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Brandt, Artists Supreme, my son, to boot to boot. Oh, we're going to do a Brant's Rants

podcast here. I've got a three things I want to rant about. First of all, officiating in light

of the Packers Lions game the other night and officiating as a whole in the NFL.

Second rant will be about the Jalen Ramsey trade in the NFL and the idea of a template for stars to leverage their way off teams or leverage their way into contracts.

And then we'll shift to the NBA.

And the NBA China episode, I've touched on that before.

I touched on that last week's podcast with Len Elmore, but want to give some more context,

especially comparing it to the NFL.

And I wrote about that this week and I've actually heard from executives at the NBA and the NFL about my column.

So we'll talk about that.

First to the officiating, I have to say this out front.

I mean, as everyone listens to me and knows my work and knows my background, knows,

I'm not hiding it.

Full disclosure, I'm a Packers fan.

Spent 10 years living in Green Bay where you're indoctrinated into your mainlined into your veins is Packardom 24 hours a day.

And I've talked personally about this before where one of the reasons I had to leave Green Bay, I just felt like my life couldn't exist like that anymore, where it was hard to go outside your house and talk about anything but the

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