Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show.

I am Bill Barnwell, and oh man, I am so excited for today's show.

I booked this guest a week ago, not knowing what we would talk about, not knowing what the future held for us, and then a gift from the gods.

Could you have imagined a universe where today in your podcast feed and on YouTube, one of our two shows we do every week on YouTube, could you have imagined?

We would be talking about a universe where

Philip Rivers is about to play quarterback at age 44? Joining me! Talk about that. A man who,

I believe I've been talking about Philip Rivers playing quarterback with, since Philip Rivers was

in his

20s, if I am not mistaken. Don't know if that math is perfect, but what could be more perfect

than getting to talk about Philip Rivers and our topic today, which I look at two in a minute,

with my friend Robert Mays. Had you given up hope?

Had you abandoned any hope that Philip Rivers was going to come back at any point?

Of course, Philip Rivers had.

I, like, this is insane. Like, the Niners thing happened, what, like three years ago?

Yes, that was the Brock Purdy game, right?

It was, they had so many injuries of quarterback that there were rumors that they might

have Philip Rivers come play, which I was fascinated by. To be clear, for people who don't know,

I'm assuming a lot of just inherent knowledge here. Not only have we talked about Philip Rivers

for the last like 15 years, Philip Rivers is like maybe my favorite NFL player of all time.

Like I love, love, love Philip Rivers.

I love so many of those chargers teams he was a part of.

Not the late 2000, like the late Otts Chargers teams in like 0809, 2010 with him

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