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and five G content optimization. Holiday season is upon us and instead of going on a deep dive on one specific question, we thought we would stuff your stockings with multiple questions and answer some of the ones you've been firing off to us over the last few weeks. Welcome to NFL explained, I'm Mike am joined as always of the fabulous a dd Kinka Wala in this season of gift giving, right, I mean, this is us giving gifts back to the listeners who have been gifting us with

their time. You know there's a listener right now going. You know, you guys are so cheap. If this is your gift to us, I get it, I get it. I mean what always supposed to do, like give all of our listeners something. But it's not just about money. It's about time. And we did spend time researching some of these interesting questions. I mean, I don't know about you, yeah, but I got a lot of really interesting questions in

my AMI mentions. Okay, So I feel like we might have gotten more gifts than we are giving in this episode, which is kind of cool and not necessarily like my life ethos, Like I like to give a little bit more than I take. If we all had that, we'd all be in a bunch better place. But I say that because when you fire off a question like hey, like, what do you guys want to hear on NFL? Explain? What can we answer people are funny. People are funny. I'm telling you, some of the acts that I got

were comical. So I appreciate all the chuckles that I was able to get from some of our listeners and greatly appreciate it. Well, since we have so many tremendous listeners and we did get quite a lot, let's just jump right into it, all right. We're gonna start with one of mine, because you know, people do at me quite a bit, Mike a lot. By the way, if we're doing that, you know, yeah, well I do keep track of who's winning on Twitter. It ain't me, all right.

Our very first one came from a gentleman named Tim Proud. Hey, Tim, thank you so much. Here's what he sent us. Here's one for NFL explained terminology. Where did terms like pooch, kick, shovel, pass, muffpunt, pick, et cetera. All come from? What a great question. That is a really great on all right, so why don't you start us with I don't know where pooch actually came from. I love how you did that. You said it, you set me up for failure. I mean, what kind

of friend are you? We actually don't have the answer for pooch punt, which is just kind of wild. Our research team and by the way, like our resources are truly amazing. You ask our research team anything, you get an answer relatively quickly, and unless you ask them where we don't have that one. So I don't think, all right, so that's going to be a part two. We will we will find the answer to that, and maybe someone

listening to us right now knows the answer. So if you know the answer of where pooch punk came from, please reach out to us. All right, let's move on. Shovel pass this actually came from basketball, Mike, because it's that shovel like motion with your arm. And then as for a muff punt, well, that's because a muff is a muff. A muff is in the dictionary is failing to hold onto a ball when you're trying to catch it. I was one set of game in San Francisco where

poor young man muffed two punts two in one game. Actually, I think that just happened last weekend in a Bengals game, didn't it. That's the other thing I'm learning, not even like the origin of these terms from a normal vernacular situation. Here I didn't even know what muff meant, so like, formally, outside of football terms, I never used I mean you're giving me this look like. That's because you went to Fordham, you know, if you had an ivy leage vocabulary used

the word moving right along. An interception is often called a pick. Why is it called a pick because a pick is another word for rob, like a pickpocket. And what do you do when you get an interception? Will you robbed the receiver? And you robbed the quarterback of their ball. Here's another one for you, Mike. Flee flicker. Fleeflickers actually a very very very long tenured part of our vernacular. It was created by the legendary University of

Illinois coach Bob Zepka. Described it as a dog's flicking action to get rid of fleas, So the way that a dog flicks to get rid of his fleas is similar to a flee flicker. According to Bob Zepka, I'm not sure I really get this one, this one, this one, I really like. Sack. Can you guess what era the term sack was developed, because we haven't been keeping track of sacks for a very long No, you're right, that

has been an issue. Although there's a part of me that says, when we were doing like our nicknames, like you know, we sort of dug into the research on some of these defensive teams and dudes just were monsters against offenses. So while it might not go like back to the early nineteen hundreds, I would imagine it's still I don't know, there's fifties, seventies, something along those lines,

nineteen sixties, that's right. So Marv Levy, the former NFL coach, Marv Levy, he says, the coach that he worked for one of his former bosses, George Allen, who of course is in the Hall of Fame, who coined the phrase the first time. And this is what Marv Levy said. He said that George Allen was talking the night before a team meeting about playing the Dallas Cowboys and the Dallas Cowboys quarterback who at the time was Craig Morton, and at the time it would always be tackled the

quarterback for a loss. But what Marv Levy says is the night before this game when the Rams played the Cowboys and Craig Morton, George Allen said, before we play those Dallas Cowboys, We're going to take that more insult and pour him into a sack. And so that was the inspiration for the term sack. Like the history behind it, never would have guessed that that's where, Yeah, that that's not where I would have found a little bit of

a stretch. Um. This one a little bit personal because I do happen to know Bill Freylick, and that's pancake. Bill Freylick was an offensive lineman at the University of Pittsburgh and he's blocks were so famously known for putting a pound it's flat on their back. This is in the early nineteen eighties that it was actually the Pits sports information department that came up with the term pancake. And that was during a Heisman campaign for an offensive lineman.

How about that. Bill Frelick actually finished eighth in the Heisman voting in and six people gave him first place votes for that one. That is wild. I mean, we always think about the Heisman as a quarterback award. Maybe you're talking about running backs, but I mean, hell, it's rare. It's a defensive player. I'm top ten in voting for an offensive lineman. That's got to be as rare as

they come. And by the way, kudos to a lot of the s I d s around the country who work I mean just behind the scenes and just crushing it. But to come up with something like that, I mean, it's really creative, like I think about, although the resources a little bit different. But you know, when Joey Harrington was, you know, was an Oregon quarterback, uh, you know in New York City, you know the huge billboard, you see stuff like that Gardner Minshew, you know with the mustache.

It wasn't a Heisman deal, but like you know, send a mustaches everywhere. Like that's kind of like the collegiate aspect of the game of that using the pancake deal. Like that's that's actually kind of fun. It is fun. Now here's one that there's no way that you'd ever guessed this one. And it's funny because I actually wondered about this one too. We talked about the shotgun formation, right, So where does that name come from? That phrase was

coined in nineteen sixty And here's what happened. The forty Niners upset the Colts, and afterwards, reporters were asking forty Niners coach Howard Red Hicky, you know, what was this offensive formation that he used that nobody had ever seen before, And so Red Hickey says, well, you know it's spread right and spread left, and you know, like that's kind of what it was. And the reporters are like, yeah,

that's not really that creative. So Hicky put on the spot, said well, I'm an old country boy and I used to go hunting with a shotgun, So how about we just call it the shotgun? If we're going to stay on weaponizing terms, I guess let's go with It's So blitz is of course short for the German military strategy, which was the Blitzkrieg, and that means a sudden overwhelming attack, right.

You remember, like the Blitzkrieg was sort of the lightning war, So what is a sudden overwhelming attack when somebody blitzes you unexpected? That one's very appropriate. Yeah, that one seems to make sense. How about Bootleg no idea where somebody alright, Bootleg actually comes from Pop Warner. He invented both the play and he came up with the name. And since we talked about history earlier, this one's got its basis

in history. To Mike, so back during the Prohibition, days, bootleggers would hide their alcohol in their pants, And the way that they would hide their alcohol is very, very similar to the way a quarterback hides the ball from the defense. So that's where that one came from. They used to hide their alcohol in their pants. You can't do that in today's day and age, with skinny jeans just not going to happen. So I can't imagine if skinny jeans were all the rage during Prohibition, what we'd

be calling the bootleg now in the NFL. Just it might be called something else. That's a whole other episode. Maybe we should come up with new terms. Yeah, really cool to see some of those terms get unleashed and actually a dit before we get to the next question. I know there was this idea of throwing at the definition of hail Mary. We're not going to do that here on this mail Bag edition because we have a

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who are the chain crew at games? Not to be confused with two chains who I saw in Atlanta one time? Are they supplied by the home team? Are they employed by the NFL? Are they referee qualified? So many questions, Well, we have so many answers for you, James. You gotta go back to nineteen o six, and if you missed our episode about the history of football, specifically the names, go and check that one out, because I feel like

we name dropped nineteen o six multiple times. Nineteen o six first downs were made to be picked up by ten yards instead of five by the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. Initially two members had two light polls or rods that were connected at their lower end by a stout cord or chain ten yards in length. So it's kind of obvious when we start talking about those chain crews.

But most chain crews they earned seventy five to a hundred dollars per game, which you're like, you know, that's not a lot of coin. Yeah, but think about the view that they get on the sideline. Those numbers. By the way, according to an SI article, the Jets, Yo, man, they're handling business. They on the upper end of the pay scalow hundred and fifty. It's not helping them pick up some first downs. But the point is the perks they include parking, pregame meals, are you kidding me? Bring

on the extra food, NFL branded gear. So look, I think there's a lot of fans that would just do it for the merch. I don't think that's kind of crazy because it is really cool to be able to do that. But all thirty two NFL teams they have their own chain crews. The NFL they actually don't even oversee the chain crewise. One thing that I saw that was really really fascinating to me, a lot of the

chain crew roles actually get passed down through families. That actually shocked me when I saw that chain crew members. Ninety minutes before kickoff, you dress, you get the chain for the field, not around your neck, and you ensure that the backup sticks are sufficient, and then you go and meet the down judge. So just something to consider

here when you're watching some of these games. Now, they cruise themselves eight plus members, including at least one alternate prior to the pandemic led to cuts on the sideline personnel. Obviously that became a little bit of an issue there, But the positions of each crew. You got the box man, I feel like we're what's the movie where you're like about to plan like a either a skate from a prison or you're gonna rob a bank. I feel like the position crews for the um they just have like

names that associate with that in my mind. You've got the box man, the auxiliary box man. Those are the dudes in the red smocks opposite sidelines to display the down. Two chain men who carry the sticks on the official side, one line to gain pole showing the first down spot on the auxiliary side. You've got the clipman, who oversees a marker that attaches to the chain at the nearest

yard line. That's a multiple of five. Their purpose is to line back up properly if the crew moves to measure on the field or leave their spot to avoid getting hit. You got the data person tracks down down the distance in the ball spot, and then a penalty card person records the specifics of every single flag Oceans eight is now what I'm calling this crew. I should have said that earlier. That was a long winded way

to me to get to the movie reference. But that's where I'm going with it, So James, hopefully that gives you a little bit of clarity. And the family thing is still what resonates the most with me and d d Well. I mean, it's a cool thing. And if you get to see one of your parents or your siblings doing that, wouldn't you want to do the same thing at some point too? Yeah? No, sign me up

for it. Um. This one created a little bit of debate a d D on a separate email chain, Daniel fired this off to us, Hey gang, first time, long time. Loved the old school radio reference. I always wondered who was the first person to get gatorade dumped on their head after a big win? Hashtag yammertime dude, Daniel love you man? Um okay. According to NFL Films founder Steve Sabell, the first film evidence of a gatorade shower was when the Giants defensive lineman Jim burt daused Bill Parcels after

a mid season victory in nineteen eighty four. Let's go real deep here. Jim Burt Jr. The son of Jim Burt Senior. Clearly I went to high school with the d D. Shout out Burken Catholic High School, New Jersey state champs that year. Jim, if I'm not mistaken, was a two sport athlete at Miami. I think he's now a baseball coach. I don't know for sure. We don't keep in touch on Facebook like all adults do at

this point. Um, just something to consider. And by the way, shout out to Fordham just because add was making fun Affordham a little bit earlier. Harry Carson continued the tradition. It became popularized when Parcels was dasted following their Super Bowl title in January nineteen eight seven. By the way, when Giants defensive lineman Jim Burt dast Bill Parcels after a mid season victory in nineteen eighty four, the research film shows yellow the color of that Parcels gatorade bath.

I'm an orange guy all the way. The biggest question I asked you, now, the d D your favorite color. I'm definitely in an orange person also, But let me tell you this, since you know we are. Let's admit that both of us grew up in Jersey, both of us grew up Giants fans. Obviously there are all these connections. There are indeed claims that it was actually Mike Dicka who was doused first, that it was the Bears Dan Hampton who gave his head coach Mike Ditka a Gatorade shower.

So again, we're not one sure it was maybe coach Parcels, it was maybe coach Ditka, but either way, he's a really fun fact. Bill Schmidt, who was Gatoray's head of sports marketing, when you heard John Madden describe a gatorade shower during a Giants forty nine playoff game, he said, I think I've died and gone to Heaven. Talk about marketing. Yeah, yeah, seriously, and all these Madden commercials. I can't actually wait to see that documentary. I think all of us been watching

them as we're watching these Sunday NFL games. It's going to be really cool and just sort of his impact on the game. Uh dd, we got another one. Um, do you want to get to this one? For sure? I do? Alright. My Flip Taco wrote us and said, I'm getting into learning more about football. Since my boyfriend is really into both football and fantasy football. I'd love to hear information about the rules and the pylon, even uniforms as they've changed over the years. And Flip Taco,

I love this last line. Thank you so much, he says, I just love this podcast so I can learn more. Everybody listened to Flip Taco and Flip Taco's boyfriend, You've got yourself a keeper right there. Well, the pylon, let me tell you this, because yeah, you know this, I am very fascinated by the pylon camera. So we are definitely going to have a whole episode on the pylon and the pylon camera at some point, but just a few really fun facts on the pylon right now. It

was created by Irwin Bud shop Bell. He was a Big ten and high school official from Ohio and back in March of nineteen is when he pat did a corner marker for football fields. Pylons were first used in the NFL in Super Bowl seven in January of nineteen seventy three, and they became standardized in the NFL at

the owners meetings two years later. They replaced flags to mark the corners of the end zones and look, the flag staffs used to be steel, which is a lot more dangerous than the rubber pliable material that pylons are made from. The weighted pylons replaced spring coiled pylons in the early nineteen nineties. And our friend Neil Gilman over at Gilman Gear remember him from the field Goal episode. He's the one that introduced the pylon cam back in

two thousand twelve. But again, like I teased, we will do a whole episode on that one, Mike, looking forward to that one. We got Alan who also fired off a question to the two of us and joined the podcast almost as much as Addy's weekly calls on the Ken Carmen Show regard and questions. What about discussing all the nicknames for positions half back, tailback, etcetera. By the way, can Carmen radio host which area I'm not familiar with?

He's my body Cleveland, Cleveland Ken Carmen Morning Show in Cleveland, and I joined him once a week and we have some good conversation. Well, daily spot, there a little fan in Cleveland. Appreciate the uh the question here? All right, So I'll start you want to tag team this sucker here? Because I think there's a lot to unpack, because we

already did an episode. By the way, Alan and once again appreciate this question on player nicknames, so if anyone has missed that episode, highly encouraged people to go back and check that one out. That was actually a lot of fun for us. But we'll give us a little bit of a shot here. I'll start with the wide receivers. I'll let you do the backs here. But before modern football,

wide receivers were known as split ends and flankers. Split ends, now known as the X receiver were named after the split from the end of the offensive line, so more of just kind of like the geography of where they actually were on the field. Ends that were tight to the formation became known as tight ends. Flankers now known as Z receivers, were on the opposite of the split ends and often lined up off of the line of scrimmage.

So once again, there's a lot of like field geography here when describing some of these positions of dB, which is a good way to remember these things as well, right, because they're not as random as one would thing. Okay, now we know that I love running the football, so I feel like it's only fair that I get to

talk about the backs, is that? Okay? Roll it all right? Well, players that lined up behind the offensive line, we're all known as backs because they were in the back of the offensive line, and they were often lined up in an eye or a split formation, so to differentiate they were given names based on their alignments. The full backs were the guys that were lined up furthest behind the line.

Backs that were halfway between the line and the full back were called half backs, and in the backs that were just a quarter of the way from the line to the full back where the quarterbacks. How about that? Although now we line up a little differently because of course a fullback will be in front of a running back, but still, back in the day, this made a lot of sense. Yeah, no, I'm with you there. Okay. So then the other thing, obviously, Mike, that I love besides

running the ball is playing really really good defense. So let's do some of the defensive one edge defenders. I actually love this because I remember in college doing my spotting boards, and you know, you kind of just think about d NS, and over the last couple of years or so, you started thinking about edge defenders, which was popularized by a Pro Football Focus in the last ten years is the three four and or a four three

defense because they've evolved over time. In fact, one of our last episodes about defense winning Championships, we actually talked about how the game has changed more pass heavy offenses. So the Associated Press officially added edge rusher to its All Pro team format in twenty six team the a P. Actually you define edge rusher as a four three d end or a three four outside linebacker, which to me, it's not a huge different differentiator between edge defenders from

linebackers or defensive ends. It's just once again sort of the placement that they have on the field. But the edge defender primary, right, because the point right. But the point, Mike, when we need to make clear, is that whether you are a four three end or a three or four linebacker, your job is to rush the past. So that's why the edge rusher, whatever edge you're coming off of, you're still essentially fulfilling the same purpose, no doubt, get after

the quarterback and blow up offensive place. By the way, Sam Mike er will, who do you like best, Well, I'd be a miclimbacker because the mic linebacker is usually the one that actually calls out the defense. It's considered the quarterback of the defense. And as you know, I'm the smartest person in this podcast, and as you know, I'm the one that's kind of the quarterback, so makes a lot of sense. I love it. By the way, when the smartest person on the podcast has to say it, um, well,

listen to us of the two of us. But in any case, so the Sam, the Mike, and the Will linebackers new monic terms to explain exactly where those linebackers are lined up. The Sam is the strong side, the Mic is the middle linebacker, and the Will is the weak side linebacker. I just like Mike because it's my name, So we'll just roll with that, all right. Add plenty more questions to get to, including my favorite one, who is the first quarterback to actually where plays on a

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kin kawaala with you. We're having a blast going through your questions on our mail bag episode. Got some good ones still left to fire off, some answers and a d D. There was one from Cathy who said she really enjoys listening to the podcast, which we absolutely love. By the way, make sure you continue to follow us, rate us and of course a little little review. We love to get some feedback from you. She said. I

learned a lot of fun and cool facts. I even shared the info about the Eagles logo with my son. He's a huge Eagles fan. I look forward to hearing some cool things about my Broncos. Thanks for listening as always, and by the way, Kathy's making reference to the Eagles logo and a d D. If I'm not mistaken. This was one of the factoys that you dropped in that episode.

It's the only one that faces. The Eagles logo is the only one that faces left, so that the feathers can make an e. They're also some on Broncos stats because she's a Broncos fan. A D D. Do you want to kind of tag team a couple of these cool nugs. Sure? Three championships, eight Super Bowl appearances, ten a f C Championship appearances, fifteen a f C West titles, twenty two playoff berth twenty nine winning seasons, and the fifth best record in the NFL since the nineteen seventy merger.

Here's another one. They actually the Broncos actually have the second best home record since the nineteen seventy merger as well. I like that, although recently some of these losses. Anyway, Broncos fans, I know, we're trying to stay positive here. By the way, since Kathy mentioned the Eagles logo, let's talk about the Broncos logo. It's actually gone through five iterations since nineteen sixty. All involve the horse, and the

first two logos feature man actually riding a horse. So, you know, as we start thinking about, you know, the different logos, and someone had mentioned uniforms. By the way, like I start thinking about the evolution of some of that stuff, and I think we are going to do an episode on that. But the real life Bronco Thunder in its twenty ninth year as the Broncos live mascot. You know, I think about Denver and the state of Colorado not too far from Denver, is bolder and clearly

I know all about see you. But they got Ralphie and Ralphie you know, the buffalo kind of runs out into the field. They're really big on like this whole animal, you know, themed football situation there. Well, I met Sunder the Third. There have been three Thunders and I met Thunder three or Thunder the Third a few years ago in Denver. Actually gorgeous, gorgeous pure bred Arabian horse, and you know he runs from end zoned his end zone

after every Bonco's touchdown. It's pretty cool. Yeah, very cool. Got another one here, great podcast for information. I find fascinating, love it. Hosts are great together. Oh and I look

forward to future episodes. So do we do a segment on sports media, which, by the way, I love, I mean, I kind of geek out on it's maybe sometimes inside Baseball, but um, any fun sports media stuff that we can unleash here, Well, let's remind everybody that we did, indeed do an episode on Monday Night Football which has to do with media, and we had to trim premendous sports media members join us then Ron Jowarski and the fabulous Melissa Stark. So definitely checked that one out if you

haven't already. How about this one. The first professional football player who was ever on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which, of course, when I was growing up, was the mecca sports journalism in my mind, that was Hall of Fame quarterback why A Tittle back in nineteen fifty four. November twenty second, nineteen fifty four. He was part of the forty nine ers million dollar backfield, and why A. Tittle was a seven time Pro bowler, three time first team All Pro, and he was the NFL m v P

back in nineteen sixty three. I love it. And you know, we made reference to Madden a little bit earlier, and I automatically think about the cover of Madden and how much of a cool accomplishment actually that is for players. The first NFL player on a Madden cover shocked by this in some ways just begins you think about some of the players that have been on it, and this is, I guess, clearly a shot, and I don't mean to make it a shot. I was just surprised by it.

San Francisco running back Garrison hearst On Madden, two time pro bowler, almost eight thousand career rushing yards. First NFL player on a Madden cover. Not bad. You know what's one that we may have to do, the Madden curse or all. That's just an urban legend and we should get some of our the Madden cover men to come

and join us. Does feel weird to you, by the way, on Madden, Like I graduated high school in I can't be that long ago, and I'm like, oh, man, as we're doing this over you know, video, and I haven't shaved in a few days, and I see some white and some salt on the side, like I guess, yeah, I guess, Madden, I'm getting old. D D Speak for yourself,

my friend, speak for yourself. Super Bowl one, the very first Super Bowl one thousand media credentials were issued, and in fact, NFL Commissioner Pete Rosel was so worried about the Super Bowl getting enough attention that he gave his PR staff two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to spend on the media, just to make sure that there'd be

some hubbub and excitement and talking about Super Bowl one. Now, fast forward to the last Super Bowl in Miami, and this number is actually a little bit depressed because of the pandemic. But six thousand media credentials were issued for that Super Bowl. I will say that again, there have been more. That's not an all time high. We're just going from first to the latest. It's still a lot of media members watching the games. Okay, this is my

favorite one right here, our producer Vince Havens. We love Evince. Vince wanted to know who is the first quarterback to put all the plays on their arm? You know how they wear. There's wristbands, Mike and they and they write plays on them. Yeah. And I've been meaning to ask some of the older quarterbacks if the font gets larger the older they catch on those wristbands. But I haven't gotten up the courage yet to go up to Ben Roethlisberger and say, hey, do you need bigger prints than

you did when you were twenty three. In any case, it was back in nineteen sixty five when Baltimore Colts quarterback Johnny Unitis and his backup Gary Kozo both suffered season ending injuries, and so it was the third string quarterback Tom Matt, who had been a running back he was forced to play quarterback. And it was offensive coordinator Don McCafferty who thought, hey, why don't we do a wristband?

And it was actually Tom Matt's wife, whose handwriting was small enough and neat enough that she helped him right and create this wrist band while he started three games. And one of those games is in was a playoff game in fact, and that original wristband that Tom Matt's wife wrote sits in the Pro Football Hall of Fame right now. So cool. I never would have thought about that. Of course, Vince did think of that question. So well done by him, Den who helped think of the solution

a woman, of course. Come on, now, well, I just think back to the episode when we had Kurt Warner pop on with us on other player's work week. If you missed that one, make sure you go and check that one out. But the pillow talk between Kurt and Brenda his wife to get him ready for games. And this makes sense and a d D. I think there's one thing that's abundantly clear. If I was talented enough to be an NFL quarterback and I needed a wristband, I would not be the one writing any place because

my penmanship is absolutely awful. If I had to get one thing for under the tree, it would be someone to help me with my penmanship. But that's not a gift that I can actually get, So that's why I'm here. I would definitely help you with that. I do have neat handwriting, but you know what, moving on, I have to tell you. I feel like this was a sup for fun episodes. We need to do one of these regularly. Yeah,

we need our listeners to yes exactly. Please keep sending us questions because it's fun to rattle through a bunch of these, and I learned a lot, that's for sure. No, I'm with you as well, Shotgun. I meant that I will never see Bootleg differently other than some dude with with a bottle of you know, prohibition whiskey and his pants. Always appreciate these questions. By the way, A King kabala a at Mike underscore yam um. Look, you can use

the hashtag NFL Explain. I'll continue to track and save some of these questions for a future edition of a mail bag episode. But a d D last thing, I will ask you, what's what are you hoping is under the tree? World peace? Come on now now, like you're putting me on the spot like that. I I don't think i've gotten you know what. I am just hoping for more patients and grace for each other, that we treat each other with a little bit more kindness, and that we can come out of this COVID world and

get back to our normal lives. Hoping I can get back into locker rooms next year. No, I'm with you there. I'm not gonna say mine because I'm gonna sound really selfish, because I just want to be unpacked and settled down in Los Angeles. For christ who are selfish, so so on who you are at this point, World peace for everyone.

Always appreciate everyone checking in, but Mike, Mike. Before we go, let's thank all of our listeners that helped us launch this podcast, to our team at my Heart, to our producers at the NFL Network, in the NFL Media Group, everybody. We've had a blast and let's keep it going in two. So everybody out there, happy, happy holidays, Happy New Year.

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