Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast, presented by Amazon
Speaker 1: Web Services. Here at the bet MGM Casino studio, Ethan Greenberg,
Speaker 1: Eric Allen joined by Wayne Crabett. Wayne, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me listen. I gotta ask this to
Speaker 1: you right now, right off the bat. I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this. Every time you come back and you go
Speaker 1: out there in the field house and you see yourself
Speaker 1: hanging a monster image of you and all of the
Speaker 1: Ringer Honor inductees of this organization that's been around since
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, do you take a look at it just
Speaker 1: for a second and doesn't make you reflect. It's funny
Speaker 1: you say that, because I actually took a picture of
Speaker 1: it today when I was at practice just I can
Speaker 1: show my kids. But yeah, talking to Christopher Johnson to practice,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I come here and I just
Speaker 1: feel so happy seeing that, and you know, I thank
Speaker 1: them for making me part of the organizations still put
Speaker 1: me in a ring Honor the all time team, So
Speaker 1: it's still kind of dream like. You know what, what
Speaker 1: was the first we've talked before? I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: reading the story that we did together on New York
Speaker 1: just dot com and I feel like there's a thousand
Speaker 1: different things we can talk to you about. But one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things that that you told me when
Speaker 1: you signed with the Jets. You obviously it's still lived
Speaker 1: in the dorm and just walked to practice every day,
Speaker 1: Like is how weird? Was that? It was really weird,
Speaker 1: But it was kind of an advantage because EVER was
Speaker 1: kind of homesick coming from all over the country. But
Speaker 1: my wife was my wife now was a year behind me,
Speaker 1: so I just stayed in the dorms. So I go
Speaker 1: to practice and still at my backpack from class on
Speaker 1: my hat low and like just kind of blended in,
Speaker 1: like I didn't have a care in the world. I
Speaker 1: had nothing to lose, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: UM definitely helped me out. But you were attending practices
Speaker 1: when you were a student there, obviously an accomplished receiver
Speaker 1: at Hofstra, But would you go across the street in
Speaker 1: attend training. Can't practice this before you? When it got
Speaker 1: to try out with the Jets, I had seen it.
Speaker 1: I didn't think much of it, that I'd be out
Speaker 1: there someday, but um, it was it was a nice
Speaker 1: thing to have there. UM, especially once I started playing
Speaker 1: and I knew everybody there. You know, I was a
Speaker 1: local guy, But um, I missed those days. I miss
Speaker 1: it being in Long Island. Yeah, just a Long Island
Speaker 1: fans are gonna love hearing about. Yeah, because you you
Speaker 1: grew up in Jersey, you live in Jersey, but you
Speaker 1: miss it being out there. Yeah, just a lot of
Speaker 1: good memories. I mean when I played, I wish the
Speaker 1: facility was here though, because it's like forty or five
Speaker 1: minutes and I could have lived home. But that's why
Speaker 1: I enjoyed my time in Long Island. So can you
Speaker 1: take us and whoever is listening, whether it be video
Speaker 1: or audio whatever, when you were when you found out
Speaker 1: that you were calling to the Godfather by Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: and Danny Amondola, Like where were you? What happened? And
Speaker 1: do you almost feel like that's a rite of passage now? Actually, um,
Speaker 1: we got in touch with Avendola. Um, just I had
Speaker 1: been in finance and I was just helping some of
Speaker 1: the younger guys get adjusted to life in the league
Speaker 1: and what comes after the league. And I said, if
Speaker 1: you're ever in town, we'll go out to eat. And
Speaker 1: he said, um, I'm when being town, I said, we'll
Speaker 1: go out and get some good checking farm in New York.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's like, you mind if I bring somebody
Speaker 1: Like sure, He's like, I'm gonna bring an Edelman. Like
Speaker 1: that's great. So we're just talking, had a great dinner
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, we don't call you Wayne,
Speaker 1: we call you the guy father, the guy father. A
Speaker 1: slap like that. I appreciate that. And they're just talking
Speaker 1: about how they used to watch my film and Amundola
Speaker 1: at a poster me in his in his bedroom, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate. I was humbled by it because those guys
Speaker 1: are great and they certainly carried the torch, you know
Speaker 1: for the slot receivers. But um just you know, I
Speaker 1: was part of the beginning and that is great. And uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just a weird experience thought of
Speaker 1: that way. But what's it? What's it like being in
Speaker 1: the city. You three guys at a table. Are folks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't see that? Is that? Is that? Why is
Speaker 1: that waiting for? And then they're like, oh, there's the
Speaker 1: guy with the beard. Is that Yeah? Did people pop in? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But it was weird because we um all posted a
Speaker 1: picture of the three of us said little put across
Speaker 1: the middle till we die hashtag to Godfather and uh
Speaker 1: but um it just you know, I've never really met
Speaker 1: those guys before, but their respect was mutual. So, um,
Speaker 1: I don't want to give out him in too much love.
Speaker 1: Obviously everybody else can do that. But what do you
Speaker 1: appreciate about his game? He's this tough guy. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he does it right, you know, and he's been doing
Speaker 1: it for a long time and he still haven't figured
Speaker 1: him out, which is great. Keeps adjusted. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: nice to have a quarterback like that for your whole
Speaker 1: career that bleesing you. But um, now he wants some
Speaker 1: super Bowls. He's done well for himself. So the question is,
Speaker 1: you know, is he getting nearer Hall of Fame status?
Speaker 1: And I think you know, there's another year or two
Speaker 1: like that, you know, winning super Bowls. He's got a chance.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to you to be recognized as
Speaker 1: the Godfather from two guys that are very successful in
Speaker 1: the slot and almost you know, I feel like you're
Speaker 1: almost a trend setter because you were the slot receiver
Speaker 1: before the slot receiver made it big. Yeah. Um, no,
Speaker 1: it's great. I don't be arrogant, but they really didn't
Speaker 1: have that when I started. Now they drafting guys just
Speaker 1: to be in the slot. But when I started doing
Speaker 1: that on third downs and stuff, people like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: best third down receiver this net. And I was offended
Speaker 1: by it. I was like, Oh, I catched the ball
Speaker 1: first and second to him, not like some sub that
Speaker 1: comes on the third down. And my dad's talking to
Speaker 1: me about it, and I said, he said, if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, coined that phrase, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: the best there ever was at it, and I kind
Speaker 1: of embraced it and from the fans the third down
Speaker 1: thing and um, just kind of character of my whole career.
Speaker 1: I know the majority of my catches were third or
Speaker 1: first down conversions. That's just kind of happened. Receptions and
Speaker 1: definitely over three. Now, you said they didn't really play
Speaker 1: offense like that. Who do you credit for changing that?
Speaker 1: Dan Henning was a parcelves when you go back to
Speaker 1: what you guys did in that transformation where it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna play different offensive football and they're gonna
Speaker 1: use the receiver a lot differently than what we've seen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when Henning came in, he did a great job, and
Speaker 1: Charlie Weiss was there, but um, they just put you
Speaker 1: the best position to succeed where your strengths were. So
Speaker 1: they just kept me in there. And you know, I
Speaker 1: did my thing on the inside and the other guys
Speaker 1: did their things on the outside. And this was perfect chemistry. Um.
Speaker 1: Like I said, everybody was doing their strength. But it
Speaker 1: was just uh, some good years with those guys. Did
Speaker 1: you have to ask the coaching staff at the time,
Speaker 1: because we all now or no now about option roths, right,
Speaker 1: you know, you can go this way if they're sitting here,
Speaker 1: if leverage here and things like that. Did you have
Speaker 1: to convince the coaching staff for more freedom? No? No.
Speaker 1: And the great thing was like when Vinnie came in
Speaker 1: and I had the option rounds. I could go left,
Speaker 1: that could go right, I could stop, um just by
Speaker 1: the pre snap read. I could look at Vinnie. He
Speaker 1: looked at me, and he know what I'm doing, because
Speaker 1: obviously he has to be ready to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: But we just kind of had that like special you know,
Speaker 1: you know bond. I guess you could say unspoken bond
Speaker 1: that you know he knew what I was doing, and uh,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of access doing that, a lot
Speaker 1: of success over the years. How rare is that way
Speaker 1: you just described that unspoken bond because you see a
Speaker 1: lot of the very good quarterbacks and very good receivers
Speaker 1: have that bond. But how rare of a thing is
Speaker 1: that to no pre snap, no communication. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: Wayne's gonna break this way and if this I sits here,
Speaker 1: I can fire it there. That's just for repetition, you know,
Speaker 1: not just in practice after practice, going over, going over,
Speaker 1: like you know, not the short routes, but when I'd
Speaker 1: have to run steam routes and stuff like that poster
Speaker 1: flag and you know I have a deeper route and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm primary guy. I would look at Vinny,
Speaker 1: he looked at me, and we'd be like do you
Speaker 1: see what I see? And like this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna work. So we were no pre snap, like, you know,
Speaker 1: if it was gonna be successful player, you know, he
Speaker 1: if he could just put it on me, I was
Speaker 1: gonna catch it. But um, that's the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: I miss, Little things like that, you know, little relationships
Speaker 1: you have with all your teammates. Like sorry, I just
Speaker 1: feel like it's one of those things where when your
Speaker 1: buddies across the room and you both see something that's
Speaker 1: really funny and you look at each other, you just
Speaker 1: start cracking up. I feel like that's the football equivalent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like you know you're looking at it's exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. And we were best friends on the
Speaker 1: on the field, off the field, and uh, I always said,
Speaker 1: what would my career look like and what would the
Speaker 1: Jets organization look like if he was played for the
Speaker 1: Jets majority of his career. He was only here a
Speaker 1: handful of years, and I think if we had him longer,
Speaker 1: and when we had Bill longer and kept that you
Speaker 1: know core piece together, does no reason we couldn't have
Speaker 1: won a Super bowler too. What do you think most
Speaker 1: about when is brought up? Just the word right? Um,
Speaker 1: it's tough to know we were that close because I
Speaker 1: know whoever won the game with the Broncos was going
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. We already killed the Falcons. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's it's interesting people always I assumed we were
Speaker 1: up tend nothing at the half stupid story. I would
Speaker 1: bet my house on that we're up ten and a half.
Speaker 1: And someone showed me We're only up three nothing at
Speaker 1: the half, but then we went up ten nothing. I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, So I guess I don't remember the
Speaker 1: game that great, but we were essentially thirty minutes away
Speaker 1: from winning a Super Bowl, I felt, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're going right back. And Vinny tears as a chilled
Speaker 1: his first game, and I broke my foot in the
Speaker 1: last season game. So we're during Sunday games. We both
Speaker 1: got our legs up ice on him and we're sitting
Speaker 1: there watching the game on TV in his house and
Speaker 1: we're like, this was not how it was supposed to be,
Speaker 1: so um and we never really got close after that.
Speaker 1: What did you like most about Vinny Um? And what
Speaker 1: do people not know about him? Because you mentioned how
Speaker 1: good of a man he is. He's a gentleman, a
Speaker 1: good husband, a great father. He was so well liked
Speaker 1: inside the locker room. One of the strongest dudes I've
Speaker 1: ever been around. I remember back at Hofstra hit him
Speaker 1: doing all the things, taking care of his body, having
Speaker 1: a low body fat, but his personality. Guys just gravitated
Speaker 1: towards him. Yeah, yeah, pound for pounding is one of
Speaker 1: the strongest guys. But um, yeah, he led by example.
Speaker 1: You know he didn't get in your face, but you knew,
Speaker 1: you know, you better be listening when he's talking in
Speaker 1: the huddle, no one, no one else is talking. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been a great friend. He's been like a you know,
Speaker 1: big brother kind of figure. Um ten years older than me.
Speaker 1: And his family has been great. Like I knew we
Speaker 1: we met them when he signed, I guess we're on
Speaker 1: the Intrepid. They had something going on in the Trepid.
Speaker 1: I met him and his wife, his young kids, and um,
Speaker 1: they from from day when it was like that, and
Speaker 1: then the first time we got on the field together,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is gonna be good. What
Speaker 1: you you had said that? Sorry to bring him up again,
Speaker 1: Edelman and both watch your film but being the Godfather,
Speaker 1: was there anybody that you watched film of that you
Speaker 1: or did you feel like you almost carved your own
Speaker 1: role without looking at anybody in particular, saying I like
Speaker 1: what that guy does, but I want to do a
Speaker 1: little more. Right, Well, I mean they're watching game film.
Speaker 1: I never read a chance to watch game film. But
Speaker 1: you know, I was a big football fan. I loved
Speaker 1: watching guys like Jerry writes. Obviously but guys I really
Speaker 1: took notice. Was like Andre Reid from Buffalo. Guys like
Speaker 1: did that kind of stuff playing in the outside, inside
Speaker 1: and outside. But uh, seeing him because you know, Jets
Speaker 1: play twice a year. Um, he's just one of the
Speaker 1: guys larger and him. You guys, I kind of thought of,
Speaker 1: you know, do the same thing they did, you know,
Speaker 1: mimic third game Steve Large and Seattle Seahawks. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: asked me. That's a guy who goes under the radar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't we think about history? They asked me. Because
Speaker 1: I was number three in training camp. I don't know
Speaker 1: if anybody knows that. So everybody thought I was a kicker,
Speaker 1: you know. But when it was time the last preseason game,
Speaker 1: Clay was like, what number do you want if you
Speaker 1: meet the team? And he told me it was available.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I want a D if it's available.
Speaker 1: So the next day I came in and said it
Speaker 1: the three carbet. It said Aidy Carbett, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I still didn't know if I made a team,
Speaker 1: but I'm like they gave me the number. I was like,
Speaker 1: supposed to be a good song. I call my my parents,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, uh did She like, did did
Speaker 1: you make it? I'm like I don't know. They're like,
Speaker 1: ask somebody. I'm like, I'm not asking anybody. So I
Speaker 1: was like, said, I'm just gonna go to the meeting.
Speaker 1: They say stay, I'm fine. So that was it. Seen
Speaker 1: the ad crebit up there, I knew that I had
Speaker 1: made it. Speaking of that, well, why don't you retell
Speaker 1: the story because I know a lot of our listeners
Speaker 1: who were out there, a lot of young folks definitely,
Speaker 1: who probably are not familiar with this. In your old words,
Speaker 1: what happened the day when you come over across the
Speaker 1: street from Houstra your report for practice or tryouts in
Speaker 1: the spring at that time, I believe, and you're stopped
Speaker 1: at the security gate. What's the background here? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: the same thing coming from class backpack on hot low
Speaker 1: and um you know had that that gate that had opened.
Speaker 1: And the guy there, Harry Fisher, never forget it, he
Speaker 1: was like eighty years old. Funny guy just went let
Speaker 1: me in and man, I gotta go to practice. He's like,
Speaker 1: no autographs. I'm like, I'm a player. I said, I
Speaker 1: gotta go to practice, and he's giving me a hard time.
Speaker 1: At all. It was hysterical, really, and then someone waved
Speaker 1: me in and I was like, so, me and Harry
Speaker 1: laughed about it forever. Um, he's a great guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he passed recently. But um, that was my first experience
Speaker 1: trying to be an NFL player was getting denied at
Speaker 1: the gate. And was that in the spring. That was
Speaker 1: mini camp. Yeah, and later on one of your old
Speaker 1: heady coaches her mad Words is now, of course, the
Speaker 1: head coach at Arizona State. He famously got locked out
Speaker 1: his gate code wouldn't work at Hofstra, so he scaled
Speaker 1: the gate together. Because her famously used to work out
Speaker 1: every morning, probably still does, God bless him, Ountain Tempy
Speaker 1: four thirty every morning. Yeah, the first guy there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he does running those drills to get his treadmill lifting
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I saw one of the shows
Speaker 1: they were showing on the Arizona State football and I
Speaker 1: think they showed him doing the same thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw that to Actually, can you tell the story
Speaker 1: you told me once last year about your workout at
Speaker 1: Hofstra and I believe you were between there's some weird correlation.
Speaker 1: You're you're either going to be with the Jets or
Speaker 1: one of was it the Bengals or something. It was
Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Saints or Jets for free agency
Speaker 1: and so what can you just tell us the that
Speaker 1: whole story and how you ended up in Green and white. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had worked out for a couple of teams,
Speaker 1: um try out sweet and they had a good couple
Speaker 1: of scouts. The Canadian League was looking at you two, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went up there for workout, just to try to
Speaker 1: get looks and um, so when the draft went on
Speaker 1: the first day, obviously I'm not getting drafted, but the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Bengals said maybe they'd picked me up
Speaker 1: in the later rounds. So um. One of the guy's
Speaker 1: name was John Griffin from the from the Bengals. So
Speaker 1: I mean sorry John um Garrett. Yeah, Jay Garrett's brother.
Speaker 1: So when I came in the house, you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't get drafted. I was upset. And then I get
Speaker 1: in the house, Mom was like John Griffin's on the phone,
Speaker 1: like you mean John Garrett. Like no, John Griffin. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who's John Griffin. John Griffin is like, you know from
Speaker 1: the Jets. We want you to come in. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: do a workout for us. I was like, the Jets
Speaker 1: never showed much interest. And then I went in. I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to sign a contract. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta work out. So they threw me like a
Speaker 1: hundred passes, then dropped one and um, they brought me
Speaker 1: in and they still didn't know if they're gonna sign me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's nothing else I could do more to
Speaker 1: get signed by them. So then they called me and
Speaker 1: my agent. They said, we want to sign your free
Speaker 1: agent contract, and um, my agents lied. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: these other guys are offering the money to sign. So
Speaker 1: he got me fift as a signing bonus, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was rich man. It's like not, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of nickel beer and ten cent wings in hospital.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, so I got um um and uh, you
Speaker 1: know the rest of his history speaking of nickel beer
Speaker 1: ted cent wings. You obviously later took over this establishment,
Speaker 1: but he used to be manna raise how about maybe
Speaker 1: how different was maybe for you guys as players to
Speaker 1: get away a little bit, Because I remember a couple
Speaker 1: of times i'd see you and Laverneus go over there
Speaker 1: and just go upstairs and have your private time kind
Speaker 1: of away from it where we don't live in a
Speaker 1: day and age back then of where people got our
Speaker 1: phones or cameras snapping shots, so trying to get video
Speaker 1: all of you. Yeah, they didn't have they didn't have
Speaker 1: social media really back then when to play, which is
Speaker 1: a good thing. I don't know how it dealt with that,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, you really you really can't do anything
Speaker 1: these days and people not knowing about it, and once
Speaker 1: you it's out there and it's there forever. So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of glad they didn't have camera phones when I
Speaker 1: was playing. Speaking of Coles, was he also one of
Speaker 1: your favorite teammates? Yeah? Um, yeah for our He's a
Speaker 1: great friend, great teammate, and know he's coming to the
Speaker 1: game this week. Can't wait to see him. Another guy
Speaker 1: that's a tough guy, strong and uh you know, kind
Speaker 1: of like your brotherhood with those guys. What a dang.
Speaker 1: I just had a question in my head. Now, Oh,
Speaker 1: do you ever go back to Ostra? No, not anymore
Speaker 1: once I got rid of football. Yeah, how much did
Speaker 1: that hurt? That hurt because it wasn't expected. I mean,
Speaker 1: they could have talked to the alumni or the former
Speaker 1: players and could have raised the money somehow to save
Speaker 1: the program, but it wasn't that much money. But you know,
Speaker 1: they just didn't want anymore. And you know it's a
Speaker 1: shame because we had built it into a pretty good
Speaker 1: one double A program. But um, they did what they
Speaker 1: had to do, and you know I cut cut ties
Speaker 1: with them. You know the day they did that. How
Speaker 1: many years has it been, It's been probably what a
Speaker 1: decade it you're probably close to it. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought of you immediately. Obviously there are other guys who
Speaker 1: played there, but over the years and things like that.
Speaker 1: When you heard that a hostel disbanding the football program,
Speaker 1: was like wow, yeah, so what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: with great great times there? But so shame doesn't continue,
Speaker 1: but maybe one day, you know, it'll come back. What
Speaker 1: was your favorite uh Parcels story? I mean, you were
Speaker 1: guy who would always put us that down when you
Speaker 1: had to speak, he spoke, you got firm opinions. But
Speaker 1: what was he like for you? Um? It was great
Speaker 1: because I was a massive Giants fan growing up and
Speaker 1: I always wanted to gatorade and build parselves. So Harry
Speaker 1: Carson doing it, but he's like the great Wayne Carbett.
Speaker 1: I know you. I know everything about you. I know
Speaker 1: all the cops and the judges in Burdon County because
Speaker 1: we're from the same area. He said, Corbet, if you
Speaker 1: don't listen to me, your career it's going down. Heal
Speaker 1: faster than a dump truck would have cement parachute. That's
Speaker 1: what he said to me. And I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's pretty harsh. But he made you play hard for him.
Speaker 1: Hit you know, he hit all the white buttons. And again,
Speaker 1: like I said, if we would have had him more
Speaker 1: years than he was here, I definitely could have seen
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl or two. I feel like everyone that
Speaker 1: I've heard tell of parcelf story always says what you
Speaker 1: just said. He knew exactly what button to press for
Speaker 1: what guy at the right time, just to get under
Speaker 1: their skin enough to like really fire them out. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a that's a skill almost, It's like
Speaker 1: a rare skill to be able to push you still
Speaker 1: keep in contact with him. I've seen him like up
Speaker 1: at Saratoga at the race track and now how all
Speaker 1: of the horses not as much as I used to
Speaker 1: be just don't have time for it. But UM had
Speaker 1: some good times. I was looking for something after I
Speaker 1: retired to get my my my blood going. And you
Speaker 1: know when you got a horse coming down the stretch
Speaker 1: and he's gaining and kind of gets your heart pumping
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, small little No, I don't own
Speaker 1: him anymore. No, I owed for like fifteen years, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, give me a little rush. Do you still
Speaker 1: get charged up? Will you watch some of these races? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll go to start o TV in bed on something.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. It was just something a phase
Speaker 1: that I went through for like for a while, and
Speaker 1: uh enjoyed it, but onto new stuff, you know. And
Speaker 1: then before we wrap up here, just what are you
Speaker 1: up to now? Then? If no horse is still looking
Speaker 1: for that rush? My kids, that's I'm living in privicariously
Speaker 1: through them. My middle son just started playing football last year,
Speaker 1: So I enjoy that all my kids play sports. Got
Speaker 1: one looking at college. You know, it's kind of keeps
Speaker 1: me consumed. But um, you know, working for the Jets
Speaker 1: for a while now doing stuff like this, helping out
Speaker 1: with sponsorships and sweet sales and all and stuff. So
Speaker 1: you know, I was in finance for ten years and
Speaker 1: I got out of that and I wish I did
Speaker 1: sooner because I'm enjoying my being back working with you guys.
Speaker 1: With the finance world cutthroat, Yeah, it's cutthroat, you know,
Speaker 1: just you know nothing you get any of the companies
Speaker 1: work with, just as far as the industry itself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's out to get everybody else's clients. Like just I
Speaker 1: don't know. Just it wasn't for me anymore. And how
Speaker 1: much you enjoy that a part of it? You said
Speaker 1: working with us now? But you know, I know there
Speaker 1: are a lot of dad's probably my age right now,
Speaker 1: who are looking at their kids and saying, this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy was something else. Uh what does that mean
Speaker 1: to you when people tell the stories of you, because
Speaker 1: you're a guy used to go to Giants Stadium, sit
Speaker 1: there in the stands with your dad and now still
Speaker 1: to this day you go to MetLife Stadium and look
Speaker 1: around the crowd. A lot of eighties out there. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: my little guy when we go, he's counting how many
Speaker 1: eight Jersey sees it? But they you know, my kids
Speaker 1: were three and one when I retired, so they didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to like experience it. In my eight
Speaker 1: year old that's That's the great thing about YouTube. You know,
Speaker 1: on the internet, they could see all the things I
Speaker 1: ever did, and they got a chance to go on
Speaker 1: the field when I got in the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 1: But um, it's nice to be remembered. It lets me
Speaker 1: know that I did it right that you know their
Speaker 1: parents are still talking about me. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully I have that the rest of my life because
Speaker 1: they cherish it. Oh you will. What do you think
Speaker 1: about this guy right now? The Jets went out in
Speaker 1: the offseason. I don't want to talk about this year
Speaker 1: in terms of rocket or anything like that slot position
Speaker 1: because Greens was always bringing up to Godfather. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Crowder. Do you like him? I like him a lot. Um.
Speaker 1: I like that what he did when he was in Washington,
Speaker 1: and um, you know he's continue to do that and
Speaker 1: you can see when they've made him the focus of
Speaker 1: the offense and some some of those games that he
Speaker 1: could really produce. And um, you know he's not such
Speaker 1: a quick guy. He's fast, you can go deep too,
Speaker 1: But hopefully continue to use him. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to have him in green and white. And I
Speaker 1: know you like that number because he's wearing eighty two
Speaker 1: right now, Number eighty. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: worn anytime. I don't know. I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do with it, but I think it's safe. They
Speaker 1: kind of messed up that can't give it away. Now
Speaker 1: it's been so lot, people say, do you think they
Speaker 1: retire number? And I said, I don't know, probably not,
Speaker 1: but there's a couple other numbers that should be retired
Speaker 1: before me if it does happen. But if they ever
Speaker 1: give me that call, then I'm getting retired and it
Speaker 1: would be probably one of the best days of my life.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll be looking forward to that day.
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