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So he had 11 games in three time zones,

22 teams playing. Now, I don't enjoy

practice football, but I figured I was coming in here so I should watch.

So my wrist got a workout, but not from the remote control, because these games,

they weren't on my television, so I had to go and I had to watch on the interweb.

Thank God for the interweb.

And I was able to balance from game to game.

I think I sampled, they didn't get all 11 games, but I got about 75%.

So I'm not going to waste time here.

We are on time, maller, by the clock, four the clock, plausibly all about the clock.

So as Marcel in Brooklyn would say, let's get into it.

Practice football.

The question.

It's like a grab bag, if you will.

The big takeaways from what I saw, what I witnessed as I was flipping from

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