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Andre Reed: The Silver Lining in Bills 4 Super Bowl loses, Hall of Fame Entry After 8 tries, Child Literacy Advocacy · NFL explained.

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  Speaker 1: So I'm saying, now, who's calling me from Canton? Now
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't just because I was just in a different
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  Speaker 1: zone and it was somebody here from Canton say hey, Andre,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing? I go, how am I doing? I go, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like on pins and needles here, and he goes, well,
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  Speaker 1: the weight is over.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Hall of Fame. That was it?
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  Speaker 3: Just like that, Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me chills because you know, it's something that
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen year old me would have never thought. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I wasn't supposed to be there, and for that
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  Speaker 1: to happen in the manner it did, only God made
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  Speaker 1: it happen that way.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, everybody, I'm Peanuts Human and this is the
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  Speaker 3: NFL Player's Second Act podcast and with me, as always
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  Speaker 3: my trust to go host Roman. I'm gonna show my
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  Speaker 3: chest off hark.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have any tackle me, but you're showing a little.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't shave either.
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  Speaker 5: Let's let's keep it rolling, just talk about our guests,
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  Speaker 5: don't even worry about it.
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  Speaker 4: Keep it going, all right.
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  Speaker 3: This next littleman we got coming to the pods, a
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  Speaker 3: sixteen year NFL that he's in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: He is a youth empowerment advocate. He is currently the
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  Speaker 3: Commissioner of the Entertainment Football Association. Ladies and gentlemen, please
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  Speaker 3: walk up to the pop, mister Andre Reid to the pop.
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  Speaker 2: As they say, what out?
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  Speaker 4: What out? What out?
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  Speaker 3: What what out?
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  Speaker 4: What up?
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  Speaker 3: So you know what you're gonna ask, So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: let you just get on right into it.
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  Speaker 4: Andre.
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  Speaker 5: What is the commissioner of the Entertainment Football Association.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, let me let me rephrase all
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  Speaker 1: that right now.
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  Speaker 4: We did I say it wrong?
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  Speaker 2: No, you didn't. You didn't say it wrong. But what
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna what we're doing?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Actually Tim Brown is a commissioner of another league.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm in the.
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  Speaker 1: Other division and we were supposed to start in June,
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  Speaker 1: but had a little mishaps or whatever you want to
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  Speaker 1: say with people.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to start next June.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we have another you know, five how many months,
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  Speaker 1: another year, half a year, seven, eight months to get
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  Speaker 1: it right.
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  Speaker 2: But very excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, football is is life, Yes, it's life for
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  Speaker 1: us and to be a part of something an organization
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  Speaker 1: that is going to empower other kids not only to
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  Speaker 1: play the game, but to have another chance. That's really
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. And for me to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it and be that the commissioners is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to nineteen eighty five your
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  Speaker 3: draft class. Do you or can you name the person
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  Speaker 3: drafted before you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: I was the eighty six pick, correct, So eighty five
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  Speaker 1: might have been. Was it a receiver from Missouri?
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  Speaker 3: Close? Close, close? They both used to be. I give
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  Speaker 3: you the initials g R. Wow, I give you the
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  Speaker 3: initials of the of the player of the person.
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  Speaker 2: And what what team did he get drafted by?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Now you want to just tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly h g R.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Robinson George rhymes buster rhymes, yes, yeah rhymes. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what funny story about him? When we got
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  Speaker 1: to the combine that year and the combine wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: it is now, obviously, But I said to him, because
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  Speaker 1: I come from a little Teene school called Kutztown col
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  Speaker 1: tip and School, you know, nobody heard about it. He
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  Speaker 1: went to Oklahoma, where I wanted to go. But obviously
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  Speaker 1: that didn't happen, and I didn't need to go to Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, where'd you get the the bust of rhymes,
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  Speaker 1: the Buster? I said, you get it from the rapper,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Bust the Rhymes. He said, yeah, somebody started
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  Speaker 1: calling me that Bust the Rhymes, so he adopted that name,
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  Speaker 1: George Buster Rhymes.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't either.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a great story. I mean it's a
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  Speaker 5: cool names. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He played with Minnesota for a couple of years. He
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  Speaker 1: was a great punt returner. I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he probably and he was a decent receiver.
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  Speaker 1: But he was actually a running back at OU when
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  Speaker 1: they did the triple option with Thomas Slott and all
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  Speaker 1: those guys back in the day. But yeah, George Rhymes
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  Speaker 1: man busta Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Andre, What was your welcome to the NFL moment?
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  Speaker 1: Oh first training camp nineteen eighty five at for Donia
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  Speaker 1: State And I was just in for Donia playing in
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  Speaker 1: a charity golf.
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  Speaker 4: Where is state?
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  Speaker 3: For those it's not in Europe because it's sounded like
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  Speaker 3: it's from Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably about forty five minutes from Buffalo. So
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  Speaker 1: if you go down ninety all the way down towards
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  Speaker 1: the lake, towards Cleveland, it's right around, you know, before Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it's in New York. But yeah, crazy for Donia.
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  Speaker 1: And I just was there and I told the people
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  Speaker 1: I was a rookie here forty years ago, so I
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  Speaker 1: was aging myself, you know what they knew. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was a twenty one year old rookie at for
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  Speaker 1: Donia State in nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 3: And what made what what was that moment like for
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  Speaker 3: you though? That that first running camp.
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  Speaker 1: You know, training camps ain't like they used to be there.
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  Speaker 1: We were in pads a lot of the times and
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  Speaker 1: we hit Yeah, yeah, training camps out they don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: What was a how long was it practice?
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  Speaker 1: Probably about three and a half hours and you had
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  Speaker 1: two of them, two of them?
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  Speaker 3: And what times you start?
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  Speaker 4: One time? When you would you be finished?
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  Speaker 2: Started?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be on the field eight thirty,
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  Speaker 1: eight o'clock eight thirty warming up, practice starts at nine,
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  Speaker 1: don't get off to about eleven eleven thirty, Go eat lunch,
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  Speaker 1: get an app Even though I was twenty one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need an app but do you need a nap?
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  Speaker 1: Because I was running the next The next practice was
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  Speaker 1: like seven on seven and you know all that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was uh, you know, coming from a
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  Speaker 1: small school, it wasn't like I was wasn't ready for it,
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  Speaker 1: but I just was.
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  Speaker 2: I just ran all day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So what was that part where you like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: was it a play.
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  Speaker 5: Was it a moment that I either like, man, I
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  Speaker 5: need to pick my game up.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was a cup. Well, like you said, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL. I was running deep dig. Okay, not
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  Speaker 1: from the slot, because that's what I was known for,
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  Speaker 1: the slot. I was on the outside running deep dig
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  Speaker 1: and Frank Wright threw me the ball. He was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the backup to Jim. Jim wasn't even there yet. Jim
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  Speaker 1: came the next year.
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  Speaker 2: Ball was a.
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  Speaker 1: Little high, jumped up, got it feet from underneath me, landed, flipped,
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  Speaker 1: got up.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL. Nobody helped me up.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody help up. My last question about this and we'll
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  Speaker 3: go on to the next one. Did you play special teams?
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  Speaker 4: I did?
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  Speaker 1: I played, uh did a little punk return And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't think this is just no, No.
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  Speaker 3: It's not everybody. So you never like locked return teams.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was, yeah, I used to look at that
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  Speaker 1: ball coming down and look and see what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: It was one blocking and I was like, that's it
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  Speaker 2: for that. I don't want to do this. But you
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  Speaker 2: know what, A.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, a welcome to the NFL moment My
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  Speaker 1: first training camp was because you know, we're grown man
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  Speaker 1: out there playing now. It wasn't just college kids. It
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  Speaker 1: was a grown man.
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  Speaker 3: So when I got I was always number five high
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  Speaker 3: school college. When I got to the league, I became
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  Speaker 3: thirty three. And my trainer or equipment manager teammate shout
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  Speaker 3: out to teammate.
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  Speaker 4: He called me.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, look we got thirty three, thirty six or
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight, forty one, forty two.
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  Speaker 4: Like he gave me a.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of different options, and I just was like. I
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  Speaker 3: was at Piccadilly with a friend and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think I should do?
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  Speaker 3: Miss Bartel. She goes, well, baby, thirty three looks good,
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  Speaker 3: and we all just kind of were just I was
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  Speaker 3: just like, I don't know, thirty thirty three. I just
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  Speaker 3: was like he called me on the spot, and now
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  Speaker 3: was how I picked thirty three. I have nothing to
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  Speaker 3: compare to or connect with. You were eighty eight in college.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lynn Swan who's in the Hall of Fame was
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  Speaker 1: my guy Steelers. I was a big Steeler fan growing
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  Speaker 1: up and I was always beg my dad to watch
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  Speaker 1: a half of football when the Steelers were on and
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  Speaker 1: Swanna star wars with my guys the Lake Franco Harris,
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  Speaker 1: Me and Joe all the mel Blunt, all those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember getting a training camp and they were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a guy here that has eighty eight. We traded
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  Speaker 1: for Pete Metzelars from Seattle, remember tight end, and he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't giving up that number.
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  Speaker 2: So they said you got a choice.
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  Speaker 1: You want eighty three or eighty nine, And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: well eighty nine kind of eighty three I'll take. But
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  Speaker 1: during the preseason my number was forty six.
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  Speaker 6: Ooh ooh at receiver, Oh yeah that things, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 6: superstank and brouh.
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  Speaker 1: I was forty six and then made the team. All
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  Speaker 1: that got good stuff, and they gave me eighty three.
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  Speaker 3: So you had to make the team to get a number,
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  Speaker 3: to get a number, So how many guys did y'all
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  Speaker 3: going to camp.
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  Speaker 1: With twenty five and trim down to fifty three? Yep,
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  Speaker 1: one twenty five was on the field. Damn so one
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  Speaker 1: on ones, bro, you better get up there.
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  Speaker 5: I got a question though, So when you go outside
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  Speaker 5: and you're playing wide receiver and you line up at
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  Speaker 5: number with number forty six, you got left that, bro,
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, like, you're not getting any respect.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he said. I'm a fourth round pick.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Still pretty early, though, aren't you, because y'all y'all had
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  Speaker 3: like twelve rounds. Yeah, so the fourth round is still
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  Speaker 3: pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth round was like a first round.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's still that's still amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. From a D two school, there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of D.
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  Speaker 3: Two games in the league time amazing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was like, it just give me a chance.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I tell to a lot of people that how did
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  Speaker 1: you make the team? I said, well, when I got
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  Speaker 1: brought up in there front, you know, you had two
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  Speaker 1: lines and dbs against receivers in one on one you
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  Speaker 1: had ten minutes at the most.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And the Vets would be like they do their one
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  Speaker 1: or two of them, and they would be like, get
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  Speaker 1: up in there. And it's ironic because eight years later
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  Speaker 1: I was telling them rookies, get up in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay. So you you went to Cutstown University. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and it's in Pennsylvania, cuts Down, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and sounds German. I had to look it up.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, actually look at it actually like amish Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: country central so central Pa.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: I mean about an hour and a half outside of Philly.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and coming from that university D two, not a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people probably had heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody.
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  Speaker 5: What was your football future at the beginning when you
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  Speaker 5: first get into the league, when you're coming from Cutsdown?
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  Speaker 5: Did you even have an idea of what it could
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  Speaker 5: be or what?
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  Speaker 1: I definitely did, And I was all about getting a chance,
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  Speaker 1: just like most kids are to get a chance. They
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  Speaker 1: drafted me in the fourth round for a reason. I
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  Speaker 1: could have went eighth round or ninth round or twelfth round.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought at one point I was going to
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  Speaker 1: go to Dallas or Denver, and Buffalo came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know where Buffalo was. Bro I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know where buff It was like New York.
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  Speaker 1: I go, is it by New York City or they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna know it's by this lake called Lake Erie and
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  Speaker 1: it snows a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Goodness.
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  Speaker 2: I got there. I got just scrapedot got there.
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  Speaker 1: My for Mini camp first year, it was two inches
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  Speaker 1: snow on the ground. Mini Camp first week in June. What, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that sounds miserable and I go like this, I go, well,
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  Speaker 1: welcome into some craziness. And I spent sixteen years up there.
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  Speaker 3: I just couldn't imagine getting drafted by a team in
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  Speaker 3: day one. You're just like, i'ma hate it here, Like
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  Speaker 3: I never said if. I like, really, I'm in Green
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  Speaker 3: Bay right now.
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  Speaker 1: But being from Pennsylvania, I saw all that stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't see the lake effect. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what lake effect snow was until I got up there
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  Speaker 1: and I saw it, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Go, oh, same Chicago didn't really know it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: as a kid, you saw, but then you.
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  Speaker 6: Get sign you could see it and smell it confect
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  Speaker 6: yeah and Buffalo correct, Yes, So you like and kind
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  Speaker 6: of describe what this lake effect is because I've only
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  Speaker 6: seen it in pictures where the water rolls in and
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  Speaker 6: like it splits up the bridges right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got you know, Buffalo's on the corner of
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  Speaker 1: Lake Erie. Then you got Lake Ontario, which is right
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  Speaker 1: above it. So the wind that comes off of Lake Ontario,
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  Speaker 1: it comes off of there a different way and just
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  Speaker 1: goes across Lake Erie the right way. So Rochester, all
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  Speaker 1: those places they get some snow, but they don't get blasted.
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  Speaker 1: Western New York gets blasted.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm getting a geography.
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  Speaker 4: Lesson right here.
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  Speaker 1: And if you live in if you live in the southtowns,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get You can sometimes get a foot and
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  Speaker 1: a half and you can see the cloud right the snow,
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  Speaker 1: you can see the cloud.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I saw was a picture of like
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  Speaker 5: the clouds, the clouds, and then like to the right nothing,
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  Speaker 5: then on the left zero.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it looks terrible, like it's a foot and a half,
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  Speaker 1: and then fifteen minutes away it's like a half an inch.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: So I want to know about your experience of getting
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  Speaker 5: into the Hall of Fame. I've seen the videos, not
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  Speaker 5: specifically yours, but nowadays they always record the guys. And
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  Speaker 5: it took you nine times eight eight, and you got
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  Speaker 5: in on the ninth or.
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  Speaker 2: Actually it actually took me seven. I got in on
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  Speaker 2: the eighth.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it was.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, So what was that waiting like?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was It was understandable, you know, because you
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  Speaker 5: had other guys in your draft class get in, people
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  Speaker 5: from your team, and.
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  Speaker 4: You had to wait.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a little bit different though, because you guys
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  Speaker 3: were and I'm just kind of describing to our listeners.
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  Speaker 3: You're in the hotel room, right, this is when you
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  Speaker 3: used to they used to bring all the finalists and
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  Speaker 3: you go in the hotel room and you're just waiting
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  Speaker 3: for that wait for that call, and you're just waiting.
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  Speaker 3: You're just waiting for that knock on the waiting for
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  Speaker 3: a call. Call, they knock on the door. They don't
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  Speaker 3: even do that.
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  Speaker 2: Now they go to the dude's house.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the player's house. Now a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: It's more natural. Yeah, it's more natural.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So how many times? What was it like?
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  Speaker 5: You sit in the hotel room the first year You're like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was a semifinalist the first two and then the
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  Speaker 1: last six I was in the finals. And unlike baseball,
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  Speaker 1: would I give you the percentage of what you get
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  Speaker 1: in football. They're not going to tell you, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: got you need eighty percent. Well you had seventy four
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  Speaker 1: this year, yeah, or hey you're close, you're seventy eight.
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  Speaker 1: Because every year it came around, it's like, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: is your year, it is your year. I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: not up to me, right, it never was up to me.
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  Speaker 1: I did what I did on the field. I was
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  Speaker 1: only as good as the people around me. You guys know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's gonna make you better. I had four or five
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  Speaker 1: other Hall of famers.
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  Speaker 2: That made me better.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: sitting here talking about it like that. So and we're
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: all we all were held accountable for everything. So that
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: was really important to us, not only winning but as
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: a team. I mean, you don't really see that nowadays, accountability.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: These these guys are on their own doing their own things.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: So when you retired, you were third all time and
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: received receptions.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Fifth and yard seventh and touchdown fourth fourth.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: Got the numbers to get in King of Yak and
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: it takes you this time to get in. Do you
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: think it's because of the lack of Super Bowl or
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: what do you think it is or do you even
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: you don't worry about I know you don't worry about anything.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but at the time, what was probably ratling.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: I think that probably had some kind of a man
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: like a ten to fifteen percent that had a lot
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to do with it. But you know, once you get in,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: they don't even talk about that ten or fifteen They
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: don't even talk about that no more. You know, just
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: like Dion said, they say, hey, we're all in the
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: same room, all our busts are in the same room,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: no matter what year you get in.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Great, and you know what a.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Just what a ride it was for me to you know,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: being Buffalo and that happened there for those fans because
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you guys know, Bills fans are those mafia's.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Crazy crazy, Yeah, in a good way.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: In a good way.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, who all was there when you got that
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: that that knock on the door? Who all do you
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: have with?
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I had I had my my two agents and you
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: had two at the time.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: But they were a team.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I was they were like a team.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, an I got you got an agent two times.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: And it's funny how it happened because they sequester you
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: in the hotel. So it was New York City. Remember
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Super Bowls in New York that year in twenty fourteen,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, maybe and maybe, you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: maybe it's nothing meant to be, maybe it wasn't whatever.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: So I remember being in the room and it was
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the first year of the NFL Honors.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: It was going to be on TV.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And I'm sitting in the room and my agents like,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: this is your year. I said, yeah, this is seven
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: years now. I mean here, remember whatever. But I got
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: a phone call from a You're looking for a three
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: three oh number, which is here. Okay, So I'm looking
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: for a three to three oh call and I get
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a two to one two call, and I'm like, who's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: calling me from New York right now? When I'm waiting
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: for this three oh three to three year old call.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It was remember Brian Burwell. Yeah, he was in the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: room while they were voting. So he goes, hey, Andre,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: just want you to know you're in the final ten.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: The go, yeah, I've been in the final ten like
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: six seven years now, because I'll call you back in
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes. He calls me back in twenty minutes, You're
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: in the final five. So now I'm in, but I'm
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: not officially in, so I have to get a yes
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: from all the voters to say yes, yes, yes. He
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: calls me back like twenty minutes later, and actually wasn't him.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: It was somebody from here. It was a three to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: three oh number. So I'm saying, now, who's calling me
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: from campon?
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I wasn't just because I was just in a different
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: zone and it was somebody here from Canton said hey, Andre,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I go, how am I doing?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I go, dude, I'm like on pins and needles here,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and he goes, well, the weight is over, Welcome to
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: That was it?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Just like that, Just like that? What was the first
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: thing you thought? First emotion?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: When he said that, I saw myself as a little
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: kid playing Pop Warner to the last time I played
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: a game in the NFL that fast. It gives me
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: chills because you know, it's something that the fifteen year
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: old me would have never thought. Yeah, because I wasn't
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: supposed to be there, and for that to happen in
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the manner it did, only God made it happen that way.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know anybody that I've talked to
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: or even on this podcast that has said, oh yeah,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: my goal was being in to be in a Hall
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: of Fame.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I never told my mom I wanted to play in
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the NFL.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Everyone just was like, well you were like that. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: had that conversation, just like I'm just playing. I didn't
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: think I.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Could go to the lead.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I love the year, Yeah, I love That's what I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: love to do.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: So it's like your whole football life flashes before you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and like half a second and you think about the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: first person that said something to you, and the first
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: person that hit you over the top of the head
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: said you're doing this wrong or this You think about
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: all that that quick.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Yep, why you said something? And I want to know why?
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: And that was I wasn't supposed to be here? Why
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: were you not supposed to be here?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Because if you like, I'm going to write a book
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and it's going to be about just how I grew
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: up and what I went through because nobody knows. They
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: see you on TV and they they don't know about
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: what you went through. And everybody has their own story,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: me included. So you know, I was destined not to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: even to go definitely make a right, said to make
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a left, yeah, because of home life and all this
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: other stuff.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And well I'm supposed to be there.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, ye beat the odds.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Definitely be the odds. So something that you and I
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: have in common that I don't think you knew you
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: would be in this conversation, but you actually won a
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl. You can ask, I'm I'm I'm old for two.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'm oh for four, So but I'm here, what was it?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And I know what it's like to be old for
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: over two? What was oh for four?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Like the first probably when I retired to first like
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: five years. You know, it was like people are just,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you know, ruthless.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: You guys went there four times.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You know, people just what people are. But as the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: years went on, the ruthlessness became admiring. There was an
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: admiration for all of us. There are those teams. Don
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Beebe won a Super Bowl.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: With the Packers.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: He was with us for three of those losses. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: he said in an interview, if I can give a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: ring and a Super Bowl champion and all the bills, guys,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I would, And that kind of chokes me up too,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because it's like that's what you play the game for
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: if you play the game, If you don't play the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: game for that reason, you shouldn't even be playing a game.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And in this world right now, the kids are all
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: about the dough and this and that. There's nothing wrong
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with that. But your legacy, that's what you want, that's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: what you want to uphold, and you want to put
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a stamp on.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Why do you tell people that the first Super Bowl
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: hurts the most?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it came down to that.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Kick, Scott nor would he can fire the shot heard
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: round the world.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Now, what a fine game, What an absolutely fine game.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: There we go with eight seconds to play Hi drama
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: hair on the Super Bowls.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And I think as the years go on, I say,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: if we won that first one, he makes that kick,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: did we go to the next three?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everything's different. And I looked at you know that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: I looked at you guys, that Buffalo team coming from
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Buffalo were you guys were stacked and you had fun.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: You guys were like swaggy before swag was a word.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: You guys had the shades on. Everybody had the high top.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Doing your thing.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: And I don't think I appreciated it because I was
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: a younger man younger kid at the time still had
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: gray hair, though I probably did. But it was just
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: like I didn't realize how swaggy Buffalo was and how
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: much you guys did your thing.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, we used to have Holly people come from
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Hollywood in LA to come watch the games in rich Stadium.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: There'd be Hollywood stars in the stands. Yeah, and we
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: didn't know until you know, the next day that they
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: were there. But I think we we carried ourselves in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a way where we kind of exuberated that, like they
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: came to see us because they we were good.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: What were some of those stars? Who were some of
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: those stars?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Man, the stars back then, like oh gosh, in the nineties,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you name, I can't even think about it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: You name them, they were there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got one for you. So there's there's one
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: play in mind whatever super Bowl, my first one we
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: lost where uh Riggie Wayne running down the sideline Scott Free.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: That's the one play that I still think about that
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: kind of got away.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Was it your fault?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was not.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Well, well, it's still the one player I think about that,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: like it wasn't my fault though, like that, don't do
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: me like that. It's the one play I think about
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: that that Peyton Manning. They got on the hot, they
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: got on the roll real quick, and we gave them
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: a free play. Is there one play out of any
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: of those four Super Bowls that just kind of sticks
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: out in your mind? It's like, damn, I want that
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: one play back.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I think the first one against the Giants where we
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: had played them during the year and is when it
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: had LT and all them dudes. You know, it was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: just they were the phenomenal on defense. Their offense wasn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: like they won on defense most of the time, and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it's just I was like, we're gonna we're playing them again,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and you know, how do we beat these guys? And
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: we got to be sound, especially in a game like this,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and we weren't sound even though it came down to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a kick. You know, I dropped two passes. There was
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: there was some things that could have went the other
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: way where we could have won that game, down title,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: it missed the tackle.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: There's all kinds of things going.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: But I try to tell people the resolve of our
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: team is that we went back next year, and it
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: went back the year after that and the year after that.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: We don't get credit for that because they don't talk
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: about it. But if we win two of those four,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: we're one of the greatest teams ever. Yeah, we win
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: all four, we're like the forty nine Ers, the Steelers
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of the seventies and forty nine Ers of the eighties,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the Patriots of the nineties, or whatever.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You want to call it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: The two yeah, two thousands were in that conversation, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: it just wasn't meant to be. But they still talk
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: about us like that because it's a benchmark.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about the comeback that might be
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: probably one of the if not the greatest crazy in history.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely in the playoffs.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it might just be an the hole
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in the top two.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, even though they one a couple of years
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: ago with the Vikings, you know, but.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: It didn't have that. It just didn't have that luster.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of with you though, I'm with you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And this is when we played the game there it
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: was blacked out on TV.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they I forgot about yeah, because you were
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: so bad they switched it right, stood up. They're just like, yeah, they.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Put on they put on like the monsters, but you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: didn't know that when you were playing though, right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: No, No, that's just a good story though.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I remember one thing about that game that
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: turned it around for us. Darryl Tally, who is our
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: vocal leader.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Guy.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's on the sideline and he's going up and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: down the sideline in people, everybody's face. So we got
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: them when we got them right where we want them.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And we're like, we're down thirty five to three, and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: we come out the third quarter and Frank throws a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: ball and goes off McKellar's hands and Bubba mcdial picks it,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: goes six.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: It's thirty five to.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Three with twelve minutes twelve minutes left in the third quarter,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and he's going, we got him right where we need him.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And it's not that we didn't believe it, but we
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: had that crowd and dude, once that clicked and turned around, yeah,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: they were done.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: But did you come out No one wants No one
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: starts a game like, all right, let's let's let's get down,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: let's spot them fourteen points. We had played come out
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: like super flat or just what we played.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: In the week before down in Houston in an astrodome.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: We got beat twenty eight to three, had to come
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: back and play them the next week in a wildcard game.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So did we were familiar, of course, but we're like
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: we got them at home, our fans and we were
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: laying like the biggest egg you can imagine, Yes, And
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: it took just one play, one little spark, and we
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: looked in their eyes and they weren't. They were done.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: You know how you look at somebody's eyes and done.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: They they already were going to Pittsburgh the next week.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I want to know one more thing about that, that
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: comeback game. So as Darryl Talley said what he said
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: on the sidelines, Yeah, like is that like becomes the
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: mantra as we like of.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Course, like, hey we got them right what we want.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were because of the situation.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's these You don't I don't.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Think you even would probably even hear that right now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: No, because we were looking at him going up like
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: what is this boob talking about?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: There's always that one guy who does that though, yeah
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: he doesn't play or I'm not center, I didn't play,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: but I'm.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then it just started going. We had an
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: orange side kick. We covered that he threw moon through
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: two picks, like he was like four touchdowns in the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: first half he threw he could have been He probably
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: should have threw four more.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: You had three to exact game.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had three tugs that game.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: You had a nice little game.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were trying to double brou use a zone zone.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: If I had to say, that was a zone game
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in all the games in two hundred and fifty four
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: games I played, I was in the zone like no
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: other that game.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Why do you think that was? And just for that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: specific game, just because the comeback the situation.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I think the thing that Darryl said, and it's like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I laugh about it, like really, but we
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: all like heard it, and yeah, after maybe one or
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: two plays, we started believing that, Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Well minimum is real.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: You know, we call this the Second Acts NFL Player
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Second X podcast for a reason. And you know, we
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: all get to we all got to hang up our
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: cleats at some point. Yes, and you've been able to
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: do a lot after football. What are some of those
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: things that you're probably considered that you're most proud of.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Well, my kids, Number one, I have a twenty nine
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and thirty one year old. When I retired, they were
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: six and four.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: So they're babies.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: They were babies.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: They were like my kids.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so and just you know what, you guys know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: relationships are so precious in this game. You got to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: develop those relationships early because those will be the same
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: guys and same people you see later when you're retired. Right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And I think the generation now they don't think of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it that way. And I'm involved in you know a
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: couple of things.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: And well, you got the the Andre Reid Foundation.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, you're on the Minority Coaching Fellowship with the Chiefs
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: in two twenty fifteen.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: I'm sure that was kind of fun.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid's first year I was with him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, okay, I didn't realize that was any reads
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: first year with the two year because yeah, we left
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Philly then went on over. It's crazy how fast that
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: stuff happens. Then you get a quarterback and win a
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: couple championships, seems like it's just been.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Forever and it's like, yeah, right, like where did that go?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And you did some mentalists work on TV.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: So out of all these things outside of your family, right,
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: and your teammates, what was that? You know, what is
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: what was that second chapter? Like was it hard making
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: that transition and maybe kind of tell your struggles or
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: how you tried to flourish and these I think.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's hard for all of us. It's harder for all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of us to hang up the cleats. I mean, I
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: played thirty one years of football straight from from six
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: years old till I was thirty seven. Every every fall
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I was padded up. And then when it's all, when
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it's said and done and over, it's like, Okay, what
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: do I do next?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And again, the relationships are really important. They've been important
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to me for thirty years, some of these relationships. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: as a Hall of Famer now people are you're not
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Andre Reid played for the Bills. You are, but you're
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Andre Reid Pro Football Hall of Famer that played for
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the Bills, and that not only holds a lot of value,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: but you are in a position to do so many
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: different things outside of the game now and make impacts
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: outside of the game. And you're talking about my foundation
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: with Boys and Girls Club so important to me. You know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Denzel Washington is the national ambassador. I'm an ambassador under Denzel.
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  Speaker 1: So many guys, so many people you don't even know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: went through the club system that accredit them for who
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: they are and what they do today.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: And that's really important to me.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what made you want to focus on literacy?
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't get read at home. Mom and dad didn't
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: have time to read to me. So I was library
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: or Boys and Girls club. That's why I learned how
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to read. And again that chokes me up because.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't get any it doesn't get any better.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It does, but we still have a literacary problem, literacy
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  Speaker 1: problem in this country.
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  Speaker 4: We do.
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  Speaker 1: And I always say it takes a village to get.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: It right right, and as.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: An athlete, we're in a position to make that village better.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, it's always impressive when we hear these stories
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  Speaker 5: about people doing things for others. I learned this from
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  Speaker 5: a pastor friend of mine that once you're affected by something,
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  Speaker 5: you will become an advocate for it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: And because the lack of reading that you received at
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  Speaker 5: an early age, you're probably behind. And then you of course,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: these other things happened kept me behind right right, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, you know, if you don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: get this outside help, you're not getting to college.
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  Speaker 4: And you're not getting to where you are. And I
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: just love that I've done.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I've been involved in reading programs with my foundation for
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: a long time and I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 5: Peanut shout out to everybody is a stat of working
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  Speaker 5: with United Ways that all of our kids in America
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: we learned how to read. From kindergarten to third grade,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: you're learning how to read, and then from fourth grade
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: on you learn from reading. And so if you're behind
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: in those K through third grades, you're going to be
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: stay behind from fourth grade to seventh grade, and your likeliness.
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  Speaker 4: To drop out they really rise. Ye.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: All these other things happen, and that that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Is across the board.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it's always been like that. I think it's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a lot better than it was probably when I was
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a kid, because there's more out there, there's people doing
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: more things. But you kind of keep that in the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: back of your mind that that's why you do it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Because every time I go in and I've been to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: She's over the past ten years, fifteen years, I've been
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to a boys and girls club from Alaska all the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: way down to Florida, telling him my story yea, and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: saying that you could be that kid too. They just
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: need encouragement, right, And I think that's part of your resume.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely yeah. I don't think you knew
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: this though, but I got it. I was affected by
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: golf by not playing it at a young age, and
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: now you're just a kid for it. I try to
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: play all the time.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all the time.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: That that was good. That was good. That was exactly exactly.
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• 34:40
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  Speaker 3: pick four people that have helped you become the man
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: you are today, who would those four people be?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Obviously my pops And quick story when I got inducted here,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: my pops had passed away in ninety six. Very emotional day.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I wish he was there, but he was there. But
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: he was my biggest fan, and I wasn't the person
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I am because my dad was rough. He was five eight,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: big hands, like if he put his hand on your shoulder,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you knew it because it was heavy. You know, would
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: get up at five o'clock in the morning to be
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: at pour and concrete by seven and just was that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: kind of guy. We all have our faults. He had
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: his faults too, but he always told me, if you
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: don't work hard, you'll never know your potential. If you
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: don't work hard, you'll never know your potential. And if
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you don't make an effort, you'll never know what effort means.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: If you don't make it, you got to make an
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: effort first to know what it means.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: And that stuck with me.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: My whole life, because again, I wasn't supposed to be playing.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be a Hall of famer. He
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: knew I was supposed to be a Hall of Famer.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And that's what I try to tell kids, is you're
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: only one person away from somebody telling you that there's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a possibility, it's possible. Regardless of where are you from,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: how much money you got, where you live, all that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You need one person to change your life,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and you got to be out there doing it, you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: seeing these people or whatever it is. But it's one person.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You got to make the effort. So that's really what
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I tell kids. I said, don't sit back and say
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I should have, or I could have, or I would have.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Right, you got Pops as one you got three more.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Probably my high school coach, Bruce Trotter, who recently passed
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: away about two years ago, two three years ago. He
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: always saw something in me. All those coaches there saw
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: something in me. And I was a little guy. You know,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't start growing until I got a certain age,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and he always new. He came to my they came
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to my Hall of Fame ceremony, and that was besides
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: my family, those guys because I I was that guy.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: And it's not that they say, oh I knew this
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: was going to happen.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: They just loved. They loved the journey.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: They'd love to see the journey that I was on,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: not only how I played, be how I carried myself too,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: because that's a reflection on them.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, got it?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, yep, Pops Trotter, he get two more.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Obviously my mom, because she was she held the fort together.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Our moms are kind of our backbones. Without them, we
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: obviously we wouldn't be here. But my mom's eighty one
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: now and she's going through health problems in this, but
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: she never missed the game.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: My pops never missed the game. Yeah, I remember he.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Slipped the disc in his back and didn't get surgery
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and came to the game with a slip disk in
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: his back because he didn't.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Want to miss the game. Dedication.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: All these words that I learned through my life. Throughout
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  Speaker 1: So my mom, my, Pops, my high school coach, and
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• 38:19
  Speaker 1: hard nosed guy. At some point in your life you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: need that kind of stuff, need somebody to just pound you.
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• 38:32
  Speaker 1: But those four, especially my mom and dad, they they
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: put in a lot of work.
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  Speaker 4: Man, they.
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  Speaker 2: I got you know what I believe or not. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in seven Hall of Fames.
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  Speaker 3: Now, okay, this may be, this may be a new record.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: I want to start asking everybody this. You're in seven
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's hard.
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  Speaker 2: That's hard.
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  Speaker 1: The Division two Football Hall of Fame, all right, The
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  Speaker 1: Lehigh Valley Sports Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all this wouldn't happen without the Boys and
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  Speaker 2: There's there's two or three more.
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  Speaker 4: I saw another one. I wrote it down.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of them more in area.
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  Speaker 4: There's a couple more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just got in the Pennsylvania State.
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame. Yes, State of Pennsylvan, State.
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  Speaker 2: Of Pennsylvania last November.
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  Speaker 3: That's five Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I said that one.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: There's two more that one. No, I said that first.
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  Speaker 1: I said my high school, all that stuff, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's two more. I think it's two more. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I have a stadium, a park, and a street named
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  Speaker 1: Yes, hall of fame. There you go, there's sports Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. Yeah, so there's there's seven there.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and here's a kid that.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows anything's possible. Shoot, what you got? Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is.
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  Speaker 4: You're the same guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in like three, I'm like three, I'm gonna get.
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