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Well, they weren't pumpkins, but they were smashing helmets.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere.

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We do thank you for that.

So there were a couple different ways I could have started the show.

And I decided, you know what?

Play the hits, my man, play the hits.

So I lead this hour coming from the gridiron.

It is the story that as everyone, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

Talk, talk. It happened.

Not a game, not a game, a joint practice. This is the in vogue thing because teams

don't like to actually play their players in exhibition games. So instead, they hang out

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