Welcome to the Peter King podcast. So glad you could join me. It's a little bit strange.

You can see me if you are watching this right now.

I'm recording this on a lovely afternoon in California. I'm in Berkeley, California at the home of one of my daughters visiting her family, the grandchildren having a nice few days and I decided hey

let's just do this outside joined by Paul Burmister. Hello Paul how are you?

I am inside here in the dead of winter in Connecticut.

We had a snow squall yesterday, Peter. Are you familiar with this weather phenomenon?

I think I am, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was really something. There was no snow on the ground. Then the tornado-like snow came in and blew everywhere and 15 minutes later it looked like it had been snowing all weekend, but was only snowing for a few minutes so it was really something.

Wow, well, hey, this is, you know, it's the time of year when we can go a lot of different directions on the podcast and I thought I would sort of explain what we're going to do this week on the podcast.

First of all, you're going to hear an extended conversation I had with Aaron Donald, the All World

defensive tackle with the Rams, basically my column, Football Morning in America America for the week after the Super Bowl is centered on Donald.

I wrote very long on him, not just on what a dominant player he was down the stretch of this game.

But also a little bit about his career, about his life, and how I don't know, and we going to discuss this in a little bit.

I think it's 50-50 that he's going to retire.

He's played eight years and the Super Bowl championship is really the icing on the cake for Aaron Donald.

He certainly doesn't need to prove anything else right now about how great a football player he is.

So we'll see what he does.

And we'll get into that.

We'll discuss a lot of what Aaron Donald has meant to his team.

And later on, you're going to get to hear my conversation in this podcast

with Aaron Donald.

And one of the things I think you'll, you'll appreciate and one of the things I

appreciated having done this for a long time is how absolutely effervescent was Aaron Donald was in discussing what happened in this game

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