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Speaker 1: This is up on Game Presents Conversations with a Legend

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Speaker 1: with LeVar Arrington, and LeVar is sitting down with some

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Speaker 1: of the legends you have watched on and off the field.

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Speaker 1: This is up on Game Presents Conversations with a Legend.

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Speaker 1: And now here's LeVar Errington.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Everybody's LeVar Arrington here? This is up on Game Conversations

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Speaker 3: with a Legend. And that is just what I have

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Speaker 3: here with me today as a guest. My man, Matt Ryan,

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Speaker 3: quarterback extraordinary. You know who he is, man, one of

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Speaker 3: the dopest to ever do it in the game. It's

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Speaker 3: a pleasure to have you on the show, my guy.

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Speaker 3: It's good to be appreciate you being here. Man, you

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Speaker 3: do some pretty awesome things, and you've done some awesome

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Speaker 3: things in your career. But you're continuing to keep the

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Speaker 3: Bucket Challenge alive going.

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of.

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Speaker 3: These things have phases and they phase out and stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. I think it's really commendable and super cool

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Speaker 3: that you are continuing to support the Ice Bucket Challenge,

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Speaker 3: and obviously that supports al less yep, and all those

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Speaker 3: things that go along with it. Just tell me, like,

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Speaker 3: what you got going on with that right now, and

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Speaker 3: what you got going on post career so far.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So you know with this with the Ice Bucket Challenge,

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Speaker 5: it's been ten years since it started, which is kind

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Speaker 5: of wild because I remember.

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Speaker 4: That thing blowing up yeah and just go yeah viral. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But there's there's a personal attachment to it for me.

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Speaker 5: One of my classmates at Boston College, good friend of

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Speaker 5: mine was Pete Frady's who was kind of instrumental in

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Speaker 5: getting the Ice Bucket Challenge going and suffered from that disease.

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Speaker 5: And I saw what it did to him, saw what

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Speaker 4: Buddy, right like, this is the thing hits home.

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Speaker 5: It hits home, and so you're going to continue to promote,

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Speaker 4: You know, he was he was a beast, you.

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Speaker 5: Know, fighting that and uh, and for me, it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: whatever I can do to help, you know, moving forward,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to try and do. And so here today

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Speaker 5: trying to keep that that momentum going. Uh, there's no

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Speaker 5: that's the thing with these diseases like this, right, there's

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Speaker 5: there's the initial kind of outburst, but it's really the

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Speaker 4: It's it's the continued follow serge.

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Speaker 5: Yes, correct, And it takes time and so hopefully resources.

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Speaker 4: And I mean it takes money.

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Speaker 2: It takes money, Yes, it takes money.

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Speaker 4: We've got to keep it going.

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Speaker 3: So the bucket challenge, and is there is there a

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Speaker 4: I mean, you can find it anywhere.

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Speaker 5: If I put you put in als Ice bucket challenge,

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Speaker 4: So you heard, we make it very easy for the

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Speaker 3: Mat Ryan, all right, make sure you look up als

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Speaker 3: Ice challenge so that you can support uh, the fine

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Speaker 2: For the disease. That's that's super awesome man.

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Speaker 3: And And to take what you've been able to do

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Speaker 2: And speaking of that.

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Speaker 3: N I L I'm so, I'm so curious because your

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Speaker 4: To have, NIL would have been nice.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about tell me about what what's your take

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Speaker 4: Right? So, so my take is I really don't have

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Speaker 5: The portal is the issue to me, right, And so

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Speaker 5: But the NIL portion of it, I believe for a

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Speaker 5: I'll be honest with you, BC, you weren't really getting it.

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Speaker 3: But everybody, but they were still that was your market, correct, right,

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Speaker 4: There is money to be made in that market.

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Speaker 5: And so I'm cool with the players, you know, using name,

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Speaker 5: you've got to keep up certain things on your end

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Speaker 3: I think the portal n nil is what makes it complicated,

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Speaker 5: You know, I agree with you. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of success that comes from the struggle, sure,

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Speaker 2: I didn't get in them right away. Yeah, I didn't

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Speaker 3: I had to have those moments where I didn't know

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Speaker 5: One hundred percent believe that. For two and a half

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Speaker 4: What am I doing?

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Speaker 5: But but there's a level of of of grit or

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Speaker 3: I love that I can dig him. Last question, uh,

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Speaker 3: is he a game changer?

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Speaker 4: Listen, I think both. You know, amen, And here's my thing.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's anything like For a lot of

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Speaker 4: Oh you got that's what.

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Speaker 3: I've always wondered when it's used as something to be.

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Speaker 3: It just has never made sense to me, And that's

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Speaker 2: So you're supposed to be even if.

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Speaker 3: You're a game changer, you're still supposed to be managing

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Speaker 4: Correct o correct?

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Speaker 5: Like good quarterback play to me is the guy that

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Speaker 5: go make a play. And I think if you look

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Speaker 5: is no one open, no one open. And I love

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan played for him, awesome coach, but he didn't

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Speaker 5: do anything to help Rock in that situation, right, right,

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Speaker 5: and so he.

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Speaker 4: Had nothing to manage.

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Speaker 5: He had a make a play, goes out, uses his legs,

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Speaker 5: Two run plays later, they're in the end zone. When

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Speaker 5: state of play, you made a play. You didn't manage

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Speaker 5: any game, correct, you didn't manage anything.

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Speaker 4: You made it.

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Speaker 5: But I think I think part of his strength, honestly

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Speaker 5: is being an excellent game manager, making good decisions over

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Speaker 4: Uh, there's a lot of value to that.

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Speaker 2: Are you doing media?

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Speaker 4: I am.

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Speaker 5: I'm doing calling games with CBS, which has been a

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Speaker 5: lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's it's been cool.

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Speaker 2: Dude. You are a rock star. You very well, bro,

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Speaker 2: you are.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I appreciating your commentary and your delivery is

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Speaker 3: freaking amazing.

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Speaker 2: Bro.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm watching from here on out I'm make

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Speaker 3: sure whatever game Matt Ryan is on, I'm watching that

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Speaker 3: game just to hear your commentary. Make sure you guys

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Speaker 3: support ALS the Ice Bucket Challenge. Look it up. It's

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Speaker 3: out there. It's online. Support it, Matt Iron, does we

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: This is up one games Fox Sports Radio Conversations with

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Speaker 3: a Legend.

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Speaker 2: I'm LeVar Harrington. We'll be right back.