Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

It's going to be a Brantz Rance edition. Talk about some things happening in the sports world,

but also some personal insights just to give you some sense of where I am at this point as we head to the end of the year here before the holidays.

We'll get to that.

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caps get your 50% sign-up bonus today betonline dot a g my first rant will be from the world of football

and business and firings. There's been a firing.

You know, there were some coaches fired earlier this year in the NFL, Ron Rivera of Carolina,

Jay Gruden of Washington, now interim coaches in the mix as those teams start searching or have

been searching for new coaches.

We had our first executive firing of the year, and it's the venerable Tom Coughlin, who's had

such a career as a coach, and recently as an executive, fired from Jacksonville, where he

revolutionized the team way back as they reached conference championship heights years ago.

Now he was back and they got to the same place a couple years ago, but they've hit some hard times.

Certainly what precipitated his ouster was what we saw earlier this week, the NFLPA, took a gratuitous

shot at him and the organization in general, but I think specifically at him. So what happened was

the organization was finding players for miss meetings, miss workouts, missed sessions during the

voluntary part of the off season. Again, think about that, the voluntary part of the off season. Again, think about that, the voluntary

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