Matt Chatham

You're doing excellent, guys.

How are we doing?

So I think, you know, I experienced it a number of ways.

Fortunately, you know, the first year was in New Orleans, and this was after 9-11, so we were short a week, right?

So we basically won the AFC Championship game in Pittsburgh.

We touched back down here.

and we bolt back out the door within 24 hours.

So we're down on Bourbon Street and sort of doing the whole New Orleans thing without that extra week.

So the notion of having a lot in your head, I mean, there wasn't time for it.

It was just like a really, really accelerated game week.

So the next couple times, first in Houston and then in Jacksonville,

you kind of got a greater appreciation for why you need that extra time, quite frankly.

There's no debating with family members, extended family members, friends, people from wedding parties, all that kind of stuff about who's getting tickets and where they got to go and all the other little things that alumni associations are having and sort of team PR and media relations and things like that.

So you do a lot of the coordinating stuff and use that extra time to get it out of the way.

I like that feeling in the last two of just sort of being able to, once you hit really north of Tuesday, you're into a regular game week on Wednesday.

And much like when you're at home, you don't see family, right?

So it's sort of lockdown mode.

So you get your Monday, Tuesday right now.

to kind of take it all in, but it's pretty easy to sort of shut the rest of the world out.

You're in a pretty insulated place there in the hotel and then back and forth from the venue site, and that's about it.