Freezing Cold Takes, Fred Segal
Freezing Cold Takes, Fred Segal
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Freezing Cold Takes
NFL Football Media’s Most Inaccurate Predictions and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them

Author: Fred Segal

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2023

Synopsis

Since 2015, Fred Segal has chronicled "unprophetic" sports predictions on the internet. His Freezing Cold Takes social media pages feature quotes and predictions from members of the sports world that have aged poorly or were, in hindsight, flat-out wrong. The pages have become a guilty pleasure for hundreds of thousands of sports fans who love to see sports media's infamous "hot takes" that went cold.

Segal focuses on the NFL, and provides a vast collection of poorly aged predictions and analysis from NFL media members and personalities about some of the most famous teams and players in the league's history. He also explores ill-fated commentary related to draft picks, hiring decisions, and some of the NFL's most notable games. But this book is not simply a list of quotes. It delves through content mined from internet archives and original interviews with media, players, and coaches. Segal provides important background surrounding each featured mistake to offer essential context as to why the ill-fated prediction was made as well as why the personality who made the prediction is eating their words.

Together, the fourteen chapters—each spotlighting Freezing Cold Takes about a specific team or topic within a certain defined period—create a wholly unique and endlessly entertaining lens through which to explore NFL history.

About Fred Segal

Fred Segal is an attorney who practiced law full-time for more than eight years before retiring to pursue other opportunities. He currently operates the popular social media brand Freezing Cold Takes. He has appeared on numerous national radio and TV shows, podcasts, and local shows across the country to discuss his feeds. Major publications such as the Athletic, Sports Illustrated, and USA Today have profiled Fred and Freezing Cold Takes. Segal grew up in Miami and has lived in Florida almost his entire life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on January 14, 2023

It's not hard to find bad football predictions - there are enough bad predictions about individual NFL drafts alone to fill a book - but it's apparently harder to find something interesting to say about bad predictions. Segal's book compiles decades of bad predictions about players, coaches, draft p......more

Goodreads review by Andy on August 18, 2022

Ever get on the bird to make a public pronouncement about your favorite team or player? Now with the internet being forever, nothing is ever lost on metaverse. Thank the Lord that Freezing Cold Takes never caught my comment about "Quarterback George Johnson from WCHS ever leading the school to a cha......more

Goodreads review by Omar on December 28, 2023

Anyone that has followed sports social media for any period of time has seen the Freezing Cold Takes account, which resurfaces incorrect predictions and statements by analysts. This content has always been a source of humor for me and many other sports fans over the years. So the idea of it being in......more

Goodreads review by Josh on October 17, 2022

Unfortunately, disappointing. Unfortunately, this book was pretty disappointing. One, I expected it to be a bit longer than just five or six stories that most people know the ending to. Two, it just seemed like two of them, one intentionally, the other not, was how people underestimated the Patriots......more

Goodreads review by Jason on September 07, 2022

Fun, easy read. It shows how much the “experts” and news reporters don’t know! It was pretty cool to re visit some of these stories and see how far off a lot of people were on things. For Example- Ryan Leaf. Definitely worth reading for any football fan!......more

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