When I was a boy I dreamed of playing football. I love football

football the ballet of bulldozers the moments of grace in a sea of fury the crowd

fickle fanaticalatical, and faithful.

Every kick-off is possibility, every down of war,

and every now and then it doesn't come down to fancy strategy or speed or strength.

It comes down to who has more heart. Yes, you see football is in my bones and

where goes the two-point conversion the on-side kick or the TV timeout out, so go I!

I've seen the locker rooms, my friends, I have smelled the shoes,

stormed the field and sung the songs.

And I have heard the footsteps, yes, and they say to me, Stanley, is football the greatest game in the world?

And I say, yes, footsteps,. Yes it is.

Yeah, that's right. We are back before we jump into the week one preview part one here on the audible segment this is our 19th season of

doing the audible and doing this show these weekly previews and we're back yeah we truly are

back and let's all take in a deep breath.

See, I always call this that last click before the hill, the first hill of the roller coaster.

You know, we're gonna cry, we're gonna scream, we're gonna to cry, we're going to scream, we're going to puke, we're going to

come in to the end of this ride and have done it together and enjoyed it and we'll remember it and that's the thing it's the shared experience part of the NFL season

It's a beautiful thing to share it with you. It's a beautiful thing to share it with people see I know some of you as you're listening to this right now,

like you've been there the whole time.

And there are people that I hear from that say,

you know, they were listening from year one.

And that just feels love, and I could'll use a little more love.

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