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Michael F. Florio is a fantasy and NFL analyst at the NFL Network, who also does work for

Rodoballer and Sirius XM.

He hosts the Bill's Banter podcast with former wide-out Stevie Johnson, too.

He's a Mac Miller stand, and you better not confuse him with the other Mike Floreo.

These are his late-round perspectives.

I do want to address something that I've always wanted to ask you, and I haven't asked you,

what's it like to have the name that you have with the other Mike Florio in the space?

It's gotten better over time.

When I first started this like 10 plus years ago, it was all the time that people thought I was that guy.

I do know that he gets a lot of fantasy questions and stuff. So people,

it goes both ways. I've been told that he doesn't love that I have this name. I didn't pick this name. This is the one I was born with. But it's definitely gotten a little bit better. I used to,

Cynthia Freeland always used to be like every tweet send my way. And then she. Now the thing that happens is everyone thinks I'm his son. Despite however many times both of us have said like there is zero relation whatsoever. That's funny. So did you, have you like always gone, like did you go by Mike all the time and then you had like change things up and be more formal because he was Mike Floreo were you always a Michael and just a Michael in general? No, I'm always been Mike or Florio or I'm not picky. I've always called you floor. Yeah, I've always just called you Florio because it's just, you know, that's just easier. But like, so like I never actually like discussed that part if you were Mike or Michael. So you were, you were Mike. And then formally, though, like with your job, you're Michael.

Yeah. I never actually like discussed that part if you were Mike or Michael. So you were you were Mike.

And then formally though, like with your job, you're Michael. Yeah. So they were like, hey, you got to you got to differentiate a little bit. So I went Michael. I threw the at like I go by Michael F. Lurio. Right, right. And if Lerre and stuff. So like I tried to different like Michael B Jordan. You know, I tried to differentiate a bit.

They were like, you want to make up a name, go by your middle name. And I was like, no, that's not me. But, uh, yeah, I, growing up too, I was always, because like 90s kid, I, you're around the same, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, uh, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson era, like everyone was named Mike or Michael. Everyone. I was always called Florio. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, though, like, like Michael Florio is not, like, that's not a name that you would figure would just be out there both in the foot, not just like the sports world, but the football world. Like, at least like Jordan is a name that you hear, you know, last name that you hear,

you know, pretty frequently. Or like, if your name was like Michael Smith or something, then like obviously, you know, you would, you would have another one. But like, it's such a specific name. It's just crazy that you guys both have the same name. So I had to at least ask you that question to top of the show. Fun story like back when i was on facebook i'm not anymore

but uh like years ago i got invited one time to a mike florio group where everyone in it was

named mike florio and i immediately left because i was like i don't know who is who in this it

was like 300 people wide i didn't think there was that many of us out there that's's incredible. That's incredible. But I'm sure though now when you when you get Google, you're you're one of the two results that would pop up as as the most famous Michael Florio. That's the that's the good and bad part about having the last name Zacharyason is that like I'm easily findable, which is both good and bad, right? Like it's good just from like the standpoint of people being able to get my content, all that kind of stuff. It's horrible from the standpoint of like, if you want to see anything that I've ever done on the internet, you can basically find it because my last name's so uncommon. I've never met another Zacharison in my life. Yeah. So you're, you're the only one. There was a, there, there was a, a basket. I'm not related to her, but there was a basketball player for Baylor back in like the Britney Grimer era, like the back in like, I guess she's probably around our age, honestly, but her name was Whitney Zacharison. And I don't even know, I tried for, because this was back when I was like 20 years old,

right, when I figured out that this was a person.

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