Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my co-s, Nick Falado. And Nick, let me tell you, this is my absolute favorite time of the year. Yes, opening weekend for the NFL is fun for me. It's number two.

But March Madness, it's the best sporting event of the year, without a doubt, without anything that

comes close to it. And I'm into a Calcutta auctions, which for those who don't know, they're some of the

fun thing, way you can play March Madness. Yeah, you can play the brackets. That's fun too. But Calcutta,

it's an auction where you bid on teams and every, all the money that's put into the prize pool, percentages pay out for each win in the tourney.

So I got a Calcutta tonight and I got a Calcutta coming up on Wednesday.

Very excited for both of those.

Excited to watch 12 hours of basketball, two days in a row, Thursday and Friday.

It's as good as it gets.

That sounds horrible.

Really.

Also, Nick, I'm going to grace us before we get to some Giants news and what this show is all about.

And yes, for maybe I'll put in the timestamp because someone's like, oh,

get forward to four minutes if you want to get to the football talk.

I understand you and those people.

But guess what?

There are also people who like to hear this other stuff.

And I've got a lot of comments lately about, tell us a little bit about golf, Nick. So I got one golf story for you that I have to bring. Let's hear it.

So it's golf season. We're starting up sort of, I guess. I mean, I booked the tea time this past

Saturday, Nick, and it was supposed to be 60 degrees. It ended up being 47 degrees out with no sun. It was a cold, cold round at beautiful Berkshire Valley, which, by the way,

under new management, they raise the prices and the course isn't kept as well. And there's like all

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