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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour three of our radio show. we take you now to the frozen tundra,

where the 49ers and the Green Bay Packers are getting ready for a Saturday night special at Lambeau Field this weekend, the main event, and we have a subpline.

True or false?

Aaron Rogers has to get another Super Bowl trophy in order to be considered.

One of the all-time greatest quarterbacks.

That is the question we will answer right now in our 3-plus lame jokes of the week.

Here we go. Call it the rogers roast if you will welcome in it is the beginning you know of another hour of the ben maller's show we are side by side

in the air everywhere as we cook up red herrings all night,

coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And monumentally powerful microphones of FSR emanating life from the land, not Disneyland, it's Radio Land,

an imaginary place where listeners dwell the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location

off the grid in the Northwoods.

So this hour, our lead comes from the Badger State.

We got a slobber knocker set between the Packers and the 49ers.

This is another one of those rematch situations in the NFL playoffs.

Now, you say, what does Vegas think about this?

What is Vegas doing with this game?

Well, it depends on which line you look at,

but the Green Bay Packers opened up a four-and-a-point favorite.

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