If you have not been able to gather from my countless columns over my almost two years at TPI, I like football.Â
I like college football, but truly love the NFL — which I get is weird in the state of Alabama. But we are that time of the year where things that are not that big of a deal are a big deal. You’d imagine a bunch of former college athletes doing football drills in tights in front of NFL scouts and coaches would be a lackluster ordeal.Â
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