Andrew Halverson

Titans and things. If you do #TitanUp, I will do my best to follow you. Post about debate occasionally. Mostly, I'm about the randomness of the world.

[Sean Grande @SeanGrandePBP]

The last three teams to win Game 1 of the Finals on the road all went on to lose the series.

The last team to win Game 1 on the road and win the championship?

The 2004 Pistons.

[Scott Barrett @ScottBarrettDFB]

Most Deep Passing Touchdowns [Last 4 Years[
@FantasyPtsData

1. Jalen Hurts (37)
2. Derek Carr (29)
2. Geno Smith (29)
4. Dak Prescott (28)
4. Baker Mayfield (28)
4. Trevor Lawrence (28)
7. Aaron Rodgers (27)
8. Lamar Jackson (26)
8. Tua Tagovailoa (26)
10. Justin Herbert (25)
10. Joe Burrow (25)
12. Matthew Stafford (24)
12. Jared Goff (24)
14. Josh Allen (23)
15. Russell Wilson (22)
16. Sam Darnold (19)
16. Brock Purdy (19)
18. Jordan Love (18)
19. CJ Stroud (16)
19. Bo Nix (16)
19. Caleb Williams (16)
22. Kirk Cousins (15)
22. Justin Fields (15)
24. Bryce Young (14)
25. Joe Flacco (13)
25. Drake Maye (13)
27. Jameis Winston (11)
27. Will Levis (11)
29. Kyler Murray (9)
29. Jayden Daniels (9)
31. Aidan O'Connell (8)
31. PATRICK MAHOMES (8)

There are 30 QBs with more deep passing touchdowns than Patrick Mahomes. There are only 3 QBs with more deep passing attempts🥴

[⛷️ @ThomasWrrld]

you can’t even do this trade in Madden 😭

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

In 1995, then Carolina Panthers GM Bill Polian made a legendary play action fake.

He had a Ki-Jana Carter jersey at the draft, so the Bengals at No. 5 traded with the Panthers to get No. 1 to take Carter.

Polian was never taking Carter. He got the 5th pick and a second round pick & took who he wanted (Kerry Collins).

This legendary jersey is in the Panthers archive managed by team historian David Monroe.

[Mike Herndon @MikeHerndonSk1]

Titans went to the Super Bowl last time the Spurs and Knicks played in the NBA Finals 👀

[Andrew Halverson @a_halverson]

The biggest two whiffs made by @amazon in the @JackRyanPV was the lack of showing the development into marriage by Jack and Cathy AND the lack of effort as well as plot in the recent movie.

[Harold R. Kuntz @HaroldRKuntz3]

From GEHA Field .. to A Field .. to Field. The sponsored signage at the Top of Arrowhead is coming down letter by letter.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

1994 just called and asked if you wanted to come over and listen to some Weezer later …

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

Aziz Ansari just appeared as Kash Patel on SNL, and they went innnnn on him

"I'm a trailblazer. I'm the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove without a shadow of a doubt that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as the whites."

[Jamie Kennedy @jamierkennedy]

Most PGA Tour wins.

Last 30 years.

45: Tiger Woods in his 30s
38: Phil Mickelson
34: Tiger Woods in his 20s
31: Vijay Singh
30: Rory McIlroy
24: Dustin Johnson
20: Scottie Scheffler

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In 1999, David Phillips bought 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and turned them into 1.25 million free airline miles. Adam Sandler later made a movie about it.

He was a 35-year-old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in. Double the miles if you sent them in by May 31. Three weeks away.

Phillips ran the math nobody else did. The cheapest qualifying product was Healthy Choice individual pudding cups at Grocery Outlet. 25 cents each. That meant $2.50 of pudding bought 1,000 airline miles. The airlines themselves valued those miles at $20.

He drove a van across California with his mother-in-law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around Sacramento, and stacked 12,150 pudding cups from his garage to his living room. When cashiers got suspicious, he told them he was stocking up for Y2K.

There was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone before the deadline.

So he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade. He'd donate every cup if their volunteers peeled the labels first. They agreed. Phillips kept the barcodes. The Salvation Army fed people with $3,000 worth of pudding. And he claimed an $815 federal tax deduction on the donation.

He mailed the barcodes by May 31 and waited. Two months of silence. His friends told him corporations always renege on these promotions. His own kids asked if he got scammed.

Then a giant package arrived. Paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles. Lifetime AAdvantage Gold status at American Airlines. $150,000 worth of flights.

The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000. The London Times followed a week later. Paul Thomas Anderson read the coverage and built Punch Drunk Love around him in 2002. Phillips paid for his movie ticket with pudding.

Over the next five years he flew his entire family to 43 countries.

Net cost after the tax write-off: $2,325. That's $54 per country.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Tennessee Titans @Titans]

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[Dan Patrick Show @dpshow]

🚨 Per Dan's source, the 2030 Super Bowl will be held in Nashville, TN!

"It is signed and ready to go."

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

On this day 50 years ago, Mike Schmidt homered in four consecutive at-bats as the Phillies overcame an 11-run deficit to defeat the Cubs 18-16 in 10 innings ⚾

It is still tied for the largest comeback in NL history 👏

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

Rory is just over two years from matching Tiger's all time record of most weeks spent as a top 10 player in the world.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets.

Let that land.

FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors.

That demand never showed up.

Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak.

FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities.

Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%.

The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop.

Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall.

Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse.

Empty stadiums are now a real possibility.

It happened at the Club World Cup last summer.

It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet.

The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.”

The market disagrees.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Rory McIlroy is an investor in Whoop, wears one of the company's wristbands while playing, and allows the brand to share his data periodically.

Here are some of his Masters highlights:

• 24,000+ steps on Sunday
• 91,000+ steps during the tournament

Rory's heart rate spiked to 135 BPM during his tee shot on 18, dropped to 121 BPM during his approach shot, fell further to 105 BPM during his winning putt, and then jumped back up to 150 BPM during his celebration.

His resting heart rate for the week was 47-49 BPM.

Rory says he follows a strict routine during the PGA Tour season to ensure proper rest and recovery:

• No caffeine after 2 PM
• Last meal at least 2 hours before bed
• Magnesium and theanine for sleep quality
• Blue-light-blocking glasses in the evening
• Sauana or Epsom salt bath when available
• Cool room temperature for sleep

He follows the same three-hour routine before every round: arrive at the course → warm up in the gym → eat breakfast → hit balls on the range → putting green.

Rory says he believes his focus on longevity will help him play another 10+ years at a high level, and his physiological age on Whoop is now 1.5 years younger than his actual age.

Plus, it turned out to be a pretty good investment.

Rory initially invested in Whoop in 2020 when the company was valued at $1.2 billion. While we don't know exactly how much he invested, Whoop recently raised another round at a $10.1 billion valuation.

That's an 8.4x multiple in five years.

Not bad, not bad.

[Kurtis Seaboldt 🏳️‍🌈 @klseaboldt]

That was the 93rd game in Royals history that went 9 innings and was played in under 2:00.

The record?

OAK 2, KC 1
September 28, 1971
Oakland Coliseum
1:35

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

last year Kareem Hunt converted 34-of-40 short yardage situations on 3rd/4th down

the season avg for RBs was 65.9%

Hunt was at 85.0%

that’s the #1 best rate since at least 2000 for any RB with 30+ attempts