you can just say a player's name and if you know someone is a niner fan and i can be like, merton hanksance! you can say words like that, and as a community, you want people to react in a certain way, as a niner fans, you know words they'll react to. the cowboys. i hate them. god, i hate them. any time you bring up something to a niner fan, you just have common ground to talk to them about. and when you have a comedian that's also a niner fan, you have that much common ground. we're all circles hoping to cross over at some point. >> circles that cross over, that's what fandom is all about. it's generations connecting, sewn together by stories from the past, compounded by stories of the now. personal connections are made with complete strangers. friendships are created from common ground newly discovered. it's a true ever lags of the faith. >> well, i met tommy in virginia beach at a funny bone. and this is six or seven years ago. and we talked about getting to a point in our careers when we would go to be able to follow the team and do shows and then go to an away game. that's the dream