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The NFL playing some defense right now.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Maler show.

We are side by side in the air everywhere as we are here all night, every night without fail, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and ferociously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the room, as in the jury room, where we deliberate the news of the day.

Fox Sports Radio Studios somewhere in a secret location in the Northwoods.

And it was one of the great days.

I've been doing this for a long time.

And this has got to be one of the top five days to do sports talk radio.

What an amazing day. And it has nothing to do with the games

on the field zip oh to do with the games on the field and when i went to bed i was convinced

that i knew exactly what the big story was going to be and then i woke up and and I was, oh, my God, the same day that Tom Brady made it official

that Tom Brady threw in the sponge and said, I'm done.

I can't play anymore.

Another story stole the headlines.

And that is our lead this hour.

It comes from the courtroom, appropriately enough,

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