WEBVTT - Hour 2 – Larry Fitzgerald, Kyle Whittingham Rivalry Downer 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.400 Sports Radio Our. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.920 Two on this Monday, Best and Worst of the weekend. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.520 Once you saw that you liked you didn't like. Operator 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.440 Tyler is sitting by at eight seven to seven three 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.560 DP show. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.720 you for downloading the app and we see good morning 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.439 to our radio affiliates around the country. Stat of the 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.000 Day is always brought to you by Panini America, the 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.239 official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Coming up 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.400 Thursday night. It's here. NFL preseason kicks off the Panthers 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.760 facing the Cardinals in the Hall of Fame game that'll 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.520 be Thursday on NBC and Peacock. Speaking of Hall of Fame, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.080 Larry Fitzgerald in the on deck circle for the Pro 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.919 Football Hall of Fame coming up this Saturday, seventeen seasons 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.239 as the Cardinals wide receiver, eleven time Pro Bowler and 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.960 second NFL receiving touchdown leader and part of the All 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.200 Decade team first ballot Hall of Fame running down on 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:06.559 the list. Uh, pretty good resume there, Larry. Congratulations on 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.039 on the honor. How long would it take for you 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.280 to get ready? If you know, like we're waiting for 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.920 Aaron Donald. How long would it take for you to 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.720 get ready for this season? 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.880 Yeah, I think that ship is so there's no there's 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.440 no coming back for me, you know. I you know, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.760 thinking about what Aaron's you know, he's one of those guys. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.959 He's a fitness freak though. You know, he's a big guy, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.600 and you know, he just constantly stays in shape. That's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.480 kind of part of his his rituals. So I think 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.280 his bounce back will be a lot quicker. But to 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.560 be out of the game for a few years and 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.280 get back into that the trenches, the double teams and 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.840 all of the things that he's got to deal with, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.039 you know, it's. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:43.800 That's quite impressive. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.160 You think he's coming back. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.280 I think he's one of. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.840 Those guys who loves the game, and he's going back 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.240 to a team who legitimately has a great chance to 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.480 be able to win a championship. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.960 With the Distion, the Miles Garrett. You put those two 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.680 and you know, Young. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.680 And a couple other guys in that defensive front, you know, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.280 they they present a formidable challenge for any offensive line 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.160 and scheme that they would play against. And obviously you 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.600 know with Pulka, Davonte Adams and you know Kuren Williams, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.720 you know Kirwin and I mean they're loaded over there. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.080 What is it about pitt guys? How did you end 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.000 up at pitt Dan. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.320 It was actually a crazy story, Moprinso coordinator god Rest, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.400 his soul's name was Ed Cole. He was taking me 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.560 and a couple of my teammates on armificial visits. So 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.000 we went to University of Illinois, we went to Notre Dame, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.640 were Ohio State, and we were on our way to 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.880 Penn State. It was a really really bad uh you know, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.519 rainstorm or the turnpike. So they actually shut the turnpike 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.240 down based on visibility and so stay trooper shut it down. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.840 My coach said, hey, we can't get up there. We 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.000 call Penn State let him know what happened. They said, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.160 can we can? We rescheduled for the following day, so 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.799 we had a full day in Pittsburgh, and coach Cole said, hey, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.520 we're here in town, why don't we just go visit 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.680 University of Pittsburgh. You know Dan Marinos, Tony Durchaid, Curtis Martin. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.519 He start naming off all the great players and I 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.480 say like, yeah, let's let's just go by. Literally, we 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.359 go over, we meet wald Haare, Shady, Brooke Cart, you know. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.160 All the coaching staff there, they had no idea who 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:11.600 I was. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.760 We end up leaving the next day we're driving the 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.320 pench that they called my coach's cell phone. They offered 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.720 me a scholarship and it just kind of started from there. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.440 So if you don't have that rainstorm, you might not 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:25.519 have ended up at Pitt. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.360 There's no chance I would have been there, because they 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.840 didn't really they don't. They don't recruit Minnesota. That's not 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.960 some place they actually go. And so there's zero zero 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.360 percent chance I would have gone there. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:38.920 When did you know you were good? 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.000 I would say when I was when I was young. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.200 I mean I was always better than everybody I played against, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.600 even at seven years old. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.720 But everybody used to always say, you're from Minnesota. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.680 You know you played you know, you played three eight 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.120 three a high school football. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.920 Your your competition's horrible. And so I had that seat 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:00.520 doubt in. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.480 My mind a little bit that the competition was just 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.880 that bad. And then I got to college and about 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.880 week two I realized that I had with it to 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.280 not only just be there, but actually be a good player. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.560 And if I continue to stay on that trajectory, that 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.440 might have a chance. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.880 And of course, your dad was a longtime sports writer. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.280 You're up there in Minnesota covering the Vikings, you get 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.479 to be a ball boy. You've talked about that experience 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.640 many times, but the fact that Randy moss Is knocks 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.560 on your door to tell you you're going into the Hall 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.159 of Fame. Take us back to the first time you 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.400 met Randy moss. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.000 So my first memory of Randy is pretty vivid. I 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.560 was a ball boy and me and a couple of 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.200 ball boys were actually in the gym at Mankato State 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.919 and it was they could walk through the gym to 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.840 head to the practice field, and we were in there 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.440 playing basketball, shooting horse and Randy had to walk through 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.240 out there. So they were getting ready to walk through, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.000 and it was his birthday. I think he held out 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.880 of camp for a day or two or so, I 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:00.520 can't remember, but it was his first States. It was 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.159 a huge anticipation and obviously, you know, we'd all followed 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.560 this journey at Marshall and he wanted to see him 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.120 and I remember he him like throws the ball and 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.840 he hit like two three pointers from like about two 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.960 feet behind the three point line, and then before he 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.880 before he comes. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.760 And he dunks it outside. You know, it's like you 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.200 know the circle there, he and he. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.880 Dunks it and he walks out, and I'm like, oh 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.600 my gosh, it's just this. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.800 Is so unbelievable. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.400 I'm fourteen years old at the time and just so 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.360 enamored and like, that was my first experience in moss. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.479 What was your welcome to the NFL moment? 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.479 Happened Week two my rookie year. We played the New 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:42.960 England Patriots, and. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.040 I'll never forget I was I was going to running 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.960 across the route and William McGinnis like rearranged my whole 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.159 face mask is back when they used to really like 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.800 collision you and he was he was. He was dropping 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.040 out in the coverage and I wasn't paying attention and 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.080 he decapitated me. I got up, and then my coach 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.520 was like, you gotta be more physical, you gotta be 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:05.039 more physical. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.240 So there's quarters. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.080 I come up and I hit Rodney here because as 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.280 hard as I can drop him on the ground and 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.839 to look in his eyes, he's chasing me back to 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.840 the huddle and I get back to the sylum like, coach, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.680 why did you have me do to this man? Is 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.240 absolutely crazy? And he proceeded to chase me around the 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.960 rest of the game. I could not wait till that 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.800 game was over, and I realized, like, why the Patriots defense. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.920 You know, they had Teddy Bruski and Mike Brabel and Ted. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.640 Johnson, and I mean, like, these dudes were Vince will Fork. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:38.159 I mean these dudes were massive, physical, mean, aggressive, angry men. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.040 And I learned that at twenty years old very quickly. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.320 I could imagine Rodney Harrison was going to get you back, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.320 because Rodney Rodney got everybody. I remember he told me 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:54.200 that he got fined or got suspended. He had a 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.960 shot on Jerry Rice across the middle. He said, I 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.160 took him out. That's what you're supposed to do. Game 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.600 has changed a little bit since that Larry. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.040 It has it has. I think it's much better. Guys 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.159 could play a lot longer, and you know, I think 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.400 we need we needed to make the game a little 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.960 bit safer. It's it's it's not as nearly as violent 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.160 going across that middle. You know, the Steve Atwaters and 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.200 the Joey Browners and the Jack Tatums of the world, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.200 you know, will be very disappointed in the way we 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:21.760 play game. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.680 Now we're talking Larry Fitzgerald, got the big speech coming up. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.120 How many times you practiced it? 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.000 I practiced it a ton of times, actually working very 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.600 closely with a former colleague of yours, Jerry Madaline, you know, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.000 helping me kind of get trying to get prepared for it, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.120 so uh, you know, five or six times a day 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.800 so to make sure I have it, have it down 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:46.720 pad on Saturday. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.880 Okay, our tears in the script. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.400 Tears are never in the script, you know, you know that, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.720 but you never know how you're going to respond. You know, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.200 you see family and friends and people who have really 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.200 played the massive role in your life sitting in the front, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.480 and you know, I just don't know how I'm going 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.560 to respond to them. You know, their emotional or one 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.400 of my kids is emotional. You know things you can't 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.280 really practice that. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.400 And your son is going to induct you. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.840 Yes, sir, my oldest son, Devin, He's going to come 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.720 out and do it. I'm really really happy. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.640 I was going to originally have my father do it 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.840 before he passed away. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:27.400 A couple of months ago. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.160 But you know, to be able to have my son 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.320 do it, it's a it's a tremendous honor and I'm 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.199 so privileged to have that. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.160 Well, it's going to be tough when you see your 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.480 son out there and he starts talking about dad. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.080 Yeah. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.880 I got my daughter's wedding coming up in two weeks 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.680 and I got to give a speech, and I'm already 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.959 a mess. I practiced it every single day, and I'm 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.240 a mess when nobody is there listening to me. So 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.240 I can't imagine what that's going to be like. You're 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.200 gonna you're gonna see your life in front of you 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.920 with all teammates, former teammates and people from college and 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.439 high school, and you'll probably be a mess. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.400 And that's okay, Yeah, I definitely will be. Dan. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.760 Let me ask you this, Are you going to be 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.240 crying because of the speech and emotions or are you 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.880 going to be thinking about how much it costs you 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:13.720 for your daughter's wedding? 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:19.240 What will be I already tried, I already cried about that. Yeah. 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.280 As I've told people, it takes a village to put 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.720 on a wedding. It takes a bank account as well 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.200 to put on on a wedding. But yeah, I'm going 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.800 to be a mess, and I don't know how to 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.800 prevent myself from crying. Has anybody told you if you 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.000 do this, you might not cry, or this is the 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.920 best thing to do to not be too emotional. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.760 No, I think that it will draw emotions, and people 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.040 have told me it's going to be one of the 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.520 most emotional things you've ever done. You know, you have 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.160 been planned for thirty years and you know this is 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.000 the culmination of that, the greatest honor you could ever have, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.439 and so. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.760 It should it should be emotional. It shouldn't mean something 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:56.120 to you. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.880 But I think the more you practice and the more 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.440 you're prepared, you know, when you do have those emotions, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.040 you can be able to work through it and get 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.360 back to the messages you're trying to deliver. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.760 And acknowledging your father as well. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.360 Absolutely, Yeah, Pops played a big role. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.200 Just none of it would even be possible it wasn't 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.480 for his sacrifices. You know, he put me in these 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.360 positions around people that I could learn from it, have 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.400 some wonderful mentors, and so you know, his presence and 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:29.120 and his breath of knowledge and fingerprints are all over 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:29.600 my life. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.480 Uh go back to the Randy Moss loaning you as 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.720 car when you went to prom. But what kind of 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.880 car was it that Randy Moss lent you? 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:40.320 It was? 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.760 It was a blue seven forty five L I I 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.360 still remember like it was yesterday. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.960 It was. It was immaculate shape. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.720 And you know once in a more detail I left 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.679 out when I asked him about it was. You know, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.079 I didn't. I didn't. I didn't tell him that I 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.199 didn't have my driver's license yet, and so. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.080 You know, and I don't know how. I don't know 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:01.880 how your dad was. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.440 But my dad when he was home, because he was 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.160 always traveling covering the twins in the summertime, he was 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.080 in Kansas City or Detroit or Cleveland or Chicago company 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.880 to White Sox. So when he got home, he really 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.760 didn't want to he was trying to be home, and 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.720 so he would have thrown me the keys to the 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.320 Pontiac and I would just get to drive up to 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.440 the park and go practice and work out. And so 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.280 he would always just tell me to take the backstreet 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.959 so I felt like I could drive. I never went 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.120 on the freeway or anything like that took the side street. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.760 So I felt like I was pretty I was pretty 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.600 solid with the car, but I never really had anybody 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.800 else in the car with me, you know, so it 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:35.800 was a it was a memory. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.480 I got it back to him, no issues. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.640 I didn't I didn't tell my dates, mom and daddy 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.120 that I didn't have a license, ed that we kept 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.600 all those things to ourselves. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.240 That's pretty cool. Can you can you thank your hands 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.360 during your Hall of Fame speech for me? Just a 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.880 little comic relief up there. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.079 Uh? 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.920 Was it Freddie Mitchell who thanked his hands remember the 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.040 Eagles fight receipt hands? 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.360 Yeah? That was that was hilarious. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.760 Yeah, well you're not. You're not somebody who is. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.120 That's not that's not really much. That's not really my jam. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.240 And uh, you know, I feel like I did. I 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.360 did have good hands, but I worked at it. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.079 You know. It was thousands and thousands of hours of. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.520 You know, catching catching balls consistently to try to get 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:24.360 them to where they were. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.040 Yeah, but see you didn't fall in line with the 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.520 diva wide receivers. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.400 That's not I was just a big I was just 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.600 as big of a diva as everyone else. But I 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.680 never I never did it in public. You know, I'd 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.720 always keep it to myself or you know, if I 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.320 had a question about targets, things that nature, I would 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.400 do it in a way where you know, it wasn't 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.120 showing up anybody or didn't put me in a position 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.600 where I would, you know, seem to be more more 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:56.320 worried about my own personal you know, asking and and 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.080 accomplishments than it was for my team. And so you know, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.960 I wanted this as bad as anybody else did, but 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.240 I knew there was a way to do it, in 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.840 a way not to do it, in my opinion. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:13.040 Congrats, been fun watching and you know this this is 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.400 your moment. You've earned it, first Balance Hall of Famer. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.680 Good luck this weekend, Thank you, thank you great seeing 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.880 you out of Tahoe. And graduations to you and your 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.000 family on your daughter's wedding, and I hope you have 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:23.760 an amazing time. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.199 Thank you. Larry, all right, they have a great day. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.520 All right there. He is nice, little humble wide receiver. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.800 Spend seventeen years with the Cardinals, and you go back 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.760 to that Super Bowl against the Steelers. I thought the 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.680 Cardinals were going to win, and Larry scores that touchdown 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.120 and Ben leaves that two minute drill. Then it happened 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.040 that quickly the Cardinals were going to win the Super Bowl, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.600 and then Ben had two minutes. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.840 Yeah, Paul, And if you watch that replay on that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.679 James Harrison interception run back, Larry is chasing him down 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.920 going down, he has to go down the sidelines and 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.400 like staffers block his way. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.640 Yeah, he was out of bounds and then came back 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.000 in I think right got down. Still one of the 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:16.360 more underrated football plays in Super Bowl history, football history, 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.080 James Harrison with that touchdown at the end of the 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.160 first half and the fact that he knew what was 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.320 going to happen. He dropped back in coverage and you 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.400 can see Kurt warners like this is going to be 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.680 a touchdown and they just they read it right. He 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.760 read it right, knew it was coming, and then to 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.760 run one hundred yards. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.960 Yes, Paul, I'm watching it right now on YouTube. The 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.320 play takes like an hour and a half. He's rumbling 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.800 and stumbling back down the field. People are coming out 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.320 of nowhere trying to grab him. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.440 Great, we'll take a break the best and worst of 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.120 the weekend. 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Pitt calls Larry's 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.920 coach and says, I want to offer him a scholarship. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.880 Never made it to Penn State, Yes, Paulie. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.320 Yeah, I've only found that story years and years ago 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.160 in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, a local report when he 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.960 became a star there. It kind of reminds me there's 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.720 that legendary Hakim Elaijuan story. He flew here from Africa 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.760 and was at JFK Airport and he was supposed to 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.200 go to Saint John's on a recruiting trip. He went 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.320 outside because his ride was late, in like a short 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.680 sleeved shirt and a tie and pants, and it was 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.800 ice cold. He turned around, went inside, got a ticket 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.080 to Houston and never visited Saint John's. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.000 Yes, Todd, did they put that kind of pressure on athletes? 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.720 I don't know how it's changed where like he couldn't 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.800 have still gone to Penn State. Like, you know, are 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.280 you like betting on yourself? This is going to be 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.600 like you have to decide right now that you're joining us, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.760 and if you go to any other school, it may 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.600 not be waiting for you. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:06.560 No, he didn't. People weren't recruiting players out of Minnesota 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.480 and the recruiting process just started. I think they were 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.560 taking a tour of a few different places, but I 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.600 think he was with teammates. Therefore, they might have been 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.480 players who had a higher profile with some of these schools. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.679 He was kind of tagging along because I don't remember 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.560 hearing much about Larry Fitzgerald as a high school player 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.320 other than he was playing against talent that was not 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.240 what you would find in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, La Florida, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.200 and therefore maybe they limited the number of scholarship offers there. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.840 But I don't think it was Hey, if you don't 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.879 take this scholarship, you know we're going to give it 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:45.560 to somebody else. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:45.800 Yeah. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.639 I surprised that he wouldn't check out Penn State and 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.560 wherever he wanted to go and then could always go 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.480 back to Pitt unless there was a time frame in 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:51.960 the offer. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.440 I don't know. It certainly worked out for him, Yes, Marvin. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.560 Pitt's one of those schools where you don't realize how 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.679 many Heisman Trophy. Went is a haul famers they have 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.440 until you start looking it up and you're just like, man, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.600 they have just as many Hall of Famers as a 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.959 USC or you know, Ohio State, Michigan. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.040 Whoever, Well, they have some big names. I don't know 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.800 if they have as many All Americans as USC or 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:17.280 Ohio State Michigan. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.360 I just meant hall of famers as in pro football 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.680 Hall of famers. I don't know about all Americans. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.760 Well, I would have to see. There's got to be 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.160