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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Titans Podcast. This is the OTP.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mike Keith with Amy Wells. Hello, my key. I

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Speaker 1: think we would call this a special edition, extra special edition.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it goes one beyond just special edition.

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Speaker 1: I would agree. Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk is back.

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Speaker 1: Happy to be here on a happy day with Eddie George.

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Speaker 1: Here with us Edward Nathan George Junior, Sarah his number

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, along with his teammates Steve McNair's number nine,

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Speaker 1: gonna be put away forever on September the fifteenth, So incredible.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us how you felt when Amy called

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Speaker 1: you to let you know that she was going to

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Speaker 1: do this. I was I was speechless, Actually, I thank

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Speaker 1: you for thanking. I wondering why she's calling me, other

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Speaker 1: than I I got in trouble. You know, I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I thought she's gonna ask me to come out retirement

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, can you play you know, fullback floor.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't help at all, I know, but um, when

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Speaker 1: I got the call, Um, I think I was on

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Speaker 1: the golf course or somewhere, but I just kind of

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was just a gift that didn't have

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Speaker 1: to come at all. You didn't have to recognize myself

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Speaker 1: with Steve. We're already in the Ring of honor um people.

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Speaker 1: You know our history, and I'm comfortable with that. So

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Speaker 1: it's not anything that I was looking at to validate

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Speaker 1: my career anything of that nature. But uh, to still

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Speaker 1: to be thoughtful to say, hey, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to recognize two of the um former players played here

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Speaker 1: that really led the way they let our franchise leaders

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Speaker 1: of the Titans at the particular time and in this

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Speaker 1: regard was tremendous. And you know, there was a rule,

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Speaker 1: you know, for the only way you get your number retired,

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Speaker 1: you have to be in the Hall of Fame, according

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Speaker 1: to Bud and that's how it was. But she sees

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Speaker 1: things differently, and that's a tremendous honor. And you know,

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Speaker 1: when I told my family, I told a good friend

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Speaker 1: of mine who's also a football historian, also my business partner.

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Speaker 1: He says ed, there are more there are more Hall

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Speaker 1: of famers than there are guys that have their numbers retired.

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Speaker 1: So this is not like oh, some fluffy thing. This

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. And today in seeing the jerseys

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Speaker 1: and seeing Steve McNair and the original you know, Carolina

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Speaker 1: this is the exclamation point and the period or the

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Speaker 1: cherry on top of a wonderful, beautiful cake that was

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Speaker 1: I may have had with how my career stopped or ended.

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Speaker 1: And I'm at peace, at total piece with that. Now, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to go through the story of how this

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Speaker 1: came together, and I guess the first part of the

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Speaker 1: in Steve McNair's number nine, which to all of us,

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Speaker 1: we had a physical reaction, not just an emotional reaction,

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Speaker 1: about deciding to do that, because it was not a

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Speaker 1: asked to do them, to announce that I've I've done

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Speaker 1: it before in New York, but it was different here

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to do it when our pick came up,

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Speaker 1: He's very present. I couldn't tell, I couldn't hear anything

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to show, you know, Titan fans, this

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Speaker 1: Uh here in nash would not say a word about it,

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Speaker 1: You know that that's what that represents. You know, the

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Speaker 1: amy for you. You see Eddie do this, you see

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Speaker 1: It just was the right thing. I said, we need

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Speaker 1: You were both quote guys who could be the face

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Speaker 1: How special to think about your dad and two of

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Speaker 1: the family and mum. But but certainly you know, the

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Speaker 1: draft just don't end right now. It has been. The

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Speaker 1: itself was all over the city. And watch this though.

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Speaker 1: Because of that, good fortunes comes this way. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: And that's it. That's to me, honestly. I know it's

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Speaker 1: early in the year, but that's um. That's the changing

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Speaker 1: much like in to ninety nine with Jacksonville in the rain,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget any one of my favorite days. Remember

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Speaker 1: from that point on we've owned Jacksonville and from that

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Speaker 1: Every man on the punt team for the Titans grabs

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Speaker 1: if you don't punt the ball, you're still on offense.

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Speaker 1: The Titans twenty Jaguar's nineteen. See you boys, that was

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Speaker 1: the type of stuff you practiced. Yep, just like later

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Speaker 1: a hooking ladder the next week in San Francisco that

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Speaker 1: he's catching you off guard. I mean, it's it's knowing

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Speaker 1: the game, knowing the rules. Those things make a big difference.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, everybody's good in the NFL, but it's paying

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Speaker 1: attention to detail and the willingness to do what oh

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Speaker 1: just a good So as we leave, congratulations to the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and of the year. Thank you. Adam will be

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to that. Final thoughts on today. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: just so excited for Eddie and his family and for

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Speaker 1: great September fifteenth. Gonna need some tissues. I've cried like

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Speaker 1: three times today and we're not even there yet. So

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Speaker 1: I'll stalk up Amy, Adam Strunk, Eddie George of the

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Speaker 1: retired number twenty seven, Thank you for joining us on

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Speaker 1: the OTP. For Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith next week,

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Speaker 1: Mike next week, Mike Vrabel. It just keeps scaring to

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Speaker 1: this window. Yeah, special, so we judge, thanks for joining

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