All right, three o'clock, great to have you with us.

Thank you for your patience on the phone lines.

We're going to get right to you.

I do want to welcome our audience.

And it's a conversation.

And I don't, it's just we do this every day and the way we plan the show.

It is a real thing that college football and the amount of time we dedicate to it has fallen off a cliff.

And it coincides with the Detroit Lions becoming a monolith.

Must see TV, an event, as Rico put it, and it's premium.

And one of the things we talked about was, look, the Lions getting good,

I think directly impacts how much you can care about college football. Now, college football's

made a lot of mistakes. I don't talk to a lot of people who still love college ball. So it's this

weird thing when you know, you hear like a network try to pimp their ratings and it's like, well,

who? Because no one I know cares. But here's the thing.

The Lions feel like college used to.

The Lions feel they do rep this city.

They do play for this town.

They play for the fans.

It's real.

Yeah, their style fits Detroit style.

Right. College football, it's Halloween and you've bought the I'm Dan Marino Halloween costume for your child.

The plastic mask. Yes. With the rubber band around the past. Yes. That's what college football feels like.

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