Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast, where we look at the

beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue color glasses.

This week we'll be talking, well, of course, U.S. men's national Team with World Cup qualifying upon us.

Joss Sergeant, the Edge of War, Valery, NFL, Aronson, Pepi, Turner, Leaguea, Max, George Martin,

and so much more. But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary!

Mossy, how are you on this Monday, January 24th in the year 2022.

I am doing well.

I don't know if you saw the big news, Alexi, but FIFA have announced that moving forward

in penalty shootouts when a team goes first if they score the shoot out is over.

They've been inspired by the NFL overtime rules. Boy you were fired up about this last night.

It looks I mean it is America's kind of tuning in. I don't claim to be a huge American football

supporter or follower, but I do watch the games because, you know, kind of everybody is gathering around and watching it and it's communal and it's American and everybody's kind of talking about it.

And so I'm drawn in, I can be baited in and I and I have been on a continual basis and it's great I enjoy

watching it and so I watched the games last night of the National Football League playoffs and I was irritated. And I evidently

have been repeatedly irritated because if I look back and I vaguely remember

being irritated four years ago and we're talking specifically about one game

but all the games had something to at least excite me or irritate me.

Let's go before we get to that game.

So the first game that I watched was the

Bengals and the Titans, the Cincinnati Bengals of Cincinnati against the

Titans of, where are they from? Tennessee, the Tennessee Titans.

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