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Speaker 2: Setbacks behind Zorn, who's back to pass as time looks

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Speaker 2: And Zorn later in perfectly a Rabel who goes in

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Speaker 1: Now here's your host, the voice of the Seahawks, Steve

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Speaker 1: Rabel and Seahawks Legend Jim Zorn.

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Speaker 3: Broadcasting from the Seahawks Podcast Studio, presented by Sony, an

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Speaker 3: official partner of the Seattle Seahawks. Welcome everybody back to

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Speaker 3: Seahawks Stories along with z Man Jim Zorn. I'm Steve Rabel.

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Speaker 3: Great to be back with you. We haven't had an

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Speaker 3: opportunity the last few weeks, between illnesses and travel and

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Speaker 3: all manner of things. But here we are back. And

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Speaker 3: speaking of travel, you're just back into this into this country.

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Speaker 4: I had the chance to travel with Steve Largent and

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Speaker 4: Mo and Tody Yes, and then to Honduras in Central America,

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Speaker 4: And we got back just a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 4: and we visited troops and we got tours of the

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Speaker 4: And we were treated very well. And there was some

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Speaker 5: There too, a little better than here probably.

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Speaker 4: And I absolutely knew that people were clamoring to have

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Speaker 4: us back with our podcasts just so exciting, you know.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, by the way, is that's something that the

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Speaker 3: NFL Players Association or Legends community puts together this or

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Speaker 4: It's really through NFL Entertainment, and they do a nice job.

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Speaker 4: Because the troops are there, there's they can't you know,

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Speaker 4: But more importantly, they really appreciate the NFL showing up.

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Speaker 4: Eric Kennedy, who's the Seahawks equipment manager, has donated with

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Speaker 4: for me. I brought down some NFL football's leave them

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Speaker 4: with the commanders. They love it. We sign them that

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Speaker 4: we take pictures. We get treated better than, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm certain of that, except for Marshall Fluk. For him,

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Speaker 3: I expect he would be treated very well. Steve, I

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Speaker 3: think we danced the jig. I got bit by a dog.

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Speaker 3: Very good not but it was an actual It was

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Speaker 4: Thank you for clarifying man working.

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Speaker 4: And so we got a demonstration to see how they work,

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the way they're taught. This is a good

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Speaker 3: because when we got here Pale in nineteen seventy six,

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Speaker 5: The community it became community.

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Speaker 3: Outreaching a lot of other things, but it started out

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Speaker 3: does that mean, Sandy, that you've been around here long

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Speaker 6: First of all, when I came here, I wasn't even

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Speaker 4: You know that Sandy Gregory was here before our first

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Speaker 3: They were starting to build out the franchise departments. The

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Speaker 6: Absolutely over the years it's changed a lot more with

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Speaker 7: So you just.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, Sandy, was your job the same then as

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Speaker 6: When I first started, I was really pr I would

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and they're still doing it today.

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Speaker 5: They are, they are.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you've done a lot of things. What's amazing

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Speaker 6: So I think the one thing that I'm really proud

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Speaker 6: And then Chuck Knox came in and said, no, you

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Speaker 7: So that's been going on.

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Speaker 4: Do you search those guys out or do they actually

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Speaker 7: I know that, Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 7: It happened.

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Speaker 4: When you think of players today, they they have foundations.

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Speaker 7: Do you both have summer jobs?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I work part time. I worked on the Saint

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Speaker 6: In uh February of twenty twenty, I had worked at USC.

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Speaker 6: And I'm like okay, and that was like not even

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Speaker 7: So we got it all done.

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Speaker 3: First of all, it's an amazing story about what you

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Speaker 5: They know? Not at all.

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Speaker 3: They raised a family, They did the best that they

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Speaker 5: In those days. We didn't have a four to one

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Speaker 3: You know, we get a pension from the league, but

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Speaker 3: the Sony one thousand x five noise canceling headphones. Jim

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Speaker 3: is writing all this down the official headphones of your

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Speaker 3: Seattle Seahawks. With premium noise cancelation. You're in the zone,

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Speaker 3: no distractions, just pure football. Whether you're in the living

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Speaker 5: When I hear you do that, do you get, you

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited because that just means that this program

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Speaker 3: Could you have imagined in nineteen seventy seven that you

442
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 3: and I'd be sitting here and Sandy would be saying

443
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 3: and I'd be reading a Sony head Phones commercial.

444
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 4: It didn't take me long, not that, but I have

445
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 4: seen you in a fluffy tuxedo with a bow tie

446
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 4: that looked like you were.

447
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 3: Going somewhere style of tuxes. Back with all those with

448
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 3: all those telethons.

449
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 4: You invited You invited me to come down at what

450
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 4: two o'clock in the morning when you were really idn't.

451
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 5: When I was still playing.

452
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 3: I was one of the hosts of the Variety Club

453
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 3: telethon overnight. They couldn't get anybody else to stay up

454
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 3: from two in the morning until seven in the morning.

455
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 3: But heck, for me, that's a chance to learn. It's like,

456
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 3: you know, being at practice every day you get a chance.

457
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 3: You're in front of the camera. You don't have a script.

458
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 4: Go and as a as a player or your teammate,

459
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 4: I would say, what are you doing? You know, what

460
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 4: are you doing? It's two o'clock in the morning, you

461
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 4: have a tuxedo that oh you know, and then you're

462
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 4: and then uh, it didn't take long to know that

463
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 4: that's where you were on your way. I mean I

464
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 4: could see you had a real command of what you

465
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 4: were trying to accomplish. And you've made it into a

466
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 4: whole different career with all kinds of accolades and and

467
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 4: earned well rightly so.

468
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 3: As the great sports writer in this area, Claire Farnsworth

469
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 3: once said, uh, talking about all the great Seahawks is

470
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 3: Steve Raybell Well as a receiver, he was a better commentator.

471
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 3: So I thought, okay, that's that's fair.

472
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 5: I'll find that. But this is about this is about saying.

473
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 4: Sandy, with all the comings and goings of coaches and

474
00:23:54,680 --> 00:24:01,919
Speaker 4: players where they're just uh, some frantic gets and not

475
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 4: gets and stuff like that, for you, the successes and

476
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 4: failures were there or have you always got things done,

477
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 4: because that's the way I see you. I see her

478
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 4: as the person that's always gotten things done, even though

479
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 4: maybe some guys couldn't do it. She was searching out

480
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 4: the guy that could do it.

481
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 6: I think what I did is I tried to keep

482
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 6: a list of what guys liked. I'd read newspaper articles

483
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 6: and things. So if a guy maybe his maybe it's

484
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 6: a health issue, maybe his dad had diabetes, or someone

485
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 6: played the saxophone, or someone played like the drums, exactly

486
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 6: the variety shows that we used to do. But you

487
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 6: find out what the guys like, and then you try

488
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 6: and put him in the right position so that they're

489
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 6: doing something that they enjoy or that touches their heart.

490
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 7: So you try.

491
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 6: I still have the list today of you know, who

492
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 6: likes to play video games and the different health issues

493
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 6: and things like that, and so you can put the

494
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 6: guys where you know where their best. Sometimes you need

495
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 6: to send two guys out at one time too. The

496
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 6: guys aren't comfortable doing it, so they go out in

497
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 6: pairs or something.

498
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 7: You just have to try and make it work.

499
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 4: How did you get people to agree to have rapes

500
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 4: instead of larger and yeah, that was really.

501
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 7: You just say Steve. I guess Steve.

502
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 4: Is coming great.

503
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then the huge disappointment on children's face, on

504
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 3: the faces when they see it's not the Steve that they.

505
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 4: Didn't He didn't make Steve where number eighty. He didn't

506
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 4: make Ravees wear number eighty when he.

507
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 7: Showed up three eighty three. Yeah.

508
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 6: But you know, think about how many of our guys

509
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 6: still live here. I think it's pretty amazing when you

510
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 6: think about how many guys stayed in the area and

511
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 6: are still doing things in the community here.

512
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 7: Pretty special.

513
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 3: And I mean guys who came in seventy six or

514
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 3: seventy seven and we're only here for a year or two.

515
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 3: It's one thing if you had an entire career here,

516
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 3: you know, you had your playing career here, came back

517
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 3: and had a coaching career here. I've been here since

518
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 3: and a number of us were here for a long time.

519
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 3: But some guys were here a year or two as

520
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 3: players and they stayed, So.

521
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 5: I think it said something.

522
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 3: In fact, I did a charity event just yesterday with Zoe.

523
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,239
Speaker 5: You mentioned him.

524
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 3: Alonzo Mitz, former defensive tackles for the Seahawks, one of

525
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 3: the toughest guys The story about Zoe having his entire

526
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 3: upper bridge just basically knocked out of his mouth during

527
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 3: a game and continued to play is one that if

528
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 3: you want to know toughness, that's this guy. And yet

529
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 3: he is such a such a kind hearted, good person for.

530
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 5: All he does.

531
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 3: But you you know, you are in these situations and

532
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 3: and you suddenly say, wow, I love it up here.

533
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 5: He's from Florida.

534
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 3: He played a couple of seasons, maybe three seasons, and

535
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 3: yet he sayed and he has continued to contribute to

536
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 3: the to the area.

537
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 4: You know, when Sandy was describing having to make the

538
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 4: roster list, and I can imagine you think about the

539
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,400
Speaker 4: early days on how that roster changed, and you must

540
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 4: have been every every day putting a new list together.

541
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 4: You know, with that printing It wasn't even a computer printer.

542
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 6: Oh no, no computers, right, And then we had a

543
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 6: machine that would take the press release and it would

544
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 6: fold it and stuff it in the envelope for you.

545
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 7: And I mean we mailed all that stuff out. It

546
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 7: was crazy.

547
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, the lost my train of thought.

548
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 4: Well, I wanted to say with so explain the relationship

549
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 4: you had with Gary, because it was really I mean

550
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 4: you were focused on the players trying to I'm sure

551
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 4: Gary relied on you. How did you work with Gary Wright,

552
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 4: because he did he take over for Don Anderson did.

553
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 6: Okay, So when I was at USC, I was there

554
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 6: for five seasons, and then this new league started, the

555
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 6: World Football League, and Don Anderson took a job with

556
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 6: the league office and asked me to go with him,

557
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 6: and that's when he hired Gary. So Gary just with

558
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 6: the World Football League. Well then a year and a

559
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 6: half later, the World Football League folded and but the

560
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 6: NFL was expanding two new teams, Tampa Bay and Seattle,

561
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 6: and Don had a really good feel about he interviewed

562
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 6: with both. But he had a really good feel about

563
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 6: the Seattle team because he I guess he met with

564
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 6: the Nordstrom family and just right, and we thought he'd

565
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 6: go to Tampa Bay because John McKay was the head

566
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 6: coach at USC who ended up being the coach down

567
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 6: at Tampa Bay. So the three of us were with

568
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 6: the World Football League, and then the Seahawks job opened

569
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 6: and he invited Gary and I to come with him,

570
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 6: and so that's when all three of us came up

571
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 6: here to Seattle.

572
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 7: So Don there was a coaching change, and.

573
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Don was kind of let go and he

574
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 6: started his own PR firm, and then Gary and then Gary,

575
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 6: yeah stepped up. And so Gary is or he's amazing,

576
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 6: absolutely amazing. The Pro Football Hall of Fame honored him

577
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 6: a couple of years ago with the the new Awards

578
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 6: of Excellence that they're doing pretty special.

579
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 4: So Sandy describe because her talent, as we know, kind

580
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: of runs along along line. And the other area of

581
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 4: your expertise was Super Bowls. Oh, yes, right, yes, and

582
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 4: you and Gary where you were hired to actually take

583
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 4: charge of and I don't exactly know what it is,

584
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 4: but I'd like you to explain to our massive audience

585
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 4: what you had to do or how did that begin,

586
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: and what you and Gary did during Super Bowl weeks.

587
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 6: Well, I was fortunate enough to work twenty six Super Bowls.

588
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 6: One when I was still at USC because there was

589
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 6: a game I think it was Super Bowl Sevenikes say

590
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 6: the memorials Super Bowls.

591
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 4: Explain that too, Do what explain? You said? You've got

592
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 4: to work work.

593
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 6: Okay, So at the time when I was at SC,

594
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 6: I had a second job helping with the scoreboard at

595
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 6: the coliseum. Yeah, and so that was what I did.

596
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 6: I was working in the scoreboard during the Super Bowl game.

597
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 6: But then nineteen eighty eight was the next time the

598
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 6: Super Bowl was in San Diego and Gary was heading

599
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 6: up the media center, which is unbelievable. I mean, there's

600
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 6: people from all over the world that come in, media

601
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 6: from everywhere, and so basically you have an area that's

602
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 6: set up where you're putting out press releases daily, They're

603
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 6: getting quotes from the players and all that, and you

604
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 6: have tables set up with all these press releases available,

605
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 6: there's interviews going on. You're just taking care of the

606
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 6: media in any way you can. So my job was

607
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 6: pretty much setting up the office I guess office manager,

608
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 6: making sure that we'd get there early and we'd have

609
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 6: desks for the people that need a desk. We'd have

610
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 6: the staplers, the scotch tape, set up mailboxes and all

611
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 6: that so that we could communicate. It was just making

612
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 6: sure everything was running as well as could be. End

613
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 6: up putting a manual together of the different jobs and

614
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 6: things like that and what each job entailed.

615
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 4: So that was nineteen eighty eight. I had nineteen eighty eight.

616
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 4: It didn't have anything to do with the Seahawks.

617
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 6: Everything to do with the Seahawks, it was working with

618
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 6: the league office.

619
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: Then after that, yeah, so and.

620
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 6: Then next year was in Miami. So those two years

621
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 6: I paid my own way, and after that the NFL

622
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 6: started hiring and they paid for me to come, which

623
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 6: was really nice. And so you got the airfare and

624
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 6: the hotel and everything, and I mean, you're you're seeing

625
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 6: these amazing cities and you're going out to dinner every night,

626
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 6: and I think the best part of it is you're

627
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 6: meeting people from other teams that you you can now

628
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 6: call on when you need something. A guy from I

629
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 6: don't know if you guys are going to remember this,

630
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 6: but a couple of years ago, the Amtrak train that

631
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 6: was just starting out.

632
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 7: And was going to Portland and it flipped DuPont.

633
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 6: Yes, there was one of the kids that was on

634
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 6: that that train. He was paralyzed and he was at

635
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 6: Chill Dren's Hospital, and I got a couple of players

636
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 6: and I went with him. It was kJ and I

637
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 6: can't remember who all was with us, Mike Morgan, Lofa,

638
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 6: and we went to visit him and everything in his

639
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 6: room was Jaguars, Naxonville, Jaguars. He was a huge Jaguars fan.

640
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 6: So I got a hold of the guy down there

641
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 6: and he sent an autographed helmet of is it Leonard Fournette? Okay,

642
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 6: so yeah, and he sent an autographed real helmet of

643
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 6: Leonard Fournette to the kid. So just having someone with

644
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 6: other teams that can help you it really.

645
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 7: Yeah.

646
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 4: Do you think that's what the Super Bowls did for you?

647
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 4: Was it connected you with all the other teams in

648
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 4: the NFL?

649
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, because they've stopped now having guys advanced games anymore.

650
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 6: The guys used to come in here a week ahead

651
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 6: of time and do things. All that's changed, you know,

652
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 6: technology because of technology absolutely, And even when we first started,

653
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 6: we'd have there'd be PR meetings. I think the first

654
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 6: PR meetings I went to were in Dallas and we

655
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 6: got to go to South Fork and all these cool things.

656
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 6: But you got to meet the other guys in community.

657
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 6: The first time I went to these meetings, they let

658
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 6: us have breakout sessions.

659
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 7: The community people. We didn't get to you know, we.

660
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 6: Do breakout sessions, but you got to meet the people

661
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 6: and share ideas and the lady in charge then at

662
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 6: the NFL, Beth Call it. And she used to say,

663
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 6: if somebody is doing something good in their community, is

664
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 6: deal it. I mean take it and work it. I

665
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 6: mean there's share ideas and do it. So that's what

666
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 6: we all did. It was pretty cool.

667
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 3: A reminder that broadcasting from the Seahawks Podcast Studio presented

668
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: by Sony, an official partner of the Seattle Seahawks. One

669
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 3: point I need to make right away when you mentioned

670
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: that you and Don at first when you left USC

671
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 3: went to the World Football League and I think it

672
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: was Portland, was it not?

673
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 4: Oh no, it was the California Sun, well.

674
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 7: The league office.

675
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 6: To begin with, we were in Newport Beach, and then

676
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 6: the next year they moved to New York and we

677
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 6: were the Southern California Orange.

678
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 5: Wasn't there a Portland team at that time?

679
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 7: There was?

680
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 3: And the reason why I remember this, my first pair

681
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 3: of shoulder pads with the Seahawks were from the Portland team.

682
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: They were a pair of used shoulder pads. Went in

683
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 3: and they were these kind of big, boxy looking shoulder pads,

684
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: and I.

685
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 5: Was just, you know, mine was too good for you.

686
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 3: Now where you go, somebody else sweated in these for

687
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 3: an entire season.

688
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 4: Go for it the best, We provided the best equipments.

689
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 7: It was a Portland storm.

690
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 4: Yes, Portland sandy.

691
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 5: Uh.

692
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 4: What was it like then? You had all these uh

693
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 4: since nineteen eighty eight. Really you were going to super

694
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 4: Bowl after super Bowl and then all of a sudden

695
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 4: we get to go. When I was a coach here

696
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 4: with Mike holmgrin two thousand and six, what was that

697
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 4: like as you had all that experience, because I remember

698
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 4: you telling us what to do and how to do

699
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 4: it and all that kind of stuff and what the

700
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 4: op were.

701
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 6: Well, I think the whole message then was take the

702
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 6: pressure off the players. There's going to be everybody's going

703
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 6: to reach out to them that they're going to want tickets,

704
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 6: they're going to want something, and take that pressure off

705
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 6: of them, and to work with the wives. Let them

706
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 6: handle a lot of that. So we would meet with

707
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 6: the wives and tell them the same thing. Let them

708
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 6: play the game. It's really important. This is an opportunity

709
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 6: of a lifetime. And so we did everything we could

710
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 6: so that the players could just do what they needed

711
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 6: to do and make it as normal as we could.

712
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 4: But you didn't go along with us. You had to

713
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 4: go before correct and very huge set.

714
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 7: Up yeah, we did.

715
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 6: We set up we put gifts in everybody's rooms and

716
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 6: things like that. You don't remember that, or we did.

717
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 6: I can't remember what it was. But we had gifts

718
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 6: in all the rooms, and we had all the meeting rooms.

719
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 6: We made sure everything was set up when the players came.

720
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 6: That was actually, Oh, it's a lot of fun.

721
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first time like that, it's pretty spectacular. We

722
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 3: were outside of Detroit as I or someplace Dearborn somewhere

723
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 3: it was in Dearborn, yeah, but perfectly fine. Facility had

724
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 3: lots of beating room and all that, and it was cold,

725
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 3: and it was cold and got colder as as but

726
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 3: happily the game was inside. Unhappily the way it ended,

727
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 3: but still.

728
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 7: In all those terrible towels. Yeah, boy, it was everywhere.

729
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 5: If we learned from that one.

730
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: Did you feel like we like you prepared, like we

731
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 4: were prepared, because I don't think we were prepared for

732
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 4: the towel that was the first name that was Well

733
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 4: I walked in there as a coach. Yeah, I was thinking,

734
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 4: wait a.

735
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 6: Minute, Pittsburgh is to Detroit and they because there's usually

736
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 6: when you get a hotel room it's for four. You

737
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 6: have to get four nights, and so our fans I

738
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 6: think they just you know, they sold their tickets, made

739
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 6: the money and because I know our section was a

740
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 6: lot of Pittsburgh people in it.

741
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, congratulations for all that that whole you know,

742
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 4: your career, uh, you know, the botto of your career

743
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 4: has just been amazing.

744
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 7: We'll think about Japan. We went to Japan.

745
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 6: I went twice because I went with the cheerleaders, which

746
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 6: was kind of cool. They went over kind of a

747
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 6: promotional thing, and then.

748
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 7: Went with the team. And yeah, just yeah, I've been

749
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 7: really fortunate.

750
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 3: You also have been the keeper, the keeper of the goods,

751
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 3: the keeper of the boxes and boxes, the treasure trove

752
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 3: of the Seattle Seahawks, and all of us who are

753
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 3: former players have stuff.

754
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 5: Kind of what does she do?

755
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 4: What does she have?

756
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 3: Not much because most of what I had I kept

757
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 3: and I've got it, including my original T shirt and

758
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 3: athletics supporter I think in a mesh bag.

759
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 5: All good, But that's probably more than you.

760
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 3: Want to know, and I trust me, I've stopped using

761
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 3: them last year. But it's all the other stuff that

762
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: starts in seventy six that says Seahawks something that's a

763
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 3: logoed item or something that just says, here's how the

764
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 3: Seahawks have grown. You've had access to this. Plus you've

765
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 3: saved so much stuff, and we could fill a section

766
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: of the louver with what you have. And I think

767
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 3: what a lot of us could add to that.

768
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 5: Right.

769
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I told you I worked the twenty

770
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 6: six Super Bowls. You get a lot of stuff from those,

771
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 6: a lot not just the programs, but there's you know,

772
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 6: T shirts and wine glasses and all, I mean.

773
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 4: Tennis shoes. I have Super Bowl ten, so much stuff. Yeah.

774
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 6: So I took this stuff that wasn't Seahawks and I

775
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 6: shipped it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame because

776
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 6: I feel it's going to live on.

777
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 7: And I thought that was a pretty cool thing.

778
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 6: Even when I worked at USC and did that Super

779
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 6: Bowl seven, what they did is they gave us our

780
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 6: lunch in a little suitcase. It was a tiny, little

781
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 6: red and black suitcase. It zipped up, and I'm like,

782
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 6: what am I ever going to do with this? So

783
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 6: I sent it to the Hall of Fame. I kind

784
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 6: of like the idea that it's going to be there.

785
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 4: Where do you have? Are there things today that create

786
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 4: some memories and would and fans in our community would

787
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 4: like to see some of the history of the Seahawks.

788
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 4: I mean, you have some really, I know, I know

789
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 4: what you have of. You have one pair of and

790
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 4: these uh these are broom ball shoes. They're tennis shoes

791
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 4: that have sponge and holes in them. Their their white

792
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 4: top canvas shoes with an orange sponge sort of bottom

793
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 4: on them. And they were supposed to be used when

794
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 4: the field was frozen. And I remember when we went

795
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 4: to Minnesota the game, you know, our entry, you know

796
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 4: when when Pete Gross was uh yeah, in seventy six

797
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 4: against Minnesota. The ground when you when you came out

798
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 4: of the dugout the ground that it was grass, It

799
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 4: was pure grass. The sun was out. I thought, oh,

800
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 4: this is awesome. You walk out there and it was

801
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 4: painted dirt and it number ones and it was frozen solid.

802
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 4: So I tried those shoes on them. They were the worst,

803
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 4: you know, but I kept them and I gave them

804
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 4: the sandy and just just those shoes all alone or

805
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 4: worth really looking at going.

806
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 6: Still, Well, what I did is I think I wrote

807
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 6: that story down because it's so unique, like what these

808
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 6: are and where they came from. But this is all

809
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 6: what's in the Seahawks storage unit in Kent. So there's

810
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 6: a whole there's a cant warehouse and it's for the

811
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 6: pro Shop, so it's where they keep a lot of

812
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 6: their goods. But they gave us a little corner of

813
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 6: it that's fenced off and in there is shelves with I.

814
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 7: Can't even tell you how much stuff is in there.

815
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 6: I saved when they changed the carpet in this vMac,

816
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 6: I saved some of the squares of the carpeting. I mean,

817
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 6: you never know. So there's just all kinds of stuff

818
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 6: in there, but a lot of stuff. I started a

819
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 6: bin with my home. Grin has a bin. I think

820
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 6: there's a Chuck Knox bin. I did Ring of Honor bins,

821
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 6: so there's a gym Zorn bin can easily beIN than

822
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 6: Steve Largent bin. Yeah, there's all kinds. All the team

823
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 6: photos on wood, they're all back there.

824
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 4: There's so I have a chunk of the Kingdome, yes, yes,

825
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 4: you know, I have got blue paint on it. I

826
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 4: don't know what it's from, but I.

827
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 6: Got a chunk I have that at home that they

828
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 6: gave that to me at home, But did you.

829
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 5: Get a seat? They didn't save a seat out of

830
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 5: the Kingdom?

831
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 6: I know, but I found someone that had the bottom

832
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 6: and I had contacted him, and then I don't think

833
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 6: they're gone.

834
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 4: I mean, did you and Gary make up some of

835
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 4: the awards that were given the special recognitions that either

836
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 4: for coaches, for players or honoring people who volunteer. Did

837
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 4: you and Gary make some of those up?

838
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 6: I don't know, because I know, like there's a Seahawker

839
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 6: of the Year and things like that.

840
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,760
Speaker 7: The NFL has a lot of those awards.

841
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 6: The one thing I did mention tomorrow after I was retired,

842
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 6: but I told him there was something I wanted to

843
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 6: do that I wasn't able to get done before I retired,

844
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 6: and that was a Legend of the Year. And I

845
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 6: mentioned to him at a game, and then on Monday

846
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 6: morning he emailed me saying, can you give me more

847
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 6: information on what you're talking about? So I sent him

848
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 6: an email with what I was thinking and how we

849
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 6: should recognize a legend that was still doing great things

850
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 6: in the community. And I also put in there that

851
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 6: I suggested Nacoby Green should get the first one with

852
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 6: all he had done with Fred Hutch and so there's

853
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 6: still continuing that. I know, Jermaine Curse won at this

854
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 6: past year and Randall got it last year, and yeah, good,

855
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 6: I'm really happy about that one because I think that's

856
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 6: pretty cool to recognize the players are doing things.

857
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 5: After all your.

858
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 3: Years of being a part of the Seahawks, is there

859
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 3: one one thing that you look back and say, this

860
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: might be the best thing I ever did in my career,

861
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: and it may have nothing to do with football, Oh,

862
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 3: but this was I'm really proud of this moment, or

863
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 3: I'm proud of the people that was associated with in

864
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 3: doing this.

865
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 4: Well.

866
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 6: Boy, I know that there's a couple of things that

867
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 6: I really liked that I did hear, and one is

868
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 6: the wall downstairs with.

869
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 7: The plaques and the players. Yeah.

870
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 6: I remember when we unveiled that. It was Legends weekend

871
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 6: and everybody was in the IPF, and then after practice

872
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 6: we took everybody out into the hallway and kind of

873
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 6: unveiled it and let the guy see it and all

874
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 6: the selfies and things that were going on. But I'll

875
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 6: never forget Nsbie Glass. He was wiping away tears and

876
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 6: I thought, oh my gosh, Yeah, he saw his name

877
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 6: and I've actually I took a picture that I've helped

878
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 6: them update it a couple of times, and I've taken

879
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 6: pictures of the sections, and I've sent it to a

880
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 6: couple of guys that have ever seen it because they

881
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Speaker 6: don't live here.

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00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 7: I've sent him their name, Edwin had me send him.

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00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:53,919
Speaker 4: So I think that's really cool.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I like that one.

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00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 3: This wall is for those of the IPF indoor practice

886
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 3: facility here at the Virginia Mason Athletic Facility. But there's

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00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: a wall and it of course it's expanding down the

888
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 3: length of the facility because we keep adding players. But

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00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 3: if you played for a year, if you played for

890
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 3: on the on the active roster, there you go. Then

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00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 3: you had a plaque I don't know what four three

892
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 3: inches like the bricks, five inches like the size of

893
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 3: a brand with your signature on it. And Sandy of

894
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 3: course had to learn how to have a you know,

895
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 3: expropriate everybody's signature signed for those signatures on pictures for

896
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 3: everybody that wanted to them of z Man And.

897
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Speaker 5: But it is so cool to walk up there if

898
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 5: you and to know that.

899
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Speaker 3: So from that date seventy six through for me eighty

900
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Speaker 3: one that your name isn't up every time, but it's

901
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 3: that first year and so and it keeps growing, and

902
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 3: the new kids who were here, they come back after

903
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 3: their first season, look up and see their name on there,

904
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 3: and that's really that's really regardless of everything else that

905
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 3: football is today, those kinds of things really mean.

906
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 7: You're not forgotten, not at all. You're a part of.

907
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 3: Part of this organization, and it says so on the wall,

908
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: and that's what's really cool.

909
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 4: I think that's pretty cool. And I also think for Sandy,

910
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 4: her passion is getting this this a museum going so

911
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 4: that people can come and see it, and that may

912
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 4: be in the future for her. So I think she's

913
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Speaker 4: going to have if we had her on again and

914
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 4: that happened, she would she might say that is one

915
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 4: of the accomplishments. And then I would say, and I'm

916
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 4: going to put this out to you because I know

917
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 4: that we all appreciate is the care that you take

918
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 4: for other players, for past players and even players that

919
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 4: have been involved in Northwest sports pro sports. You do

920
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: a great job of continuing to care for that. And

921
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Speaker 4: I can sense your passion for that for those causes

922
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Speaker 4: with it's.

923
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Speaker 6: These guys do so much in the community. Look at

924
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 6: what you guys do alone. I mean, my goodness, Pebble Beach,

925
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 6: you know, with the Navy seal, I mean, and you're

926
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Speaker 6: at every event.

927
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Speaker 7: I am seeing it and even like last.

928
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Speaker 6: Minute helped me out with my Sonics Legends fund the

929
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 6: day before, I would called.

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Speaker 3: You because you get to see and there are so

931
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Speaker 3: many other great people.

932
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Speaker 5: Who came to that naked Millan came.

933
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 7: Yes, and David Wilkins and everybody.

934
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 4: I know they're getting a little tired of him want

935
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 4: like blue and green eminems and stuff like that in

936
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 4: his green room and things of that nature. But you

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00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 4: know right.

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Speaker 6: Now, but what you guys do in the community, that's

939
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Speaker 6: what it is all is kind of a little payback

940
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 6: in a way, because you guys are out there at

941
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Speaker 6: every school function, at hospitals visiting kids. You're a military basis,

942
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 6: senior citizen centers. I mean, you're yeah, all these golf

943
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 6: tournaments and these charity events.

944
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Speaker 4: Well we've learned from the best that's on how to

945
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 4: how to say yes to those kinds.

946
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Speaker 3: Exactly, and quite frankly, it comes down to your leadership.

947
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: Gary don going all the way back and through all

948
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Speaker 3: of those who were in positions today.

949
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Speaker 5: But it also is that logo that's in the wall

950
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 5: on the wall right here in our studio.

951
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Speaker 3: It's that Seahawk logo because we've all been a part

952
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 3: of this, you know, the three of us now almost

953
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 3: fifty years. So that's that's the reason we're all here.

954
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Speaker 3: That's the reason that Sandy Gregory had to be a

955
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Speaker 3: part of this podcast. Sandy, we appreciate it as always.

956
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Speaker 3: I know you were a little nervous when you sat

957
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Speaker 3: down and you look like a pro.

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00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 5: It might come for Jim maybe not so much, but

959
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 5: you the pro.

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Speaker 4: As always, we just hope it wasn't underwhelming for you.

961
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Speaker 4: That's experience.

962
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Speaker 5: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, Broadcasting from the Seahawks Podcast Studio,

964
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Speaker 3: presented by Sony and official partner of the Seattle Seahawks.

965
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Speaker 5: This has been Seahawks Stories.

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Speaker 3: With yours truly and Jim Zorn and today's guest Sandy Gregory.

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Speaker 5: We will see you next time.

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Speaker 4: Thanks San