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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

I'm my good friend Nate Tice.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. Going from two games to three games felt like I added, you know, three miles to my run. I'm exhausted. We went a whole season. Same times every game, the 10 a.m. game, you know, about 105. Well, it was like 150 for me, like, because they pushed that Vikings Giants game back because I, holy crap, that first game took so long. And then, like,

there's only three games at the normal three time slots. And I felt like it just was a marathon all day.

And I mean that complimentary. It was awesome. I mean, that was a good way, in a great way.

It was just beating you over the head the entire day in a great way it was

such a good time i was loving the giants viking's game was had a smile on my face like the entire

time this game was so much closer than we thought the fact that we got a good game in the first window

the difference is that even if the amount of time you're watching games is the same in that early early slot, for me, what is the noon slot during the regular season?

You can kind of check out in moments where it's like, oh, you know, I'll go get a drink or I'll go to the bathroom.

And like, there's so many games going on.

I can't watch them all anyway.

But when every single play matters so much, you're just locked in for 10 and a half hours.

And that's exactly what it was. And when the games run right into each other and in some cases

with the Miami Buffalo game, they bleed into the second game. It was just nonstop all day

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