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Holy crap! This is Rodge Tuesday night! We back!

Huge love, first and most importantly to Demar Hamlin and his family. Oh, wishes for strength and health at this time of darkness may follow Christian Ericsons path back to Wonder.

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Let's kick this off with a toast. We've got a lot to get through tonight. And I want to raise a third first, but of the day to the two bookending spectacular that occurred side by side on this very special day, the first,

the LA's funeral in Santos, Brazil, what a day, what a ceremony. 24 hours in which Brazil has mourned in public before burying its greatest son, Pele, football's first global icon, turn global commercial billboard,

turn the face of the game in the United States. That's how so many of you know him via that late cosmos cameo, almost impossible to, to capture the enormity of that, although it's just a tiny detail in the wonderful, glorious triumph of Pele's career.

It was laid to rest today in Santos, the city whose club team he represented from the age of 15, coming a record breaker at every level and really a national treasure watching the ceremonies today.

It's very similar to Queen Elizabeth, watching a nation in mourning today in Brazil come together for their king, a man who made soccer beautiful, transformed the game once played by serious men in the mud, many lived to perform openly surgery in game on their opponent on each other's legs.

He really changed that. He was warm, he was joyful, he was mesmerizing the face of your goal, but Nito, the collective creative expression that made this real football could be art.

And fascinating, due politically, did this at the time of military hunter in the 70s, a Brazil side through no fault of their own came to be used for propaganda purposes by the dictatorship, the brutal dictatorship of general Amelia Medici.

And he was buried today at the time when Brazil has just been divided by a bitter political election in which Bolsonaro appropriated the Brazilian jersey as a symbol of the far right, made Pele's passing bring unity and healing to that beautiful nation.

The second Ronaldo's arrival, his contract signing in Saudi Arabia, and it lived golf walked so our NASA could fly. And I thought a lot about line from Gods of Socket today that we wrote where we were if messy represents the wonder of the modern spectacle, Ronaldo is its glare.

That's what we saw today that bloated contract two and a half years, 214 million per year with commercial agreements, highest salary ever paid to a professional footballer, but also a footballer who been without a club since quote mutual consent, he left Manchester United, the truth was Ronaldo proclaimed he wanted champions, the football he wanted to play at the highest level.

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