Welcome to the shutdown full cast.

It's a little bit of a story time here to start, and this is an unconventional start.

But then again, you are listening to the only college football podcast.

You have no other choice.

There's a story I want to tell, and it starts on December 8, 2018, immediately after Atlanta

United's championship, the major one in Atlanta's history.

Can't think of any other team in Atlanta that's ever won anything.

Certainly not one team from Athens winning anything in Atlanta of any significant note.

I'm saying that for a reason because I was facing about 80 feet of straight water out

of a marty station, and somebody next to me said they didn't want to mess up their shoes.

So I let this extremely vain person jump on my back so they wouldn't mess their shoes.

And I took off at my waterproof boots with this dude behind me, graciously thanking me

for carrying him through the water, which anyone would have done because the person I

was carrying was Ed Ashoff, the reporter, TV personality, overall, mentioned outstanding

gator who passed away recently due to complications from pneumonia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

If you would like to pay tribute to the memory of Edward, and I suggest that you do, donations

can be made to the Edward Ashoff Memorial Fund at UF's College of Journalism and Communications.

You can go ahead and just make out that check to the UF Foundation, send it to PO Box 14425,

Gainesville, Florida 326-04, make that attention gift processing.

And in the memo area, go ahead and mention Edward Ashoff Memorial Fund, because I would

like to carry Ed's memory forward, because even though I carried him once, he was like having

more extras sunshine in the room.

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