![]() Like, “Take away his man card.” That never happens. PFT: There’s a hilarious construct that you see these days, which is the concept of what regular guys watching sports look like, and they get it so wrong. ![]() You seem like the guy on the end of the couch in a way ESPN or FOX doesn’t maybe. It seems a large part of the appeal is the “regular guys who don’t take sports too seriously” that you touched on. I knew exactly what we were doing when we did that. Obviously, we had to change our logo because it was a blatant rip-off, I’ll admit it. But because they sent us a cease and desist letter, we got to write them a cease and desist letter back, saying, “You need to cease and desist sending us cease and desist letters.”ĭan: When it happened, I was actually flying to Florida, and I got an email that was like, “Hey, ESPN just filed a cease and desist.” And as soon as I got off the plane, I texted PFT and he was like, “That’s awesome.” So we were very excited that it happened because at the end of the day, anything that can make content and anything that we can joke about is great for us. And the logo was a blatant rip-off of the shows from ESPN. I didn’t understand the combination of "Pardon the Interruption" and "First Take" until I saw the logo. And I’ll be the first to say that I’m a total moron. What was the fallout from that? PFT: That was honestly the best thing that could have happened to us. I know you guys got a cease and desist letter from ESPN regarding the name of the show. For anyone who’s watched First Take for way too long or woken up to the 7th repeat episode of SportsCenter in the morning, and find yourself being like, “What the hell are these takes that these people are saying?”ĭan: We try to take their takes one step further, or try to predict what the next outrageous take is going to be. PFT: It’s a comedy show that uses sports as a vehicle to get a point across. Dan: It’s a show that’s masquerading as a sports show, but it’s really a comedy show. Give the good GQ people the Pardon My Take elevator pitch. But I’m not eager to get to Dan’s huge level of stardom where I’m getting stopped by random people in the middle of the street all the time. And I think being at Barstool, we’re going to have cameras around doing a lot of the stuff that we’re doing. It’s so much funnier for people to get as involved in the character. I still am not totally comfortable with being completely out there, with my face totally in the public eye and my name out here. PFT, it seems like you’re starting to shed the anonymity now with Barstool. "I asked Cam Newton if he was such a great athlete, why he wouldn’t go overseas and fight against ISIS." sports talk radio hosts.” PFT column or not?) (Consider: “Women are simply too illogical and emotional to be A.M. ![]() But the genius of PFT is the same thing that makes the reality he’s mocking so very frightening: his satirical takes are outrageously ludicrous-and yet entirely something you could see a large swath of (Trump-voting) America actually believing. When they said, “Russell Wilson isn’t black enough,” he said, “Maybe Ben Roethlisberger isn’t white enough.” He has echoed their notion that none of us really know if concussions are that bad. PFT Commenter (who has long been anonymous) amassed a following by lampooning the foolish opinions of NFL fans populating the comments section of football blogs, piggy-backing on their “hot takes” with his own equally preposterous ones. Only, they’re two regular guys who have become two of the more prominent personalities on the Internet-and that growing popularity, along with the continued success of their recently released sports/comedy podcast Pardon My Take, means it's probably time to start taking two not very serious dudes at least a little seriously. PFT Commenter and Dan “Big Cat” Katz pride themselves on being two regular guys.
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