The Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast

Oct 22 2024 359 ep. 74 mins 129
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Sports Trivia for those of us who rode the pine. You don't have to be an expert, you just have to enjoy having fun.

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EP 276: The Age of Abredarrious (featuring Assistant Coach John Ross)

Oct 22 2024 70 mins  
Assistant Coach John Ross hosts this fabulous game pitting Mason and Tako against Matt and Markkus. In this episode, we make a lot of noises, John has some legendary Pre and Post Games, we mention little-known Morehouse College quarterbacks, imagine a muscly Drew Bledsoe, try and avoid sneaky Canadians, spell lots of complicated names very poorly, and Markkus is hardcore triggered

EP 275: Locker-Sized Luks (featuring Assistant Coaches Trevor Hogg and Marc Grenier)

Oct 15 2024 68 mins  
Assistant Coaches Trevor Hogg and Marc Grenier team up to present a game all about non-Big Three sports! In this episode, we wonder if colds are transmissable via Zoom, Walling has white guy country club problems and wishes death on an entire family, Josh declares war on Louisiana and is sent into a midlife darts crisis, and Luks and Tako fail to think about women, and have a ”go

EP 274: The next Cars is Dak Prescott (featuring Front Office Member Riley Scherer)

Oct 08 2024 62 mins  
Head Coach Riley Scherer joins the bench and teams up with David to face Matt & Walling in this Ede hosted episode. In it we try to identify the guy with the neck, or does he have a neck, and which quarterback is the best to get stuff off of the top shelf. Also, David sets a record for being fired twice in one episode, Ede breaks everyone with his missing link, and Riley forecasts

EP 273: All my Expos live in Texpos (featuring Assistant Coach Adrian Bias)

Oct 01 2024 55 mins  
Assistant Coach Adrian Bias returns to the bench for this Tako-hosted game. In this episode, the players are immediately put on edge with an all-golf first quarter; we discuss Scandanavian name origins, and how ”it’s gonna have a lot of vowels in it”; Scott and Adrian create the first all-athlete boy band, The Really New Edition; we play a quarter that is somehow five differe

EP 272: The Adventures of Net Man, World's Most Boring Superhero. (featuring Equipment Manager Hugh Gitlin)

Sep 24 2024 55 mins  
Equipment Manager Hugh Gitlin retuns to the bench in this Luks-hosted game. Hugh teamed with Eric to take on the duo of Scott & Mason. Despite his many appearances, Hugh still doesn’t quite get the audio medium, imitating one player’s batting stance, and sharing his recent gift from the MS-150 bike ride. The teams have a chance to play name generation for old-timey baseball nam

EP 271: Like a Lollipop Got Dropped in a Barber Shop (featuring Assistant Coach Scott Hyland)

Sep 17 2024 75 mins  
Assistant Coach Scott Hyland returned to the Bench for this Josh-hosted game. In it we learned that all four players would have dinner with a living baseball player if given the opportunity, that the players ponder if there is such a thing as a hereditary foot fetish, that Scott (Grimes) made reference to Dan’s Benchwarmer grave, that Markkus thinks snooker sounds too much like a

EP 270: It's a Hidden Hocker Question (featuring Assistant Coach Tim Geving)

Sep 10 2024 65 mins  
Assistant Coach Tim Geving returns to the Bench and teams up with Mason to face Markkus & Matt in this Ede-hosted game. In it, we learned that Tim & Mason don’t want to get canceled, the Missing Link is not about people with huge hogs, a Weird Al-free halftime still has the teams singing, and the teams need a measuring stick for the Sporting Haikus round. #Prefontaine #Postfontai

EP 269: PUPa - Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania (featuring Assistant Coach Vinnie Iyer)

Sep 03 2024 67 mins  
Assistant Coach Vinnie Iyer returns to the Bench for a Tako-hosted game. In this episode, we think about robust goatees, Josh’s innocent mind doesn’t consider the implications of a Bald Johnson, we pitch potential impressions for Markkus that have a slightly smaller tongue than Shannon Sharpe, wonder if Quentin Tarantino is a nepo baby, and get nostalgic about Sports Illustrate

EP 268: Definitely a Left-Hander

Aug 27 2024 71 mins  
Eric Ede hosted this all-Benchwarmer game where we learned the following: that Eric only missed one syllable during his Sporting Haiku quarter, that the worst Missing Link performance resulted in both teams getting points (after talking it out together and throwing out a guess at the very last second), that Scott couldn’t stop thinking about Kamala catching touchdown passes from

EP 267: Michael Cera, Offensive Coordinator (featuring Assistant Coaches John Ross & Dave Brown)

Aug 20 2024 77 mins  
First-time guest (and Assistant Coach) John Ross is joined by returning guest (and Assistant Coach) Dave Brown to play this Markkus-hosted game. In this episode, we pitch a sequel to The Program, which is mostly just paperwork; we pay tribute to the Humble Oracle, David Luks; John tries his best to give away an answer, but Matt and Dave refuse to take it; Tako is triggered by menti