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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing this show live in person, but I'm not going to look at you.

I feel like we're still doing it remotely and from our offices because you are wearing an outfit right now that's going to make me laugh even more than usual. But I am doing fantastic, Robert. It's great to be here. Feeling super, actually. I'm feeling okay, and the reason I'm not feeling super, for those of you watching on YouTube,

I am wearing a hot dog suit, the exact hot dog suit that Tim Robinson wore, and I think you should leave.

And if we're trying to find out the guy who did this, the guy who did this to me is some

combination of Brandon Staley, the Jaguars running game and drops problem,

Joe Burroughs ankle, and about three other things.

This is the payoff for our wins league bet, which we kept a secret all year because we wanted

it to be a surprise for people.

And I think strategically we made the right decision.

I think that the reveal was perfect.

It was kind of one of those things I forgot about.

I even asked you guys, what was the best?

Oh, that's right. That's beautiful. Yeah, it's not sure of that. That's awesome. I also think it's kind of going into the season. I was like, okay, yeah, this feels 50-50 because, like, who are the teams you took? I wanted to take the bills, you know, some of those things.

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