Hello from Austin. Welcome to episode 230 of the National Security Law podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Tuesday morning, January 17, 2023. I'm Bobby Chesney.

I'm Steve Lodick, Bobby. It's been 3,997 days, but the New York Giants won a playoff game.

And to match that feat, the Cowboys won a road playoff game. Yeah, the Cowboys Schmowboys.

Yeah, but how often do teams do it by missing all their extra points?

Oh, poor Brett Maher.

Oh, my goodness.

I don't know.

I feel like he got it out of his system and now he's going to be like clutch for the rest

of the playoffs.

Is that how it works?

We'll see.

We'll find out next week. I saw Jerry Jones tweeted during the game or maybe

right afterwards like, does anyone in this stadium now to kick field goals? We have a uniform.

It's not a good sign. When your owner is trolling you in the middle of the game. Yeah, that's

bad. But three of the four final teams in the NFC are from the NFC East. Yeah, that's amazing. And I guess you get, you and your Giants get the Eagles.

Oh, sure. I always get the 49ers. So I think, I think our celebrating days are just about done.

Yeah, although I will say, I will just say one thing, and then I will stop talking about sportsball.

But the one thing I will say is the team that showed up in Minneapolis on Saturday did not look like the team I had watched all season. Like they had an offense.

The Vikings have had that effect on a number of visiting teams. Yes, although the Giants lost in Minneapolis, you know, like a month ago on a 60, on a walk-off 61-yard field goal, speaking of kickers.

So if this is for real, maybe we have,

and, you know, divisional rival, hard to beat a team,

three times in the season, all those cliches.

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