One week.

We are ONE. FREAKING. WEEK from real, actual football as the 20th season kickoffs with the Dallas Cowboys visiting the Philadelphia Eagles. I’ll be on the sideline for that game, beginning my fourth season as a cast member of Football Night in America, which will air, along with the game, right here on NBC and Peacock .

Speaking of NBC, I have to take a moment here. Normally I don’t really do an intro to this column, but since, you know, I announced last week that I was no longer going to write “Love/Hate” I wanted to take a moment to, well, react to the reaction.

First, I was blown away and so appreciative of everyone’s kind words. Whether it was social media, texts, DMs, or emails, I heard from so many people saying incredibly kind things. That they are sad and they’

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