Cal Newport
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And he ends up concluding that Jim Thorpe's the best football player of all time.
He's like, but how do we compare that to like Tom Brady?
So he gets like really, you know, he'll get really, he'll get really into that.
He has a whole long thing of trying to understand like Randy Moss and the idea of mossing.
It's like my son, I asked my son at the pool the other day, he's like, oh, I mossed you.
I was like, do you know who that's named for?
I have no idea.
What does it mean?
So mossing, like if you talk to a 13-year-old, is where someone's throwing a ball to someone and you out-jump them and grab it out of the air, like Randy Moss used to do.
And so it's a term now.
In fact, there's even a game called Moss where you throw the ball and you all try to fight to get it.
And they have no idea who Randy Moss is.
Yeah.
So there's something on that.
He gets into fantasy football and betting.
He gets into fandom.
He gets into how should we...
how should we ethically deal with like CTE?
He has this like whole theory about how like football is kind of screwed and you know, why like 20 years, like he has this whole history of how it's going to like fall apart.
Why did football become popular?