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My name is Dan Hantis.

I'm joined in a studio filled with some heroes. Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

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Ah! Freak out!

I don't want to, you know, sound smug or sanctimonious or overly self-satisfied.

But when people say, oh, the NFL is king, well, it kind of is when weekends like this go down

where it just takes over the culture and divisional round playoff football played at the peak level of drama.

It doesn't get any better.

And we talked about it.

The wild card round was a little bit of a, you know, dud.

This one, Greg, was as good as any I can remember. I think it was the best ever pound for pound. Yeah, and I feel personally responsible for making it happen. That's one thing like with us working for the league. It's a good looking to Greg's up. We did it. We put this together. We put the Bill's Chiefs last. You almost thought, I thought at the beginning of that game, it's like, this weekend's been so good that almost inevitably, maybe this game will be one-sided or won't be as, like, insane of an ending as the two NFC games were. But then you were so happy that it was last. I watched the end of the game almost with my kids.

And watching them go nuts just got me thinking about what you're saying about NFL being king

because they're not Bills or Chiefs fans.

And they were kind of starting to tune out towards the end because you know it's been a long week of football

watching and when those two teams started going back and forth in the end they are screaming

and yelling and running around and jumping and hugging even though they're not rooting for either

team and i was i'm just thinking like that's that's how you get them like they're going to be paying that cash to the NFL for the rest of their lives. Got them. And that particular game is one that we'll talk about for 50 years. The contrast for me was my family left for a little bit. I normally watched these games in the garage. And that's where I stationed Bucks, Rams. But I went into the house to go watch the rest of it. and then came here in the middle of Chiefs and the Chiefs Bill's colossal event.

I went back into the garage right before leaving to go turn it off and there was this, that station had switched to a like low level college basketball game.

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