Welcome to the Meenakime Show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast where POD is spelled

with an A and a W and an E I guess because you gotta put it in the past tense.

We are just over one week away from the first game of the NFL season.

If you look kind of tense right now, this preseason has not been kind to everyone.

People want it to end.

I do not want it to end because I have had an extremely fun time calling these Rams games,

even though it has led to me being dragged by my hero, Russell Carrington Wilson.

Here to join me is somebody who joined in on the dragging.

In fact, you could argue who made the dragging worse.

My old friend, an occasional pod partner that's pod with the POD, Bill Barnwell.

I mean, I just want to go back in time a little bit.

I want to go back to 2013 Meenakimes and be like, hey Meenak, this is what's going on

right now.

Number one, you are the color commentator for the Los Angeles Rams, which we're not

talking about.

You're the team at that point.

Number two, this is you wearing a Rams polo.

I want to see 2013 Meenakimes try to unpack the steps that have happened to get to the point

where you're wearing a Rams polo and being dragged on Twitter by Russell Wilson.

I think the Rams not being a team in Los Angeles probably would have made it somewhat unbelievable

back then.

But yeah, the Rams polo or the Rams Hawaiian shirt, I'm not sure which would have been

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