Less Football Despite More Football, Somehow (Cast Iron Balls #42)

This week’s slate of college football games may be a bit of a bummer on paper, but that doesn’t stop us from having a perfectly enjoyable time talking about it. Plus, tune in for Abe’s EXCLUSIVE 2025 NFL preview, the CIB Pick ‘em Contest, and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!Show RundownOpen — Abe “Live-Bets” the Games!3:07 — Bill Belichick and UNC mollywhopped by TCU12:38 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; Abe besmirching young athletes, repealing the Sports Broadcasting Act18:23 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week: What if Donald Trump had bought the Cowboys in 1984?30:31 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot40:20 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest54:27 — Patented CIB Very In-Depth NFL Preview1:00:58 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:04:20 — Wrap-up!Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/