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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

That's my good friend, Natey.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very, very well.

Got no distractions right now. That was something I had to get used to. Bellar and I did our gambling segment earlier, and it was like a great test run, because I forgot how distracted I can get in Meteor Row and doing all this. And I don't know, this is exciting. Like as soon as I get the credential, it's like, okay, all right, here we go.

Now I can enjoy this week a little bit, leading up to that point it's like ah ah I'm going to be able to do this but I mean this is awesome the Super Bowl's awesome I'm so glad we're here I was like the story I tell myself as we get into the week being like oh yeah I'll get stuff done yeah during the week and that just never ever happens but it always so good to be here. It's always so fun to be here.

I mean, seeing everyone.

Last night, we got to see a bunch of different people and see friends that seems like we only see it a couple times a year. So I'm so happy to be here, and I'm so happy to be here with you. We're going to do this in person, which we never get to do, and it is the best. It is. I know the first in-show one we did was the draft, right?

The 2021 draft?

Yeah, I is strange. Like being in person is such a different. It's actually having a conversation. Yeah. And actually know when to feel like, oh, okay, my point's about to end. You actually can have like a normal conversation with people. It's also like you say not getting stuff done this is how much of a child I am I decided like I'm not going to bring my Nintendo Switch this week just just so I'm in a hotel room you're a father now I know just when just so I'm in the hotel room that those games I'm not going to finish them that I've been putting off those season ads. I did bring a couple books, though.

We have been shipping away at our game preview, which we are going to dig into in earnest tomorrow.

Yeah.

Before we get there, the way that we wanted to spend today's show, a couple different thoughts.

One, I want to talk a little bit more about how we got here, and I want to talk about some of the personalities associated with that that maybe we're not going to dig into with the game preview.

So we're going to talk today about the 10 non-quarterbacks who have shaped the Super Bowl.

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