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Here we go.

We've been waiting all season long for this.

The biggest game of the year, it is the Super Bowl, and that, the subject of today's NFL Explained podcast. I'm not going to be talking about the game and the X's nose. You can watch NFL Network for some of that stuff. We're all about the preparation, the two weeks leading up to it, and all the little intricacies that you're not even familiar with. But I always introduced my guy, Michael Robinson, as a Super Bowl champ.

Last week, I also included Pro Bowler into the mix as well. But M. Rob, Super Bowl 48, you got some good

memories? I have great memories. It involves all of my teammates, Rick Ross, New York City,

and a lot of different fun things. Absolutely. Super Bowl champions. Give me the Rick Ross. You got a cool story around Rick Ross. Well, it's not super cool. It's almost one of those things that almost got me and my brother, who is one of my best friends in the whole world. He helped raise me. He's eight years older than me. It almost got us at odds. It almost had us fighting. They threw a Super Bowl party for us where Rick Ross was

the guy in the club and I got in the club, but all I could think about was my brother who was

stuck outside and it was raining because snow was getting ready to come the next morning. If

anybody remembers that Super Bowl, a lot of travelers to that Super Bowl got stuck in the snow. But yeah,

Rick Ross putting on his show almost came between me and my brother. Yes. Okay, I remember that Super Bowl really well because I was living in the area at that time. I'm from the Northeast. So I remember a lot of this stuff. And just keep in mind, your brother, and I learned this in the last episode, helped you move in at Penn State, carried some of the boxes and the clothing. So there's a lot of love for your brother.

We can't let anything bad get in between you guys. Rick Ross or not.

Sean Carl Pollock Commons, baby, let's go. Yes. Penn State. All right, let's start with New York City

because as most people realize, like the Super Bowl is not in the same venue every single year.

Yours happen to be a place where I call

home, so I'm a little biased here, but we know just facts. It's the number one media market. Did that

change anything for you and your team, just knowing it was the Big Apple? A little bit. You know,

it put a little bit of perspective on the game. Obviously, we were going up against Peyton Manning, and we know they had broke every offensive record that there was in the National Football League that year. And so we knew that with the game being in New York, there was going to be a lot more added attention, not only because it's a Super Bowl, but it's because it's in New York City. And it was featuring a guy like Peyton Manning, who some considered on the back end of his career, who had just had a record-setting season. So we were like, I ain't going to lie, man. Like, we were using the words like goons in our locker room. We wanted to be like the doomsday. Like we wanted to kind of like rain on Peyton Manning's parade and kind of own New York City. We were calling

it Gotham and it was going to be Gotham because the big bad boys from the Pacific Northwest was in

town. You guys were the big bad boys from the Pacific Northwest with a Super Bowl whim.

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