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The Commish Report

By: Heather Barbour & John Williams
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  • This podcast is for the Miami University Libraries fantasy football league
    Heather Barbour & John Williams
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  • Always remember, if you ain't first, you're last.
    Jan 5 2024

    Intro/Outro music by Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

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    • T&F - All Good Things -  For The Glory 

    • S&F - Imagine Dragons - Believer 

    • R&B - The Score - Legend 

    Football Trivia - Mike Tomlin’s streak of 17 straight seasons without a losing season is the most ever from the start of a head-coaching career. With Sunday’s win at Seattle, Tomlin moved past George Halas (16) into third on the all-time list of consecutive non-losing seasons.  Who are the two Coaches ahead of him?

    Pop Culture Trivia - What year was the first Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop?

    When was that??? - The Lions won the NFC North, their first division title since 1993…to put that in perspective that year:

    • Bill Clinton was sworn in as the President for the first time

    • Michael Jordan left Basketball to play Baseball

    • Beanie Babies were first released

    • The first Jurrasic Park movie was released

    • Ryan Gosling and Justin Timberlake join Britney and Christina in "The New Mickey Mouse Club."

     

    So You're Saying There is a Chance? - 20 teams are still in contention for a trip to the Super Bowl, which ties for the most with one week remaining in the last 41 years, since a record 22 in 1982. Of course, 82 was a strike year, and 16 teams made the playoffs in a weird shortened season.

    D Adams is the best thing about the Raiders - Adams is the fifth player with four career seasons of 1,300 receiving yards and double-digit touchdowns. Rice, Moss, Harrison, and Owens are the other four.

    Purdy Good - Brock Purdy passed Justin Herbert and tied Russell Wilson for the most games with a 110-plus passer rating in a player’s first two seasons.

    MVP - Lamar Jackson moved into a tie for the most games with a perfect passer rating in NFL history (three), joining the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, and Ben Roethlisberger.

    Pat’s Pretty Good as Well - Patrick Mahomes joined HOFer Peyton Manning as the only player with 4,000-plus passing yards in six or more of a player's first seven seasons. Mahomes' only season under 4,000 was his rookie season in 2017, when he only started one game.

    Records that could be set this Week - 

    • Tyreek Hill needs 247 yards to pass Calvin Johnsons' record for receiving yards in a season. 

    • Puka Nucua needs three catches and 29 receiving yards in Week 18 to set a new record. The WR’s 101 catches are second-most behind Jaylen Waddle’s 104 (2021), and his 1445 yards are third behind Ja’Marr Chase (1,455) and the record holder, Bill Gorman (1,473), who set the record in 1960 with Houston in the AFL.

    • Lions TE Sam LaPorta needs one catch to break the rookie TE catch record.  

    Football Trivia Answer - Tomlin is behind Bill Belichick (19, from 2001 to 2019) and Tom Landry (20, from 1965 to 1985).

    Pop Culture Trivia - First held on December 31, 1907, to welcome 1908, organized by Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times newspaper, as a successor to a series of New Year's Eve fireworks displays he held at the building to promote its status as the new headquarters of the Times. The ball drop has been held annually, except in 1942 and 1943, in observance of wartime blackouts when a moment of silence was observed along with the playing of a recording of church bells. 

    The ball's design has been updated four times to reflect improvements in lighting technology; the original ball was 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, constructed from wood and iron, and illuminated with 100 incandescent light bulbs. By contrast, the current (fifth) ball is 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and uses over 32,000 LED lamps. Since 1999–2000, the ball has featured an outer surface consisting of triangular panels manufactured by Waterford Crystal, which contain inscriptions representing a yearly theme.

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  • Sweep the Leg!
    Dec 27 2023

    Intro/Outro music by Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

    Leave your questions at: Leave a Voice Message

    Leave your smack talk at: MULCommishReport@Gmail.com

    Instagram @mulcommishreport303

    League walk on music credits: 

    • T&F - All Good Things -  For The Glory 

    • S&F - Imagine Dragons - Believer 

    • R&B - The Score - Legend 

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    24 mins
  • Now I know What a TV Dinner Feels like
    Dec 20 2023

    Intro/Outro music by Scott Holmes - Upbeat Party

    Leave your questions at: Leave a Voice Message

    Leave your smack talk at: MULCommishReport@Gmail.com

    Instagram @mulcommishreport303

    League walk on music credits: 

    • T&F - All Good Things -  For The Glory 

    • S&F - Imagine Dragons - Believer 

    • R&B - The Score - Legend 

    The game in Hell’s Sports Bar - On a weekend where several teams played in terrible weather, last week the Vikings and Raiders played in the climate-controlled comfort of Las Vegas last week and scored three points between them—narrowly avoiding the dreaded 0-0 tie at the end of regulation.  The last time that happened, America was at war…in 1943!  It was the first 3-0 game since Pittsburgh beat Miami on Nov. 26, 2007, the third in the past 40 years and the seventh in the Super Bowl era; it was also the only such game played indoors.  All the others (the Steelers/Miami game, for example, was played in rain so intense that a punt stuck in the field like a lawn dart!) were outside and in some sort of weather. 

     

    Mostert is the Most - Raheem Mostert’s rushed for his 17th touchdown of the season, a Dolphins team record. It's the fourth-most in a season by an undrafted player in the common-draft era.

    Tua may have an arm  - Tua Tagovailoa’s 60-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle traveled 48.59 yards in air distance. It was only Tagovailoa’s seventh-farthest tracked completion this year, he has six he has thrown father...which is crazy.  

    Tee Higgins finally got going: Lost in Jake Browning's incredible second-half comeback was the resurgent play of Higgins, who caught his first touchdown pass since Week 2 in Saturday's victory. Higgins caught not one, but two, touchdown passes as he finished with four catches for 61 yards. Playing in just 10 of 14 games, Higgins has just 36 catches for 497 yards and four touchdowns, but significantly stepped up with the absence of Ja'Marr Chase (shoulder). The Bengals will need Higgins to be the No. 1 he's capable of being down the stretch, especially with Chase expected to miss time. 

    Maybe he should have gone before Round 7? Week 15 marked Brock Purdy's 13th career start with a 100-plus passer rating. Purdy's 13 such games only trail Patrick Mahomes (16) and HOFer Kurt Warner (14) for most games with a 100-plus passer rating in a QB's first 20 starts since 1950.

     Remember the Titans – How crazy was the Titans’ 28–27 comeback win over the Dolphins last week?  Teams down 14 points with less than three minutes to go in regulation were 0–767 since 2016 until the Titans pulled off their win.  The Titans were also the first team to be down 14 points with less than 2:55 left and win without overtime.

     Trade Joe Burrow??? - Bengals backup quarterback Jake Browning has a 79.3 completion percentage in his first three career starts, the highest by any quarterback in their first three starts.  Browning is the second quarterback since 1950 to complete at least 70 percent of his passes in his first three career starts, joining Chad Pennington, who did so in 2002 with the Jets.  In addition to his 79.3 completion percentage, Browning has 856 passing yards in his three career starts. Browning and Justin Herbert (2020) are the only quarterbacks since 1950 with at least 800 passing yards and a completion percentage of 70-plus for their first three starts. Oh, and as of today… the Bengals are in the playoffs. Who would have thought that a few weeks ago?

     Football Trivia Answer - 14 is the record, and three games are tied for that “honor” all before the Super Bowl Era.

    • Washington Redskins (8) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (6), November 14, 1937

    • Chicago Bears (7) vs. Cleveland Browns (7), November 24, 1940

    • St. Louis Cardinals (8) vs. New York Giants (6), September 17, 1961 

     Pop Culture Trivia -  Four movies have won 10 or more Oscars.  

    1.   Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003) - 11 

    2.   Ben-Hur (1959) - 11

    3.   Titanic (1997) - 11

    4.   West Side Story (1961) - 10



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