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Hello everybody, what's up? Welcome in to Fantasy Football here on the Athletic Football Show presented

by KFC Michael Beller and Brandon Funston here with you on the day that the 2022 NFL season begins.

That is right Thursday September 8th, builds and rams kicking off tonight, not just week one,

not just a great game, but kicking off the 2022 NFL season for us and the fantasy football season

along with it. So we are very excited. Funston, we obviously know these Thursday night week one

games are going to be great games. We know that about the 2033 matchup is going to be awesome,

whatever the hell it ends up being, but builds rams here in 2022. What a great way to start the season.

It had me thinking just now, has there ever been a bookend matchup, meaning that it started the

year and it ended the year? Because this legitimately could be a preview of the Super Bowl. I mean,

it's I kind of personally am predicting a all LA Super Bowl, but really Buffalo is right there

for me and I think the rams are going to go back from the NFC. So legitimately has a chance to

book in the actual season here with this matchup. Definitely could happen. I off the top of my head,

I don't remember that happening at any point. It certainly could have, but I don't remember it

happening. And I one thing I did go look at the rams of the first defending Super Bowl champ

underdogs since the Broncos beat the Panthers that year and then Peyton Manning retired in the

off season. So that was what like seven, eight years ago. So the first time we see the Super Bowl

champs come back the next year as underdogs and underdogs at home with the bills going into LA as

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