Speaker 1: We're bringing you another compilation of my favorite stories for
Speaker 1: games with names.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Rob Gronkowski on his first super Bowl Memories.
Speaker 4: We won the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: That's the best part about you.
Speaker 4: That was the best part of that year.
Speaker 6: That was just the super Bowl Club, bronest after the
Speaker 6: super Bowl Club.
Speaker 1: The first one was pretty special. Fourteen. What are you
Speaker 1: reading over there, Gronk?
Speaker 5: I'm reading your tweet.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, problem my tweet too, Gronk, you look like
Speaker 1: a fighter.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 1: They say, oh, you play football from the actor from
Speaker 1: Flash Gordon me Bud, he's the only best tight end.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Oh bro, Sorry, that was a great tweet. That was
Speaker 4: a great tweet. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 6: And then top even I couldn't tackle Gronkowski last night time.
Speaker 6: You couldn't tackle anyone.
Speaker 4: So I.
Speaker 5: Actually he had one tackle in his career.
Speaker 4: It was pretty nice in any which one the.
Speaker 5: One he had.
Speaker 4: I gotta do some digging on that.
Speaker 5: Oh man, what were you saying though? I was reading,
Speaker 5: but you were saying something before that.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I was trying to read my tweet,
Speaker 4: but I couldn't read. Oh we were talking about the
Speaker 4: first one being the sweetest. Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 6: It really was pretty We lost to one versus the
Speaker 6: Giants in twenty.
Speaker 4: Eleven, and if you didn't get hurt, we would have dominated.
Speaker 5: They know, man, I.
Speaker 4: Know, fucking eli Oh, but it's all.
Speaker 6: Right because then we won this one. And once you
Speaker 6: get in that Super Bowl club, man, that felt good.
Speaker 4: Felt that's good.
Speaker 1: I mean because you never experienced it exactly, and we
Speaker 1: were always you know, I was always so sick and
Speaker 1: tired of hearing about fucking the old Patriots like we
Speaker 1: exactly because Bill would bring it, you know, Bill would.
Speaker 1: He was there for so long. You bring up all
Speaker 1: these cuts. We've seen the same clip of Troy Brown
Speaker 1: stripping the San Diego Charger in that one. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen that clip and marked our era.
Speaker 5: Yet the new Patriots era was here.
Speaker 4: It was it was good, and they motivated us. Those
Speaker 4: older guys.
Speaker 6: They set the standards. You gotta appreciate the big time.
Speaker 6: They set the standard.
Speaker 1: But I was sick and tired of hearing about Willie
Speaker 1: mac Teddy Bruski. Yes, because that's Bill would bring it
Speaker 1: up every day.
Speaker 5: He would every day.
Speaker 4: And then after this you had to go and win
Speaker 4: another one. Yes, then you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Just to show them, just to show it was our era.
Speaker 3: Matt Light is up next on Super Bowl Locker Rooms.
Speaker 4: What's your favorite thing you stole from another stadium?
Speaker 7: Like the listen? Is there statue limitations? I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: not going to jail on your podcast.
Speaker 4: No, Like.
Speaker 7: That's double Jeopardy, Bro, It's gone. That's a good point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: it can't be tried twice, there's no way. Gosh, man,
Speaker 7: the best thing ever? Hey you know so some of
Speaker 7: my favorite stuff that I have hanging now. We just
Speaker 7: moved down to Chapatchet, Rhode Island, and in the move
Speaker 7: I found some stuff that I'd ganged from the Super Bowls.
Speaker 7: So again I was always the first guy off the field, right.
Speaker 7: It was like my goal to get to the bar
Speaker 7: as quickly as possible Bar Louie's baby, and uh, I
Speaker 7: would rip down all these banners. I remember just jumping
Speaker 7: up in this running tintingdingding thing thing thing, wadding it up,
Speaker 7: throwing it tint And I have all these really awesome
Speaker 7: banners from the Super Bowl eras, like the ones that
Speaker 7: hang in the hotel.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well we'll get the hotel.
Speaker 7: I couldn't stop myself there either, they'd be like hanging
Speaker 7: off like a big atrium, and I'd find my way
Speaker 7: up in there and like.
Speaker 3: Sink sink, sink, sink, sink up next Cooper Cup on
Speaker 3: his Rams super Bowl victory.
Speaker 4: How was it playing a Super Bowl in your home stadium?
Speaker 1: Was it an advantage because you guys got to stay
Speaker 1: at home and stuff and stay away from like.
Speaker 4: What how was that? Cause?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it takes away from the experience, but
Speaker 1: it's also kind of like a baby advantage because you
Speaker 1: get to be in your own space.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I slept in my own bed until
Speaker 9: basically the night before the game, which is a huge ad.
Speaker 9: Like I love that we were in our own locker room,
Speaker 9: you know, like it felt it what it did. I
Speaker 9: was thankful I had been to one before, even though
Speaker 9: I wasn't playing it. I was I saw how much
Speaker 9: of a build up there is to the Super Bowl
Speaker 9: and how much it lends itself. Like even when you're
Speaker 9: the game's about to start, they don't tell you, like
Speaker 9: there's so much more that's about to happen. Still, they
Speaker 9: don't tell you the Rock's gonna give them monologue, you know,
Speaker 9: out there as you're on the field getting ready for kickoff,
Speaker 9: So like there's all this build up, but then once
Speaker 9: you finally kick the ball off, it's just it's the game, right,
Speaker 9: And so I was we had kind of preaching like, hey, guys,
Speaker 9: this is a game. There's gonna be so much build
Speaker 9: up to this, just let it be. Once the game
Speaker 9: gets here, it's just it's the same game. It helped
Speaker 9: that we were in our own like it was our
Speaker 9: own rhythm and any other game. That kind of helped
Speaker 9: lend itself to like, hey, this is this is just
Speaker 9: like any other game we've played.
Speaker 4: Just go out there and play your game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's got that's kind of an advantage.
Speaker 1: You get to stay away. You get to have your
Speaker 1: guys in their own area because half the time there's
Speaker 1: at least one or two guys that are yeah out
Speaker 1: past curfew, guy out in Oakland. Raiders went to Mexico.
Speaker 1: They never came, but like there's always a story. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: Teams just have to start, you know, owners of teams
Speaker 9: just you start paying seven billion dollars to build a
Speaker 9: stadium and then they can host the Super Bowl and
Speaker 9: then get to the Super Bowl when it's your turn.
Speaker 1: Or you could be an owner and you can have
Speaker 1: a city pay for your stadium and then have people
Speaker 1: come to your stadium that you own.
Speaker 4: It's a tricky, it's just a tricky, tricky path.
Speaker 9: I think you just make the seven billionaires, make the
Speaker 9: billion yourself and do yourself exactly.
Speaker 3: And then next up we've got Danny A. Mondola talking
Speaker 3: about the aftermath of Super Bowl forty nine.
Speaker 8: Tell them the story about how we were after the
Speaker 8: first super Bowl we won. How we hired that guy
Speaker 8: to just follow us around with a broom.
Speaker 4: I forget the club.
Speaker 1: We went to the club in Boston, and uh, we
Speaker 1: just said give us forty bottles of champagne.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: We just started a spraying echo other. It was kind
Speaker 1: of fourteen remember fourteen in.
Speaker 8: La Yeah, we had started it originated in La at
Speaker 8: like the beach club. But we go we hired this
Speaker 8: guy and we got forty bottles of champagne, and uh,
Speaker 8: they brought him out in a wheelbarrow and then we're
Speaker 8: like follow us and we just walked. We walked around
Speaker 8: the whole place and we'd either spray it and then
Speaker 8: and then bust it. On the ground or just bust
Speaker 8: it on the ground. And then we gave some We
Speaker 8: gave a guy some money to follow us around with
Speaker 8: a broom and like a pale to just to pick
Speaker 8: up all the broken glass, all broken glass.
Speaker 4: Just like complete destruction.
Speaker 8: All were walking down the street wheelbarrow and then a
Speaker 8: guy with a broom and we were just chugging champagne,
Speaker 8: spraying it and breaking down.
Speaker 4: It was a snowstorm that night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was reck We started the night by coming
Speaker 1: off the There is a lady stuck. We got out
Speaker 1: of the car. Yeah, we just won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We got out of the car to push her out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got the snow. Yeah, some old lady on the bridge. Dude, Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: Good Samaritans over here.
Speaker 4: She's stuck. Old ladies, Louise.
Speaker 3: Now we've got Howie Long on the legends of the
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four Raiders Super Bowl team.
Speaker 4: Let's get into the Raiders team.
Speaker 10: I'm looking at this roster and I go Jim Plunkett,
Speaker 10: guy who goes to New England, number one pick, Heisman
Speaker 10: Trophy winner Stanford. He gets a mall. Yeah, I think
Speaker 10: they might have been the Boston Patriots at that point, Yeah,
Speaker 10: gets maulled and just gets churned out there. You know,
Speaker 10: an organization that mismanaged and didn't put the people around
Speaker 10: him and got beat up. And you know, one of
Speaker 10: the great deep ball throwers of the time and goes
Speaker 10: to San Francisco. Same thing, bad experience gets mauled. Doesn't
Speaker 10: fit al Davis. As I mentioned again, it's you know,
Speaker 10: it's it's guys that Lyle Alzado who had been in
Speaker 10: Denver and Cleveland and got to the Super Bowl in
Speaker 10: Denver and got blown out, and you know is a
Speaker 10: guy that is thirty three, thirty four years old who
Speaker 10: you know would give his right arm to win a
Speaker 10: Super Bowl. You know, I'm sure you had guys that
Speaker 10: come to come to New England like that. Chris was
Speaker 10: one of those guys. I mean, they come to New
Speaker 10: England to win, and he came there to win.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 10: Cliff Branch was, if not the fastest guy on the planet,
Speaker 10: one of the top three four fastest guys on the planet.
Speaker 1: Was so fun watching him and Darryl Green play in
Speaker 1: this fucking matchup because Darryl Green was like the fastest
Speaker 1: guy in the NFL as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like that was a fun matchup.
Speaker 10: And Cliff was thirty. I think I don't know what
Speaker 10: he was at the super Bowl. He might have been
Speaker 10: thirty three man young. I think it's he's thirty five sixty.
Speaker 10: He could run a four to fourth week. I mean seriously,
Speaker 10: I lived with a guy named Cedric Hartman, who was
Speaker 10: a great pass rusher from San Francisco on they called it,
Speaker 10: I forget what they called that, Jimmy Page, you know,
Speaker 10: Cleveland Elam. You know, these guys were really good, and
Speaker 10: Cedric and I lived together my rookie year and some
Speaker 10: people kind of questioned the wisdom of that, but you know,
Speaker 10: Cedric really was a had a great impact on my
Speaker 10: early part of my career. And Cliff would sleep on
Speaker 10: our sofa. You know, it was a different time.
Speaker 4: I mean not really.
Speaker 1: I mean we I shared a house with five guys
Speaker 1: my first three years in my career because you didn't
Speaker 1: know if you were going to make the team.
Speaker 4: Every year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and I'm making my check was one thousand and
Speaker 10: seven dollars.
Speaker 1: Now, we were making decent money. League minimum was like sixty.
Speaker 1: But I had to used Coop Deville, powder gray.
Speaker 10: Spoke wheels, the lo our interior and a truly an
Speaker 10: eight cassette deck where the cassettes were, you know, that
Speaker 10: big a.
Speaker 4: Track.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and uh, you know Cedric had a red El
Speaker 10: Dorado and convertible with white interior, and we were we
Speaker 10: were rolling in Oakland, your law best two gab nose
Speaker 10: guard you could ever play with, Greg Townshend. I think
Speaker 10: Greg is, you know, is to me a Hall of
Speaker 10: Famer Lila Alzato, you know, I mean listen, Uh, he
Speaker 10: can change the attitude of a room really quickly.
Speaker 4: How he was such.
Speaker 10: A violent you know, the the needle went into the
Speaker 10: red and he was unpredictable from that standpoint, you know,
Speaker 10: you based the rest of your day on Hey, good morning, Lyle,
Speaker 10: you know, and the rest of the day was kind
Speaker 10: of based on that.
Speaker 6: One of the best nicknames I feel like in nfil
Speaker 6: is three Mile Asle was pretty good, three.
Speaker 10: Mile Oile because it was like three Mile Island was
Speaker 10: a nuclear plant that blew up, and you know, you
Speaker 10: just never knew when he was gonna.
Speaker 4: Blow So was he the team asshole? Who was the
Speaker 4: team asshole?
Speaker 10: So that was kind of quiet I'm trying to think,
Speaker 10: I'm looking down the Kenny King was, you know, a
Speaker 10: great back from Oklahoma. Uh situational guy, Frank Hawkins, really
Speaker 10: good full back Cleo Montgomery, tough, tough, tough. He he
Speaker 10: dropped the guy on the plane one time on a
Speaker 10: guy was he didn't he didn't get up and he
Speaker 10: and he was one of the quietest guys you could
Speaker 10: ever be around. And this guy just set got in
Speaker 10: his seat when he went to the bathroom and you
Speaker 10: seat your seat on the plane. It's once again, it's that.
Speaker 10: It's that last blade of grass. It's the push at
Speaker 10: the end of the play. And he asked him really quietly,
Speaker 10: very nice, a couple of times and then just ooh,
Speaker 10: and that that boy's eye close shut on that flight.
Speaker 4: But that's we had a lot of flights like that.
Speaker 4: That's a real deal.
Speaker 3: Next up, Rob Gronkowski on a Super Bowl parade, Memories.
Speaker 6: In the game that got us in the Super Bowl
Speaker 6: club as well, the aftermath just overall everything that whole
Speaker 6: entire year.
Speaker 1: Man, we win the for we win our first Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in ten years, y'all's first ever.
Speaker 4: Our first parade as well. Yeah, let's hear some parades.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, bro, it was the best party of
Speaker 6: my life. I've never been to a parade like that
Speaker 6: in my life.
Speaker 4: We got snowed in. Yeah, we did get They had to.
Speaker 1: They had change parade date because we had a Nor'easter
Speaker 1: and we got Yeah we got hammered.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got hammered.
Speaker 6: There was fifty beers getting thrown at me at one time,
Speaker 6: Like you had to get hammered. A little fireball shots
Speaker 6: shot out just to the city of Boston as well.
Speaker 6: They know what's up, man, They know how to celebrate.
Speaker 6: They love the Patriots as well. They loved their sports,
Speaker 6: so without them as well, the prey would never be
Speaker 6: the parade without our fans.
Speaker 1: Too straight Ferris Bueller's day Off. Literally, that was such
Speaker 1: a That was the fun. That was so fun.
Speaker 3: What was with the Minions hat?
Speaker 5: Grink? I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: I was leaving my house there was a couple of
Speaker 6: millions Minions hats on the counter and I just grabbed them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, man, this goes good with it. Minions.
Speaker 4: I'm about to have a Minion party, a million and
Speaker 4: milliion drinks.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh dude.
Speaker 6: I almost didn't make the Prey because I was passed
Speaker 6: out in the airport because I went to Jimmy Kill
Speaker 6: when I went out in LA.
Speaker 4: I tried making it back.
Speaker 6: I almost didn't make it back and there I was
Speaker 6: passed out in the airport.
Speaker 3: Now we've got ty law on the impact of experience
Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Do you remember anything different going in this year? Guys?
Speaker 4: This is your third Super Bowl?
Speaker 11: Second, this is you guys lost, No lost my second year,
Speaker 11: then we won the the Rams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so this will be your third Super
Speaker 1: Bowl appearance.
Speaker 4: Right with Did you feel like you had an advantage
Speaker 4: for Carolina? Carolina?
Speaker 1: Do you have an advantage because you guys experience, Yes,
Speaker 1: experienced it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we thought we had advantage. But at the same time,
Speaker 11: we were also those guys before you know, you know,
Speaker 11: on the come up. You know, we came in and
Speaker 11: and uh, hey we we wanted to win. So just
Speaker 11: the last game, as you know, playing and uh as
Speaker 11: many as you've played in man, it's like anybody can
Speaker 11: win that game. And they started off hit us with
Speaker 11: the big one quick, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 11: know it was a Jake de Loan, you know, he
Speaker 11: running around, he talking all kinds of ship.
Speaker 4: But now we had we had.
Speaker 11: Tom Brady, you know what I mean. And now by
Speaker 11: that time, you know it was he was with us.
Speaker 11: You know first that's Tom Brady. You know who he
Speaker 11: started to be in that time. Come Tom, motherfucking Brady.
Speaker 4: That's a difference.
Speaker 11: See we had like you we had at Tom Brady.
Speaker 11: You had Tom and motherfucking Brady. See that, that's who
Speaker 11: he was at that time. So when you have that,
Speaker 11: and we knew if we stayed in here.
Speaker 4: You're drinking Tom exactly.
Speaker 1: I had chiseled jaw, avocado yeah, beautiful hair, yeah, skin
Speaker 1: complexion and how do you smell good after practice?
Speaker 4: Tom?
Speaker 11: So when you got that, man, we were like, we
Speaker 11: knew what we had. All we had to do is
Speaker 11: now you don't mess up. Now we don't mess up
Speaker 11: because we know we give you a chance you don't
Speaker 11: already proved it time and time getting not just in
Speaker 11: the big games, but any game you know we're gonna win.
Speaker 11: And Tom, like I said, I've never seen anybody like
Speaker 11: him when it comes to being so cool and calm
Speaker 11: under pressure. Set one man football and that's Adam Vinit Terry, Yo, bro,
Speaker 11: you talking about somebody is like no fear. You know,
Speaker 11: I imagine going up there and you guys got to
Speaker 11: take that free throw as easy as it might be
Speaker 11: to have to take that all the pressure and everything
Speaker 11: riding on you. That's why I say they need to
Speaker 11: bronze his damn foot like Tom need to have his statue,
Speaker 11: of course, but they need to have a big ass
Speaker 11: replica of Adam vent terry Foot somewhere around on that stadium,
Speaker 11: you know what I mean, somewhere Put Adam vent terry
Speaker 11: Foot up.
Speaker 3: Next, Andrew Whitworth talks about the Rams Super Bowl victory.
Speaker 1: Did you have a template because you guys were there
Speaker 1: a couple of years, you would think, but it ended
Speaker 1: up being a home game and then the league actually,
Speaker 1: which I you know, it's like one of those things
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 4: Hey listen, it worked out perfect. I have no complaints
Speaker 4: for the young guys.
Speaker 2: I feel bad that we're on that team that never
Speaker 2: been to a Super Bowl because when we went to
Speaker 2: Atlanta and play you guys, you get the all. No,
Speaker 2: you're on the road like we're in a hotel. We're
Speaker 2: busting the media days. You see all the security.
Speaker 4: You stayed home.
Speaker 2: We stayed in our facility and practiced and stayed to
Speaker 2: their houses like literally busted.
Speaker 4: Think about that.
Speaker 2: We literally went to the game like it was a
Speaker 2: home game, and like, hey, the night before stayed in
Speaker 2: a hotel by the stadium and just rode over to
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 4: And so it was the weirdest week we even did.
Speaker 2: They even allowed us to do our media at our facility,
Speaker 2: so we didn't even have a media day.
Speaker 4: So it was a weird, weird week.
Speaker 2: It felt like a you know, late December game that
Speaker 2: you're just at home, and obviously in Cali, you know
Speaker 2: you have the great weather, so just it didn't even
Speaker 2: feel like you're playing in the super Bowl. It is
Speaker 2: very strange compared to going to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Almost could be taken as an advantage though for a
Speaker 1: young guy, because there was less distraction for sure.
Speaker 2: I just mean like I hated for them that they
Speaker 2: didn't experience like the allness of what a Super Bowl
Speaker 2: feels like, right, and that that's what I remember the most.
Speaker 2: And then you know, really of the game, I just
Speaker 2: remember it felt like every five seconds I turned around,
Speaker 2: we lost an offensive player, like wait, who's out? You know,
Speaker 2: like you're on the side, you know, it's like wait,
Speaker 2: You're going to get in the huddle and you're like wait, wait,
Speaker 2: where's our tight end? You're like, oh, wait, where's the receiver?
Speaker 2: It was just constant the entire game. We were losing.
Speaker 4: Guys. Do you guys get to use your same locker
Speaker 4: room that game? Yeah? Oh heck, everything was the same.
Speaker 4: That isn't wild. Yeah it was wild.
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