This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today's Tuesday, January 11th.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today. It's my good friend, Metro Sports. Mitch, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. I'm a little tired because last night's game took a very long time and I stayed up longer. And then I was honestly wired. I haven't, my wife made the comment too. I haven't been wired like that since last year when I was playing. That's the first time I've really been like emotionally invested into it to a degree where it started

messing with my sleep. I totally agree. I was so, so wired when I was watching that game.

I was just reacting to it in a way that I typically don't anymore. And when you see just hundreds and

hundreds of hours of these games,

it takes a little bit more to bring you to that place.

And last night's game absolutely did.

I mean, I try to figure out at what moment I started standing up

and reacting to individual throws.

It might have been when they were down by a touchdown,

and there were so

many of those kind of one-handed inches away sort of plays that the Chargers were almost making.

I think that was probably it. There was definitely a point in the fourth quarter when they were

down by a score and it seemed like they could come all the way back where I was openly reacting

to every single play that was happening.

They were only down by a score for one drive, right? It's just that it was 19 plays. Yeah, it was the entire 10-minute drive. That's probably, yeah. So, like, you're only talking about one drive. There's only one drive that that could have been the case. But it felt like it was the entire fourth quarter. So that was, yeah, that was something. I was picturing in my mind if you said you were standing.

It probably would have been after they got from 15 to 7. So it makes sense that it was pretty much that whole two minute drive. Yeah, I was just like pacing back and forth. And I was telling Nate last night that my TV in the living room, the stream just started catching. And so I because I don't have a cable box on that TV.

So I just walked downstairs to watch it.

So I was watching it on two different floors, like simultaneously just pacing around. But those are the types of games that we love, right? I mean, those are the types of moments where you kind of sit back and it's like, this is awesome. Like this game is great. This is why we get engaged in it. there are times over an 18 week season where you can glaze over a little bit, right?

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