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Speaker 1: Good, good, good. I think everybody wants to know. As

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Speaker 1: the senior spokesperson on this team, just kind of your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on how special somebody's going to be for everyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really hard to articulate. I think

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Speaker 1: I've had quite a few people ask me about this,

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Speaker 1: and you know, what does it mean to celebrate Tom?

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Speaker 1: And I think when you try to put into words

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Speaker 1: what he has meant for this place, what he continues

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Speaker 1: to mean for this place, it's really hard. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just thankful that we have an opportunity to celebrate him

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Speaker 1: the right way, that our fan base can celebrate him

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Speaker 1: the right way. I know mister Krab's going to do

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Speaker 1: a great job of honoring him. But how fortunate or

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Speaker 1: all of us to be able to, whether you're covering him,

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Speaker 1: whether you're playing with him, whether you're watching him, to

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Speaker 1: be able to witness something like that twenty years of

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Speaker 1: an unparalleled run greatness that we've never seen before. So

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Speaker 1: I'm excited about the opportunity to welcome him back and

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Speaker 1: celebrate him the right way. What did you know about

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Speaker 1: him when you got here and what was let to

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Speaker 1: be with him every day? Well? I didn't like him.

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Speaker 1: When I got here the first Super Bowl they beat

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Speaker 1: the Rams, and I grew up a Rams fan obviously,

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Speaker 1: so I was like, I don't know about this Brady guy,

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Speaker 1: but I'll never forget my first day in here. He

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Speaker 1: came up and introduced himself to me, and you know,

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Speaker 1: he knew a little bit about my college career. There

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Speaker 1: wasn't much to know, but he knew it. And just

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Speaker 1: the kindness that he showed me that he didn't have

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Speaker 1: to really has stuck with me ever since then. I

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Speaker 1: remember calling my parents and like, hey, Tom Brady knows

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Speaker 1: my name. He introduced himself and he was like that

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Speaker 1: with everyone. It wasn't just me. He did that, you know,

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Speaker 1: undrafted guys or guys that we just signed the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: He was just a genuine, humble human being. Continues to

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Speaker 1: be that, and I think that's kind of what's what

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Speaker 1: gets missed and overlooked. You know, we don't really celebrate

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Speaker 1: character where we celebrate you know, production on the field

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Speaker 1: and big contracts and aides, but all that fades away

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Speaker 1: who we are as people's would last for our lifetimes.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I appreciate most about Thomas. Well, everybody

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Speaker 1: knows about the player, but being with him every day

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Speaker 1: what separated him He has arguably the greatest player ever. Well,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of things, but I think the mentality,

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Speaker 1: the desire to be great, the willingness to sacrifice to

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Speaker 1: be great, not just when it counted, not just when

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Speaker 1: the lights wrong, but when no one was watching, when

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Speaker 1: he was on vacation, when it was the off season.

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Speaker 1: His commitment to excellence, his competitive stamina, his refusal to

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Speaker 1: be complacent. I just I don't know how he was

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Speaker 1: able to do that for so long. With all that

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Speaker 1: he accomplished, he still carried himself like someone who hadn't

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Speaker 1: accomplished anything, and that goes against human nature, it really does. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, his is greatness, in my mind again, is unparallel,

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy that we're, you know, getting a chance

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Speaker 1: to honor that this weekend. Yeah, and mean, but we're friends,

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Speaker 1: will be friends, I hope for the rest of our lives.

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Speaker 1: We still keep in touch, talk family, talk about what's

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Speaker 1: going on each other's lives. So I'm very appreciative of that. Thanks, right,