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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the forty Niners You've

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Speaker 1: Got Male podcast sponsored by Manscape. Today, our special guest

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Speaker 1: is a former forty Niners, a quarterback, Steve Bono. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me,

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Speaker 1: Lindsey to me. It's nice to meet you too. It's

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Speaker 1: great meeting just all the love that are still very

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Speaker 1: close to the Organization's my first season with the team,

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Speaker 1: so everybody's been everybody's been amazing so far. How's your

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Speaker 1: Saturday treating you pretty good? I'm uh in the midst

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Speaker 1: of a project that but I when I texted you

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Speaker 1: half an hour ago, was coming from home people, so

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Speaker 1: uh uh yeah this is this was Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: much more than I can I can get it done,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's it's quite the project. Are you a

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Speaker 1: handy man by pretty good around the house or not

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Speaker 1: really know? I am? I am as as I like

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Speaker 1: to say that as the son of a tool and

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Speaker 1: die maker machinist my dad. Uh you better, you better

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Speaker 1: know how to use tools. I love that. So, Steve,

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Speaker 1: We're just going to talk a little bit about just

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Speaker 1: your origin story, how you got into football, and also

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Speaker 1: just how you came to be a San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: nine or tell us a little bit about your origin story. Wow,

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Speaker 1: So I grew up in Northtown, Pennsylvania, suburb of Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: Was dad kind of raced me to be a switch

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Speaker 1: hitting catcher. Um actually played a lot of basketball and

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Speaker 1: went to a public school that was more of a

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Speaker 1: basketball school, and and also played football obviously, And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden there were people coming out of

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Speaker 1: the wood work to recruit me for football, and like, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe I should think about football. Um anyway, went to

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Speaker 1: u C. L a Um obviously played there, and then

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Speaker 1: got drafted by the Vikings. Spent a couple of seasons there,

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Speaker 1: a couple of seasons in Pittsburgh, and then I got

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Speaker 1: really lucky and came to the forty Niners. Obviously, Joe Montana,

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Speaker 1: Steve Young, we're here, got to learn the West Coast offense,

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Speaker 1: got to play under George Schieffert and Mike Holmgren. Um

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Speaker 1: and that propelled my career and knowing knowing the West

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Speaker 1: Coast offense, getting to know it and and learning the

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Speaker 1: concepts of it in college. Actually, our our college offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: Homer Smith Um new Bill studied the offense a lot.

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Speaker 1: But Bill Walsh that is, and taught us, taught us

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Speaker 1: the concepts in college. So when I when I got

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Speaker 1: know this. I know I was supposed to work, you know,

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Speaker 1: in in for general terms. Um So, spent five years here,

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Speaker 1: spent a few years in Kansas City, one in one

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Speaker 1: in Green Bay, one in St. Louis, one in Carolina,

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Speaker 1: and then um still here in Palo Alto. We moved

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Speaker 1: here when I was playing for the forty niners and

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Speaker 1: still here and two grown kids, one married down. Um So,

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Speaker 1: they are the longest stretch of your career was spent

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Speaker 1: with the forty niners. What is it about the organization

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Speaker 1: that made playing here so great? And you know, just

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Speaker 1: your experience here sounds like an overall really positive one.

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Speaker 1: It's been very positive. And I should say for the

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Speaker 1: last twenty years I've worked, as you know, part time

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Speaker 1: as a alumni coordinator, basically as a good will ambassador.

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Speaker 1: Um So, obviously I think highly of the organization. And

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Speaker 1: as I said earlier, it was fortunate to come here.

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Speaker 1: We played in I was here, we played in four

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Speaker 1: NFC Championship games, won a super Bowl. You know, they

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Speaker 1: won a super Bowl before I got here, won a

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Speaker 1: super Bowl when I left. UM. So, as I like

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Speaker 1: to say to other people when I left here went

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Speaker 1: to other teams, are like, hey, tell us, tell us

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Speaker 1: what it's like. I would always say, I never saw

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Speaker 1: anything like before I got here, and I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: anything like it since I left. It was a special voice.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was way ahead of Bill and his concepts,

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Speaker 1: not only on the field, but off the field and

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Speaker 1: how how to practice, how to how to treat people

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Speaker 1: as human beings, whether they were on the team or

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Speaker 1: in the front office. UM was second to none. And

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Speaker 1: and that obviously I have to mention starts at the top,

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Speaker 1: and that was in those days, Mr Gbarlow, UM, And

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Speaker 1: you learn from them specifically? Uh? Learned learned a lot Um. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was I was a sponge UM, especially

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite story or memory with Joe

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Speaker 1: Montana and Steve Yag just the camaraderie may be shared

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Speaker 1: between you three. Uh, there were oh gosh, UM, I'm

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Speaker 1: having to go deep in memory. Lots lots of good stories.

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Speaker 1: One of the most fun times was the first year

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Speaker 1: and obviously you know, as football players, we're not we're

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Speaker 1: So what was this success? Right? You always tried to

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Speaker 1: We needed we needed some analytics for this one. Um

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Speaker 1: when when rich Jenoff took the goal post over years

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Speaker 1: later forget how many oh um, but it was just

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Speaker 1: one of those silly games that we couldn't stop doing. No,

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Speaker 1: I love that. Um. You know. In addition obviously to

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Speaker 1: and that was that was one of the stories that

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Speaker 1: but it was not a good day UM for for

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Speaker 1: Steve was starting and got banged up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And I went into the game and my first throw

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Speaker 1: Turned out that Roger did catch and turn it up

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Speaker 1: back for touchdown. But then the next play for the

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Speaker 1: next series of plays, UM, Joe signaled in a play

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Speaker 1: so um, but that was definitely the highlight of my

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously we had Jerry Rice, John Taylor spectacular

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Speaker 1: I mean with you know, Roger Craig, Tom Rathman, Um, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: manscaped dot com. Yeah, you know, looking back on your career, now,

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Speaker 1: quarterback players for sure, Um and uh. I've always said

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Speaker 1: Obviously Mooney Ward has been added, but it's also been

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