Thursday, July 24 edition of PFTPM, the final two episodes before PFTPM returns to the vault,

only to be released when needed after 9 a.m. Eastern when big news

happens. And big news always happens in the national football league. By the way, speaking a big,

big shield coming August 19, I really wasn't planning to make another pitch for the book.

But it is selling like digital hotcakes. We've got more pre-orders for that than any of the prior books that I have put out there,

which is very encouraging.

Now, it will also be encouraging if people like it.

And I think that they will.

It's just hard to tell because I'm too close to it.

Anyway, the NFL will not like it, although it's not about the NFL it's about a fictional

professional football league with a backup quarterback who becomes engulfed in the world of gambling

in the mob not about the NFL not in the least let's get to it this is the time of year where

if you're a fan of a team,

you're kind of constantly waiting for that dreaded alert on your phone.

And I go all the way back to 1993.

I was in Charleston, West Virginia to take the West Virginia bar exam two days or two years, excuse me, after I'd taken the Pennsylvania bar exam.

It was coming back to West Virginia.

A wife and I were settling down here, yada yada.

I remember getting the newspaper on like day two of the exam and seeing

in the blurbs in USA Today that Terry Allen, former Vikings running back, had torn his ACL and I was

gutted by the news. But you're always waiting for that bad news that one of your favorite players

on one of your favorite teams or your

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