Welcome back to the latest edition of the Aududible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by Stuart Mandel.

We are taping this a few hours after the national title game.

Stu is in Indianapolis.

He was at the game.

I am in San Antonio.

I'm at the Coaches Convention. So, Stu, you're on the game. I am in San Antonio. I'm at the coaches convention.

So, Stu, you're on the site.

What was your reaction of being in the building?

I know you were unable to be down on the field at the end of the game,

but finally, the national title game that was close.

That's the thing.

I am really excited to have been back at a national

championship game after missing last year. I was the first one I'd missed in a long time. I will say,

Bruce, and you've covered many of these, it didn't feel like I was covering the national championship

game necessarily because of what you just said. Normally, you go down on the field beforehand,

when the teams are warming up, you can kind of sense the electricity in the building, and you go down on the field beforehand when the teams are warming up you can kind of sense the electricity in the building and you go up and watch most of the game from the press box then you go back down at the end and you I mean as you know like that scene when the team is celebrating you're right you know you don't get that kind of color and emotion after a regular season game. And then you even get to go in the

locker room. But because of COVID, none of that was, you know, we were not allowed to do any of that.

So, you know, if you're at an NFL stadium, it's an enclosed press box. You don't, you can hear the

crowd, but not at the normal sound. So basically, I just felt like I kind of,

like I watched the game on television inside the stadium. It was a good game. I know some people

say, oh, it's two SEC teams. I don't care about that, et cetera, et cetera. You know, after three

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