I will say the one thing we did not do it this past football season, which still bugs me,

me and my son at least fly to Baltimore to catch a Ravens game at M&T Bank Stadium. Right. That is the one thing. Just you too. My wife will go, but put it this way. If she can't go, she's like, you two go. We'll try to bring the whole family just because you get close to other extended family in D.C. and all that kind of crap so they can see them. But that's of no interest

to them. family in D.C. and all that kind of crap so they can see him.

But that's of no interest to them.

Unless my aunt's going to hook him up with pancakes.

But otherwise, he's like, dude, I want to go to the game.

So we did not go this past season.

He was forgiving, but he's already made it clear we're going this year.

I said, look, bro, I got no problem doing that, man. It's just, we hunker down on crapakes, we watch the Ravens, win or lose, you'd watch it surrounded by 70,000 if

you're quote-unquote best friends. And it's just the cool, and I love that we can do that together. And I'm like, look, bro, as long as I'm alive, we will continue to do it together. It's one of those things I know, even when he reaches adulthood, until I am infirm.

Like, oh, no, we're going to go there and watch a game.

Yeah.

My brother and I kind of are going full circle this year, right? When he had Maddie, right, he was like, look, I didn't know I was going to move to the West Coast. Yeah. He's like, let's build this plan because I'm going to start raising kids where we go to a game every year. Okay. So we kept it going. Well, it was the first game. Maryland and Virginia Tech when Virginia Tech joined the conference. Thursday night football. Sounds in Blacks, so you barely remember. So I remember. Virginia Tech kicked the crap out of us. Right. And then I want to say by the next year I moved out here. But I mean, that's why I've been to Knoxville, LSU, the Florida, Georgia game, all that stuff. You went to Michigan too, right? Right. We went to Michigan one year. We've been to Army Navy. So this year, the weekend before Thanksgiving, we're going to go to Old Miss where CJ, my nephew, his youngest, is a senior. So it's almost like full circle. We started it because we wanted to hang out because he knew who's having kids. Now we've gotten to the age where we can go hang out with his kids. Right. Yes. If that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. What about your birthday? Do you feel that that is taken over by Christmas or do you enjoy that day?

I mean, for me and my family, we always, like I said, when I was a kid, we didn't decorate the tree until Christmas Eve. So we'd always go to Mass in the evening, right, the kid's Mass. Yeah. And then we get Leto's Pizza and like some people would come over. Kids match shorter, I'm guessing. Yeah. It's usually where you have the little pageant. So like one year I was a wise man. Okay. So the kids match usually has that kind of stuff. And it's at like, you know, 430 or 5. Okay. All right. So it gives you time to go out and still have dinner or whatever you're going to do, kind of Christmas Eve tradition and still have time to get to bed early enough for Santa. So, like, eating pizza, eating Leto's and having pizza with people over, and then, yeah, the first few years I lived out here, I'd fly back. Now I just go to a buddy and his family. They're just doing their Christmas Eve. I just kind of hop in and they get me a cake. Okay. All right.

That's not a bad deal.

So it's not, yeah. Now I just go to a buddy and his family. They're just doing their Christmas Eve. I just kind of hop in and they get me a cake.

Okay.

All right.

That's not a bad deal.

So it's not, yeah, it's not bad.

You still doing that festival?

No. What happened there? They stopped doing it? I don't know. And to be honest with you, I don't want to talk about it too much because I don't understand there is something going on there. But, Jesus, do I miss Summer Meltdown?

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