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We Caught These Teams Playing Imaginary Football Redhanded

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By Israel Daramola Verified, Ray Ratto Verified
| Defector Verified
Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Israel: College football is back! Sort of! Week 0 exists in a strange reality all its own. It is not preseason, as its games are real and important, and yet, the vast majority of teams will not be playing during it.
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Historic Cincinnati Comeback Offers A Stirring Testament To The Power Of Reds Week

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By Ray Ratto Verified
| Defector Verified
So who believes in Reds Week? The Reds, you fools. The Cincinnati Freaking Reds. And all the rest of you cynical apostates do too. If you didn't know it before, you damned well know it now. And not just for historical, electoral, or tonsorial reasons, either. We're talking the here and now, because Defector is in constant communion with the gods of sport, and we get results. Proof? Proof, you ask?
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Defector Music Club Gets Back Together For Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’

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By Lauren Theisen, Patrick Redford Verified, Rachelle Hampton Verified, Alex Laughlin Verified, Ray Ratto Verified
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This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. In honor of Reds Week, we're discussing Taylor Swift's 2012 pop-rock hit Red. Patrick Redford: I can’t be the only one whose strongest and first thought about Red is that there’s a sound at the end of the first synth swell in “I Knew You Were Trouble” that sounds just like the jail-cell door slamming closed in Akon’s “Locked Up,” right? Lauren Theisen: I primarily remember the screaming goat remix.
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