The Sports Hangover3 Jun 2025

The Madden Curse Is BACK, NFL in the Olympics, and Why No One Cares About the NBA Finals 🔥

In this episode of The Sports Hangover, we're back from Memorial Day with a fully loaded show — and trust us, it’s chaos in the best way.

🎮 Saquon Barkley just landed the Madden cover… and that means one thing: the curse is coming for him. We break down the very real history of the Madden Curse and how running backs always seem to get wrecked. RIP to your fantasy team if you're eyeing Saquon this year.

🏈 Plus — should NFL stars like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce suit up for Team USA in the Olympics flag football event? J Dawg and Mike battle it out on whether this would grow the game or completely embarrass America on a global stage. (Spoiler: Slovakia might cook us.)

🍿 In pop culture land, Timothée Chalamet is somehow the new face of Knicks fandom. We're talking private jets to Indiana, NYC celebrity fans, and why this NBA Finals might be the WORST matchup for TV ratings in league history.

📉 We also touch on the sudden deaths of Around the Horn and WTF with Marc Maron. The Sports Hangover outlasted them both. We're still here. Let that sink in.

💥 PLUS: Tinder’s new height filter (chaos), secret gambling prediction markets (legal 👀), and why Caitlin Clark might just start her own league and burn the WNBA to the ground.

👉 Subscribe now for unfiltered sports takes, hot gossip, and the occasional bold prediction that somehow hits 25% of the time. We’ll take those odds.

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