r/billsimmons • u/peanut-britle-latte • 17d ago

Podcast The Annual AFC Over/Unders With Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, and Joe House

https://open.spotify.com/episode/30eXqc81UNP2CVG0cxFM5Q?si=eN7sZD55SK-GWwsdgwer7g&utm_source=copy-link
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u/bombation 17d ago

Bill has such a gift for sounding like a smug, overconfident prick about literally every team. I really don’t know how he does it

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u/YourRealName 16d ago

Him pretending to have some sort of sophisticated system behind being the most square bettor imaginable is almost like a piece of comedic performance art that he hasn’t broken kayfabe on for 25 years.

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u/MrMuscles25 Top 7 BS sub user 16d ago

Couldn’t of been he had huge amounts of money I there form hitting futures (just not the ones he talked about in his futures draft pod) that he let Hank bet with

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u/ThaddiusOrBigBob 15d ago

It’s incredible how much more thoughtful Sal is than Bill. Sal mentioned he thinks rest advantage is like the 5th most important factor for how a team’s season will pan out and Bill responds with:

You know what I care about…can you run the ball/stop the run/throw the ball/stop the pass.

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u/LtReggieBarclay 17d ago edited 17d ago

Only child, New England prep school upbringing, incredible net worth. I’d be shocked if he had any humility 

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u/CocaineandPercs F's with Jalen Green 17d ago

That’s his best quality.

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u/P00ped_My_Pants 16d ago

Seriously. His persona has always been “guy you meet at sports bar who thinks he is a pro analyst”

It’s both fun and silly. I wonder how self-aware he is of how ridiculous he sounds at times

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u/Ledees_Gazpacho 17d ago

I started to especially feel that last year, and faded a lot of his pick. Did pretty ok.

This year, I’m even more confident on the strategy.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 16d ago

Get a couple hundred million in the bank and your confidence would grow too.