Bennett became an American citizen last year, a development he readily calls the joy of his life. He's got the kind of enduring love for standard-issue Americana that you scarcely find in a native son. In truth, Bennett's love for Budweiser is not just tied to the fact that the brand sponsors the MIB podcast.
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We're all subject to the tyranny of the gastropub, even if you've got your own TV show. Can I have a negroni? Do you have one of those?" Ultimately, he was forced to settle for a Craft Beer. 'Ello mate, how are ya? Do you have a Budweiser?" He learned they did not. "I would fucking love a beer," he says at one point, midway through a dissertation on American soccer fandom. So ultimately there's a sense of meaning, a sense of humanity, a sense of the limits of humanity. And the great players, the truly transcendent, make better decisions more of the time than the merely good. "They make simple decisions: do I pass, do I run, do I shoot. "We're watching human beings in football make decisions-human decisions-under conditions of hysterical pressure," he says. The Men in Blazers, pictured in their studio-the "Panic Room in the crap part of Soho." NBC He sees it as the mission of Men in Blazers-his mission, along with co-host Michael Davies, who's in his second act after a formidable career as a TV producer-to tell that story. He has that romantic's appreciation for sport as a human narrative built for answering questions about ourselves and our species.
"I'm a very negative man."-while his words betray his passion for language and storytelling. His manner is quintessentially English: self-assured but self-deprecating, constantly aware of his own Anglo stoicism-"I'm pretty sure I'm dead inside," he echoed at another point. Like happiness, sadness, victory, defeat, glory, and fear of death."īennett will happily tell you that he leaves the Xs and Os to "smarter" commentators on the game, but there aren't any milling around. "The world loves it because it makes you feel feelings that you're meant to feel in real life, but we're really dead to. "Ultimately, Premier League football is the greatest telenovela, acted out by a Star Wars cantina-worth of character actors," he tells me, the day before the 2019-20 season kicked off. The co-host of Men in Blazers, a wildly popular soccer podcast and accompanying show on NBC Sports, speaks in intricate prose straight off the dome, as if Christopher Wallace hailed from Liverpool and devoted his adult life to delivering England's Premier League to American fans as a Homeric epic where every character has a Game of Thrones analogue. Football can give you that-a sense of the devout and the shared." That's how Roger Bennett talks over a pint in a dimly lit midtown pub in New York. "The unfathomable, the unutterable, the transcendent and truly cosmic.
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