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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special edition of the OTPs, the Official

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Speaker 1: Titans Podcast. There are three people who have microphones today,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know who is more excited about this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Aby Adam Strunk, Titan's controlling owner, is here. Robert Brazil

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Speaker 1: two eighteen Pro Football Hall of Famer number three twelve

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Speaker 1: out of three eighteen is here, and I'm Mike Keith.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be with the two of you. Robert,

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Speaker 1: I know you're excited about this weekend to be in Nashville,

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Speaker 1: but I want to start with Amy. You're excited about

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Speaker 1: all of this and what this weekend means to sixty

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Speaker 1: years of franchise history, to your dad and to this

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Speaker 1: organization today. Tell us about your emotions about this, this

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Speaker 1: whole thing that has gone on and been so special

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Speaker 1: with Robert Brazil making the Pro Football Hall of Fame, well,

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Speaker 1: as you can imagine, we were just so proud of

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Speaker 1: Robert and just so excited that he wanted to be

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Speaker 1: here in Nashville to accept his ring. And so this

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Speaker 1: is a big weekend and we're just thrilled about everything,

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Speaker 1: and we're just excited to be with Robert, and you know,

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Speaker 1: let the fans of Nashville, learn a little bit of

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Speaker 1: their history of the Titan history. I mean, we all

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Speaker 1: have a history, sure, and we need to protect it

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Speaker 1: and cherish it. And the Oilers were our history, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's kind of time that we kind of

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Speaker 1: explored it a little bit. So you know, for me,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just an opportunity to kind of bridge the

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Speaker 1: gap between the two teams, all right, I gotta give

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Speaker 1: him the proper introduction. Sixth pick in the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: five draft out of Jackson State, went to Viker High

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Speaker 1: School in Pritchard, Alabama. Yes, Sin Derek marks second round

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Speaker 1: pick of your Tennessee Titans in two thou you coached him.

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Speaker 1: He's one of our favorites. We loved Sin, Love love

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Speaker 1: Sin a great win. So you go to Jackson State

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Speaker 1: sixth overall pick in the in the nineteen seventy five draft.

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Speaker 1: Ten years with the Oilers, you only went to seven

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowls in ten years. Only seven five times you

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Speaker 1: were all Pro, which is unreal, which is a much

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Speaker 1: bigger honor even than the Pro Bowl. Twelve hundred eighty

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Speaker 1: one tackles, forty eight sacks, and an innovator at the

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker position in the three four, one of the

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Speaker 1: very first and when people have seen you, they still

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Speaker 1: marvel at what a big man you remain today as

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Speaker 1: you approach I guess your seventieth birthdays? Okay, sixty five.

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Speaker 1: So the bottom line is for this to happen after

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Speaker 1: waiting for it for thirty four years, make it even sweeter.

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Speaker 1: It's sweeter than sweet. When Amy reached out to me,

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Speaker 1: I was a lost kid, you know when I say

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Speaker 1: that to the NFL. I didn't have a home. You know,

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Speaker 1: for years and years and years when other teams and

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Speaker 1: other teammates of mind would go to their homecoming, I

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Speaker 1: haven't made a homecoming. Amy reached out last year and

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Speaker 1: gave us a first reunion, and that day I felt

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Speaker 1: so much energy and so much love with her and

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Speaker 1: her organization. Even the head coach met him sit there

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Speaker 1: and we talked about today. I didn't know when it

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Speaker 1: was gonna happen and what day was, but it's happening

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Speaker 1: right now. That one day when I became a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer, that I could become a Titan also, So

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Speaker 1: when I got the opportunity to give back to her

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Speaker 1: and with this visit and her to see me, witness

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Speaker 1: me being getting that Goreen. It was like heaven. It

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Speaker 1: was like, you know, my mom, my dad, my whole

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Speaker 1: This relationship with me and her goes way back through

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Speaker 1: her dad. I mean me and her dad was like, whoa,

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Speaker 1: that was my man number one. This check's never bounced.

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Speaker 1: You know. I had so much respect for him, and

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Speaker 1: every time I asked him for something, he gave me

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Speaker 1: for me to be here with amen, it's a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: It's really a pleasure for me and a blessing. Your

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Speaker 1: dad had such I mean genuine love for his players.

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Speaker 1: And starting back, we've heard all the stories about Billy

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Speaker 1: He was just wonderful. And you know those teams, it

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Speaker 1: work for it. And that's what he said, he said,

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Speaker 1: Robert told me how you know, he was a workout horse,

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh, yes, I want to play for him tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I give one playing. Please let me go, Mike,

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Speaker 1: let me go. But this the since I've been here,

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Speaker 1: You know. I've been to a lot of the locker rooms,

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Speaker 1: for Walter Payton. We never knew who what Walter Payton was.

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Speaker 1: I said, coach, what about me? He said, you gotta

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Speaker 1: That's right, jacket. That's how you get Joe Jay. Where

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Speaker 1: did you ever room with Walter? Was he your roommate? Yes?

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Speaker 1: What was that like? Scary? Scary? Walter played jokes on everybody.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he loved a pinch. He loved to bite. Bite. Yes,

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Speaker 1: for me. My life changed. Amy. How fast did you

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Speaker 1: find out or did you already know? Oh, I was

428
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: watching that day for all the knocks and whatnot. I

429
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 1: knew he was a finalist, so I, you know, everything

430
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 1: crossed and was so hopeful and so excited because he

431
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: was so deserving and so it was a proud moment

432
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: for sure. I threw out the stats earlier in the show,

433
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 1: which stand alone, but people don't realize. Let's take him

434
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Speaker 1: back forty three years. Two teams ran the three four,

435
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: Houston ran the three four and the New England Patriots.

436
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: There were only two teams when you were a middle

437
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: linebacker at Jackson Stage. Okay, so you come into the

438
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: league six four two forty one. Who makes you an

439
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: outside backer in the three four and who really teaches

440
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: you to play this position in a way It had

441
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: never been played before, and it was played by our

442
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: coach in New England. Later on it's it's played by

443
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: Derek Morgan, Brian Rackpoe and Harold Landry and Kamala Correa

444
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: and Sharif Finch for us. Now it's accepted today. It's

445
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: a big part of the game. You may have been

446
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: the very first one to play it in this way.

447
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: Tell us how it happened. Well, when I got there,

448
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: they had two middle linebackers, Steve Conner and Greg Bingham.

449
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: Strong side linebacker was Tedded Washington. They had an open

450
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: over here and a guy that was playing in front

451
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Speaker 1: of me. His name was Dwayne Benston, which was a

452
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: senator at that time. Duwayne didn't have the talent, but

453
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Speaker 1: he had the knowledge. And with me being you know,

454
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: back then, you had to play in the college Allstar game,

455
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: So everybody went to the Steelers and you played at

456
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: Soldier Field. I used to watch that game every summer

457
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: that was the highlight of the summer. That's why I

458
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: got the nickname doctor Dum. I tell you that's another

459
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: ye if all the time you want, so what we

460
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: what we do? We do? When we get to the meeting,

461
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: Dwayne grasped me and said, be home, sitting right here.

462
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: He said, uh, you know you're gonna be taking care

463
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Speaker 1: of my family for the for the next three or

464
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Speaker 1: four years, right And I'm looking at him saying, what

465
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Speaker 1: the hell? Excuse me? So he said, they gonna put

466
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 1: your wheal linebacker, and I'm supposed to help you as

467
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: much as I can. We got seven days to get

468
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Speaker 1: ready for New England because you know we played not

469
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: not in New England, New Orleans Saints. That excuse me,

470
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: So I said, I got to learn all this in

471
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: seven days. I saw a middle lineback. He said, don't worry,

472
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: I got you. Instead of us, Ed is putting stuff

473
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: on the boat, which is our defensive coordinator. Me and

474
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: him working on different things that he knew that would

475
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: help me learn the system fast. We had signals. If

476
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: you put up two fingers, I knew I had to

477
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: be in the hooks zone. If you put four fingers

478
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: up that me and I had to go to the

479
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: Dwayne Bess, I'm gonna take taking his job. And he said,

480
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: if I look at you and don't put up nothing,

481
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: that means you rush. And all we did against New England,

482
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: I mean to know, the Saints was rush that day

483
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: and I come up with three sacks. So you've ever

484
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: really rushed the password before? Yeah? I did a lot

485
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: of Russian in Jackson. I would shoot the gap whenever

486
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: my defensive coordinated. W C. Garden let me play defense.

487
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: He said, what you feel is what you do. You

488
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: know I had. We played the Scrape four and I

489
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: played in the middle of so they saw this in you. Yes,

490
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: they drafted me as an outside linebacker. I told Eda

491
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: one time, and joking, I said, if you wanted to

492
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl, you should have put me

493
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Speaker 1: in the middle. I think it worked out. I've worked

494
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: out great, man. I'm three times. I'm three hundred twelve

495
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: out of three eighteen. Come on, all right, So so

496
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: let me ask you about the Doctor Doom thing. The

497
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: story is it's and Jim Wyatt told it on yesterday's

498
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: edition of the OTV. Howard Cosell at the College All

499
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Speaker 1: Star Game at the College All Star Game. Um, I

500
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: had another guy that played the Jackson State. His name

501
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: was John Tate out of that same sentified draft. John

502
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: Tate also went with the New York Johns as a

503
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: walk on free agent. Someone had got hurt in the

504
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: College Allstar Game. One other line doctors and John McClain,

505
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Speaker 1: not John mcclin, the coach from sc John McKay. McKay

506
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: who later became the coach of the Bob. Yes, he said,

507
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring John Tat in here. I said, John,

508
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: because he was just over in training count real close

509
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: to Soldier Field. So we was having breakfast. Richard Wood

510
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: sitting on one Nay with the newspaper like he is

511
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: every morning. How I was sitting over there with the

512
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: glasses down on his no getting preparation, trying to learn

513
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 1: all these new fashions, I mean, rookie's names and stuff.

514
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: So Richard said, Brazil, come here. I go over there.

515
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: He said, I finally found you a nickname. I said,

516
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: what's wrong with my name? Now? He said, you need

517
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: a nickname? Man? Just like that. I said, a nickname?

518
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: What is it? He said, doctor Doom. I said, where

519
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: do you get the doctor doom for? He said, Chicago Tribute.

520
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: He's looking at the cartoons and Howard, you know how

521
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: Howard the fast he is. He picks it up and said,

522
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: young man, I think that that doctor Doom fish you.

523
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: I said, hi, He said take that done part. I

524
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: said do do? He said, deaf own offensive men, he

525
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: said fish. You now see. For those who are listening

526
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: to this, Amy knows, but not everybody listening will understand

527
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: what a big deal. Howard Cosell was at this moment.

528
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: This is um, this is the rumble in the jungle

529
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: time right. Uh, this is right around h the former

530
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: AL League Monday night football, and he did the highlights

531
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: and we would beg to stay up to be able

532
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: to see the highlights because I lived in the Eastern

533
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 1: time zone, so the game started at nine and wouldn't

534
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: make the highlights that wash. But Howard Coachell was I

535
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: don't know if he was the biggest thing in sports.

536
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: He was at that time. And so he helped give

537
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: you your nickname. He finalized, put a stamp on your name,

538
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: damn doctor doom Wow. But he would still call me Brazil,

539
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: but at times he would stick that Doom in. Then

540
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: that's a great nickname. I love it because I'm like

541
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: y'all knew Mike. I can't pronounce y'all head coach last

542
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: name Brabel. I gotta head in southern tone, I can't say,

543
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: but I can say Mike. That's right. People had problems

544
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: back then saying Brazil spelled with an e. What would

545
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: they call you Brazili? And you know you really make

546
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: my mama man call me Bob Brazil. Bob Brazil, that's

547
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: not my name, she said. His name is Robert Brazil.

548
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: Doctor Doom took took care of all of that. That

549
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: is his lick against Billy Kimman minute I got throwed

550
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: out the first game against Billy Kimmon bitishitn't the pump

551
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: two tass. Third time he was fifteen yards out about

552
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: in my own I will tell you today coach was

553
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: talking about doctor Doom and this nickname, and he said,

554
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: every single player today you should aspire to get a nickname, like, oh,

555
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. I just think that's the I mean, being

556
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame is fantastic, but being known

557
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: as got I didn't get better. It might be as good.

558
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: I gotta tell the jacket, this is the gold jacket.

559
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: This is my jacket, this is my Jackie. I'm gonna

560
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: show you why where this is. I'm gonna let you

561
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: read it. Custom Taylored for Robert Brazil Class of twenty eighteen,

562
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: three one two. That's for the rest of my life.

563
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: I cannot You were fifty two in the NFL, You're

564
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: three one two in the Pro Football Fame. I can't

565
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: be cut. I can't be traded. I can die and

566
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: still be three twelve. What happens? What happens when you

567
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: go back to Canton? Now? I went back a week ago.

568
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: I went back for the Taste of Canton. Seven hundred

569
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: people showed up for the food bank. Unbelievable. Those people

570
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: in Canton, Amy would tell you they love themselves. Some

571
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers. They support everything that the Hall of

572
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: Famers doing. Canton, that's their livelihood. I mean, I mean,

573
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: it's another place for the Hall of Fame. But the

574
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: Canton it's an unbelievable story. I mean, the whole story

575
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: all the way through, about you getting there and Walter

576
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: Peyton and the journey and everything. To have this happen,

577
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: but to have your folks get to be here for that, Wow,

578
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: we got a surprise for everybody coming up. Is that

579
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: the best part. That's the best part of it. You know,

580
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: my dad was suffering with counsel during that time, and

581
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: we had a whole lot of tragic going in the family.

582
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: And I was always because my mom is the backbone

583
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: of his family. I always wanted both of them to

584
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: witness me. The gold jacket deal was because you know,

585
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: I come from a man man type of father. I

586
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: never kiss, no hug my dad. You go to kiss him,

587
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: he gonna shake his hand. I got you gonna show

588
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. So I said, if

589
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: I can get him to Kenton, I'm only kiss him,

590
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hug him and dance with him all at

591
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: one time. And I got that dream. I got that

592
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: it happened, and it was very emotionally for me and

593
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: very emotionally for him to see his son in the

594
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: words that he said. So we made it. I still

595
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: here that nine and I got cheers when I said, son,

596
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: we made it. And when you signed an autograph Robert

597
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: bazilf eighteen. Wow every time. Now see, now we've told

598
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: this story, Amy Adam Strunk, We've told the story. And

599
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: I think if people have been listening to the whole thing.

600
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: They understand why this is so special for you. And

601
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: your dad would love this. Oh my gosh, he'd be

602
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: so happy and so proud. Oh he'd be proud. He

603
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: would be he'd be right in the middle of it.

604
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that was his draft choice. I was his pig.

605
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: I was a pig. Rest of the alls man hate it,

606
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: but I was his number and our defense back then

607
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: it was lethal. I mean, people were totally frightened of us. Well.

608
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: Greg Bingham still holds the tackle records. People in this

609
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: part of the country certainly know Steve Kinder. He was

610
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: a great player. Ted Washington was a great player. Elvin

611
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: Befet was he was way before his time. Oh yes,

612
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: he'd be doing national TV commercials right now like J. J.

613
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: Watt if he if he played. Thank you, ye, thank you,

614
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: thank you for recognizing that. Well, I see, I know

615
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: this because this is when I got interested in the NFL.

616
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: So I knew everybody because it was you know, this

617
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: is how you became a fan is you watched every game,

618
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, because there was you had Monday night football,

619
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: you a couple of games on Sunday, but other sports

620
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: weren't televised and this was an area where I think

621
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: the AFL's impact on the overall game drive so much

622
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: of where this league is today. Because the AFL's television

623
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 1: contract with NBC was revolutionary. It competed with the NFL

624
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: and this became and then Pete Roselle made it when

625
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: he when he merged the two, it was very much

626
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: a television product, which it still is today. It's the

627
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: number one series on TV. It's why your dad was

628
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: so important to this process. Speak dat ye? Why can't

629
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: me and you thought this thing? Today? We got to

630
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: get him in the Hall of Fame. Should he's one

631
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: of the I mean he is the AFC, he's one

632
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: of the I mean one of the start us. I

633
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: mean this guy gave me a job and counting as others.

634
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going to put something in to

635
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: a league, he should be there. Well. I just think

636
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: it comes down to the fact that, like you for

637
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: what you were to the three four outside line back,

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Speaker 1: there is no NFL today in its present form if

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Speaker 1: he and mister Hunt don't do what they do in

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. Thank you. This what we have today

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Speaker 1: is not here without him and I and I just

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Speaker 1: like for anybody to be able to show some different

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Speaker 1: because if he doesn't get in the boat with mister

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Speaker 1: Hunt at that moment, mister Hunt's twenty seven years old,

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Speaker 1: Mister Adams is thirty three. They're a couple of young guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy, but they were hungry for football.

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Speaker 1: They were were I mean, I you know, heard all

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Speaker 1: the stories of the early days of you know, hiding

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Speaker 1: players out so the NFL wouldn't you know, find them,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know you've all heard the Billy Cannon

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Speaker 1: story of coming over to dinner to our house and

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Speaker 1: my mother's new Cadillac drove out with him, and anything

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Speaker 1: to keep him in the aflight, anything including I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if people remember that we had the

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Speaker 1: rights to the number one draft choice to Joe Namath,

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Speaker 1: and my dad traded that for him to stay in

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Speaker 1: with the Jet, to go to the Jet so he

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Speaker 1: would stay in the aflow because he knew how you know,

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Speaker 1: he was got a sacrifice to know, because Joe did

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Speaker 1: not want to play in Houston, well in New York

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Speaker 1: needed him. Because the Titans were a very unsuccessful franchise.

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Speaker 1: They had changed their name to the Jets and Broadway. Joe. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I mean he transformed all of that. But I go

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Speaker 1: back to the Billy Cannon story because you're from the

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Speaker 1: South as I am, and the Billy Cannon was as

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Speaker 1: big a football stories there was in the country because

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Speaker 1: at that time, college football was bigger than pro football.

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Speaker 1: At that moment, the the NFL was way behind Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball was way behind college football because of Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame and Army and all the great programs. And so

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Speaker 1: when your father stoled, stoled in an amazing way, and

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Speaker 1: then he did and then one in court, when he

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Speaker 1: took Billy Cannon away from the NFL from the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams and beat him in court, it put the

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Speaker 1: AFL on the map. Well, you know, people knew the

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Speaker 1: AFL was here to stay. I mean, they weren't going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: So um, he knew the importance of getting those stars right.

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Speaker 1: You had to have star power Black Robert Brazil exactly

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Speaker 1: exactly did. This has been so much fun. But as

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Speaker 1: we as we wrap up here, I have one more

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Speaker 1: thing to say to you that you have to understand.

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Speaker 1: Tighten up, tightened up, tightened up. I understand it. I'm

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Speaker 1: the twelfth one you are excited. Amy's gonna bring us

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Speaker 1: some good luck today. Hey, you're gonna see You're gonna

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Speaker 1: see a game on Sunday. Now, these two teams are

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Speaker 1: I know me too? Me too. I told Amy one thing.

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Speaker 1: I said, Amy, I wish I could play for you,

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Speaker 1: but I only have one sign of bonus left. Controlling

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Speaker 1: owner Amy Adam Strunk, and the h O effort himself,

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Famer Robert Brazil, thank you. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Nashville, and thank you for this experience. This has

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Speaker 1: been absolutely fantastic. Every time I come to town. Your manager,

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Speaker 1: I can do it. I can talk about it for hours.

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Speaker 1: Come on, we can do that. Thank you. That's all

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Speaker 1: good for Amy and for Robert. I'm Mike Keith. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us for this special edition of the Old

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Speaker 1: TP