Okay, just so the Lister knows we're recording this part separate from the rest of the show.

Wanted to keep these two things separate, but I want to talk to you about our friend, Terez.

Lister's of the show, no Terez from at the very least his two appearances on the show over the past couple of months.

You heard his insight.

I mean, when Lamar and Patrick Mahol was played during the season, there was,

there was no one I wanted to talk to more than Terez because not only does he know those two guys,

but no one tells the story and thinks better about football than Terez.

Pailer, you know him because he wrote some of the best Collinsville football on this planet and told stories about football is good as anyone.

Terez died this week at age 37.

And I just want to talk about him here for a second.

In order to tell you how special Terez was, I need to take a step back and tell you about our industry.

It can be deeply cynical and you meet people throughout the industry who can make it far and they don't love the sport or in some cases they hate the sport.

I remember hearing about a big deal columnist early on in my career who used to say,

honestly, the sports would be great if it wasn't for the games.

And what he meant was he liked the money and he liked the travel and he liked,

I don't know, people coming up to him in airports, but he didn't actually like the sports.

Terez was the exact opposite of that.

He loved football.

I thought I loved football until I saw how much Terez loved football.

I'm comfortable saying Terez loved football more than me because Terez loved football more than anybody.

So the way training camp works for national writers is you do, most people do 15 or 20 cities and you end up seeing the same people over and over again on the road.

And you'll see the same person for five times, you know, spend six and seven hours with them.

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