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Speaker 1: call from the NFC Championship game as Greg Zurline mailed

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Speaker 1: Bowl fifty three either everybody, and welcome to the Monday,

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Speaker 1: January twenty first edition of Between the Horns. Miles Simmons

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Speaker 1: reporting from New Orleans where the LA Rams stunned the

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Speaker 1: at the Mercedes Benz Superdome. And what a game it was, really,

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Speaker 1: what a championship Sunday it was. I mean, for the

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Speaker 1: so led by some efficient passes from future Hall of

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