Emmy-winning TV creator and writer Michael Schur (SNL, The Office, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn Nine- Nine, The Good Place) chats with Trey Elling about his new book, BIG FAN: TWO FRIENDS, 82,490 MILES, AND THE WILD, WONDERFUL SPORTS WE LOVE.
Co-authored with lauded sports writer and friend Joe Posnanski, the book explores what it means to be a fan for sports they love, others that they’re unfamiliar with, and some they downright hate!
- Starting with football (0:00)
- Darts championships and their bathrooms (6:49)
- Unrivaled Basketball and ‘creating’ fandom (11:31)
- Dead & Co at the Sphere and Wrestlemania (19:29)
- ‘Awe’ and fandom (26:44)
- Mike rigging his son’s Red Sox love (29:28)
- Mike’s attempt to revive FIELD OF DREAMS (38:39)
- The question for a sequel for BIG FAN (44:44)