For those counting this is the third time that Donovan, arguably the greatest ever American soccer player, has unretired.

When that thing you've done every day since you were a kid suddenly goes away, it's hard to find something that fills the

inevitable void. There's no right time or way to retire. Eventually, like all of us,

even Landon Donovan, will have to live a life that doesn't involve playing the game.

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast where we look at the

beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses.

As you heard, we will be talking about US legend Landen Donovan unretiring yet again.

We will have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

Mossy is going to talk about the Rial and Barsa Showdown Z we have coming up.

We'll be answering your questions in our hashtag Ask Alexi segment, including the Miguel

Almerone transfer and so much more.

But first as always, joining me my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

How are you, Mossy, on this Super Bowl Monday?

Yes, I'm good.

I'm still coming down from that exhilarating game.

Now, I know you are a music

music kind of sore what do you think of the halftime entertainment from the

maroon five gentleman pretty forgettable pretty forgettable yes yes indeed

uh... look maroon five is waking up on this Monday morning. All of them are still

multimillionaires, all of them are still rock stars, all of them played these Super Bowls.

So nobody cry from Maroon 5 in the same way you don't cry for

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