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I'm your host, Andrew Brand. We take this weekly whip around the business of sports,

giving you my insights and perspective from 35 years around the sports business as an agent,

a team executive, an academician, a professor, and of course, an insightful media analyst.

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Got a lot to get to today. I recorded last Tuesday, and I sort of made light of the fact that,

hey, I was recording on a day where decisions are going to be made that could affect us for years and

years, and I jokingly said, of course, that meant the NFL trade deadline.

And I talked a lot about the trade deadline.

What did and didn't happen and my thoughts about the day trade deadline,

what part of the season it's in, winners and losers, cap impacts, etc.

But there was the election that day.

And I want to talk about the election.

I know not, people are already like, no, don't do it,

Andrew. I'm not. I'm not getting political. All I want to do is compare to a sports angle. Here's

what I want to say. I am a least political person around. I am apolitical. And part of the

reason you, which you would think is

counterintuitive, is I grew up in and around Washington, D.C., but I grew up in a family that had no

politics in it. Everyone we knew was connected to some agency or some congressional committee or some congressman or some senator.

Growing up with Senator Hatfield's son in my class, growing up with the strivers who are related to the Kennedys,

their mother started Special Olympics. My sister going to school with Susan Ford, the president's daughter, and having

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