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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're always thinking about Wes.

I'm Greg Rosenthal.

I'm here in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio.

I'm taping it in the studio that bears my great friend's name before I head up

to San Francisco for this Super Bowl 60. And I did want to just kind of stop in the middle of

what's a crazy season, a crazy week, and recognize that it has now been five years

since West died. And this week is always tricky because it's the Super Bowl, but it's also

the time of year that West died. And if you've lost anyone, grief is so interesting that the dates are important,

like those anniversaries, you kind of feel it and you feel them in the air.

And it almost makes sense that it's all combined.

It's the Super Bowl.

It's Wes.

And for me, especially, you know,

Wes was such a special person in my life,

but initially as a special person in my football life.

I met him.

I'm putting in air quotes online, on a message board. And his life force just leaped

off that message board so strongly that I wanted to get to know this guy and get to meet him

and eventually to hire him and become a great friend. And then we were out here. And so this time

a year, you think about him because I share a birthday with Wes too. It's in a couple weeks.

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