Tahoe Week is officially the best 5 days on the Barstool calendar, and this year's stretch leaned all the way into it. The 37th American Century Championship ran July 8-12 at Edgewood Tahoe, pulling in more than 80 athletes and entertainers for the celebrity pro-am, and Pardon My Take set up shop right in the middle of it for a run of live tapings, guest interviews and a Wednesday episode with Hall of Famer Larry Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald headlined the Thursday episode alongside Big Cat and PFT, and the conversation apparently wandered well past football. Between World Cup fallout over Christian Pulisic, a LeBron-to-Cleveland bit and a Mount Rushmore of food duos, the crew also got Fitzgerald talking about a grudge that's stuck with him for years.
Larry Fitzgerald still has hate for West Virginia @PardonMyTake https://t.co/gaeDX85TFv
That's the appeal of Tahoe Week as a concept — it's not really about the golf leaderboard, it's about parking four guys with microphones in front of a mountain backdrop and letting the week's chaos write itself. Case in point: Hank's arrival apparently didn't go smoothly, and the rest of the crew tried to smooth it over once he finally landed.
Shoutout to the rest of the Pardon My Take crew for trying to cheer up Hank while he was going through travel hell https://t.co/wvz9h9HpaW
The week wasn't all interviews, either. With Chill Week folded into the Tahoe trip, the crew turned domestic — Max took over kitchen duty and cooked up a batch of meatballs for the guys, sponsored by Twisted Tea, while producer Zac manned the grill for burgers under a DraftKings banner. Neither one looked like it came without a little pressure.
Max cooked up some meatballs for the boys during Tahoe week @TwistedTea https://t.co/DzRhLWmpTB
Add in a new PMTV episode dropping to close out the trip, and Tahoe Week checks every box the crew wants out of it: a marquee guest, a live golf event backdrop, and enough side content — cookouts, travel disasters, old grudges resurfacing on camera — to fill a week of shows on its own. It's become as much a tentpole for Pardon My Take as it is for the tournament itself, and Fitzgerald joining the Hall of Fame class only raised the profile of this year's field.
Zac was feeling the pressure during Chill Week trying to grill up the perfect burgers in Tahoe. @DraftKings #DKPartner https://t.co/jdWBCpehPm
With the tournament wrapped and the meatballs eaten, the trip functions as the unofficial midsummer reset for the show — equal parts celebrity golf coverage and company vacation footage. Expect the bits from this week to keep surfacing on PMTV and across the feed for a while yet.