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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our radio program and Bruce Ariens,

Bucco Bruce is selling TB12 as the MVP of the NFL.

So thumbs up or thumbs down on it being a travesty.

If Tom Brady does not win the 2021 MVP award.

We take a look at that and much more right now in our number four.

Here it is.

It is the ABCs of the MVP.

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

We are together in the air everywhere as we swim around coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and monumentally powerful microphones of

FSR emanating live from the machine, just a cog in the audio machine, the Fox Sports

Radio studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwood.

So congratulations to the Georgia Bulldogs, the champions of college football.

It was not much of a game in the first half, but a lot of fireworks on a Monday night in Indy.

And Alabama punched in the face by Georgia in the fourth quarter, a domination situation.

And so the Georgia Bulldogs win the championship for the first time since 1980.

And the state of Georgia, the Atlanta Braves are the champions of baseball.

Now the Georgia Bulldogs are the champions of Collegian football.

But our lead this hour comes from the NFL and Tampa.

The playoffs, playoffs are set to start this weekend on a wild card weekend.

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