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In many ways, it is like a boomerang.

You throw it out and it comes right back to you. The gift that keeps on giving involving the NFL and their battle against Donald Trump.

And now they continue, continue to be out of touch, shall we say, the NFL community.

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The story that continues to have life now, we'll get to the college basketball scandal later because that's second.

Second.

If you hear a talk show host that doesn't want to talk about the NFL versus the Patriots in America, they're bad talk show host.

This is the number one story by far with college basketball taking a back seat, a big, big backseat.

But what's the old line?

You can take the boy out of Berkeley, but you can't take Berkeley out of the boy.

Aaron Rogers, Aaron Rogers, now, he you can't take Berkeley out of the boy. Aaron Rogers.

Aaron Rogers, now, he would like to take the wave of protests to the next level.

He wants to crank it up, a couple of notches.

And if you miss this, maybe you did not catch it.

This is, wow, this is fresh, is what it is.

The Packer quarterback tossing out a plan that, get this, if you're listening in Green Bay right now, we are on the radio right, it would take you into the protest movement.

Aaron Rogers is trying to drag your ass into their battle.

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