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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program.

And this hour dedicated to pro football, the bombshell story that came out just hours before we cracked the mighty microphones of Fox Sports Radio.

John Gruden resigning, or did he resign, as coach in Las Vegas. Gruden no longer the coach of the Raiders.

The email leaked part two to the New York Times. We react to that, and we ask why the pivot, this direction. John Gruden was allowed to coach a game against the Chicago Bears

so the Raiders over the weekend, he issued another apology,

and he is still let go.

We'll have our latest thoughts on the end of John Gruden,

as coach of the Raiders.

That and more right now in our number one.

Here one minute and gone the next.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we provide crunchy goodness.

That's right.

Coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your eardrums providing marginal sports talk radio all night long from the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location in the North Woods unless we're not.

So if you had told me before I went to bed and said, all right, what do you think you're going to be talking about on the next show?

A lot of sports talk radio is rather predictable.

It is.

I mean, I've been in the business a long time.

It's Monday night football.

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