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Ep. 7: The significance of Anthony Munoz giving Tony "The Knock" | Boselli: A Podcast Series · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame, will would truly be the high
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  Speaker 1: speed of his arner I can have as a as
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  Speaker 1: a football player. Welcome to a celebration of Jacksonville Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: left tackle Tony Baselli's induction in the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fames. What makes it even more special for
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  Speaker 1: me is I want to represent this organization and this
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  Speaker 1: fan base because I know it's important to them as well.
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  Speaker 1: For them to care that much means a ton to me.
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  Speaker 1: Join Jaguars dot Com senior writer John Hosier as he
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  Speaker 1: sits down with the people who know Tony both professionally
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  Speaker 1: and personally, all of Fame left tackle Anthony moon Us
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  Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Uh yeah, it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure to be with you and looking forward to talking
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  Speaker 1: about him that it's not hard for me to talk
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  Speaker 1: about him. I gotta tell you the first thing I've
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  Speaker 1: got to hear, and I've talked to you about it
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  Speaker 1: right before he came on the air. You were able
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  Speaker 1: to be the person who told Tony he was getting
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  Speaker 1: into Hall of Fame. And I know you've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of moments in your career, Anthony, You've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of moments in your life that are special. But
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  Speaker 1: I've got to believe that's up there on the cool
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  Speaker 1: scale in terms of experiences and in terms of the
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  Speaker 1: antition anticipation leading to that. That had to be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. Well, first of all, let's kind of
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  Speaker 1: set the table. You know, we have to give credit
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  Speaker 1: to Dave Baker and George Ferris. Dave Baker, the previous
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  Speaker 1: president at the Hall of Fame, brought the Knock to
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Of course, prior to this year,
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  Speaker 1: most people who watch the Knock saw big David six
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  Speaker 1: pounds going to the hotel door and knocking on the door,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure the door rattled a little bit with
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  Speaker 1: that size. So David brought the Knock to the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. I thought, I thought it was a great
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  Speaker 1: thing that we're doing. Of course, David retires and in
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  Speaker 1: conversations the Hall of decides, Jim porter of the new
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  Speaker 1: president decides, let's have a Hall of Famer. One of
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  Speaker 1: the existing Hall of Famers go and welcome the new
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famers into the class. And I'm thinking, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is an amazing opportunity for you know, the guys
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  Speaker 1: that are in the Hall of Fame to welcome new
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  Speaker 1: team members. I mean we you know, my envisioned showing
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  Speaker 1: up and I never thought I would get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But I envisioned myself showing up with
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  Speaker 1: my gold jacket somebody's front door, knocking on the door
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  Speaker 1: and just say, hey, welcome to camp Man, we're now teammates.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, this year, when Jim Porter decided to implement
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  Speaker 1: this the knock into Hall of Famers welcoming the new class,
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  Speaker 1: they called me and said, would you like to go
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  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville and welcome Tony Boselli into the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: I said, do you even have to ask? Window. I
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  Speaker 1: have to be there when my flight leave. When am
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  Speaker 1: I leaving? So I had the opportunity to fly down
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  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. And you have to understand we knew that
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  Speaker 1: he was in. I mean I didn't know right away,
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  Speaker 1: but of course the selection committee knew. So this up
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  Speaker 1: until the knock, it had to be kept secret. We
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  Speaker 1: talked in Super Bowl and so it had to be
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  Speaker 1: kept secret because now even though we did the knock,
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  Speaker 1: it still wouldn't announced until the honor. So even the
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  Speaker 1: time between the selection, the knock and then the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. So, you know, credit to Angie, but silly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she knew she had it under wraps. She
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  Speaker 1: put it all together. Uh So I jumped on the jet,
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  Speaker 1: met George Veris, met the NFL network crew there, and
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, it was exciting. It was exciting because,
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  Speaker 1: uh not only to welcome another offensive lineman of packling
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, but of course you have to mention both Trojans,
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  Speaker 1: both left tackles that played at USC and uh so
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  Speaker 1: I had a chance to fly down there. Tony was
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  Speaker 1: at the house of a really really good friends. Knock
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  Speaker 1: on the door, the whole family behind us and the
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  Speaker 1: film crew they're hiding, and then Tony opens the door,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just amazing to be able to give
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  Speaker 1: Tony a hug and say, welcome to Canton. What an
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  Speaker 1: honor for me to present you as a new member
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  Speaker 1: of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the you know, we had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: it down and do a one on one interview, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we talked about, but one
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  Speaker 1: of the things I had to share with Tony and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't realize this that six days
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  Speaker 1: after my last game in I got a job offer
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  Speaker 1: to go back to l A and be the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line coach for John Robinson at USC UH and I
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  Speaker 1: turned it down. I went into broadcasting instead. UH. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the linemen there at USC at the time
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  Speaker 1: was Tony Boselli. So I was very close to going
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  Speaker 1: back and coaching. I joked, I said, Tony, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was a good good thing that I didn't take
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  Speaker 1: the job. I might have messed you up in college.
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  Speaker 1: You might have not been here. But no, it was
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  Speaker 1: It was a thrill. I mean, it was a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: memory for me experienced to be able to welcome a
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  Speaker 1: Pillow Hall of Famer into Canton, especially Tony Boselli, a
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  Speaker 1: former USC guy that you know, we you know, law.
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  Speaker 1: He's a lot younger me, so we didn't actually play together,
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  Speaker 1: but we're alumni USC. But now I can say we're
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  Speaker 1: teammates forever as members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because somehow, maybe I'm sure it's the USC connection,
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  Speaker 1: the great left tackle connection, but it's also the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he was always very open that you know, you
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  Speaker 1: were his hero, you were the guy that he admired. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So there's always been sort of a connection even before
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  Speaker 1: this moment. Uh did you feel that sort of connection?
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  Speaker 1: And I guess my big question is how well did
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  Speaker 1: you know Tony before this? Uh, you know, before that day,
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  Speaker 1: before this time, and have you gotten to know him
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  Speaker 1: better through this? Well? I can say I knew him,
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  Speaker 1: but not really well. A couple you know, I had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to broadcast a couple of his game. I
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  Speaker 1: think the one moment that I really enjoyed not only
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  Speaker 1: watching him in college, watching them in the NFL, but
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  Speaker 1: after I retired, I was I was working in the
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  Speaker 1: media and I have an assignment. They flew me to Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: Tony was playing, and we went on the field. We
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  Speaker 1: both had sweats on and it was just like, let's
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  Speaker 1: just Q and A. I asked him questions and they
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  Speaker 1: just filmed. I mean, it was like a minute piece
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  Speaker 1: they were doing. But we had a chance that an
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  Speaker 1: hour hour and a half on the field and just
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  Speaker 1: talk technique, talk football. You know, he asked me questions
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  Speaker 1: I had. I asked him questions, and that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: first time I really got to know Tony. Was just
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  Speaker 1: spending some quality time talking football. And of course, over
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  Speaker 1: the years I've known Tony. Uh, you know, since then
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  Speaker 1: I went down played in a golf tournament in March
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  Speaker 1: at Sawgrass right in his backyard, called him. We played
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  Speaker 1: together on Friday, Friday morning, people are actually Friday morning
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  Speaker 1: before the Saturday tournament. So it's been fun. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're out the Super Bowl. We're both at the U
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  Speaker 1: s c U Selling basketball game. They announced Tony and
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  Speaker 1: his family. I got a chance to run out mc
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  Speaker 1: corton bill a hug. But yeah, it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though you might not see guys all the time,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know where you played college, there's always that
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  Speaker 1: instant connection, like you've like he's a good friend, and
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  Speaker 1: he is a great friend. But now that we're in
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  Speaker 1: the hall together, you know, I'll get to see him
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  Speaker 1: even more. And it's funny. Another question, Uh, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: sit down in anyway, I gotta share this. I'll let
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  Speaker 1: you go on. But we sat down and one of
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  Speaker 1: the first questions he asked me goes, now do I
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to be invited to your golf tournament?
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  Speaker 1: And so because the only guys I fly into my
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  Speaker 1: golf tournament, which has taken place like two and a
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  Speaker 1: half weeks, I only fly in the Hall of Famers,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you will get your information. You're officially
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  Speaker 1: invited to my golf tournament. And Tony and Angie were
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  Speaker 1: one of the first confirm and they're coming up to Cincinnati, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the second week of June, June to playing
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  Speaker 1: my Foundation golf tournament. So I am thrilled that he's
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall and we're now teammates. This is really
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sitting here listening to you talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. I think of myself. Here's a Hall of Famer,
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  Speaker 1: as I said at the top, who's obviously experienced a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but it's obviously your your enthusiasm for joining me even today.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those cool moments, isn't it, Where
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  Speaker 1: like you go through life and there stuff that happens,
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  Speaker 1: but this is sort of a time that you remember,
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  Speaker 1: right even for somebody like yourself who's been through it,
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  Speaker 1: it really is. I mean, you know, to be able
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  Speaker 1: because you know, haven't played in the league as a
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  Speaker 1: special fraternity and then you you step it up. Now
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  Speaker 1: you got what three in a really really elite fraternity
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  Speaker 1: of the Hall of Fame. So you know the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you could be the individual that actually says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the team, Welcome to Canton. Man. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: really exciting, and that they would ask me to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Very humbled, very thrilled. Uh. And I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the guys that get to got to do it
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  Speaker 1: this year, Kurt Warner and Charles Haley, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't wait for the fall, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming years with more and more Hall of Famers
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  Speaker 1: get involved and get a chance to do that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if anybody watched the Leroy Butler woman, I
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  Speaker 1: was playing the whole time to have you know, another player,
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  Speaker 1: have him Charles Haley, you know, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Brian Young threw him into the pool after they finished,
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  Speaker 1: and the you know, so it's like, man, there's an
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  Speaker 1: instant brotherhood. So it is. It's a lot of fun, excitement,
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  Speaker 1: and to be able to say that I was in
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  Speaker 1: the inaugural class of being involved in the knock is
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  Speaker 1: very special. Um, before I move on, was there anything else? Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you guys talked for a long time that day, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of things didn't air. Was there
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  Speaker 1: anything else that struck you from your conversation with Tony
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  Speaker 1: that day. No, just you know, there's just things we
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  Speaker 1: talked about about being a Hall of Famer. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things, I said, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you signed a lot of autographs, but people now are
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  Speaker 1: not going to care about what number you wore with Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you'll be Jacksonville Jaguars forever, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: care about number seventy one. It's like h O F
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  Speaker 1: in your year, that's what they want on it. And
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  Speaker 1: he did. He said, I gotta confess when I was
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  Speaker 1: at events and I saw you sign your name with
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  Speaker 1: that h o F ninety eight and other guys that
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be able to do that so badly.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, so finally now he can sign at
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  Speaker 1: Tony Boselli you know h O F. And uh so
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. And just talked about little things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I saw him in March. I said, so,
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  Speaker 1: how are things going and he said, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: going well, but you're a little crazier. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of things of what it means to be
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall. And I'm looking forward to seeing him
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  Speaker 1: not only at my tournament but the Hall of Fame Weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Like everything, this process has changed so much, even in
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  Speaker 1: the last ten years. It's so hope. It's so high
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  Speaker 1: profile now because the NFL network, because the speeches are alive.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid watching Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame stuff, and you really weren't as aware of it
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  Speaker 1: as you are now. Uh, you know, we're old school guys, Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: But I've got to think that's one thing that's changed.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, right, the fact that this is such
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  Speaker 1: a big deal now, Uh, that's okay, right, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's great. I think that, you know, the draft of
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  Speaker 1: being a huge thing, you know, the combine everything is
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  Speaker 1: such a big production now, so hey, why not you
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  Speaker 1: know here you got the best of the best going
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  Speaker 1: to Canton, Ohio. I love the fact and of course,
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: like you said, it wasn't like that when you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I went in. You know, it's funny you watch
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: the draft and the year I was drafted, which was
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  Speaker 1: like eighty years ago, that was the first it was.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first year that ESPN carried the draft.
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  Speaker 1: But they didn't have guys find in New York. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't have videos. They just kind of had their notes reading.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they said Oh, by the way, Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: got a guy here that wouldn't expect to be drafted,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Moonio. Let's pull the notes out on them. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know so, I'm I'm thrilled that it's such a
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  Speaker 1: big production now and the guys really get the spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: How much media did you do on your draft day?
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  Speaker 1: I did one interview. Everybody played in Cincinnati and everyone
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  Speaker 1: that followed NBC back in the eighties and nineties. Remember
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  Speaker 1: Bob Trumpy, you know, he was a Gamberg. Bob was
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  Speaker 1: a big radio, you know, talk show host guy here
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. And draft day we had Brad Buddy, who
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  Speaker 1: was our strong guard. Went number eleven to the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: I went number three to the Bengals. We had roomed
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  Speaker 1: together for our friend schmi Your in college. We were
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  Speaker 1: really close friends, and we were both on an interview
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  Speaker 1: with Bob Trumpy on the old landline day. We were
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  Speaker 1: in the sports information director's office, Jim Perry. We're each
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  Speaker 1: on the phone and we did an interview and that
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  Speaker 1: was it. That was it. My wife and I hung
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  Speaker 1: out our one bedroom apartment there on campus and just
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it with friends. But uh, yeah, we didn't do
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of media. Tell me about Tony. We
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  Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the Super Bowl, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to get into a little bit of XS and
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  Speaker 1: ohs uh. What made him him? I mean, you know
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  Speaker 1: much about left tackles, anybody. Why was he so good? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was just everything. I mean his side.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people look at him and see the size
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  Speaker 1: he's got. He had the size, but you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was athletic. I mean, he had the long arms, he
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  Speaker 1: was athletic. He had leverage. You know, for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, tall guys have a tendency not to be
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  Speaker 1: able to bend up the knees and get down. He
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  Speaker 1: could get low. He played with leverage, and he used
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  Speaker 1: his hands well. So when I look at the left tackle,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's what I look flexibility, being able to
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  Speaker 1: move out in space. You have the nice hand usage, strength,
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  Speaker 1: and then there was a little bit of that nastiness
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  Speaker 1: and I think all linemen need. So when I looked
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  Speaker 1: at him, when I watched him play, those are the
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  Speaker 1: things that I noticed right away. I do remember you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned coming here and doing your interview with Tony Boselli.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually the ratty little reporter who talked to
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  Speaker 1: you under the stands that day. Uh so I remember
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  Speaker 1: you being here well. But the only thing I remember
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  Speaker 1: from that interview was as much as you talked about
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  Speaker 1: technique that day, you talked about the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: liked the tough streak. You like the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: played a little nasty. Uh. And to me after that,
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  Speaker 1: watching Tony, it was always what separated him. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying other guys didn't play nasty, but boy, that was
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  Speaker 1: there for him. One it well, and I think you
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  Speaker 1: need that. I think you know, and that's what I
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  Speaker 1: share with young guys. I said, you're not out there
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive line and first of all, your job
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  Speaker 1: is to protect and to open up holes. You're not
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  Speaker 1: there to make friends with. Defensive player is and you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course, uh you know, defensive lineman don't like when
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  Speaker 1: you go all the way to the when the whistle
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  Speaker 1: was blown. I mean, and that's how I was trained,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what I love to see, you know guys. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's he's not a tackle, but he's a
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  Speaker 1: guarden here in Indianapolis. But Nelson and that's what he does.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys that are the best of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that do that, they tried to finish. And we
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  Speaker 1: always had shirts that you know, our Lione coach, Jim McNally,
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  Speaker 1: it said finish on our shirts that we would wear.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, that's what I love and I think
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  Speaker 1: not only going to the whistle, but that that says
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  Speaker 1: that you have a little bit of that nasty So
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  Speaker 1: you want to finish guys, You want to dominate guys.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm sure you know because I played at USC,
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  Speaker 1: That's where I was taught that. In fact, I found
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  Speaker 1: my freshman playbook the year after I retired from the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and the first page in my freshman at USC playbook
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  Speaker 1: it had in block letters dominate and then you open
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  Speaker 1: to the next page and say, we will dominate from
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  Speaker 1: the first play when into the fourth quarter and they
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  Speaker 1: will surrender. And that I would imagine because Tony played
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  Speaker 1: for John Robinson, that was the mentality, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: mentality he had in the NFL. And there is a
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  Speaker 1: fraternity there in there. The the left tackles from s C.
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  Speaker 1: People don't talk about that that much, but that matters
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  Speaker 1: to you guys, didn't it does? I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people talk about you know, running back to you, I
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  Speaker 1: rec DBU. You know, we look at the lineman. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind, you know, and with all do there's some
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  Speaker 1: great offensive linement that I would love to play with
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  Speaker 1: UH in the Hall of Fame. But if I took
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  Speaker 1: Ran Yerry Ron Mix, Tony Boselli, Bruce Matthews, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, we got a pretty good UH offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: I told Tony, Uh, I wouldn't mind moving inside and
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: playing left guard, letting mixing Yarry played next to each other,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Tony said, no, you you'd play left
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  Speaker 1: tackle play. I said, well, we can interchange, and you know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Bruce Matthews you can play center guard or tackle. You know,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: so you played all position. But you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things that that was. You know, That's
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  Speaker 1: what's so frustrating right now for me as a former
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Trojan is to see where we're lacking. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about Lincoln Kennedy, you know, going to the college about
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing and what he's gonna do, and we're
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  Speaker 1: hoping that he brings you know, he's got some great
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  Speaker 1: skill people he's bringing in. But hopefully we get those
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman like Tony and like Bruce Matthews and Yerry
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  Speaker 1: and you know Ron Mix and you know, you can
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  Speaker 1: just go on and on with a lot of Sam
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  Speaker 1: Baker younger guys that played there, you know, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know Tyrn Smith who is that you know the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys another left tackle. So you know, yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things that you know, I'll be sure
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  Speaker 1: when we're in Kenton, I always take an offensive lineman picture.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I always take an offensive tackle picture. And now it's
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: time to take a usc offensive line picture because we've
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  Speaker 1: got quite a few guys. So I'm looking forward to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we did take pride in that. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people kind of shrug and roll their eyes,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: but uh, I'm sure they're excited about their college that
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: they play that and the number of guys that they
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: have in the hall. I nays, ask you one more
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  Speaker 1: and they'll let you go. But um, well, you know
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: he waited so long in retrospect to get in because
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of the injuries because everything we all know about um.
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  Speaker 1: But I think somebody said right around the time that
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: he got in. Once you're in, it doesn't matter how
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: long you way does it. You're there. You're part of it,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and you know it's it's uh, I'm I'm sure what
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to ask, but uh, he's part of it now,
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  Speaker 1: right and the weights behind you. This is where he
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and I guess this is where he belongs. You know what.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Famer now and that's all that matters.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, all the other stuff, I'm sure it's still
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: hangs with guys. I took this long. I should have
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: been here. I should people say this and that, but
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: you know it's you're in. I mean, you remember the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Prop Road Football Hall of Fame. All this other stuff,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the matchups, the you know, how you played against this
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: guy that guy, that doesn't matter, especially as the brotherhood man.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: We're brotherhoods now. I mean one of my toughest guy
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was Bruce Smith. We don't talk anything about matchups or
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: you know, we we would prefer nobody talk about matchup
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: because we're in this brotherhood together. We're Hall of Famers.
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  Speaker 1: Tony's now Hall of Famer. He's part of the brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: All this other stuff doesn't matter how many years he
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: played or this or that. He's he can write h
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  Speaker 1: o F twenty two now by his name and That's
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: That's all that matters is he is a Pro Football
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Uh. And I know a lot of
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that is still gonna be brought up, but you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: it's like, hey, like Deacon Jones, the great member of
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the Fearsome Foursome l A. Rams used to say, this
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: is a team that we will never get cut from.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We will never be traded from. We can never be
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: way from Tony and I and Bruce Smith and Bart
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Star and you know, Dante glue Fingers la Veli. We
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: will always be teammates together. And that's it. We're Hall
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of famers and we're in forever now. So that's all
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that matters. That's a football is Storian right there? Who
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: just pulled Dante Lavelli. That's impressive stuff, Blue fingers Hanthony
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: can't tell you, uh what an honor this was for
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you to join us, you know, uh, to share with
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars fans, Uh, some of your thoughts on what's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: going on. It means so much to us, means so
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: much to me, I know it means a lot to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Tony as well. Anthony Munio's I can't thank you enough
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: for joining us, and I look forward to seeing you
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in cant in this summer. Hey shame here. Thanks for
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: having me, appreciate the opportunity to your show and it's
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great week then uh first weekend of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: August up in Canton, Ohio. Thank you