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This week, we talk Super Bowl 52 with Melissa Jacobs from The Football Girl.com and The Football Girl podcast. She is a favorite of the show. Also, I've got some choice words about the Super Bowl, my own thoughts about the politics of what took place. We got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Assed Down Awards, very important ones this week,

an incisive Kaepernick watch and much more.

But first, let's go to Melissa Jacobs. Thank you. I mean, I want to ask you so much about how the heck the Eagles did this and what the implications are.

But first and foremost, tell us a little bit what was it like to be in Minneapolis, St. Paul, during the week, from the weather to the press amenities to the access you were able to have.

What was Super Bowl week like for you?

It was awesome.

It was my first time in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities.

And I was actually excited to embrace the cold, mostly because I

recently moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and missed it. So yeah, I was, I mean,

from the moment you got off the plane to the volunteers who lined the skywalk in downtown

Minneapolis. I mean, I have never seen a friendlier group of people. And it just stuns me that so many media members go to this and it's, you know, oh, it's cold as if you don't know the weather in advance. Like, yes, it is cold and deal with it. You know, the food isn't, you know, the food in the media center isn't up to snuff.

I mean, you know, we're at the Super Bowl.

We're covering the Super Bowl.

It's football.

I mean, have some perspective.

Seriously.

It was a very interesting situation because, you know, everything was in the Mall of America in terms of media,

both the media center, which was in the food court of the Mall of America, which was really

interesting.

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