Ethan Strauss

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198 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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No, these are all fair points, but I think the centering, if you will, of the quarterback anchors us in a way.

Now, the crazy thing about American football is

is that it is actually shown to us in this incomplete fashion that theoretically is bad, but as Chuck Klosterman has argued, is actually good.

Apparently we want that.

We should be watching NFL games with a Madden angle where we can see everything.

But we don't want that.

We want this other crazy thing where we follow the ball in the air and we have no idea what's going on.

And it's like that game show, Is It Cake?

Are you aware of Is It Cake?

Is this something that you know about?

Yeah.

Most long passes in the NFL, it's just a miniature episode of Is It Cake?

The ball is in the air.

Is it an interception?

Is it a completion?

Is it a touchdown?

Oh, man, is that the greatest point?

Well, if you had the Madden angle, you would be watching them bake the cake.

And that might be interesting for a football nerd to see the play develop and see that the guy's actually open.

But maybe it would be less compelling than that Anton Chigurh fear, because you brought up the coin flip of, am I dead or am I alive?

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