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Bryan Curtis

👤 Speaker
1222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

Single digits.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

Right?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

It does.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

It does.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

But if you were going to grow, wouldn't you grow into February?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

Right.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

Week zero is like one of the concepts that makes me laugh about peak sports TV, which we got to in college football.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

We have week one, but before week one, we have week zero.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

There are games, but zero is not a week.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

They're not good games, so it doesn't count as a week, but it's something to watch.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

But February, to me, that's always been the dead zone of sports.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

There's a famous quote where somebody asked a sports writer, why did you quit?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

He said, February, because there's nothing to write about.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

So if you're the NFL, what if we stretch that another week?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

And we just keep going and bet that you're not going to want to watch regular season NBA as much as you're going to want to watch us.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

They did.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

Cause you know, 60 odd teams wasn't enough to pick a champion.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

The bet that's being made is that they will take the money and they will watch us roll our eyes and they'll say, you're going to watch anyway.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

I know you're going to watch.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Harden’s Moment, an NFL Schedule Glut, Owning the Jazz, and a Boston Sports Check-In—With Bryan Curtis, Bill’s Dad, and Ryan Smith

And let's, you and I could do a self audit about this, right?