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Now, on with the show. Live from San Francisco, home of Super Bowl XXI. It's the Rich Eisen Show. Earlier on the show. Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
Coming up. Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmett Smith. Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Falk. Enemy Award-winning actor Keegan Michael Key. And now, it's Rich Eyes.
All right, everybody, it is the final day of our three-day residency here in San Francisco, California. The Rich Eisen Show on the Air on Disney Plus, the ESPN app, ESPN Radio, and Sirius XM Channel 80. I am your humble host sitting right here in the downtown southern part of, I guess, this area here in San Francisco. Our first guest is already here. Let's just get right to him.
He is the head coach of Colorado football, a Super Bowl champion, a pro football hall of famer, and a dear friend, one of my favorite humans, Deion Sanders. Yes, sir. Two major observations. Yes, sir. Whoever put that video together.
Yes. Is awesome. They need a race.
Okay. I'm on it. I'm on it. And I'm not going to be obvious and point out why was the black man in the back seat, but why was Del Tufo in the back seat? Thank you, Dion.
I should have been driving the car. There you go. See, that's my guy, man. How would Del Tufo? Come on, man.
That's not right. See? It's not right.
Well, should I have kicked Chris out of the shotgun? Yes. Yes. He's a great guy. I love him.
Okay. But thank you. Either or, you know, I didn't go with Dobbias. I need to take notes. I didn't go with Dobbias.
I need to take notes. I love you, Dion. I love Dion. I accept that. Courtesy of California almonds, everybody.
Amen. Sanders is here. And by the way, I appreciate the bag of California almonds. You look good. You look good on there, too.
It says on-air snack mix. It's my own face is on it. I keep me looking good and feeling good in my prime, California. There it is. Look at them right there.
An on-air snack. Snack mix for me. That means you eat them during there? You can't. Hey, Prime, do you remember the first time you and I were in the Bay Area together?
No, I don't. Remember? Across the way in Oakland, California. NFL Network. Oh, yeah.
Oh, no. He remembers now. Go ahead and tell it. Tell it.
Well, there's many different stories to tell. But tell that one. The false rumor mongerer story or the story of you in the black hole with the fan? The black hole.
Okay, great. All right, so we are in the stands at NFL Network. And where our studio set is right there in the black hole. Right there. I mean, right in the corner.
In it. In the corner. It was like. No, in it. Like right there.
In the corner. And there was one particular patron of the stands who just wanted a piece of view. He just wanted the tension. And I gave it to him.
Well, you took your time. You heard it for an entire two and a half hour pregame show. Took my time. And then halftime hits. And you, I look over at you because I'm hosting and you're one, it's you, our second hour guest, another football coach in Marshall Falk now.
Part of the Dion family in the coaching tree now. We'll talk about that. But we're sitting there mooch. Mooch. And you're just doodling.
You're just moving your arm up and down, drawing something. And you then take that piece of paper, fold it up, and give it to Bardia, our doc B, Bardia Shiraius of Fox Sports, fame now. And you hand it to him to then give to the fan, right? Give to the fan. I wanted to give the fan a gift.
And the fan, who was all over you for half a day, now is suddenly all excited to get something from you. Right. He thought he was getting a gift, a present. And all of a sudden, this fan reads the piece of paper and then starts screaming even worse at Deion Sanders. And I turned to you, I said, What did you write?
Do you remember what you wrote? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would rather you say it. It wasn't a profanity. It wasn't.
No, it was never. You wrote your mama. Mama.
Okay. I wrote a note that said, Yo, mama. And I don't know what happened in his childhood, but that hurt him. It wounded him for the rest of the night. I've never seen a fan go from enraged to happy to even more enraged again.
Yeah, I got what I wanted out of it. That was our first time together in the barrier across the bay, and now here we are in San Francisco. We were together for how many years, man? Over 10. Over 10 years.
Oh, I think it was about 12. 12. Had to be about 12 years. Had to be about 12 to 14. 12 years.
Yeah. And the stories that I tell all the time about how you were so awesome to everybody, and Mariuchi in particular. Oh, I love my Moochie. Because Mooch had just got announced from the Lions, and then he joins us, and then the first Super Bowl is in Detroit. Yeah.
And then Thursday Night Football starts the next year, and you complained about his footwear all season long because his shoes are. Was horrible. He needed an upgrade. He had the coaching like a lot, Mint. Yeah.
Right, and so you then upgraded him and got him.
Some Gucci's for my movies. I got some Gucci's for my moochie. And then the last day, it's Giants at Washington, and all of our doors, we open up our doors to our hotel, and there's a Gucci box at the bottom of the. Yeah, I take care of my guy. He took care of everybody.
We all got Gucci. I had Gucci loafers. I wore them out. I had a hole in them. You guys look good.
We had to look good. We did. I enjoyed those moments immensely. Not only the guys that were on the stage beside us, but guys like that, they'll two-foot. The guys that was working behind the curtains.
Making us look good, man. And the way you treated everybody, I learned that from you and Jim Nance. What you guys taught me about television was unbelievable. Like the way you just moved in the building. Yeah, and so I had all those, and all those Super Bowls that the Patriots were in, now they're back again, huh?
Yeah, unbelievable. Isn't it really? Full circle. Kind of crazy. Yeah.
You know? I like it though. What do you like about that? You know, a guy gets a job, gets a second chance, and he goes and knocks it out of the park as the head coach. Because now I look at it from a different lens.
I used to look at it from a player's lens, now I'm looking at it from a coaching lens.
Okay. And I like it. And I like, what do you want, a coach of the year? Yeah, Brazil won last night. Yeah, it was awesome.
Awesome. Tremendous levels. You know, and so, all right, let's just jump a little bit into your history here. Super Bowl 29 for the 49ers. You woke up that day.
Kid from. From Fort Myers, Florida. Fort Myers. It has finally made it to the Super Bowl. Miami.
From Fort Myers, but we're playing in Miami. You're playing in Miami in Joe Robbie Stadium. How'd you wake up that morning, Deep? Ready? Like, let's get it on.
Let's get it on. That's the thing about. The Super Bowl, you don't really know all the stuff that's going on, that's going on. You know now because we're on the other side of it. Right.
But then you didn't know everything that was going on. You could just remember. on that bus just rocking on the way and looking at all the fans and all the fanfare and all the things that was set up for fun and excitement for for the moment. And you're just looking at all this and you just can't wait to get in there and put it on. And then you intercepted.
Do you remember who you picked off in that game? No, whoever was the quarterback of him. Gail Gilbert. Yeah. Yeah, you picked him off in the red zone.
That's who a quarterback? That's who the quarterback was because Stan Humphreys was already not with it anymore. Oh, he was. They shut him down. No, you knocked him.
You guys knocked him out. Oh, my God. Don't you remember the whole conversation was that your game against the Cowboys in the NFC Championship game was the de facto Super Bowl. And the same way a lot of people were talking about for some reason the Rams and the Seahawks two weeks ago is well, we knew that was the Super Bowl with the Cowboys. And.
Playing in the Super Bowl is really just symmetrics. We know, okay, we're going to go beat this team to life. That's why I want everybody to have a good time that week. Let's party, let's have a great time. Because we're getting ready to kill this team.
We know that, they know it, everybody knows it. Yeah. If even Vegas knew it, everybody knew it. 49-26 was the final. And then the next year, you're on Dallas.
Now you not that I want it to.
Okay. In this city, let me give you this: please. It's a nugget.
Okay. In this city, I'm playing baseball for the Giants. And I forget the name of the hotel, but I didn't get a place. I just. had a hotel suite for my stay, for my tenure.
And I look at The news, ESPN rather. And I see Jerry Jones on camera saying, Prime, have you out there? You gonna be a cowboy. I'm gonna get you. That's it.
I like that. I like that. That was my sentiment. And it happened. But that's when I first saw it.
That's when it first really registered in my spirit. And guess how I found out? That I wasn't gonna be a 49er anymore. I was at a restaurant, I think it was after a day game, baseball here. And I saw this.
This little Caucasian kid in number 21, I said, wow, wow, I guess that's it.
So I called my attorney, Eugene Parker, at the time. Oh, God bless him. I said, So I guess that's not an option anymore.
So that's how I found out that I wasn't going to be a 49er. What do you mean? You looked on. I think it was preseason.
Okay. And I'm watching the game or something. And it was somebody in 21. Oh. For the 49ers.
For the 49ers. Do we want to look that up in preseason? 95, it had to be what, 90, 95? Yeah, 95, 95, 95, yeah, yeah, 95. Yeah.
That's how I found out that wasn't gonna be a 49. And then you call Jerry Jones and say, Make sure. No, no, I called my attorney. And it was funny. You know who we really want to ask every time I see Merton Hanks, Tim McDonnell.
Or Eric Davis, cornerback. That was our secondary, proposal secondary. Yeah. We always want to ask the 49ers What happened? Why didn't you try it?
To come get me. Why didn't you try to keep me? Yeah. Because you'd have been the two two sports star here in candlestick partners.
Well, I don't know. I didn't want to play. I don't want to play baseball here. But I wanted the option to play football, even though I had already computed. The taxes were horrible in California.
You know, I was thinking business as well. Right. And I didn't like that. But that's how I found out. No kidding.
Huh. That is the truth.
Well, it all worked out. It worked out well. You go to the Dallas Cowboys, and you make the Super Bowl again. It worked out well. And in Super Bowl 30 in Sun Devil Stadium, where I don't know, did you shoot Jerry Maguire that day?
Was that a different day? That was a different day. You were a Dallas Cowboys.
Okay. That was a different day. Yeah, because I didn't see Rod Tidddale playing in the Super Bowl. You had a 40 yard 47-yard catch. There it is, right there.
Um in Super Bowl 30 in the first quarter from Shorty Aikman. I didn't see that ball. What do you mean? Never saw it. Like my my vision like when I was running and I looked back because I know Troy's gonna put it out there I never saw it.
I just saw like a little Brown dot coming because it was like light or sun in my eyes. Yeah. And I just timed it perfectly, put my hands up, but I never saw it. And that's how you come up with a 47-yard catch. Yeah, never saw it.
Set us up, put us on the porch for the first touchdown, but never saw it.
Now, let me ask you this question. When you made this catch, first quarter, Super Bowl 30, and you know you're going to be playing defense the rest of the day, were you thinking you were going to Disney World on that spot?
Well, thinking I was going to Disney World. You got Emmett coming up. Yes. Let me tell you something. We were so confident.
And I always say, don't allow my confidence to interfere with your insecurity. We were so confident that I had a meeting with Mike Irvin, Troy Eggman, and Emmett about Disney. I was like, guys, look, they're going to come to us. They usually get 50. We said we want 100, or we're not doing it.
All right? We want 100. I'm trying to conduct business because I know we're going to win. And they're going to come to one of us. We want to go to Disney World.
And we shook on it, you know, and we walked away. And Troy said, You know, Mike is going to shortchange us, right?
Well, I see Emmett over there. Come on up, Amet Smith, right now. You are. He's right here, Prime. Am I lying?
What's that? Am I lying about the meeting? No, no, you're not lying. Did we have a meeting? We had a meeting.
Take a seat. Discussing all those things. And Troy said, you know, Mike. Mike's gonna cut it. He's gonna cut it.
He's gonna cut it twice. He's gonna cut it twice. He's gonna have to cut everybody. We knew that was gonna happen.
Okay. But did you think you were going to Disney World after that? Me personally, after that catcher. No, I didn't. No, I didn't do it enough.
I needed one more big play. But. We had so many guys that were so great. The thing about it, forget the Disney. We know we were going to win.
That was never even an afterthought. Like we knew we're going to win. We knew that they were going to make a mistake and we were going to take advantage of that mistake and we was going to capitalize and it was going to be over. What was it like getting Prime as a teammate that year? Oh man, it was exciting.
It was exciting because you know what kind of player you're getting. I mean I've watched this since my freshman year in high school and college.
So watching Prime at Florida State, knowing what kind of football player he was, cornerback. Pump returner, offensive guy, all of that. Shoot, how can you not be excited to have a threat like that? Because for me as a running back, I need threats. I need threats.
I need Irv on one side, Prime on the other side, and you can put somebody else in the slot, and the defense got to cover all of that. Guess what? That is not an eight-man front you want to see. I mean, you put an eight-man front up there with that, but that's outside. Come on, man.
They're going to eat them alive. They're going to have an MVP day. But we're Rich, we had so much fun, man. Like it wasn't work. It was just fun.
Like you with your brothers, and we flow. Ping pong. He brought ping pong into the locker. Yeah, they used to call me Prime Mee Chin. That's true.
Yeah. I'm not lying. Rich, I'm not laughing. My paddles said primely chint. I had the pedal, the old sandpaper, the old hood pedal with the hood one.
I didn't have the one thicker than the sandwich.
Now they got pedals thicker than the sandwich, you know? Texas toast. I had the old hood. Sandpaper pedal, and it said prime lead chin. And when I hit the ball, My guys that was watching would say, chin.
Chin. Chin. When Chen played, it was a capacity crowd. Watch capacity crowd. Capacity crowd.
We had a ping pong table. We had a ping pong table. We used to have a domino table. Oh, my God. We had everything.
We knew we were going to win. And we had great relationships and we loved one another. And that's how we developed the relationships through those things. It was everything that football didn't have nothing to do with. It was all about the camaraderie off the field, the dominoes, the competing in that area, and laughing and joining.
Oh, my God. Things like that. I had never seen a back work like that. What do you mean? What I mean by that is every carry he got, he spread it to the end zone.
Like it was everything was full speed. Like when they worked out in offseason, not that I was there all day. I was playing baseball.
Okay. That was his way of avoiding offseason workouts. He was in and out before everybody got there. He was in and out. Before everybody even got there.
Like the work ethic of Mike and Troy and that guy was unbelievable, man. Yeah, Mike said the tone for me, I caught Michael working out twice. in the same day. at the facility. He worked out early that morning with us and the team because a lot of us worked out before, we was in and out before 11 o'clock.
I was there probably five early. And so, but Kitchen Irv working at, we all had a running group around 8:30. Yeah. First running group.
So that running group would have 25, 30, 40 people in it.
So that's almost the whole squad. When you think about it, so then I came back later on that afternoon. I don't know why I came back. Irv was up there working out and running again, this time with a weighted vest on.
So I asked Irv, I was like, dude, what you doing? He said, man, I'm trying to get an edge on my opponents. I'm trying to beat Jerry Rice this year. I'm trying to do this. I'm like, okay, so I started figuring out that I needed to do extra stuff too.
Not necessarily at the facility, but I had to do extra stuff. I don't know what these kids do today. I don't know what they do to build camaraderie amongst the team. Everybody got a trainer. Everybody has a trainer.
Everybody got a trainer. Everybody has a different trainer. Nobody ain't working together. We're taking shots at youngsters. No.
We worked at work.
Well, and you're coaching youngsters now. You know exactly what they're probably up to. Everybody has their own individual trainers. They don't spend their offseasons in their home or in their home football where they're getting paid at. They go other places and they get individualized training and individualized workouts and everything else, and they come back and here I go.
Yeah, I go. And you expect to have a buddy? I mean, you expect to have somebody understand you? And for young players, and for young players, that's critical to have that veteran around to show them how it should be done. And in terms of Arabs' workouts, he's just beating Gatorade jugs with belts now, I'm seeing.
My man is passionate about whatever he does. Whatever he does, whatever he does, whatever he does, or wherever he goes, he's passionate. And he's going to give it 100%. Whatever he does. I love my brother, man.
We all do. That's right. That's right. We all do. All right, Prime.
I know you're starting on your media tour for the day here. My almonds. Give me my almonds. Let's go. Gotcha.
Almonds.com. Almonds.com own dash your dash prime. There you go. My health is more important than ever to me, and almonds keeps me right where I need to be. I don't eat a lot of junk.
I'm trying to stay lean and mean. My pants don't have belt loops. You know that. I know this. Yeah, I've been knowing for a while.
So if my pants don't have belt loops, that means I got to stay the same size. You got to draw strings. I got to draw a string. I got to stay the same size. Especially since.
Do you still now go three years in between wearing suits? Like this suit you're wearing it today, and it kills the suit for another year. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Are you still doing that?
Emma can tell you. When we start putting on the suits, we start putting on the suits. And Emmy say, you know what? I gotta go get my suit. Gotta step the game up because now I understand.
And he started putting them on. I mean, two to a game. If you don't, back then, if you didn't have two. If you had two, you can compete. What I mean by a suit on the plane and a suit to the game.
And you know what? I took that to Arizona. Larry Fitzgerald asked me the same question. He said, why you bring two suits to the game? I said, Larry, what did I look like being on the tube, national television, wearing the suit that I wore up here?
What professional person that's gonna sit out there and want me to endorse a product when I wore the same suit yesterday. The same suit yesterday. That's game. That's game. So you NFL, young youngsters, if you don't have 16, you forget it.
And then you get in this game. Today's game, you got to have 36. That's right. Yeah. Because you're soon to be 36.
True. No, exactly. I'll never forget that time when you told me that you wear a suit and it kills it for at least two to three years. I can't wear it. And then you, and then where am I going to get?
Emmett, he reaches into his side pocket, his coat pocket, and pulls out a tag. A cleaner's tag. A cleaner's tag. And in fact, the last time he wore the suit was three years prior. Yeah.
Yeah. I could pull it out for you.
So I'll miss this suit. You want to say this is a kill shot? Because I got to do several media tours today, so I can't wear it again. I don't want to make you late for it. Almonds.com/slash own-your-prime.
Prime. Great. Prime time. I love this man to life. I love you more, bro.
And his kids. And Young Zone, Young. Young Zone. Yeah. Hey, scouts out there, you better watch him.
He's a young running back, and he can go get it. I've been seeing him as a kid. I coach him when he's a shorty. Are you offering him right now? Or what was this?
No, he's done. Oh, he's done.
Okay. He's going in the draft. He's going in the draft this year. Oh, that's right.
Okay. All right. There's no more portal. He's out the portal to the purple lake. I wish he would.
I even tried to reclassify him. He wouldn't let me do it. It's a good father right there. All right, last one. How much NIL money would you have made?
Give me a number. Deion Sanders. You know what? He would have made more. Because he's a running back.
And he would have made more because he's an offensive guy. But you were out there, though. I'd have been comfortable. Ha ha ha ha ha. I'd have been comfortable.
You'd have been comfortable. I'd have been comfortable. Okay. Me and my mom and Nim. Nim.
It's Nim. My mom and Nim? How would that conversation with Bobby Bowden have gone, though? Oh. It wouldn't have happened with Coach Bowden.
Okay. Because he doesn't seem like he was a money guy. It would have happened with someone in finance.
Okay. In the shoe department? Yeah. BAH! God bless you guys.
Good to see you. Deion Sanders, everybody here on the Rich Eisen Show. We'll come back and we'll have a chat with Amit, who crashed our set. Gladly. Thank you so much for being here.
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Bumble. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Emmett Smith here on The Rich Eisen Show. Who's the the running back? That came up to you from a previous generation, complimented you, that you just sat there and were like, oh my goodness.
I could guess who that would be, but I want to hear from you. You know who that would be. There's been a number of different running backs, and I ran into a couple last night. DeAndre Schwift was one of those guys.
Well, that's present day. I'm talking about before your time. Before my time. Hall of Famers, people who you now are in the bus gallery with that came up to you, that you were like, that's pretty cool. And I'm.
When it comes down to Hall of Famer type guys, I mean I mean, Marshall Falk, you talked about Marshall Falk coming in. Marshall and I became real good friends because we were in the same offense. And so. When that offers, what he Started running, he started studying my tape. And so, by him studying the tape, he learned a lot about how I pressed.
The league draw plays, and he just took it to another level. Then you have a Terrell Davis. who I have great admiration for and respect for. Curtis Martin. I've seen him around too.
Yeah, Curtis Martin and I became real good friends throughout his tenure. Jerome Battis is another. What about Jim Brown? Jim Brown. That's a given, bro.
I know. That's the godfather of all running back. When did you first come in contact with him? Um Yeah. I think It was uh probably in the Mid 90s, mid to late 90s.
I know we played together. A round of golf A couple times in Tahoe.
Okay. So walking with the legend. and talking with the legend. For four and a half, five hours of golf was an experience all by itself. Did you take anything from him?
Did he give you a tip, and you're like, okay. I'm gonna use that. The only tip that I got was taking care of my body. Same things that Walter Payton told me. He taught me about Um not only by carrying myself, how to carry myself, but to respect the game, but also respect myself.
And not only that, but then extend that respect to others. and help your community as much as possible because we've been blessed to be in a position to do certain things. but it's also incumbent upon us to extend that knowledge. backwards as well as you know Continue to pursue our own passions. Fitting that Walter Payton would give you that piece of advice, obviously.
Yeah. You know, with the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award won by Bobby Wagner last night, which was a neat moment at the NFL Honors.
Now, you said you don't have the Super Bowl MVP trophy that's out there in your house. The football that you broke Walter Payton's record, is that at least displayed in your house? No kidding. No. It's not.
It's not. I'll tell you what's What is displayed? My sons. Texas A ⁇ M helmet that he wore. That's cool.
on display. because that's where he put it. Mm-hmm. Ha ha ha ha ha. If that's not fatherhood or parenthood wrapped up in one line that just absolutely nails it, he's like, this is for you, Dad?
No, no, it wasn't for me. This is where he just put it. He came home and just had to put it somewhere, and he just put it.
So, what do you think of Super Bowl 60, Ammet? You got a prediction for? Yeah, I do have a prediction, but I think the game itself. Uh I think we're going to see two Well coached teams. I think Mark Webero has done a great job.
with restoring the Patriots. Culture. And they're winning ways. I mean, he brought in the right coaches that are very familiar with the culture.
So, doing that. could could not have done It could have done It did wonders for the whole entire team. Right. Because They got guys who have some bow rings that are leading them now.
So they understand how to prepare, so they can trust. that the information that they're getting is solid. There is no BSing around when it comes down to guys like Vabro and that team.
Some coaches. Talking riddles. That you have to figure out. And they leave options for them to take advantage of whatever mistake that you make so they can remain coachable.
Some coaches don't, they don't sugarcoat nothing. They give you what you need. And they afford you the opportunity to take advantage of it and leverage it the best way that you can. And they don't criticize you for it, they educate you on the decisions that you make. And that's a great place to be in.
And I think what he's doing with the Patriots. It's on spot on. They're going to be ready to play. Because they've had two weeks to stop the run.
So I'm waiting for either a but or that's what I say. And then there's Seattle.
Okay, okay. And then Seattle itself. Because I'm wondering if you take in the Patriots because what you just said. No, I just started with Seattle.
Okay. I just started with the Patriots. And then Seattle, you know, Seattle has that. They have that that that it Factor of aggression, speed from sideline to sideline. They got some cornerbacks that are tall and long, and they cover a lot of ground.
And They are Well built inside out. Built tough up front, defensive front. Built tough up front offensive line. They run the ball very, very effectively and have ran the ball very good throughout the playoff. And so that's the one thing I expect to suffer is the running gag, which puts the pressure on the quarterbacks.
Both of them.
Now Seattle quarterback has to prove himself. and not become shaky. If he doesn't become shaky, Seattle should win this game. If he becomes shaky. Because Drake May is built in the mold of Tom Brady.
Seems to be calm, cool, collected the whole entire time. Never seems to get rattled. and a very effective passer.
So I think the game is going to fall in the hands of those two young quarterbacks. I think the running game is going to suffer. But Seattle's gonna stick with the running game because they are committed. Right. And that part I love.
So you think Seattle will win? I'm going with Seattle.
Okay. Yeah, I went around a long time. No, no, no, no. I gave you my complete analysis of what I see. Man, you nailed it.
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And I guess putting two and two together, you're talking about how Vrabel doesn't talk in riddles. Obviously, that's something that Jimmy Johnson probably never talked in a riddle. Neither does Nick Sabin. And I just heard Jimmy say what he said about Belichick not making it, and he was not. He should have been.
I mean, that is nuts. It is absolutely nuts. I I am I am completely disappointed. Bad. The voting committee.
And I want to know. I want to know the reasons why. I want to know why that person or those people voted no. And There's no excuse for what they did because This man has more Super Bowl rings than anybody in the game. As a coach, head coach as well as a decoordinator.
And have made history twice over. The next closest may be five rings. for one organization, maybe. But outside of that, How can he not be a first ballot hall of family?
Well, I mean, Jimmy said it in plain English many times. The one thing and I agree with him and I agree with you 100%. I just, you know, Jimmy's saying he doesn't want to go back. To canton over it, or something like that.
Now, that is something that's crossing my mind.
Well, I would just say. You are disrespecting The 300 or 400 guys that are in there right now. Right, but you know the folks who run the hall or, you know. They need you back. I know they need me back, but man, I need them to do right.
Mm-hmm. We've done right for a long time. Yes. I had to do right for a long time in order to get there. Yeah.
Why shouldn't they have the same methodology. They need to do right and they need to revamp the whole entire voting process. They need to kick folks out that has nothing to do with the game. They only want to talk about it because they're writers. and they get the chance to be mad at somebody for not sitting down and giving them the answers that they want.
And they hold that against people. They look for ways not to get people in, especially certain people. and they hide behind this or they hide behind that. As if they never wrote a bad article about somebody or misled the public on an article that they wrote about somebody. It happens all the time.
And you don't see their apologies. You don't see them. They get to go on and carry their life the way that they carry their life. They need to be sitting right here answering the tough questions from people like yourself and others. To find out where their head is at.
Well, and I hear you, and all I'm saying is it's not like someone for Roger Craig to look out and see someone like you listening for his speech. But I think it means a lot to him and means a lot to a lot of other people. It does. You know what I mean? I'm not.
That's all I'm saying. You know what I mean? Roger Reagan waited for 30 years. He did. Darren Woodson is waiting too.
So Isaiah Williams is waiting for his name just to be mentioned. And these are Super Bowl champions too. Roger Craig stats have not changed in 30 years. They have not. 30 years.
But yet he goes in. I got a guy that just retired probably 10 years ago, Darren Wistlet. I got a guy that's never been nominated. How can I not have at least two of my offensive linemen? in the Hall of Fame.
I got Larry Allen. May you return. Gary Williams is still alive. Larry Allen has passed on. But Eric Williams deserved his flowers because he had the block of Reggie White, who was on Hall of Famer.
He had the block of Michael Strahan. He had a block others that Guys, Chris Dolman, he had to block those kind of guys that are Hall of Famers. And so I'm sitting back here saying, This is part of our championship team, which was the team of the decade in the 90s. And we just have, not just, we got some good ones. Troy, Michael, myself, Charles Haley.
Prime. We deserve some more. Emmett Smith, I appreciate you coming by here. If I don't end this segment, the people from Narcan will spray me. I'm going to spray you.
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So. While we're on the subject matter of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as you know, a couple weeks ago, ESPN Don Van Netta and Seth Wickersham broke the news that Bill Belichick did not get the requisite amount of votes to be a first ballot Hall of Famer, and that just set off an absolute outrage, and rightfully so. Certainly since we thought that it was motivated by pettiness. And I then King Pettisko?
Well, then I began to read some of the. articles written by some of the writers who admitted they didn't vote for Bill Belichick and saying that the process was part of the reason why, that you have to vote for the regular order, if you will, for all those who still have their original eligibility left, and only five can make it from that group of finalists. And then there's three senior candidates that have been finalists, and that's in a different bucket, along with in the same bucket as the finalists for the senior group is contributor Robert Kraft, and coach this year was Bill Belichick, and you can only vote for three of those guys. And they decided some writers to vote just for the senior candidates. And I'm like, okay, at least I could see that.
Although Robert Kraft is 84, you know, and plus Bill Belichick, how do you look at him on a sheet and not say, that's at least one of my votes, right? And then you heard them say that it could cast a shadow over the current class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame being announced. And I'm obviously biased since I'm part of that presentation. And last night for NFL Honors, out there with Kurt Warner, it was awesome. It was an incredible moment, at least for me personally, that I'm the one who says, Hey, San Francisco, Roger Craig is in, in San Francisco.
It was a great moment. And I learned of who the class was moments before that presentation. Because the way NFL Honors goes, they bring you up about 20 minutes before you go on the stage, and then you go in the back and you read your teleprompter copy so you are. Familiar with it. You're not going out there cold.
And that's as I roll through the monitor of the Canton class, as I roll through it with Kurt Warner going over our copy, that's where I learn who the class is by reading the prompter. And I honestly thought to myself, That's it. Just five guys? That's it. And that was the disappointing part about all this.
is that If you have an opportunity to put somebody in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and you're sitting there and saying the senior candidates are worthy enough to be finalists, I think they should be rubber stamped personally. And if you're certainly not voting for Bill Belichick because you're voting for some other candidates of the five, there must have been a bunch of voters who looked at Kraft, Belichick, and those three. and only voted for one Like you could put three people in the Hall of Fame and you're like...
Now I'm just putting in one. I'm just putting it in two. And one of them's not Bill Belichick. I thought Belichick and certainly Kraft not making it would mean all three, L. C.
Greenwood and Ken Anderson, would make it from the senior committee, and only Roger Craig did. And you could put five guys from the list of finalists in, those who are waiting forever. and you only put in four. Like what was that about? Like what are what are we thinking?
Because there's no question, people like Tori Holt and Reggie Wayne, and I think Eli Manning, but I understand that that's an argument. And people go on and on and on and on and on. There's a spot, it's like you're taking off, a plane's taking off. And there's People in the gate waiting to get on, and you take off with empty seats. Yep, that's a great analogy.
That's the way it is. Like, why would any airline do that? And again, The fact that Roger Craig gets in now after waiting all this time and they're like, yeah, those stats that have been going around for 30 years, now we consider it worthy. And why would you put anyone through that when you can end it for someone like Anquan Bolden or Steve Smith Sr. and just put them in?
But I understand people have standards, and it's all subjective. And I hope it is instead of being objective. And I don't get it. I just thought to myself: there should have been last night on that stage. at the very, very least, eight people represented.
Eight people. Like, that's the max of people that you should put in. Put them in. Like, and if that's a problem with the bust gallery, you know, not having have enough space, then. Get more space.
Build the basement. I don't know. Build a second story. You can do all these things. I just couldn't believe that.
I'm thrilled for Vinitieri, and I'm thrilled for Luke Keekly, and I'm thrilled for Larry Fitzgerald. And obviously, Drew Brees is a no-brainer. But you also could have put in one more from everybody waiting in, and you don't do that, and you could have put in two more. From the list of LC Greenwood, Ken Anderson, Bill Belichick, and Robert Kraft. And you don't.
I don't get it. I just don't understand it. And the best thing about these classes when they go into the Hall of Fame is you sit here and you listen to all those speeches. What's the big deal in listening to two, three more speeches? Two, three more stories, two, three more journeys, finally getting the career capstone that they and their families are waiting for.
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