Is The NFL Season Too Dragged Out?

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mike and Rico wonder why the Super Bowl isn't played earlier than the second weekend in February.

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0:00.0	All right, we get to Michigan, Michigan State in a little bit.
0:02.8	We've got a Gus Johnson drafted 4 o'clock for all the nonsense we will endure tonight. We'll see if anybody can hit the bingo board. David, your initial take on it. We'll talk to the texters as well, get some phone calls. But look, I find it extremely annoying the Super Bowl's not this weekend. I do. It's an unnatural break. Go play the damn game. Let's go. I just, I hate the idea,
0:25.2	like for instance, a team like Seattle, you had a biweek. Now you get another buy week. You know
0:30.4	what byweeks breed in consistency, rust. Just play the damn game. It also gets you time to
0:37.0	heal up if you do have some people injured.
0:39.3	Or if you don't live next to a substation like the Niners.
0:42.3	Sam Darnel's oblique gets to heal.
0:45.6	You hate to see it.
0:47.0	David.
0:47.5	Fired up.
0:48.0	By the way, do you know who his grandfather is?
0:52.8	Sam Darnold?
0:53.6	Yeah.
0:55.0	No.
0:55.4	The venerable Dick Hammer.
0:57.5	The Marlboro, man.
0:59.4	Really?
0:59.6	His name is Dick Hammer.
1:01.1	Can't make it up.
1:02.8	You can go look.
1:04.3	That's not me being provocative.
1:06.6	His name is in fact Dick Hammer.
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