Hey, hey, and welcome into the House of L podcast.

I'm Lawrence Holmes.

Thanks so much for hanging out.

It's appreciated it.

We are keeping our eye on college football.

And this is nice.

I'm actually like chilling out in my office right now.

Just talking a little top 25 college football and occasionally some other stuff that goes out and I've really liked like this

addition to house of L even though it's really you know it's me just talking about football in another

capacity but I love watching college football and this weekend I got a bit of a treat

watching college football because I was able to watch

it with my dad.

And my dad's not super sporty.

He's a college, a retired college professor.

And I would say that he's, he's probably more excited about things that I have done academically

than professionally in the sports world.

But my mom was out of town and I, all the boys, me and my brother, my my nephew we kind of took turns like hanging out with

my dad didn't want him to feel lonely and I said well what do you think about watching the

Alabama game on Saturday he was all for it he got up early and we sat and we watched the Alabama game and I was trying to explain to him what Tuscaloosa is like and how Tuscaloosa, I think the population of Tuscaloosa is like 120,000 people.

But on game day, they get 100,000 people in the stadium, in the stadium and Brian Denny Stadium.

And so I was talking to him about college football and why people are so passionate about it.

And for me, being someone who never had a real connection to college football i i loved

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