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Well, sorry for the hiatus. Had the COVID's kind of run through our family.

I've been bedridden for a couple days here. Still not feeling 100%, but I mean, how could I not force myself to wake up and celebrate on a glorious day like today?

You know, if you would have told me, $1,000 bucks, either the Lions and Vikings will be in the NFC championship game against each other, or both of them will be bounced in their first games.

It would not take me two seconds of hesitation to tell you that I think what's going to happen is Lions, Vikings, NFC championship game.

I had no anticipation of this happening.

What I wanted to happen was Philadelphia lose, Detroit lose, Vikings lose, Chiefs lose.

If any one of those teams I thought was going to lose, I would have thought it was the Chiefs. Now, again, I've said that the Chiefs are going to win because it's just what they do. I can't explain it. They just never stop winning. I mean, I can kind of explain it because of the freaking refs, and we can talk about that in a minute. But good Lord, that is annoying. But I just would not have thought.

And it is kind of crazy.

And I know we can't talk too much because of the performance that we watched.

But man, the absolute downfall of all three NFC North teams.

And almost entirely because of their quarterbacks.

The Packers lost in the playoffs, in my opinion, because of Jordan Love.

The Vikings lost in the playoffs because of Sam Darnold, and the Lions lost in the playoffs

because of Jared Goff.

Just absolute madness.

I am so happy.

Again, the,

the Chiefs losing would have made this perfect,

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