Another week and another galling example of hypocrisy from politicians telling you to take COVID seriously while they clearly don’t. The newest example: the mayor of Austin, TX, telling people to stay at home while he’s vacationing in Cabo. But hey, at least he flew a private plane to get there and avoided those crowded commercial flights, right? The NFL season is a mess, as the Steelers and Raven played a Wednesday afternoon game, in that long tradition of, uh, mid-week afternoon NFL football games. Beyond that, NFL COVID polices left the Denver Broncos without another of their four quarterbacks for one game. Surprisingly cautious behavior for a league that we all know doesn’t give a rip about the health and wellbeing of its players. It’s only somewhat better in the NCAA, as some Big 10 teams like Ohio State will be lucky to play enough games to qualify for the conference title game. Sarah Fuller breaks a major gender barrier becoming the first female player to kick for a NCAA Power 5 conference football team. She’s an amazing, accomplished athlete, which makes sports journalists treating her like a Make-A-Wish kid all the more annoying. Eric and his family adopted a dog this week. Joe discusses this with him and sufficiently shames him for already making his dog an Instagram account. And finally, China joins the Chicken Sandwich Wars by creating a self-driving 5G KFC chicken sandwich truck. When will America enter his chicken arms (and wings) race with a self-driving 5G Popeyes chicken sandwich truck?

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