Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the Packernet podcast. I am your host and resident

panelist, as always, Ryan Schlipp. Check us out online, packernet.com. Find me on Twitter

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complain about technical issues. There were no technical issues. I just gave myself the day off

yesterday. I just, I don't know, having a hard time getting myself to just do stuff. And I'm like,

you know, you've been going for a long time every day. Sometimes people take breaks. Maybe you could do it. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do that. So I did. But I'm going to make it up to you either way because we're going to do some laughing at the enemy today. We do have quite a bit of stuff to get caught up on. So it's not going to be the entire time. But don't worry,

I got plenty of nice and juicy content for you. And we might be doing more than just today also.

We'll see how it goes. But again, obviously we have to start talking about the Vikings. I almost

did that today because somebody's talking about stuff,

and I get that itch to look into it. Well, their offensive line is terrible. And it's like, really? It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's real bad. So then it's like, well, why are they succeeding? And you start trying to find like those weak points. Just relax. Today's laughing at the enemy. So first of all, on the news front, I suppose we should start with Brett Farr of announcing he has Parkinson's.

You know, it's obviously a big deal, especially for a guy that has been big on the whole CTE thing, because it seems probable that that is the cause of the

Parkinson's. My mind immediately went to Muhammad Ali. You know, Muhammad Ali was boxing for you.

Obviously, these guys get concussion after concussion after concussion. And he ended up with

Parkinson's. Not a guarantee that it's because of that, but I forgot what the statistic was, but, you know, the, the, I think it had something to do with the odds of somebody that had suffered CTE or regular concussions or whatever, getting it are just astronomically high compared to just your average citizen or whatever.

So I know he's not the most popular guy considering a lot of the scandals he's been through.

But, you know, I can't...

A lot of the people I like are scumbags.

There's a lot of actors, a lot of musicians, horrible human beings.

Brett Farve was my childhood.

And it's just something you obviously never wish on any human being to have to go through that.

My uncle has it.

It's not, you know, it's not good.

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