Blake Anderson on causing Bills' Super Bowl curse, recasting Workaholics with athletes

Yahoo Sports Daily host Jason Fitz is joined by “Workaholics” star Blake Anderson, who discusses growing up in the bay area, which athletes he’d cast in a “Workaholics” remake and why he might be the cause of the Buffalo Bills’ Super Bowl drought. Watch the full interview on YouTube.

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Jason Fitz with Yahoo!

Sports, sitting with Blake Anderson, hanging out with us.

This Is Important is the podcast.

It is important.

It is.

I was just talking before we started about my massive fandom of Workaholics.

You have, you have helped me through many a night when I was melting on my couch- Sure … which I am saying very politely.

Uh- Yes … and I, I appreciate that.

what, for you guys, you guys were here last year with the Super Bowl experience in New Orleans.

We were.

I know, because, every time I saw you guys on Instagram, I was like, “Why was I not at the bar?”

Right.

what’s it like coming into another city, another Super Bowl experience?

Like, how, how has this all felt for you?

this- it’s actually awesome.

I think San Francisco is really representing well.

I’m from the Bay Area.

I was born in the East Bay, Concord, California, so it, it is a bit of a homecoming for me.

So when you watch the Super Bowl, any rooting interest this weekend?

nope.

Okay.

Nope, don’t, don’t really care about the two teams playing.

I do think the Seahawks are going to mash the Patriots.

I really do.

I think it’s not gonna be a good Super Bowl.

I think they’re gonna kind of squash them.

You guys have had so much acceptance in so many different groups, right?

Sure.

So, is there an athlete, like a famous person that you love watching play, that suddenly is in your phone, and you sit there and say, “I can’t believe that I’m buddies with this person?”

You know, me and George Kittle trade DMs every now and then.

Really?

Yes.

Oh!

And he’s a- It’s, it’s the hair, right?

Yeah, he’s a good time.

Okay.

You can just tell.

He, he You know, you can just tell.

From his interviews and on the field, he’s a fun guy, and he’s just a good dude.

So I’m, I’m a Kittle fan.

Obviously, because of the Bay Area ties, you follow the Oakland A’s.

I am from Las Vegas.

R.I.P., R.I.P.

I hope we can still be friends.

are you gonna remain an A’s fan?

Okay, so now does that mean that you are a baseball free agent, or that you’re waiting for a new team in Oakland, or that you’ve just decided baseball can kindly kiss your derriere?

No, I’m going full Orioles.

Or- Baltimore?

Yep.

Any, any reason, Baltimore?

They’re sick.

I’ve gone from A’s to O’s.

Oh, you know what?

I appreciate the alphabet, of course.

There we go.

Like, it’s easy on the hat.

There we go.

You can’t turn an A into an O, though.

You don’t need to.

Okay, it’s, now, look- I’m all Orioles.

I- You heard it here first.

That, that’s, this is where- Let’s go, O’s … we’re breaking news here.

This is, this is like- Let’s go, O’s.

you, fractured your spine, uh- I did, yeah … jumping off a roof onto a beer pong table?

Yeah.

Are we sure that doesn’t make you a Buffalo Bills fan?

Honestly, I started Bills Mafia.

But- They owe me.

They owe me.

it’s, I- And until they pay the piper, they’re not gonna win a Super Bowl.

Now, now we have found the Super Bowl curse.

It’s actually- It’s me!

Yeah, look, that- Come on, Bills … that’s right, a ping pong table.

And I love, I Honestly, my first Super Bowls I remember are Bills Super Bowls, where they kept losing, losing.

Those are my first memories of the Super Bowl, are the Bills losing, to the Giants, to the Cowboys, like And I was rooting for them.

I love Bruce Smith.

If you could recast Workaholics, but I need you to cast it with three athletes- … any athletes you want for each of them.

How are you recasting Workaholics?

Any athletes?

Okay, Michael Phelps as Ders- Oh.

Would go off.

are you just doing that to make Ders happy?

No, I mean- I mean But I also think- The swimming, the abs …

I also think he’d probably be- Okay … you know, he’s a bit of a stoner.

Okay.

Yeah, that’s fine.

Like, I, I feel like he fits the bill.

Mm-hmm.

Marshawn Lynch is Adam.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, that makes sense.

‘Cause- I like the product placement on that, too.

Yeah, that would be sick.

Who would be me?

What athlete?

I’m trying to think of, like, a female powerlifter.

Oh, Chyna.

Ch- Chyna the wrestler?

Yes.

We’re go- okay- R.I.P.

Oh, okay.

That is, that is- I would be Chyna.

You know what?

If you had offered me a billion dollars- … to come up with any, and I could have listed a thousand names, Chyna never would’ve been on there.

Chyna, Marshawn Lynch, and Michael Phelps, that’s a hit.

i- is there a Workaholics movie someday?

We tried, man.

Well, you know, now This Is Important is on Netflix.

Amen.

The visual of it, of course, you can listen to podcasts anywhere, but the visual of This Is Important is on Netflix, so maybe Netflix is, is the place that finally puts Workaholics movie on the map.

I, I, j- I don’t wanna be in the m- well, I might be in the movie.

I don’t need to be in the movie.

I just wanna be side stage- Sure … and you guys are my Lil Wayne.

Sure.

And I’ll just get ripped on the side, and then come out and let you know how I think of the performance as we go.

Is that good?

Absolutely.

that- Absolutely …

I appreciate your time.

Enjoy San Francisco.

I will.

It’s awesome to get to hang out with you.

Congrats on a, just a wildly, incredible career of success, and thanks for hanging out with me.

Thanks, man.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Thanks.

Thank you so much.

Blake Anderson on causing Bills’ Super Bowl curse, recasting Workaholics with athletes

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