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Tony Dorsett on his 99-yd TD run, being in select Heisman Trophy & Hall of Fame group, and being a grandpa · NFL explained.

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Speaker 1: What was the control player of Second Acts podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: Peanut Tillman, and as always I got my guy, Roman Deacon.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Peanut. Look. I don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: a compliment or a scary start to the morning. But
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Speaker 1: now our guest today has already told us that we
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Speaker 1: kind of looked like and I don't know, that's the
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Speaker 1: first time I've ever heard that. I was like, I
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Speaker 1: think we've been hanging out a lot together. That's maybe
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Speaker 1: that's what it is, my old road here. It's a
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Speaker 1: great boy, it's a great start, all right. I want
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Speaker 1: you up right in Our guest today is uh. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to hold him up too much, and he's
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Speaker 1: fired up. He's gonna be great laughs and already give
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Speaker 1: us a great personality in conversation this morning. So before
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Speaker 1: and peean up when you give us the honest. So
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Speaker 1: who we got this morning? We are blessed with a
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, one of the greatest running backs of
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Speaker 1: all time, mister Tony Dorset. Welcome to the pod. So
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Speaker 1: I think you want to dress? I want to. I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to bring this up early, but we gotta
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Speaker 1: dressed the elephant in the room, all right. So, mister Tony, So,
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Speaker 1: I've grown up knowing you so much and revered you
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Speaker 1: in high, high regards because my mom, all right, my
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Speaker 1: mom and dad have been married forty some years, raised
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Speaker 1: me my love my mom and death. But she has
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Speaker 1: always told me since I was a little kid, and
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Speaker 1: I hope I embarrass you right here. It's two guys.
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Speaker 1: She would leave my dad for number one Kareem Abdul
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Speaker 1: at your bar and number two Tony Dorset. So now
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Speaker 1: getting to meet you finally, it isn't honor you are
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Speaker 1: the man, y'all. Y'all, y'all kind of looking like look
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Speaker 1: y'all got to say it's ever hair. Yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying you just got to bed. I'm not,
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Speaker 1: but it is. It's an awesome day. It is awesome
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Speaker 1: to try to put that out here. You say, I
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Speaker 1: got to meet you. So I'm gonna tell my mom
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Speaker 1: lay oh like and she'll be like, did you take
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Speaker 1: a picture to get something sign? I'm like, I don't
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Speaker 1: love why, but it's good. It's great. It's great to
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Speaker 1: meet your great ham. You're all of famer and you've
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Speaker 1: been retired for a while, and this podcast is really
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Speaker 1: about former players, kind of their second acts and kind
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Speaker 1: of what they're doing right now. So you've been retired
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Speaker 1: for a minute. Can I ask what have you been
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Speaker 1: up to lately kind of since the retirement. Take care
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Speaker 1: of my grandchildren? Okay, I'm doing mother boys. I got
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Speaker 1: my son has as a little boy, and my daughter
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Speaker 1: has a little boy okay, okay, and one of them Hawk,
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Speaker 1: My nickname is Hawk okay. And my son's name his
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Speaker 1: his his boy hockey and name and so uh, I
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Speaker 1: go with him and you know, he sports and I
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Speaker 1: try to keep him the curious and doing what and
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Speaker 1: do all these things. And then my daughter has a
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Speaker 1: little Drew. Drew is my middle name, so little little
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Speaker 1: Drew's baby, Drew, he's Drew's baby. He's one years old.
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Speaker 1: But but he just man, I just I have I
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Speaker 1: have so much joy. But those boys come around me. Man,
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Speaker 1: I just I feel like a little kid and I
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Speaker 1: just grew out and play with and hell good. So
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Speaker 1: this kind of makes you feel good though, like that
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Speaker 1: you know your kids, they they took your name and
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Speaker 1: they naming their kids out do like that legacy kind
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Speaker 1: of still right right carries on. Man, it's a good feeling,
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Speaker 1: you know. And it's and it's like, you know, with
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Speaker 1: my son decided to do this, you know name the
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Speaker 1: name is Hockey, and I'm like, why what you're doing?
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Speaker 1: Then you come around but heah, man get Hockey. Man.
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Speaker 1: He's just he's just a wonderful kid. I mean he's
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Speaker 1: good with school and all that stuff. And and my
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Speaker 1: my other grand should I mean Drew baby, Threw I
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Speaker 1: called it Drew baby, and he's just Papa, Papa, Papa.
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Speaker 1: He just loved me. Man, I just love it. I
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Speaker 1: just love with my grandchild. I think there's no greater
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Speaker 1: love than a grandparent with a grandchild. And I see
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Speaker 1: that with my parents. My parents are watching my kids
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Speaker 1: and I'm here right now with my wife, and it's
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Speaker 1: really funny because my dad was so hard on me,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I see him rolling on
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Speaker 1: the ground with my kids. I'm like, you never rolled
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Speaker 1: on the ground with me. Never, not one time. I
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Speaker 1: see my mom throw a football with my daughter and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I've known you my whole life. You've
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Speaker 1: never throw me a path like never? Never? One time?
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Speaker 1: Did you? Did you do these things for grandkids? Oh? Yeah, baby,
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Speaker 1: know what she did? And then missing? They're missing you.
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Speaker 1: You know he's missing. You didn't get a chance to
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Speaker 1: do it with you, But now they can do it
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Speaker 1: with they grandchild. You don't want to make sure they
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Speaker 1: get that point being before things changed for them. But
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Speaker 1: let's let's say that's a great thing, man, I tell you.
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Speaker 1: But then what a good thing about it all? Le
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Speaker 1: send them all? Yeah that's yeah, that's that's what my
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Speaker 1: dad said. So I don't know if you would watched
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Speaker 1: the honor show here today, They just inducted the newest
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Speaker 1: members of the INFA Hall of Fame. Um, what did
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Speaker 1: you think about the class? They inducted? U Zach Thomas,
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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Ware andree Reevers Jodelnde Barber, Joe Joe Thomas. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a good class of players,
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Speaker 1: done well for themselves and years if they've played. I'm
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Speaker 1: not really familiar with them a whole lot of the
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Speaker 1: guys because you know, when when I moved away from football,
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Speaker 1: I kin moved away. They should that then. But I
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Speaker 1: still love the game. I love watching guys play. I
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Speaker 1: love them. Now do you go to the ceremony that
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Speaker 1: they have in canon every year or so often? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: You get it, man, I love putting on that, you
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Speaker 1: know jacket. That was gonna be the question. So how
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Speaker 1: often do you wear your gold jacket? Like, do you
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Speaker 1: ever just catch yourself in the morning, get me some
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Speaker 1: coffee and I'm just gonna go ahead, just put on
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Speaker 1: this thing and just got to sit here and watch
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Speaker 1: some TV yourself. You have, don't wear it out, man,
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Speaker 1: it's the household. Oh yeah, I see it, because that
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Speaker 1: is awesome, you know, jacket man, gonna go very well
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Speaker 1: with me, the cool man. Have you ever still anything
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Speaker 1: on the coach? How many goldso you get? Give you
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Speaker 1: You'll give you one if you if you that's a
6:38
Speaker 1: great question. If you you want to get what you
6:40
Speaker 1: get the one coach, but they will duplicate one before
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Speaker 1: you get if something happens to the one that you
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Speaker 1: have got you all right, So so give me a
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Speaker 1: story of what happened to the first time you messed
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Speaker 1: up your jacket probably scared you, or the first time
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Speaker 1: you try to stain on it or something. Oh I
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Speaker 1: got real man, I was. I was like one of
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Speaker 1: those things. I want fight realism on my jacket, you know,
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Speaker 1: because because I'm like, man, I didn't have a dream.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even know about the Hall of Fame. But
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Speaker 1: I the kid growing up. Man, I was like, oh man,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, you mess up my jacket? Man? You
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Speaker 1: may go boy, yeah, man, But it's it's intergreating for
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Speaker 1: guys to be involved. So one group of guys, you know,
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Speaker 1: one one guy in particular, who, as I've read and
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Speaker 1: read more about you and you have the special relationships
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Speaker 1: are over him and yeah, I know that's you. Guys.
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Speaker 1: He claims you as one of his heroes, his football
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Speaker 1: hero specifically. Could you maybe give us a little bit
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Speaker 1: of insight on how that relationship for him, because it's
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Speaker 1: not like nowadays where guys have social media, so they're
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Speaker 1: friends and they get recruited all together. How did that
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Speaker 1: relationship for him? And then how did that relationship grow
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Speaker 1: from there? But I think about it is h I've
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Speaker 1: always wound to be a bigger run. I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be a beaten back man. And and when Earl came,
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Speaker 1: because you know, obviously you go before the year Jimber,
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I wanted to wear all that cop I
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Speaker 1: didn't see CC, but I seen Earl. Man. I used
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Speaker 1: to watch you play against the Stews. And I grew
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Speaker 1: up in Pittsburgh area, Yeah, and the still curtain. Man
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Speaker 1: was just I was just unbelievable. And Earl was just
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Speaker 1: like I was like, man, how is it run through
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Speaker 1: these guys like this? How does he do with this?
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Speaker 1: I said, tell her? I said Earth. I said, I see,
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Speaker 1: let's say Earth. And why don't you that one guy
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Speaker 1: tackled you sometimes? I said, man, I know you think
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Speaker 1: this is gonna last? Man, I said, Man, you that
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Speaker 1: like King Colin out there just guys everything. But man,
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Speaker 1: that's it's a great gather. So let's talk about you
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Speaker 1: grew up in the still curtain, are right? You're from
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Speaker 1: you from Pennsylvania and uh, hope on pronounces right, Aliquippa.
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Speaker 1: That's it, quick the quick, So I did it? Ain't
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Speaker 1: like eight thousand people. It's a super right, super small town.
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Speaker 1: Y'all got some dolls that coming out of all equippent.
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Speaker 1: So is yourself your nephew that I didn't know, tyle long?
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Speaker 1: And then you got the real reeves all in the
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Speaker 1: excuse me, all in the hall of fame. My dick
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Speaker 1: is round. We got four. Y'all got four. Y'all got
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Speaker 1: four Hall of Famers in the town of like eight thousands. Yeah, yeah, small,
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Speaker 1: drive right through it, like through you go. What is that?
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Speaker 1: You got one red lay? Oh my? How much pride
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Speaker 1: do you guys taking that knowing that you guys have
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Speaker 1: four gold jackets. We town, we don't even have that
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Speaker 1: many people that's made through the NFL. Yeah, you've got
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Speaker 1: even closer. How do you how much pride are you
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Speaker 1: taking that knowing that your hometown has produced four Golden Helpers.
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Speaker 1: It's it's the whole county. I like to see it.
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Speaker 1: You know, we put we played there and uh what
10:03
Speaker 1: what what be the country? Be the county? And you
10:06
Speaker 1: know we had a lot of great athletes, not just
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Speaker 1: in football, but basketball, baseball, wrestling, all of it, you know,
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Speaker 1: and we took a lot of pride and from the
10:14
Speaker 1: fact that saying, yeah, you know everybody's talking about what
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Speaker 1: this is what football country? This is that, and this
10:19
Speaker 1: is that, And when you come to out of the fotball, man,
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Speaker 1: it's a steel medal. Yeah usually Still you know, man,
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Speaker 1: you see still you know it's it's nothing like that, Like,
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Speaker 1: I mean, how do you guys come out? How do
10:30
Speaker 1: you think all this many football players out here? But
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Speaker 1: what it's not. You don't have a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: football fields, you don't have a whole lot of students
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Speaker 1: and stuff going into school. But you know, it was
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Speaker 1: just guy just took a lot of pride in themselves
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Speaker 1: and we we usul wished to always say, man, you
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Speaker 1: know we we can stand up against anybody. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: clearly clearly famous. Yeah, nobody else can say that. So
10:54
Speaker 1: I want to know this one more thing too, is uh,
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Speaker 1: I know the game has changed. Football is not what
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Speaker 1: it was when you were playing, nor was it when
11:02
Speaker 1: we were playing not too long ago. And the product
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Speaker 1: of football now do you still enjoy watching it? How
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Speaker 1: what is your love factor on the scale or so
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Speaker 1: whatever that is a football I'm a football guy. I
11:16
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's kind of been pempered. Seems like man,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's like, you know, it's like man begging
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Speaker 1: the days. Man. I was like, man, the way the
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Speaker 1: boys was hitting people, yeah, and doing things that they do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but there's a lot of talent out there,
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Speaker 1: but they just and it probably made it a little more,
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Speaker 1: I say, say for the guys, you know, because we
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Speaker 1: came back or they would hit you and they would
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Speaker 1: keep on hitting. You were talking about your grandson loving
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Speaker 1: sports and seven on seven has been a really big
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Speaker 1: push to like kind of take the ease off of
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Speaker 1: the contact with sports and football. Would you encourage your
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Speaker 1: grandson to go to play football or want to do
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Speaker 1: seven on seven instead of playing football with pads? Early? Man,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't debate all the time at all, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing I know, you know, I wanted them to play
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Speaker 1: the game that we played, and that's the way I
12:10
Speaker 1: can only visualize football. We played. Football is physical, aggressive,
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Speaker 1: you know, I want to see that. I don't want
12:17
Speaker 1: to take that away from it. You know, I think
12:19
Speaker 1: they've done a good job with the referee, but they
12:23
Speaker 1: took a lot of some of the dirtiness. You want
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Speaker 1: to say, yeah, and it made it safer. And I
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Speaker 1: think the game's contact. Man, you want to play people football,
12:32
Speaker 1: you gotta you have to take a little contact. Dukes
12:39
Speaker 1: later first African American named to the College Football Paul
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Speaker 1: of Fame. As we continue to celebrate Black History Month
12:48
Speaker 1: across the league, we share the accomplishments of the past,
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Speaker 1: and President Dukes later overcame racial bias to earn selections
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Speaker 1: to both the college and Pro football hauls of Fame.
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Speaker 1: The tackle from Iowa was a three time All Big
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Speaker 1: Ten selection and All American and the first African American
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Speaker 1: named to the College Football Hall of Fame. In the
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Speaker 1: Pro rings, Slater was a five time first team All Pro.
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Speaker 1: Only the errors prevented discrimination checked him from being named
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Speaker 1: to the NFL's All Decade Team of the nineteen twenties. However,
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Speaker 1: he would earn his due in twenty twenty when he
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Speaker 1: was named to the centennial class of the Pro Football
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So, Rome, we saw you with Earl
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Speaker 1: Earl Campbell. You're saying you were making your way through
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Speaker 1: radio row. I looked on. I was gonna answer, I've
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Speaker 1: seen you before. I know your size, your frame, little guy.
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Speaker 1: I did not know that I was man, not as
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Speaker 1: big as I thought. I thought it was so much
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Speaker 1: bigger there. Everybody, even when I when I was playing,
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Speaker 1: when they would see me in the off season, they're
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Speaker 1: like my jumping man, they didn't know I was as
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Speaker 1: small as I was. But what I did was see
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Speaker 1: I said, I had extra large shoulder pads. I had
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Speaker 1: girdle pads, have real pass, have large stop pass. I
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Speaker 1: had four months in my knee, pass my food bed,
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Speaker 1: run springs. Just as we tell we played, we get
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Speaker 1: a playa man. You know, ugly this chest. I said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: what I don't give it. There, ain't remit over there
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Speaker 1: trying to take me out of this. I said, I
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Speaker 1: got to pass it up. Bro. I mean you feel
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Speaker 1: like it means you think it slowed you down to
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Speaker 1: having all that extra of course, when you're scared, when
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Speaker 1: you running scared, hey there, you much don't show you down.
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Speaker 1: So so talking about not stowing you down number one,
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Speaker 1: Just what you just said, I mean, it's amazing that
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Speaker 1: a fullback tails a running back. Bro. You dressed ugly.
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Speaker 1: I got that. Everybody just stood on that. I'm just
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Speaker 1: saying about me, y'all said, my star was black. It
15:21
Speaker 1: was terrible. We had a big biotic elbow braid you
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Speaker 1: know it snack. Guess what I didn't get a damn yeah,
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Speaker 1: you give a damn home. And like, I know, if
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Speaker 1: you know that actually didn't slow you down? Of course,
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Speaker 1: not tell me about this. How does it feel your
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Speaker 1: record ninety nine yard run? It can never be broken,
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Speaker 1: It can only be tied, which you has been tied before.
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Speaker 1: And I watched your highlight and I watched the run
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Speaker 1: number one? Is that your favorite run of all time?
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Speaker 1: And how much credit do you give your wide receiver
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Speaker 1: that was that Drew forgetting that blocked down there? And
15:53
Speaker 1: kind of said it for you? Or did you? I
15:54
Speaker 1: ain't really need him because he really did he be
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Speaker 1: really didn't touch you, right. I used to tell about
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Speaker 1: why receivers. I said, look, you don't have to knock
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Speaker 1: him down. Get in the way and I'll do the rest.
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Speaker 1: I'll make him. I'll make him get wait why I
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Speaker 1: want him to be and you can get in his
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Speaker 1: weight and then it's old, you know. But Drew and
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Speaker 1: drew every long run that I have, Drew Pierson was
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Speaker 1: part of it. He was always one one of the
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Speaker 1: guys that's just getting in the way. I just get
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Speaker 1: it in a way, bro, I'm going from there. And
16:28
Speaker 1: that play, it was just a simple die player. You
16:30
Speaker 1: don't have to tell about the specifics of the play.
16:32
Speaker 1: But it wasn't a fantasy play. Call now and we
16:36
Speaker 1: you know, we only ten minute on the field. I
16:39
Speaker 1: didn't know that either. I don't something if if, if
16:45
Speaker 1: we had never met on the field, it would have
16:47
Speaker 1: been our full back Ron Springs running the play. And
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Speaker 1: I just always did run. You think you could win
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Speaker 1: ninety nine yards? Man, come on back, give it the carture. Man.
16:57
Speaker 1: You know you couldn't run that in that So he
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Speaker 1: turns to you don't want to He knew he wasn't in.
17:01
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you knew he wasn't there, right, So well,
17:03
Speaker 1: y'all didn't want to call like a tom, but I
17:05
Speaker 1: think it was he was the one that muff the
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Speaker 1: kick off, right, the one east, y'all whatever, And so
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Speaker 1: he ran off the field. And then when he heard
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Speaker 1: the play. I heard the play. I heard the play
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Speaker 1: being called, so we could run that with single back
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Speaker 1: fromish or I formix right, So Roll thought he heard
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Speaker 1: single back formation was jayhawk is the formation we called.
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Speaker 1: And so he stayed on the sideline and all the
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Speaker 1: guys are telling them. I said, get out. Think you
17:39
Speaker 1: gotta run the play. You gotta run the play. A
17:41
Speaker 1: Rollin's response to all that was like, man, you gotta
17:45
Speaker 1: be crazy. He said, if I run out on that
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Speaker 1: field and we get a punality on the one each other,
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Speaker 1: he said, Tom, now you go. Couldn't be right spot
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Speaker 1: as he said. You know, he said he had to
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Speaker 1: And I didn't know what they said that. I thought
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Speaker 1: you had to have. You never met on the field,
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Speaker 1: so he had he had to wear with all to
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Speaker 1: understand that we can un play with ten. He said,
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Speaker 1: don't matter, and I was saying, okay, man, I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you did. I thought you would have got a five
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Speaker 1: fold ten. I didn't know that. No, you can't play
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Speaker 1: with ten. You just can't play with twelve. I think
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Speaker 1: that that's the rule. You can play with ten now.
18:20
Speaker 1: Now one thing I think is a little bit special. Um, well,
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Speaker 1: I know it's special, and I didn't know it was
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Speaker 1: such a stat And that's your um your heisman to
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Speaker 1: haul community and or break rivers on your shirt right now?
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Speaker 1: Eight stage and uh could you tell me what's the
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Speaker 1: and um, what's been the most important thing for you
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Speaker 1: to make sure you stick around the game. You're around it,
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Speaker 1: and you also have this around amongst all these legends,
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Speaker 1: a small group of legends inside of all these grades,
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Speaker 1: with these uh the guys that have won a Heisman
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Speaker 1: and are in the Hall of Fame. It's ten of
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Speaker 1: you guys total throughout all of the football grades. It
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Speaker 1: is amazing here. How does that make you feel? Could
19:01
Speaker 1: you just break all this down? And you're talking about
19:03
Speaker 1: earlier likely? Yeah, yeah, you know you keep saying you
19:08
Speaker 1: see said the word it makes you feel great. I say,
19:11
Speaker 1: I would like all the great players, gel says George
19:15
Speaker 1: Jim Brown. You can go all and on and on
19:17
Speaker 1: and on about all these great players, man, quarterbacks, you
19:21
Speaker 1: running backs, most most running backs, and it's like I'm like, wow,
19:26
Speaker 1: that's all I said, all these big players. But I mean, sweetness,
19:31
Speaker 1: well the pain come on, didn't get a high? Yeah,
19:35
Speaker 1: just like I would saying. Now right there, I say, man, God,
19:39
Speaker 1: I said, when you when you look at it, when
19:41
Speaker 1: you think about it, you said, damn, you know because
19:45
Speaker 1: you did sometimes especially Yeah. Yeah, so you guys are
19:49
Speaker 1: doing a perfect ten documentary and it's through the NFL
19:53
Speaker 1: Films production about you ten guys who have won the
19:58
Speaker 1: Heisman and all show in the Hall of Fame. Now,
20:02
Speaker 1: um it airs you out the month of February on
20:05
Speaker 1: the FS one. We're gonna make sure everybody tunes in
20:07
Speaker 1: for that support these great gentlemen who have been stewards
20:09
Speaker 1: of the game that we've all grown up watching and
20:12
Speaker 1: just don't know how legendary they are until they get
20:16
Speaker 1: into this uh special community that you guys are. You
20:18
Speaker 1: know this it caught me. It's kind of chocolate. You know,
20:23
Speaker 1: It's like it made me feel a little good because
20:26
Speaker 1: everything everybody when I was playing, you know, they're like, man,
20:30
Speaker 1: you chose small man. You know how you do this?
20:31
Speaker 1: I say? I said, man, I said, look then, piece
20:35
Speaker 1: of leather, well put together. Don't you worry about you
20:37
Speaker 1: just try to cutch tied. We all put saying it again,
20:43
Speaker 1: pive this piece of leather we all put together, We
20:46
Speaker 1: all put together. Yeah, that's that's you know, he said
20:49
Speaker 1: that a lot of guys that oh yeah, you know,
20:52
Speaker 1: he said. I said, Okay, see, I'll see you. I'll
20:57
Speaker 1: see you next time. Let's see, let's see what you're
20:59
Speaker 1: gonna do the questions We'd like to ask a lot
21:01
Speaker 1: of the guests I come on the show, is if
21:03
Speaker 1: there was a mount Rushmore of people that have had
21:08
Speaker 1: influence or mentor or just some positive output on your life,
21:14
Speaker 1: who would those people be? We we we we We've
21:16
Speaker 1: done our a few times. If you had to pick
21:18
Speaker 1: your mount rushmore or four people, who would those four
21:22
Speaker 1: people be? Four older Ruthers? There was there was, There
21:28
Speaker 1: was Melvin was earnest. There was Tyrone, who was the
21:32
Speaker 1: one that that I was. I was old enough at
21:35
Speaker 1: time to see him put it. And there was keying.
21:38
Speaker 1: And the thing is I always wanted to be like
21:42
Speaker 1: my brothers. My brothers were exceptional athletes in high school.
21:47
Speaker 1: None of them went off to college. But and that
21:51
Speaker 1: was one thing they all pitched then and say you're
21:54
Speaker 1: not gonna make this mist people. You're going to college, right,
21:56
Speaker 1: you know. But they wented too with jan had to
21:58
Speaker 1: steal meld in the area. And I was like, man, wow,
22:03
Speaker 1: but I seen my brothers, man, my mother. So the
22:06
Speaker 1: original TV as I called him, Tyrone, I had never
22:11
Speaker 1: seen anybody but the ball like you. And you know,
22:13
Speaker 1: I was just trying to be like my brothers. Yea,
22:18
Speaker 1: they motivated and that was the best example you had
22:21
Speaker 1: growing up. It's like, man, I want to just be
22:24
Speaker 1: like them. And you don't know where that will take you.
22:26
Speaker 1: It's amazing when you talk to people about seven goals
22:29
Speaker 1: things like that and you don't know what. You don't know, Jacually, man,
22:32
Speaker 1: and you know, I was like going to college and
22:36
Speaker 1: I'm about to college. All these colleges is coming in
22:39
Speaker 1: recruited me, and I'm like, wow, man, I got it,
22:42
Speaker 1: I got it, I got it. I guess I got
22:44
Speaker 1: what it takes to play at the higher level. And
22:48
Speaker 1: so man, I was I because my brothers, my mom
22:53
Speaker 1: and dad. Man, it was just everybody was just it.
22:56
Speaker 1: It was almost like a party. That's a great feeling.
22:58
Speaker 1: That's gotta be a great feeling. And are you the
23:00
Speaker 1: youngest of I'm the youngest of five boys. I'm the
23:04
Speaker 1: sixth of seven child. I have a younger sister. The
23:06
Speaker 1: first one was the girl. The girl, and we had
23:09
Speaker 1: the five boys. I don't know, y'all. Just house was
23:11
Speaker 1: just a Tornados tam growing up in my burning drive,
23:20
Speaker 1: which is its projects, you know. So we we stayed
23:24
Speaker 1: pretty bus and you're talking about that going down and
23:27
Speaker 1: playing playing as a youngster, we used to go, we
23:29
Speaker 1: used to break going the chants and for you to
23:34
Speaker 1: get into the yeah it's okay, and we put tack
23:41
Speaker 1: on football and people just and that's why they would
23:45
Speaker 1: say man. And that's how they said, man, how you
23:49
Speaker 1: get some quick and how you can do this? And
23:51
Speaker 1: I'm always I was gifted without man. When you played
23:54
Speaker 1: on concrete and we played the street to tackle football
23:58
Speaker 1: and you get hit, you fall on that cur a
24:00
Speaker 1: couple of times. You don't want to hit that curve. Room. Yeah, yeah,
24:09
Speaker 1: so that's that's what got me, got me a golden vic.
24:11
Speaker 1: How many times did you leave some skin on that concrete? Brot?
24:16
Speaker 1: But I put the pretty left. I left pretty together
24:19
Speaker 1: and my younger years once I got into older brother.
24:24
Speaker 1: Once you, like I say, once you follow on that
24:26
Speaker 1: curve your ribs, you figure out the way, you figure
24:30
Speaker 1: something out. Similar story. We played in Chicago, but we
24:33
Speaker 1: played the street and we had cars. So you're throwing
24:36
Speaker 1: you know, you play on one way street down, pass
24:38
Speaker 1: it on. You're just trying not to run into the car.
24:42
Speaker 1: But yeah, it end so well. Yes, well we'll tell me.
24:46
Speaker 1: This is my last question for you man, could you
24:48
Speaker 1: feel the black form? We like to ask all. I
24:50
Speaker 1: guess this as well. Um, my name is Tony Dorset.
24:54
Speaker 1: In my life right now is wonderful. I Uh with
25:01
Speaker 1: my family and my wife and my daughters, my son
25:04
Speaker 1: and my grandsons. Uh, that's what I'm all about. I
25:08
Speaker 1: love my family and being brought up with four older brothers,
25:15
Speaker 1: older sisters, with seven of us and just family family,
25:21
Speaker 1: and that was the thing that motivated me as as
25:24
Speaker 1: a kid. When I was playing ball, I would always
25:28
Speaker 1: look up. The first thing I would do was look
25:31
Speaker 1: up in the stands and see with my mom and dad,
25:35
Speaker 1: we're seeing yeah. And I would always wait to him
25:37
Speaker 1: and I was say, my older brothers were checking me out,
25:41
Speaker 1: you know, and it was like, oh, man, David, David
25:44
Speaker 1: Alfred's critique me. But I wanted that kind of stuff
25:48
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be with my family kind of
25:50
Speaker 1: brought us all together and all that. So that was
25:53
Speaker 1: that was my whole deal. And as a kid, but
25:55
Speaker 1: I never dreamed that I was gonna I don't know
25:59
Speaker 1: the guy man. When I was I went to college.
26:02
Speaker 1: That's one hundred and forty five pounds I did. I
26:05
Speaker 1: wasn't did the dream. Never dreamed that I was going
26:08
Speaker 1: to be a running back in college or even anybody
26:12
Speaker 1: go give me a scholarship, and so man I was.
26:17
Speaker 1: I was blessed. What was thissions did you play? You
26:19
Speaker 1: always play running back? What was you like a receiver
26:21
Speaker 1: or your dd bro? Bro? I was a mean bro
26:27
Speaker 1: I played. I was a defender first. There isn't that bro.
26:31
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. And I and I used to hit. Yeah,
26:35
Speaker 1: I told you they said you though, I said you,
26:38
Speaker 1: you gonna be the worst though, I said, And that's
26:41
Speaker 1: angry I used to do. I used to tell what
26:43
Speaker 1: I was to go out on that field angry. I
26:46
Speaker 1: would people let people know that, Uh, I'm gonna show you.
26:50
Speaker 1: I'll show you what I could do. It's like a
26:51
Speaker 1: hundred forty pound jo I used to I used to
26:56
Speaker 1: I used to make some impact. So its a dB.
26:58
Speaker 1: I gotta have this question because I gotta know how
27:00
Speaker 1: he was hit him back in the day. Dude, were
27:02
Speaker 1: you the guy that all right, I know they see me,
27:04
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna try and light them up or you know,
27:07
Speaker 1: just shodn't get him down. And then when they don't
27:09
Speaker 1: see me, that when my till and all you no bro, no, no, no, no,
27:12
Speaker 1: then they hadn't started. Yeah, it's changed there the offense
27:18
Speaker 1: and run to the other side. They didn't want to
27:20
Speaker 1: see you at all. Man, I was I was a
27:23
Speaker 1: monster back. I was very strong, monster back, monster man.
27:27
Speaker 1: I call him the moster. That's it. They called him. Yeah,
27:30
Speaker 1: the Monster's man. I score out there man monster right
27:34
Speaker 1: and or monster man. And they just try to come
27:39
Speaker 1: back me until they found out saying, ah, man, you
27:41
Speaker 1: got we gotta run. We gotta run on the quay
27:43
Speaker 1: and can't get back that stuff that name. I had
27:47
Speaker 1: that little man syndrome. I was just boling. I couldn't
27:52
Speaker 1: do it. I can't do it, I said, y'all sor
27:55
Speaker 1: And for those that don't know monster back, I know
27:57
Speaker 1: he's talking about it's like a forty six, so it's
27:59
Speaker 1: more like a strong sap or roverback. But whenever the
28:02
Speaker 1: strong side is, you call it, you go send the
28:04
Speaker 1: edge and you read anything coming downhill. Oh man, I
28:08
Speaker 1: did not know. We'm gonna sit down, Tony said, he
28:10
Speaker 1: is the most fired up talking about he has a
28:12
Speaker 1: nice shout out on that is they got talking about
28:15
Speaker 1: all the time, my monster back halls. So I want
28:19
Speaker 1: them to have been coming back to the dark side.
28:21
Speaker 1: Maybe you never should have laughed, so we come to
28:24
Speaker 1: the dark side, all right. Man. Well look mister, it's
28:27
Speaker 1: been a treatment an honor to have you on our show. Man.
28:31
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for blessing us, and I look
28:34
Speaker 1: forward to Hall of Heisman FS one Aaron off through February.
28:38
Speaker 1: Y'all check it out the Man. Thank you to all
28:40
Speaker 1: our listeners out there, Tony Man, appreciate man, I got addressed,
28:44
Speaker 1: elephant in the room. You called me son at one
28:46
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28:50
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