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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Thursday, November 25th. It's Thanksgiving. We're so glad that you guys are here. And I'm also so glad to be joined by my good friend, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? I am great. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving to you. We're obviously not recording it on Thanksgiving. if you're recording this the day before, but you're listening to it on Thanksgiving. We wanted to give you guys something just to be a part of your day. You know, you're sitting there, you're cooking, and you're feeling grateful. It's the entire point of today. It's to show some gratitude to really kind of sit back, take stock of what you have in your lives. And we're going to

do that with our football lives. We're going to talk through today the things that we have been

thankful for so far during this NFL season. There is plenty to get to. Lindsay, what is the thing

that first comes to mind for you? What is the thing that you are most thankful for as you have

watched the 2021 NFL season? Yeah. So I'm going to keep largely this to like kind of a football,

you know, the football scope. But, you know, I think long-time listeners of the podcast will know how

much I kind of had to talk about like I was our COVID reporter all of last year. You were a trooper. And I still

am to an extent. But I will say that I have been to games this year. I've traveled a couple

times. I've been to stadiums. And I am so thankful that it feels like football back to normal.

Everything about last year was so messed up, was so stressful for everybody

on and off the field. And there's just something about weaving your way through the tailgate

lot at Arrowhead Stadium four hours before kickoff. And it just feels like football again. And it's

normal. And being inside the stadiums. And I don't think we really

truly appreciated last year how much we missed that when it was gone. And now that it's back,

it's just been, it's just been really nice to kind of have that again. And I think it's been

happening largely in a safe way, you know, not to say that

that's been completely handled correctly and that there's not still dangers out there. But I think

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