I don't download many podcasts, but when I do, I prefer the Rich Eisen podcast.

Here's your host, Rich Eisen.

Hey, everybody, it's the latest edition of the Rich Eisen podcast.

I am always been accused of phoning it, and now I'm literally doing it from

Baltimore, Maryland's side of the first Thursday night football game of 2014, fittingly, in the

city of Baltimore, where the entire free football world knows the case of Ray Rice and what it

has turned into and how the focus is now moved from Rice and the Ravens

all the way up, the cello railway to Midtown Manhattan.

And we'll discuss as much of that that we possibly can here on this show while getting you

set for week number two.

My name is Rich Eisen again, your humble host.

My two Chrises are back in the studio.

Is that correct? Correct, sir. We are both here, pulses.

Good to chat with you, boys. How you doing, buddy?

I'm hanging in there. It's pretty awkward down here in Baltimore. I'm not going to lie to you.

What's the vibe like? You're down near the inner Harbor, yeah? Well, I mean, it's, you know, they've been here for a while, getting ready for this game

for many reasons.

And again, it's, it's a nationally televised night game, and fans here in Baltimore get pumped

up for it in a manner that many, you know, that's the envy of a lot of fan bases across the country.

And it's also the 200th anniversary of the National Anthem this weekend.

Ah, Francis Scott Key.

Writing the poem that served as the eventual lyrics to our national anthem,

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