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May 15th, schedule release blowing up the sports world.

Dan Hans is here with heroes, Greg Rosenthal, and yes, Mark Sessler. And that is what we are all

about on tonight's episode. We're taping this Wednesday evening

here on the West Coast, Mark Sessler. The schedule is out. We're going to go through all

the interesting nugs that we can dig up on short notice. And I know I can see the goosebumps

through my monitor right now looking at

you, bud. I mean, you know, I was thinking, though, that back when I was in like seventh and eighth

grade, that there was a very special day each, I think it was back in April back then, where

USA Today would print. And it was breaking news as a newspaper back then, like the entire NFL

schedule, and like my brother and I would have a wrestling match over, like, who got to look at it

first. So it historically has meant a lot to me. I think now I'm surprised that it's not taking

place over four or five or six days as a week-long event because I think that's probably where

we're heading with it at this point. For some reason, like when Mark started telling that story,

I expected him to be like, and then the milkman came over and told us from the transistor radio.

He's older. Yeah, it's funny. I'm a huge fan of the NFL, you know, since I was probably about

10 or 11 years old, but I don't remember the NFL. Obviously, they didn't handle it at all

the way they do now as in terms of a blowout event the way it is now. But even then, I feel like

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