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Ep. 1: Angi Boselli’s key roll in Tony’s Hall of Fame career | Boselli: A Podcast Series · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Will would truly be the high speed
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  Speaker 1: of little arner I can have as a as a
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  Speaker 1: football player. Welcome to a celebration of Jacksonville Jaguars left
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  Speaker 1: tackle Tony Baselly's induction into the Pro Football All of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: What makes it even more special for me is I
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  Speaker 1: want to represent this organization and this fan base because
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  Speaker 1: I know it's important to them as well. For them
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  Speaker 1: to care that much means a tongue to me. Join
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  Speaker 1: Jaguars dot Com senior writer John Hosier as he sits
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  Speaker 1: down with the people who know Tony both professionally and personally,
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  Speaker 1: Angie Busselly. I think, honestly from talking to people from
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  Speaker 1: my own feelings about it, people are more excited about
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  Speaker 1: this episode than any of the others that I've talked
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  Speaker 1: about because we're talking to Tony's wife, UH significantly better half,
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  Speaker 1: Uh Angie Basselli, and Angie, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: doing this. Welcome what an intro? Oh how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great? And I think the first thing I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask and I'm I'm rushing into it because I've
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  Speaker 1: got to know, uh, I, I have not had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk with you. I spoke with you briefly
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  Speaker 1: at the at the get together in Los Angeles the
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  Speaker 1: night that Tony's induction was announced to the world, but
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  Speaker 1: I've not had a chance to talk with you about
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  Speaker 1: when you found out. And I guess the first question is,
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  Speaker 1: how in the world did you keep it secret for
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  Speaker 1: as long as you did. You and I have had
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  Speaker 1: some fun conversations along the way, you know, kind of offline,
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  Speaker 1: and honestly, this moment is so incredibly, incredibly special that
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  Speaker 1: trying to maximize every single moment of it. It has
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  Speaker 1: been absolutely paramount and at the forefront of every single
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  Speaker 1: decision that I have made. I'm just so incredibly proud
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  Speaker 1: and excited, and I know what this means to him,
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  Speaker 1: and so to cheat him of any aspect of what
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  Speaker 1: this means over my dead body. So you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: doing things differently. They've got a new president of the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, and obviously Covid changed things and we
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  Speaker 1: had experienced he had it in his head and in
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  Speaker 1: his mind, you know what that knock was going to
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  Speaker 1: feel like. And we've all felt what it has been
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  Speaker 1: like not to get the knock, and including you, you've
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  Speaker 1: been there right along by our side, And it's heartbreaking,
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  Speaker 1: it's absolutely I mean, you were in the room when
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  Speaker 1: you saw his best friend Mark b No crying, my
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  Speaker 1: kids crying, and it breaks your heart when you get
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  Speaker 1: amped up, wrapped up, hopeful, hopeful maybe maybe maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: and then nope, not this year. And so when it
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  Speaker 1: finally did happen, I mean, there's just nothing that I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have done to preserve him getting the rock. So
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  Speaker 1: that was easy. Actually, were you? Um? And again, you
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  Speaker 1: know when Tony told me, uh, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed to say this, I got a little choked up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I know you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: neutral on these things, and I've journalists in background, but
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  Speaker 1: I've known I've known Tony for so long, and having
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  Speaker 1: been in the room with you guys a few times,
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  Speaker 1: you know all the emotions. So I knew what it
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  Speaker 1: meant to you guys when you got that call from
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  Speaker 1: the Hall. I assume the Hall of Fame called you. Correct, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: um tears, I assume, I mean, And it had to
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  Speaker 1: be an incredible moment to know that finally, Um, just
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  Speaker 1: even reliving it makes choke up. Um. Yes, it was
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  Speaker 1: so awesome, so awesome I I saw her name pop
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  Speaker 1: up on my phone, and I was so hopeful, um
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  Speaker 1: that I knew that if she had called me and
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  Speaker 1: not him, I kind of assumed. I knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the call was. And I was around my children and
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  Speaker 1: I knew, but I couldn't take the call in front
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  Speaker 1: of them. I knew that are are It wouldn't be safe.
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  Speaker 1: And so I texted her and told her give me
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes. Can you please call me back in ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes and she said absolutely, And so I went over
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  Speaker 1: to my best friend's house, one of our best friend's house,
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  Speaker 1: Eric and Kay and I was sitting in their kitchen
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  Speaker 1: just shaking. I just was holding my phone, just literally
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  Speaker 1: like oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And it rang again. I was like yeah, So I
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  Speaker 1: answered the phone and I was like literally holding my
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  Speaker 1: breath and I was like, Michelle, please tell me you're
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  Speaker 1: calling me with some good news. And she paused, paused, paused,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of like freaked me out. And then the
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  Speaker 1: president of the Hall of Fame was on the call
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  Speaker 1: as well, and he said, well, Michelle doesn't have good
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  Speaker 1: news for you, but I do you know, we'd like
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  Speaker 1: you know, Tony has is being you know, inducted into
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and congratulations that I didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: much beyond that, quite honest with you. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: literally dropped with my head between my knees and us
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  Speaker 1: was sobbing. I mean, I just just thinking about it
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  Speaker 1: so cool that, Uh, I'm gonna ask you was it
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  Speaker 1: better for you? Because again to fill in people who
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little behind on the story, three or four
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  Speaker 1: different times, this was a scene where the Bissell's family Tony, Angie, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: people from Jaguars dot Com, We're uh, the Bassels have
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  Speaker 1: been nice enough to allow us try to follow the story.
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  Speaker 1: The call would come and Tony, you have to tell
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  Speaker 1: everybody that it wasn't happening. And my question to you, Angie,
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  Speaker 1: was it better for you that you found out that
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  Speaker 1: way and not have to go through that again? Or
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  Speaker 1: is that an unfair question? Like can you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to wait this time at least about this one? Um?
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  Speaker 1: So to your point, what you're one of the little
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  Speaker 1: details you're missing too, is that you know, pre COVID
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  Speaker 1: they have like a week of events. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was like four or five days full of events that
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  Speaker 1: we you know, our whole family went to and you
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  Speaker 1: dressed everybody, and you flew everybody out there. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: some people have one kid, two kid, three kids. We've
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  Speaker 1: got five kids, you know. So by the time you
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  Speaker 1: get all their schedules to make it work, all their
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  Speaker 1: football coaches and collegiate coaches and professors and make I
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  Speaker 1: mean you have to move like heaven and Earth to
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  Speaker 1: get the bussellis together in one spot. And then we're
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  Speaker 1: dressed for this red carpet events. And again no small feat.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not like everybody in our family's normal
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  Speaker 1: size either. You know, my boys are all over Tony's
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  Speaker 1: six eight, the boys are six six, six five. We
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  Speaker 1: can't just buy stuff off the rack, and so it
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  Speaker 1: is like an act of Congress to like make this
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  Speaker 1: all happen. And there's like so much pressure. It happens quick.
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  Speaker 1: You find out and you have two weeks to pull
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  Speaker 1: everything together, and like you said, you know, you go
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  Speaker 1: there and there's so much anxiety in all the best way,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're just so incredibly hopeful and obviously we think
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  Speaker 1: he's the most amazing football player that ever played in
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  Speaker 1: the whole existence of football. But you're just hoping that
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  Speaker 1: other people might think he's good enough to be in
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  Speaker 1: the hall, you know. And so what's been neat about
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  Speaker 1: the journey is that my kids got to relate to
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  Speaker 1: his football career in a super cool way. They were
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  Speaker 1: so young and so um disconnected to his actual career. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they've kind of grown up, like in the wake of
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  Speaker 1: it all and in the shadow of it and in
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  Speaker 1: the there's been really cool things about raising our children
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  Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, Florida. Um, but they got attached to his
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  Speaker 1: football career in a very special way. And to watch
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  Speaker 1: them hope and get so excited and be invested year
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  Speaker 1: after year was actually, um a hidden blessing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know it till you're beyond. And it was
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  Speaker 1: torture in the process, but really cool along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And what was cool about the way they did it
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  Speaker 1: this particular year post COVID was that I really was
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  Speaker 1: able to get all the right people at the table,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really everybody that was supposed to be there
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  Speaker 1: for the knock. We flew in his mother in law, Um,
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  Speaker 1: all of my children were there, My parents were there,
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  Speaker 1: his mom and stepdad were there, Stacy Brunel was there,
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  Speaker 1: Mark wasn't able to be there that night, unfortunately, but
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  Speaker 1: he was there for the super Bowl, which was fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: and so being able to plan a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: was a blessing. I told everyone forty eight hours before,
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  Speaker 1: except for my mother in law who needed to book
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  Speaker 1: a ticket, and everyone just I think we got to
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  Speaker 1: really enjoy the moment a little bit more. We were
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  Speaker 1: happy for like, you know, I was happy for two
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  Speaker 1: weeks straight. They were happy for forty eight hours straight,
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  Speaker 1: and then got to enjoy all the build up to
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl too, So it did kind of enhance
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  Speaker 1: the moment. You know, we didn't miss much. We were
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  Speaker 1: able to really take it all in. Right. This is
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  Speaker 1: such an obvious question, but you know, again, you know
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  Speaker 1: him better than anybody everything, and everybody feels like they
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  Speaker 1: know Tony who knows him, but you don't better than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: What did it mean to him for this to happen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because it's always means everything. But as he
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  Speaker 1: shared any of that with you know, he's not a
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  Speaker 1: big He shared things with me over time, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's part of what made that moment so special for me.
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  Speaker 1: Um and he even denies some of the stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: he's shared, you know, sort of intimately at moments that
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  Speaker 1: definitely has contributed. But I mean I'll never forget. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these are silly things, but um, not really. Um, as
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  Speaker 1: we all know, it was a shoulder injury that that
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  Speaker 1: shortened his career, and UM, he had what a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people would say was quote unquote the right too.
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  Speaker 1: UM handle that whole scenario very differently. Um, you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people would have had a lawsuit. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people would have and like, from a minute
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  Speaker 1: his career was over. Um, it was devastating because it
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  Speaker 1: was a premature ending, very very devastating, and he was
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  Speaker 1: he's still not ready to be done. If the man
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  Speaker 1: could get out there and go suit up and make
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  Speaker 1: a difference on the field, he'd do it. Mh. But
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  Speaker 1: that was definitely premature. He was in his prime. Um gosh.
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  Speaker 1: And and again i'm his wife and I'm so biased,
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  Speaker 1: but I really didn't realize how awesome he was until
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  Speaker 1: I've watched football subsequently, and there's like a hole. There's like,
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  Speaker 1: people don't play football like he played football. It was
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  Speaker 1: just so aggressive and so dominant. And and again, I
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  Speaker 1: mean Jonathan Ogden played at the same era, and we
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  Speaker 1: both came from the Pac ten together, and Anthony Muonios
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  Speaker 1: was somebody that Tony always watched film on and so
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  Speaker 1: kind of my point of reference were Anthony Moonius, Jonathan Ogden,
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  Speaker 1: and my husband, and they all played very just be
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  Speaker 1: a football, you know what I mean. They just were
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  Speaker 1: bad to the phone, and so I just thought, that
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  Speaker 1: is the way I left Apple plays football. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure that I can aim, not even on one hand.
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  Speaker 1: People after his career, you know. And again, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the football connoisseur like you guys are. And when his
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  Speaker 1: when he quit playing football, my my, my knowledge definitely
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  Speaker 1: took a big dip, but it has been I am
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  Speaker 1: so great. So he stopped in the middle of his prime,
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  Speaker 1: was my point, and that was very devastating. And he said, ay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping, you know, if I do something a loss
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  Speaker 1: like a lawsuit, or if I hand, if I if
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  Speaker 1: you mishandle stuff like this, this is this is how
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  Speaker 1: you're remembered. This is this is what people this is
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  Speaker 1: how you go down in history. This is how people
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  Speaker 1: think of you. And he goes, that is not what
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  Speaker 1: I want my story to be. I hope there are
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  Speaker 1: better stories to tell than how I went down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And um, he just never wanted to like burn Bridges,
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  Speaker 1: he always wanted to keep doors open to the possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of a better legacy. And um, he was devastated that
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  Speaker 1: his career was ended short because I think that in
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  Speaker 1: his heart of hearts he would never admit this, but UM,
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  Speaker 1: I think he knew he was definitely like on the
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  Speaker 1: path to a hall of fame shoeing. And I think
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  Speaker 1: had he been over ten years, we wouldn't have had
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  Speaker 1: to wait as long as we waited. Um. And so
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he did all that he could and it
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  Speaker 1: was enough, it's cool. It's cool for him. I know that.
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  Speaker 1: I know one reason that I was so happy he
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  Speaker 1: got in. I was not in Jacksonville anymore when his
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  Speaker 1: We're got cut short. But I always thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way he loved the game, the way he played it, Um,
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  Speaker 1: how cruel it was to have it taken away from him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this makes up for it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: but it's certainly I guess puts a bow a correct
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  Speaker 1: uh uh finish and almost it almost feels like it
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  Speaker 1: completes the circle if you will appropriately and I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: you guys sort of feel that in the same way
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  Speaker 1: I know I do, and so yes, I know he does.
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  Speaker 1: He never ever, ever, ever played for Accolade like that
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  Speaker 1: was never It's like what you just said. He loves football,
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  Speaker 1: like he loves everything about it, and he knows that
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  Speaker 1: that is the greatest honor. So to receive it means
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  Speaker 1: that much to him. And like I know that through
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame process, um, it has been frustrating
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  Speaker 1: to him to watch guys like arrogantly assume that they
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  Speaker 1: deserve it, or like that the Hall would be lucky
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  Speaker 1: to have them, or different attitudes along the way I
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  Speaker 1: know of sickened him. And so this has been not
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  Speaker 1: ever an expectation, not ever. It's just like you said,
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  Speaker 1: like the biggest bow on a box, cherry on top.
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  Speaker 1: Just you couldn't pay him a greater compliment, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just so thrilled for him. It's funny to
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  Speaker 1: discuss what you just said. Uh, And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm sharing anything out of turn here, But there were
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  Speaker 1: times when he didn't get in that folks. Angie Boselli
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  Speaker 1: was an upset wife in that situation, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: when I was always luck by Andy. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: bring it up is, uh, I think it was very heartfelt.
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  Speaker 1: All those times where he said, look all these guys
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  Speaker 1: who got in deserved to be in. He always did
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  Speaker 1: such a great job keeping that in perspective that obviously
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  Speaker 1: he was disappointed, um, and he held his emotions in check.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that was a real thing for him.
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  Speaker 1: He respected the hall so much that although he was disappointed,
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  Speaker 1: he also understood these five guys who are getting in
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  Speaker 1: or having their moment as well. UM. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: question to you would be, did he ever off camera
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  Speaker 1: say hey I should have been in this year or
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  Speaker 1: and I talked about that emotion for him? No. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he always you're exactly right. He would always have to
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  Speaker 1: like educate me because I would be hot, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I was like what you know, no way,
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  Speaker 1: like right, you know, and and he always no, it
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  Speaker 1: is you know, this guy played this many years, I
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  Speaker 1: did this and did it didn't He's had many Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowls and he could rattle off every guy's stat immediately
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  Speaker 1: and tell me how phenomenal every single player was and
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  Speaker 1: is you know, and you're exactly right. He never ever
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  Speaker 1: never went never had like a sour great moment where
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  Speaker 1: this guy got in and I didn't like that never
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  Speaker 1: came out of his mouth. He always, um would shut
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  Speaker 1: me up and and I never said anything to anybody
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  Speaker 1: but him, And I'm sorry. I still stand by what
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  Speaker 1: I say. He deserved and not at anybody else's expense,
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  Speaker 1: but just he's awesome. Um again, you're right, like he is,
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  Speaker 1: he's a student of the game. He respects the process.
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  Speaker 1: He believed that there was a good chance that his
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  Speaker 1: day would come. And my husband, if you know anything
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  Speaker 1: about him at all, he's feisty as all get out,
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  Speaker 1: but he has he is so fair and he has
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  Speaker 1: so much integrity and he definitely lives by treat other
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  Speaker 1: people how you want to be treated mentality. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that he was really kind of you know, I
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  Speaker 1: would be devastated if somebody felt like I got in wrongly,
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  Speaker 1: and I will appreciate every human that gets in before me,
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  Speaker 1: even if I never get in. And that was definitely
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  Speaker 1: his position. Like I said, I struggled with it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more than he did, just because proud wife,
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  Speaker 1: you can't help yourself. But I really I do did
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it was so much easier to get through each year,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that he was okay too, you know, that made
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  Speaker 1: it much easier for me to move on to the
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  Speaker 1: next year and the next thing, just knowing truthfully, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, you know. And I was like, oh, thank goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing very well. As this thing draws closer,
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  Speaker 1: this people will be listening to this in July. Will
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  Speaker 1: you ever get a break from the planning? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be chaos and until right to the end.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to get a chance to enjoy this
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  Speaker 1: at any point? Well? Unfortunately, Um, I am world's worst
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  Speaker 1: at having the ability to say no to things. And
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I have just become the local high school cheerleading coach,
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  Speaker 1: and I also coached the middle school cheerleading team, And
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  Speaker 1: so between my obligations of coaching my five children and
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  Speaker 1: this monstrosity of event, I'm just hoping to get there
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  Speaker 1: on time. And if you know me, that is not
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  Speaker 1: my strength. I'm wait everywhere I go. Um, But the
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  Speaker 1: process has been a blast, and I think doing the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: plans has only enhanced the process. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting to enjoy it even more just being part of
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  Speaker 1: the nuances of all of the decisions that are along
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  Speaker 1: the way, and so that's really my attitude towards it
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  Speaker 1: is I love knowing the nitty gritty and all that's
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: going into this, and I love helping. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: the Jags are pulling out the stops that if this
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  Speaker 1: party is going to be a blast, and the freedom
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  Speaker 1: and the flexibility and the um generosity to make this
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  Speaker 1: just super memorable and super amazing. Who gets to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of something like that. So for me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying every step of the way. And it's busy, it's chaotic,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy, it's like crying on the yacht. Okay, these
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: are good problems to have. Well, Angie, you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: I've known you. It seems like a lifetime this some
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  Speaker 1: of the stories you share here today I never had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you about. So I think
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: our fans are really going to appreciate you opening up
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  Speaker 1: about Tony about this, and I think, frankly showing a
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  Speaker 1: side of him that people haven't seen before. And uh,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't thank you enough. In closing, I'll
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  Speaker 1: say this is an incredibly well deserved thing for him,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: but a well deserved thing for your entire family as well.
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  Speaker 1: Who's always been gracious with us about sharing the moment, uh,
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  Speaker 1: which really means sharing it with Jaguars fans and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know both of you have always put a priority
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  Speaker 1: on that and been incredibly gracious about it. I appreciate it,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations and enjoy this fantastic, once in a lifetime moment.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best. You're a big part of it, Jags fans.
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  Speaker 1: It feels so awesome too, have lived in this community
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  Speaker 1: for plus years and get the privilege to share it
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  Speaker 1: with so many friends and fans. We are Jacksonville, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is home and these are nine oh
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  Speaker 1: four do ball These are people, and so to share
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  Speaker 1: this with our community absolutely means the world to us.
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  Speaker 1: That was a conversation we just recently had that we
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: are so thrilled that we made Jacksonville home. We had
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: no idea this was coming down the pike, and what
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  Speaker 1: a blessing, Angie, fantastic stuff is always I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing it and frankly look forward to celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in Canton. Than have a great day. You're
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the best.