We're into the thick of the season now and so's Coral's reward-shaker with even bigger rewards and offers.

The half-and-half scarfers shaking decisively for once.

They backed a super boost.

Next to them, the prawn sandwich brigade.

Oh, they've shaken up a free bet after that free lunch.

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I think a lot of them, including our pal, Stu Holden, would have said Musa, and yet here we are.

I remember forget John Hark saying, listen, if you have a completely upward trajectory type of career, count yourself as incredibly lucky.

If you were to do a U.S. player power ranking, right now McKinney

would clearly be number one, right? Yeah, far and away, Alexi Lollison. Welcome to the State of the Union podcast.

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

This show, we will be talking.

Let's see, McKinney rolling on, Messi picking up, Ronaldo holding out, city hanging in, way a broken down,

Pulistic shutdown, World Cup versus Olympics, one battle after another, bad bunny, and so much more. But first, join him as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossie, a soccer Samant, and a Fox Soccer Research and writer, Extraordinaire. Mossie, how are you doing on this? What are we looking at here? Monday, February 9th in the year 2026. I'm sorry, in honor of Bad Bunny, I'm going to be in Spanish during the program of today. Bueno, bueno, amigo. Okay. Did you watch the Super Bowl last night, my friend? I did. It wasn't a great game, but congratulations to Seahawks fans, which includes our producer, Sean Sullivan. Yeah, Sean came in sporting the colors, if you will, with his... Oh, by the way, speeding colors. I'll talk a little bit more about the Olympics later on in the show, but I am wearing today, if you can see, this is a 1996 opening ceremonies jacket from the Olympics. Yes, and it is real. I'm going to turn around real quick so you can get the back of it here. Watch this. Woo! There we go.

That's what I'm talking about.

So last night, I, like millions of people, watched the Super Bowl.

Again, I don't know a whole lot about football.

And to prove it, I could not name one player on either of the teams.

But I was impressed by Mr. Gonzalez from the Patriots of New England.

I thought he was really good as a defenseman type of player.

So that was good.

Boring game, even for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about football.

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