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All the confetti has fallen, the Lombardi trophy has been hoisted, and Aaron Donald,

Cooper Cup, and Matthew Stafford. They have celebrated with the big ears, Mickey Mouse,

which means the 2021 NFL season, now a distant memory. Not too distant, but that's okay. We're here to talk about the future of the league. I thought it was fun seeing the Rams pull off a victory. My co-host, Adi Kinkabala, little bums. I would imagine that Joe Burrow and his team didn't get the W? No? Shaking your head? No. I mean, isn't my job as an impartial, unbiased reporter to just tell it like it is? Yeah, but you're around those guys. Like I would imagine the storylines just changed a little bit when... Well, sure. But, you know, and I'll tell you, covering, what was it, nine? Nine Bengals games this year and spending the time with them.

Great team. So fun. Such wonderful energy. So you're just happy for a great game, a great experience. A heck of a halftime show, Mike. Which this will be a whole other episode,

but I shared a green room on Super Bowl Sunday with Snoop and his cohorts. So, yeah. I want to hear some of those stories that went down. And you're writing an epic halftime show and I got to relive my college years. And, you know, those artists, that was when 50 comes out. Are you kidding me in the club? One of those iconic songs. All right. Well, look, you and I can dork out about the halftime shows and we can go down memory lane with some of these songs. We'll do that on another episode of NFL Explain. But no NFL games officially being played now for a little bit of time with the league on vacation. But there's something really cool about the NFL. So we got a lot of different moments throughout the year that give us something to talk about.

We got an lot of different moments throughout the year that give us something to talk about.

We got an NFL free agency in mid-March, the NFL draft, which all eyes will be on in April.

And then before that, we got the NFL Combine, also starting in March.

And today on the NFL Explained Pod, we're taking that deep dive into the history of the

NFL Combine. One of my all-time favorite events, let me tell you. So the Combine, and we'll

probably get into this at some point, Mike, but there is consideration to move the Combine out of

Indianapolis, which would really and truly make me shed a tear. One of the things that's so

phenomenal about Indianapolis is that everything is within walking distance. And you're all right

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