Illegal Formation

Apologies for the late upload, the holidays and technology escaped us.  We talk the picks for Week 17, eSports, and surprising success for some other NY sports.  Happy New Year Everyone!

In this episode, it's bowlarama! The guys predict every last bowl game. Also we wish a fond farewell to Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese

Did you miss us? We missed you!  Chris is extremely jet lagged after returning from Japan. I do not think he knows what time zone, location, etc. he is in at the recording of the episode, but he is alive and present.... somewhat.  John has found solace is in football season with early season success in basketball.  Join us for Week 13 picks and playoff picture projections.

This week, John forgot to put up last week's podcast so you get two! We talk about the baseball playoffs, Jets Joy, and Giants sadness

This week, Chris was busy with his Sister's wedding, so instead we have a previously recorded interview with Anthony Ianni of Autism Speaks! You can find more information about Autism Speaks at the link: https://www.autismspeaks.org/ Also check out the relentless tour: http://relentlesstour.com/

This week, John was in for a dental procedure during our recording day, so instead we have a previously recorded interview with Sean James of Athlete Ally! You can find more information about Athlete Ally at the link: https://www.athleteally.org/

The boys are back! We talk about season over/under, make week 1 predictions, and as always, get mad at the NFL for some dumb thing they went and did.

We briefly discuss the Final Four and the NCAA Championship.  Sorry Zags!   Then, we dive in with an interview with Brian Tuohy, author of the books The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR, Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing, and the FBI, Disaster Government: National Emergencies, Continuity of Government and You, A Season in the Abyss: Sports Gambling Vs. the NFL's Integrity, and many contributions to Vice Sports and Bleacher Report. Two books, mentioned in the pod, that inspired his writing are: - Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football - by Dan Moldea - They Call It A Game - by Bernie Parrish   After this interview, we want to leave you dear listeners with one thought: Pro Wrestling is honest in its existence as scripted entertainment and can pull in as much or more audience share per show than other major sports, so would the other major sports have anything to lose if they pulled back the curtain revealing whether or not they were scipted??   Let us know your thoughts and get back to us via twitter.

John has a case of March Sadness after Kentucky loses, so Chris let him talk just a ton about Wrestlemania. Also there was basketball, baseball, gushing about the Fast and Furious series, and a bit of football news.

Chris goes Crazy for Xavier. Debate the proper billing of the Jericho. Ranger's Lord Stanley Strategery.  All that & more of this week's Illegal Defense!

In this episode, John forgets to put the podcast up on time, gets 2 upsets right and one upset incredibly wrong. Chris is less wrong.

John and Chris wrap up the 2016 season by talking about the greatest super bowl in history, the greatest coach/qb in history, and the opposite of the greatest owner in history.

IT'S SUPER BOWL LONG ISLAND!!!!!! ... ... ... wait, the LI does not mean Long Island?  ... ... It means 51? Oh darn! Well we chat this week about the game, our picks, all of the exotic bets that surround the Super Bowl this year.  Hopefully it will be a sign that the best of you will be picking smartly.  You can win HUGE, bigly!  This is not an alternative fact, that is for sure!   We are going to make it after all!  

The boys are back after a week long siesta. They discuss the NFL Playoffs so far, Championship week, and John Gruden coming out of the bullpen.

Chris and John go wild on this episode of the Illegal Formation Podcast. So Wild, that it's totally uncut and unedited!

As 2016 comes to a close, we get a visit to the studio by our good friend and resident expert Ryan.  Be amazed as he lays down the knowledge regarding his picks, along with ours, for the last week of the regular season.  With three people on the show, do we go off the rails? Tune in to find out!

The Giants win the Cadillac and the Coffee for closing, The Jets close and all they got was a lousy set of steak knives, and Jeff Fisher came in third place and won "You're Fired".

The episode you've all been waiting for returns. Much like the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror   BOWLARAMAMANIA MADNESS RETUNS!   The real winners of the bowl games is Middle Tennessee because they have spent consecutive years in both Bahamas and Hawaii.  Talk about school sponsored vacations! We chat Week 14 NFL games and predictions for each of the Bowl Games!

John and Chris are back at it again! They talk about Ohio State creating sadness, sports owners, and of course, predict the week 13 lines.

At long last the boys are back in town! This week Chris and John talk about Week 11 NFL Lines, Attempt to talk about hockey advanced stats, and put the podcast up really late in the week!

So we record as Game 7 of the world series is playing. John is distracted.  We squeak out some week 9 picks, college football, and some World Series play by play.  Enjoy!

Chris hates the number 7 and Clowns, so we decided to miss a week because it was Week 7 and Chris encountered some clowns.  Anyway, we go into Week 8 picks, the unthinkable World Series, College Football, NBA and NHL previews.  

 In this episode: Chris and John talk about Week 6 Lines, Cubs Magic, and football seasons already over.

In this week's episode, we talk the Week 5 lines, MLB playoffs, and doom the Mets. Next Week: John learns to set the correct date in a timed release!

So we are discussing the Week 4 of the NFL season and the development of the playoff picture.  Chris is still recovering from his visit to the happiest place on earth.

The Football hard count down! We go in on our picks this week and jump into college football and the Wild Card Race for MLB.   Better stay on your toes as we bring into the no-huddle podcast!

Chris channels even more of his inner Carnac (unless John just gives them away) by guessing what the lines will be for the NFC teams and we pick the over/unders each team and how they will perform this year.  We also pick division winners (SPOILER: Packers, Panthers) and division losers (SPOILER: 49ers, 49ers)  

Chris channels his inner Carnac the Magnificent by guessing what the lines will be for the AFC teams and we pick a part each team and how they will preform this year.  We also pick our division winners and wild card contenders.  We also briefly talk about MLB as the playoff race heats up and some conversation for movies to watch!   Catch this and more on the latest illegal formation!    

John and Chris talk about the NHL/NBA playoffs, Villanova, and VILLANOVA.   We also sign off until the NFL season begins, thanks for listening to our One Shining Moment!

Chris and John talk about the Final Four, Wrestlemania, and the Warriors.

This weeks illegal defense is less like March Madness and more like March Sadness. We talk about Stone Cold Steve (F) Austin's near sweet 16, Northern Iowa's total disaster, Syracuse vs Gonzaga being an actual real not fake sweet 16 game, and how Chris isn't so Sparty anymore.

We're back! John and Chris talk about the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament, NFL free agency, and preview the MLB season.

We close out Super Bowl 50 with Episode 25!  We review the super bowl and how underwhelming it was, talk about the halftime show and the highlights of Bruno and Bey, and some super commercials.   We catch up with some Basketball, both NBA and college, some wrestling, as well as a PSA on CTE! You don't want to miss out!

In this episode, we talk about the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl, and the Super Bowl.

It's the Jordan Episode!  Number 23!  For the Third Time!  Say What?!   We review the Conference Championship games and desperately avoid talking about Super Bowl Related Material to save it for next week.  We start to explore some talk about basketball and some entertainment things and stuff.   Enjoy!

I had a fun and witty post up, but it got deleted in the trials and tribulations of uploading the episode and it got deleted.  You will enjoy this one in its place. Sorry!     Also, Chris sort of loses his mind....    :-)

The boys are back, and they talk about the wild card games, the CFP National Championship, the upcoming Divisional Round, and have an extra long David Bowie theme song.

FINALLY IT'S PLAYOFFS TIME!! For other teams, not for the Jets, Giants, Bills, or Lions. Bummer. We talk about Wild Card Week, Black Monday (and Wednesday), teams moving to LA, and the CFP Championship.

So we approach the final week of the NFL season, Jets have a good shot at making the playoffs and the Giants will be out on the green working on their short game.  One of us hopes and prays that his team clinches a playoff birth, while the other weeps at another losing season.  We go over the playoff hopes and dreams of the teams till in it and we talk about the last preseason game for some teams who are playing a meaningless game unless they are backups competing for spots next year.   We also talk about the chances for the teams in the hunt for the College Football Championship and their playoff chances. We go in complete opposite directions, one who chooses with his head and the other choosing with his heart, potentially.     Oh and a podcast first! RIP Lemmy! RIP Meadowlark! On the banks of Red Cedar Go Green! Go White! Victory For MSU!

We talk about Playoffs. (Jim Mora Joke goes here)

I don't know about you, but I am complete excited for tomorrow!  But before we lose our minds over Star Wars, we've got football to watch and talk about!   The Giants and Jets,both have the opportunity to make it into the playoffs.  Sadly, the road ahead for the Jets is much more difficult than the Giants and at a record of 11-5, at best, could not make the playoffs.  The Giants could limp into the playoffs at 7-9 and this is all an absolute travesty! Let's hope for the best for our boys.    Anyway,   We recap what happened week 14 and how we were not impressed with the product on the field and what we expect for week 15. 

In this episode, Chris is Happy, John is sad, everything else is battletoads(or frogs).   Also we talk about every college bowl. Yes, all of them.

Hey Gang,   December is here so we are closing in on Conference Championships in College Football and the last quarter of the Football season so it feels bittersweet. Football season just flies by!  Anyway, we cover some of the possibilities of who can get into the College Football Playoff and dive into Week 13 of the NFL season, but not necessarily in that order.   We cover briefly some of the exciting developments in basketball with the emergence for  KP! We love Kristaps! and We say goodbye to Kobe.  Come Join us on this amazing episode!

Chris is super happy about Sparty! He's super not happy about Jetty! John is totally indifferent about all of it....ty! They can't all be winner folks. Featuring the most we've ever talked about college football in a single episode probably ever.

  We're joined by Steve Silver from the Illegal Blitz to talk about the recent ban by New York State of One Day Fantasy betting. Then we make our Week 11 Picks, and talk a bit about College Football. Sorry other sports, this is about Football!

Meow, we are well under way in November and halfway through the football season, beginning to see the pretenders and the contenders.  Seeing some bright positive future potential and seeing some legends show their mortality.     We cover the optimist and pessimist view of the teams that played week 9 and make our picks from week 10.  We talk about some of the interesting College Football Games of the Week.    Also, Chris cries over the Michigan State loss.  The second consecutive week of disappointing losses for him and he is trying to cope.  Let's hope for the best for him.

The Mets, as usual, have greatly disappointed Chris. It is a sore topic. Don't talk to him about it.  He can be seen quoting Ricky Bobby ("If you're not first, you're last!") and occasional sobs in the corner.  He seems to be getting better now.     Back to Football.  It's week 9, so we have made it to the halfway point in the season.  We talk the lines for the games of the week and finish up with a recap of the top 4 in the College Football Playoff rankings and the meaningful games this week.   I would say there are 3 college games that are more entertaining than most of the NFL games coming up this week, except for maybe Packer Panthers.     Please help us update our logo! We could really use your help!

Let's Go Mets Let's Go Mets Let's Go Mets Let's Go Mets Let's Go Mets Let's Go Mets!Ehhhh.... Ahem... Sorry guys, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to inform you that the Mets are in the World Series. As you all know, Chris is just a big Mets fan and John has been swept up in the Tsunami known as Fall Baseballitis. This wonderful illness is contagious for those whose team has been eliminated from the playoffs and they root for the other local team! Good Job, John!  So we sort of breeze through the Week 8 games and the college football games and do a bit of an in depth analysis of the Mets and Royals Matchup in the World Series.So, you do not like baseball or football, this podcast is not for you.

THE METS! THE SPARTANS! THE JETS! EVERYTHING IS COMING UP CHRIS!!!!   (The Giants, The Wolverines, The Yankees, Everything is sad for John)

We're officially past the quarter pole of the NFL season, so Chris and John give progress reports to every NFL team.   The boys also talk about the most important college game in the history of this podcast, make our week 6 picks, and scream loudly into the microphone.

The leaves are turning, regular season baseball has ended, and hockey begins!  Norm from Dudes On Stuff comes back to discuss NHL 2015-2016 previews and playoff predictions. We also delve into some pick for the NLDS and ALDS.  As well as address the sadness of the loss of the Yankees in the Wild Card to the Astros who will probably lose to the Royals. We come back to football with our Week 5 picks, but Chris seems out of it because his Jets are in their Bye Week, so he was on a mental Bye Week as well.  And we round out the night with our College Games of the Week and our picks.