Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I am Brian Niemhauser. You can find me and all the things we do here on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, at HockBlogger. We appreciate your likes, your follows, your subscriptions. All of those things are really, really appreciated. If you want the audio version

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And I just have to say, today's a good day for a lot of reasons. Even though it is

pouring rain outside, I'm only a few days away from heading down to Arizona to visit my good

pal, Evan Hill, but also to go to the league meeting and, you know, chop it up with the other folks in the media and John Schneider and Mike McDonald and talk about all that.

But there's something else that that happened that, you know, I got to share because it just happened this morning and I get to be excited about it.

Look who got a friend today.

Look who got a friend today.

We got the old 2013 Lombardi on the left

with the old 2013 confetti below it.

And then we've got the brand new 2025 Lombardi on the right complete with a nice picture of me and the reflection which I probably should have

removed but was too lazy so you get a little bonus there. But how great do those two look together, right?

How just fantastic do those two look together? And I love putting it up there, not only because

it's fun to look at, but I just love that there's going to be 49ers fans and Rams fans that see that and

are just a little bit. Their days a little bit worse, a little bit worse, maybe a lot worse,

but just a little bit worse. And I love contributing to their misery wherever is possible.

So, yes, hopefully soon, maybe as soon as this next year,

the Seahawks are going to force me to get a bigger trophy case

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