Good morning. Happy holidays. Early Merry Christmas. I hope unlike me, you have done some Christmas shopping. I'm in deep trouble there.

Almost as much trouble as the culture in. We're getting to that here in a second. Great to be filming for Jim.

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Call, click granger.com or just stop by. It's going to be back. Haven't been able to do this show the last year. If you've watched me before, if you've screamed to me at my mentions, how much you hate me. Weirdly, I kind of love it. At sports writer, sports, R-E-I-T-Rart you understand i used to be one of you clones screaming

at whatever filling host sat down it wasn't jim rome by the way i'm the first to acknowledge

and accept i'm no jim rome which is what makes it an honor to be here hanging out i'm here today

i'm here tomorrow great show lined up for you dennis dodd the the Doddfather, longtime college football insider, will be on the program.

We'll talk about the mess in Michigan, the college football playoff, whether or not Kailin DeBore has firmed up his position in Alabama.

D.K. Matt Kaff has made a fool of himself, some consequences, but there could be bigger ones than the

suspension in the NFL handed down. My buddy Ty Dunn will talk some NFL with us. He does a

great substack, great substack on the NFL go along TD. And speaking of subsdact plugs, billrider.

com, you're going to get sick of that. Ty will be on the show. Probably gets a stealer some credit. Draymond Green is a hot mess. We will talk Philip Rivers in the open here in a second. Old Man, Time, the octogenarian quarterback. Oh, man. I'm an old man who's also out of shape. And when I see Philip Rivers, I see hope. So we'll give him his own segment later in the show.

The great Howard Beck, who's been on with Jim many times.

We'll be on a talk to some NBA, read Forgrave, National Sports Rider, New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic places like that.

We'll be on the show.

I want to start, though, with the Niners last night.

Watching that game, and of course, if you want to call in, you know all the way to do it. 1-800-6-36-86-86-8-6-8-6-3-6-8-6. At Jim Rome, if you want to yell at me, hit me up,

be the one in 30 people who say something nice. It is the holiday sports writer, sports

R-E-I-T-E-R. I'm watching the Niners yesterday decimate that Colts team

that is in a free fall. And look, Philip Rivers played awesome. Play awesome on a bad football team.

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