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Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, boys, week 14.

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We fly in now.

It's entering into that middle of December, and I know there's an extra week this year.

So season's not actually over until January 9th, the regular season? Isn't that kind of crazy? Yeah, football is family. Football is family. Football was family. And then they added another week to the season. They don't use that anymore. They were like, we had to give up something. They have killed that. It was family. Am I just not tracking those ads?

Family at the beginning of the season. But yeah, the 18th week is actually just like a neighbor. That was that? You invite him over, invite her over. But yeah, not family. Remember when they announced the extra game added and they said, this season's going to be the biggest season ever. Oh, wait, that is it. Yeah. What came in second is football was family.

Well, yeah.

I mean, they were like, what should we go? Let's skew positive. The first ad campaign just creates anxiety in me. I don't need everything with the NFL to always be bigger. More balloon-like. You're in the wrong company. My football's family, I mean, at this point, I am trying to insist that during like my

kids' TV time that Walker stopped re-watching the 2012 NFL season.

And yet that's just what he's doing.

I was just like, oh, you just enjoyed that Bears Bengals week two game from 2012?

Yes, but Greg, you directly, you directly created that no issue in your house.

It's just up to him.

Today's Thursday. Tuesday night was the holiday party. That was a fun time. I came up with like a

best of the holiday party before we get into all the

game oh wow uh 14 games we're gonna obviously go through each game break it down uh but a good

time was had the holiday party was held at sofi stadium which was interesting i've never been

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