Airing It Out - A League of Ordinary Gentlemen

It's always sad when a great thing comes to an end. While we may not have had as many episodes of AIO this year, we covered potentially one of the greatest seasons of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen yet with some of the biggest surprises, twists, and turns yet! Congratulations to Ray Pinto on his SECOND championship in the league (not third as us two dummies referred to during the show, but to be fair, I also gave myself an extra championship too, Ray) We break down the craziness that was the championship week, the scenarios we considered for handling the cancelled game, expand the agenda for the Summer Owners' Meeting, recap the draft order, and discuss each team's need for next season. We're signing off for now (eh, we had a surprise episode or two last year, maybe that will return!) Thanks all for an amazing season! To our old listeners, thanks for sticking with us! And to our new listeners, we see you CT, thanks for coming along for the ride! We leave you all with an extra long episode to hold you over until our return!

I'm fine. It's all fine. This is perfectly normal. You will feel again. Patrick deserves this. It's fine. WHAT A SEMI-FINAL!!! A great week of football. Mike Williams is a hero?! Words this show never thought they'd say. We break down all the playoff action so far, Dave cries into his coffee due to his soul crushing loss in the #CousinBowl, Geoff channels his inner #DadBod to rub it in, and we predict who will win the Big Kahuna, uh....trophy. Oh did we mention there's a trophy in the works (make sure to vote in the poll!) Good luck to Ray and Patrick as they battle it out to be the League Champion and let's all watch Stav do what he does best and annihilate Dave in the playoffs.

Whew...we can report that Steve Kornacki has unpossessed Dave finally and we're back to our regularly scheduled shenanigans complete with peanut gallery commentary from Declan. What a consequential week! In must win games, the teams really did...n't show up ~ but a loss somehow became a win for the Kew Garden Bull Dogs, and the Sheriff didn't survive the 6 weeks of people gunning for him. New team name forthcoming, we've got 4 teams on the outside looking in as we enter Round 1 of the playoffs. Lots of consequences come from the Thursday Night Game, and oh yeah, there are 3 Saturday football games, so be prepared early! We pause on the power rankings (to be revisited at the end of the year) and sketch out the road to the championship after we break down all the action from a very exciting final week of the regular season.

Hi it's me, Steve Kornacki. If you think calling elections, nevermind special elections, is hard, you should try figuring out playoff scenarios for the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Even Patrick asked for a retrospective analysis of his draft picks. All I'm saying is give me...er...Dave a break this year. Declan can't do complex algebra and logic yet, though maybe next week. Dave and Geoff break down the last trade of the season, the major playoff implications of the final regular season week, and, yet again, the playoff seeding tiebreaker rules. Oh. And updated power rankings for you filthy animals!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This year we're thankful that people take the time out of their busy lives to listen to this craziness and give us a modicum of gratification that we don't just do this for self aggrandization (just wait until you hear the story in today's episode!). We break down the trade of the week, Dave proposes a new bylaw while we seriously consider a new proposal, we console Penna yet again, discuss all the strange releases, injuries and benchings that happened post-Week 11, and there are some major changes to the Power Rankings! Prepare yourselves for a Thursday filled with Turkey and Football and whet your appetite with another helping of AIO (two in a week!). We promise this episode goes further than the New York Jets in a half of football.

Ok first. An apology. We were informed that the great Nutmeg state has come to be a cult following of Airing it Out, and we owe the Nutmeggers a sincere apology for depriving them of their cherished niche podcast offering. BUT WE ARE BACK! Look, having a kid and being a highly sought after central NY youth football referee are nothing in terms of importance of delivering this podcast to the masses of Connecticut, but unfortunately they do take up a lot of time and cause quite a few scheduling snafus! As the season is getting hot before the playoffs, we hope to stand and deliver on a more regular basis! We go allllllll the way back to Week 7 when we last spoke with all of you, reshuffle the power rankings, break down perhaps the most controversial trade in the league to date, interrupt a work TikTok (that's a thing?!) and welcome a very special opinionated guest to the show. Thanks for sticking with us, we're glad to be back!

There are two things that appear to be constants with AIO: 1) All the action happens after we record and 2) We record whenever Andy Dalton is QBing football. We break down the flurry of trade activity that occurred nearly immediately after us launching our last episode and prior to all the action in Week 6. We update the power rankings including a breakdown of the SURGING Cayuga Middle Fingers and the hot off his new $10 Judgement Free Planet Fitness membership formed new and improved #DadBod. Here's to Week 7 - where we ponder whether the Sheriff can survive all of his Bills taking the week off, obscure 90s Nickelodeon Trivia, and whether anyone has seen Ray? Oh yeah...and keeping with tradition with late breaking news...CMC is now a 49er.

Suddenly we're already to Week 6 of the Regular season. With only 2 episodes under our belt, the hosts feel like the season is just beginning, but we already have three 4-1 teams and one team sitting down at 0-5. Will Week 6 be where G.W.P. goes F.T.W? Will the KGB take down the CMF? It's all T.B.D. but we make our best guesses, examine the changes to our power rankings, and prepare for the first week of byes. It's all getting interesting, and thanks for sticking with us as we get back into our rhythm!

After a bit of an unexpected hiatus, we enter the fourth (!!) season of AIO! Lots of changes in the NFL as well as the lives of the members of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen happened in the offseason, we pick things up where we left off just before the Super Bowl (go back and check those predictions, they weren't terrible!) and cover an offseason of moves in the NFL, the broadcast booths, and the downstream effects on the teams of the LOOG. We unveil a new approach to our league breakdowns, recap the draft and the first 3 weeks of the season and make some predictions - oh, and cover some recent news - let's just say Antonio Brown may not be in the league anymore, but he has a way of making his presence known! Oh yeah...and Tom Brady did unretire, despite the fact that we said he couldn't just unretire, because of course he did. Looking forward to a great season, we will determine if the newly named Kew Garden Bulldogs can repeat, if the Sheriff makes a triumphant return, and if the GangStav is back just like Lamar.

Well it's official, we've lost our minds. In our infinite wisdom, just like Tom Brady, we thought that we would use this offseason to expand from our prior successful track record and brand and sell 90 dollar sweat pants....er....release a bonus episode of Airing It Out! where we don't even talk about fantasy football, but instead provide you an hour of nonsense from two guys pretending to know things about the NFL, but not really knowing anything about anything. Come for the non-sense, stay for the revelation that NBC has been ripping off Joan Jett for years. From our homes to yours to get you through the last doldrums of winter comes the 2022 AIO Super Bowl Special.

Congratulations to the Matt led Farmington "Soon-to-be-renamed" Football Team on their first Dynasty league championship. It's quite the Cinderella story, but he put a definitive mark on the Championship game with the bullets necessary to take down, first the Deputy, and next the Sheriff. We break down the money round games and also take a brief stroll through the epic third season of AIO (though you may want to head to the video)! Payouts have been paid, curses have been cast, Babci's have been bribed, and draft picks have been dealt, we all can't wait to see what new surprises next year will bring us!

What a semi-final! In what is becoming a bigger sports story than the "Miracle on Ice", Matt Hanley has won each round with a last day effort to come from behind and pull off the big win, while the Sheriff survived yet another day to set up the most intriguing Championship round this league has seen. While the two losers have now created the most confusing battle for third place yet, where the Mansfield Tims take on the Tim Mansfield run Davis Sq. Hipsters - in other words if you root for "Tim" you're rooting for the right team, we think... Looking forward to a great final week of the 6th season of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen and if you thought Christmas was over, we have one last package for you...

What a first round of the playoffs! The #babcicurse remains intact, the Farmington Football Team pulls off a big Tuesday (>!>!?!>!#!#@%!#@>!) Night come from behind victory, and neither Tim nor Dave were successful in sucking more than Tom in Week 10 despite their best efforts! We're in the money rounds now, the Sheriff and the Deputy are back hot off their first round byes and the stage is set for a dramatic Round 2. Also pro tip: 3 out of 3 Wisemen recommend sticking around after the credits. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good fight!

As the so-so Jim Mora once said, "Playoffs?!" That's right it's the most wonderful time of the year! It's the hap- happiest part of the fantasy season of all. With last minute roster tinkering, and gay happy meetings of teams of the fantasy foot-ball! (going to have lean heavily into the syncopation to make that rewrite work...) Well for some it's been the luck- luckiest season of all and for others they are probably feeling a bit down right Grinch-like about their teams. After a long fought battle through the regular season we have a regular season champion – Congratulations to the Davis Sq. Hipsters and their late season surge to stave off the Sheriff. We've got the #CousinBowl this week and a way too close to call matchup between the No Luck Literally and the Farmington Football Team. It should be a fun week of games - including 2 SATURDAY games in addition to the Thursday, Sunday, and Monday night games, so be sure to check your rosters. Best of luck to all and to all a good night!

We are here with a very exciting episode to wrap up the regular season. The playoff spots are set, but the seeds are all up in the air waiting to be sown. We discuss whether there's a new sheriff in town (the current sheriff may need to knock the deputy down a peg or two), the true origins of the "Babci Curse", the Dr. Strange scenario where Stav makes the playoffs, Geoff Pooh's himself, and we go cross-eyed with fuzzy math.

Someone wise once said it's ok if it's a 5-way, we think...it's a busy week for the league nonetheless! 2 weeks left in the regular season and 5 teams are tied with a 6-6 record all fighting for the last 4 spots in the playoffs after the Davis Sq. Hipsters and Team Penna have locked up their first round byes. We break down the flurry of trade activity, discuss a few putative bylaws (because what else is new), as well as the mayhem that was Thanksgiving week football, and maybe we even leave you with a cooking tip or two. The length is long, but it's because we've got a huge rear end of an episode! That...and we wanted to make sure we brought Matt over the 500 minutes listened mark.

Gobble, gobble, y'all. As we stuffed ourselves full of turkey and sides (and hopefully not Mac & Cheese if you were at Marcus Judon's house!) we also hoped to gobble up some fantasy points and lock in some playoff chances. Big matchups this week and some big opportunities for shuffling up the standings. This year Geoff and I are very thankful for AIO and this league and how much fun this has been this year. From us to all of you we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, a successful Black Friday, the fullest of food comas, and a restful holiday. I'm gonna go see if I can find Joe Biden on this island.

We're back for the 10th episode of AIO! where we've returned to some normalcy -- the Sheriff strikes again and has all but sealed a playoff seat (and likely a first round bye) with back to back victories after his crushing loss at the hands of The Outlaw; the Mansfield Tims defeated the Mansfield, Tim led Davis Sq. Hipsters; and we spend a good chunk of time talking about the Buffalo Bills. It's like the wild west out there! And in true Western form - we ran a bit long. Join us for a fun episode and a few surprises.

Just like in the NFL, after you come of the biggest surprise win of the season, how do you top last week, honestly?! We bring you the Let Down week. What a boring week by comparison! Scores were down, Penna won again, Tim won again (despite a drawn out threat from the outlaw)...but I guess we can all take solace in the fact that the Deputy restored order to the town and we can all sleep snug in our beds this week! We break down all the action (or inaction) from last week plus expand our debate on the unwritten rules of fantasy football (note: unwritten rules remain unwritten as the Bylaw Czar decided that a by-law could not be passed in this particular interest).

WHAT. A. WEEK. So much has happened. The NFL Trade deadline came and passed, everyone has COVID, even the 'immunized', Henry Ruggs killed a lady (and a dog), big injuries, but in all the big shocker of the week - the CAYUGA MIDDLE FINGERS TAKES DOWN THE SHERIFF! That's right Team Penna is now 7 and 1, tied with the surging Davis Sq. Hipsters for 1st place. It's sheer pandemonium. We break down all the action including a behind-the-scenes look at all the blockbuster trade action between the Upstate Masters and #DadBod. (We recommend you watch the first 3 minutes on the Facebook video before switching over to the Podcast.)

And we're back to give the people what they want! After an extended bye week thanks to impossible schedule wrangling due to the Head of the Charles and followed up by a Nor'easter that tried its hardest to destroy the AIO! Studios, we're back with a quick hit Sunday a.m. Halloween Special! Lots to recap, but at the end of the day the Sheriff is still standing alone at 7-0 backed by his wild Buffalo Bills. Join us as we discuss whether this could be the week that the mighty falls, burn some calories with our Halloween workout, highlight some of the big surprises of the season, and debate the legitimacy of a "loaner" program. Ahhhh it feels good to be back!

Have you ever wished you didn't say something? We've all been there. Sometimes you just have to grin and bear it. Other times people just find the most clever ways to rub your nose in it. Join Geoff and Dave while they put on their thinking hats and dissect the action in Week 5, the problem that is the NY Giants, and have an unexpected showing from an old friend. Also, look out for Stav. CMac is back and he's out for vengeance. Could Week 6 finally be the fall of the Sheriff?!

Well...um...that was unfortunate. In a strange turn of events, one co-host was unable to perform and the other one exploded for his best performance of the season and now AIO is no longer kid friendly. Expecting us to get banned by Facebook and have an explicit label slammed on us by Spotify...so thanks for that Geoff! We break down a surprising Week 4 where losers became winners and winners became losers and the show lost its innocence. We discuss the biggest surprises from the week, including the Davis Sq. Hipsters literally overcoming all the odds to win, the stalled out Gang Stav, the surging Cayuga Middle Fingers, and what it all means for the Drew Thanksgiving. Dear academy, we'll take your call to accept our award any time you're ready!

Neck. Bow. Like Kissing your Sister...An episode about ties, well one big tie in particular. We break it all down after a week of big injuries that led to a down week for last season's juggernaut, odd big scores for defenses, and the leagues first major tie (which still resulted in a Tom K. loss). Stick with us as the hosts do their first foray into late night tele-pod-casting (??) and excuse the late night ramblings of two fools.

Holy regression to the mean Batman! Green Bay responds to the heavy trolling by the AIO crowd and rewards their team owners with a huge week. Derrick Henry remembered he's a very large human. The Seattle Triumvirate strikes again. And the Cayuga Middle Fingers cadre of quarterbacks ghosted him in week 2. This is a great week for the League of Ordinary Gentlemen with a ton of close matchups and a replay of last year's championship game. Will any of the three undefeated teams get knocked off their perch? Stay tuned for an exciting week!

Hey remember that time that the GB packers were good? Fast forward through a global pandemic and a stint guest hosting Jeopardy and Aaron Rodgers ends his week with 3.0 points - his QBR was worse than if he had snapped the ball and spiked the ball every snap the entire game. We break down all the action (or in the GB Packers case, inaction) from Week 1, discuss the injury to Raheem Mostert (predictable), make picks for Week 2, and Dave's entire reality around John Mulaney is shaken to its core.

And we're back for an all new season of Airing it Out! We kick off season 6 of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen by breaking down the draft, discussing proposed changes to the league, philosophizing about the finer points of trading, and most importantly pick winners for Week 1. Stay tuned for a shocking season winner pick and whether Dave finally admits Tom Brady is actually the GOAT.

The season is just getting started. Hear the Free Agency drops for all of the teams. Get ready for another great year!

Episode 17 - Week 16 - It all comes down to this! Stavros and David meet in the finals for the THIRD time. Will history repeat itself with Stav winning back-to-back championships on the back of Lamar by defeating David for the THIRD time?! Tune in this week as we break it all down and discuss Raymond's wedding gift from Alvin Kamara! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good fight in the championship and consolation games.

Episode 16 - Week 15 - Coming to you not live from the same studios, we break down the first round of the playoffs where Cinderella didn't show up and the top seeds took commanding victories into the semi-finals. This sets up an interesting week of fantasy football including some Saturday (huh?)and a Thursday game (huhhhh?) but no Tuesday game (thank god!). Nearing an end of the season, but we still have 2 great weeks ahead!

Episode 15 - Week 14 Airing It Out is coming to you live from our recording studios...er...home offices? We recap the regular season, recap the playoff seeding, and pick our winners as we preview the playoffs! Recorded live and posted to Facebook with minimal technical interruption (at least the podcast doesn't have all the glitches - wohoo for editing in post!)

Episode 14 - Week 13 - What a week! What day is football played on anymore? I don't know, do you?! Geoff scored more points in one game than his team did all season, AJ Brown returned an onside kick for a TD, the Patriots beat the Cardinals, and the Chargers and Bills game was a crazy train....here's to week 13 where there isn't Thursday football, but we have an extra Monday evening game (5 PM) and a Tuesday game, and it's only Friday so just wait, it could all change! Last week of the regular season, everyone make your bids!

Episode 13 - Week 12 - This week is chock-full of turkey, football fingers, and nutterbutt squash - OH and a healthy helping of COVID-19 on the side as it ravages the NFL yet again. At this point a lot of question marks about games on Sunday and the Pittsburgh/Baltimore game was already moved from Thanksgiving night to Tuesday night. 2 weeks left in the regular season, one bye week slot has been locked in, but there is a 7-team battle for the last 5 slots in the playoffs. May the odds ever be in your favor!

Episode 12 - Week 11 - Birthday of Ray Pinto - The 20th day of the 11th month of the Two Thousandth and Twentieth Year - 1 Win to the Cayuga Middle Fingers, Fifty Two points by the Good Will Punting - #math. We break down this week by the numbers, despite perhaps the lowest scoring week in the league. The race for the last spots of the playoff bracket is on! Trade deadline is one week away, make 'em while you can! Best of luck, stay safe, wear a mask.

And we're back with Episode 11: Week 10 of the NFL where we ask important questions like who will Matt Hanley play at QB this week? Would you play QB for the Washington Football Team? And a fun segment we called "What would you do?" where we put some of the greatest fantasy football players head to head and asked if you were drafting now knowing what their careers could b, who would you take for the dynasty league. It was a fun episode to make and stick around until the end to hear Geoff's pitched new theme song! It's a full episode! But kept it under 50 minutes.

Episode 10 - Election Week - We're bringing you hotter takes than Trump's rage dumps. We kept it short because we know that there are bigger things going on in the world, but we still hit the big points, plus some great bloopers! Hopefully by Sunday we can just focus on some football rather than spastically refreshing the electoral college maps. Good luck this week! (Also, way to go Ray on going 4-1 with the picks last week.)

We're in the home stretch of the regular season! Week 8, we bring in some outside expert opinions to weigh in on the league, make some picks, and in general, add to the calamity (be sure to stick around for the bloopers). What can we say, this show is Simply the best. Some would even contend it's better than all the rest.

Episode 8: We break down a GREAT week 6 across the league (with perhaps one notable

Early Print Edition. We break down the after effects of a COVID stricken week in the League of Ordinary Gentleman and look forward to the upcoming week, despite no Thursday football and ask and answer important questions like "Can the Davis Sq. Hipsters field a football team with the Seahawks on Bye?" "Did Dalvin Cook or Melvin Gordon get a DUI this weekend?" and "Will football be played every day?" Also introducing a new post-credits segment that may or may not become a regular addition. On to week 6!

Episode 6 coming in hotter than a COVID hotspot at the White House! The schedule is all over the place and for the first time in a long while we'll have Tuesday football. The Bills v. Titans game this week will be played on Tuesday and count towards this week and there are 2 Monday night games. Also there will be no Thursday night game next week. Nice and easy to figure out. We break it all down, including Geoff Seber and Timothy Mansfield's first losses, and make predictions for another crazy week of Fantasy Football.

Here we go. Season 2 Episode 5 Week 4 (holy numbers). Well folks, the NFL, like President Donny Johnny, has the 'rona. We discuss the impact, breakdown all the action for an exciting, high-scoring Week 3, and look forward to a surprising early "bye-week" for the Titans and Steelers.

How's everyone doing? Did you lose a key player? Do you need a hug after the mountain of injuries in Week 2? Well we're back with Episode 4, breaking down the biggest story lines of last week and how it impacts the league in Week 3. We went a little long, but we thought, heck we're late with this, we should give the people what they want - more content! There was a lot to talk about and I promise we kept it under 2 hours!

We break down the action of Week 1 and look ahead to Week 2! Football is back, it feels great, and Stav started off right where his team left off – scoring points and leaving everyone in his dust! Stick around to the end for the bloopers and the episode will be live as a podcast later today!

Happy Football Season's Eve! Episode 2 of AIO! is coming at ya - here as video content and also should be uploaded and available as a podcast tomorrow a.m. for you commuters out there (wait...who's commuting other than me?) We make our predictions for the season, break down the draft results, and make the weekly picks! We promise you it's less crappy than OBJ's chest!

The offseason recap! The season preview! Airing It Out is back and better than ever! New team name reveals, we break down what we look forward to in this what is sure to be a wacky season. We discuss the flurry of trades, we talk each team's needs ahead of the draft, but most importantly at 33:40 we discuss how we're going to handle COVID-19 issues for scoring this year! See you all at the draft tonight at 7! Zoom link will be shared closer to the draft!