If you want in on the blog, be sure to DM pictures of your favourite jersey to one of the Bench Life Social accounts every Wednesday night. Jersey of the Week Submissions Fifth PlaceArensal Mid-2000s kit Another soccer football kit. Another blog where I just don’t know how to talk soccer football. Off the top of my head I’ll name
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Really contemplated hanging up the old jersey blogging spurs after getting grilled last week for my ranking abilities/ability to spot an obviously fake jersey. If you want a taste of what I went through, be sure to check out this week’s podcast. But after some soul searching… The show goes on. I actually appreciate the accountability. While I admit I
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3:55 Tom’s tired of how the media/Twitter talks about the Maple Leafs22:43 McDavid v Matthews v MacKinnon (AKA “The Three Big M’s”)24:10 Crosby hits 1000 games27:21 “Best sports to casually watch” debate36:30 Unexpected Soccer Talk40:04 The Fundamentals of Yelling47:53 Sports Video Game Fantasy Draft Adam’s Draft Tom’s Draft Ben’s Draft Cameron’s Draft
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Another week. Another jersey blog. This week we got a few fresh faces in on the “Jersey of the Week” submissions. Something you truly love to see. If you want in, be sure to DM pictures of your favourite jersey to one of the Bench Life Social accounts every Wednesday night. Jersey of the Week Submissions Fifth Elvis Merzlikins Columbus
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Link to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/bench-talk-radio/id1505632446#episodeGuid=6ba3b0e0-534b-46aa-bd20-04038215fb42 This week Adam joins the program with Ben, Cameron and I and we go Joe Rogan mode with one of their longer podcasts to date. First half of the episode breaking down the week’s sports news. Second half we do an NHL jersey deep-dive and fantasy draft the best sweaters that hockey has to offer. (4:32)
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Another week without Blake and Zach, so Adam makes back-to-back appearances. This time he brings along Jeff to take on the Washington Generals in a round of Trivia. Before we start trivia we talk about fantasy basketball and give a status report on the week 14 NFL parlay. This week’s trivia topics included:-Canadian geography-Where athletes went to college-Jersey numbers-Movies-“Highest Paid
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This week we welcome Brock Badgers alum, Adam Cooke, to the pod as a guest. Off the top we get an impromptu podcast performance review from Adam, give a status update on Tom’s NFL Sunday parlay and roast Cameron for some of his betting groupchat etiquette. We then get into an all-2000’s draft where we select actors, athletes, musicians, movies
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This week Zach comes in hot with some real sports analysis. After he breaks down some Blue Jays game film, the guys talk about a tough Raptors loss and the Bruins championship window closing. We then dive into our last fantasy draft: “Overrated Stuff”. In a five round snake draft each podcaster had to fill in each category:-Athlete-Actor-Food-Music-Misc Here were
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This week we dive heavy into sports. Cameron sits on the Bruins hot seat to defend his play-by-play man, ripping off helmets, his goalie and group chat transgressions. Ben then gives us his weekly Blue Jackets report. We then talk about Charlie Montoyo, the Toronto Raptors and Alex Smith’s return to football. Second half of the podcast we tackle two
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Zach’s out this week (undisclosed injury (?)) so utility man Phil makes his debut. Off the top the Patriots boys attempt to defend “the next Tom Brady” Jarrett Stidham after news of the Cam Newton signing hits. Then in preparation for July 1st, Blake and Phil take on the Mighty Ducks in a Canadian Music Trivia battle that went all
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