THE ED MYLETT SHOW - The Lifetime Competitor- with Marshall Faulk

Episode Date: August 27, 2019

Build your way to GREATNESS! This is truly a tremendous interview. We cover Marshall’s Breakthrough moment, which I was there for 28 years ago 😂(insane story of how I helped him make history !!!!) All of the keys and disciplines that SEPARATED him from other world-class athletes! We talk Hall Of Fame, Super Bowls, and his legendary preparation habits Marshall and I have become good friends I can tell you one of the things that’s most remarkable about him, is his for Ferocious COMPETITIVE Drive (I’ve personally witnessed this in many different settings including golf, business, etc.) We even discuss his real feelings about my @patriots! Also his new association w same financial firm I’m a part of and much much more!    

This is the Edmmerwood Show. Welcome back to Max out with Ed Mylett. This gentleman to my left does not need any introduction, but I'm going to give him one anyway. This is NFL Hall of Famer. Only man in the history of the NFL with 70 rushing touchdowns and 30 receiving touchdowns in the history of the league. This man right here, so this is the great Marshall Falk join in me here today.

Thank you for being here. Oh, thanks for having me. It's really, really a blessing. So, I knew who you were before the rest of the world does, and when I tell you this story, I don't want to tell you off camera. You're going to know right away what I'm talking about. I went to college at University of the Pacific. You don't want him about to tell you? Yes. So what I'm talking about. I went to college at University of the Pacific. You know what I'm about to tell you?

So, I major school famous. You became famous because of my school. It's how I look at it. Just so you all know, I knew who this man was before the whole world did really in football. I played baseball at University of the Pacific and my sophomore year they asked me to come play football because our corner got hurt. And luckily I pulled a hamstring that week so I sat on the sidelines and watched this guy enter the game. Let me tell you what happened. Okay. First off he wasn't even starting running back that day, right? You weren't even the start? No. He's not the starter. This pin ends up getting in

the game and goes 37 rushes for 300. Make sure you get this right. 386 yards. Did you see what I said? 37 rushes, 386 yards, seven touchdowns. It was responsible for 44 points in this football game. Do you remember that game? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. I forget it. And so at that point, I went, A, I'm not playing football because I don't relate to that at all. And B, I just watched one of the greatest football players of all time way back when. That was really the beginning kind of wasn't it for you? That was that was the start of everything. It was, that game was. Yeah, that game was like, hello world for me.

Yeah. And people always ask me like, man, because you envision yourself, you don't have those kinds of dreams. You have dreams of being successful. But to that degree, you can never fathom or thinking your head that that's going to happen. But I always tell people I was prepared for it though. What do you mean by that? I was prepared. The work that I put in making sure I

knew I was to back up and asked the back up. I got a I got a senior playing in front of me. He was all conference. The chances of me playing slim the none. Yeah. The week before I got like two snaps. Is that right? And then you know second week of the season he goes down and I'm and I'm in the game and coach looks at me and he's like you just hold on to this football. You think about the film work that I put in just just wanting to make sure that if I do get in. I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm supposed to do, then I'm not going to let the other 10 guys in the huddle down. And that's the work that goes in. And the opportunity presented itself, I'm just glad I was prepared.

You talk about taking advantage, because I think in every career that's true. I mean, what if you don't, let's, if you think about what if you don't perform it, what if you put a couple on the ground that day, right? I mean, we may, it's possible, you never even see the football field again. It's possible. So it's true for all of you, like even starting out the interview, there's going to be times in your career and chasing your dream, where there's going to be a moment.

Oh, yeah. And those moments are few and far between. And when they arrive, you need to be prepared for them because that was the Hello world. I mean, I'm telling you, I've been to a lot of supporting events of life. I've never seen an athlete dominate other athletes in my damn life like I did that day. And I knew after that point, I better keep an eye on this guy. So before you get there though,

before you become an NFL Hall of Famer, and one of the, you know, arguably, the best football player I've ever seen, right? And guys that I know that were in the league will tell me that often, the best football player I've ever seen is Marshall Fogg. And so, but you go to San Diego State, right? So were you not,

were you obviously had to be a great high school player, but how do you only end up at San Diego State? I don't mean to put down San Diego State. It's a great school. No, no, no. But this isn't USC running back university, right? So, how come you end up at San Diego State and not one of these big schools? It was a combination of back then.

They didn't label, you were only labeled to a position. If you were running back, you were running back. If you played defensive back, you played defensive back. You played receiver, you played receiver. They didn't have this thing called the athlete. And in high school, I played quarterback, receiver, tight end, corner, safety, I kicked, I punted, I returned kicks, I returned punts.

Oh my God. I kicked field goals, I helped with a field goal.ts. Oh my God. I kicked the field goals. I held put a field goal for the third one. Really? Did you really? I did everything. And my football coach, you were a high school football player. Exactly. He built football players.

We were, we were, we were in a big school. And, but we were like, we were the smallest school in the biggest division. OK. And we didn't have a, like, I mean, I played, I played whole games in high school. Literally every snap, I both said. When I got on the field, I didn't come off until halftime.

I put off into defense. I was on every special team. Oh my gosh. I never left the field. Do you think that had something to do with the way you played in the NFL? You were like, you were really kind of that new breed of like a complete football player running back. You blocked well. You understood the blocking schemes. You were really kind of that new breed of like a complete football player running back.

You blocked well. You understood the blocking schemes. You were a great receiver, right? Obviously a great runner too. Do you think that had something to do with it? A lot to do with it. Yeah. I became the why we're, why are we doing that?

What is that? I want to do that. And my coaches, early in my career, my coaches, they didn't like it. Coaches don't like explaining why. They were going to do this. Hey coach, why were doing that? I watched the film, they do this, this, and this. Look at you like, you couldn't appreciate the fact that I was watching film on my own.

You were. You know, out of young age. Did you really, having a young wife? Yes. You're always going to student of it. I love football. And there's only one way to get better. And everything that I did, I went home, I watched film,

I watched practice. We watched practice, and I go home, I watched practice. You did. And that's not the only way to get better. Is that, and that's the only way to get better than anything, right? Is that a separator? I, that's the one I wanted to ask you.

So you get to the, you get to the NFL. By the way, I remember Mike Martz saying, literally, they're going full. It was almost like a basketball player like LeBron. You want to get him as many touches as you can. You're really one of the first football players I ever saw where the coordinator literally said, we need to get him X amount of touches of football game.

And is that part of that because of your preparation, too? It was Mike felt, if they tried to get me to, as much, he to get me to, as much, he could get me to ball as much as possible. Yes. And when they couldn't get it to me, if they showed me as a, like I'm the primary, and I had tried attention, there's a lot of one on one.

Isaac Bruce is going to win. Torrey, they're going to win the majority of the battles of the one on one, as soon as they get me to draw any attention to my positions, totally different way of using a running back in that time. It is still not all that common. I mean, it's still not that common. You were certainly the first. Some teams, Pittsburgh, they do it with Levy André,

Buffalo, they do it with La Chambre, Dallas do it with Zeke. They get him involved in the passing game. Maybe not as much as lining up as a wide receiver as I did, but they get him involved. And it's, here's the reason. In football, the minute you break a huddle, running back, running back, you think he's wants to run the football. Right.

If you run a swing route and they throw you the ball, the big 300 pounders that they have in the middle of the football field. You just got me away from them. And there's the advantage. Now you've got 180 pound, 190 pound corner bat who really doesn't like the tackle. Right, you don't want a tackle. You've got a tackle on your one on one. That's awesome.

I get that, but you got that. See, I think you were the first players I saw, and I love football. Obviously, I don't know anything about it compared to you, but I would read that this man knew what everyone on the offense's responsibilities were. You knew what the guards was, the tackles was, what route the receiver was running,

and I think that helped you get in space, too, didn't it? I mean, that's the trust that you get in the football for those reasons. Understanding the game, you know, and I took it to, I took it to the quarterback level. I don't want to call it, it's the quarterback level. And this is what I tell people. A lot of, you know, I watch, I have friends who work in Hollywood and, you know, let's say you get a script.

What if you only know your line? How are you going to know when their line is done? So you have to learn the whole script. So you understand the principles and what you're trying to accomplish. Do you think that that was the such a good point? Was that I always wanted to know when you get to an elite level? Because a lot of people that watch this, whatever they're in,

they can be in business and fitness and any sport. They're at a pretty elite level. And then how do you separate? Because we're talking about before, you ran a Ford 3540, that's fast. But there are other guys in the league, you're in four fours. What's the separator? Is it preparation? Like what's the separator at the elite elite level

in sports or business in your mind? What's the little inch that difference? Preparation, mental toughness. And understanding that when you come into the game, your skill level is here, and your knowledge is here. And they're going to intersect to where, like, you're playing, and then they're going to pass each other, where your skill level goes down, and your knowledge of the game goes up.

The faster you can raise your knowledge, the longer time you're going to have to be as good as you are physically and as smart as you can be mentally. That's the elite players. They're up here a long time. The Kobe Bryant's Kobe was like once he got it and understood the game. He was able to slow down the deterioration of his body. I got you. Do you think that's how he continued to grow? Do you see that in a guy like Brady a little bit? Oh, yes, without a doubt. Like Tom is, Tom is, he's fighting for the time. Yeah. That's why crazy diets, all these workouts, all the stuff that he does,

because he understands mentally, just do it as maxed out. I mean, he knows everything. You might be able to trick him once, but you're not going to trick him all game. Right. Right. Right. Right. And he understands the only thing that's keeping him back now is age. Age. So he's trying to slow it down. Yeah. And so his preparation is physical preparation, a diet preparation. That's all that stuff. Anything, anything to slow down the aging process of his body so he can remain at that

peak that's crazy and I watched that I'm curious as a football question about that I just always wanted to know you played with Peyton when he was young right and then you played with Kurt Warner uh-huh I'm curious what were the similar to great football players you caught Peyton earlier in his career but um of those two guys just at a curiosity what was this what are the similarities and what was different about the two of them? Both of them, they have unbelievable leadership skills and they're committed to doing things the right way. What do you mean by leadership skills, like specifically like what's that look like? They know that each player requires a different type of encouragement.

You don't treat everybody the same. No. Yeah. Some dudes you can lay on and get on. Payton Kurt, like whether it was Payton or Kurt, we'd have conversations, and they knew the conversation with me had to be intellectually about how we're going to pick up the blitz, what we're going to do,

these adjustments. He'd go to the tie-in, and he'd say, so when I do this, where would you like to be, do you need me to let your motion go a little wider so you can hook the in? So it's all about encouraging people, letting them know you understand what their job is, and that you are out to help them do their job better.

Not you. Because let's be honest, the five guys that protect the quarterback, you only hear their name or number if they hold it. When he's caught touched down, they never say, number 71! That's so true. That's so. That yellow flag, come on, hold it, number 71. So when you take them to dinner, you invite them to your house, pay them a curtain. Let's sit down and watch film with Offense Align. Yeah, yeah.

Did you ever do anything for your offensive line? Oh, yeah. Dinner is bottom stuff. I mean, yeah, yeah. And here's the reality. When you do things for those guys, this is how I know one guy's are taking care of their offensive line. Quarterback on his back. Running back on his back.

They did it, picking up. You're picking up, yeah. Cleaning guys off. It is, kind of telling. It is telling sometimes when you see that not happen. It's like, you do, you see it not happen. You're like, wow, what's going on in the football? I told people that I was like,

I watched the Washington Redskins. I couldn't figure out why they wouldn't give Kirk cousins the big deal. And then they moved on. Off-ents line never helped him up. You never heard a teammate saying, we need to pay him, we need to keep him. Something was wrong. Well, you just knew it from being in there.

Something was wrong. And I don't know Kurt personally. But if I did, and I was in this circle, I'd tell him, you got to work on your leadership skills. And you got to fresh start this time. Yes. You better clean it up this time. You got to work on your leadership skills. And you gotta fresh start this time, so you better clean it up this time. You gotta work on your leadership skills. That's awesome, what a great insight.

So I'm curious, a couple more football things. You've played on great teams, you've won Super Bowl, right? I was at that Super Bowl, by the way. You probably enjoyed it a little bit more than I did, but you also were on teams that weren't great. Yeah, do you know, like, here in camp, you're like, we don't have it. Does every camp, is everyone gonna be like, we're gonna win the stand Super Bowl this year? Or did you, is there, like, you're in camp, you're like, we don't have it. Or do you, does every camp, is everyone going to be like, we're going to win the

stand-up Super Bowl this year? Or did you, is there a point where you're on a good football? You knew you were the greatest show on turf compared to a team that won five games. Do you know, or is it, do you not know until the season reveals itself? Every, every team at the start of the season, they are playing their best players. Yeah. And you feel like you have a chance of winning every game. The special teams, there's just something different. When I, the started a season on teams when we went three and 13 or 13 and three, it was the same. It is, okay. It was, it was, it was the things that happened

throughout the season. I hurt my knee, I go down, my back up comes in and scores three touchdowns. You know what, thanks for being ready. Yeah. Kurt Warner goes down, the back up comes in. Yeah. Trent Green throws a couple of touchdowns,

we win a couple of games, Kurt don't play. Those are the kind of things. It's not as much to players that the 22 guys that start, it's the guys behind them because every team you're going to have you're going to have bumps in the rows, you're going to have roadblocks, there's going to be obstacles. Yes. And you can expect those 22 guys to solve every problem. That's interesting because I'm a Patriot fan. And every offseason like this, I watch, they lose these guys, you know, and I'm like, but it seems to me that they understand

building that back end of their roster too, because that's gonna be part of the football season. You're just gonna have a trition during the football season. You have to. So I'm curious, let's talk about Super Bowl just real quick. Is that the highlight of your career? We're gonna talk about the big highlight at the end here in the Hall of Fame, but I'm curious, what's that feel like

after all that work you'd been playing a while too, right? And what was that like and then compare it for me to the one against New England? I played football, basketball, baseball, rent track, and had been a champion at everything other than football. I never won a championship in football. So the dream, the dream as a kid, we growing up, always me and my friends, we ended the day when it was time to go home, this play is for the Super Bowl. Yeah. You were on offense or defense.

So it was all, and I never got a chance to experience that. Not only did I get a chance to experience it, it came down to this play. One play. It's a win or whatever, right? Yeah. I mean, there's no. I could have retired.

Seriously. That was like, I could have retired after that game. I didn't have, I really, I had to refocus, set some new goals. Okay. Because I was playing for that. I didn't need to win multiple. It wasn't about, I want to win three or four and beat it, no, no, no.

I have a childhood dream. Wow. I'm playing this game because I want to win a Super Bowl. Wow. I want that dream to come through. It came through. That's amazing. Is that stick with you more?

I'm curious. Like every day you're walking around your martial fock, everybody knows you. You got your post football life now. Does that stick with you more? You know what, like every day you're walking around your martial fock, everybody knows you. You got your post football life now. Does that stick with you more? You don't mean to rub it in, but I'm curious. Does that stick with you more than the loss? I'm a glass half full gun a guy.

You are. So, anytime football is a joy to me. And the many of Patriot fans out there, they think I hate the Patriot. And they have no idea my relationship with Tom Brady. My relationship with Mr. Kraft, the Howard respect him. Just so you know, I know you got a lot of Patriot fans. I was the first player ever, ever, ever that Mr. Kraft

sat down and talked to when he became the owner of the team. It was my draft year. They flew me in. He and I were Patriot. We had a great, we had an awesome lunch. Yeah. I mean, we went to dinner that night. I met his family. Wow.

Okay. Got to meet his wife who's awesome woman. That's awesome. And he and I, we've always, there's just a respect. You talk about it. Sure. And he says to me, if I were to let Bill make the decision, you would have been with the Patriots. You're on an amazing day. You know what?

Bill just wasn't in the front of the box. Come on. Bill was in in too. But it was Marcel. That's right. It was Marcel. Was it into drafting, running backs, didn't like California players? Is that right? Yeah. I mean, if you just look at... You didn't go those, you just go... Offensive players. If he was draft defensive guy, but never really, you know, like, californian players who played offense. But, but anyways, that was my, that is my relief.

Actually, just last spring, I was one of the players, one of the Hall of Famers who went when Mr. Craft to Israel. Oh, wow. Yeah, so I, I support for everybody to know. I love and respect,

but I have a duty on television. My job is I'm anti-patriot. So I play my role. You play the role. There's a role. TV is a role. That's my job. I play that role.

I poke holes in everything that they do. But understand that I respect everything that Mr. Krab, Bill Belacek, Tom Brady, what they built. I mean, it's the model now, and what you want to do it, and how you want things to happen. Wonderful. And segue that a little bit into the broadcasting.

You're my favorite guy on TV. I'm not saying, I'm not saying, because you're here either. I'm saying it because, and I think of other analysts, this is true. I've watched NFL Network, and they'll literally say they enjoy being in the green room with you off camera, everybody just, so you know, this is true, isn't it? The other guys at the network will say they enjoy being in the green room with you off camera. Everybody just so you know this is true, isn't it?

The other guys at the network will say they've enjoyed and at other places you broadcast and will continue to broadcast, but they'll say they enjoy being in the green. They love watching football with you because of your mind about the game. Other players say that. You know that. I say it. You wouldn't say it. And so is the same preparation for you now going to doing the broadcasting stuff as it

did playing. That's why you're so very similar. Very similar. Really? Very similar. And so, is the same preparation for you, now going to doing the broadcasting stuff as it did play, and that's not why you're so open. Very similar. Really. You so much film even? Yep. You do. I mean, I enjoy it.

I just love the whole game. Yeah, it's just a part of, you know, if, if, if, if, if, if, if, if the NFL network, right now, if there's a game on, like, oh, they, they show like classic games or whatever, I'ma watch that game. You do. As if I hadn't seen it before. Whether you played it or not.

Yeah. That's crazy. It's all teaching moments. You know, like people don't understand like they think, okay, they just draw a plays and go play. Yeah. There's a whole strategy. Mm-hmm.

Before you play the game and then once you start the game. There's adjustments. You have a plan, I have a plan. Yeah. Somebody's plan is not working. Yes, right? Right. Now, when your plan is not working,

what are you going to do? Right. And then I have to decide, is that enough to get me out of my game plan? Right, yeah. And then if you get me out of my game plan, do I show what I'm going to do versus this? Because I might have a divisional opponent next week. Wow, wow. I mean, there's so much that goes into it.

That's why when you get to the playoffs and you don't know if you're going to play the next week, you're all in. Everything's in, then. Everything's in place. Well, actually not reveal things in particular. Yeah, because we're playing. Yes, fascinating. What do you, I'm curious, and we're going to shift into business in a second, but I'm curious. What do you, I'm curious, and we're gonna shift into business in a second, but I'm curious, what do you miss about playing? Because, like, just right now talking to you, the camera went on all of a sudden, we started talking about football,

like, your face changed, just so you know, like, you're lit up, you're, I can feel your intensity, right? So, what do you miss most about it? The locker room. You do. Can I say that alone? You don't, I don't care what we do. That's a civilian.

You don't, when you're not playing a team sport, you can never get that feeling. At the country club, we're not sitting around, and our boxer is talking about like, we're not in the hot club, we're not in the jacuzzi, in the steam room, Paul Olin, you're talking about this week's opponent, which we're not doing that.

We're not sharing stories of what happened last night or your camp took its first steps and I'm proud you were as a father. Or you're not, you don't have that intimate setting to really conjugate, that's men. We don't have that, women, they somehow get it. They find a way. We don't have that. Women, they somehow get it. Right, they find a way. We don't have that.

That's it, it's the locker room. And you only get it in team sports. Wow, that is me. In team business too, by the way, some of you that build in team business, you get something similar to that. One last football question, what don't you miss? Is it how you feel Mondays?

Or what do you not miss about playing football? I think guys tell me Mondays, like I rent before running back, I've been through 30 car accidents. Yeah, I said, I'm in Monday, so like I ran before running back, I've been through 30 car accidents. Yeah, I didn't play that way. I never was out to prove that I was more macho than anybody else. I just wanted to do my job.

And if I got my job done and I didn't have a headache, fine. Really? But what don't I miss? You love it. Look at you. I'm just thinking, I mean, because I probably, there's the work losing. Losing? I'm thinking about it.

I'm thinking about it. Because you put so much work into it. Yeah. And I know it's not war but blood sweat and tears are out there. Yeah. And you know when those 60 minutes are up and you lost. Yeah. It's a bad, a miserable feeling. It's an awful feeling. Yeah. For the great ones it is. I think we both played with guys who didn't bother quite as much. Somebody's weren't it for the job. It's a job for them.

Yeah. I'm fascinated by getting in the mind of a champion of a Hall of Famer. And so the last football part, I'm literally it's fascinating for me. Because you do this stuff for Flexible. This is who you are. But not everybody says, way, people need to learn these things and oftentimes.

Now you're a member, though, of the greatest team. There's something really special to become in a Hall of Famer. What was that like, the call and being a part of that group now forever? I mean, down in history, someday your great grandchildren are going to be part of that legacy that you're in the Hall of Fame and the NFL. So what's that feel like? It was and it still is surreal. I'm a football junkie. Yeah, you are. Part of my story is being from New Orleans, poor, not being able to ever see a pro game by buying a ticket. At age 13, 14, 15, and 16, I would hustle up to get five,

ten bucks, whatever it was, the price increase. You had to pay that to get your rack to sell your popcorn or your peanuts. That's how I got to watch games. So I'm a football junkie. Respect the game, love the game, appreciate everything that was done by the guys who was before us, who made the game what it is so we can have the lives that we have. People don't understand, they had summer jobs, they sometimes work during the season after practice they have to go to work. It was totally different in the game that we play now and how we have it. And I get an opportunity to see these men. Donna Yellowjack and Nicole, myself, a Hall of Fame, I have a number, just

like they have a number. And I get to call them teammates. I get to call them friends. I get to socialize. I get to sit down next to Tony Dorset. And just, I'm just, how's it going? How's it going? You know, when you think about it,

I grew up with Barry Sanders and and Image Smith, Eric Dickerson. I grew up idolizing these guys. And now they talk to me like we're friends. That's the reality of being a part. They embrace me. They take you on the reality of being a part. They embrace me. They take you on the day of wing, they tell you, hey young fellow, you gotta take care of yourself when you get old. You're nice.

That buys you the things. And I have five older brothers, but it's so different. The advice and being a part of that and having the opportunity to just just rub elbows with those guys. It's wonderful, bro. I sit around and listen to the stories. Yeah. And we have that week, that whole of the fame week, it's unbelievable when we welcome the new guys in,

but they're here to older guys talk. And I actually just this past, actually last year, July was my first time getting to speak. I had been Niske luncheon. I got to speak. I mean, it's like, you know, the, Willie the Near was like, hey Marshall, you know, tell us about your experience. I'm like, oh my god, really? I get to tell you about my experience. So it's, you it's just fascinating and now for me you know I was part of the new wave that came in in 2011 and 2011 and now a bunch of the guys that come in in are guys that I played against Brian Erlocker you know

Derek Brooks came in last year I'm like it's so cool now not only is it guys that I looked up to but it's now it's guys that I compete against. How wonderful is that? It's awesome. That's awesome. I'm having Trelloins on my show in a few weeks, and I'm gonna play him this clip so that he can see this.

It's so good for me just so you know, because obviously my generation, you're a hero of mine, just to see how grateful you are. I don't think all people give themselves the gift of gratitude. Like you're grateful for all this. Oh, it's not a test it's like to be like. You could have given me a million answers.

Your answer was gratitude, you know? And that's just wonderful. It is, man. That's so wonderful. It's the reason we have the game that we have. Awesome. I love your passion. I'm so grateful that you're doing this.

Bam, that just struck me. Because I didn't know that would be what you would answer. So that's just so powerful. I want to segue a little bit into your work as because of a Hall of Famer. You're real passionate about these former players, like not only the ones that are on your team now in the Hall of Fame, but also you're doing some work now that you're passionate about both for inner cities when it comes to the financial services business a little bit.

And then also you're partnering with a couple of my colleagues with Hannah and Bobby at our firm and also you're really working with former players and I know you're passionate for inner city stuff so talk a little bit how'd you step into this into the financial sector so to speak. You know I've always actually I go back to my college days I was interning in and the public relations office for the San Diego Padres. And at the time, the San Diego Padres and the San Diego Chargers shared a stadium together. And I got to meet Junior Seah.

Okay. And Junior said to me, you know, whatever you do, you're going to be a great player. Just remember this community give back. And I was like, okay, whatever. And then I watched what he did with his foundation in San Diego and how he went back to ocean side and not just ocean side, but all of San Diego.

His thing was uplifting people. Reaching that hand out, trying to make sure other people had an opportunity. And for me, that became kind of my thing for my anthropology. I wanted to, my rookie year, I did a football camp, 1994. We did a football camp, we raised money, gave the money to the Boys and Girls Club, started from there. Then I started doing golf tournaments, then we traveled to the Boys and Girls Club, started from there. And I started doing golf tournaments,

then we traveled to the Super Bowl to do golf tournaments and provide experiences. And my foundation started to grow. And I wanted to give back and have intercity kids like myself who was not exposed to much. Just so they can see there's more to life than what's on the street corner. Winnerfin drugs, gains, affiliations with bad things.

You know, there's other things out there and we figured out if you exposed them, if you show them college, they're going to want college. You know, if you show them, if you show them this beach, they're going to try to get to this beach. They're going to try to get back to it. And those are things that sometimes as adults, we don't understand. Kids, they sometimes need to be shown the dream so they can dream, so they then have a blueprint to follow. That's so true.

I mean, if you're living in a nightmare all the time, you're not about dreaming about things all the time. That's it, that's it. It's nightmares, it's not dreams. Your dream is you got shot, your dream is your house got robbed, your dream is you got to survive. It's nightmare, it's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's nightmare. It's nightmare. It's nightmare. It's nightmare.

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to kind of bring them the services that we offer, to give them an opportunity to see what, and it's crazy, but what having financial freedom is all about and having a financial education, understanding all the things that are out there for you, all the different tax laws, all the different polls that if you don't have enough money and you can't go to Goldman Sachs,

and stuff like that, you're not gonna understand well, we've provided techniques and tools for them to use and it doesn't matter what your level of wealth is, what your level of income is. If you wanna leave a legacy for your family, for your kids, we can help you create that. It doesn't matter how much you make. Yes.

It's about how much you put away and how smart you are with what you make. That's so true. I'm amazed at you. Like, I don't have a meta-athlete who's able to speak on so many different things. Seriously, when it comes to, we're called golf before the interview, football, business, life.

I'm really excited that we're partnering with you on this stuff, too. I think it's wonderful. I love your heart, brother. I love people who pay it forward because you've had a blessed life. You've had a good life. You've had a good work. You've had a good work. But it's this gratitude that you have.

It's such an important emotion that we all have. I love what you've talked about being a separator. I want to be curious because there's a lot of young people that watch my stuff. They look up to you, obviously, and we've got a few minutes left. But I would mess up if I didn't give you a chance to do like address young people because they're talking about inner city kids as well. So let's say one of these kids, no matter who's watching this, they got out of that nightmare and they got a dream.

It's to play in the NFL. It's to be an astronaut. It's to be a successful business woman, whatever it is. What advice would you give a young person who wants to chase their dream? What counsel would you give them about it? I mean, it's chasing the dream is easy.

It's your dream. The stupid thing is to not chase it because you own it. But I just encouraged him to always look back, try to help others, and try to help others get ahead. Be careful of the people who want to take advantage of you, and only do the things that you're passionate about. Don't do them because they're popular. Man, the thing I got from you when we were off camera

and we're on is I think sometimes I discount people that are great at something that they're passionate for. Like, you love football. I love it. I actually think you love to compete. Like, you love football. I love it. I actually think you love to compete. Oh, without a doubt. I think it's like, I think if we're playing golf, I mean, almost sudden I saw your face change,

we're talking golf. I talk about golf, like it's fun. You talk about golf, like, hey, I'm not playing around with this yet. You and I, we're competing right now. I just want to make sure that I'm better than you on your podcast. You don't know that, man.

I just want to do it now. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that. No, I enjoyed today so much, my friend, seriously. We went, I want to go longer, but we went as long as I permitted to go. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that. No, I enjoyed today so much, my friend. Seriously, we went, I want to go longer, but we went as long as I've permitted to go, because I want to respect the love of your time, and everybody else's time here. This is how a Hall of Famer thinks.

But more importantly, this is how a Hall of Fam person acts and conducts their life. They're grateful, they give back, they pay it forward, and they're humble about all of their successes. So from all the way back, do you the heck out of you O.P. in 1991 you got your revenge at the Super Bowl with the Patriots. I think it's a little bit of a no-one on that team But what I got was I got to make a dream come true of mine which was meeting you today Oh, man and spending some time and I'm excited about our new partnership together and I want to thank you so much for today

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