Speaker 1: I want to start with Giants rookie linebacker Abdul Carter,
Speaker 1: who evidently has no shame in asking the NFL Legends
Speaker 1: for their jersey number. After being drafted by the Giants
Speaker 1: third overall, he said he wanted to wear number fifty six,
Speaker 1: the retired number of Giants legend LT himself, Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 1: Taylor quickly rejected that request, saying quote, get another number.
Speaker 1: End quote. Carter then tweeted, quote the worst thing he
Speaker 1: could say was no, my stance don't change. LT is
Speaker 1: the goat, nothing but respect. This just gonna make me
Speaker 1: work even harder. I love it. End quote. After that rejection,
Speaker 1: Carter then moved on to his number at Penn State,
Speaker 1: number eleven, retired by the Giants in honor of quarterback
Speaker 1: Phil Simms. While Simms said he would have given the oka,
Speaker 1: he was ultimately outvoted by members of his family and
Speaker 1: rejected Carter's request as well, about which Carter tweeted, quote, Damn,
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm gonna be out there with just
Speaker 1: my last name on my jersey, no number, JK, JK,
Speaker 1: It's all love. Just want to play football. End quote. Actually,
Speaker 1: ab Du Carter, you're lying you don't just want to
Speaker 1: play football, you want the number that you want. It's
Speaker 1: not a crime, but ab Du card because I'm quite
Speaker 1: sure you're going to be great, because you're a baller,
Speaker 1: and somebody said you were right next to me at
Speaker 1: the next game. I didn't even notice you. My man,
Speaker 1: my bad, my apologies. Let me say this to you.
Speaker 1: I want you to imagine, Abdu Carter, although I totally
Speaker 1: believe you when you say it was out of respect,
Speaker 1: because why would you want to wear the number of
Speaker 1: a scrub? Why would you want to wear the number
Speaker 1: of an average player. Of course, you're respecting the individuals
Speaker 1: whose numbers you reached out to grab, you know, in
Speaker 1: Phil Simms case, to a lesser degree, because that's just
Speaker 1: the number you wanre in college. Whereas with LT it
Speaker 1: was out of respect for his greatness. With you playing
Speaker 1: in that position, I'm quite sure it was out of respect.
Speaker 1: But ab dual Carter, respectfully, just imagine that you played
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty years in the National Football League. Imagine
Speaker 1: that you recorded over one hundred and thirty two sacks.
Speaker 1: Imagine that with the great linebackers in NFL history, the
Speaker 1: Dick Dick Butkus's of the world and others. You know,
Speaker 1: the Jack Hams, Jack Lambert's of the world and so
Speaker 1: many others, the Ray Lewis's of the world, the Ronnie
Speaker 1: Lotts of the world. The list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: Imagine you yourself have that kind of career spanning fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty years, and the rookie who's never played a
Speaker 1: game calls you, after all of those years of greatness
Speaker 1: and service which warranted your number being retired and raised
Speaker 1: to the rafters of a stadium and lives in the
Speaker 1: franchise lore that somebody who's never played the game came
Speaker 1: to you and said, can I wear your number? You
Speaker 1: sure you will feel about that. You know they respect
Speaker 1: you because your number is retired and you earned it.
Speaker 1: But you wouldn't feel some kind of way about somebody
Speaker 1: who's never played the game asking you for that, asking
Speaker 1: you for the right to unretire their number so you
Speaker 1: could wear it, and you've never played the game and
Speaker 1: you've never proven a damn thing on a professional football field.
Speaker 1: I need you to think about it that way, bro,
Speaker 1: Get your own number, make your own way, and then
Speaker 1: get that number retired, and see how you would feel
Speaker 1: if somebody came and asked you to have the number
Speaker 1: lowered from the rafters just so they could wear it
Speaker 1: when they've never played the game. After it took you
Speaker 1: an entire career to earn that number being retired in
Speaker 1: your name. That's all I'm saying. I'm sure you meant
Speaker 1: no ill will or anything like that. I just think
Speaker 1: you need to look at it from a different lens
Speaker 1: instead of the lens you're looking at it from. Penn
Speaker 1: State ain't the National Football League. As much as we
Speaker 1: respect the Big Ten, Penn State is not the National
Speaker 1: Football League. Bro, It's just not