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Speaker 1: We bleed black and gold. This is the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: Audio Network.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Steeler Nation, and welcome inside the UPMC club

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Speaker 2: here at Akersher Stadium for a special broadcast and a

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Speaker 2: special evening here on Steelers Nation Radio on the Steelers

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Speaker 2: Audio Network. Wes Shuler and Rob King with you at

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Hall of Honor Dinner as we have a

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Speaker 2: very special trio of Steelers that will get enshrined, will

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Speaker 2: get immortalized into the Hall of Honor, the Hall of

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Speaker 2: Honor Museum tonight, those three, of course being Joey Porter

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Speaker 2: Senior who ride, Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger and friend of ours

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Speaker 2: from Dublin, Marquise Pouncy, Rob King. This is our second

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Speaker 2: time doing one of these shows here this year. The

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Speaker 2: first time was for the Alumni dinner or part of

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Speaker 2: the anniversary dinner for what has now been twenty year

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Speaker 2: to celebrate that Steeler Super Bowl forty team. Tonight, it's

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Speaker 2: Hall of Honor night and a pretty cool trio of

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Speaker 2: men that are gonna be immortalized as Pittsburgh Steelers forever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's cool that it's Monday night football. You

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Speaker 3: know so many It's such a great football weekend, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean you have the snow right, snow chere. Yes,

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Speaker 3: we had a trunch through some weather here, you had

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Speaker 3: fields like football weather. And you know, we have all

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Speaker 3: the games that happened this weekend and everyone all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden, everybody in Pittsburgh's the Cincinnati Bengals stand.

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Speaker 4: You know, Bengals, let us down. What else is new?

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Speaker 4: They left the city of as well, thanks enough.

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Speaker 3: The Chiefs are out of the playoffs, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: the Bills beat the Patriots in a great game. There's

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Speaker 3: great games going on now. I mean, just so much

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Speaker 3: fun football. And then you get this Haul of Honor.

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Speaker 3: And then tomorrow night, these guys are gonna go out

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Speaker 3: on Acrosher Stadium's field for Monday Night football, crucial game

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Speaker 3: against the Dolphins. They'll be recognized, of course tonight they're

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Speaker 3: Honor dinner. And it's just a phenomenal, fantastic from the

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Speaker 4: In Pittsburgh and be a football fan, and be a

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Speaker 2: Certainly is you could say that most weekends, Kinger, but

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Speaker 2: I think especially this weekend, yeah, specially you got.

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Speaker 4: The snow falling. Christmas is not too far away.

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Speaker 2: Steelers are in first place in the AFC North and

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Speaker 2: a really cool trio for this year's Hall of Honor class.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be joined by potentially by some of those guys,

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Speaker 2: by some of their teammates. We'll see what happens here

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Speaker 2: over the next ninety minutes or so that Rob King

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Speaker 2: and I will be bringing you this broadcast. But we

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Speaker 2: are at Akroscher Stadium in the UPMC club. They got

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Speaker 2: the live band set up across the hall from us,

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Speaker 2: to the nines. Are Bob Labriola was over here a

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Speaker 2: go for this evening where Merril Hodge correct will be

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Speaker 2: mceing the event. So a familiar face, a familiar name

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Speaker 2: being a part of this action as well. And this

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Speaker 2: is really cool, you know, I I typically enjoy these

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Speaker 2: just oozes, that just drips history and Hall of famers

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Speaker 2: But you know, Kinger, I think I said this to

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Speaker 2: you a couple months ago, whenever you and I were

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Speaker 2: doing the dinner for the you know, the radio broadcast

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Speaker 2: that was being honored for their twentieth anniversary. I love

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Speaker 2: it when it's the Me and Joe Greens that are around,

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be thirty five here in February, all right,

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Speaker 2: about two months away from being thirty five. I mean,

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Speaker 2: rooms after the Steelers Divisional round, when they were getting

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Speaker 2: I was a senior in high school Kinger, almost eighteen

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Speaker 2: of course Pouncy, a guy who just revolutionized the position,

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Speaker 2: a couple months ago. Again, these type of things are

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Speaker 2: always cool, but with these guys who you can still

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Speaker 2: our buddy Bob Labriola to come over here and tell

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Speaker 4: Parsons, well, I watch both. There you go. That's right,

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Speaker 4: So you got the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 3: I can identify with most of the generations, Oh, John

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't see those guys play.

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Speaker 3: But you know, the one of the great things about

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Speaker 3: but one of the amazing things about this is, you know,

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Speaker 4: These are all time great players.

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Speaker 3: You know, in other places, you might have three or

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Speaker 4: You know, the Steelers have a long way to go.

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Speaker 3: Before before a guy who gets has been a couple

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Speaker 3: in the seventies and all those championship teams. You know,

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Speaker 3: he said to Marquis Pouncy, you could have played with us, right,

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Speaker 3: And that was the greatest honor.

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Speaker 4: It is in other organizations.

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Speaker 3: I can see somebody thinking to themselves, you know, a

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Speaker 5: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: You know, by the way, that's a that's something Moon

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Speaker 3: He said, man, we were we were smaller, but we

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Speaker 3: and Moon Mullins is in this Hall of honor as well.

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Speaker 3: But you know the fact that it's passed on from

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Speaker 4: And I think that's.

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Speaker 3: Extremely special and probably does not exist in most places.

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Speaker 4: It's special it's rare.

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Speaker 2: It definitely doesn't exist in most places, Kinger, I mean,

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Speaker 2: It's been something that we've all been blessed to be around,

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Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers. We are now joined by one of the

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Speaker 2: Honor tonight, the center Markus Pouncy Pounce. What's up, Maga,

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Speaker 2: first time I've seen you since Dublin. How you doing

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Speaker 2: You still still looking good? We're gonna get the We're

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Speaker 6: I've been an honor man, honestly catching the flight up here,

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Speaker 6: all the time, man, when you play long enough man

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Speaker 6: and go so fast, and when you come back and

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Speaker 6: we did together. Man, it's just a special moment, right.

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Speaker 6: I got my family up here, some of the some

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Speaker 6: to take in, for them to see it, for them

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Speaker 6: to know how hard you got to work to be

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Speaker 5: So it's been a cool thing for us to happen

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Speaker 3: So you know, I just brought up the story I

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Speaker 2: Me, without a doubt, last one for you before we

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think I think the whole Steller nation

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I can't be beyond thankful. This means a

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Speaker 4: Man that is so great to hear, love to hear

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Speaker 4: How about that? How about that Rob? Pretty cool? Have

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Speaker 3: Understandable when you hear people just say how well liked

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Speaker 4: And he just had it. He sure did, He sure did.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we need to we need to talk

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Speaker 2: perfect kind of you know, balance that you could ask for.

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Speaker 5: There.

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Speaker 3: I think as a fan, you know, as a fan,

439
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Speaker 3: you always felt like you were gonna win when he

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Speaker 3: came in and oh, here hear it, boy.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, man, the suits, the suit's amazing.

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Speaker 4: Hey Ben, how are you nice to see you?

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Speaker 3: Oh congratulations Ben, Thank.

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Speaker 5: You very much.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now number seven in your programs,

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Speaker 2: number one in your hearts, signing some footballs and some pasters.

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Speaker 2: As he's putting on the headset here, asking two time

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion and Hall of Honor inductee Benjamin Roethlisberger, Ben,

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Speaker 2: what's happening?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for taking the time, this.

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Speaker 5: Is not him?

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Speaker 4: Good doing man, good good, congratulate, congratulations.

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Speaker 3: What did it mean? How did you get the call?

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Speaker 3: What did it mean to you to go into the

455
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Speaker 3: Steelers Hall of Honor? Mister Rooney called me, Art called me,

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Speaker 3: and we actually I rather call him Dan first, and

457
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Speaker 3: I was like, mistern has my number? Why is he

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Speaker 3: not calling he or take me?

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Speaker 8: But then you know, I got it and I was,

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Speaker 8: you know, he said we want to induction in the

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Speaker 8: Hall of Honor this year, and I was just really

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Speaker 8: obviously honored by that. And I asked him, uh, who

463
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Speaker 8: else was going in this year?

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Speaker 4: Would be cool? And he's like, well, I can't tell you.

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Speaker 8: And I'm like, okay, that's fine, because he was still content,

466
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Speaker 8: and I had this sneaky suspicion that it was like

467
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Speaker 8: a pouncy just because he couldn't tell me. And I'm

468
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Speaker 8: like maybe there's some sort of secret thing going on,

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Speaker 8: but you know, it really means a lot. And and honestly,

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Speaker 8: it's the tradition, the history of the people that are

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Speaker 8: in this already.

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Speaker 4: And then to go in with pounce.

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Speaker 8: I mean, obviously Joey is who Joey is and that's

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Speaker 8: but but to go in with Marky's pouncy is extra special.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very cool.

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Speaker 3: And uh by the way, like Marquis Pouncy bent, you

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Speaker 3: look great, man, you look like your you look like

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Speaker 3: you're in fantastic shape or he did to pick the

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Speaker 3: basketball back up again, not Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 4: Shape to go back you know. Uh no, you look great.

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Speaker 3: To you, you've you've kept yourself in good shape. By

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Speaker 3: the way, the suit, I wish you could see the

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Speaker 3: suit on radio. Look good, shark. And to my wife,

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Speaker 3: listen when you have when you have wife is beautiful

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Speaker 3: as mind. You got a really man, well done, well done.

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Speaker 3: Uh so, what what is that relationship like with Marque's pouncy.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I can't wait, you know, listen to that.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to get past tonight. I can't wait

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Speaker 3: for both of you guys to get into Canton. And

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Speaker 3: that that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: But what is it? What does it mean for you?

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Speaker 3: And I don't want to take any away from Joey,

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Speaker 3: but special relationship, you know, between you and Marquise.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'll give a little sneak peek, so you know,

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Speaker 8: writing a speech. Typically I do a speech, I just

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Speaker 8: do it from the heart. I don't write anything down

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Speaker 8: because I think you got it's got to be special

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Speaker 8: to come from your heart. This time I did because

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Speaker 8: I didn't want to time those ones. You don't forget

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Speaker 8: anybody and you don't want to, you know, do this

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Speaker 8: whole thing. So the only part I haven't written down

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Speaker 8: is Pouncey's because I want I'm gonna say something about

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Speaker 8: Pouncy and I haven't wrote anything down because that part

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Speaker 8: will be from the heart and it'll probably, uh, there'll.

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Speaker 4: Be some I have a feeling sneaky suspicion. There might

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Speaker 4: be some tears.

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Speaker 8: But that's what he meant to me, you know, And

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Speaker 8: that's what he means to me. I mean, he's my brother.

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Speaker 8: Centers and quarterbacks have to have a special relationship. But

510
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Speaker 8: just what it is, you guys, I mean, I'm my

511
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Speaker 8: hands on his butt.

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Speaker 4: Like that's sixty times a day.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's a little weird, but you know, he

514
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Speaker 8: just is a special football player and I was blessed

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Speaker 8: to play with him and to be able to do

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Speaker 8: this with him is just man means so much.

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Speaker 4: Before we let you get back to it.

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Speaker 2: The other guy that you're going in with, Joey Porter Senior,

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Speaker 2: of course, I mean, I think one of the more charismatic, sure, right,

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Speaker 2: one of the more entertaining guys in franchise history. What

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Speaker 2: was it like to come in and I mean he

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Speaker 2: was kind of that guy who would stand up in

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Speaker 2: front of the team, in front of the media.

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Speaker 4: He'd be the voice of the team.

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Speaker 2: He'd kind of take the bullets everything super Bowl Week,

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Speaker 2: you know that the back and forth with Jeremy Stevenson

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Speaker 2: kind of becoming the focal point of that attention. I

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Speaker 2: remember him talking about how he wanted to take the

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Speaker 2: pressure off the rest of his teammates and just have

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Speaker 2: everybody focus on him. What was it like to have

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Speaker 2: a leader like him while you were trying to, you know,

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Speaker 2: get acquainted and make your way in the National Football League?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was intimidating, to say the least.

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Speaker 8: Even though he's on my side. You know, he just you.

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Speaker 8: I mean even like the Browns game, right, I don't

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Speaker 8: mean what year that was, when he gets in the

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Speaker 8: fight pre game, right, it's a door for debot, which

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Speaker 8: is pretty awesome. But yeah, just just all the energy

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Speaker 8: that he would bring every day of practice as a

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Speaker 8: young guy coming in was like, is this what the

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Speaker 8: NFL is about? I mean, I guess I would say

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Speaker 8: he got me ready for ray Lewis. So it's he

543
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Speaker 8: is a heck of a football player, and so just

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Speaker 8: an awesome honor for for all of us to go

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Speaker 8: in together. You know, the one thing I would say, Ben,

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Speaker 8: and this would be the last thing here, because we

547
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Speaker 8: know you got to get going. You know, when I

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Speaker 8: look at your career, I think of a guy who

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Speaker 8: you know, everyone here has been describing you Marquis did.

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Speaker 8: And it's on the video here of having the it factor, right,

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Speaker 8: like you know, it doesn't show up as I mentioned before,

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Speaker 8: he came and doesn't show up in quarterback rating, then

553
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Speaker 8: show up in different ratios.

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Speaker 4: It just shows up in the wins and losses.

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Speaker 3: And I would throw on top of that if when

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Speaker 3: I think of your career, I think of a winner, right,

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Speaker 3: and I think I think everybody would to me that that.

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Speaker 4: Would be a pretty cool description to have.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and you know, and to win a couple

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Speaker 3: of championships and be thought of that way is, you know,

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Speaker 3: by your teammates and my fans, my opponents.

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Speaker 4: I think that's it's a good way to be. That

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Speaker 4: means a lot.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 8: I've always said it wasn't about that, it wasn't about

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Speaker 8: the stats.

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Speaker 4: I didn't, you know.

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Speaker 8: I've had this conversation with my white kids now just

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Speaker 8: just trying to teach them things, is like I would

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Speaker 8: rather have an absolutely horrible game and win than have

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Speaker 8: a great game and lose. I just I can't fathom.

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Speaker 8: I hate to lose, and and it would drive me nuts.

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Speaker 8: And and I think that's why I've said so many times,

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Speaker 8: especially late in my career, it was I wasn't and

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Speaker 8: for right or wrong, better worse, however people want to

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Speaker 8: say about me, I wasn't out here to make friends.

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Speaker 8: Like I felt like, if you wanted a friend, you

578
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Speaker 8: go to the Boys and Girls club. And I'm not

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Speaker 8: trying to win championships, and you know, and that that's

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Speaker 8: what it.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 8: I just wanted to go out and win football games.

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Speaker 8: And that's what meant the most to me, is that

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Speaker 8: at the end of the of the day, people ask

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Speaker 8: me how many touchdowns do you?

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Speaker 4: I truly cannot tell you my stats.

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Speaker 8: I tell you I won two Super Bowls, and I

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Speaker 8: tell you I won a lot more games than I

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Speaker 8: ever lost.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Thank congratulations, BENI thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 4: the time. Enjoy the evening.

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Speaker 2: Two times Super Bowl Champion Hall of Honor inductee Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool, Thanks Ben, Thank you Ben. Are we We're

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Speaker 2: gonna take a break here. Yeah, let's let's let's let's

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Speaker 2: do that real quick. Let's take a break here real quick.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back with more and more guests. More happenings

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Speaker 2: here from the Steelers Hall of Honor dinner, West Huler

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Speaker 2: Rob King on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: Steelers Football happens here the Pittsburgh Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 4: I'm here at the up MC Club.

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Speaker 2: It's our special Steelers Hall of Honor broadcast here on

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Speaker 2: the Steelers Audio Network, and we have another outstanding guest

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Speaker 2: here with us, Rob King. It is former Steelers linebacker

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Speaker 2: Jason Gilden. Jason, thank you for taking the time and

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Speaker 2: thank you for being here with us.

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Speaker 5: Oh, no problem, Thanks for guys for having me.

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Speaker 3: You know, Jason, we were talking to Marquise Pouncy about

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Speaker 3: being part of the unique club of great centers. That's

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Speaker 3: celebrating you know, it's not celebrated in many other places,

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Speaker 3: but the center position is celebrated. The other position I

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Speaker 3: think that is celebrated more perhaps than it is in

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Speaker 3: other places is linebacker, and particularly the rush linebacker. And

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Speaker 3: you were one of the early guys with that, with

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Speaker 3: the Dick lebou scheme, you know, Kevin Green and some

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Speaker 3: other guy. But I mean, what's it like to be,

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Speaker 3: first of all, before we get into the Hall of Honor,

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Speaker 3: a Steelers outside linebacker, you know, pro bowler at three

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Speaker 3: Pro Bowls, one all Pro. To be part of that

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Speaker 3: lineage of a position that's celebrated in this town. It's

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Speaker 3: the expectation is if you were an outside linebacker, edge

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Speaker 3: guy for this year theres you are going to get

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Speaker 3: double digitsacked. And you're one of those guys that laid

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Speaker 3: down that foundation.

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Speaker 9: It's amazing club to be a part of. I think

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Speaker 9: the legacy here at that position speaks for itself. It

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Speaker 9: goes back to even before I got here with you

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Speaker 9: mentioned Kevin Green and Greg Lloyd. Greg, those are the

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Speaker 9: guys who were before me, and then it just it

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Speaker 9: is to continue then up to where we are now

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Speaker 9: with TJ. So it's an amazing club. It's amazing legs

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Speaker 9: to just be a part of.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course one of those guys as well too,

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Speaker 2: getting inducted into the Hall of Honor tonight, former teammate

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Speaker 2: Joey Porter Sr. What do you remember first impressions of

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Speaker 2: when you met him when he first became a Steeler.

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Speaker 9: Well, Joey is one of those guys. To know him,

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Speaker 9: you gotta love him. He's very charismatic, full of energy,

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Speaker 9: and you know, from day one I could tell he

640
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Speaker 9: was just a young guy. He was willing to do

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Speaker 9: whatever it took to get out there and be a

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Speaker 9: part of what we were doing. And that said a lot,

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Speaker 9: you know, because coming here, like you said, playing this

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Speaker 9: position can be intimidated and you got to realize that

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Speaker 9: the expectations are high and you're held to a certain standard.

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Speaker 9: But from day one, he was just willing to do

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Speaker 9: whatever it took to go out there and be a

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Speaker 9: part of it from the beginning. So I applaud him

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Speaker 9: on that, and he's always just been a great teammate

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Speaker 9: as well.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just want to step away from this

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Speaker 3: for a moment and put this as part of this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Like I just couldn't help but think with the snow

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00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 3: and all the important games today and then the Hall

655
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Speaker 3: of Honored tonight. These guys are gonna be honored tomorrow

656
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 3: on first place is back on the line on Monday

657
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: Night football. It's gonna be eighteen degrees to kick off.

658
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: I mean it just what a great weekend, man, and

659
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 3: this is the center of it. For what an awesome

660
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 3: weekend it is.

661
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 9: This turned out to be a real great weekend, like

662
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 9: you said, And I'm walking in I'm thinking, I don't

663
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 9: think it's been this.

664
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 5: Cold here in Pittsburgh in a while.

665
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, And so remind me to have to come in

666
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 9: on a weekend like this and play with so much

667
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 9: on the line. I think it's gonna make for a

668
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 9: great atmosphere and hopefully it makes for a great win

669
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 9: for us in the end.

670
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 5: Yeah.

671
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: When we were flipping ont of the channels, they're like

672
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: one of the coldest days ever in Cincinnati, one of

673
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 3: the coldest days ever in Chicago. Yeah, like every single

674
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 3: place they went to, he was one of the one

675
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 3: of the absolute coldest places.

676
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 4: Uh.

677
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: And I think Pittsburgh's gonna be It's not gonna be

678
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 3: minus four like it was a few years ago against

679
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:08,719
Speaker 3: the Raiders, but it's gonna be.

680
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 4: It's gonna be pretty cold. It's gonna be good football weather.

681
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 4: Should it is exciting.

682
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 3: Did you always feel like there was an advantage when

683
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 3: those teams came up here, whether like this.

684
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 9: Oh, definitely, definitely. And it really played to our hand

685
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 9: whenever we had those teams from warmer climates come in

686
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 9: this time of the year, and uh, we look forward

687
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 9: to it, and you know, we go out and no

688
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 9: sleeves on and those guys all bundled up, and you

689
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 9: know it was just something as part of being this team.

690
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 4: You just fed off of it.

691
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 5: So yeah, we look forward to things like that. Yeah.

692
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 4: Can we ask you what you're up to now? Yes?

693
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 9: Okayes I worked for Jasmine Nrie campus and the strange

694
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 9: thing about it's not strange, but our CEO is actually

695
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 9: Christy Porter, and so working with her and we don't

696
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 9: we don't see we don't see Joey that much. Working

697
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 9: with her is a blast. Uh, she's a great boss

698
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 9: and uh, she really has a warm heart. And uh,

699
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 9: I think when she started this project. I've known Christy

700
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 9: for a long time, and when she started this product,

701
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 9: she asked me and my wife to be a.

702
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 5: Part of it.

703
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 9: And just talking to her and seeing her passion to

704
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 9: serve this community, it meant a lot, and then you know,

705
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 9: I was all on board. But that's what I'm doing now.

706
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 9: I work for Jasmine Marie Campus, a nonprofit here in Pittsburgh.

707
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: One of the great past rushers in student's history, big

708
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 3: part of Glittsburgh. Thank you very much, appreciate thank you

709
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 3: coming on. Enjoyed the rest of the evening. Huh you too, Okay, yeah,

710
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 3: thank you, you know, thank you very much.

711
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Joining us now, we'll keep it.

712
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: Keep the a list of guests here rolling another part

713
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 2: of that linebacker fraternity. Levon Kirkland with us now. Levon,

714
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: thank you for taking the time and welcome back.

715
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 10: Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

716
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 10: It's always good to be back at the Burg seeing

717
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 10: guys like Jason Gilden. But this weather, I mean.

718
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 4: This little chilly for where are you now?

719
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 10: I'm in South Carolina. I'm in Greenville, South Carolina at

720
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 10: Clemson University. So it's a little different. It's good place

721
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 10: to be, it's a great place to be than you.

722
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 3: So we were asking Jason about just the lineage of

723
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 3: great linebackers and being part of it in those early

724
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 3: days of what has become a position of high expectations,

725
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 3: a position in which.

726
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 4: You're almost we're talking about this with Mark Heist.

727
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 3: It's almost literally the passing of the mantle at the

728
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 3: center position, and almost literally the passing of the of

729
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 3: that mantle lin from one from one generation to another,

730
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 3: that position for the Steelers.

731
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 10: Yeah. Absolutely. When I first got there, I just remember

732
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 10: the legacy of Jack jack Ham and Zack Lambert and

733
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 10: the guys, you know, guys in front of me like

734
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 10: David Little, Hardy, Nickolus, of course, Greg Lloyd and Kevin Green.

735
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 10: But I was remember when I was picking my jersey

736
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 10: number ninety nine. I had a few choices between fifty

737
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 10: eight and fifty nine, fifty six and ninety nine, and

738
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 10: I went to the equipment room and I'm like, there's

739
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 10: no way in hell I'm wearing fifty eight. There's no

740
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 10: way in hell I'm wearing fifty nine, and I thought

741
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 10: about it. I was like, you know what, ninety nine

742
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 10: is a pretty cool number. I like, I was forty

743
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 10: four in college. I picked that. And I really felt

744
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 10: that when you came to Pittsburgh and you plan that

745
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 10: linebacker position, you have to represent what it was in

746
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 10: the past and you have to pass that along. So

747
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 10: I was just very fortunate to play with some great,

748
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 10: great players, and I really think that that's what it is.

749
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 10: I don't think it was just, you know, I was

750
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 10: such a hard worker and I did this and I

751
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 10: did that. I think it's all about being with the

752
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 10: right people, being in the right environment. Pittsburgh provided the

753
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 10: right environment, the right pros that you can learn under

754
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 10: even if you tell them are not. I usually look

755
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 10: at Demani Dawson all the time from a distance, and

756
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 10: you know, I understand what he The reg low was

757
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 10: in my in our room, our meeting room.

758
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: All the time.

759
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 10: Him and Kevin and those guys really boosted guys like myself,

760
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 10: Seth Brown, also Jason Gilden, and it just kind of

761
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 10: went on with Joey, it just it just kept growing,

762
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 10: kept growing, and it's good to have veterans like that

763
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 10: he can teach you how to be a pro.

764
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: How rewarding is it when you get to come back to,

765
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 2: you know, events like this, nights like this. You know,

766
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 2: we've spent a lot of time talking on these shows.

767
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 2: We were talking about it with Pouncy, the decades, the

768
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 2: generations of greatness and expectations, and Pouncy telling us that

769
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 2: this is like the greatest honor to him, even more

770
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 2: so than potentially getting into Canton one day. What's it

771
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: like to to, you know, look back in the time

772
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 2: he got to spend with this organization and what it

773
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: means to be part of nights like tonight.

774
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 10: Well, it's excellent because this organization really represents the best

775
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 10: professional sports, no matter if it's NBA MLB. Everybody understands

776
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 10: Pittsburgh and the culture that they have here. And the

777
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 10: thing is the players that played here, they always feel

778
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 10: like they're part of the Steelers. Therefore, once a Steiler,

779
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 10: always a Stiler. So I think that whole family atmosphere

780
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 10: that we get with the Rooneys. You know, also winning too.

781
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 10: I mean there's a lot of teams, a lot of

782
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 10: teams that have been around in the NFL, but they

783
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 10: don't win so the great thing is you win. Also

784
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 10: for a linebacker, it's a defensive culture as well. I've

785
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 10: been to Seattle, I've been to Philly, and it's more

786
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 10: so offensive quarterback that right, Pittsburgh, it is more defense.

787
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 10: So you got a lot of love being a linebacker,

788
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 10: and it's a lot of responsibility as well.

789
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Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to look it up because I

790
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: wanted to make sure I got it right. Okay, seventy

791
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 3: as a player, right, I mean.

792
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, I came in lighter than that. I came in

793
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 10: probably like maybe to forty. But what people really didn't

794
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 10: recognize in that defense with a buck linebacker, you're taking

795
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 10: all a lot of fullbacks, guards, You're taking on a

796
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 10: lot of physical heats, and then also you gotta be

797
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 10: able to run with a tiny end, going straight up

798
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 10: down the field.

799
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 5: Right.

800
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 10: I was bigger than most, I admit that. But what

801
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 10: I thought, I thought my I thought my weight was

802
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 10: actually an advantage for me.

803
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 5: You can move. I can move.

804
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 10: I can move as well as probably most running backs, right, exactly,

805
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 10: everybody would probably it was always you know, everybody was

806
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 10: always surprised the other team. They were all like, dude,

807
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 10: how do you move?

808
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 3: Like that.

809
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 10: But what I would tell anybody, I came from a

810
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 10: small high school, and being from a small high school,

811
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 10: you did everything. You played football, you played basketball, you

812
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 10: man track, so you cross trained with it, not even

813
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 10: realizing that you're actually cross training. And I just happened

814
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:26,479
Speaker 10: to be probably a lot quicker than if you looked

815
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 10: at me. Uh, then most people would probably think they're like, man,

816
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 10: you you're pretty quick. And it really helped me. I

817
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 10: was just an outlier. Yeah, I would never suggest anybody

818
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 10: do what I did.

819
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would never ever see, well, we have like

820
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 4: Charlie Batch here.

821
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 3: I bet you Charlie Batch wouldn't have like taken a

822
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 3: couple of steps back and being running to you at

823
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 3: full speed.

824
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: Linebacker coming Charlie.

825
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 10: Probably, No, Charlie. Charlie was a tough time man.

826
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 4: Oh I know, I know, yeah, running complete No.

827
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 3: I just I just I'm amazed by that because people,

828
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 3: you know, this year theres uh and when they when

829
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 3: they first got the three four, they were able to

830
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 3: find those guys that didn't quite fit at other positions

831
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 3: but were still great athletes.

832
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 10: I was a tweeter.

833
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 4: I went exactly, you're a tweeter.

834
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 10: I came from Clemson as a defensive end outside linebacker,

835
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 10: and I probably wasn't tall enough or whatever to play

836
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 10: over the tidy end for the pros, and so they

837
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 10: moved me inside. I had no clue how to play

838
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 10: inside linebacker none. So when I started doing, I was like,

839
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 10: let's go to the ball and you'll get it. You know,

840
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 10: it'll come to you. That's all I did. And I

841
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 10: remember my second year, I got the job. I got

842
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 10: the first strange job, and Coward comes to me and

843
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 10: just like you have to You're gonna have to control

844
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 10: the huddle, you have to own the defense. I'm like,

845
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 10: I got Greg Lloyd on one side, I got Kevin Green,

846
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 10: I got Rod Wilson, I got Cardill Lake. I'm like,

847
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 10: I'm just a second year. Yeah, you want me to

848
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 10: just take over? I don't know how to do that.

849
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 10: But what I started doing was I was just like,

850
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 10: hey man, just be that guy. Just be the captain

851
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 10: that you're not yet. And it just kind of grew

852
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 10: on me and I learned the position. It was It

853
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 10: was great. I love playing the position. And like I

854
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 10: told you guys before, I think it's all about having

855
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 10: great teammates. And I had great teammates.

856
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I also made a couple of provos and.

857
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank Thankanks for braving the winner, for being

858
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: here with us, and uh.

859
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 3: Charlie Batcher with us. Now, Charlie, first of all, how

860
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 3: did the uh? How's the best Batch Foundation going here

861
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 3: in this holiday season?

862
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 11: It is going well. We are in the middle. We

863
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 11: are in the middle of everything. This year, we adopted

864
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 11: four hundred families, which is eighteen hundred and eleven kids

865
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 11: this year. So while we are in the process of

866
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 11: collecting unwrapped toys, we spent all last week rapping, so

867
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 11: about halfway through that with that, and then we have

868
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 11: a busy week here, so it's gonna be extremely busy.

869
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 11: But again we are in dire need of still ages

870
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 11: ten to eighteen. So if anybody still want to be

871
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Speaker 11: interested and possibly putting a smile on the cake his

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Speaker 3: So Charlie, your guy Ben Roethlisberg going into the Hall

879
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: of Honor.

880
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 11: What do you think I didn't think he'd earned that

881
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 11: we're talking about, Like, No, I didn't realize he was

882
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 11: going in. No, man, it's been was phenomenal, man. I mean,

883
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 11: just to have the opportunity. Really, you know, we're seeing

884
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 11: a lot of people are celebrating him as the end result,

885
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 11: but I was there at the beginning, watching him and

886
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 11: sitting in those meeting rooms back in two thousand and

887
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 11: four when he was just trying to figure out what

888
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 11: his career was going to look like, and the work

889
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 11: that he put in behind the scene. He didn't get

890
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 11: a lot of credit for it because back then people

891
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 11: were always saying his backyard football, these things aren't going

892
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 11: to work, he's making things up.

893
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 4: But man, he put the time in.

894
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 11: But he knew exactly where to go with the ball,

895
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 11: and he was improvising, and those were things that made

896
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 11: him special because the things that we saw in practice

897
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 11: that we didn't think.

898
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 4: Was going to work actually worked in the game and

899
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 4: he was.

900
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 11: Able to do it. And you just see the rest

901
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 11: of it, you know, his history from there.

902
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 2: And then Markus pouncing. I mean, how much of a

903
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 2: benefit is it for a quarterback to have a center

904
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 2: like that, the athleticism, the game, brain, the full package.

905
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

906
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 11: I mean as watching him as soon as he came

907
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 11: in from day one, you're just like, Wow. The only

908
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 11: question mark that you had was the fact that he

909
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 11: was playing guard in college and then came in was

910
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 11: playing center right, and people were how is that maturation

911
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 11: process going to happen? But literally within the first week

912
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 11: of OTAs, you're like, I don't know how they're going

913
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 11: to keep this guy off the.

914
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,919
Speaker 4: Off the field, be best offensive lineman already on the team.

915
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 11: Yes, And they're going through it, and you know at

916
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 11: that point you're trying to have rookies earning and not

917
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 11: give him the job at that particular point. But the

918
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 11: moment that we got the training camp in twenty ten

919
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 11: said no, they want it's yours and he ran with it.

920
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 11: And just to see the way that he commanded the

921
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 11: huddle when he stepped in there, it didn't matter if

922
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 11: he was a rookie or a vet. People respected the

923
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 11: work that he put into it and they rode with

924
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 11: him all the way through. And you can see all

925
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 11: the Pro Bowls later on what he was able to do.

926
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 3: And we can cross over with you and Earl Holmes,

927
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 3: who's joined this year another line great Viewers linebacker Joey

928
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 3: Porter going to the Hall of Fame. And and I've

929
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 3: said this a couple of times, but you know, doing

930
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 3: an interview, Aaron Smith a couple of years ago called him.

931
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 4: The best teammate he's ever had, Joey Porter.

932
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 3: That's that just blows my mind when I think of

933
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 3: all the great players that Aaron played with, just to

934
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 3: come out and say that says a lot about Joey

935
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 3: Porter junior or senior here now, right, I just you

936
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 3: know what I got to see him on Well, I

937
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 3: think I just tossed toron I'm calling the game. I

938
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 3: think I just called him Joey Porter. When I want

939
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 3: when I'm referred to, I just want to refer to

940
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Speaker 3: him as Joey Porter. We know which one's playing and

941
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 3: which ones' retired, don't we?

942
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 10: Absolutely?

943
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 12: You know?

944
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 11: I think you know, and I think ultimately I think

945
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 11: you know for me and obviously have to step away,

946
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 11: but I think when you see where he was at,

947
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 11: and of course I got here in two thousand and two,

948
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 11: so he was already now getting established and becoming that

949
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 11: leader of the team which I saw at that particular moment,

950
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 11: and it didn't matter what side of the ball you

951
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 11: were on. When you are a leader, people are going

952
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 11: to gravitate to you. And that was one of the

953
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 11: things that Joey was able to do. And whatever happened,

954
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 11: you saw offense and defensive guy and including special team

955
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 11: guys all rally and it was he was the main

956
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 11: reason why people.

957
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 13: I didn't want to cut you off, but it didn't

958
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 13: start like that guy into it.

959
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 4: I would give you the two thousand and two year

960
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 4: when I got here.

961
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 11: Now he could take it.

962
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 3: This is a Benjamin Button show. We're working backwards. Appreciate

963
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 3: it so so Earl what those early years? I thank you, Charlie.

964
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:44,439
Speaker 3: What were those earlier years?

965
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 13: Like, I was talking to Joey last night and I'm

966
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 13: gonna totally be honest with you guys. When I first

967
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 13: met Joey, Uh, there's some things, of course, you don't

968
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 13: know until until you sit there and actually go through

969
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 13: training camp with a guy and just go through the

970
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 13: nine yards becoming a professional. And I my only problem

971
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 13: with Joy was a good problem was I'm like, how

972
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 13: are you so big, so fast.

973
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 5: So strong? And you und to stand you a third

974
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 5: round draft pick.

975
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 13: So in the back of my mind, for some reason,

976
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 13: I wanted to say I was being negative, but I say,

977
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 13: something's wrong.

978
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 5: There's no way this guy, this big, this fast, is strong.

979
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 13: I knew, seriously, I knew from day one that this

980
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 13: kid had you know, ray talent.

981
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 5: I mean, he was that.

982
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 13: So some ofn the guys you still along the line,

983
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 13: but when you see that guy who has that ick factor,

984
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 13: Like when I first saw Rockenburg, the first time I

985
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 13: saw him in training camp.

986
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 5: I knew he had the ig factor.

987
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 13: And come to find out, Jody played offense in college

988
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 13: for two years, play receiver, and then he converted over

989
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 13: to a defensive and then you know, then the linebacker.

990
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 13: So he just was in experience, but as far as

991
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 13: a triathlete and a guy who was willing to do

992
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 13: whatever it takes to learn the game and actually had

993
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,240
Speaker 13: to learn it on a fast level pace because again

994
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 13: he did two years in college as an offensive player.

995
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 13: But once that light came on, it was it was

996
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 13: the kicking to the stands type thing.

997
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 3: But quick, are you talking about a young you seeing

998
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 3: young players? So Ben Roethlisberger came into our studio when

999
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 3: he was drafted, did a show with Stan Savage, the

1000
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 3: late great Stan Savage, and came into our studio and

1001
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 3: I remember the first time I saw him, and there's

1002
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 3: somebody else with him, but he hadn't arrived yet. He

1003
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 3: was about, uh maybe three or four minutes behind a

1004
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: later draft choice in that same draft class. When Ben

1005
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 3: walked in, I thought, man, you got this guy in

1006
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 3: the weight room.

1007
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 4: He's like offensive lineman. Yeah right, I mean a guy.

1008
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 3: And then the next guy walked in it was Max

1009
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 3: Max Stars and I was like, oh, now that's all

1010
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 3: and that's quarterback anyway. Sorry, I don't want to want

1011
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 3: to cut you off there ahead, No, just what's the process?

1012
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 2: Like, You've got all the talent and the ability, right

1013
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 2: you get to the National Football League to you mentioned

1014
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 2: with Joey as soon as that light went on, he

1015
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: took off. But what does it take to build the

1016
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 2: confidence to have the game slow down, to get that

1017
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: light to go.

1018
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 5: On for it?

1019
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 13: And I can only speak for myself when to come

1020
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 13: to this, because I came under the Greg little Levon

1021
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 13: Kirker and the Jason Gilding guys, and once I got here,

1022
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 13: Bill Coward by my coach, and he told us what

1023
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 13: it takes to stay in the NFL. Believe it or not,

1024
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 13: it looks like the best but the worst conversation I

1025
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 13: ever had with the head.

1026
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 5: Coach because he let us know the NFL means not

1027
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 5: for loan.

1028
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 13: If you get complacent, if you don't try to get

1029
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 13: better each and every day. You know, it's a process,

1030
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 13: but once you think you have arrived, it's really starting over.

1031
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 13: It's just like when you're a young kid. You start

1032
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 13: an elementary school, then you go to middle school. You

1033
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 13: gotta start on make a name for yourself. Then you

1034
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 13: go to high school, you gotta start on making a

1035
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 13: name for yourself. So it's a continuing thing. So and

1036
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 13: once you get to the NFL, the highest of the

1037
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 13: high you just have to understand that these guys from

1038
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 13: different walks of life you're looking at phenomenal athletes can

1039
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 13: do it all. Bid fast, strong, intelligent, there's nothing that

1040
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 13: you haven't seen before. But you can always get better

1041
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 13: just working on yourself. When it comes to a little

1042
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 13: bit more film watching, a little bit more just spending

1043
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 13: time so the game slows down for yourself and maximiz

1044
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 13: jore ability within the scheme of what the coach is

1045
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 13: asking you to do so that that was the big thing.

1046
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 3: You know. One of the things that I think is incredible,

1047
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 3: and I certainly think it exists in this organization.

1048
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 4: I can't speak for others.

1049
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 3: I think sometimes it exists only in other organizations with

1050
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 3: people and not organization wide. Is the fact that the

1051
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 3: expectation has long been you get drafted, you'll wait behind

1052
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 3: a great player for a year or two, and then

1053
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 3: eventually you might replace that great player, and then you're

1054
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 3: gonna be the guy that that that is expected to

1055
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 3: you know, when you get to be the guy, the

1056
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 3: next guy has been drafted to take your place, right,

1057
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 3: and the fact that you're selfless about it and helping

1058
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: those people out, Uh, it seems to happen a lot

1059
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 3: in this organization. Uh.

1060
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 5: And let me tell you this not to cut you off.

1061
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not.

1062
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 13: That's not a common thing in this business, right, it's

1063
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 13: not a common thing. But here's some of the things

1064
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 13: you learn when you go to different organizations, whether it's

1065
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 13: you know, a business thing or what have you.

1066
00:47:58,040 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 5: You know, phrase to come up, it's a part of it.

1067
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 13: But once the's stiller, always a stiller that really means something,

1068
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 13: you know, speaking from personal experience. I actually pay for

1069
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 13: two different organizations besides the Stellers, but I promise you this,

1070
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 13: it's totally different here and this family owned and his

1071
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 13: family orientated. That really it starts from the head all

1072
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 13: the way to the bottom. And that's what you have

1073
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 13: and that's what you need as a player because at

1074
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 13: certain organizations sometimes you feel like, well, why this guy

1075
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 13: first round draft pick or second round draft pick, he

1076
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 13: hasn't turned it on.

1077
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 5: What he's missing something.

1078
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 13: But in Pittsburgh, you see that guy like you at

1079
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 13: your turn, then it's your turn because you have the

1080
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 13: people in the front office as well as the gms.

1081
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 13: Things like that, they really know what they're doing. Sometime

1082
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 13: to come by can be eye can into a lot

1083
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 13: of gms and they jump on a guy not really

1084
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 13: for what they need. It's like the Stillers get it right.

1085
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 13: I'm not saying there because I played here. They get

1086
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 13: it right. Like I sat behind Levon, I sat behind

1087
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 13: Jerio until it was my time, or Joy sat behind

1088
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,959
Speaker 13: Collins m and Jason Gilden until it was his time,

1089
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 13: and so on and so forth.

1090
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 5: And that's how it works.

1091
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 13: Because Kurt was telling me how he's sat behind David

1092
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 13: Live I believe before it was his time. But to

1093
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 13: have that kind of connection, to understand that and to

1094
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 13: wait your turn the billing character, it's like they tear

1095
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 13: you down and be you a stiller. But it's the

1096
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 13: best thing for you because LONGEVDA has its place. And

1097
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 13: why you becoming that guy whatever the offensive lineman, defense lineman,

1098
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 13: but becoming that steller you understand what's been asked of

1099
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 13: you and how to do it, and it's a certain

1100
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 13: manner they want you to do it in and that's

1101
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 13: just being physical.

1102
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 3: I just wanted to add one more thing than I

1103
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 3: think the Stege do that other organizations don't. That family

1104
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 3: run and stability means is that they're not out there.

1105
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 3: No one's saying, hey, we took this guy in the

1106
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 3: first round. We got to protect and make sure he plays. No,

1107
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 3: you could be undrafted, you could be a first rounder,

1108
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 3: you could be a seventh rounder, you could be a

1109
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 3: third rounder. If you are the best guy, you will play.

1110
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's true. And after the

1111
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 3: organization either.

1112
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 13: Well, that's what I mean, and it's not because some

1113
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 13: people again stuck on the Okay, we got this money

1114
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 13: invested in him, right, it's still a saying we have

1115
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 13: time invested in you, and we see something in you.

1116
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 13: That's why we draft you, or you can't. We ask

1117
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 13: you to come as a free agent. We know that

1118
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 13: we can help you take you where someone that's camp.

1119
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 13: And that's what I appreciate about the Civil Organization. They

1120
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 13: take you place where you can't take yourself beautiful, especially

1121
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 13: when you you know, you're young and you just trying

1122
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 13: to figure it out. You know, I'm I'm a Florida guy,

1123
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 13: never seen snow before, and we're watching film and Bill

1124
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 13: cownt stop practice when they say, hey, I mean you

1125
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 13: stopped meeting when they said, he you see that white

1126
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 13: stuff on film, that snow, so you know, but he

1127
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 13: knew that from my background and things of that nature.

1128
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 13: So you appreciate that, you really do. And I appreciate

1129
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 13: being a part of this family because it's a lifetime.

1130
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 13: It's a lifestyle, and that's what it is. And you

1131
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 13: appreciate that because but it's not like this at any

1132
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 13: other organization, it really is not.

1133
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 3: What's it like to see Joey you talked about him

1134
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 3: in the early days. What's it like to see him

1135
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 3: be part of this incredible honor get you.

1136
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 13: Know what, and h and I told her, I'm so

1137
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 13: proud of you, Jeorge, because again he was a kid

1138
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 13: who didn't have an idea about defense.

1139
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 5: Let long was Steller linebacker, you know what I mean.

1140
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 13: So you our receiver, Jordan, so we had to do

1141
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 13: so much, you know. But at the same time, you know,

1142
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 13: he put his best foot forward. He worked hard, He

1143
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 13: was a team leader. He was the first who was competitive,

1144
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 13: very competitive, and now he just he worked his butt

1145
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 13: off and so everything that comes with it, he deserves

1146
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 13: it because he worked to get this.

1147
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 5: He really did.

1148
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. We're gonna take another break here.

1149
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna have Joey Porter Junior

1150
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 2: talking about his dad and some other guests and some

1151
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 2: other moving and shaking down here at Akroshure Stadium as

1152
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 2: we continue live from the Steelers Hall of Honor Dinner

1153
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 2: here on Steelers Nation Radio.

1154
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: Steelers Football happens here the Pittsburgh Steelers Audio.

1155
00:51:51,920 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: Network back of the Steelers' Hall of Honored dinner. West

1156
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 2: Shuler and Rob King here broadcasting from the UPMC club,

1157
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 2: and we've got a couple of porters here with us

1158
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 2: now Joey Junior and Jacob of course pas sons kind

1159
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: of enough to give us some time here on a

1160
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 2: special night for your entire family. All right, guys, everybody

1161
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: knows the persona of your dad, the energy, the face,

1162
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 2: the who ride.

1163
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 4: Right, what's it like growing up with that guy?

1164
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 12: I know you guys hit my voice a lot, so

1165
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 12: I'm gonna let my younger brother actually.

1166
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 5: Kick it off a little bit with that.

1167
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 7: Uh, I'm gonna just try to be a little quick

1168
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 7: and sweet. But uh, my dad is a he He's

1169
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 7: taught us so much and growing up when I used

1170
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 7: to play ball, I used to always get the comparison.

1171
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 7: I'm sure Joey can attest to this as well. The

1172
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 7: do you ever feel the fear of growing, you know,

1173
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 7: living up to his legacy? And I never felt that

1174
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 7: because I had an older brother and I had my

1175
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 7: dad who are always confident in me and paved a

1176
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 7: certain way. But the things that my dad has done

1177
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 7: off the field is where that fear kind of creeps

1178
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 7: in a little bit, you know what I mean. The

1179
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 7: man that he is and he has shown us to be,

1180
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 7: it's just it's amazing and so filling those shoes that

1181
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 7: that's where that's where it gets a little risky. So

1182
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 7: I think that that that's type of thing I can

1183
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 7: tell you.

1184
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 5: About my dad.

1185
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 4: That was a fantastic answer.

1186
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 5: I agree with that.

1187
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 4: You guys are both looking very sharp too.

1188
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 3: By the way, Jacob's got the boat tide tuxedo going on.

1189
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 3: It's you know, this is where we need to be

1190
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 3: on TV instead of radio. You guys could be be

1191
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 3: showing out a little bit better. Uh, what's his speech

1192
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 3: could be like tonight? Knowing him, it's gonna be a

1193
00:53:30,239 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 3: good one. You know, he likes to talk, so he's

1194
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,839
Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna be very entertaining. He's going to get

1195
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 3: the people going for surely. Yeah, you know, I've shared

1196
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 3: the story a couple of times tonight, but one of

1197
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: his former teammates, Aaron Smith, called your dad best teammate

1198
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 3: ever had. That's I I mean, I don't know how

1199
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 3: you could get much more praise than that, you know, Yeah.

1200
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 12: You know, you know, being around the stills for a

1201
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 12: long time, even playing, just having guys come in the building,

1202
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 12: that's not the first time I actually heard people say that. So,

1203
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 12: you know, they all say he just a culture guy.

1204
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 12: The way he worked the way he cared about the

1205
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 12: way the Stellers looked and played. You know, you just

1206
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 12: cannot respect that. So I feel like that's where everybody

1207
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 12: comes from with that, just his respect level of holding

1208
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:13,880
Speaker 12: everybody accountable.

1209
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 2: What memories do you guys have from your NFL dad's

1210
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 2: NFL career, Like we've all seen the pictures of you

1211
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 2: guys when you were little with him in training cabs

1212
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 2: or at Ford Field and Detroit and all these different things.

1213
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 2: How clear are those memories any that stand out for

1214
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 2: you guys?

1215
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 12: Well, his playing days, I just remember just being in

1216
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 12: the locker room with Clark Kagan's son Damon, and just

1217
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,240
Speaker 12: as being around, just them taking us under their wing really,

1218
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 12: and as we got older when he came back as

1219
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 12: a coach. I mean, my brother was lucky enough to

1220
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 12: be ball boys in training camp nice So we had

1221
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 12: to stay in the dorms and wake up early in

1222
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 12: the morning, scrub the footballs and put the tarp over

1223
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 12: the field when it was raining. So it was a

1224
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 12: fun experience for both of us just to be able

1225
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 12: to see what it looks like from that point of

1226
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 12: view as a as an NFL player, especially when I'm

1227
00:54:58,520 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 12: trying to Chase that, Joe.

1228
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 4: I suspect anybody listening to this program knows what you're doing. Jacob,

1229
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 4: why don't you fill this in on what you're doing.

1230
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 7: I'm a political science major down at Duquane and hopefully

1231
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 7: I can go to law school about a year or so.

1232
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 4: Fantastic, Well you sure, are you a junior? Then a senior?

1233
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 4: Actually senior, a young senior? All right? Hitting the books hopefully, Okay,

1234
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 4: all right, Uh.

1235
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 3: Fantastic and so so guys getting dressed up, coming down

1236
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 3: here tonight for a different occasion.

1237
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 4: Excited.

1238
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of fun to you know, probably

1239
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 3: you know some of these players. Rights, I think I

1240
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 3: saw you Earl Holmes. I think was over saying hi.

1241
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 3: So I think you know you know some of these players.

1242
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 3: But what's this night like for you? You know, it's

1243
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 3: kind of special for your dad obviously.

1244
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 12: It's really just like an uncle or you and your Yeah, yeah,

1245
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 12: you know, just seeing anybody we grew up with and uh,

1246
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 12: just been a time with them. So I mean it's

1247
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 12: a fun event. It's overdue with him, and uh, we're

1248
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 12: just all in the celebration for everybody that's made it tonight.

1249
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 12: So it's gonna be a nice little event.

1250
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 4: We're gonna let you guys get back to the celebration.

1251
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for taking a few minutes here

1252
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 2: and talking about your dad, Joey and Jacob Porter. All

1253
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 2: the best, all the best with law school, and all

1254
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 2: the best with the Miami Dolphins still tomorrow.

1255
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,359
Speaker 4: I have fun, guys. Thank you for the time. Guys.

1256
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 2: Pretty cool there getting getting getting the two sons here

1257
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 2: hanging out with us. We've had some awesome guests here.

1258
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, have fun.

1259
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 4: Thank you. It's pretty cool.

1260
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 2: I mean, this is again you know we talk about

1261
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 2: how the family atmosphere and the environment.

1262
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 4: That's a perfect example of it right there. How about

1263
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 4: that have a like it's like a reunion with a

1264
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 4: bunch of uncles. That's right. Cool? Is that? That's the

1265
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 4: coolest uncle reunion ever? You know. Yeah, couple, Yeah, I'm

1266
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 4: gonna go reunion. Yeah.

1267
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:37,839
Speaker 2: They're all in the Hall of Fame in the Hall

1268
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 2: of Honor, and they've got super Bowl rings on the

1269
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 2: Hall of famers.

1270
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, very very cool.

1271
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 5: Man.

1272
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 3: Uh, it's been fun. Well, it's been fun, and they're

1273
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 3: starting to uh, as Hanks Trim would say.

1274
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 2: Matriculate, matriculate, matriculate their way over to the stage.

1275
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:53,720
Speaker 4: Over to the stage.

1276
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that means we got what probably about fifteen twenty

1277
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: minutes or so left here for for you and I

1278
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 2: kinger story time for all right.

1279
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 4: So you know, I grew up in western Pennsylvania.

1280
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,959
Speaker 2: I actually lived in the ingemar Wexford area, not far

1281
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 2: from the Porter residence, until I was I don't know,

1282
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 2: like ten or eleven, I think, when my family moved

1283
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 2: up to the Mars area. The impact that Joey Porter Senior,

1284
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 2: that Pease had on youth sports in Western Pennsylvania in

1285
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 2: the twenty first century cannot be overstated. If you from

1286
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 2: about two thousand and three, two thousand and four up

1287
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 2: until about two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine,

1288
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 2: if you went around to any sporting event that involved

1289
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 2: kids in Western Pa. Obviously football games, but I'm talking basketball, baseball,

1290
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 2: you name it, you'd find some twelve thirteen year olds

1291
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 2: breaking down in the huddle with.

1292
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 4: Who ride, we ride?

1293
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 5: Who ride? We ride?

1294
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 4: Who ride? Re ride? Let's ride on three one two three,

1295
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 4: let's ride.

1296
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: I know, Rob King because I was one of those kids,

1297
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 2: and every kid on every team and every sport across Pittsburgh,

1298
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 2: did those chance to fire themselves up? Everybody wanted to

1299
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,479
Speaker 2: wear number fifty five. Everyone wanted to scream and hoot

1300
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 2: and holler and be that charismatic leader like Joey Porter's senior.

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Speaker 2: And fast forward to today, twenty years later, twenty plus

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00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 2: years later, when TJ. Watt leads those guys out on

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00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 2: the field before him when it was Debo leading those

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00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 2: guys out onto the field. You know what chance that

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00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 2: they do in that linebacker room? Who right we right?

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00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 2: Who right? We right? Who right we Right? Let's ride

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00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 2: on three. You talk about charisma, you talk about impact.

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00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 2: Listen the Super Bowls. That's the end all be all

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00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 2: for the Steelers, right as you've mentioned to be part

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Speaker 2: of you know those guys that wear the rings and

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Speaker 2: in that exclusive fraternity. But sometimes I think you can

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Speaker 2: even transcend, you know, an area, You can transcend a

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Speaker 2: generation in a time period. And Joey Porter Senior not

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Speaker 2: only has the ring, not only has the success, but

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Speaker 2: when you can do all that and you kind of

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Speaker 2: have the personality that puts it over top, it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: And it's it's something that that lingers for a long time,

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Speaker 2: man and leaves a real impact.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It was also fun, you know, working for with Craig

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00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 3: Wolfley for about ten years or so doing high school

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Speaker 3: football games, which was just a blast, and going around

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Speaker 3: Western PA and calling different teams and all the great

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Speaker 3: players from this area. But to call Joey Porter Junior's

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00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 3: games at North Alleghany and now to be calling his games,

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00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 3: uh for the Steelers in the NFL level, that's that's

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00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 3: pretty the University of North Allegheny, Yeah, the you Uh,

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00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 3: that's that's pretty neat to see him and uh, I

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00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 3: had stopped doing games by the time Jacob was at

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Speaker 3: n A UH. But but to see him and and

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00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 3: to see uh, to see the kids, and to see

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Speaker 3: the family atmosphere and to hear guys talking about the

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00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:53,720
Speaker 3: atmosphere that pervades throughout the Steelers UH purposefully is pretty

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00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 3: amazing and and and it's of course reflected here in

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Speaker 3: this prestigious Hall of honor tonight.

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Speaker 2: It is it's very cool, one of the coolest things

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Speaker 2: we get to do every year, and it is getting

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Speaker 2: ready to get started here shortly, We're gonna take our

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01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 2: final break and we will come back and wrap this

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Speaker 2: thing up.

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Speaker 4: On the other side.

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Speaker 2: West Shielder Rob King live at the Steelers Hall of

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Speaker 2: Honor dinner here at Akershar Stadium on Steelers Nation Radio,

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Speaker 2: on the Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: We believe black and gold. This is the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: Audio Network.

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01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,960
Speaker 4: The right Rodgers and the shotgun gets a snap back.

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01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 3: The pass rose to one of the right platf wide open,

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Speaker 3: scooting down the right sideline pathro there is nobody.

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Speaker 12: There, and he's in for the score.

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Speaker 10: Jell and Warn a.

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Speaker 3: Short pass out through the platform and he goes thirty

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Speaker 3: eight yards in for the touchdown.

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Speaker 5: We are Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 4: Wesh Uller and Rob King back with you here for

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Speaker 4: just a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: At the Steelers' Hall of Honor Dinner twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: and the proceedings officially getting underway, mister Rooney Merrill Hodge

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01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 2: at the podium, of course, to honor Joey Porter Senior,

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Speaker 2: Ben Roethlisberger and Marquise Pouncey. I tell you what, we

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01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 2: just had the who's who kind of cavalcade of Steelers

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01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 2: walking past us. That's better than red carpet at the Oscars.

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01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 2: Right here he had Jerome Bettis and Kevin Pohlbird and

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01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: the whole lineage of everybody walking past us here Kinger.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool night, pretty special night. And everyone can watch

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Speaker 2: the live stream on Steelers dot com. They're doing the

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Speaker 2: dinner portion now and then the ceremony later and it

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Speaker 2: will be live streamed beginning at seven forty five that's

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Speaker 2: Eastern time here on Sunday night on Steelers dot com,

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Speaker 2: just about an hour from now.

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Speaker 4: It will be worth checking out. I was here for

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Speaker 4: it last year.

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Speaker 3: It was tremendous, the speeches, the way the guys gotta

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01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 3: had fun with each other a little bit, and and

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01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 3: obviously just a stellar, stellar class going in and you

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01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 3: know again to hear all the players, some of whom

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01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 3: won't be going into the Hall of Honor and may

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01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 3: never be going to the Hall of Honor, but were

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01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 3: great players themselves talking about what this to this organization means,

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01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 3: what it means to be part of the organization, what

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01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 3: it means for these guys to be going to the

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Speaker 3: Hall of Honor. To have Marquise Pouncy saying that this

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01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 3: would mean more to him than Canton crazy. It just

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01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 3: underscores what this night means and what a culmination it

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01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 3: is for these players to be honored by being members

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01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 3: of the Hall of Honor.

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Speaker 2: I've said this a few times on these airwaves Kinger

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01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 2: over the years. I hope I'm fortunate enough to say

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01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 2: it again a few more times, you know, as a

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01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 2: kid who grew up here and was, you know, wearing

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01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 2: my Steelers jerseys to church and hanging my terrible towel

1392
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 2: and rush into the car to listen to Wolf and

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01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 2: Tounch and Billy and Myron. I love the Pittsburgh Steelers,

1394
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 2: but I love what the Pittsburgh Steelers mean even more.

1395
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 2: And the Pittsburgh Steelers are Pittsburgh. They're bigger than Pittsburgh

1396
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 2: in so many ways. And it's very cool for you

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01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 2: and I to get a to play a small part,

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01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 2: very small part in evenings like this. So congratulations to

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Speaker 2: the inductees. A big thank you to Teresa Arley and

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Speaker 2: Reagan Beruby for helping us pull all those guests throughout

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01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 2: the night, and to all those guests who took the

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01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 2: time to join us here on a special evening, and

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01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 2: to Nathan on site keeping us.

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01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 4: Crisp and Brian La Martina back Ryan back at the ranch.

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01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 2: Of those guys you know, working all the headsets and

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01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 2: the levels like they're mad scientists at the board. There

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01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 2: always a great job by them for Rob King Kinger

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01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 2: go rest the vocals, Big one tomorrow night, Let's do this,

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01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,080
Speaker 2: Let's let's do this again, and is where all these

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Speaker 2: guys will be honored seven forty five. On Steelers dot

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Speaker 2: com you can watch the ceremonies of tonight if you

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01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 2: would like to see all the acceptance speeches and honoring

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Speaker 2: speeches from the three men going into the hall of honor.

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Speaker 2: That will do it for us this evening. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for listening. Take care and we'll talk to

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Speaker 2: you soon. On your twenty four to seven home of

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Speaker 2: the Black and Gold. It's Steelers Nation Radio on the

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Speaker 2: Steelers Audio Network.

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Speaker 1: You're home for the Steelers. This is the Pittsburgh Steelers

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Speaker 1: Audio Network.