WEBVTT - Andre Reed 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.200 Steve Smith Senior and I'm John and this is cut 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.919 to it. Good Do, Good Do? What's getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do with good do It? We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.200 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.840 cut to it. You ain't heard him about it? Then 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:40.760 we're about to let you know. It's all buckle up, guys, 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:46.440 because you're about to go on the airplane rock private plane. Alright, storytelling, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:52.120 story story this storytelling, storytelling. Uncle Smithy, Okay, alright, guys, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.720 who you're alright? So, um there's a guy that's been 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.000 a good friend of mine. Um Andy, he's been asking 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.520 me to play in this Turkey Bowl tournament flag football, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.399 And the first couple of weeks, first couple of years, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.960 I was like, bro, no, I cannot play competitive sports, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.959 especially on football. So second year he's like, hey, I'm 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:20.160 gonna ask So second year, no no. So he finally 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.560 asked me this year and I was like, you know what, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.240 just the weekend? How many games? But he was like, look, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.360 you're gonna play three games and we make a championship. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.360 I was like, all right, let's do it right. So 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.959 that's me dusting off my stuff, right, my cliques, gloves, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.760 all that stuff. Bro. I got out there and first 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.600 of all, text the group is like, look, man, I'm 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.000 just gonna play, have some fun. We had a few practices, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.760 nothing big deal. Where was this? Where was it? It was? 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.400 It was here in char I was here. You know, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.760 I played, he said, he said on airplane. So I 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.600 just said, get on the airplane, just like, hey, come 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.120 come with me, come with me. Think too hard, don't 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:07.640 think your metaphor. Game was a little misleadal. So so 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.000 we're playing here in Charlotte, and let me tell you something. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.720 First game, I'm playing quarterback. First of all I had 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.240 to do that was yapping. I'm like, bro, just chill. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.920 But that's not even the conversation. You want to know 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.880 what the real thing is. Let me tell you something. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.680 I'm gonna start. I'm I'm gona get an end. End, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.560 I'm gonna give it a finished product. You wanna know 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.000 what the finished product is? Please? I got two pooled hamstrings. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:41.920 You washed up, dog? I am. I have been limping, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:47.000 spin cycle. I have been limping since Saturday afternoon till day, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.560 I have broken out all of my machines. I text 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.480 my contact at Baltimore because I am looking for a 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:01.679 normal tech through insurance workers and my new Game Ready 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.680 because my old Game Ready is broken. Bro, I am hurt. Team. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.720 So now when I say her team, Bro, I I 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:19.960 pulled both at line, like do this wasn't worth it 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.560 if you blew both him? Yeah, it was definitely worth it. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.720 I'm never fucking playing football again. You still have answer. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.440 I played well. I played quarterback all that stop. I 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:37.360 played receiver. But Bro, Swiss army not. You don't understand. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.480 You know, y'all get joking, joke. You don't understand. When 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.960 I sit down in a chair to use a bathroom, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.880 it hurts. I have to roll over to get up. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:54.480 I am sore. If I ever played football again, flag 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.160 football organized, I have to train at least three or 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.000 four months prior to. Oh god. But here's here's why 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.000 I went out there and played as if I was 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.800 in shape to play football. Mine was still there. Body 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:15.800 was there for a few players, Bro, for no there 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.240 was alert. So here's how it went down. This is 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.120 where it went all. Here's where the food's gaziness started. Here, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:28.120 here's where it all. Here's where the screws, Here's where 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.200 the screws on the rims started to come under. So 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.880 we're playing quarterback. Those few passes, you know, good passing, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.400 bad pass We go out there and I'm playing receiver, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.920 catching around boom boom, I go crossing folks over too nothing. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:48.640 It's like, okay, all right, take a few plays off, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.960 series of two off, and this is where it all 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.760 went to ship. The second game. The second game, I'm 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.760 playing corner, playing while I was fever. Catch a few 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.280 rounds and I'm like, cool, a little bit of h 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.040 a little bit of it feels like a cramp. No, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.000 the brother, that was no cramp. So I go ahead 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.839 and try to play through it. My body, my mind's 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:23.040 telling me yes, but my bids said hell no. Bro. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:28.520 My right hamstring titans, and I'm saying I'm gonna play 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.479 through it. I played through it. You know what, My 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.599 left hamstring said, joined the party. My left hand hamstring 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.520 said stop. I said no, he said stop. I said no. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.080 The third time he said stop. Boy, I said okay, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.560 I was done. So you got a game and a 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.599 half in. You got a game and a half in, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.960 and both my hamstrings quad growing um lower back. My 0:05:54.080 --> 0:06:01.200 lower half is if there's an old movie. In that 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.760 movie it's called Old Yellow, and I am he think, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.200 I take you round the back and blow my freaking brains. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.320 So I'm cuttings I need to know with like we're 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.760 y'all in the huddle, and your like Steve, like, I 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.279 hate to do this, but you gotta go to the sideline. No, no, no, no, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.520 nobody knew because my last play was the best play. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.200 I played all right. I played corner and stopped the guy. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.280 But I realized you and you at least went out 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.840 in the blazer. No no no, I realized. I said, no, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.679 we ain't gonna play no more. But he ain't catching 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.360 his pass on so he was running. Luckily, thank goodness, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.919 the Lord was shining in his bright sun in the 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.359 in the vision of me, so I recognized because I 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.159 can see through that. I was putting my hand up 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.760 using my using my long index finger to block the 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.239 sun trick, and then the ball goes through my fingers, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.240 so I'm able to see the ball receiving trick right 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.560 there and pump return to trump return trick right and 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.760 then he didn't see it, so he proceeds to die 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.200 for the past. Now, I played corner in high school. 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.159 So I proceed to allow as he's airborne, to guide 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.840 him out of bound. Show if he does catch it, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:11.280 it's incomplete. Yes, good job man, textbook. But bro, he 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.280 almost towards me because he was not he was going 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.200 to pass. Get run teeth, no safety help. It was 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.040 all you. It was I was shut down. I shut 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.840 him down. However, I was gonna make sure it was 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.440 gonna be p I. But he wasn't catching his pass. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.480 And then you pulled on your jersey. Time to go. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.480 I didn't put all my jersey. No I didn't. No, No, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.800 here's what I did. Can't you can't let yourself do it. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.800 When he went out of bounds, I stayed out of bound. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.800 Y'all got it. It's pointing this good. So now for 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:49.040 for all the folks who tweet at Smitty, get your jersey, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.160 come out, come on back. Now you're hearing the type 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.080 of protection you got. You got something, but you're just 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.960 saying you ain't got I'll give you two or three 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.240 place to three plays. And then after I get hit 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.680 or I try to, and I run a lot of 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.720 decoy routes. Boy, don't you better stop him. I'm not 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.320 I'm not gonna go out there and blow my knees 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.880 out for I'm gonna go out with a blaze of cord. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.840 I want the picture. But Bro, when I tell you, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.000 I'm hurting. But here's what I figured out. I've been. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.680 I've been pellaton and bike riding so much. Quads are muscular, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:29.120 hamstrings fatigued. Bro, I am so duck. I believe if 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.840 I play next year, I gotta train three four months 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.319 ahead of time, training for no. But here's what I'm saying, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.800 training while y'all laughing, and I get it. It's it's 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.720 the part of But when you're playing and you tried 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.400 to like the explosiveness of stop and go, if you 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.840 haven't done that and four years, your body goes, what 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.400 do you do? Stop doing this a long time? When 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.920 we stop at this rate with this power. I was 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.880 out there, Bro, I was fly too. I had my 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.079 outfit at Jay's all. Oh, I was good. I took 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:12.679 no damn Jay's also quick gloves off. I went through 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.480 my whole catcher routine. Wasn't gonna drop a nothing, didn't 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:21.599 drop anything, but couldn't go anywhere either. It was remarkable 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.200 and sad all at the same time because I'm sitting 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.959 at home right. I was sitting at home yesterday. Bro 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.439 I had to watch games either on the bed or 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.720 in the couch to where I had to be in 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.960 a good position because if Bro I was on my machines, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:43.319 I was sitting on ice ice up, son, hur did 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:44.920 your team pick you up? For game three? Did y'all 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.840 win it? Pick me up? He was out of permission. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.160 I packed up, and he took his toys and went home. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.719 They had appreciate you all appreciate this is good, but 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.280 I gotta go. I was done. Hey man, welcome to 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:07.480 wash Field. It's okay. I just didn't have it anymore. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.720 The same thing. Whatever I tell you what, I won't 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.640 do it again. A lot of coaching, a lot of coaching. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.600 The only way I'm playing if I called my trainer 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.640 and do it, that's the only way I have. No 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.400 I have z bro interest. Oh, I bet you know. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.080 And what's funny is I get people all the time 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.880 and say, man, man, let's get out of and I 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.520 always say I don't. I don't feel like it like 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.920 I don't. I don't feel like I have to prove anything. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.880 And I wasn't trying to prove anything. One cool thing 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.640 is I got to play with Peyton, So it was 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.800 out there playing it was cool, But it was like 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.920 at the time I was going there, I was like, bro, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.240 I don't I'm not like I enjoyed. I enjoyed the people. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.280 The first team, it was all right. Second team that 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.720 we played against it was fun, right, but it was 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:07.640 I just have forgotten how much time and routine and 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.160 training that I put in, and I just it reminded me, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.320 and it said this. All these guys that sit on 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.920 the couch say, oh, what's the big deal all you 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.000 have to do. I'm here to tell you if you 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.800 go from the couch, I don't care who you I 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:29.360 kea Ashley furniture, uh Ethan Allen, all the good cheap 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.719 couch or expensive couch. I guarantee you I don't care 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.760 what you used to be. I don't care what you 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.200 say you are. If you have not done any football 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.920 training prior to if you think you're gonna get your 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.800 ass off the couch or the recliner and just go 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.280 out there and go run around against some of these 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.439 corners out in the league. Even as thirst right boy 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.320 stuck you ain't doing it. I don't care what you 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.680 used to do at Clemson. You said you getting m No, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.240 you may catch the ball, but I'm gonna tell you 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.880 the next day, you're gonna be hurting, because today I'm hurting. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.559 The only reason I was not limping in here. I'm 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.800 gonna tell you I did treatment on myself four times. Yesterday. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.840 I was watching the game when the dude got hit. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.840 That just reminds me ice when the dude got tackled, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:27.360 that h wave, hippo Matt. I used everything that I 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.720 didn't have, And now trying to order through workers comp 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.440 legally workers Camp. I'm getting all the contraptments that I 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:39.680 need because I'm hurting you. File corkus come claiming it 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.280 was bad. I ain't paying for it, not flex cheap. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.440 Who we got coming up on the Cut to It podcast, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.720 We've got Andre Reid inducted into the Hall of Fame. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.280 In Andre Reid and the Buffalo Bills went to four 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.960 consecutive Super Bowls. Andre rinks eight in NFL history and 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.920 total career receptions and fourteenth in NFL history and total 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.199 career touchdown receptions. Andre Reid on the Cut to A 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.360 Podcast let's clear there, there's all there's this member. When 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.600 I was playing with Baltimore with Carolina and we were 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.880 heading in the halftime, and everybody thinks me and you 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.520 were arguing, Oh I have seen that like viral clips. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.040 You know that. I get that one too, every ting 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.719 and everybody is like, oh, They're like, oh, Steve, what's 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.280 going there? Andre, who do you think? And they don't understand. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.320 I was going against one of the corners. I was 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.480 marking him and he was talking and you just happened 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.120 to walk past me and Andre g a legend, and 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.760 Andre like, don't let don't let that your fellow get 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.839 it get in you now. And I'm like, so, Andre 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.440 kind of like he knew I was ripped up. So 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.880 he's like he he's trying to get me to go 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.280 in the locker room. And I go on the locker room. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:59.320 He know I'm coming back out like like yes, And 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.280 so he's and so me and him talking about and 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.440 I'm just like, man blankety blank blank blank black. And 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.800 it's more of seeing my elder statesman, a dude that 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:14.520 I respect. It looked up to watch going because here 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.960 here here's what I gotta I gotta let you know, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.080 growing up in l A. You don't understand how much 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.560 you crushed us as a l A kind of seeing 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.280 l A r l A Raider Oakland Raider when both 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.720 Jackson hurt his hip and we and you know, I'm 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.920 in l A. So it's nine eight one, Yeah, it's 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.280 nine am, nine thirty. While I'm getting up, I had 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.120 Jimmy Dean's turkey sausage with some some blue baby preserves 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:49.280 and the English muffin and uh some pineapple Chastis saster 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:55.800 Shasta horrible breakfast. But um man, I'm watching the Buffalo 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:03.600 Bills crush Young Eve's heart because Bo Jackson is not playing, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.240 didn't play, and y'all murked us. That was supposed to 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:09.920 be hard. That was supposed to be our year and 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.360 our team. We're going out there to play, and you 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.960 guys just demolished this man. No vote, no Bo Jackson vote, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:25.640 didn't play. Uh. That is when Williams he was skinny 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:30.680 Skinny number twenty two, Skinny Harvey Harvey. Williams is the 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.600 running back who actually took over after that for a 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.520 little bit. Yeah, man, I just remember that, and that's 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:42.000 how that's that's uh you're talking about nostalgia, but that 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.560 that's de Andre Reid that I see. So when I 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.120 was playing, when I see Andre Reid on the sideline, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.560 and I'm going to get his team, and that's that's 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.720 the guy I see. So I'm just charged up, like 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.200 it's like big brout, like it's it's it's uncle Dre. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.680 I gotta show up. It's Mr Read, I gotta show up, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.320 and I gotta come calie. I'm oh, and he and 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.000 he did and he did. So it's it's it's really 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.600 man so to get you on my podcast and just 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.600 really to talk to you. Mm hmm. Man, It's just 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:21.680 it's um, it's like I'm daydreaming and I and I 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.920 don't want to open my eyes because I dreamt so 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:30.960 many times of hoping to be close to being in 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.840 a thousand yard club I played when I when I 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.000 played football, man, I had football cars. So call pickings 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:46.640 Herman uh more, Andre Andre Read, Henry Ellert, the thous 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.400 and yard club. That's what I wanted to be in. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.400 That's what I that's what I saw football last. I 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.360 didn't see football as a financial path. I saw it 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.560 as a path of the black heat men and heroes 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.360 that I saw on the television because that was before 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.320 we knew salaries. Man, I just wanted to be like 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.920 those dudes. Man, I had a car collection. I had 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.000 my car collection. My tops had that steel ass chalk 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:16.240 gum right, white powder on your damn face. All right, 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.360 he's right as at ampm bro go to a MP 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:27.120 and rode my BMX bike with some cars. Yeah right, Spike, Yeah, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.960 you open you open it up and say who I 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.520 got in there? Who I got? Yeah? Excited? Yeah, you know, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.760 Mike quit and Randall cutting him. It's funny that you 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.840 say that, Steve, because to go back even you know, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.399 before I played, it was the same way with guys 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:49.119 like Lyn Swan and and John Stalworth and guys like that. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:50.760 And you know, I was a big Pittsburgh Steeler fan 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:54.000 growing up in high school, in college, and I wore 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.200 eight eight in college because I wanted to be Lyn Swan. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:05.040 And what's cementing that was when Marvel leaving our head coach, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.800 got inducted to the hall in two thousand one. Lin 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.760 Swan was in that class and he gets up there 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.560 and does his speech and I'm sitting in the audience. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.479 You know, I didn't retire until you know, I retired 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.960 to a year before that, so I haven't been almost 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.160 close to a year out. And he's doing his speech 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.480 and he mentions me in his speech, and I turned 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.680 around and looked at everybody else, like, who's he talking about? 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:40.159 M And I just was like, that was my moment 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.280 that a guy that I idolized as a as a 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.639 young kid, as a high school kid, in college and 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.679 awards number and he mentioned me in his Hall of 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.199 Fame speech. So that was it for me when I 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.800 when that happened. So you know, I understand where you're 0:18:54.800 --> 0:19:00.200 coming from, because this game is generational. Guys leave, guys 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:05.199 take over. Guys leave, guys take over, and you you 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.639 look at the guys before you you idolize them, and 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:15.200 guys now idolize you. You hope they do because we're 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.600 we're living in it. This is a different NFL players 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.359 are totally different all the way from what they do 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.800 to how they talk. Everything is different because social media 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.960 has been a big influence on that. But the old 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.240 school you can't get away from that. And I will 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.920 always be old school when I talk. They talked about 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.120 the greatest receivers of all time. Obviously Jerry and Chris, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.199 and you know, the guy I'm talking to definitely deserves 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.320 to be in that in that category. I talked about 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.320 those guys because they did it for me, and that 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.159 is that is the bottom line that will never change. Well, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.160 I would take it. I'll take it a step further. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.280 They didn't do it for me. Y'all would have standard 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:00.919 right when I look, can I talk and I have 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.760 an opportunity that y'all are the standard right. And and 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.840 you know a little bit with the Earth thing man, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.880 I always looked at Earth, He's the standard. I looked 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.280 at irv is like, you know, the playmaker. And you know, 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.240 even though we worked together we had a little tiff, 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:18.159 it was like I've always respected Earth right, and not 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.479 because he was a cowboy, but when you looked up, 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.000 he was the playmaker and he made plays right. And 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:31.119 so that's why you know, it's funny as I you 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.680 know in here I've talked about that and everybody I've 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:38.200 shared like when I talk about the way I played, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.480 I played the I played the game for the standard 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.959 in which I learned it from where it's slobber knocker, 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.359 it's bald. Now the saying this this, this, this, this 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:55.280 same uh, the same PTA meetings. Right, this ain't the team. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:21:00.280 This ain't the team. M Uh you know the the YMC. Hey, 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.600 this is this is when you go across middle Mel 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.840 Blunt to blow you up. Donnie Shells had put you 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.000 to sleep? Right, Ronnie a lot to give you that 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:16.480 night night? Right? Give you ninety ninety Yes, Hey, Steve Atwater, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.960 make you change your whole perspective on how you looked 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.719 at you become the Nigeria nightmare. Steve Atwater hit you 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:29.360 you'd be just become Nigerian. You're doing some different type 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.440 of contemplating now, Huh. I never heard that one. Hey, 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:39.000 when I see Christian Nacorey, I'm gonna tell him that one. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.800 I love cut to It and I love it even 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:49.239 more when you download us and subscribe and you can 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.760 follow us on social media too, Smithie where where at 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.680 at cut to It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.200 cut to It? Facebook cut to It feature? And Steve 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.919 Smith Sr. What about online? And you can follow us 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.640 at cut to It podcast dot com where you can 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.840 buy merch and you can subscribe to us wherever you 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:14.160 listen to podcasts. I got all my answers questions. Um yeah, 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.960 I got all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for. 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.480 A brother cut to a podcast dot com. I know 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.480 there's so many stories, and we're gonna get into so 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.880 much of that stuff. But our first segment really quick, 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:28.719 we'll get into it's called get ice up Smith. Why 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:30.240 don't you give them the first one? You went to 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:39.520 Cookstown University D two. Cookstown used to be name something else. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:44.480 What is that name? Uh, it was before it was 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.159 a university. All I know is that Cookstown Teachers College. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.159 That's good, but that is incorrect, my friend, Okay, what 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.479 is it? And you draft? You were drafted in the 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.960 fourth round in m hm. They changed their name in 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.080 three of That would indicate at some point you were 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:07.280 there when they changed their name. Uh, you're gonna hit 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.200 the cabinet back there. You're gonna knock off the wheaties. 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:13.040 You're gonna hit you a little bit. I have no 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.000 idea city. That's a good one. That's the first. That's 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:19.240 the first one. You stubbed me one Cookstown State College, 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:27.040 nineteen July. No, don't don't ride with me now. It 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.679 ain't no room on this bandwagon. You can't get on. 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:34.280 Before that, it was Ritown, Teacher's College before Cookstown State. Okay, 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:41.320 who's your hero and why? My dad? Definitely? Um. I 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:43.879 think most people say their dad because that's where you 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:48.720 get all your knowledge from. UM. My dad, you know, 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.840 he passed away in nine during one of my games, UM, 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:57.880 passed away at home and during your game. During the game, 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.280 it was a it was a Sunday game, four o'clock game. 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:03.760 My mom and my two brothers came up to the 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:05.520 game because it was a later game. My dad wanted 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.480 to stay home because he had to get up for 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.520 work the next morning. And actually it was just my 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:17.439 one brother and oh yeah, he passed probably during the 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:19.280 game when watching the game. My brother went to pick 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.480 him up in the morning and the door was wide open. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.639 TV was on, and he kind of knew what was 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.120 going on. He kind of knew something wasn't right. And 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.119 he walked in the door. He was laying on the floor, 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:35.280 so he had he had passed probably that night. UM. 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:44.040 And I remember him calling me crying and it was yeah. 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:47.560 So I told the coach and I said, Coach, I 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:50.560 gotta get home. My dad just passed last night. And 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:52.640 they put me on a private jet and I got 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.920 home before my mom got home, and when my mom 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:01.320 saw me that she knew something something happened. So yeah, 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.440 it was pretty devastating. Man. He was fifty two years old. 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:13.399 Mm and uh, like I said, he never missed the game. Rain, sleet, snow, hail, fire, 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:17.200 The world could have been falling. My dad would have 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:22.919 been there, so um, yeah that's what I Uh. It 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:27.879 was crazy, crazy day, crazy time. Man. But he's proud. 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:34.040 He's up there proud right now. Whoa, and let's let's 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:36.560 hop into your journey, little bit. Andre. Where are you from. 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:39.960 What's the place you call home? Uh? Well, San Diego 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:43.280