WEBVTT - Donnell Woolford talks Peanut breaking his Bears INT record, hangin’ with Michael Jordan, supporting military veterans 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:11.080 I'm Peanut Tuoman and this is the NFL Player Second 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.160 Acts Podcast. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.280 My guy with me as always, mister Roman Harp. What's 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:16.439 something baby feeling good? 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:16.600 Man? 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.080 Feeling bright? 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:17.880 I like that shirt? 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.680 Thank you, Carolina blue. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.240 It is well, I don't know, it's like a Carolina 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:23.560 blue and a Wyoming brown. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.599 Sure whatever. I don't even know it like that, But 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.200 I mean, we can't talk about that. We are in 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.800 the Panther Vision studio. We are with our next great 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.480 guest today. Man, I'm really excited to hear from this man. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.800 They you know, somebody's always got somebody just a little 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.440 bit out there you don't even know, or until all 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.720 of a sudden you read the stats and it really 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.920 hits home with you. You learned so much about so 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.479 you do, so you do people. And that's how I 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.040 feel about our next guest right here. And he played 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.360 cornerback in the NFL for nine seasons with the Chicago 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.600 Bears as well, great friend, I was waiting for that 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.640 great right. He was a pro bowler and an All Pro. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.080 He once held a team record of interceptions for a 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:07.400 cornerback until somebody broke it. Okay, all right, And after 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.840 football he found his second act by helping young people 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.720 and military veterans, especially close here in his home state 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.760 of North Carolina. Our next guest, can we all welcome in, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:23.160 mister Donelle Wolf, Welcome to the Welcome to the podcast. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:23.840 Or how you doing it? 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.240 Thank you guys, appreciate you. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:26.640 How you doing I'm doing good? 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.600 Looking great defensive backs? Man, I'm at home. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.520 Yes, come on in, Yes, welcome. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.960 You know what I'm saying. I got to know this though, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.360 because let's just get right to it. I kind of 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.400 mentioned it in the mentro, But are you cool with 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.679 the fact that Peanut broke your interception record? Because you 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.280 had the record and then Peanut came along and broke it. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.240 I'm cool with it because to me, you know, whoever 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.000 breaks my record, it's a bad man. Okay, he's a 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:53.720 bad man. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:55.640 All right. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.040 So well, how closely did you follow the record? Did 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.080 you keep up with it? 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:00.240 Like? 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:00.880 Was it like? 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.880 How much pride did you take you to having that record? 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:04.960 I took a lot of pride in it because you know, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.480 I played a long time barring in no injuries and 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.000 was able to put up those kind of numbers and 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.960 then to see somebody come in and break the record, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.320 you know, I applaud him. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 Yeah, you know, yeah, were you aware that I was not? 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.560 I was not aware that I had broke it. I 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.720 had no clue that I was even close to it. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.160 When I played, I didn't really focus on my stats. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.799 I just tried to, like, for my goal of mine, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.840 I would just say, for this year, I want five picks, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.960 four picks, whatever. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:37.760 Then if I got it, cool. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.760 I think Jeff Joniac, he's the voice the color commentary 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.600 for Chicago Bears. He was the one who actually told 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.880 me that I broke it, and I was like, huh okay, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.720 And then I didn't think anything else of it because 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.960 I was still actively playing and I was just, you know, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.160 just trying to get more picks. So yeah, when I 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.120 when I found out, Looking back on it, now I 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.040 can say, yeah. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.560 Man, I was. I was. It was It was cool. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.640 But I didn't play the game to break records or 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.720 break your record. I was just playing a game because 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.640 it was fun, right, you know. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:07.760 It was fall. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.359 Absolutely me too. You know people talk it up. Yeah, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.320 we out there trying to play football and win a 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.840 football game, right, So we don't really looking in the stacks, right, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.080 I mean, we like looking at the paychecks. Oh yeah, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:20.600 we love. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:21.239 Looking at the paycheck. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.200 But I just also want you to know, like it 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.640 took Peanut eighteen more games than what you did to get. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.280 That record, So you was a bad man. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.040 You got the record in eighteen fewer games than Peanut. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.240 So you can take that with you. Go ahead with 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:34.880 your questions. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.520 Why do you always like that? Oh my, I didn't 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.680 want to give them. You give me, you give me. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.120 It's like here, you take fowers, you get. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.880 That, you can get that. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:46.560 Take that with. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.000 I appreciate that. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.240 For those that don't know. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.400 It's okay. So here's what I will say. This is 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.280 a bad man. So Jerry A. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.480 Zuma, another another Chicago Barry played running back. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.600 I think he played running back at Maine. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.960 Won all types of war won the Watson Payton College 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.640 you know that division too, Like. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.800 Yeah, yeah, he won that award. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.640 Dude was a phenomenal and you know zoom, phenomenal football 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.160 player in college. Gets drafted to the Bears and then 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.640 they say, oh, yeah, you're not playing running back, You're 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.800 you're a dB now and he goes The first time 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.880 I'd ever been on the defensive side of the ball 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.640 was when I got drafted by the Bears and I 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:30.400 think ninety nine. Similar to you, you go to Clemson 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.480 and you've been offense this entire time, right, and then 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.040 you get to Clemson and now it's like, oh yeah, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.880 you're a dB. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:39.279 Now. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.520 It was tough, you know, because I'm used to having 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.360 the ball and running this forward, yeah, versus going backwards 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.520 and covering somebody. I don't know where they going, so 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.640 I have to make plays on those players. But it 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.600 was tough, but I got adjusted to it by this 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.520 working hard, watching film. Was athlete because I was three stars, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.359 three sport athlete track, basketball and football. Could have played 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:10.120 basketball or Clemson. So it wasn't that difficult, but it 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.040 was challenging. So my first year I didn't play much, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.360 but then my sophomore year I ended up beating out 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.719 a fifth year senior. Okay, and then the rest is history. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.800 I mean, you were a two time All American. You 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.479 had a little bit more than just history. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.960 You were really good. You were Clemson. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.560 What what was the hardest thing that you had to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.960 learn as a defensive backs that was different than what 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.679 you did on offense when the turn your hips? Okay, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.520 people don't understand that. Yeah, and all of a sudden 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.120 they get you got to turn and flips. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:46.880 Yeah, you got to know when to turn. If you 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.680 don't turn, you turn too late, too early. A lot 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.160 of things that happened, Yes, not good for you. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:53.239 Yeah, it's true. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.640 Because they wide receivers, they wait till the defensive back 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.240 turns their hips to then break. So learning that part 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.560 for you was the hardest part. Even though you were 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.200 fast as you could be, that was hard for you. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:06.200 I love that. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.800 When did you start to feel comfortable at that cornerback position, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.279 like when you were just like, you know what, Yeah, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.160 I got this now, I feel I feel pretty good, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.040 even though I know you're two time All American. Was 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.320 it when you're still in college. Was it when you 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.640 got drafted by the Bears? 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:26.920 When I would pick off the football? Okay, because I 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.400 used to always had the football in my hand running back. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.200 Now I'm on the other side trying to get the 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.720 football that way, on the defensive side of the ball, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:41.000 So interceptions, Okay, when I picked up football, I got 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.480 really excited about that part. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:43.120 Yeah. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.880 So when you picked off the ball, I kind of 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.120 see you, you know, being a former running back. Were 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.680 you trying to run casts over or were you just 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:49.440 trying to avoid them. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.760 I'm trying to score peanut. Okay, Okay, I'll turn and 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.800 then I switched down mentally, I'd go from defensive back 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.640 now I'm going to running back. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:06:59.200 Yeah. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.120 So I'm trying to get to the end zone every time. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.480 What was your welcome to the NFL moment? We'd love 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.880 to ask guys different times. Was it preseason? Was it 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.440 like when did that happen for you? Like, oh, this 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.200 is the this is the league, and eighty nine we 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.360 played San Francisco. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.880 Forty nine is over in Germany a pre season game. Okay, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.200 I got a chance to go against. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.800 Steve Young, jer Rice, Ronnie Lott. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.880 So that was that was a pivotal moment for me 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.240 that I looked to look around these all these Hall 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.000 of famers, all these great players, and I'm going against them, 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.480 and I'm lining up across one on one with Jared 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.840 Rice and I'm battling with him and it was awesome. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.200 How did it go for you? Was it good or bad? 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.520 We'll start off a little slow. Then I got used 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.160 to it and I picked it up because it's different 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.600 you and the man and calling you the man. Yeah, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.160 you know you're the star. Now you go to the pros, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.880 everybody's the star. Yeah, and then the competition is tough, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.280 fearce fierce, as you know, you guys know. Yeah, so 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.800 I justin. But it took me. I take maybe a 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.000 year or two because my third year I made the 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.880 Pro Bowl in nineteen ninety three. Yeah, so I was 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.040 progressing in the right area. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:31.440 Yeah. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.400 I mean, would you progress in the right area? How 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.360 much credit would you give or kind of? I don't 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.440 want to tell you what to give credit to. But 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.120 what was it like being drafted to a defense that 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.120 was already so well known and so established like Richard 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:46.960 Mike Singletary, you. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:47.560 Had n. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:49.560 Was there? 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:54.000 Yeah, yeah, Mike, William Perry and Perry Richarde who for 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.120 having good or how great he was whatever it was, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.920 he was famous. Everybody loves the refrigerator, everybody loved it. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.920 So when I got drafted, he you know, he's a 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:03.439 Clemson guy. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.600 I'm a Clemson guy. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.280 It took me on his wings. Okay, it was big wings. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:10.960 And you know he. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.040 Wouldn't let anybody bother me. He say, if you need anything, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.120 just let me know. But planning out getting in all 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.920 those guys, I was. I was nervous. They just come 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.760 off winning the Super Bowl and they drafted me to 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.720 come in and start. And I did start, but I 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.720 was nervous because I didn't want to mess up. And 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.960 a guy looking at it and Mike Singletary looking at 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.640 you his eyes like this, he's a captain of the defense. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.360 But it was a great experience. I just didn't adapt it. 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.400 Yeah, So I'm I'm from Chicago. I was born on 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.880 the South Side. Huge Jordan's fan. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.800 As you can see, I got on some Jay's right 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.160 now have half the shoes I own? 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:57.439 Or are Jordan's right? 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.960 He's trying to get a deal over here. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:00.360 I would love to m. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.720 J or I'm sorry, I love a deal. They've been 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.120 calling him. You're not even that Mama call him m 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.160 I'm gonna call him m His. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:07.360 Mama, don't call him him. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.280 She probably calls him Michael. Keep going. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.280 But I'm I'm a huge I'm a huge Jordan fan, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.559 as is half of the Globe. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:16.080 Right. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.680 You kind of were in Chicago during his era. What 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.160 was it like, uh, in Chicago in that Michael Jordan era. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.240 Oh, it's great. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.160 You know, you know, we were winning, they were winning, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.480 and we passed go in the streets and hang out 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.760 a little bit, and yeah, have dinner. And we were 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.360 always cross paths and great guy. And he's North Carolina 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.600 Chapel Hill guys. Yeah, I'm from here, he's from here. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.079 So you know, we just you know, we just hung 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:46.000 out and had a good time. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.679 Did you own a pair of jects? 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.640 Of course you had to have them. You had to 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.280 have them even back then then. Yeah, you had to 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.520 have him. I didn't know. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.360 Because you know, now there's everybody, it's so proper now, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.880 but back then, it's like, nah, you was back then too, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.000 Like you had to have it because y'all. You know, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.400 back you know, I was just a little kid and I. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:09.200 Went but knee high. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.240 But you know, if you have money, you. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.200 Had to have some jays on. That's that's what's up. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:13.400 Though. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.760 Some things don't change, never change, okay, Georgia will never 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:17.520 change now. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.079 And you know he used to get ticket get me 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.880 tickets for games you watch him play, Okay, so you 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.920 know we had a pretty good Relationshipah, So. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.600 What was one of the best games you saw him play? 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.360 Because you saw him I'm kind of jealous because you 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.240 saw him play live. I've met I've met MJF A 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.960 few times. I've watched all the games, I got the 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.640 shoes to close whatever. But what was the best game 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:37.280 you saw live? 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.000 We never playing the Pistons. It's a very physical game. Yeah, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:43.480 they were going at. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.440 It, you know, and your boy just kept doing this thing. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.800 He kept doing the thing. They knock him down. You're 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:49.440 getting back up. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:57.640 We'll be back in a minute. So let's talk about 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.040 post football. You know, you have a great career and 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.440 since then, what keeps you busy? What keeps down a 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.240 Wolford busy? And what gear brings you joy as you've 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:09.920 gotten older. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.600 Coach high school football East Lincoln High School for a 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:21.280 few years, retired. I also coached at Clemson a couple 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.840 of years. I went back and finished my degree. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.320 Yeah, congratulations on that. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.760 Thank you a ring, didn't you got? 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.120 Twenty six sixteen Alabama was a defensive assist time. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.199 I'll say that again. Who did y'all beat Alabama? 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.640 Oh? Twenty sixteen? Deshaun Watson was our quarterback. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.600 Yeah he should have been. I mean, I couldn't believed 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:38.640 drafted higher. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.680 Than what he was, but yeah he was. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.800 That was a really good team. He was a defensive 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.240 defensive back, assistant. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.320 Yes, really good team. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.920 I just want to hear him say who they beat 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.600 one more time? Say it again. Who did y'all beat Alabama? Okay? 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.559 I went to University Alabama. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.800 That's why. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.360 It was like why. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.000 Because I went there. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:01.600 It's fine. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.360 So coaching was a thing for you. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.200 It was fun, you know, because I'm done. I don't 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.080 know what I'm going to do posts after football, so 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:16.440 I just dove into coaching and found some joy in that. Yes, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.480 and then once that's stopped, you know, I'm not working 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:21.920 on some things in my hometown. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.120 Yes, that's what we want to get to. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.640 So one of the things I know, there's I think 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.520 fourteen acres of land and you have this dream center, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.840 the down Air Wolford Dream Center. How's that going? And 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.640 I know it's not it's not built yet, but can 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.160 you talk about what are your plans for this place 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:40.920 in the future. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.880 Well, I believe in strong community. Yeah, because if you 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:50.160 have a strong community, everyone wins. So when I was 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.280 growing up, I had to support around me. Yeah, I 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.199 had a good community around me. I had the boys 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.600 and girls clubs. So I want to provide that same 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:03.160 service now to my hometown and with the center, with 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.880 the military veterans, kids at rich senior citizens and just 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.440 get back to my community and this makes it strong. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.720 Yes, it's Fairville, Fairville, Yes, Fairville, North Carolina. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.160 I know you help a lot of veterans. Faedville. That 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.360 is where the military. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.880 Military Bragg and I'm sorry Fort Liberty, Fort Liberty, they 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.120 changed changed names. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:25.960 Yes, sir, you're right. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.120 Can you talk about some of the things that you've 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.080 done with some of the military veterans. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.160 My father served in military for thirty years, so we 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.120 traveled around the world and. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.640 He retired at Bragg. Yeah, well Libery Liberty. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:47.400 And you know he's a strict parent. My mom she 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.920 brought me church every Sunday and that was the foundation 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.600 of my life. And now I want to get back 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.200 and and I'm happy to do that. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.960 Where did you get this passion to want to give back? 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.040 Was that your father that well he was a little 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.120 bit strict. But what made you want to say, you 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.520 know what, I want to give back. I want to 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.680 continue to push back and pull forward to my community. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:18.200 I've seen him serve our country and the ups and downs, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:24.000 trials and tribulations, and he would always come home and 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.560 love on us and make sure we were doing the 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.720 right things, and we had food on the table and love. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.360 What brink was was your dad? 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.600 Because my dad, my dad served, My dad did twenty 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:33.920 I was a military partly loved. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.480 Overseas, did the whole thing. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.880 Pretty sure we had a similar upbringing as far as 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.120 what rank was your dad? 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.040 He's a drill sergeant. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.120 Okay, so I always had to walk a straight line. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.360 Oh yeah, when we come home from work, he's in 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.840 the house. We had to walk straight line. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:51.480 Yeah. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.920 I don't know any many drills. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:54.840 There was no shortcuts. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.560 Yeah, I don't know many drill starergiants that know how 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.240 to cut it off either. They don't know how to 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.160 be a drill sergeant. It just this and one time 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.080 I tell you this. Still one time, you know, I 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.000 forgot to take the trash. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:09.240 We have to do our tours right trouble, so I 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:15.280 forgot to take the trash out. But one night and 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.080 I get up next morning, I'm smelling something, smelling this 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.440 and smelling that he had dumped the trash in my 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.240 bed to remind me I forgot to take it out. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:30.800 I never forgot to take the trash out again my bed. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.120 Yeah, I think I think I might try that. I'm 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.360 liking your pops right now. The next time my kids 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.680 will take out the trash. I'm just empty on it 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.720 in the bed break, the turret. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:41.200 I love it. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.760 I'm gonna try that. I mean, it's it's a hard statement. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.560 It's a big statement. It's a big statement. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:47.920 I'm gonna try, Donnielle. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:48.600 I want to know. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.280 About your experience because we like to, you know, showcase 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.480 not only what our legends do in the NFL, but 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.280 also sometimes it's pat the NFL on his back and 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.320 give them their flys too, the NFL. What was your 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.359 experience like with the NFL Continue Education program You mentioned 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.240 it earlier, how you went back and got your degree 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.080 and finished that up. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.200 That was the reason I went back because of that. Yeah, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.920 they provided that service. I signed up and took advantage 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.800 of it. And then on top of that, Coach Sweeney 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.600 gave me an opportunity as well. Yeah, so I ended 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.080 up getting a degree in the National Championship in one year. Year. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:29.560 Clims have been good to you. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.760 That was good, been good. Clims have been good, been real. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.640 Oh man, And my daughter she starts she's just got 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:42.840 hired there. Ip TA, which is the fundraising department. She 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.040 just got hired there. She graduated too. She was in 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.440 the school when I was in school, and you know, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.840 and I told her, I said, you need you're gonna 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.119 help you old men I got. I got into the school, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.960 so I need you to help me with Michael schoolwork 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:58.200 when I need you. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.240 Like, I like that. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:57.720 That's cool. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.280 Did y'all graduate at the same time. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.280 She told me that you don't go downtown. You got 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.440 to stay in your house. Who don't come down? 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:09.520 I don't need you. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:09.760 Just the. 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.480 Y'all. Well, never have the same camera parties. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:16.760 Set me off. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.840 Man, oh man, we come around here talking about daughter, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:22.360