Jon has a rule change he is going to (unilaterally?) implement next year
Dave and Michael make a side bet on the Ted's season
Rundown on last week's results and looking out to this week's slate of games
Intro: The Champs
Outro: Marty Robbins (performed by the Grateful Dead)
Dave details why he probably won't make it and Joe begins rethinking it.
Rundown of every week 2 game.
Are the Sycamores the new worst team in the league?
The gang discusses whether there are any notable players in the NFL of Mexican or hispanic heritage.
Outlook for week 3.
Intro courtesy of "The Only Band That Matters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash
Outro: CSN
Exploring the most recent league controversy
Kristin's big idea
Does Dave have the worst team in league history?
Breaking down last week's games
Parting shots
Outro music supplied by Jerome Garcia and Robert Hunter
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Dave comes out swinging (and swigging by the end)
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Power rankings of all teams
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No respect for the Vice Commish
Dennis surprised the gang by rejoining the league. Plus is JFRY going to be a Judge Landis?
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Has Mike V’s team peaked too early?
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Playoff likely and unlikely teams
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Jonny’s big mistake this week ……….. or was it?
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Dave continues to defend his dumb dual QB strategy
Post pod fact checking:
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Heff and Jon did in fact go to the same high school
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Cordelle Paterson wears number 84, not 12
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Recapping the end of recent controversy
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Jonny's start points to another season of mediocrity and a roster full of IR players
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KG's team already looks problematic
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In true Dennis Fashion ..... a new crackpot theory by Dennis is debunked live
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Team-by-team analysis and season-long projections
Preseason special #2.
Lots of talk about whether the commish is paying attention and how to vote on proposed rule changes.
Dennis gives the gang a comprehensive rundown of possible rule changes and gets some insightful feedback on many off the "ideas."
Best Polish NFL player and Joe's babysitter
State capitals game
MDG's controversial take on SB winner
Game 6 -- Weir Everywhere. Setlist via Fox.
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Is it Dapping or Dabbing
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Switzerland gets us on track
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Weekly game (TV theme songs, no lyrics)
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This weeks games