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We don't go to the office, We 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:46.800 build it. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.560 Good afternoon, Stealer Nation. It's the Drive live at Saint 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.440 Vincent College of Course highatap chuck Nole Field. As another day, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.080 the fourth and final act aimation practice in the books 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.160 for your Pittsburgh Steelers. West Shuler and Matt Williamson with 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.520 you here for the next three hours. As we will 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.440 conclude our Day four coverage, we have got a lot 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.400 of fun stuff to get to today. Matt, I'm excited 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.360 for the show. We are going to talk to our 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.640 buddy Chris Halleck in the four o'clock hour, we'll get 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.600 all his thoughts on the four practices that are in 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.200 the books. To this point, we've got some more fantasy 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.720 football conversation that we're going to have, and you and 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.480 I were pretty dialed into watching practice today with a 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.399 lot with a lot going on on this welcome back 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.040 to football weekend across the NFL and the final practice 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.920 for the Steelers before a day off tomorrow. We will 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.560 get into all that. A lot of ground to cover, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.560 but we have to start today, Matt, with the Steelers 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.839 big announcement this morning. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.120 Yeah, it's kind of a monumental episode of the drive here. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:52.320 You know, as you said, the acclamation period done. We 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.600 always like that Hall of honor done. You'll get into 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.600 that in a minute. Here. The lines on the field 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.160 look beautiful. From those that were curious how that held 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.480 up overnight and maybe most importantly in our life, fresh 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.520 out of the box, right on our craniums, brand new 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.800 spanking headsets, and they couldn't sound and feel better. I 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.280 feel like a new man. My car just got detailed. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.400 It's a great It's like the cars just got detailed. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.760 It's like he paid somebody to deep clean the house. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.799 Exactly that we didn't know how good a heck you 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:23.120 to have it. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.079 You know, you got these fancy new headsets. Shout out 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.760 to our fearless leader, Brian Lamartina. Back at the ranch. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.280 We got some crisp new headsets. We're feeling good, sounding, good, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.720 looking good. Yeah, we're on radio. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.639 We'll leave that one up for you all, like Rick 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.239 Flair or somebody, I mean, like, I'm a fancy over here. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.240 Limousine riding, yeah, Rolex wearing jet flying. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:44.360 Uh. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.160 It was a big day on campus today for a 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.720 lot of reasons, but it all began at ten am 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:53.000 this morning when the Steelers introduced they announced their newest 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.160 Hall of Honor class. The twenty twenty sixth group includes 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:01.360 three individuals former GM Kevin Colbert or cornerback J. T. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:06.200 Thomas and Matt. It finally happened richly deserved our former 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.359 colleague and of course, longtime guard of the Pittsburgh Steelers, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:14.080 Craig Wolfley, and a friend that's absolutely a friend, Matt. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.680 That's a that's a heck of a trio going in there. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.440 And a trio of three guys who did a ton 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.520 for the organization. Yeah, and did a ton and still 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.040 do in some of their cases a ton for the 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.720 community of Pittsburgh. Two three, three great Steelers and three 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.600 great members of the Pittsburgh community. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.919 Absolutely, So I guess I'll start with JT. Thomas because frankly, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.200 he's the one I know the least about. And I 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.400 remember being a kid, and you know, during that Super 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.880 seventies era, but I was very very young, born in 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.560 seventy three, and you know, the older folks in my life, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.520 uncle father of those guys are kind of like he's 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.160 one of those dudes on the defense and no one 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.640 seems to talk about. But when you have Mel Blunt 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.080 on the other side, he also gets some attention too. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.840 And he does not have as easy of a role 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.520 as you would think, even though that he's surrounded by 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.160 some of the best defensive players that ever lived in 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.480 Hall of Famers galore. It's easy to overlook someone like 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.400 Mike Wagner or J. T. Thomas on those teams, but 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.840 they're super important and we're not weak links by any means. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.520 Really really good football player Wolf. We can go on 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.840 and on about about stories and knowing them and all 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.359 that too, And I'll be honest, Kevin was very helpful 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.360 in my career as well, because when I was at 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.400 pitt he was next door and I always felt like 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.000 I could bounce off career questions to him, and he 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.960 was always really kind to me. And you know, so 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.640 even when I was in my formidable years, really looked 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.080 up to him. And of course, you know, even before 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.599 I was getting paid to do this for a living, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.640 I paid such attention to the whole league, but especially 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.200 the Steelers and ye GM moves and how their minds work, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.800 and especially even you know, when I was doing this 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.080 full time, really dug into his work and was always 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.160 just super impressed, super class act. I know you've known 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.680 him a long time as well. I even remember, like 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.200 when I was with the Browns shaking his hand before 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.400 the game and being like, you got a spot on 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.159 your staff, don't'll forget me. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.000 You know, he's depth chart. I'd love to come back, all. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.120 Right, right, things aren't looking so good this year over 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.920 in Cleveland, and I wouldn't mind coming home. And he 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.640 always kept an eye off for me and those things. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.680 And it's tremendous. I urged someone to do the legwork 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.680 because I did it so long ago. But the average 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.240 first round pick spot that Kevin had to deal with 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.120 I think was like twenty four point one overall in 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.039 the first round, not like if you trade up for Bush, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.720 you go to ten. I'm talking about the one that 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.800 you earned and if people are going to do the exercise. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.359 He became the GM about ten years I think it 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.000 was ten years after really doing the job, and Dale's 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.880 told the story on the air before. For whatever reasons, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.400 the Steelers didn't have that title, but he was doing 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.880 the exact same job. So there was ten years there 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.040 that he was in charge of draft. So I included 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.440 that in my calculations. I think it was when he retired, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.440 it's right around twenty fourth overall, so it was like 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.960 a twenty plus year career. I should know those numbers 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.160 by I don't exactly if you include the time before 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.599 he was formally announced GM. Sure, and the way Dale 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.560 said it was there was no reason to give him 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.200 that title. But when he would be on the road, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.960 there's nicer seats for the GMS than just Joe average scout, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.520 and you know he's sitting, Yeah, you might as well 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.760 give him the first class seats. If he's at LSU 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.200 Alabama or whatever things like that. That's really the only difference. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.960 It wasn't like now he's got new responsibility. From what 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.680 I understand, it's just a title for convenience reasons. But 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.640 my point is when on average you picked twenty fourth 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.640 in the first round, and there were some thirty two's, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.440 I mean there's some late ones in there too. There 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.799 aren't weren't many many five or sixes or tens. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.480 There was none one losing season in the twenty years 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.920 that he was GM of this team. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.640 Right right, I mean, so that means you don't get 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.680 offense of tackles. They're gone. You don't really have much 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.760 of a shot at premium quarterbacks. The one year you did, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.800 you nailed it and nailed it right right right, you know. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.600 So it's not the easiest team build, you think. In 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.920 a lot of those years too, the Steelers weren't super 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.360 active in free agency either, so he did a lot 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.760 of it without as many cards in his hand as 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.440 Howie Roseman or Jacksonville had picked in the top six 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.960 like eight years in a row, or the Browns or 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.440 you know what I mean. So he was not dealt 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.680 easy hands to win the poker match and still did he. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.680 Drafted three NFL Defensive Player of the Year recipients or 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.960 signed technically, if you include James Harrison, of course, then 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.120 Troy Bonamalu and TJ Watt. Wow, so two draft picks 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.640 and as signing three defensive player players of the year, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.600 one defensive Rookie of the Year in Kendrell Bell, one 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.000 offensive rookie of the year in Ben Roethlisberger. And players 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.440 that Colbert signed or drafted were named First Team All 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.320 Pros twenty five times. Wow in twenty years. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:07:59.760 Wow. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.360 That's that's pretty good. That's pretty good. And of course 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.640 the two suitabl Trophies, which is what matters most at the. 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.920 End of the day. And a tremendous legacy and a 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:08.920 really good person. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.880 You know, absolutely, you know. I think I harken back 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.960 to his you know, his last press conference with the 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.240 Steelers when he talked about I think a lot of 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.400 people probably know this, Matt. Most of our listeners are 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.520 Steelers junkies. But when you walk into the front office 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.680 of the Steelers facility or the front doors of the Steelers' 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.000 front office, you get what I'm saying. There's are the 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.520 Lombardi trophies on display and I remembe a few of them, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.880 quite a few of them. And I remember Kevin Colbert 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.720 talking about, you know, and when I got here, there 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.040 were four, and you knew what the task was, and 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.520 you know, I was able to add two more and 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.880 and and you know, again, that is what matters in 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.520 Steelers lore. We know it's it's Super Bowls, right. All 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.920 the other stuff is great, but what you're really looking 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.400 for championships in this organization. That's how you're judged. And 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.760 and Kevin Colbert adds two of those Lombardi's, they are 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.480 gonna sit in that Steelers facility forever. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.200 Yeah, absolutely. And I know there aren't many GM in 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:01.840 the Hall of Fame, but I think he has a 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.680 heck of a case as well. That's a tough tough 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.880 road to hoe, Yeah, you really, I mean, because there's 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.080 no stats and things like that, and the things you 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.800 cited are great, but sometimes it's hard to say, like, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.400 well he was one of the best report writers or 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.600 scouts out there. I mean, those kinds of things are 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.560 not as tangible. But there's not many gms in the 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.200 history of this league, or especially during like this free 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.400 agency era when times have changed that were better or 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.200 you have a better resume or have a better case 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.000 to be in canon. 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.760 And then of course matt Our guy, Craig Wolfley, Yeah, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.520 for a decade was an offensive lineman in this organization. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.319 And then for I believe it was twenty three twenty 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.160 three seasons as a broadcaster and writer as well too, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.080 joining the Steelers Radio network in two thousand and two 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.160 as a sideline reporter. I just so richly deserved for 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.680 this guy. He would have I know he would have 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.600 been a little bashful about it, right, you know, Wolf probably? Yeah, Wolf, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.440 I'm sure would say that there are many people that 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.560 deserve to be in there more than he is. But 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.680 I would disagree. I think when you think about the 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.280 fabric of an organization like the Steelers, many Yeah, for 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.720 the entire twenty first century Wolf and obviously Tounch. And 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:13.079 you know, it's it. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.080 Can't say one without the other. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.760 I was just looking for the right way to say that, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.480 because I almost said it's funny. You can't you can't 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.680 bring up one without bringing up the other. And it's 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.760 not funny, but it kind of is. They would think 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.240 it's funny. They know it's funny, and you can't. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.360 Talk about Burt without Ernie. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:33.760 Exactly right, come on, man, exactly right. And so obviously 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.840 Tounch got in a few years ago. Now Wolf joins him. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.120 I'm sure those two are having a stogy up in 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.720 Heaven tonight to celebrate. And yeah, you know you, you 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.199 know this, you and I when we have these conversation conversations, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.840 I tell you this all the time. Hall of honors, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.280 hall of fames, things like that. They're museums. They're museums 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.559 of the sport. They that's how you tell the history 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.240 of the organization or of the league, whatever the case 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.319 may be. And you can't talk about the street the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.200 Pittsburgh Steelers for very long without the name Craig Wilfe No. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.200 And I was first exposed to him again as like 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.439 an eight or nine year old kid when he got 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.839 drafted and quickly took over as a starting guard on 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.920 the very end of you know, right after the Super 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.040 Bowl era. Unfortunately for Wolf, if he'd got drafted two 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.640 years earlier, he'd have a ring, but obviously not his fault. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.360 But quickly became a starter. Stood out even like as 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.160 an eight or nine year old because the hair and 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.480 the personality and you know, he looked a lot different then. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.360 I mean he looked at a wild man look about 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.000 him and was very, very personable and played hard and 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.680 you know, he tells crazy stories like he ran down 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.600 on kickoffs and in high school. Rob Gronkowski's dad and 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.320 Lex Luger were teammates of his. Yea like Lex Luger 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.440 was one of the running backs that he's blocking for, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.240 not to mention all the stuff he did during his career. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.720 Shortly after with like his gyms and World's Strongest Man, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.960 I mean, like one of the strongest human beings walking 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:02.600 this planet. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.120 He came like fifth I think, yeah right right in 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.400 the battle, yeah right. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.240 I mean he fought Butterbean, who people might not remember Butterbean, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.000 but he was kind of like this king hippo dude 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.360 from the Tyson punch out thing that everybody knew. I mean, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:21.960 he had an unbelievable athletic career, but particularly obviously as 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.560 a Pittsburgh Steeler starting guard. Then finished the season or 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.360 his career with the Vikings, you know, for a year 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.920 or two, as people do, and as you said, immediately 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.240 comes back embraced with open arms. And then everyone got 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.320 to know him on the air and all these things too, 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.360 you know. And then my first time working with him, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.040 we hosted a Wednesday night show that I still do, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.160 and then obviously it's training camp and things like that. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.720 But I was on the air with them a ton 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.720 and considered him a really good friend. 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.920 Absolutely, I would not have to mention. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.959 All the light of light stuff and charity stuff unbelieving. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.120 I mean, when you think of a you know, a 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.000 life well lived, when you think of a full life, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.160 I mean, Wolf is got to be right at the 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.280 forefront of that conversation. You're right, such an interesting guy, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:07.679 such an interesting background, his athletic career, his right and 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.400 and boxing and world's strongest man and all this, you know, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.480 all this different stuff. And yeah, of course just a 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.560 all time eater. Of course, as everybody knows, who uh 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.240 there's there's not many things that Wolf liked more than food. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.160 There were a couple, certainly, but you know, maybe football 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.200 and family on the shortlist there. But just a guy 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.839 with such a such an energy, such a passion for life, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.000 right they you know, Tounch and Wolf would always talk 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.439 about every locker room has, you know, adders and subtractors 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.880 and dividers and multipliers. Wolf was a multiplier man through 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.920 and through and uh, and we still we still miss 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.600 him all the time. But I'll be very happy, you know, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.720 for his wife, Faith, you know who I know fairly well. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.120 She's an amazing person, and it's is continuing to do 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.079 great stuff in Wolf's honor. You know, obviously we know 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.200 we know, uh, some of his family, some of his 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.880 kids pretty well, his son, one of his sons, c J, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.520 worked with us for a long time as an engineer, producer, 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.400 guy behind the scenes. We love CJ. You know, his daughters, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.320 his son Kyle, who is who is the marine who's 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.600 stationed in Germany that Wolf was always so proud of 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.680 and I've been fortunate enough to meet a couple of times. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.160 I don't know if it was announced today, Matt, what 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.920 the Hall of Honor game will be, because honestly, there 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.040 will be a you know, there'll be a halftime ceremony 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.920 at some point for all these guys to get officially enshrined. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.440 At some point for a home game this season, it 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.760 will be the Cincinnati Bengals game on Sunday the twenty seven. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.640 Thanks to Ed True for pointing that out to me. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.920 I know the Wolfly family will be there well, represented 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.160 and that will be a very cool, richly deserved moment 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.720 for the entire Wolfly family. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.920 And we could talk probably spend the next we're gonna 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.600 be on the hour or on the on the show 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.920 here till six. We could probably spend the entire time 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.760 just telling wolf stories and different things we enjoyed with them. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.920 But one comes to mind as we sit here and 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.680 slightly cloudy, But do you do you know the wolf stuff? 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.800 I think I know where you're going with this. He 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.480 was petrified of. There weren't many things he was scared of. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.880 Fearful human being. I mean he was. I mean it 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.240 was one of the last guys I'd ever want to 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.440 meet in an alley or something like that. But I 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.200 guess the Wolflies as a family, him and his siblings 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.080 and all those guys are petrified of lightning because they've 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.240 got hit a lot. They have like this history of 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.440 getting hit by lightning. I don't know if it's something 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.280 in their blood. Do they have a little more like 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.920 iron or magnesium or something that's or they just big 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.960 people and chances are he's going to hit him over 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.760 you because he's got one hundred pounds on it, right. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.360 I don't know, but I always thought about that. Here. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.760 He was always fearful, especially here because so open storm 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.800 would come. He's like, how do I get that cafeteria 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.400 to eat? Because I like to eat too, but I 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:43.320 don't want to hit my lightning. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.320 He was so scared to go outside. And you know, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.360 the first couple of years that I was working with 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.040 him and with all of you guys, Matt, when I 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.960 was still doing I was doing a little on air stuff, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.480 but mostly behind the scenes stuff. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.720 We did it in the locker room mostly or early 0:15:58.760 --> 0:15:59.920 on within the contra. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.760 Correct and uh. And this was in the days where 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.760 our broadcast location was still outside we were set up. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.000 Because at that I don't miss those days. I don't 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.680 miss those I don't miss those days either, because they 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.600 would do the morning show at that point, and they 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.840 would do it out in like the Fan Experience era 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.480 when all the fans where you know, when the gates 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.200 would open and the fans were rolling in and all 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.160 that stuff. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:20.960 And a lot of the fans, but they could also 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.800 get in the way when you're trying to do especially 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.360 when it rains, and they're like this, come into the 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.680 tent with you. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.000 And every time it would rain, or there'd be any 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.920 type of weather threat. Wolf would like, he be like 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.080 and Touch would just be laughing at him. Tounch would 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.160 be like, have his hands up behind his head, like 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.520 leaning back, and he'd be like, dude, just relax, what 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.600 are you so worried about. He'd be like, you see 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.800 all these big trees around us, They're gonna str the 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.960 lightning's going to strike the trees first before. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.800 It that light post that's like super high and begging 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.760 to get hit. But I don't know. There must be 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.520 some reason. I guess him and his brothers and a 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.160 lot of them been. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.440 Hit without a doubt. You know, well, you we've said 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.280 this before, Matt, and we'll say it many times again, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.360 like we'll never telling stories about Dale and about Wolf 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.679 and about Tounch. And we'll do that as long as 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.719 we're fortunate enough to sit in these chairs. So Wolfe's 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.440 memory was always gonna be remembered around here, obviously, but 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.800 I'm glad that it's now enshrined in the history of 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.000 the organization forever. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.159 Yeah, and you probably I should know this off the 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.040 top of my head, but I think he passed right 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.639 before last year's group was announced. Yes, you know, so 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.840 basically got in as quickly as you can, you know 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.600 what I mean. Great respect obviously, yes, for all. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.879 Three of these guys, absolutely, absolutely, all great contributors to 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.480 the organization, all great contributors to the community of Pittsburgh 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.720 and Western Pennsylvania at large. 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