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And on the show today at five, we'll talk to the director of a documentary on the booming business of NIL at LSU that followed around Jaden Daniels, all of last football season. Pretty relatable content to what we care about in DC right now. That's at five o'clock today. Danny Rie a congratulations. Yeah. A happy New Year in order to you. A happy birthday New Year as well. Happy birthday New Year. It is football day in America. I'm happy for me. And as much as you can be happy for other people, I am. Like we say that we're happy for you, but it's like, it's just something you say. You know what I mean? Like actual happiness. I can't get it from you. I can say the nice words most of the time. But today I swear to you. I think I'm happy for you. Football. I think I'm legitimately happy for you. I know how happy for me. I got it. I got the tingle. I got the juice. I woke up this morning, a little pet my step went to the dentist first thing didn't even matter. I'm there getting my teeth scratched. We've come so far in society. We could do so many things. But if you want your teeth clean, here's a small piece of rope to your gums hurt. And here's a piece of metal scraping over your teeth just to make sure everything's ship ship shape. And I'll see you in six months. We've come a long way everywhere else, except for there. But whatever, I'm sitting there with my mouth open, my jaw's hurting a little bit. I'm getting scraped up on all my teeth and I want football tonight, big skin football tonight. Egg hand tonight. I'd never heard that phrase. And now I've heard it twice in the last two days. Mm hmm. I went for zero for 40 some years. And now football, football, come on, man. Football, we're doing who's done it football. Who's been here? Who's done it? Who's gone to a game football football? We got a lot to talk about. We're going to make predictions throughout the show. We'll give you our bold prognostications coming up in a segment. We're going to talk to you Daniel's expectations. There's a lot of ground to cover. But in annual tradition on the Grant and Danny radio program, those of you who are the real ones who have been with us over the years, you know how we roll on the first day of the calendar. We take the temperature on all of the network, football, anthems, and rank one to five whose jingle is best going into the season. What's amazing about this exercise is that the songs never change. Same songs. But our moods do. How they elicit emotions in us does. How much we like the jingles changes and year to year box or CBS or NBC or ESPN or who knows now Amazon Prime or NFL network, they move around the board. It's like becoming a Hall of Famer 20 years after you played. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. Nothing's changed. But how we feel does. So Danny, the way this will work as it does every single year on the Grant and Danny radio program is we're going to have Darris play these songs one by one. I think we give them all a good listen. And then we start to, if we have follow up questions, if we need to hear anything else, we start to interact with Darris a little bit, get some other things played. We work the request line and then we piece together our rankings one to five. But there's no better way to get ready for the football season with this exercise. This is the musical football. This is the soundtrack to football, right? It's the sweeping stadium shot. It's the good evening. Somebody's voicing over for three, four, five seconds. And then you see whether it's Mike Toreko or you see Joe Buck or you see, you know, the iron eagle. That's how we're doing it here. Yesterday, Darris played the NFL prime time theme and theme. And I started having blood just go to places in my body. I didn't even know existed. Oh, I mean, it was just things were just moving all over sure. You'll have a circulation happening. I didn't even know that was the thing. You do that. I didn't know that that was. How would you look at that? But I'm discovering this song is not eligible, but it should be. Like in other words, we can make it eligible. No, we only really use the network songs because then you're opening up a whole different can of what rules are these. This is our thing. Well, you know, the rules. They're very formal around here. There's a governing body. We've got to run everything up. Well, listen, we serve at the pleasure of the chairman of the board. But I'll tell you what, like it's something that I think we had the power to change if we want to give me a full blast NFL prime time. This should be it. I'm literally advocating for it right now, circles, the wagons, like Grant and Danny, put it in the six, put it in the Buffalo bills. Take the field led by JP Losman. He throws not one, not two, but three interceptions. 24 17 patriots on to Miami where Chad Pennington led the Tony Sperano led dolphins. So much of that. Oh, yeah. So just know this song has a special place in my heart. It does. But it is not a network game anthem. I'm sorry. It's just not. What are the songs have in common that we're going to be ranking today, Danny? You tell me. Don't make me the bad guy. You tell me their network football anthems. Was that an anthem? No. What is it? It's the prime time song. Okay. Are we in a court? Yeah. We don't sound like we're in a court. Are we in a Honda Accord? Would a baby in the back? Would a baby? Yes. All out. Let's do it. Part festive up pulls up. Would a baby in the back? I hadn't thought about that Sebastian Maniscalco bid in like three years. And the other, like a week ago, my wife was like, maybe I'll drive Uber. I don't even remember what we were talking about. And she's like, I'll just take it. I'm like, what about the baby? She's like, I can be the Ford Festiva. She did. Yeah. She made a scout go. She made a scout go with me. Did you don't want to give me a scout go? That's tough. That is not great. Never been to the both. You know what I got? The barbecue in the bar, but go at. All right. Here we go. What do we want to start with? Want to go Fox first? Yeah. You know what? I don't think I don't even want to pick the order. I just want to hear it. Do you know what I mean? Because if I started influencing the order, then is do I have a subconscious bias? We hear it clean every time. I have them written down in front of me. So we'll just go go and throw in this order. It's kind of randomized by network. Fox, we grew up watching the Redskins play the NFC one o'clock window on Fox five in town. And this was the jingle. Yeah. This is hard to beat. I'm feeling good about this one. Welcome to Raul Jean Marilyn, where today the two and oh Washington Redskins. I'm sure. Led by Patrick Ramsey are looking to get off to their fastest start in nine years against the New York Jets to help them. Kicker John Hall. Kicker Turner, Chad Morton, wide receiver Santana Moss and guard Randy Thomas, the jet skids. Hello again, everybody. I'm Grant Paulsen. Join us always by Danny Ruier, Danny. These red skins are off to a fine start in 2004. They're usually off to a two and four, three and six type start, but this group has started fast under, I guess we look at Steve Spurrier timeline here because of course they were always two and oh, but yeah, their division rival giants come to town looking for some payback from last year's embarrassment. He's Rutherford. All right, let's go to CBS. Now it was always very rare that Washington was playing on CBS's or now more now. This was the AFC network. So we didn't hear this one as much. But damn, if it ain't good boy. Okay, why does that go so hard? Damn. I was ready to say Fox wins. I had same thing. I had Fox above it in my mind. Just now I heard the Fox when I go. Yeah, a lot of nostalgia, a lot of my good times. Even when things weren't that great, it was still Fox. AFC was lesser. It was other. It was far away. Daddy, give me CBS again. Damn. It's that first bar. This one gets better every year somehow that it's almost like you're pulling in. It's like an inhale before the explosion. Who do you think of when you hear this? For me, it's like boomerous. Yeah, it's boomer. James Brown, studio crew. I think about Phil Sims as a player though. Currently, it's probably my homes, but I think about Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Yeah, let me hear Fox again. Who do you think of when you hear the Fox theme? I mean, to me, it's old memories of the Redskins losing mostly, but there's some Brett Favre in there, maybe some Troy Aikman. To me, it's like Donovan McNabb 77 times score running out of Michael Jackson touchdown dances. You know what I mean? Like he ran out. He did all the videos. That felt better this time. Right? Like, I don't know if it's the first bar probably doesn't compete with CBS. The first bar of CBS better than the first bar of Fox, but the Fox is consistent. The riff. Is it a riff or is it a lick? Those are music terms. Yeah, it's a riff or a lick. I think you could just make it up. NBC football night in America Sunday night football. Couple different iterations here over the years. We've had Michaels. We've had Madden. We've had Collinsworth. We've had now Michaels and Herb Street at one point for some reason. And now we've got Mike Toreko and Chris Collinsworth. I've got a take on this. I want to get you. You tell me what you think first and then I want to bounce something off you. That didn't get me this time. That's been higher from me before. Stop. It didn't. Wait, it didn't capture me. It didn't capture me again louder. It didn't close your eyes. I am. I've been waiting around for that awkward 45 minutes to an hour of eating dinner, had a bunch of texts about fantasy football, some irritation. Washington's already lost. It's Jack Collinsworth now. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I know you do have to see Jack Collinsworth for some reason. It's not getting me. It's not grabbing me. I'm not moved. So here's my take. Kill this for one second. I think and I've never felt this way before. Fox and CBS, they're fun. It's a party, right? We're excited. We're about to go play tackle football. This feels elegant. This feels formal to me. Fox is wearing a t-shirt. CBS is wearing a polo shirt. NBC feels like they're in a suit and tie. And maybe they're going for the network feel. I bet you they are. Maybe they want to be a cut above. It's a little bit stuffy comparatively. Do you get any of that? Yeah, it's a more opera. It's like, I'm not going to a play. I'm going to the opera. It feels it's in a different language. It's looking down on me. So stuff, a little condescending. You have some condescension. Like, give me real quick first bar CBS and then first bar NBC. Tell me CBS doesn't want to have a drink with you. Whereas NBC wants to tell you why the person you're voting for is the wrong person. Right. That's a buffalowing song. Decision 24. Welcome to our political coverage. No, 7% of polls reporting. Let's go to the wall. King George County typically read 11 votes still out. It's, am I voting or am I watching football? Steve Carnegie. They're now like, okay, my sleeves are rolled up and I'm pointing at the screen. And what we're seeing is this. No, I do get sites for John King. And you guys are trying to make Steve Carnegie happen because he wears the same khakis get over yourselves. John King pummels Steve Carnegie ESPN Monday night football. This is tried. This is true. This is about to beat that. But it's a movie. It's the big premiere of the big movie. You know what I mean? This is so good too. Yeah. Because even when even when everyone just like, oh, the song's over. Now that you're just going to get this. This is good. Like this is again, this is the big part of the movie preview where it's like, how long do you've been a hero? My entire life. You know, like explosion. And then save everybody. Joe Buck over casually comes in and is very casual about the whole I'm above this whole thing. It's beneath me. So give me another football game, I guess, open again. Good evening from Cincinnati in week three, where Joe burrows bangles. You see, burrow warming up with some guy catching passes on the sideline. Prepare to host the upstart stunning to it. Oh, Washington commanders led by Jaden Daniels. Daniels is doing like high knees on the sideline for some reason. We show the booth title cards gone and you're on Joe. Oh, again, I'm Joe Buck joined by Hall of Famer, Troy Aikman. Troy, this Jaden Daniels kid can play football. You're absolutely right. And I'm agreeing with everything you say. And I start off even if I don't think that it's right, I start off by agreeing with you. Well, yeah, Jaden Daniels, exciting. I agree. Back to you, Joe. Back to you, Joe. Oh, that's good. That's gonna be tough to beat. That's gonna be tough to beat. I gotta tell you, that's real high on the old list right now. We shouldn't even include this one. But Danny's making this is this is my this one's my heart right here. I'm sure I love it. Amazon Prime. Oh, no, never mind. Are you sure? I thought you're going somewhere on Thursday night football. You know, that's better than I remember. Is this going to grow on me? It's better than I remember. That's better than I remember, dude. I remember hating it. You hated it because it was new. But I don't hate it anymore. Listen to this. Someone's like, in the background? Oh, I'm sorry. I got a role in this band. Rit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t. What? Rit-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t. The song is definitely higher energy than the broadcast, because if the broadcast of the song matched, the song would go. It's in the song for you, right? Kill the song. This would be the open. No, no, no. That's too high energy. I'm performing. Okay, Grant's doing the music now. Thanks, Dares. Here's the open. Ready? You get it? Because the song matches the energy, the broadcast. Here we go. Hey, ow, sorry that a football game's on. Can we wait a week or two to not care anymore? Maybe week three, you can start not being interested. Here we go. Thank you, Coach. Hey, go, ow. One more time for Amazon Prime. Kurt Curb Street's dog is dancing to this and the booth for some reason. Yeah. You've seen that. I've been thinking about you a lot. You know about this kind of thing. Not a real idea. Kurt Curb Street's dog travels everywhere with him on his private jets and all the broadcasts he has. He does like every job. But now the dog's in the booth with him all the time. So he was doing a stand up the other night and the dog walked into the middle of the shot. And he's like, oh, Ben, get over here, Ben. He like, pat some on the head. He's like, this is Ben. But you guys already knew that because Ben's everywhere with me. And they're like, oh, Ben, you're the best. And so there was two groups of people on the internet. People who were very mad that Ben was at work with him and then people who were very upset that anyone be upset that Ben's at work with him. Wow. And all I can think about is how mad you would be that Ben was there. Now I happen to also kind of agree that Ben shouldn't be there. But I could just imagine you being salty. Like that Ben was at work. Like he shadow or what's the dog's name that's outside right now? Right outside the door? There's a dog here I saw it a few minutes ago. Uh, darn, I forgot the dog right? No, it's not shadow. Vite. Savage. Savage. Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, it's a workplace or it's not. It can be not if we want it to not be, we should all have a discussion. If that's a discussion, that's a great one. You know, we'll just, we'll just do that. Here's the big silly you've been waiting for. Yeah, you know, I love it. They no longer have their own package of games, but they do special broadcasts Saturday night. They're going to do bunch of different things throughout the year, international games. This is the old NFL network. Christmas themed. It's the holiday theme. Yeah. It's banger. I'm going to bring. Rich Eisen's on the call for some reason. So much rich Eisen for sure. Which I don't like dislike, by the way. Rich Eisen's good. Rich Eisen, Rich Eisen mark here. Better host, I would say than play by play guy, but that's okay. Am I supposed to go Christmas shopping or watch football? That's my only question. The answer is yes. Yes. Because that's what it is. That's what that's the time of year, man. We're not in some other time a year. We're in the holiday time of year. This whole thing is a damn holiday. This whole thing is a gift to those that would receive it. They're telling you, churches and session ding dong, we're ringing the bells. Come on in and hear the word and the word is football. Are we going to do our ranking, Danny? I know. And we're late. So we'll do them next. Top five. We will put them in order. Anthem's as they appeal to us today. By the way, a lot of shrapnel on Twitter for the fellas, including darris's choice, I guess, of people are saying that we played the wrong Monday night football theme that we played like a karaoke version. There's a lot of people saying that that that's outrageous. I agree with you. Now I do have another version of the Monday night football song. Which one do you have? It's like the old ABC Monday night football theme song. Hank Williams joint. Oh my god. It sounds the same, but the instruments are a little bit different. That might be with these people. Yeah, here I'll play it. This is version two Monday night football. I'm going to say something darris isn't going to like. I think this is the Monday night football theme. They're the same. It's just that this one is the older version. The newer version has a little more kind of like, I guess, aggressive guitar riffs to hear the new one now. And what are people talking about karaoke? There's no words to that. He's singing that a karaoke. I don't know what that is. It's the worst karaoke session ever. But that's the Monday night football theme. Okay. This sounds like it's digitally remastered. I don't really hear a difference. Yes. According to the kids, both versions slap. If you ask the children, all right, get your rankings together. If you guys want to chime in, you can do that. Phones wide open 806361067. Who were you giving the award to for the best NFL anthem? We do this every single year as we get ready to kick off the football season on Grant and Danny. Yeah. 345 today, we've got our big G and D announcement about this football season. So make sure you're listening a little over an hour from now, ahead of the double play. A little later in the hour, we'll get to some of our bold NFL predictions for 2024. Welcome back to Grant and Danny. The season kicks off tonight. We'll get our first look in a regular season game at the dynamic kickoff as they're calling it. You know, there wasn't a whole lot dynamic about it in the preseason. I think it's going to be a giant win already. Do you think it has been because kicks actually get returned and they didn't used to? But the one thing you kept hearing there was this narrative that teams weren't showing how they're actually there's going to be something you watch. I don't know if I believe that. But tonight, I guess we'll find it. I think there's an idea of something. I don't think it's happening. I think there's going to be a lot of kicks returned to the 24. The other thing that nobody's talking about is the hip drop tackle is now a part of football. I didn't really see any preseason hip drop tackle calls, but I could see a situation where tonight in a big spot that gets called and it becomes the story that we're talking about tomorrow. I tell you, I saw a lot of is the left tackle was more than whatever half a body length lined up behind the center. And we're going to call illegal formation a lot. You're not going to be set back against speed passrushers who are lining up wide. That is a thing that is going to be a factor in the NFL this year. I saw that a million times. Remember that Patriots preseason game, of course. Are you ready with your rankings of the anthems to complete our annual tradition here on Grant and Danny? I am. All right. We'll go five to one then. I think that's the best way probably to do it. So Daris really quickly, if you would just give us the first bar or so of each one, Danny, you can narrate through them. Yep. Which ones he's playing, but let's rock and roll. Fox tried and true. We know it Sunday, one o'clock, hopefully, Washington, probably losing. Special treat, little CBS. Hi guys. What's up, James Brown, to Matt, the star. Good to talk to you, buddy. Mostly FC, but we're on there this year a little bit more often. That's quality. Also, I slept on seeing like Bill Coward and Mike Tomlin. It's a very stealersy thing for me to the CBS anthem. Yeah. Special. It's Monday night, man. Only game in town. Only game on television. The whole country's tuned in. Hopefully, they get better match up. Some they have in the past, they got like third pick in the draft. It seems like for those games and a lot of times we were left with duds, but still more than a football, pretty special. Dude, his NBC. Look down upon you, common folk. We dane to give you a telecast of your foosball. I got to tell you, I hate my ratings already. I did them in the break. I'm looking at them and just relisten everything. Like, if we did it again in an hour, if we redid this, my rankings would completely change. But here we go. Number five, Danny Ruye. What do you got? We just played NBC. You're already, you lose so many points because there's a dumb song before that. It's 2024. We don't need an intro song to football. We've been waiting all day for Sunday night. Earlier today was the afternoon. Now there's a game and here it go. Boom. All the people are at the game. Everyone here should be filled with. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop it. It's so stupid. People will be filled with shame. Stop singing. Stop singing songs. Stop singing. Stop coming up with stupid songs in a studio next to a green screen. That's the dumbest thing we do. Carry Underwood guy over here. I like that song. NBC is fifth for me as well. I think it's getting a raw deal. No, I don't want to go full gylo here. Gylo tweeted us, one of our buddies at Grand H. Paulson at Funny Danny said, nothing beats the wardrobe and French horns of Sunday night football. Number one until the end of time. He's got it. Number one on his. Oh, that's only it's only number one on NBC on Sunday. Number four for me. This is where I start hating my list Monday night football. I've got Monday night football for you really on my list. I feel bad about that. Number four. Fox. I thought Fox was going to be one or two coming into this. It didn't hit me. It didn't catch me like it has in the past. I started thinking about all the losses, man. All those years and the 2000s, all the failure, right? It's so much done in the McNabb. Just celebrating it, my expense. Just so much non-descript quarterback from New York or garbage from from Dallas beating the brakes off of me. No, Fox four. I still play this song on our Alexa and the kitchen and all my kids and I dance to it, right? We love the Fox theme. I said, all my kids, like I have 11 kids. Yeah, every single one of them, they come out of their respective hobbles and they're dancing. So we all dance in the kitchen and we play Fox on Sunday mornings and whatever. We'll do it throughout the off season. This was my ringtone on my phone high school. Such a good bet. It's third for me. It's third for me because it's a great song. There are just two songs that are that much better. Art lists are pretty similar, I'd say. Number three. CBS. I thought again, this was going to win. It got me, but not the same. I like CBS. In fact, I love CBS. It belongs in my heart, but it didn't win this year. Number three. Number two for me is NFL network. That Christmas feel. Happy holidays. So good, man. Do I go Christmas shopping or do I just watch some football, which means number one for your boy again and still the defending champion, someone that I and Eagle and Charles Davis know. Somebody call up their boy, Jim Nance and Tony Romo. CBS is in the wind column. Number two for me and I found network holidays, holiday theme, holiday shopping, holiday song. Let's all receive the gift. Number one, and I did not think this was going to be number one, but I heard it and I heard more in it this year than I ever have before. It struck a chord in the soul. You're doing a bit. I'm not Monday night football. I thought you were about to say Amazon Prime. No, no, no, no. We're not there. We're not there. Monday night football. I go, wait a minute. What a special thing Monday night football is. And it just, and it felt right. Even the Washington zone in 7 trillion on the night football over the last couple of weeks, my years rather, but it feels good. Monday night football. All right, CBS NFL Fox Monday night football NBC for your boy. Monday night football and a phone network, CBS Fox NBC. Let's go rapid fire on the phone so we could squeeze in as many as possible. We'll start with DJ and Rockville. What's up? DJ. Hey, how's it going fellas? Somebody in my car. You got it. I got to take it back in a day with you guys. The old school, CBS, Pat Summerall, John Madden, pots and pans theme with it with, you got the camera panning over the RFK. That's by top number one. Derek, see if you can find an old CBS intro from what it's been forever. It's pretty my time. So I'm thinking eight early 80s and 80s because Madden and Summerall were on Fox calling Washington games. That Summerall, John Madden. He's at the 10. The 20. 25. I only think about him calling like four o'clock games on that old Droster. It's like Cowboys Cardinals NFC East. He's like, Hey, man, too urban at the 30. Let's go to Shane and DC. What's up, bro? Shane, you there? You will get nothing. No, Shane. Jeff in Fredericksburg. Yeah, I'm going to go old school Monday night football theme and the worst one is that Amazon stuff. Is that because it's new? It's new, Jeff. It's just because it's new, right? We're not used to it yet. No, no, no, that sounds like something you hear from the doctor's office when you find out you had zero polyps. Jeff. That's a good thing. Jeff. If you get an award for being the on the whole, like the music closest to being on hold music, it is that it's it's it hits a little harder than that. It's not elevator music. You guys, it definitely hits harder. It's better than that. But it's the closest to that of all this man. They're not playing Fox NFL Sunday when you're on hold for those test results. Amazon's getting hit Danny and DC. You're on G and D. Hello, Greg. Danny. How you guys doing today? Good, bro. I think the best one personally. I know this wasn't on your list, but it's when Chris Berman's doing the fastest three minutes for the NFL prime time theme. You know, I love that. We did. We both are in on that. Darris, you could, you could throw that one back out there. I think prime time probably makes me as happy or happier than any of those other songs. Wasn't eligible, but just him and Tom Jackson going back and forth. Nothing better than that. Just so good. It's so good. This was the recap. What happened in the other games? I have to watch this show to find out and all of the games within the games, whether it was the nicknames for players that Louisville bit was always my one seed, where they would, you know, they'd pick a player, a large accent from and it was always Louisville would be the shouted answer. Jaren Christian from you guys sleep on the former Washington tackle. I'm trying to think of another little Teddy Bridgewater from boom. Let's go to Rod and Landover. What's up, Rod? Yo, it was good. First time call a long time listening, bro. Oh, we appreciate you, buddy. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. Hey, but I got to say that old school. Jim, that's just rude. You got to hop on it, Jim. He's trying to talk. You get it in or you don't, but you get to cut people off. That's tough. That's tough. Hey, hey, I think it, I think it's all great. But that old school Monday night football, yeah, it did it for me. Oh, okay. So when he played the first version, it was not at the top of your list. And then he hit the old one, correct. Okay. The first version was was a law. But when he played it with the four history, it was like planning on vinyl versus, like he said, I get it. It was 1,000% think he's right. When I hear this, I'm 15 at FedEx Field. When I hear the other one, I'm just ready to watch a 2024 football game. And there is a difference. Let's go to Carlos in Savannah Park. What's up, Carlos? Hey, guys, you know, the Fox one is always going to be number one for me. But you know what? I have to defend the NBC is the NBC Sunday night football. You're doing it the service to it because that version that you're playing, it's like modern day electric and all that. You got to play the original John Williams when it's just like, you know, the March of the Empire of like Star Wars. That's the one that gets me hype up for Sunday night football. And I know I'm putting theirs to work, but you know, with that whole modern day, you know, crap, I'm not digging it. You have to play the original John Williams Sunday night opening. So that's that's a hole in my game. I don't I didn't know that John Williams, like the Boston Symphony Orchestra did that one thing that football. Yeah. We could dig on it. I am open to you should probably know that if that's a thing. Adjusting my feel on Sunday night football. Because the current Sunday night football, I just it's not it's not doing it for me. I don't know why though, because it's always been in my head, like throughout the entire day on Sunday, I'm going. I'm walking around my house. I'm grabbing my chips and dips. All I can do. Right. Harrison doing a stand up. Jason Garrett, not known to do with his hands. Jack Carlin's worth just there for some reason. He's just there. Still trying to figure that one out. Actually, I think we know that we do. We're pretty we're pretty confident. Let's a rhyme a schleppetism. Why he's there, but we're still just trying to get to the bottom of it. Grant and Danny on the fan. Thank you guys. That's our fun little way. Just having fun. Just having fun. I don't even know if anyone likes it. It's just fun. You and me like it. It's fun for us. It's what we do. I wait 364 days to do this. It's like opening presents on the 25th of December, man. We are here. Football season has arrived. All right. Let's get into some of our bold NFL predictions next on GND. [silence] GND. Welcome in you back on day one of the NFL season Chiefs Ravens, a rematch of the AFC title game in 2023. To kick off the campaign tonight, we will see Kansas City begin its quest for a three Pete. Nobody's ever done that. They'll try to become only the fourth team ever to get to three straight Super Bowls, joining the Patriots in the 2000s, the Bills in the 90s and the Dolphins in the 70s. This is the first time in week one, we'll have a game featuring two players who have won two MVP awards, starting at quarterback should be an amazing night of football. Danny, let's get to our bold predictions for the NFL season. We both got three of them to rattle off here. If you guys want to give us a bold NFL prediction, you can hop in at 800-636-1067. Why don't you start? There will only be two repeat division winners in the NFL this year of the eight division, San Francisco and Kansas City. Every other division will have a new division champion. Wow. A number one for me, the New York Jets. So a lot of people are picking to win the Super Bowl, make the Super Bowl, play in the AFC Championship game. The Jets will miss the playoffs this year. I think there's a chance Rogers gets hurt again. I think there's a chance if he doesn't get hurt that he shows some older age and they're in a tough division. Buffalo, really good. The Jets, excellent. I could see either of those two teams finishing atop the division and the other ones still ahead of the Jets. So I will say the Jets, a sexy pick to get to the Super Bowl, miss the playoffs under Robert Solon. If that happens, major, major changes there, obviously, loom. So that's fascinating because here's my second bold prediction. Congrats to your AFC champion, New York Jets. Wow. They have home field throughout the postseason and they're going to the Super Bowl. Mr. Amy and I's himself is leading the team to the big dance. I hope Aaron Rodgers wins another ring because I think, you know, he's, I probably now move my homes ahead of him, to be honest, because I think my homes might actually be the greatest quarterback ever already. We're kind of like watching it. Yeah. But I had him number two all time on my list prior to last season and he's got one ring and he gets beat up for that. And I don't know how fair that is. So I'd be perfectly fine with that happening. That would be cool. Number two for me, Clary, listen up. You're going to like this one. Jared Gough wins the MVP award. Jared Gough, 35 touchdowns, sub 10 interceptions, everything the same offensively for the Lions. They win 13 games. They're the number one seed in the NFC and old golf. He wins the most valuable player award in the national football league. So that was going to be mine. Because again, I can't stop talking about how they only play three games outside and indoor. Jared Gough is good outdoors away from home as he's a praying mantis and he stinks. You don't even like Jared Gough. I can't stand him, but he's playing all his games inside for a team that's built to play inside. You were going to say Jared Gough wins the MVP. That's my third bold prediction. Was Jared Gough wins MVP. I've got, I've got others. I will be just fine and dandy. Your comeback player of the year is Kyler Murray, who has a Pro Bowl caliber season. He blows up, goes over 600 yards rushing and throws for 28 touchdowns and over 4,000 yards. My third bold prediction for this NFL season. Caleb Williams and Bo Nix, both throw for over 4,000 yards is rookies. They become the sixth and seventh rookie quarterbacks to ever do that. Only five have done it previously. In the Bears case, no quarterback has ever thrown for 4,000 yards. So Williams will be the first and then in his rookie year under Sean Payton, Bo Nix with a team in Denver chasing a lot of games will do it as well. So I've got two rookie quarterbacks, Williams and Nix both throwing for 4k. That's a good one. I think the touchdown record that Justin Herbert said a couple years ago is in jeopardy. Caleb Williams is healthy. And that with that receiving core, I anticipate him slinging it quite a bit. So those are some bold predictions for you. We can take your temperature with your own next at 800-636-1067, but let's get ready to put our money where our mouths are and make our predictions on division champions. We'll give you our MVP, our coach of the year, our rookie of the year calls. Break out the pandaris. Let's take note of these so that we haven't met the end of the year. We'll start making our predictions ahead of tonight's NFL kickoff. We've got a commander's angle of surprises and disappointments coming your way in the three o'clock hour as well. This is the fan.