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We are knocking on the door. Englewood, California, the city of champions will crown an NFL champion when it hosts

Super Bowl 56 at 05 Stadium. In fact, it'll be the second consecutive year that a team is actually

going to play on its home turf with the Rams welcoming in the bangles. So of course,

here on the NFL Explained podcasts, we're talking the Super Bowl, guiding you through all of the

lesser known facts about

the big game. And of course, always joined by my good friend, Adi Kinkabwala. Hi. I'm so

excited. This is my, you know, this is, look, Joe Barrow said it a few weeks ago. This is why

you work so hard. You work to get to these moments. And we're at that moment, Mike. We are. Do you have a favorite memory? Oh, Mike, that is like asking, do I have a favorite child? It feels as if every Super Bowl story has something special to it. But you know what? I'll give you one. I was a writer at the Wall Street Journal. I was covering the Giants. And the Giants at the time, as you know,

were coached by Tom Coughlin, who was about as strict as they got. If you were five minutes early, you were late. You had to make sure that your feet were on the floor in a certain way when you were in a meeting room. So Tom Coughlin didn't often show the personal side of him. Well, the Giants upset the Patriots for the second time in four years in Indianapolis.

I go down to the field and... show the personal side of him. Well, the Giants upset the Patriots for the second time in four years

in Indianapolis. I go down to the field and I see Judy Coughlin, Mrs. Coughlin, Tom Coughlin's wife,

who is truly genuinely one of the warmest human beings on the planet. And Judy Coughlin sees me and

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