WEBVTT - Dudes on Thanksgiving 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.400 Her my rookie year. My welcome to the NFL moment 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.520 was like I was rolling in like my my Toyota rental, 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.119 and I park it in the way back of the 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.960 players a lot, and all of a sudden, there's this 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.759 huge semi truck rolls in and parks up right in 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.759 the front and takes like two damn spots backs in, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.360 backs in. God can eat you up, man. That was 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.840 like my first welcome edit. I was like, Holy, I 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.560 don't even know you can buy some of my trucks. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.199 Welcome to Dudes. On Dudes, I'm Julian Edelman and I'm 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.479 Rob Gronkows and this is the show where your favorite 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.239 dudes get to talk about their favorite dudes. And on 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.199 today's episode, in order to celebrate Thanksgiving, we are going 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.159 to talk about some Thanksgiving legends. That's right, Jules. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.159 We get into one of the greatest running backs of 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.880 all time popped out his shoulder, and his shoulder gone 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.720 all right, Max, So we got jewels. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.080 We had ten games on Turkey Day seven and three 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.000 record the oatter. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.240 Team that played on Thanksgiving not America's. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.000 Team, but it could be America's team now it could be. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.560 And then we get into our one and only and. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:09.280 The story behind the iconic but fumble on Thanksgiving, Oh 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.160 my god, and we wrap up by determining what Thanksgiving 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.960 dishes your favorite NFL players are, Football, Turkey. I love 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.280 everything on my Thanksgiving dish, Jules, you. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.039 Got to stick around to the very end. Let's go 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.720 dudes on Dudes. He's a production of iHeartRadio. Today's Thanksgiving 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.480 and we wanted to bring a special episode dedicated to 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.200 all Thanksgiving theme things. We're gonna go Thanksgiving players, We're 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.679 gonna go over some of our Thanksgiving memories and what 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:39.920 Thanksgiving means to us. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.360 Happy Thanksgiving, Jewels, the best holiday of the year for sure. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.840 It is you know, incorporates family, U incorporates Pilgrims. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:54.040 Pilgrims, Yes, Native Americans? Yes, not Christopher Columbus Native American. Dy. Yes, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.520 we're back. Food my favorite h in football? Oh? Football, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.520 oh my favorite? Right? All right, now we're talking with 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.360 else family, family, yes, childhood memories. How there's so many 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.680 memories associated with Thanksgiving. Fights, family fights, always fighting, your 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.000 and there's Turkey Day football before you had organized football 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.240 like Turkey Days just so much. What was your favorite 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.360 thing to do on Thanksgiving. My favorite thing to do 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.799 on Thanksgiving. Since I grew up on the West Coast, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.919 football started so early, so like you'd wake up, there 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.520 wasn't isn't there a game at like nine o'clock, twelve o'clock. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.840 There's usually three games. Yeah, so you got a twelve 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.400 o'clock game East Coast, a three o'clock and then a 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.000 six o'clock West Coast. You wake up, it's nine o'clock 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.880 and there's football on. So you wake up. Mom's already cooking. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.280 You organize your team for your Turkey Day game that 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.519 you're gonna go play with your boys in stall Staff. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.000 You know, just just a bunch of fun. The weather 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.400 is a little colder. Thanksgiving is the best. Thanksgiving is 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.720 the best. I think of the times when we were younger, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.200 because when we played in the league, we never had things. 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.560 We never really we've been righted on Thanksgiving for real, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:57.799 even in college too. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.200 You know, if you played football in the Division one level, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.320 you know in the pros, you never really had Thanksgiving. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.520 You're having Thanksgiving dinner with your teammates. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.200 Whose house did you go do for Thanksgiving? Whose house 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.440 did I go to? Who was a lineman? 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.079 Comley Yeah, I was at Dan Conley's house. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.679 Did you go that year? I've been to dan Conley 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.720 Light always had Conley Conley and Mankin's him and his 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.320 wife haves over. Like there was always a veteran group 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.360 guy that always had all the young bucks when we 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.560 were young bucks that didn't have family in the area 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.160 would always host. And I remember Dan Conley did one 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.560 year and he's like the best cookout. He made homemade marshmallows. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.760 I think he even made homemade beer for the night. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.440 Did matt Light have wild meat? Oh, without a doubt. So. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.120 Don't you remember Conley? He would do three turkeys. He 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.120 would deep fry ir regularly like butterball, bake a wild 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.000 game turkey, and then there's like a third turkey that 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.800 he would roast or something like or barbecue. He did 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.920 like three turkeys. He was amazing. You remember how good 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.520 that food was. It was so good. The fry turkey 0:03:58.640 --> 0:03:59.880 right there they made in front of us. 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.200 He let anyone get around it because he wanted to 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.119 just make it spectacular and like to the tea of 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.920 like the exact way it was supposed to be made. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.960 And it was good. Man, it was like moist when 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.760 it was done. I mean delicious, who wait the most 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:13.600 turkey on our team. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.080 Anytime it comes to kind of any food eating contest, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.880 in my mind instantly goes to Marcus Kennan. I don't 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.599 know why, guy's. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.960 A machine just I mean he can lift the most, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.520 so kind of transitions to being able to eat the most. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.760 What's your favorite memory of Thanksgiving? 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.480 When we played the Detroit Lions, because we played them 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.040 on Thanksgiving. I never really been home before or Thanksgiving 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.479 in a long time since I was in high school, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.360 so to be able to play in Detroit. We got 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.400 the win that week, we were Yes, we did. We 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.880 had the throwback the red uniforms on that was That 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.280 was one of the coolest games out there. Because Ford 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.400 Field is one of the greatest, you know, atmospheres in 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:52.080 all of football. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.039 I feel like, you know, it's an old atmosphere in 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.440 the old Factory, the old Ford Factory fields. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.040 Like down into the ground just feels like a football atmosphere. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.039 Like the new stadiums, the new domes, they're too futuristic, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.960 you know what I mean. It feels like it's it's 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.800 built for entertainment, not for football. So Ford Field is 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.440 still one of those domes that has that field. So 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.560 I remember that game we beat him. There's a couple 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.560 of fights on the field. I got in a fighter too, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.840 one of those dbs that are rushing on field goal. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.000 So he was rushing on field goal talking garbage. So 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.640 you know, I'm the wingman. He's supposed to go like 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.440 this and then that and try to take two guys. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.200 I literally just ran full speed at the dB and 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.000 tried decking him on field goal. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:32.839 Yeah. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.000 I did that home and then it started a fight, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.880 and then Matt Light came over. He was pushing everyone around. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.800 He loved that action and I Light. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.479 But what I loved about Thanksgiving though, after that game 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.640 was I hopped in the car with my mom because 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.320 she was at the game, and we drove back home 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.400 to Buffalo that night. So I got to spend Thanksgiving 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.520 night with my family for the first time and quite 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.400 some time, which was a privilege. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:55.560 Man. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.880 It felt good to do that. So I won a game, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.599 an NFL game in Detroit my rookie season, and then 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.760 went home, had Thanksgiving dinner with my family, and then 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.520 I went out to the bar, you know, Amherst al House, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.400 and I got to see everyone from my childhood, growing 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.440 up from high school. And that's kind of the definition. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.400 Of what Thanksgiving should be. Man, it's hell. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.880 Yeah, bringing the old timers back. It's about bringing the 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.360 old memories back and just enjoying them. Your family, your friends. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.520 You know, you don't forget where you come from when 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:26.720 it comes to Thanksgiving. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.800 No, that Wednesday night, like we we don't get to 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.720 experience it, but that Wednesday night before Thanksgiving where you 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.520 get to go to the local bar with all your 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.360 friends and stuff. I've done it a couple of times 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.400 when it was on IR. It's just a it's a 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.640 it's a comfort feeling because it's the people you you 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.080 remember growing up with and you get to go home 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.640 to a great meal the next day and see all 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.640 your family and enjoy the fighting, the love, the love 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.840 that's there, the fighting that's there, enjoy the football. I mean, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.240 it's just so, it's it's so what you remember as 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.719 a kid, Like that's what kid kid life was. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.000 You know, that Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. They claim, I 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.120 don't know. I think the Internet claims, or all the 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.840 partiers claim it's the biggest party night of the year, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.160 Bigger than New Year's, bigger than any Saturday night out there. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.720 They say the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is the biggest 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.760 party night in America? Is that true, Jewels, I've never 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.640 done it before. I've never been out on a Wednesday 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.960 night before Thanksgiving because I always have practice early morning. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.320 That's also why I love Thanksgiving too. I'm very thankful 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.280 for Thanksgiving because of this reason. You always got out 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.280 early on a Thursday from football. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.440 The best, Yeah, the best. You would get in. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.280 You would have a quick meeting, one hour meeting, and 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.440 then practice would start at like nine am at the 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.200 beginning of the practice, and you go out there, you 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.040 practice real quick. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.680 You happy practice. Everyone's happy. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.600 Everyone's happy because they know they're going home right after 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.120 this practice like the old meeting year in high school. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.040 No meetings after, yes, that is correct. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.960 You get a quick lifting or something, burn as many 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.960 calories as you possibly could, so then you can go 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.760 home and go to that whatever Thanksgiving dinner and eat 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.440 as much as possible, show everyone up. And that's what 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.920 it was all about too. There was competitions on how 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.960 much you could eat, kind of like stroked your ego. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.200 I mean, it was just what dudes do, man, It's 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.320 just I can eat more than you. Yeah, no, I 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.120 can eat more than you, buddy, And then then it 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.000 turned it into a fight. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.640 But that's just a dude. And I remember, you know, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.840 when you didn't have like when you didn't have the 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.640 relationships with like the big top dogs yet and you'd 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.680 eat that the facility with all the guys that you 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.560 know didn't have their families. There. There'd be a huge 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.199 old like population of guys in the freaking sna Everyone wanted, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.720 like Rob said, wanted to get their calories, and so 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.720 you could eat as much as you could. Guys would 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.880 be sweating and working out, and then you'd see a 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.320 group of guys that didn't have their families and they'd 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.439 have their their Thanksgiving in that cafeteria with each other 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.160 and bring stuff back to their family or whoever's at 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.440 their house. That's what it was, your Thanksgiving. Your family 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.920 was your football team. When you were in these kind 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.240 of situations you're in college or you're pro or young 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.199 pro guy that didn't have their families, you know, you 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.760 got to have that family time with guys that you 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.080 played with. That's kind of something I remember too. From things. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.599 What's one thing that you're thankful for? Jules just one thing. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.120 We're gonna be thankful throughout the whole episode. But what's 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.400 one thing you're thankful for. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.240 I'm thankful that right right now in my in my life, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.520 a lot of most of my family's healthy. All my 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.880 family's healthy. That's like my daughter, my parents, my brother, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.600 and my sister. There can't ask for anything better than that. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.040 That's not can't. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:34.160 That's so lucky. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.040 That's the bigess blessing right there. That's for sure. You 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.559 think I'm saying, I'm just we kind of already on 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.000 the subject. We're already talking about it. The turkeys, how 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.840 they're roast and everything. I'm thankful for the food out there, man, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.040 and how lucky we are to be able to eat 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.200 the nutritious and delicious food that we do eat on 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.640 a daily basis. I mean, we get organic food, We 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.160 get food that's medicine for our bodies that you know, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.240 builds up our motor We get food that deliver us 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.680 our energy that we need to get, you know. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.360 To get throughout the day you go. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.559 We get the protein that we need to get at 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.280 all times so we can build up brote our muscles 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.920 after our strenuous workouts. So just food, man, because without food, man, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:14.680 life is tough. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:15.600 Man, you get. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.000 Angry, you know, fragile. I mean, food builds you up 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.320 with strength and courage. So I'm thankful for food, ma, Man. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.880 Yeah, that's a great that's a great one to be 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.679 thankful for. There's a lot of people that don't have 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.360 food in this world, exactly, you know, and we're blessed, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.000 we're you know, like you say, we get to have 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.480 the organic shit and all the good stuff and who 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.839 that feeds our soul. There's a lot of people that 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.600 don't even have food in this world. Remember, you gotta 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.880 be thankful for everything, everything you got. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.720 All right, Jules, Let's get on to our first Thanksgiving 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.760 guy who has plenty of Thanksgiving ties through the NFL. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.360 Let's get on to Emmitt Smith. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:56.040 I'm at Smith running back Dallas Cowboys from Pensacola, Florida. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.160 Let's see what the synopsis of I'm at Smith says. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.680 The great AI, ladies and AI, we need ten minutes. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.480 I'm at Smith standing at five foot nine inches and 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.720 weighing two hundred and twenty one pounds. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:10.959 That's a big. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.760 Boy for five Gee, oh Molly, what are you? 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.360 You're five to ten? What playing week, Man, I was big. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 I was thick. Yeah, he was even thicker, two set thick. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.120 He played running back in the NFL, primarily for the 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.640 Dallas Cowboys and later for the Arizona Cardinals. Drafted seventeenth 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.080 overall by the Cowboys in nineteen ninety from the University 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.000 of Florida, Smith quickly established himself as a durable, high 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.120 caliber player, known for his resilience and agility on the field. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.520 He retired as the NFL's all time leading rusher with 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.160 eighteen three hundred and fifty five rushing yards, one hundred 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.440 sixty four touchdowns, and earning three Super Bowl rings, all 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.880 with the Dallas Cowboys, an MVP Award, and an induction 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.560 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.560 Was he first ballot? First ballot? Was? He was? First battle? 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:01.160 For sure? He was? 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.240 And here's a quick fun fact, how am It's pregame 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.320 ritual included eating two packs of peanuts m and m's, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:15.480 making him one of the most efficient candy fueled athletes ever. Man, Now, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.600 that might be the most impressive thing about his career. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.120 And I wonder if he ate those peanut m and 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.480 ms on Thanksgiving Day after Thanksgiving dinner or if he 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.680 indulge into some like pumpkin pie instead, or some apple 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.880 pie with some ice cream and webbed cream with a 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.400 cherry on top. Or did he love those peanut m 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.520 and ms that much that he wanted sacrifice even on Thanksgiving? 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.640 What do you think? I think it was Probably it 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.400 became a superstition thing early on. I mean running backs 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.679 in their candy you got marshawn with Skittles, you got 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.439 em and smooth with peanut m and ms. I mean, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.640 it is what it is. These guys are sometimes like 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.480 most of the time, the running backs specimen that just 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.280 needs fuel and they could eat anything they want because 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.440 they running and getting blown up all day and they're 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.040 touching the lot. What's the first thing that comes to 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.839 your mind when you think of Emmitt Smith, one of. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.960 The greatest running backs of all time, exemplified what being 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.280 a star really meant, especially being on the Dallas Cowboys, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.280 like he was that star symbol, you know when he 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:17.160 was playing with Dallas. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.800 Yes, that is that is true. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.480 Jarry Jones did say that, but he really did exemplify 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.680 it that much. He exemplified what being a running back 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.960 truly meant. They truly ran the ball and ran it 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.840 with you know, conviction, with resilience. And also he's like 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.360 one of the first guys to truly start that era 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.439 of everyone wanting to be a running back growing up. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.199 Here's the thing, no one really wants to be running 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.760 back anymore. It's it's twenty twenties and it's all about 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.880 being a wide receiver, quarterback, tight end. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.360 It back in the day when it was Emmitt Smith, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.000 everyone wanted to want to be running. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:57.360 Back, everyone myself, and I knew I wasn't a running back. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.559 I mean, Emma Smith is huge. When I think of 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.120 m SM, I just think, I think of the Cowboys, 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.240 and I didn't like them. I didn't like them. Well, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.080 you were a sodiumn good. I was a forty ninety 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.760 nine Ers fan, okay, and this was prime in like 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.800 when I was watching football in the nineties and they 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.679 were just so good. Him, the triplets, Him, Aikman and 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.160 Michael Irvin, and it just seemed like that often he 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.680 would low you to sleep behind that offensive line. He'd 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.560 get lost behind the line, and I just hated him 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.720 because he'd always beat us in Candlestick. It didn't matter. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.040 Cowboys were always beating us. Except for ninety five peanut 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.400 epan ms. Did you have any superstitions before games or 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.480 what did you What was your pregame food? I had 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.960 a pregame ritual. I don't remember you just eating Hella pasta. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.840 I did eat HeLa pasta. But there was also the 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.400 peanut butter and jelly I made with my mom's jelly. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.040 That was always a routine. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.480 If I had to do it every single Sunday to 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.960 get me prepared and get me you know mentally right 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.800 that I was on the right track and kept the 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.160 tradition going of always having a PPMJ with my mom's 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.440 homemade jelly and and on top of it a chocolate milk. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.960 Man, I love chocolate milk to this day. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.400 And I just felt like, you know, getting that protein 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.880 in my system and the carbs. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.640 What better way to make. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:14.240 The tradition sustainable With my mom's homemade jolly, I'm telling you, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.320 the best jelly in the game. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.680 Do you hear that? Going around uncrustables in the NFL, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.240 there's like seven thousand. I heard PMT and the boys 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.920 talking about it. It's crazy because peanut butter and jelly's 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.000 always been like the athlete snack, Like you need a 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.720 little quick calorie burned down. You need some calories, a 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.080 cup of protein, some sugar, some bread, a little fuel 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 right before you get a PBNJ. Throw a little honey 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.760 on there for a little little NOAs a little extra sugar. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.920 That's what I would do as a kid. What jumps 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:40.840 out when you watch Emmitt Smith's tape. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.680 I mean he was a solid receiving back as well 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.360 as being a great runner. I mean he has a 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.720 strong upper body. You've seen defensive linemen bounce off of him. Yeah, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.240 Like he can go into a hall and it looks 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.040 like he's surrounded by five players and all of a sudden, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.400 he just has that killer stutter step with the backstep 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.920 propeller and then he's out of that freaking like pie 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.640 of dudes and he's running up to the outside now. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 And then he's kind of like a rabbit out there, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.160 like all these dogs are chasing this rabbit and no, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.320 none of these dogs can get the rabbit. The rabbits 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.840 just playing games like silly rabbit. He's just you know, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.600 eating the care while he's running around everybody. But that's 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.160 what made him so special too, man like know what 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.800 could get to him and that that upper body strength, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.760 along with his ability and his footwork, just his versat 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.920 utility is what truly made him that special and so 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:29.960 hard to take down. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.840 What do you say, who do you who'd you hate 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.520 going against? What kind of defensive ends? Well? Shorter shorter 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.880 stocking is Emmitt Smith. He's a bowling ball. He's just 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.040 got built in pad level man, almost, that is what 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.240 it is. You would watch him get behind the offensive line. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.240 It seemed like their offensive line was fucking gigantic, and 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.480 like he would sit there and be patient and then 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.120 he'd have the quickness to jump cut and then hit 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.680 the fucking hole, make someone missing the second level. He 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.000 always had long runs and that's what like I always 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:03.760 think of Emmitt Smith, just little paytiot runner, pay shiot runner, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.159 played behind his pads, low, see the hole, hit it 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.679 and go, and like man did he he did it 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.560 better than a lot of people. He was the best 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.680 running back when he retired. He had all the numbers. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.399 I remember that. What did you think of it when 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:16.120 he went to Arizona? 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.520 You know, I don't really remember too much when he 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.000 went to Arizona because he exemplified being a cowboy, you know, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.280 so much. He has insane records, that's for sure. He 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.640 has the most career rushing gyards with over eighteen thousand 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.600 yards rushing. He has the most career rushing touchdowns at 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.080 one hundred and sixty four. Was that beat now he 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.240 did at that time? Is that beat onred touchdowns? There's 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.320 players that have more than one hundred and sixty four 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.639 career touchdowns, but not rushing touchdowns. And he has the 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.160 most the most career rushing attempts as well, with over 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:48.520 forty four hundred two. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.840 Man, that's what's almost even more impressive, because what's the 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.639 number right now that everyone talks about. Running back has 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.600 about four hundred carries and then they get hurt. That's 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.080 ten four hundred carries thirty six on touching the ball 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.719 forty four hundred times. That's insane. You know, he didn't 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.160 have like the wow speed, he didn't have the wow 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.760 like stiff arm, but he was always just always productive. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.320 He had the wow lateral cuts he had. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.960 Yeah, but when you think of lateral cuts in this generation, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.600 who do you think of one of the guys that 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.600 we'll be talking about a little later. Oh who wha 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.000 we'll bleep that, we'll bleep that well, bleep it. How 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.880 about the Emmett Smith game, Oh. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.000 Man, when he you know, popped out his shoulder and 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.040 his shoulder going while he went in the locker room 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.679 for like what a minute or so, went to the 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.159 sidelines wherever he went. He just came back out and 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.400 played rest of the game and had like what fifteen 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:43.600 plus carries. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.879 Against the Giants. Do you ever remember playing someone banged 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.719 up and having a ball out like that? Like I 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.840 was banged up? Yeah, you were banged up. I mean 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:52.800