Throwbacks with Matt Leinart & Jerry Ferrara - Scott Hanson Is More Excited Than You For the Return of The NFL and RedZone

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

The national holiday that is the return of the NFL is here and host of the NFL RedZone, Scott Hanson, joins to talk about his weekly routine for hosting 7 hours of nonstop action! Scott gets into his own football past, shares the origins of “The Witching Hour,” and takes you on a tour of the legendary RedZone studio.     Then, the guys are joined by Annie Agar for some quick hits on NFL Week 1. Annie celebrates her Packers snagging Micah Parsons from the Dallas Cowboys, shows Dak Prescott a little love and stumps Jerry and Matt with a quick bit of NFL trivia.     All that plus Matt’s big weekend in Columbus, Jerry’s newfound (betting) interest in college football and so much more!      New episodes of Throwbacks drop every Thursday. Make sure you’re subscribed on YouTube and following on all podcast platforms. Also, make sure you’re locked in on social @ThrowbacksShow on all platforms for highlight moments, bonus content, and to engage with the guys & the Throwbacks community. (http://throwbacksshow.com/)      A big thank you to our sponsors:    Wendy’s    Wake up with Wendy’s breakfast https://www.wendys.com/breakfast   DoorDash  Win weekly with DoorDash Streaks! Order every Saturday, save up to $250 during College Football Season. Terms Apply.  Twisted Tea  Grab a Refreshing Twisted Tea Today.  https://www.twistedtea.com/locations  00:00 Intro  01:41 The NFL is back  03:00 Big Noon recap  08:31 Fantasy Football talk  10:53 Arch Manning takeaways  11:54 Wendy’s Fresh Take of the Week  19:10 Scott Hanson joins the show  42:34 Scott Hanson’s message to Throwbacks NFL fans  44:20 Annie Agar joins the show  50:00 Twisted Tea Trivia  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt, Jerry, we have waited more than 200 days since the last full NFL Sunday. The wait is over. You'll get your snacks, get your beverages, and sit down on your couch, and get ready for the Octobox, for the witching hour. When wins become losses and losses become wins, all wrapped up in seven hours of Rankedown football. I'll see you then. I present to you an hour in 10 minutes roughly of uninterrupted throwbacks. Did you like that?

Do you know what I'm doing right now? Yeah, I know what you're doing. You're teasing our gas, bro. Let's go. I present to you. No, it is now time for the witching hour. This is why I'm not Scott Hansen. Everyone knows who Scott Hanson is, right?

I couldn't think of a better way to promote the fact that the NFL is back. I mean, everyone's talking about what quarterbacks are going to stay, all this. And look, I'm here for all of it. But today we have Scott Hansen joining us. If you don't know about the NFL Red Zone, where the hell have you been. I'm sure you do. But we're going to maybe try to go a little behind the curtain of the Red Zone and then just talk football with the one and only Scott Hansen. And coming up later toward the end.

We have Annie Agar, who was on last week. We're going to do some twisted tea trivia and kind of preview a little bit of Thursday night stuff. We got a big, I'm, I mean, listen to me. I got a little pep at my step, you know, college football's back. The NFL is back tonight. I mean, is this not, it's just, it's the greatest time of the year, buddy. This is, this is Christmas for us adults. This is Christmas for us adults.

For me, because I truly got beat up so bad during. the Knicks playoff run. It was just nothing but stress. Get ready to get beat up again. Well, I was ready, once the next season ended, I was ready to be done with sports. I'm like, I'm taking the summer off. I'm not going to really check in much with baseball. I'm not going to pay

any attention. Like, we had the NFL draft quickly, but I'm just, I'm out. This has felt like the longest drought of sports in my life. And it's not any different than any other year. But this drought has felt bad. Like, I am thirsty for some NFL action. You're feeling. You're feeling.

You took some time off. You had a nice off season. A lot of things happened in the Farrara household. Your Giants made some moves. My last football season is a father of two. Yeah. Fantasy football starts tonight. We're in it.

You're back in it. You're back in the grind. There's just a lot of shit to be thankful for, buddy. There's a lot of shit to be thankful for. And I'm thankful for football. I have a fun take for you on the Thursday night game later. But let's dive in now. You finished your week one for you is in the books.

Oh, dude. for your big noon travel. I got to say, buddy. And I watch every week. I watch every week. I've been watching for years. I appreciate that. Thanks for support.

I love, love, love the Portnoy edition. Because here, look, I'm tuning in because I want to hear between all, how many Nash, how many Naties do you guys all have? Between you, Urban and Mark, is that five? I got two, Urban's got three. Marks got one. So six. I'm tuning in because, you know, it's not that I know what to expect from you guys.

I don't know. Like, you guys educate me in an entertaining way, right? But then you get fortinois now. And now we have a layer to the show of, I don't know, what the hell to expect. And I think that's really cool for Saturday at noon. And he was cutting wrestling promos essentially. Yeah, I mean, he's food. Yeah, he's great.

He was great. Awesome. It's great to hang with Dave. just meetings, dinner. You know, I mean, you know about this. Like our weekends, it is, it's the closest thing to a locker room. We have our own locker room. Our producers, we're a tight group.

We, you know, bust each other's balls. We have fun. But we love, we want to give a great show, right? We want to educate, talk football, and have fun because college football is so fun and so great. And then now we have Barstool and Dave. And obviously with a lot of the chaos that went down last week and him not being able to go in the stadium and just him being a Michigan guy and all those guys, all those

things like it was a big week it was a three-hour show there was a lot going on i thought dave crushed it and he was awesome man like he was he was he was just fun to hang out with it's just it's just like one of us talking sports talking shit having fun um figuring out what works you know like it's a week to week thing but he was great um and dude we're in we're in we're in aims iowa this weekend barstool sports uh the show is coming this week so uh we'll see some of those guys uh but he was awesome man And it'll only get better week to week. So I got two things for you. One, what was your thoughts when he first comes out and the whole place is just booing?

Are you like, this is what we expected? Or are you like, wow, how long is this going to go on for? What I'm noticing is, you know, his demographic, right? And his audience is a lot of those people. They all love Barstool. They love. And he makes a great point. And he digs in on Ohio State because he went to Michigan.

And that rivalry, and I've seen this, and Urban will tell you too, that rivalry is second to none in sports. I've been around a lot. It's a truly a hatred, a truly a hatred. But like you said, rivalries are great for sports. So he plays into the rivalry. He plays into that. He's like, dude, this is what's great about football. It's what's great about college football in particular.

And he has the flex of a huge win last year for a not very good Michigan team. He has a huge flex coming into this year. They've won four years in a row, Michigan. I mean, it's been crazy. But last year was really surprising. But like he, I think he even said on his show this week, like, Ohio State's the number one team in the country. I give them respect.

They're really good. But like, you still got to have, like, he plays into it. Obviously, he loves it. He plays into it. But that's part of what, like, he and Bar still are. shout Dave. Dave was great. Iowa State this weekend. Iowa, another big time rivalry.

But yeah, here's my second thing for you. Because he's already putting out, you know, pizza review. Should he do it in a name? I'm going to get in one of those. Well, you should get in one of those. And then also, my pitch to you, because you're on the road so much, why don't you talk to Portnoy, El Presente and find out your own, like, maybe, what would you, like, what would you, like, what would you review?

What I would review? Yeah, find something for liner. You know what I would review. What's what? Like your chicken wings? Like, what are you going to review? I would go straight. Cheeseburgers.

Cheeseburgers. Yeah, bro. I'm a big. That's my, if I, if I'm die tomorrow, I'm going cheeseburger and fries. See,

and I think that's valuable to a fan base. So if I were you, by the way, I'd like to know if I go in Des Moines where a good cheeseburger is. I was probably pretty good cheeseburgers in Des Moines. I'm just saying.

Pitch it to Portnoy. You and him going out and then you start the cheeseburger review. I would watch the shit out of that. Bro, I'd gain like six. pounds a week, though. Nah, you land and go right to the gym. Dude, you land and go right to the gym.

I mean, all the gentlemen out there listening, I mean, it's a holiday week, bro. Let's fucking go. It's great. I mean, what are you doing this weekend? I mean, it's NFL Sunday. It's college football Saturday. Here's what the biggest challenge for me this week will be, this weekend,

is tempering my excitement for the Giants because I know it's smoke and mirrors. I know it's a good vibes team, but I do not want to, I'm trying not to get sucked. in. I'm very excited. I think you've made up the good vibes team. All you've talked about is that good vibes. I think Giants PR department did a wonderful job this year for the giant fan base. I know it's not reaching you in the South Bay, but in New York and the tri-state area, the vibes are high. Good PR. I'm, I am beyond excited for Lamar versus Josh Allen. I can't believe they're giving that to us week one. But there's some other

sneaky, interesting matchups that, I mean, Caleb, I'm very curious about Caleb Williams. game. It's just a great, it's a great slate. And I'm totally going to take advantage of, you know what? You wanted the third baby? I wanted one more season of NFL football. So, I mean, I'm going to be a degenerate this weekend. Fantasy football starts tonight. As you said, we got Scott. Scott's in the fantasy football league maybe two. So that'd be interesting how the hell he handles that during Red Zone. Is he in fantasy? I can't imagine this. Really? Yeah, he is. I'm going to ask him about it. Because I'm trying to get in that league that he's in. He's in with a lot of, with like,

George Kittle, a lot of current players. I'm going to get in next year. I've already got the end. I've already got the ask. Don't embarrass us. But fantasy football starts. Well, question off that. I always get suckered into, you know what?

I don't really want to play George Pickens, but you know what? I need a dog in the fight on Thursday. Do you sometimes play someone into Thursday night game that maybe you shouldn't, but you're just that excited to get started? Yeah, Thursday night games are the worst, though, dude. It's always, it's typically. a lower scoring game. It's always one of those. Thursday night is the second guessing game for me

always. And I travel, like I travel today. I travel to Iowa. Sometimes it's nice not to worry about it on Thursday. You just don't play it on. Exactly. Yeah. Or it's, it's fucking really nice if you get off to a great start. If you're running back gets you like 20 on Thursday night. Get 20 points from Philly defense. By the way, that might be one of the greatest feelings in fantasy football, starting a guy on a Thursday night and him going off, going into the season already up. like 15 to 30 points. Oh, yeah. With one player, there's nothing better than that.

That's a great feeling. And I think short of that, one of the best feelings is like you're down 60, but you got two guys left. And like, you know, you kind of lost. So maybe you watch the first quarter, nothing happens. And maybe you go eat some dinner.

You're why, and then you just go to your phone. It's like, oh, my God, I'm only down 12. Some, like, your two guys make two huge plays. And next thing, you know, you cut that 60 point lead to 18 at half. That's a really exciting feeling. That's a great feeling. But the Thursday big performance is amazing. Or the dud performance of the opponent, right?

If they play three guys on a Thursday night and they score like a total of 18 points, it's a easy win. Dude, I finished last place in a league last year. Last place. That's embarrassing. What an embarrassment. I didn't have to do anything. They try to make me do something this year. I'm like, guys, that ship is sale, bro.

You should have done that last year. I'm not doing shit for you. Well, maybe we'll talk more fantasy with Annie. We got Scott. on right now. Last thing, Arch Manning, we're all moving on,

right? Meaning like, it's fine. Give the kid a break, play maybe the best defense in the country. A couple, couple big takeaways real quick.

Talent is there. He's going to be a really good player. I think it was probably unrealistic for even guys like myself to kind of go in, assuming that he would just light up OSU. Light up. You know, I think we all miss the boat there. A lot of people, one in particular in the media, who's just a clown.

I don't want him to say his name. He missed the boat. But yeah, I think he needs time like anybody else. He hasn't played a lot of football. And again, I hyped him up, too. I think he's going to be really good. Second, Ohio State defense is legit. Matt Patricia was in his bag.

Yeah. I watched the film. He was in his bag. So pump the brakes. Texas is going to be fine. They're one of the teams that lost this weekend that I'm not worried about

that that'll be there when it's all sudden done. All right, let's do fresh take of the week presented by Wendy's. Wake up with Wendy's breakfast. Let me tell you, I'm going to hit a Wendy's breakfast on Sunday morning

while I get all my lineups set. We're going to hit this one really quick. CJ Daniels, maybe early candidate for best one-handed catch of the year. We see one-handed catches now forever and ever. Question for you, Matt.

Do you need a bad throw from a QB in order to get that great one-handed catch? I mean, of course. There are some players that you know I played with that all you have to do, we would just say, dude, just throw the ball in the vicinity of him because he's going to make the catch. Larry Fitzgerald was one of those. Mike Williams in college was one of those. And yeah, so typically, like you go back to the L. Del Beckham catch with Eli. like that's a good throw. It's a good throw, but he doesn't make that catch if he doesn't. I mean, yeah, it's, it's, so, so, so I would say this to a quarterback standard, if a receiver has to make a sick one-handed catch, it's probably not a great throw. But sometimes you got to put it in places where only they have a shot. I just, I, I want to, I want to ask you like, what are your favorite catches of one-handed catches of all time? Because I have, I have one. That's unbelievable. I did a little deep dive to. First of all, I don't know what you consider the Edelman's

Super Bowl catch, like one hand, tip ball thing. That's arguably one of the greatest catches of, yeah. Greatest, if not most important catches. There's been so many great one-handed catches. Here's what I came out of my deep dive, because I started watching all-time great NFL catches. And even going back to like Chris Carter days where they did not really do the one-handed catch.

Like, what Odell did with that catch is what Curry kind of did with the 30-footer. And then kids start working on that. And next thing you know, it's like, one-handed catches aren't ridiculous. But what separates the O'Dell catch from all the amazing one-hand grabs that we've seen, and it's not because he was wearing a Giants jersey, Matt. I know that's my...

I know. The thing about it that made it unbelievable was it was an N-1. He got held so bad. And the ref threw the flag. It was the NBA equivalent of an N-1. He gets held. He breaks off the hold,

ref throws the flag, and then he makes the catch. So that to me is... That's just the best. We've had great one since, but no one will ever touch that one. Yeah, I think, and he, it almost, I mean, and O'Dell was a great receiver,

so he didn't need that catch to be a great receiver, but that was just like one that like kind of put him on the map. I would say O'Dell Beckham's catch is right up there and Mike Williams catch. Mike Williams, yeah. You probably won't know, you probably hadn't seen this, but we're going to post this. Oregon State, my first year playing, 03,

he runs a little stick nod in the red zone, which is like a five-yard out and kind of up through the middle of the thing. I throw it off my back foot. I kind of throw it high. He catches the ball with one hand and just holds it the whole time. It's palmed it.

To palms it, never brings it back in, like to tuck it. He didn't fall. He literally, he holds it like a loaf of bread and just keeps it high for like five seconds that just gives it to the referee. And I was like, when I... It's got to feel good as a QB. Like, he just saved you for a touchdown.

When I saw it, I think I watched the highlight, and I was like, my God. Like, it is one of the sickest catches of all time. Like David Tyree catching the Super Bowl. But that had a lot of love. I love that catch. But that was... But a lot of these catches are luck. I mean, one-handed...

I mean, Michael Crabtree's catch in college, Texas Tech, when they beat Texas on the sideline, is arguably... And again, a lot of these catches, ours didn't. A lot of these catches had great, like, ramifications, right? Edelman's catch, Super Bowl, Tyree catch, Super Bowl. Texas Tech upset Texas, I believe, on the sideline. You got to watch that one, too. Those are, to me, some of the sickest catches of all time. Justin Jefferson has a great one versus the bills.

But, yeah, for me, the big bang of it all was Odell with the M1. And I think kids started working on it. And now we see it all the time. It is now timed. I'm going to stop doing us, Scott. We got it, by the way, that and we got to, you guys. We're going to give this man a proper introduction when he comes on. You want it?

You're going to take it? I'll take that. All right. It is now time. I got to do the TV voice. I'm fired up, man. A lot of pressure. I just want to just say like, bro, what's up, dude?

What do we got? Let's go. I love your intro. Bro, what's up? What's up? I'm going to give him that intro just like that. All right. Here we go, Scotty.

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every football bro's favorite face on Sunday morning entering his 17th season as the host of the NFL Red Zone, Scott Hansen. Let's go, baby. Let's go, guys. Happy New Year, Matt, Jerry, great to be with you. I'm getting fired up. In fact, I chose to do this interview from the studio here, just to give you guys a quick feel if you wanted.

I kind of got chills. Do you get as excited as all of us, as you know how the fans feel specifically for Red Zone? Do you get the same feeling going into Sunday? I can only imagine. So I think they record our studio crew records me, in the last 90 seconds prior to you guys and the fans hearing me at home. Because I am literally like, I don't want to blow the microphone here, but like,

whoa, let's go. You only get 18 of these all year. Let's go. I'm literally like that. In fact, I just got goosebumps right now doing it because I'm here in the studio and it kind of echoes just a little bit. But, oh, yeah, I'm a, I am a nut job before the, before we actually kick it off. because I just, I'm so thrilled because when, I mean, I love football. I love serving our audience.

The audience is so positive about Red Zone and what it means in their football lives. And I'm like, you only get 18 of these all year. You know, 17 games plus the bye weeks. We obviously go all 18 weeks of the regular season. And in the, I think if you get tired at some point, either during a show or maybe, you know, by December, you know, people are starting to get a little tired, little fatigue. I'm like, imagine it's mid-May. Imagine it's early June. And you would give a body part to have an NFL Red Zone episode begin right now. Focus on that and you will be back and enthused to get after it for seven hours. Jerry, do you see, do you see this man right here?

Do you see how football players are just built different? We are just, like, we are just built different. By the way, you need to come speak. You need to come speak to my son's high school football team and motivate their team because they are on the struggle bus right now, buddy. But it's okay. What happened? It's early in the season. They're already out of us. As kicked week one.

We're all right, though. We're going to bounce back. Let me, you know, we got the green screen behind you. Awesome to see. What's the studio look like? Can you move? I don't know what camera. First of all, I know we're shattering some people's dreams that the background is fake.

It's not just 800 television is going. We're getting a first look. You undoubtedly have had a bunch of green screen experience. in your career. So, yeah, you know that they digitize the background. But look at this, boys. Here we go. Oh, look at this.

I got to get the camera here. Correct. So, oh, oh, here we go. The stage is, no, this is not an ego trip, by the way. I was to say, is that AI? It's, yeah, no, it's a cardboard cutout that they used to match the green screen for when I'm actually. Got your stand in, essentially. It's just my stunt double.

Yeah. The desk is. real. The host's enthusiasm is real. And most important, the touchdowns are real. So, but it's all fake background green screen. Here's what I'm looking at. Obviously. Oh, that's amazing. Camera lights and whatnot. Oh, yeah. A camera that I say hi to the country to is right over here. And then this is the part you'll like. The donut light is usually not on. That's for you guys. But this, this is my wall of monitors, six big screens, and then we quadrant each one of them. So I'll eight games in the early window kicking off on Sunday. And I actually do not stand

over there. I say hi to the football world over there. And then I walk back around here about 15 feet. And I stand right here. And my eyes are glued to these monitors for seven straight hours. We have every feed from every game brought to me over here on the far side. This monitor has live scores to every stadium that literally tapped into the scoreboard in the stadiums. So the game clock is completely synchronized, no delay or anything, so I can keep an eye on things there. And then this is what we call the program monitor, meaning this is what this exactly mirrors what's on in your living room at any given moment. So I know what you're watching. And then I can determine, and the crew and I can determine where we're going to take

you next and bounce around. These two seats over. here are my guys Tim Galanians and Brian Larravee, my right-hand men. They sit there with a laptop to help me out with any stats, facts, player identification. That's your O line right there. That is my O line. 100%, Jerry. Yeah. And they're my guys. I would be, I know a lot about football, but I'd be lost without these guys. So that's our little, that's our little studio. Upstairs, there's a control room with like 15 to 20 people who, you know, helped determine. determine where we're going to go to at any given moment. And it's like an orchestra playing jazz music. Everyone needs to be sweet and sharp on their instrument, but then they need to be listening

to everyone else in the orchestra to say, because we don't have sheet music, right? We're responding to wherever the football, we don't care who's in the red zone. We just care that someone's in the red zone. We don't care who scores the touchdown. We just care that there are a bunch of them. We try and blend it all together into what hopefully is a good watch on television. By the way, I goosebumps just watching that. It's fascinating, man. The job that you do and everything, I get asked this a lot of time on the show that we're on and like, you know, you have your ears in, right? So you have your, yeah, you have your being ears. And there's always people talking in your ear while you're talking. Because you just talked about that. It's an orchestra. You got a lot of moving parts.

You got your stats, dudes. You guys like, hey, we need to move to this game. What is it like, take us behind the scenes with that on how you kind of balance the ears and where to go to next. How much how much do you have the say in doing whatever, kind of going off script? Okay, you're going to love this as a quarterback. You're going to love this because I equate it to the coach to quarterback communication system. Yeah. Okay. So I'll give you a for instance. And this is when it gets real frenetic, which is quite often, not always, sometimes it's pretty obvious. We should be on this game. It's the only game in the red zone. So we're in Detroit or whatever. But let's say there's a scenario like this. With eight games going on in the early

window, let's say Green Bay is third and eight from midfield. And that's what you're watching at home right now. Okay, third and eight, let's see if they can convert this and get the drive into opponent territory. But my producer will get in my ear and say, all right, we're on the Green Bay game right now. If Jordan Loves completes this pass and they get a first down, we'll stay on the Green Bay drive because they'll be in field goal range. If it's incomplete or they don't get the, they're going to bring out the punt team. So we'll go over to New England because they're just outside the red zone. But keep in mind, Dallas is in the two-minute warning timeout.

When they come out a break, they're first and goal from the five. So that's our top priority. So he just gave me all that instruction. And then that's like the coach, or at least what I imagine, the coach calling multiple plays in my ear, then I get up to the line of scrimmage, meaning I watch what happens in the Green Bay game. All right, Jordan Love drops back to pass, tries to target Matthew Golden, up incomplete. Packers are going to bring out the punt team. Let's go over to New England right now.

They're just outside. Hold on. We just got out of the two-minute warning timeout. Dallas is first and goal from the five. Let's go to AT&T Stadium and see if that can score. And I call the play based on what the actuality is or what the defense, you know, allows me to call. Does that make sense? I mean, and no one does it better, dude. You're one of one. Well, that's the thing, Scott. I think as an audience, and maybe I relate with this with acting too, we know you're having fun. saying like it's not stressful it must be and it's not easy it's very hard but we feel that you're having fun doing this and you're not just like hey this is a good job i'm going to do it like

you like you said the way we only have 18 of these we feel how special you treat it and i think that's why you get the reaction that you do from all of us and i will say you're going into year is this year 17 baby yeah it's a yeah huge 30 years from now if you decide to hang it up take that desk with you. People will, that desk is awesome. By the way, take that desk with you. Put that in your house. Have that forever. It's a great desk. I'm the first one in the studio at like 5 a.m. on Sunday. I'm the first one in. It's usually dark. That thing still scares the crap out of me. I forget that it's in here. And sometimes one of the crew hands will move it on like Wednesday or something. And it'll be right at the entrance to the studio. And I'll be like, who's in here?

And then I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's me. That's cardboard me. But good call, Jerry, on that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to take that whenever, yeah, 30 years from now, if you decide to hang it up with the Red So in year 47, take that thing, put that thing in a nice spot in your house. Did you take anything from a set that was probably... I take everything I could, Scott, anything, anything I could. But didn't you take those sneakers behind you? These sneakers came from on, yeah, anything. Because also it's like, look, of course, sneakers have that has some value.

But just looking back, you know, even with the entourage stuff, it's like, it just, I don't know, I want these in my family. And I feel like that desk is something that should be with you forever. And when security tries to stop me, I'm going to say that you greenlighted it. Yes. Real quick, you know, I'm a, I've said this. I use this too often in my regular life. My wife wants to kill me sometimes because even when we're doing bedtime for the kids,

I'm like, we have entered the witching hour. No way, really. I swear to God, I use it in life way too much. And I was thinking about this the other day, right? And I fully, I'm saying this is my opinion. You don't have to get weird about it. I think witching hour is up there for me with Let's Get Ready to Rumble with Mike Breen going bang.

It's, to me, it's in the zeit guys. If you ask someone, give me like three phrases that make you know NFL football's coming. The witching hour is up there. Did you have any idea that that was going to stick the way it did? It's almost impossible to know, right? No, I wanted to come up with a nickname for that. hour, it's usually more than 60 minutes, because when you hit the end of the third quarter in the early window, and I'm looking across my wall of monitors, and we've got eight games going

out across the National Football League, and five of them are one possession games, and you've got 15 minutes to play, you can guarantee that out of those five, two, three, or all five of them, the trailing team's going to end up winning that game. And it's going to be something that everyone's going to be like, did you see the blank game or whatever? And on Red Zone, your answer is going to be yes. You will see every jaw-dropping moment, when a win becomes a loss and a loss becomes a win. So I had workshopped some different things to say,

we got to identify this hour. And I wanted there to be a catchphrase where the fans would associate it with, but did I know that years later people would be tucking in their children with the fishing hour? Did I know that every year, dozens of people hit me up on social media saying we're going as the witching hour for Halloween, right? That's great.

They're in a flave a flave clock and the girl will be dressed up as a witch. We're the witching hour for our Halloween costume. My tailors, my tailors, when they make my suit, they'll stitch in the stitching hour. You know, it's, it is taking on. That's when you know you've made it, Scott. That's when you know you've made it. You got your own. If you guys are in show business, you know that that's good to have it a

with fans that's so positive that they think like oh yeah that's you know say the thing say the thing yeah um i mean i you've talked about this and maybe we can dive a little deeper the the the the absolute worst case scenario right i think that's what everybody i think it's fascinating you are just grinding for hours you don't leave what what paint the picture of just if i don't want to jinx you but if things go wrong or the absolute worst case scenario what what happens what do you do and then do you have like an understudy do you have someone that just goes up there and maybe fills time like how does that work or how would that work yeah thankfully we've never had to come to that we've had more than more than 250 episodes i guess and i've never just a machine dude

and it's a i i you know what when you don't have talent you better have enthusiasm stop and i got that so i ain't by the way you were a long snapper dude it's for the orangeman You got talent, bro. You can make a lot of money being a long snapper. The more you can do. Yeah, yeah. But the problem was I would snap. I could snap.

We used to do 15-yard snaps back in the day. And on my best days, I could snap in 0.7. The problem is I'm about 5'10. Back then I weighed a little over 200 pounds. And the noseguard, when the center wasn't protected by the rules back in those days, I used to get jacked up. And my special teams coach one time said, Hansen, it don't matter if you can snap in 0.6. if your ass is flying back at 0.5.

And I'm like almost blocking the punt with my backside because so yeah, like, you know, but I loved, I love playing college ball. Syracuse was fantastic during my time there. We played USC, got beat, unfortunately, by USC back in the day. That was the Todd Marin. Did you have team? Oh, I was able enough that it was Todd Morinovish. I was going to say McNabb.

McNabb was a little younger than I am. So I was, I was at Syracuse before he was. I played with Marvin Harrison. Marvin Harrison and I would play. Scott, you don't look a, you don't look a day over 35, my man. You know, good, buddy. Drink a lot of water except on NFL Sundays, you know. What are we drinking on NFL Sundays?

No, nothing, because I thought you were going to ask me the bathroom question. You can't, yeah, I mean, we already know. Yeah, no. That's the last thing you do before you go live, though, right? When you're watching the countdown clock, you know, when you're watching your last break, you're like, I'm in the men's room, handling business, and then I am locked in on the touchdowns. I don't go. So, yeah.

But to answer your question, yeah, they do have like backups and whatnot, but yeah, like you said, hopefully, hopefully. By the way, they're going to have to carry you off of that, in, out of that studio for you to not. Right. And that's the dedication that we all need and we love from you, dude. I appreciate it, Matt. Thank you. How do you feel about, you know. Let's move off a Sunday.

Now you're on Monday, and there's only one game most of the time. Sometimes there's two. It must feel nice to sit back and be like, oh, I got one football game and I just get to watch it, right? Like Monday night's got to be a little bit of a come down, a relief. Because, you know, you only got X amount of time before you've got to ramp it back up, right? What's Monday look like for Scott Hansen? This might freak you out. On Monday night football or even Sunday night football, Thursday night football, a standalone game.

I had a media wall built into my house in Los Angeles with five big screen TVs. It looks exactly very similar to what the six monitors are. So when there's a standalone game, to make me feel like I'm in my comfort zone, I'll put Monday night football on the center screen. And then I flank it with a Marvel movie highlights go. Oh, you are sick. Are you serious? I am ill, Matt.

I think that is comfortable to me. Now, you have a wife and kids, Jerry, and you guys have your, I'm a bachelor. I live alone, so, like, I didn't have to ask permission for Mrs. Hansen to say, can I put five TVs on in the living room right now? It'd be bluey and living the dream. No, I don't have iron on or anything like that. So, but I literally will watch all of that stimulus coming at me is like, I can process it for some strange reason. And I love it. That's like my comfort zone. So, yeah. I think the, I think the craziest thing, too, is. Like, I was saying because you're not, you know, you're not doing a pregame show for a game or you're not like, like the preparation is different. Like you're reacting. You're reacting to everything. I think that's just, that's the hard. In our world, I think that's the hardest thing to do.

And that's what makes guys like you great guys that call a game because you're just reacting what you're seeing and you're doing it in a millisecond. I think it's, it's, there's not a lot of prep you can do, right? Oh, no. There's tons of prep. As a matter of fact, I actually brought some if you want to see it. Like, yeah. Let me see if I've got last years. Let me just show you

I'm already working on week one right now So I'll start off with basically three different packets I have an overarching packet Like this is my schedule for week one And I'll usually draw lines between the early window And late window just to have the schedule, right? Then I go into different individual statistics I'll do I don't know where I put it over here

Anyway, I'll have quarterback stats spreadsheets that I create myself with just so I know, okay, who are the top performing quarterbacks? How many touchdowns this has this guy have entering the game? How many interceptions does he have? Where is he at? And how many times he's been sacked? What's his, what's his passer rating? All these things. Kicker stats. Defensive stats. Running back wide receivers fantasy stats. And what I do is I saturate my mind with all of that. So therefore, if a guy does something in a game that is pertinent to something that I've read, read during the week that I can quickly, because they're not waiting for me to go to the next

game and whatnot, I can quickly disseminate. Well, that 82-yard Derek Henry run was now the longest run in the NFL this season. Damien Pierce had an 80-yarder back in week four, but I've got that available to me. So I'm constantly studying, you know, depth charts as well because, heck, at the time you get to November, injuries are a thing. And there are guys catching passes in November that weren't even talked about among individual fan bases back in August. So it's, yeah, I do a lot of prep work, but I think what your point was,

there's no teleprompter. There ain't there. You're just flying by the cedar pants and whatever you can retain. Exactly. Fantasy football starts. You do play fantasy football. And I just, I'm asking now,

I'm asking this, and I think you're the guy to ask, how do I join your league? because you're in a league you're in a league with you got to give him your Hizman you got to give you Hesman Chubbies does the league right Chubby's great

I wear their shorts all the time my son had matching one a couple current players are in or what tell us about this league because I need to get I'm in five league Scott by the way five already That's four too many Matt No it's not

I agree with Scott One league with your best friends and just say I'm going to pummel each and every one of you because that way when I show you Lamar Jackson running for a 50-yard touchdown. Are you going yay or boo with your five teams? Or both.

Exactly, Jerry. Exactly. It depends which leagues I'm making more money. You lost me, Matt. How do I get in this league, man? Can we tell us about the league? Chubby's great partnership. I was thrilled to join with them in preseason. We just had our draft not too long ago.

Mark Sanchez is in it. Emmanuel Sanders is in it. Ian Rappaport, the great information man. from NFL media is the commissioner of the league. And then we're playing against just Chubby's customers, you know, just fans of the NFL who got into this league and wanted to, you know, mix it up with some people that they see on TV, celebrities and whatnot. And it is awesome.

We had a good time. And I'm going to take absolutely no mercy on anyone. My contract with Chubbies does not require me to be a gentleman when it comes to smashing someone. But you don't even get to look at your team throughout the day. I try not to actually And here's why Because I don't want to cheat

You don't want to affect I don't want to be like Okay oh yeah I got Christian McCaffrey Or or oh I'm playing Against Christian McCaffrey So that 50 yard run that he just had You know I'm not going to give it the enthusiasm That I would on Red Zone

So I try not to check my scores During the early window of the show But my favorite football team Is the Iron Blatter's My Fantasy Football Team The iron bladders, well done. So getting the Trubbies League is the bottom line, Matt. Oh, yeah, I'm in.

To the extent that I have power, invitation, verbal invitation extended right here right now. Make him give up his Heism. He has to, the winner of the league gets to hold the Heisman for a year. You have to be willing to risk that for a year, Matt. Well, we'll negotiate that. It occurred to me, too, Scott. You probably, if we go 17 years of history,

I don't know if you remember like the show Stump to Schwab. You probably would a night. violate everybody in trivia or or you the sort of thing I know when I do a scene with acting it's like out of my brain once it's over it's like out of my brain does it leave you like right away or does some of that stuff stick with you yeah that's a good question a lot of it I describe it as saturating my mind with all these stats and facts a lot of it if I know it's a one week thing like this guy needs to score a touchdown this week otherwise his seven game stretch of scoring at least one scrimmage touchdown is over, then I'll dump that out of my head if he doesn't

do it. But if there's something like Sequin Barclay having a season that he had last year, okay, he's 300 and some yards away with three games to play. He needs to average 104 yards on the ground to hit 2,000 yards. And then that, you know, you've got to maintain that in your head and be doing the math constantly. So a little bit sticks with me. Some of it I just let go. But again, a doctor or a lawyer or any walk of life, I would have four windows open on my, on my screen to NFL websites anyways. I get paid to do this. So it's an absolute laboral love. I love doing it. And so yeah, it's, you know, it's fun. It's fun. Oh, but trivia-wise, I do a little fun thing. We have a production meeting with the whole entire staff two hours before showtime on

Sunday. And I will present to them a trivia question. And it's me versus the entire room of whatever, 20 people or so. If they get it right, I throw 100 bucks into the pot. And at the end of the year, if we have a couple grand, then we go out and have, you know, whatever, an open bar celebration somewhere, something like that. And I come up with some stuff that that does, it's, it's firm but fair. And they have to, they have to use their collective brains with no Googling, obviously to come up with the $100 question answer. So, yeah, I do like, I do like trivia. But Schwab, Schwab was the man on stuff.

He was the man. Scott, before we let you go, one last message to our NFL lovers out there across the globe, look into the camera, give us one last motivational speech, because guess what, buddy, it's go time. Yeah. It is go time for you and for everybody else. What do you got? Yeah.

Matt, Jerry, ladies and gentlemen, we have waited more than 200 days since the last full NFL Sunday. But on September 7 at 1 o'clock Eastern, the weight is over. You'll get your snacks, get your beverages,

set your lineups, all five of them, liner, and sit down on your couch and get ready for the oxenact. box for the witching hour when wins become losses and losses become wins all wrapped up in seven hours of Redstone football I'll see you then you are a legend Scott this has been the best way to start famous actor on the Zoom here with me I had to play a little sauce into it it was all you you crushed it you absolutely crushed it I cannot think of a better

way to ring in the NFL season and having you want we appreciate you buddy have a great season. We love you. Seriously. You absolutely crush it. You are a part of our lives. And my kid's bedtime now, officially, The Witching Hour. Good luck to you. We'll be watching. Have a great season, buddy. You got me so fired up. I wish it was right now. Let's go. I got goosebumps. Let's go. Hey, let's check back in during the season. We'll do a, we'll do a midseason update or something like that. Great to be with you guys. All right, Scott. Thanks, buddy. Thank you, Scott. right now, courtesy of Twisted Tea. Grab a refreshing twisted tea today.

I'm actually going to be grabbing quite a few of those later tonight for the game and the weekend. We're to do a little Twisted Tea trivia with Annie. She has some questions for us. But before that, Annie, you shared something with us off air at your local coffee shop, we'll call it. Are you still riding high for your Packers and Micah Parsons, even with the back stuff? Oh, what a great week. What a great month. I'm so happy.

There was another time, too. I didn't mention it. So, yes, that happened this morning at Starvire, my coffee place. And then the, I don't know if it was on a walk the day it happened, like that night, I think. I went for a walk and some guy didn't even acknowledge me, didn't say like, go, Pat, go or anything. He just said, we got Micah. Like, just pointed to me until we, it was just the best. Like, they already know.

We know. We got Micah's ever considered in Chicago has come together and I just love it. By the way, you got Micah and a bad back. Well, okay. You know what? I did extensive research, Matt, and by defense, I mean, I looked at a doctor's tweet. on Twitter. And he said that they don't get epidurals right before a game.

This would have to be like days in advance. So everybody like there might be false information out there. So Jerry's not smarter than we think, guys. You know what you get though. You get some, you get that good old candy. I mean, you know more. You know more player.

Like should I be worried about this back thing? I honestly, I don't know. I never had a bad back. I've had a bad. Usually, usually when there's an issue with the back, it's not a great thing. I'm sure he's going to be fine. I mean, go, because we had,

We talked, we had you on last week, and I feel like you were just so like, I don't know, the Packers and this. He even did a little duck side by side of my, yeah, I was just concerned about the depth and injuries and preseason. And we just needed, our pass rush was so bad. And now we filled that one hole that I think I'll, like, I'm not talking Super Bowl, but I'm talking Super Bowl. You've checked the odds for the Packers going to the Super Bowl. At least in the division, for sure. Well, we're going to hit trivia in a second. Obviously, tonight we start off.

We got Eagles Cowboys. I have a little bit of a take. Any quick thoughts for us on that? And then maybe what matchup this Sunday and Monday are you most excited for? Great questions. First of all, we got to get your betting back up. You got to get your money back on this game. So I just bet on Sequin because Dallas still can't stop the run, no matter what Jerry says.

They're not going to stop the run. And as a Packers fan, I know what Seekwond did with the opening, opening the night last year, so I'm just not going to talk about that. Yeah, I just think it's going to be not in Dallas's favor. Maybe take like the over on DAC passing because they'll play playing from behind the entire game as per usual. But I'm there, I think the storyline I'm most excited about is to see how Matt Eberflus does because I kind of forgot for a hot second that he's DC over there. I did as well. Make so much fun of him, obviously. I was about to say where you're, where are you going with this? Because I know you probably risk his. Just remember, let's remember how Matt did

the last Thursday night game. It was Thanksgiving. I think Bears fans remember that one. But, no, I'm excited to see how that plays out. That's going to be interesting. What do you guys say? What's your take, Jerry? Well, I look at things in terms of the storyline.

That's why I felt so good about OSU minus one and a half. Like, everyone's daring you sort of to take Texas. And I just looked at the storyline. Like, what's the most likely headline the next day? And it was not arch and texts in the Longhorns look amazing at the shoe. I just didn't see it. So with this one, and I watched even all the talk about, you know, how the Eagles are, they're not going to come out for the banner raising. They don't want to celebrate that.

And they're just pretending. They don't want to fall into this like we're the defending champs thing. They want to go at it like still this underdog. No one believes in us mentality, which whatever. Fine. I just think after this trade, everyone is ready to bury the Cowboys. And maybe they should. And I don't think they're winning the game.

But if you're giving me eight and a half, I know what's in Philly. I just think with the amount of the amount of passing the Cowboys are going to have to have to move the ball because they ain't going to move the ball at the run. I just think they hang around. I think the Eagles handle their business and it's like a survive in advance for the Eagles.

I think maybe it's a six, seven point game. So I like the Cowboys with the eight and a half. I like a fight. Am I the only one that like weirdly thinks that Cowboys are going to be good this year? I agree. I don't think like Super Bowl, but I think like, you know,

know, seven, six seed isn't on the table. You know what? I feel like I root for DAC. I just, I don't know. I root for like good guys and I root for guys that are like, he just, he's been manhandled by media for his whole career. And I think he's a good player. Yeah.

I don't know. It's just weird. Like, I, and I think maybe that's a former player in me, but I root for deck. I don't really care who wins this game, to be honest with you guys. But I do think, I do think that's a big spread. I don't think all of America is with you on that mad. Yeah. I'm just thinking like, like I root, I actually root for the Cowboys.

I don't really, I mean, again, I don't have a dog in the fight. I don't really care that much, but I'm running for Dak, man. I'm on board with that because I've only met, I've met him once. And it was, and every one, anytime anybody asks me who's the nicest person you met, I said he was so nice. Dak was just the nicest guy. Don't talk me off this ledge, but I'm starting George Pickens tonight. I don't care. I think they're going to fill the 48 times.

I think he'll at least have a deep touchdown pass, but I don't know about. I got CD Lamb and I got CD Lamb in multiple fantasy leagues. So I'm rocking with the Cowboys offense. I can't believe we're having this conversation because like two weeks ago felt like it was two years away. And now here we are. And a lot's changed for you, Annie Agar. Hi, I just love it.

What's changed for us now is each week we are going to do some twisted tea trivia, one of our great new sponsors. I can't wait to crack a few later. Annie, you have some questions for Matt. So for reference, and other trivia-ish competitions, Matt has absolutely destroyed me.

Okay. So I need to show up here. It's getting the point where I don't even want to play anymore. Can we get hints if we need be? It's like I play my buddy and horse all the time in basketball and I've won 99.9%. It's just like, dude, I don't want to play. Like it's not fun for me. It's like Michigan State.

It's not even a robbery anymore when you keep it. Yeah, it's like, I mean, big brother, little brother. I mean, are we even talking? Jerry, you got to defend yourself here. I wish we could get Scott Hansen to go. We now present to you, Quisted Tea trivia. Get him to do it. That'd be hilarious.

That'd be great. We'll use it every open. It'll just be Scott. You probably have to give it like $10 million to say that out loud. It's a commercial free trivia. Yeah, I would probably pay him a little bit. Okay, I have five questions. Five.

I don't think I'll give out any hints. Maybe if we get really stumped on something. But if I knew a couple of these, so I feel like you guys will know them. If that makes you feel more common. Are we going one at a time or do we just buzz in? Just shout it out. Shout it out. Yep.

All right. Number one, ready? Who holds the record for most passing touchdowns in week one? since we're talking week one here. Oh, gosh. Drew Breeze. That was a good guess. That's probably what I would have said.

Incorrect. Incorrect. Let me ask a question. Are we going, how many years back are we going? Or it doesn't matter? Not very far. Well, that's a hint. That qualifies as a hint.

I mean, we can go back to the 80s. I mean, no, not that far. I remember this. Annie was not around in the 80s. Matt, do you? Yeah. It's probably a,

lot more simple than you're thinking. Get your guess in, Matt. Um, Aaron Rogers. Nope. Good guess to you though. All right. Same wavelength though. Brett Farr. Nope. All right. Give it to us. We're 0 for one. It was in 2013. How may I give you there? Peyton Manning. Oh, Ma'am. It was O'M. Yeah. I don't think I would have to guess. I would have said Drew Breeze, I think. 2013 Payton Manning was in, oh, Indie. Yeah. I have a hard time getting the Broncos. How many touchdowns you can throw? Seven touchdowns. Seven.

Oh, I just saw that the other day on TV. That's crazy. In week one, geez. So you don't even get seven series. Jack will not be doing that versus the Eagles. All right, number two. Who was the last Super Bowl champion to miss the playoffs the following year? Not that we're hinting it with the Eagles.

Yes, Jerry. New York Giants. No, but that is a great guy. This is the problem. The problem with Jerry and trivia is he gets so excited and blurts it out. before he even thinks about the answer. That's true. So who's the last Super Bowl?

It's like the family feud ones that people are stupid- to win the Super Bowl or make the Super Bowl, win the Super Bowl? Oh, Patriots. Nope. Oh, Tampa Bay. No, that's great. We suck. Come on, Hannah.

We stink at this. I know because of Brady. No, same thing, though. They're a quarterback, retired. That may have given him play. We stink at this. Oh. Is it the Bronco?

It was the Broncos Bonos. Oh, Manning. Oh, peppering us with a little Peyton Manning, right? 2016 Denver Broncos,

which I forgot that happened. I forgot that one. We stink at this so far. We're basically over two. This one goes back a little bit further. Number three. Who was the last defensive player to win MVP? JJ Watt.

This is it, no. Oh, you said that was, I thought that too. Is it, is it? Ray Lewis. No. Lawrence. Taylor? Yes. Yes.

Wow. Only the greatest linebacker of all time. Indemption arc here for Jerry. Okay. Number four. Jane Daniels was the first rookie quarterback to win a playoff game in over a decade last year. Who was the last rookie quarterback to win a playoff game before him? I know this answer.

I think I know it. The last rookie quarterback to win a playoffs. It's one of these two. I know. And they went one in two. I think in a draft, but I don't want to get, if I say RG3, RG3. Then it's Andrew Luck.

No. No, what the heck? Those are my two. The confidence. Cam Newton. No. You're on the right track, though. Think of it.

I can't. Come on, Ann. Give us a hint. The last rookie quarterback to win a plan. It was 2012. Stafford? No, you already said his name once. I'll tell you that.

Oh If you remember Ryan, no I'd just give it to us We stink No Russell Wilson Sorry, sorry Matt

We should have got By the way That's what we should have got By the way Jerry's best friend Great story there If you ever want to tell Annie one day Maybe we do like

Oh I'd be to hear this story Oh yeah This is a story over twisted teas This is definitely a twisted tea story Okay one last question This is embarrassing These are great question Shout out to our producer, by the way.

By the way, great questions. There have been 1599 yard offensive touchdowns in NFL history. Offensive touchdowns in NFL history. What was the last one? The last 99 yard touchdown. I mean, was it Sequin? This is a tough. No, on the right track.

It was a pass. What? Is it a running back? It was a running back. Yeah. You know, I know it because I think it happened in like overtime, right? Derek Henry. Derek Hendry.

Yeah. Nicely done. I'm visualizing the run. It was out to the left. I remember that. Okay. Yeah. There was some question about what happened last year and it was like, it was a, I don't

remember who it was now. I thought it was Derek Henry last year, but it wasn't the longest run. Well done. Unfortunately, Jerry comes out on top of their Twisted Tea trivia champion. That's hard to say too. Jeez. Gotta be honest. That was, that was embarrassing.

The trivia? We're horrible. We need to study. We're not going on Jeopardy. You were actually pretty good. I was terrible. Those are tough questions. Maybe next year we do it from something from the last three. Matt and I are old.

So maybe we just go, but not like we should go back at time, meaning our memories don't work. Because I'm definitely obviously better at like the current stuff. Like if it's a couple years back, I'm good. But before that. I think we're old enough now that we just don't remember stuff like that. You know what? I've been leaning on hints in the stuff that we do. So maybe I'm not as smart as I think.

Annie, what is the, what does the weekend look like? I mean, I know we got Packers, obviously. Yeah, what's you're watching? Yeah, I mean, I said this is, it's Christmas season. My brother has blocked me on Twitter, so that's, we're off to a great start. Great start. Great start. You probably deserved it.

Yeah, we're going to do, I think we're going to do a joint, like last year for the game. We had, I had a camera on him at home in Michigan, and then I put him on me, and we did reactions of the game that because he won't talk to me during the game. Like, everybody thinks this is like a joke maybe. No, we don't, there's no. I love it. I love it. so mad at me. So, um, yeah, so that's what I'll be doing Sunday. I'll be sitting in my apartment

watching by myself. By the best way, nothing wrong with that. Yeah. What are you guys doing this weekend other than obviously Saturday or a little busy? Uh, what am I doing this weekend? I don't know. Sunday. I mean, I'll just be, I'll probably be sitting in, uh, I don't know, somewhere where I'm not supposed to be looking at my phone with the wife and look at it all day. A lot of sports this weekend. Kids start. Um, yeah, but fired up. I'll be watching while all So, like, chopping vegetable. Like, that's our agreement. I turn it to a sous chef.

I prepare the stuff for cooking later while I have a giant screen going and just give me, at least give me the one o'clock games. That's all I want. Like, four o'clock, what I get it, West Coast. I don't even need to watch the Chargers anyway. Yeah. I feel like the Chargers and the Cardinals, like, I could watch that with one eye. Give me the one o'clock games.

Those late afternoon's late, usually those games are really rough. But, I mean, we have Lions Packers, so I can't even relax in the afternoon. Oh, that's, you got, oh, that's four o'clock. I hate when, I hate, this may be a hot take. I hate when the Packers play in that slot because that's my relaxing time. For like half an hour I can compose myself and now I have to be stressed out the entire time. It sucks. Yeah, four o'clock while I'll be thinking to you because you're in the torture chamber for three and a half hours.

And I've already like locked in for three hours before that. So it's just going to be ridiculous. Yeah, you're going to need to do some yoga or meditate later that night. That's the reason why you guys should move to the West Coast and you start the games lot earlier. It is the best for sports. It is the best for sports.

It is the best for sports. I know. Debby, my agent will call me and be like, oh yeah, we're making dinner. Like having a... I'm like,

oh, great. It's 8 o'clock here. I'm stressed out. I'm trying to figure out I'm going to stay awake for the last night game. And there's nothing better about the West Coast time.

Well, Annie Agar, we're looking forward to your recaps and everything you're going to be throwing our way over the weekend. Big shout-outs of Twisted Tea. Matt and I will do better with trivia next week. And we'll see you next.

week, Annie. Awesome. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Bye. All right, Matt. I mean, the next time we do this show, we are going to have a full week of NFL and the second week of college football to discuss. Say goodbye to the girlfriends and wives. It's over. Enjoy Iowa. Go hit the farmer's market over there. Yeah, I put it out there on X. I got a lot of funny responses. Go check out my reply section of that. I said, Ames, what's good? And everyone's like, nothing. Don't come here. I'm fired up, though. It could be fun. It's going to be good.

Listen, everyone, enjoy. I know there's going to be a lot of people awake on Saturday night staring at their fantasy lineups and their betting stubs and all that. Just enjoy it. I, similarly with golf, I love the anticipation almost as much as I love watching the actual thing. So Saturday night for me, knowing I get to wake up and do that will give me just as much joy as actually doing it. So good luck to everybody in fantasy, to everybody betting to all your, your favorite team, Super Bowl hopes and dreams.

Good luck, everybody. Week one, coming at you. We're back.