Friday edition for Football Talk Live NBCSN, Sirius XM211.

Hello to our friends in the UK and in Ireland, enjoying the program on Sky Sports.

You enjoyed a little bit more today because Sims out, as he always is on Fridays.

Shereen Williams, in for the day, trolling me with the Roger Stobach jersey.

I see.

At least you haven't gotten a Drew Pearson jersey to periodically put up instead of that one.

Yeah, that's true.

You would probably like the Drew Pearson one maybe a little bit better.

So I'll get Drew Pearson and Nate Wright side by side.

There it is. Really? Are you serious? Shereen, did you do that? Good morning.

They had it ready to go. Of course, they had to figure it would come up at some point today. The over

under was 45 seconds. And if you bet the under, congratulations. All right, well, good morning,

Shereen.

And let's get right to it. There's plenty of things happening in the NFL. And one of the things

that has, we're still waiting for closure. We're having baby steps toward the eventual closure

whenever it will be. But at least for now, the door is closed on the name

of one of the Cowboys' top rivals. The Washington football team is no longer known by the name

for which it was known for 87 years. It is currently known by no name other than the Washington

football team. The franchise apparently threw its hands in the air yesterday, Shereen,

and said, we can't dot the eyes, we can't cross the T's.

Most importantly, we can't get the appropriate federal trademark protections in place

so we can sell merchandise with the new name on it.

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