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Speaker 1: Welcome to a Cowboy Life, the storytelling podcast presented by

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Speaker 1: Smoothie King Blending goodness to fuel your greatness. I'm Brady Tinker.

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Speaker 1: For today's story, we go back to the winter of

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Speaker 1: two and seventeen and the NFL Draft that was being

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Speaker 1: held in Philadelphia. The Cowboys and Eagles have a fair

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Speaker 1: amount of disdain for each other, and the Cowboys decided

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Speaker 1: to have one of their royalty head to Philadelphia to

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Speaker 1: announce their second round pick to these nasty fans. Drew

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Speaker 1: Pearson was a trash talking, big catchmaking receiver who combined

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Speaker 1: with Roger Staubach to torment Philadelphia fans for years and

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Speaker 1: this made for TV. Cowboys moment in Philadelphia meant plenty

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Speaker 1: to the passionate mister Clutch. Please enjoy today's fun story.

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Speaker 1: Bite me Philadelphia. I never heard my name call on

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Speaker 1: Draft Day, seventeen rounds at a draft four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty two players, did nobody call my name? That is

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Speaker 1: the familiar voice of Cowboys Hall of Fame and Ring

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Speaker 1: of Honor member Drew Pearson talking about the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: three NFL Draft. Drew was a stud athlete at the

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Speaker 1: University of Tulsa, where he played quarterback and then wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: His senior year, as a wide receiver in a run

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Speaker 1: oriented offense, he caught a mirror thirty three passes for

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Speaker 1: a shocking six hundred and ninety yards. That's twenty one

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Speaker 1: yards every time he caught a ball. So when the

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Speaker 1: draft rolled around and over four hundred and fifty young

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Speaker 1: men get drafted into the NFL and Drew's not one

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Speaker 1: of them, well, it was a punch in the gut that,

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Speaker 1: as you can hear, hurt his feelings, and you could

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Speaker 1: see in his NFL career it also drove him to greatness.

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Speaker 1: So some forty five years later, the Dallas Cowboys reach

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Speaker 1: out to their man Drew about the upcoming draft in Philadelia.

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Speaker 1: Emily Robbins, who handles alumni relations and all that, she

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Speaker 1: called me and she just said, if you're free, would

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Speaker 1: you like to announce the pick up in Philadelphia. I'm like, whoa,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I'm thinking about all these great Cowboys

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Speaker 1: saying we got Hall of Famers, we got a Ring

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Speaker 1: of Honors, we got players coaches that are creditable to

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Speaker 1: do something like that. So I was really surprised and

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Speaker 1: shocked and before I absolutely honored, and before I could

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Speaker 1: The last several years, NFL teams have honored some of

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Speaker 1: their past great players by asking them to attend the

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Speaker 1: a certain symmetry to this relatively new tradition, and if

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Speaker 1: you believe in karma, then maybe there's some of that too,

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Speaker 1: especially with sir players making announcements in certain cities. The

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Speaker 1: two and seventeen NFL Draft was in the city of

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Speaker 1: brotherly love, Philadelphia, the home of the Eagles, a bitter

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Speaker 1: division rival of the Dallas Cowboys and a team that

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Speaker 1: mister Klutch Drew Pearson had had great success against in

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Speaker 1: his career. As a matter of fact, fifteen percent of

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Speaker 1: all of Drew's catches in the NFL came against Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: So when he got to their city, he wanted to

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Speaker 1: be fully prepared. I wanted to do the Cowboys right

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Speaker 1: because they selected me to do this. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to just go up there and read a card on

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Speaker 1: the airplane flying up there. I didn't know how much

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Speaker 1: time we were going to get I said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be prepared. What I said I wrote out on the

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Speaker 1: airplane flying up there. So you've given a plenty of thought. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've given it thought. I wanted to do the Cowboys right.

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Speaker 1: Drew Pearson is not new to the limelight. His career

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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys was spectacular. He's in the Cowboys Ring

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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Post career, he has

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Speaker 1: some of the other NFL greats that showed up for

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Speaker 1: football Royalty. This event is starting to take on an

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Speaker 1: even bigger feel for Drew. So the bus ride over

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Speaker 1: The stories, the food, the downtime. Drew's got a job

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Speaker 1: to do, but it doesn't start until pick number sixty,

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Speaker 1: So how are the other guys doing as they head

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Speaker 1: read his card and came right back. He said, Wow,

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Speaker 1: to take advantage. I've been sitting here for two hours now,

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Speaker 1: the cowboys picked to come up. And I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: preparation thing you heard Drew talk about that he did

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Speaker 1: that were booing him to the hilt. Nope, no way.

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Speaker 1: milk it a little bit if I get the alley. Yet,

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Speaker 1: Drew is also a businessman. He's run his own companies

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Speaker 1: four years. He understands marketing and the value of a

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Speaker 1: good business. They bring me down. You wait three picks backstage,

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Speaker 1: and then the commissioner announced the next pickup is the

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Speaker 1: I mean it was coming, and I'm in the back

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Speaker 1: comes back and he says, are you ready for this?

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Speaker 1: I said, man, I'm used to being boot in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: had put plenty of well written ideas on paper as

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Speaker 1: don't want to ruin that moment for potential NFL players

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Speaker 1: waiting all his life to hear his Name's friends and

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Speaker 1: his family, you know, everybody's there, so you want to

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Speaker 1: do him right. Well, he's got this name that he

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Speaker 1: believe I got this guy with the sixtieth pick in

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Speaker 1: the second round. But Dallas Cowboys select defensive back from Colorado.

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Speaker 1: That new voice in the episode was Cowboys executive vice

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Speaker 1: But you have to appreciate that while this was a

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Speaker 1: they couldn't. There's no better feeling than on third and twelve,

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