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NINE: It seems weird to me that you'd want to be so close to a town.

NANCY: It's usually my game plan whenever I'm in a cross-country game like this one. Especially somewhere like Nebraska. If I'm out in the middle of nowhere, I stick out, right? So someone could spot me from half a mile off. And of course, if I'm in a town, there are lots of eyes and ears on me, and unless it's a real friendly town, word gets around.

NANCY: So I like to stay in the periphery. Just outside of town. That's where they forget to look.

NINE: This is so far from my idea of football.

NANCY: Football's different things to different people. I see this kind of football, the open-world kind, as its end state. The old grid football, the hundred-yard kind, was basically just training wheels. The game was always all about the field, of course. The ground, the Earth. And it was kind of like, "here. Take this little boring flat grassy rectangle and prove you can really know it and understand it."

Video of a football player escaping two defenders and making a run for it down the sideline of a football gridiron.

NANCY: And they spent hundreds of years getting to know the Hell out of it. And now, to me, football is a further exercise in getting to know and love this world, this planet. You know? The actual ground. It's so rich with history, it's just embarrassing.

NINE: I've been thinking the same thing!

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