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Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hord and thanks for downloading The Bengals Booth

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Speaker 2: The Bengals Ring of Honor began in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: with a quartet consisting of three Pro Football Hall of

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Speaker 2: famers Paul Brown, Anthony Munos and Ken Riley, and a

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Speaker 2: fourth player who deserves to be in Canton, Ken Anderson.

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Speaker 2: The following year, Bengals fans selected Willie Anderson and Isaac Curtis,

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Speaker 2: and last year's inductees were Boomer Assiazin and Chad Johnson.

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Speaker 2: The fourth Ring of Honor class was announced today Thursday,

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Speaker 2: July eighteenth, and features Corey Dylon and Tim Crumrae. Dylan

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Speaker 2: was the Bengals' second round pick in nineteen ninety seven

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Speaker 2: and ran for more than one thousand yards in each

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Speaker 2: of his first six seasons. Along the way, he set

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Speaker 2: two NFL records. Corey broke Jim Brown's single game rushing

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Speaker 2: record by a rookie when he ran for two forty

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Speaker 2: six against Tennessee. Three years later, he broke Walter Payton's

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Speaker 2: record for rushing yards in a game when he went

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Speaker 2: for two seventy eight against Denver. While those records have

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Speaker 2: since been broken and are currently held by Adrian Peterson,

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Speaker 2: who had a two hundred and ninety six yard game

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Speaker 2: as a rookie for Minnesota, Dylan still has two of

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Speaker 2: the top seventeen single game rushing marks in league history. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: the team struggled for much of Corey's time in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: and he wasn't always a happy camper, But those squabbles

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Speaker 2: were more than twenty years ago and don't diminish the

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Speaker 2: fact that he is among the greatest players in team history. Corey, Congratulations,

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Speaker 2: I'm being chosen for the Bengals Ring of Honor. How

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Speaker 2: did you get the news and what does this honor mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, I got a personal call from Mike Brown himself

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Speaker 3: and he said, well, Corey, we got some good news

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Speaker 3: for you, and he let me know I was going in.

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Speaker 3: Saw Dude, that was a great day. I was actually

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Speaker 3: scramming around the house. I was just about to go

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Speaker 4: So he left me a message.

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Speaker 3: I called him back, man, and he told me the

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Speaker 4: Man, that was one of those days. You know what.

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Speaker 3: That wasn't great news? Great news? And ay, it was

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Speaker 3: music to my ears. So I was, I was. I

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Speaker 2: You, it is richly deserved. Mike Brown, since you mentioned him,

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Speaker 2: has a very interesting memory of you. He recalls watching

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Speaker 2: the only time that's ever happened to him as long

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Speaker 2: as he's been watching football practices. How would you describe

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Speaker 4: Aggressive?

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Speaker 3: That's how I would call it, man, This is I mean,

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Speaker 3: growing growing up, we played street football religiously. So man,

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Speaker 3: I'm and people got to understand, Man, I got two

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Speaker 3: So in order to play with them, guys, I had

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Speaker 2: We could see opponents that didn't want to tackle you

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Speaker 3: No, I think that was just kind of I am

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Speaker 3: oh man, Like when when the game starts getting late, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm just getting warmed up, so you know, and

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Speaker 3: it's it's all about you know. I had a bag

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Speaker 3: It's kind of pounding ground. And that's what I was

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Speaker 2: Ry. You were voted in by Bengals fans. You are

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Speaker 2: the first running back selected for the Bengals Ring of Honor.

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Speaker 2: There was a period where you weren't sure how Bengals

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Speaker 3: Correct, Correct, I mean I was. I was on my

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Speaker 3: Hyaenus for about a decade, so I just came out

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Speaker 3: my CuPy Old a year ago. So yeah, man, just

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Speaker 3: just on how things ended, you know. I mean, it

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Speaker 3: So and then, you know, for me, just like taking

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Speaker 4: From football for a long long time.

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Speaker 3: You don't you don't know how you gotta be received.

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Speaker 3: So at first, yeah, it was I wrote for them

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Speaker 3: throughout this whole year, I think people kind of warmed

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Speaker 2: I think people understood. Even back then, they may have

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Speaker 2: you had the misfortune of being on some bad teams.

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Speaker 1: It got to you.

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Speaker 2: Are all the old wounds healed.

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Speaker 4: They're done, They're done.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just just alone, I think puts everything the

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Speaker 3: under the bridge, man, And I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 3: these young Bengals go out there and try to win

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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: Ory.

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Speaker 2: You enter the Bengals Ring of Honor with Tim Crumrai,

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Speaker 2: who is the Bengals defensive line coach for your first

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Speaker 2: six seasons in Cincinnati. He was known as a play

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Speaker 2: for many of the things that you were known for. Toughness, physicality, relentlessness.

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Speaker 2: What do you admire and respect about Tim krumright?

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Speaker 4: Everything? Man?

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Speaker 3: Just what you mentioned, man, and I mean me and

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Speaker 3: him done has a lot of lot of deep conversations

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Speaker 3: other than football, man, And he was always someone I respected,

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Speaker 3: always someone who would listen.

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Speaker 4: Just a sound guy. Man.

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Speaker 3: He always gave me good advice man. So other than

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Speaker 3: me and me and Crumwright had an excellent relationship. Bible

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Speaker 3: was there in Cincinnati, Corey.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about few specific moments during your Bengals career

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Speaker 2: beginning in week fourteen of your rookie year. In the

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Speaker 2: first half of that season, you barely got the ball.

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Speaker 2: You had thirty nine carries in your first day games.

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Speaker 2: But on that Thursday night in December, you had thirty

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Speaker 4: Hey, that was just loo.

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Speaker 3: I just felt like I was doing my job. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't know about a force to be wreckoning with.

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Speaker 3: You know what, I was just happy getting getting the

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Speaker 3: I can do. And you know what, it turned into

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Speaker 3: it wasn't easy, but that night we made it seem

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Speaker 4: And I took advantage of it.

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Speaker 2: I went back and watched the game. Se the offensive

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Speaker 4: There try to get it.

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Speaker 3: So as well at that point, everybody knew the situation,

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Speaker 2: So you broke Jim Brown's record that night, and then

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Speaker 2: three years later, you broke the record for most rushing

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Speaker 1: It was an amazing day.

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Speaker 2: It was the first game that the Bengals won at

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Speaker 2: memories of that day?

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Speaker 4: You know what it felt like.

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Speaker 3: I know when you hear when athletes say like in

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It felt like everything was moving slow and I was

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Speaker 3: kind of noticed it early, like, you know, they were

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Speaker 4: And it was working.

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Speaker 3: I mean by the time I cut back, man, the

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Speaker 2: It's one of those accomplishments that actually gets more remarkable

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Speaker 2: You got to seventy eight on only twenty two carries.

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Speaker 2: Corey Dylan is our guest. I am a firm believer

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Speaker 4: It definitely helps the case.

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Speaker 2: We talked about Tim Crumrai, your fellow twenty twenty four

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Speaker 3: Man Ah Man, he said something to me, Man that

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Speaker 4: It drove me, It kept me going. He was like,

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Speaker 3: He said, Corey, it doesn't matter around you when then

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Speaker 4: We used to run a second team together, so too.

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Speaker 3: We kind of got our start at the same time

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Speaker 4: Man. I wish you could have played more with us.

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Speaker 4: I definitely do. Man.

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Speaker 3: I was my rookie year was amazing, and I had

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Speaker 2: And he spoke from experience where the draft was concerned

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Speaker 4: Man, one special.

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Speaker 2: Dude, former teammate number two in the Ring of Honor,

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Speaker 4: And and it's well deserving. Man.

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Speaker 3: He deserves his he deserved his arm his Hall of

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: We were we're in this boat together. Man, we're trying

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Speaker 3: And for a guy to have every box and everything

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Speaker 4: It's disappointed.

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Speaker 3: It's disappointing not seeing him get in there like everybody

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Speaker 3: I believe he's he should have been in there. And

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Speaker 4: For a long long time, just on and.

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Speaker 2: He's been a Hall of Fame finalist the last three years.

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Speaker 2: I think his day is coming, hopefully next year. There

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Speaker 2: and it should be Willie. How hard did Willy work

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Speaker 3: Oh, Man, if it wasn't for will I don't know, man, seriously, seriously, man,

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Man, who knows Man, So I owe him a lot,

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Speaker 3: Oh, Man, I guess said Chad something else? Man, I

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Speaker 3: He's doing him and he's enjoying his life. Man, and

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Speaker 3: that's what it's all about. So Chad, from where he

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00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 3: started to where he's at now, I'm man, unbelievable, one

444
00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 3: remarkable person, hell of a person as everybody knows. And

445
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:07,919
Speaker 3: real cool dude. I mean we always been. We always

446
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 3: been cool, every single one of the us. We always

447
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 3: been cool, even though life took us on our different journeys.

448
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 4: Man.

449
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, man, we all respect

450
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,479
Speaker 3: each other's game and and respect each other as people.

451
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm truly honored. I'm truly honored to be

452
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 3: going in after these guys.

453
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 4: Man. So yeah, man, it's gonna be a great day.

454
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: On the twenty thirty, After seven years in Cincinnati, you

455
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 2: get traded to the Patriots. Your first year with New England,

456
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 2: you set their single season rushing record. You still hold

457
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: that record. You won a super Bowl under Bill Belichick.

458
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 2: What did that season mean? After the tough times that

459
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 2: you would endure it up till then?

460
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 3: Oh man, it was just well, as you know, I

461
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 3: was hurt, so the year before I was hurt.

462
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 4: Man, it was just like.

463
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 3: Me coming back and being healthy and lasting the whole

464
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 3: year was satisfying to me. And then to top it off,

465
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 3: you know what, not knowing what to expect, and I

466
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 3: don't think people know how difficult it is like going

467
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 3: to a team that just won the Super Bowl. The

468
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 3: expectations is super high and you kind of you get

469
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 3: the feel of like you gotta you gotta integrate yourself

470
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 3: in the whole new system and.

471
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 4: And fill it out. Man. Was nothing. There was nothing

472
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 4: easy about that whatsoever.

473
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 3: So you know what, it turned out to be one

474
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 3: hell of a run and you know, actually getting up

475
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,239
Speaker 3: there man, and integrating with them guys and learning their

476
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 3: ways and getting comfortable with the system. And dude, we

477
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 3: went on a run want to run and actually won

478
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. Kind of it mundicated the whole oh

479
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,680
Speaker 3: three year where I was I was hurting and beat down.

480
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 3: I couldn't I couldn't go out there and prove my

481
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 3: point because of injury. So I think that made up

482
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 3: for the year I was hurt.

483
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 4: I let O three go.

484
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 3: I had to let that go. I mean, I was

485
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 3: rewarded and oh for I will take it.

486
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 2: You helped Tom Brady win one of the seven Super Bowls,

487
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: and back then he wasn't the goat as we think

488
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 2: of him now. I mean you were the heart and

489
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 2: soul of the offense of that twenty fourteen Hey.

490
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 4: But nobody will tell you that. No.

491
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 3: You know what we gotta saying, man, just doing doing

492
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: your job, man, And honestly, that's what I That's what

493
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 3: I was doing, man.

494
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 4: It's it's the way they lay it out for you,

495
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 4: is hey.

496
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 3: Man, everybody just worry about doing their job and everything

497
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,719
Speaker 3: to be take care of himself and for the most part.

498
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 3: That's what we all did. But at the end of

499
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 3: the day, we all held each other accountable. So it

500
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 3: worked out to you know what. We fourteen and two

501
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: in the regular season. Then we went on the the

502
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 3: playoff runs against we got you know, super super talented

503
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 3: team with the coachs. We asked them out and then

504
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 3: we was in a heavyweight fight with the Steelers and

505
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: we got past them. They rumped us pretty good in

506
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 3: the regular season, so actually go up the hindsfield and

507
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 3: get some redemption up there with sweet and then you

508
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 3: know what, played a one tough, sound football team in Philly.

509
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: I mean, any red coach team is gonna be good

510
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 3: on both sides, man, and we squeaked one out by

511
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 3: a field goal down in Jacksonville. So you know what,

512
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 3: it brought my whole career, that little six year old

513
00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 3: kid running around visualizing winning a Super Bowl, like every

514
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 3: level I've been through, winning that Super Bowl kind of

515
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 3: took care of all that. Everything I went through, good

516
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 3: and bad. It was in that one moment. One moment

517
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 3: solidified everything for me. So yeah, man, it was it

518
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 3: was It was special. It was a special moment for me.

519
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: For your last game was an AFC Championship game in

520
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven. You retired at thirty two. I'm

521
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 2: sure you could have kept going. Why did you stop then?

522
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 4: Just tired? I was tired, man.

523
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 3: I mean at some point, man, I you know, even

524
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 3: going into that that that last year, I was I

525
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: was even I was contemplating, like, you know what, if

526
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 3: I get through this whole year healthy, man, I'm gonna

527
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: have to start making a decision, because, you know what,

528
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 3: there's more to life than football. So and I mean

529
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 3: like football has consumed majority of my life. I'm like

530
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 3: I hadn't accomplished a lot, and I wish I could

531
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: have went out with another Super Bowl.

532
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 4: Man.

533
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 3: I wish we were so close. Man, we were so close.

534
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure would we would have whooped the Bears

535
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 3: too or whatever whoever they played the coach I think

536
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 3: it was the Bears.

537
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 4: I wish I would have got out of there with

538
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 4: another woman, but it wasn't in my cards.

539
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 6: Man.

540
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 3: I just felt like, you know what, this is the

541
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: best time to step away from me. I mean, keep playing,

542
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 3: keep playing long enough and over overstaying your You're welcome, man,

543
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 3: You're gonna catch your injury.

544
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 4: Man.

545
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 3: So I've been fortunate enough and blessed enough that I

546
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 3: didn't really have no major injuries, and I just thought

547
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 3: it was the right time for me, and time to

548
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 3: go home and be with my young guarters and rebuild yourself,

549
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: you know, you know, find some find something else that

550
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 3: gave you, gave you that passion to want to be great.

551
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, man, And as you can see, it took

552
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 3: me to last year to go.

553
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 4: To come back.

554
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: So I've been okay, man, I've just been trying to

555
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: be normal Corey and try to live my life accordantly

556
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: and man, and they keep my health up good and

557
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 3: things of that nature. Man, So it's been it's been

558
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 3: one hell of a journey. I wouldn't I wouldn't change anything.

559
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: I wouldn't change nothing, nothing about it.

560
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: How closely do you follow the Bengals now? And what

561
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: do you think A Burrow?

562
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: Oh?

563
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 3: Man, dude, thank you, thank you, mister Burrow. I'm gonna

564
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 3: tell you what man, I and I told I told

565
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: some others about this man. That man has literally changed

566
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: the perception of the Bengals by himself. So just for

567
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 3: that man, keep doing you, Joe, seriously, man, he's one

568
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: helbl of quarterback. I believe he will lead to the

569
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 3: Super Bowl soon. So and I can't wait for that day.

570
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 5: Man.

571
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 3: So I love the young man. Want to help a player,

572
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: great competitor, great leader. And you know what, me and me,

573
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 3: me and some of the old teammates. Man, we're sitting back.

574
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 3: We're just we're having fun seeing these young guys go

575
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 3: out there and and and and and put in work.

576
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 4: So it's it's awesome to see.

577
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: What was it like for you to watch Super Bowl

578
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 2: fifty six? Were you screaming at the TV when the

579
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 2: Bengals said took on the Rams?

580
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 5: Oh?

581
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 4: Man, I was.

582
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: It was a nailby I Man, I got anxiety. I

583
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 3: was like, man, come on, let's go, let's go. So

584
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 3: I know the magnitude of winning one, what it would

585
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 3: mean for the for the Bengals, So yeah, man, I was.

586
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 3: I was rooting for them, harm and it was very disappointing.

587
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 3: Comes down to the last play man and in the

588
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: Rams edge of Mountain.

589
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 4: Man.

590
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: So I was heartbroken. But I you what, man, We're

591
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 3: gonna have many more opportunities to get one.

592
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 5: Yeah.

593
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 2: The Bengals all time leading rusher, you have the most

594
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: one hundred yard rushing performances, you have the longest run,

595
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 2: the ninety six yard touchdown run against Detroit. Is there

596
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: anything of all of the accolades that means the most

597
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: to you?

598
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 4: You know what sticks out to me? Man?

599
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 3: And this and this shows the character of the team

600
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 3: and my teammates.

601
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 4: I think.

602
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 3: I think Baltimore was like on a fifty three gang

603
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 3: streak of not allowing one hundred yard rusher. Me and

604
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: the boys went down there and broke that, man, and

605
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: that sticks out to me. Of like, and now, listen,

606
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: in those fifty games the Ravens back then were they, man,

607
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 3: they were tough at they're stingy, they played. They seen

608
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: a lot of great running backs in that fifty game stretch.

609
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: And for us to go actually down into Baltimore work

610
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 3: and go down there, I know we took a loss,

611
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: but hell, for us to go down there, show up,

612
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 3: break they street. That sticks out to me. That that

613
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 3: show's character, you know what I mean? So that sticks out,

614
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 3: that sticks out the most. Yeah, I know, I got

615
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 3: the two forty six and the two seventy eights and

616
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: this and that, I that sticks out more than of

617
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 3: it to me.

618
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 2: Marvin Lewis was the defensive coordinator of those Baltimore teams.

619
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 4: Right right, Oh hey, trust me, I let them know

620
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: what when you got.

621
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure you did.

622
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 4: I let them know. I let them know.

623
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: Your girls were young. I think your your oldest daughter

624
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 2: was just born around the time that you ran for

625
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 2: two seventy eight.

626
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 4: Yeses around three? Okay sound three? Yeah?

627
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: Does this, Honor?

628
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, help you make the case to your

629
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: girls that see, dad was one heck of a player.

630
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, yeah, I'm I tell them all the time,

631
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 3: your dad was pretty good. I know you wasn't that.

632
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 3: I know you wouldn't, I said. I mean, I mean,

633
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 3: I said, you better go check out them highlights. Oh Dad,

634
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do that. So no, I don't they

635
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: they understand the My oldest definitely understand the magnitude of

636
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: getting into this ring, Honor. Not only that, I mean

637
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 3: just just my family, like my brothers and my whole

638
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 3: supporting cast. They they know like, this is this is

639
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: big time, this is this is it man, And you've

640
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 3: been waiting on this, this is what you've been waiting on.

641
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think people will get like you

642
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: don't get it sometimes until you it takes until you retire,

643
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 3: you you start looking back on all the great things

644
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: you did and some things you did wrong and all this,

645
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 3: and you start putting your own career into perspective. Man,

646
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 3: this this is solidifying my legacy and I and I

647
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 3: love it. This is this is this is one step

648
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 3: to getting that getting that that other jacket as well.

649
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 4: So we're all happy.

650
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: Man, That Dylan clan is can't be more happier than

651
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: they are right now.

652
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, I wish my mom was here to see it.

653
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 5: Man.

654
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 3: I know she's looking down and and she's smiling too.

655
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a great It's gonna be a

656
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 3: great day on the twenty thirty.

657
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Corey, this has been great.

658
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time.

659
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 2: Congratulations on this well deserved honner, and we look forward

660
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 2: to seeing you at halftime of that game at pay

661
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: Course Stadium.

662
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 5: Oh.

663
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 4: I will be there. Just indeed, thank you.

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Speaker 2: As I said in that interview, I believe that Corey

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Speaker 2: Dylan belongs in the profile Ball Hall of Fame. He's

666
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Speaker 2: twentieth all time in rushing yards, ranking ahead of several

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Speaker 2: Hall of famers including OJ Simpson, Earl Campbell, Terrell Davis,

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Speaker 2: and Floyd Little. In fact, Corey ran for nearly five

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Speaker 2: thousand more yards than Little. He's a four time Pro bowler,

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Speaker 2: a Super Bowl champion, holds the career rushing record for

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Speaker 2: the Bengals and the single season rushing record for the Patriots. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Corey rubbed some people the wrong way during his playing career,

673
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Speaker 2: but the Hall of Fame shouldn't be a popularity contest.

674
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Speaker 2: The stats don't lie, and Corey's rank with the best

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Speaker 2: running backs to ever play. The Bengals Booth Podcast is

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Speaker 2: healthcare provider of the Bengals. The second player chosen for

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Speaker 2: the Ring of Honor this year as Tim Crumrae. Despite

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Speaker 2: being a first team All American at Wisconsin, Crumrie was

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Speaker 2: not considered to be a top NFL prospect at nose

685
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Speaker 2: tackle because he was six to two and came out

686
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Speaker 2: of college weighing roughly two hundred and fifty pounds. The

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Speaker 2: draft lasted for twelve rounds back in nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 2: and Cincinnati selected Tim in round ten with pick number

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Speaker 2: two seventy six. Overall, he ranks among the greatest late

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Speaker 2: round steals in NFL history. Crumrie was a two time

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Speaker 2: pro bowler who earned first team All Pro honors in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, and the Bengals might have won the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl that year if Tim didn't break his leg

694
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Speaker 2: in four places on the forty nine ers second offensive possession. Remarkably,

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Speaker 2: he was back in time for the season opener the

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Speaker 2: next year, and other than a couple of games with

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Speaker 2: replacement players during the nineteen eighty seven player strike, Crumrie

698
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 2: played in all one hundred and ninety three regular season

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Speaker 2: in playoff games that he could have appeared in in

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Speaker 2: his twelve NFL seasons, Tim, Bengals fans have spoken, they

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Speaker 2: have selected you for the Ring of Honor. What was

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Speaker 2: your reaction when you got the news.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's amazing coming from Mike Brown. I knew it

704
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Speaker 6: was Mike Brown calling right away, but we had little

705
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Speaker 6: trouble getting through. But finally we got through to Mike

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Speaker 6: and he said congratulations, and he's so proud of me

707
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Speaker 6: because his family for a long time. No, but it's

708
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 6: a great honor to be part of this deal, and

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Speaker 6: it's gonna be exciting, get a bunch of family coming in,

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Speaker 6: and it's going to be a great thing for the

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Speaker 6: city and my fans. I think the fans are great.

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Speaker 6: And thank you for once again the fans for doing it.

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Speaker 6: And then basically, thank you very much for the Brown family.

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Speaker 6: They are family to me. We have a lot of

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Speaker 6: history backing over the years, so it's so thank you

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Speaker 6: for them too.

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Speaker 2: Let's turn the clock back to the nineteen eighty three

718
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Speaker 2: NFL Draft, known as maybe the greatest quarterback draft of

719
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Speaker 2: all time, John Lway, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, and others.

720
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Speaker 2: Despite your college football Hall of Fame career at Wisconsin,

721
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Speaker 2: you lasted until round ten. Were you pissed? Were you confused?

722
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Speaker 2: What was going through your mind?

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Speaker 5: All the above?

724
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Speaker 6: Well, it was one of those deals that unfortunately I

725
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 6: was drafting the tenth round, too short, too slow, and

726
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Speaker 6: too late. Well, you can't judge heart and desire, and

727
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Speaker 6: I had to ship on my shoulder from day one

728
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Speaker 6: because I was drafted too late.

729
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Speaker 5: I thought I was going to go a lot earlier.

730
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Speaker 6: But I had some good people that saw me, dickle Bow,

731
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Speaker 6: Paul Brown, those people seen me play before and then

732
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Speaker 6: they picked me late.

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Speaker 5: But the rest is history.

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Speaker 2: I guess the Bengals first round pick that year was

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Speaker 2: Dave Remington, the center out of Nebraska. To this day,

736
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Speaker 2: the Dave Remington Award goes to the best center in

737
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Speaker 2: college football. You famously made his life a living hell

738
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Speaker 2: in that first training camp. What were you out to prove?

739
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Speaker 5: Actually it was the Oklahoma drills.

740
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Speaker 6: It was a tenth round pick, goings against number one,

741
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Speaker 6: and I didn't get a turn, didn't get a turn,

742
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Speaker 6: and then I turned to Jim McClair.

743
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Speaker 5: He hold on cowboy, hold on last one. Dave Vermonton

744
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 5: went up. I went up.

745
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 6: I had a good wrestling move, took him over backwards

746
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 6: and Forrest Greg started yelling to go again, go again.

747
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Speaker 5: Did it three times?

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Speaker 6: So if I made an impact on Dave Evermont to

749
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Speaker 6: the number one pick, I think I had a good

750
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Speaker 6: shot at making a team.

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Speaker 2: Dave Lapham says, you treated every practice like it was

752
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 2: a game. You had no neutral gear. What was your

753
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: thinking where practice was concerned.

754
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Speaker 6: Well, practice was part of the game for me because

755
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 6: I thought if I practice half speed, I'd play half speed.

756
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Speaker 6: It was Friday Temple. I have no Friday Temple. Yeah,

757
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 6: Friday Temple. Leave me in the locker room. No Friday.

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Speaker 5: But that was part of the That was part of

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Speaker 5: the thing.

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Speaker 6: And I want to say one thing before I get

761
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Speaker 6: too far into this about me practicing against Dave Lapham.

762
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 6: All those fine alignment made me a better player by far.

763
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 6: Because play practice against the best you go in a game.

764
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Speaker 5: It's easy.

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Speaker 6: So that one thing I'll make sure I say about

766
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 6: the offensive line I prated against when I play here.

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Speaker 2: How much of your approach came from wrestling and a

768
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Speaker 2: wrestling mentality?

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Speaker 6: Number one, It was easy when you go into wrestling

770
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Speaker 6: matches one on one and I thought, when I lined

771
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Speaker 6: up on an offensive lineman, if I beat him, I'll

772
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Speaker 6: be fine.

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Speaker 5: That's why mentality all the way through.

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00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 6: There's a long lot of stories on how I had

775
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 6: ability to hand placement by pummeling, hit movements, single take,

776
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 6: now on throwing your hip on a double, All those

777
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 6: little things wrestling really made important. I think if any

778
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 6: athlete now, high school, college, whatever it is, has an

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Speaker 6: opportunity to wrestle as a key, as a big edge

780
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 6: in football.

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Speaker 2: You led the team in tackles five times as a noseguard,

782
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 2: which is basically unheard of. The first time was in

783
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Speaker 2: your third season. When did you realize that you could

784
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Speaker 2: dominate at the NFL level.

785
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 6: Well, it was after probably my second or third season.

786
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 6: You have to understand, and I want to make this

787
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,959
Speaker 6: very important. I played nose tackle straight up on the center.

788
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 6: That's two gap. I means eight two A gaps. That's it,

789
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,720
Speaker 6: both sides of centers. The A gap had both gaps.

790
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Speaker 6: For me to have that many tackles, it's unbelievable because

791
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 6: it's the wrestling metality. I beat him, Well, here comes

792
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 6: a double, I flip my hips.

793
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 5: I'm good to go.

794
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 6: But making those tackles, it was game after game, and

795
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Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing is play every snap like

796
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 6: it's last, and you'll have success.

797
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 5: Play every snap like it's your last snap.

798
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Speaker 2: Everything came together for the team in the nineteen eighty

799
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Speaker 2: eight season. You went twelve and four, You advanced to

800
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Speaker 2: Super Bowl twenty three. What are your most vivid memories

801
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 2: of that season?

802
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 6: Well, we were just my wife and I sure we're

803
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 6: having a discussion coming down driving traffic and probably the

804
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 6: best memory is we were in a Boomer's size's basement

805
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 6: and we said we're going to super Bowl. We had

806
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 6: to in factor that everybody's in. There was no I,

807
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 6: it was we. We were all in the same place

808
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 6: and we all wanted to have success and go to

809
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 6: Super Bowl. Boomer was the MVP that year. It was

810
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 6: Boomer's ion in nineteen eighty eight.

811
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 5: He always says, I'm not paying the butt.

812
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: He may be right, sure El's here, she can attest.

813
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 6: No Boomer is on the He said, he he's a

814
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 6: great quarterback. I like playing the Boomer because he's got

815
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 6: the factor. He's a he's a coach's coach, and he's

816
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 6: a players player. I mean, you can talk to him easy.

817
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 6: The funniest thing about it his lockers right next to mine.

818
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 6: I said, well, when the press come around, Boomer's got him,

819
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Speaker 6: I'm gone. So but we have a good relationship now

820
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 6: and stuff like that. But actually him getting the Raguana

821
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 6: is a great honor too. I talked to him before

822
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 6: he went in. I was happy that he got in.

823
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Speaker 2: Also, yeah, he went into the Ring of honor last year.

824
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Speaker 2: What was his leadership like in that nineteen eighty eight season.

825
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Speaker 6: It was fantastic and he was always I mean I

826
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Speaker 6: actually when I was a defensive lineman, I'd always you know,

827
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 6: I would watch the offense, you know, I watched practice

828
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 6: and in the games and stuff. He can't really watch

829
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 6: too much. But actually when they had come off the field,

830
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 6: they're running off the field, running on the field as

831
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 6: a team, as a group. That's that's camaraderie, and that's

832
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 6: how the team is built. And the whole group of

833
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 6: offense and defense and special teams, it was us us,

834
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 6: not I us. And that's important how he build and

835
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Speaker 6: has success.

836
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Speaker 2: So a big part of your legacy is obviously what

837
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 2: happened in that Super Bowl, the broken leg, and your

838
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 2: remarkable recovery after it happened thirty six years later. Do

839
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 2: you think about it, do you dream about it? What

840
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 2: comes to mind when you think back to that unfortunately

841
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 2: gruesome injury.

842
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 5: I mask about it every day, every time, every time

843
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 5: we go to a function. How's your leg? My leg

844
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 5: is just fine. I had some great doctors. Doctor Michael

845
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 5: Welts took care of it. I wanted to.

846
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Speaker 6: I actually saw him last weekend and anyway, but he

847
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 6: did a good job and the surgery and stuff. But

848
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Speaker 6: The key on that was, I should say is in

849
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 6: my mind was the willpower I'm coming back. I didn't

850
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 6: miss a game, even with after I played five or

851
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 6: six years with that nail amount tibia. But the thing

852
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 6: is on that after that injury, you get you get

853
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 6: woken up a little bit. But it was just my

854
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,320
Speaker 6: mindset and mental toughness. Every day when I was in

855
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 6: physical therapy, I'm coming back, I'm coming back. I'm coming back.

856
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 5: There was no doubt.

857
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 6: It wasn't easy. There was days it felt like you

858
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 6: know what, it starts with an S. I can't say it,

859
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 6: but no, that was That's one of the things that

860
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Speaker 6: people now can of recognize me for. But the thing is,

861
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Speaker 6: I want to recognize for the mental toughness.

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Speaker 5: Of my game.

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Speaker 2: I have the ability to use a beep button, so

864
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 2: feel free to use any language you would like. What

865
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 2: was the rehab like following that injury, because as you mentioned,

866
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Speaker 2: you were back for week one.

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Speaker 6: Well, actually I left Cincinnati went back to Claire, Wisconsin,

868
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Speaker 6: and that's where I did my physical slerapy. I started

869
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 6: out there and I was on crutches and one of

870
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 6: the craziest things, and I don't remember every moment of it.

871
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 6: But the craziest one was I walked behind a snowballer

872
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 6: instead of crutch walk behind the snowboard, not flowing snow,

873
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 6: just walking.

874
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 5: Behind it and stimulating that bone. Actually, it's like a.

875
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 6: Deer, a dog. They get hit by a car. They

876
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 6: step in that leg, step on that leg, step in

877
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 6: that leg. I did the same type of thing. Stepped

878
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Speaker 6: down it, step down it, step down it. And that

879
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 6: was the key to stimulating that bone to grow.

880
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 2: You famously refused to take painkillers in the locker room

881
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 2: after it happened. You wouldn't have gone to the hospital

882
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: if they didn't make you go in the fourth quarter

883
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 2: to try to avoid traffic exiting the Super Bowl. Why

884
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 2: was that so important to you?

885
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 6: Well, the most important part was, you know I had

886
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 6: a TV on. Male remember the game, and they said

887
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 6: we have to set it. We're gonna get paid if

888
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 6: we said it.

889
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 5: Well, I remember the game.

890
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 7: He goes, Nope, I said, said it without pain killers.

891
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 7: No pain killers. But what did the old cowboys do?

892
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 7: Bite a bullet the place, I should say, the placement.

893
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 7: I can't give you a ball, Well give me a tall.

894
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 7: Then I got a tall A tall he said it.

895
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 7: He said it and then actually I think it was

896
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 7: just before the third quarter started, mid third quarter says.

897
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 6: We have to the animals. Driver in the paramedics. They

898
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 6: were fantastic, they said, Tim, we're gonna have to get

899
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 6: you out of the locker room for traffic.

900
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 5: We have to eat hopital. But we have a problem.

901
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 6: I was kind of delirious. Still, what's the problem. We

902
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 6: have to go over speed bumps, all right? So the

903
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 6: first speed bump went mmm, man, second.

904
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 5: Bump went, WHOA, give me the drugs? Right, So it

905
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 5: was like he drug me up.

906
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 2: I had enough to so speed bumps. We finally learned

907
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: the thing exactly. I've learned Tim Camerid's weakness. After all

908
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: these years, What if anything do you miss about playing football?

909
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 5: Practice?

910
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: Practice?

911
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 5: I love practice. Practice is fun to me, and it was.

912
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 5: It was fun.

913
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 6: Their games are fun and probably the big The coolest

914
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 6: thing is you know, the super Bowl is the coolest thing.

915
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 6: Get introduced it. That's the coolest thing. Having an accomplishment.

916
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 6: I think, practice and a camaraderie. And it wasn't a

917
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 6: it wasn't a job for me. I had fun doing it.

918
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 5: It wasn't like it was a hardship. You ever go

919
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 5: to Wilmington and come out of the locker room sweating

920
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 5: like a you know what, that's got to be fun.

921
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 5: And I had fun because.

922
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 6: Actually, you know, we had a lot of good, good

923
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 6: camaraderie with my teammates and stuff, you know, and Chris

924
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 6: collins Worth unfortunately Turk sh owners not hearing, but he

925
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 6: was my roommate in college and stuff like this.

926
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 5: But uh, I had fun. I had fun practicing, and

927
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 5: I'd found.

928
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 6: The games and and actually the I would get so

929
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 6: fired up in the games that one time I remember

930
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 6: coming off and I looked at Jim Breach and I.

931
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 5: Said, was the score? He was, You know, no, I

932
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 5: don't cool it. What's the score?

933
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 4: He tell me.

934
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 5: I guess you didn't look up there? No, I'm not

935
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 5: looking up there. So focused on it.

936
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 6: But I miss I missed the games. And I go

937
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 6: to practice here once in a while. But still when

938
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 6: the season comes around, I.

939
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 5: Still get that itch.

940
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 2: Every offensive lineman you ever played with is thinking. Of course,

941
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 2: he said, practice is what he misses. If anybody's going

942
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 2: to say they missed practice, it was CRIMRAI.

943
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 6: That's probably right, because actually there were the guys that

944
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 6: price against Ay Anthony and all the guys Max, they

945
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 6: thought I.

946
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 5: Was crazy because it was hell of practice. Now I

947
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 5: was going wide open.

948
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 6: So and then, actually, the the funny of the stories,

949
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 6: a lot of the dvs go you were painting the butt.

950
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 4: Tim.

951
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 6: We have to watch the film on you running down

952
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 6: to damn field, get the tackle.

953
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 5: You got tackles right, all of a sudden you show up.

954
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 5: I said, Well, I guess I wanted to get there.

955
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: So you played twelve years for the Bengals and retired

956
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 2: at a relatively young age. When did you know that

957
00:49:58,719 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: it was your time to hang them?

958
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 6: Well, I was always a believer in my body, and

959
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 6: my body wasn't working correctly. I lost a step. I

960
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 6: couldn't get that left, but the leg I broke. I

961
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 6: couldn't get that step up. It wasn't coming fire. One fire,

962
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 6: one fire. And I got to the point there I

963
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 6: wasn't doing this stuff I used to do, And I said,

964
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 6: I want to be remembered as the best of the best.

965
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 5: That's why he hung it up.

966
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 2: You got a motorcycle at your retirement game. I know

967
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: that you loved riding your bikes after your playing days.

968
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to that motorcycle.

969
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 6: Well, so actually I got the motorcycle on the field.

970
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 6: The person in nineteen ninety four was I retired. I

971
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 6: had fourst grag one year. I had him come back

972
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 6: and introduce me after one year that he's the most

973
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 6: impact coach I had. So anyway, I got the motorcycle,

974
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 6: drove it off the field into the tunnel and total security. Guy,

975
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 6: We're gonna win the game. Keep it here and I'm

976
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 6: doing a victory lap. What so we want to do

977
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 6: victory or okay, back out?

978
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 2: Why did Forrest make such a big impact on you?

979
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 6: Because when Forrest I had him one year and he

980
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 6: was kind of the I was young, but I watched

981
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 6: him coach and was mannerisms meaning his temperament, my way

982
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 6: or the highway type of deal. And when I ever thought,

983
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 6: I said, I coached on a coach like him, stern

984
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 6: to the point, no, bs, you get this way, we're

985
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 6: not going to work.

986
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 5: And I really respected Forrest Gregg for what he did

987
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 5: to means for his first year.

988
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 2: After living in Colorado for many years, you moved back

989
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati a few years back. Bengals fans are delighted

990
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 2: to see you at various Bengals events. What's it been

991
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 2: like for you to be back around the franchise and

992
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 2: to see the current team led by Joe Burrow.

993
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 6: Well, this is the this is the reason we moved

994
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 6: back is for I could go to the football games

995
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 6: and stuff. I enjoyed the games and watching the games.

996
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 6: And one thing I'm going to say about Joe, he's

997
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 6: a fantastic football player, but he's a factor. He's got it.

998
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 6: He's got it. How did the rest is like, he's

999
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 6: got it. You just see on that mannerisms. I've seen

1000
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 6: a lot of players.

1001
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 5: Now he's got it. So that's so it's said as

1002
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 5: simple as that he's going to be a great player

1003
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 5: for a long time.

1004
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: How quickly did you see it?

1005
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 5: National Championship game? I know if you we get him,

1006
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 5: we're set to go.

1007
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 2: And you knew they were going to get him because

1008
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 2: they had the number one pick. You're in the Wisconsin

1009
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, You're in the College Football Hall of Fame.

1010
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 2: Now you're going to be in the Bengals Ring of Honor.

1011
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 2: How does this honor compare to some of the things

1012
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 2: that you've been honored for in the past.

1013
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 6: It's one of those things that you know, high school

1014
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 6: and college I have a lot of honors and all

1015
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 6: of those and this is kind of just a closure

1016
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 6: for me.

1017
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 5: We have to ring and honor, and there's one other

1018
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 5: thing maybe we'll have someday.

1019
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 2: Canton, one more to go, Tim, As I said at

1020
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 2: the top, Bengals fans have spoken. A few years ago

1021
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 2: the team celebrated its fiftieth season. You were chosen as

1022
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 2: the third greatest player of all time by Bengals fans,

1023
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 2: and they've spoken again, selecting you for the Ring of Honor.

1024
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 2: Congratulations on this well deserved honor, and for being the

1025
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,800
Speaker 2: player that many consider to be the toughest in franchise history.

1026
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 5: Here's the thing everybody asked me about my broken Leagan

1027
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 5: super Bowl twenty three. You can quote this. You can

1028
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 5: break my other leg and put me in the Super

1029
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 5: Bowl again.

1030
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: You would break the other one if you could play

1031
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: in another, break the other one.

1032
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 2: Here's a stat that Pro Football Hall of Fame voters

1033
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 2: need to consider. According to Pro Football Reference, crumbrise oney

1034
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 2: seventeen career tackles are the most ever by an NFL

1035
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 2: defensive tackle, and he did it as a noseguard, taking

1036
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: on double teams on virtually every snap. Here's hoping he'll

1037
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 2: get strong consideration for a goal jacket and canton in

1038
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 2: the near future. But in the meantime, Tim has two

1039
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 2: honors to look forward to this fall. In addition to

1040
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 2: joining the Bengals Ring of Honor, Mondovi High School back

1041
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin is retiring his uniform number. Tim war number

1042
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: forty four back then as a fullback and linebacker. That's

1043
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,800
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