After 10 years of Pardon My Take, Big Cat and PFT Commenter are finally cashing the checks their bits have been writing since day one. Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take hits shelves August 18, 2026, via HarperCollins, and the promo run over the last day makes it clear this isn't a quick cash-grab paperback — it's a full victory lap for the show.
A promo montage rolls through PMT-adjacent faces before landing on someone holding up the actual Pardon My Book hardcover.
The guest chapter list alone is enough to make this feel less like a podcast tie-in and more like a full-blown sports media event. JJ Watt, Blake Bortles, Blake Griffin, Ryen Russillo, Chris Long, Kyle Long, Ryan Whitney, Jim Harbaugh and Chris Berman are all reportedly contributing, which is a wild mix of Pro Bowlers, coaching legends, broadcast royalty and PMT recurring bits come to life. That's the kind of lineup you get when a show has spent a decade building relationships across every corner of the sports world.
Pardon My Take's own account kept it simple with the countdown, hammering home that the book is officially out tomorrow and pointing followers straight to the preorder link.
The same promo footage runs again, closing on the book's cover with both authors' names front and center.
But the best part of a book launch is never the marketing copy — it's the fans getting their hands on it early. Nicky Smokes posted a clip of a signed, limited-edition copy with an inscription reading "To the dumbest guy we got," a perfect distillation of the show's whole self-deprecating brand of humor. It's the kind of moment that turns a corporate book launch into something that actually feels like it belongs to the Pardon My Take universe.
Two men trade a signed copy of Pardon My Book, one reading the "To the dumbest guy we got" inscription before the two embrace.
For a show that started as two guys riffing on Barstool's back page and turned into one of the biggest sports podcasts going, a hardcover book with a JJ Watt or Jim Harbaugh chapter is a genuinely funny full-circle moment. August 18 is the date to circle if you want in on the joke — or the inscription.