Welcome to the Jim Rome show, starring me, Jim Rome. What's up? Nice to have you here. Great to be here on a Thursday, in fact. Greetings. What's going on? All right, so we have got a lot to get to today. Let me start you off with your telephone number. Use it right now. 1-8-00-636-8-6. If you're not about that life and you'd rather

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at Habitatteac.com. I set that up every single day because, well, EFI.FI. Engagement farming industry.

Oh, heads up. We are going to have a prize pick coming up momentarily. Alvey, early and often.

Alvey will have a prize pick for you.

Can't wait. Me neither, Alvey.

I know you can't either, especially after you got back on the saddle yesterday and just crushed it.

So that's coming up momentarily.

All right, in terms of the interviews.

Early and often, Alvey.

Early and often.

It's a lifestyle for you, Alvin.

It's an identity.

Early and often. Stuart Mandel from for you, Alvin. It's an identity early and often.

Stuart Mandel from The Athletic joins me in 40 past. We talk about week one of the college football season.

Jeffrey Chidiha, NFL.com. Senior calmness joins me in hour number three. We talk NFL. Second hour's wide open. What do you want to hit on? I've got my topics already.

I know where I want to go. Ask yourself where you want to go with it. You know where to find me. Let's get it.

All right, starting with the NFL. So it was a tight, tight competition, right?

Tight competition, tough decision for Mike Tomlin. But yesterday, he made it official.

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