October 2, 2024 • 37 mins
Parney is joined by longtime friend and NFL legend, Jerome 'The Bus' Bettis! The crew dives into Jerome's 2015 Hall of Fame induction, his son’s budding sports career, and plenty of laughs you won’t want to miss!"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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at West Broad Honda. Hell yeah, welcome everybody to the
tenth inning. That's right, not nine innings, ten innings and
extra innings. And normally I hate extra innings, but this
week I do not. We have in the pup club
MP Cheats could not make it for the Black Baseball Mixtape,
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so we missed Cheats. And as always my sidekick to
my ride into your left Joe t who is excited
for inning number ten? Hell yeah, real quick, we've had
nine innings. We've had Will Clark, Hell yeah, Steve Klein,
Colin Sam Ravage, Tony Beasley, he louda bella Hell yeh
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Hell yeah. And Squirrel's manager at the end of a
long season, Dennis Pelfrey.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And today we have NFL Hall of Famer. But most importantly,
quite often, my partner in Fun Crime Jerome Bettis JB.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
He yea, thank you for having me. That is quite
the introduction, I'll tell you that. Well, no, it wasn't introduction, JB.
It was the roster of the Party Time podcast. We
could get everybody to see how we were finishing off season.
Number one, whyt our producer is happy we did not
get canceled in many ways over the season.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Number one. We're gonna jump right into it today. MP
as the Party Pub Club JP. Every every inning the
Party Pub Club has a one shot. It's not a
liquor shot that maybe you've seen me take before, but
it's a couple of one hit questions. MP is going
to come in. But let's start off. I never I
never prepare for these shows because I just wanted to
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be organic. Uh and this one's you don't prepare.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
For record.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Party said, it's extra inning. So we'll start on second
base yet familiar with second base?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh, I don't like to prepare for these I like
to be organic. Yeah, okay, god you go with that one, mister.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, we're all about relationships, as you can see, me
and this fucker have a good one. So but we
met now, Tune, I've had a great relationship, You've obviously
had a Hall of Fame career. Let me start with
this question. This isn't an interview, Jerome. This is a conversation.
We talk about relationship in your football life. Is there
one relationship that you point to as far as maybe
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it's a teammate, maybe it's a coach that's been important
to you.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, I mean it's been a lot of relationships through
the years that I think had been kind of instrumental
to my success.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think any one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
More significant than early at the beginning with my high
school coach, because if not for him, his wisdom is guidance,
I wouldn't be playing running back. Be quite honest with you,
I would I would be playing linebacker.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That was always my.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Love and my first love, the position I thought I
was best suited for.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And when you weren't gonna be no safety, I can
tell you that right now gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Be no safety. I was gonna be all the way
a linebacker for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
The problem is I was just a little too short
in his in his estimation, in my estimation, I was
perfectly fine. But I may have been just a couple
of inches on the low side in terms of height,
which would have put me at a undersized linebacker instead
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of the prototypical size linebacker. So he convinced me to
play running back play fullback and thought that I would
be the prototypical size.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And there was one decision that I'm glad I listened
to my coach because obviously it put me in the
best position possible because if I, you know, you go
in as an undersized player, you don't really know where
you going to end up with round.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're never going to be.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Really that first round guy because there's a big question
marks on you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Whenever there's a question mark, you get knocked down.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I'm just glad I listened to my high school
coach and took his guidance because it was very instrumental.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I met him at the Hall of Fame induction in
twenty fifteen, and I think last week when we were
in Atlanta together, I mentioned to you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, we just we just talked about him here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He passed away fairly recently and was a huge loss
obviously to myself but to a lot of young men
that he helped guide along the way.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, but one of the things with our with our
party time. Guest, you know, if all everybody's had success
in their different a lot of times they're going back
to their high school coaches and and I met him
at the Hall of Fame induction, which Tanya and I
and our kids were very honored to be. Hey, guys,
by the way, most Hall of Fame inductees have one party, JB.
How many parties did you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Have a couple?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I think too, Hey, Bez Marquis was the DJ? And
who was the first night? Who was Adini?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah? Who did just come out at night?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The freaks come out at night.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The freaks come out at night.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And clearly you were out. Clear Let's let's let's bounce
to that. I've never been inducted in the Hall of Fame.
And again I was honored to be one of your
friends that were there in Canton.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I know that. You just like the first question you
can't point to one is there is there a memory
to the Hall of Fame induction for me?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, when I think about that day, right, it was,
it was, it was special, It's real. I just think
about the crowds, right too. It's two things that really
was was strong. One seeing a terrible tiles way. That
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was like amazing, right because obviously you see it when
you play the game, but once you retire, you don't
see that anymore. You don't get that feel. So, you know,
ten years later, to be in the stadium and to
see those terrible tiles way for me one more time,
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that was a really really special moment. And the other
moment that was real special to me was remembering my
father because he wasn't there, and this was something that
I would have loved for him to have seen because
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he got a chance to see my entire football career.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was at every single NFL game that I played.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He I think they may have missed one college game
or two college games I ever played.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Laughing because remember you you bought them a You bought
them a dish so you can watch all your games.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, they suckered me. They was watching HBO and all
the other ship. They wasn't watching no football, yeah they yeah,
they That was very clever.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They had to They had to direct TV.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Dish before there was even direct TV, right, Yeah, I
was a guinea pig.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I was. I was paying for it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And so for him not to be there, you know,
that was just one of those moments that you know,
I so wish that he could have seen.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh, the culmination of my career, what it ended up being.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
So those were if I had a moment one outwardly
seeing was those terrible tiles waving inwardly for me, it
was thoughts to my father and uh, wishing that he
was there with me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So that was for me as your friend, that was
it for me too.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But when you talked about your dad, because one of
my favorite stories that you told me years ago when
when we were we were somewhere and I was doing
some stupid shit and you said, you told me the
story that you told the Hall of Fame about your
dad dropping you off a notre dame. Can you just
give the guys it like like thirty second version of that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So basically, you know, I neverget he's dropping me off.
And you know, you have those moments with your father
and you don't think they're as significant as they are, right,
And so in that moment, I'm getting ready to go
and he pulls me to decide, and you know it's
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time for me to go, and he says to me,
I don't have you know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't have much to give you.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't have anything to give you, he said, but
I'm giving you a good name, so you know, don't
screw it up. And I'm like, all right, Dad, y'all,
I appreciate it. You know what's you have some cash
for me? But okay, I said, you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Should have as you should ask.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Where's the hot hundred?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What I love? You know, you don't think about that,
but you fast forward. Uh, And it's a funny story
about that in my speech. After the after that Saturday
night party, I go back to the hotel and I'm
reading my speech just to go over one more time,
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and I don't like what I write about my father,
so I change it that night. So all of this
is after partying with party for an entire night.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Imagine that I'm party.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I was.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
So imagine I was. I was in halfway in a stupor,
saying to myself, this isn't right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I know for sure that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
My father channeled his energy through me to write this,
because there's no way that I was even in the
right space to write this. But at three, no, about
four or five in the morning, I write this about him,
and I remembered it right and so, and I'll never
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forget it was so important to me because I had
a son, right, and so for me to take that
information that he gave me because what he told me,
when he told me that, I didn't realize that was
going to be he was really setting my moral compass
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all right in a way that as I would do
stupid stuff, as we all do, right, you know, twenty
years old, nineteen years old. What I didn't realize that
that was going to be in the back of my
head every time that I got to these crossroads and
making a stupid decision and.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Be like, okay, don't screw it up right.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And that was part of what brought me back, you know,
in between the lines, if you will. So, and it
did that my entire life. I got out to La
playing with the rams. Here I am, you know, twenty
one years old, pocket full of money, you know, with
no restrictions, right, no guardrails. But it was always that
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in the back of my mind, saying don't screw up,
don't screw this up right. And it was those words
that my father gave me that was in my subliminal
that really kept me on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So that me penning that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was so significant, and so basically, you know, in
the speech, I say, you know, my father told me
it didn't that much to give me, but you know,
good name. And then I then wanted to transfer that
to my son.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And so.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
At the beginning at his side, when I was talking
about my dad, I ended that with, I hope you
know I made you proud basically of the name, uh that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I've kind of kept kept going.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And so at the end of the speech, I referenced
that same thought to my son, and I told him
that I didn't have I didn't have anything to give
him that was more important than my name, because I
got a couple of bucks that I you.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Know, yeah, but I know you you just don't want
to You don't want to give him any money. I
know you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, Hey, a good friend of mine told me a
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
He said, if you don't fly private, your kids will.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Mean if you leave it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To them, they're gonna party like a rock star. So
you right gonna get some of that value out here.
So but anyway, the point was to tell my son
that there's nothing more important than the name.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That I'm leaving you a good name, right, do not
screw it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Up right, So just really trying to implore and use
his focus, you know, his moral compass in the right direction,
much like it did for me. So that was a real,
real special moment in my speech and one that is
always in the front of my thinking because my son,
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especially now is about to leave and he's about to
get dropped off and go to school in the same situation.
So it's become full circle. And in a couple months
in January, I think January the tenth, I got to
drop him off at Notre Dame and the same way,
much like the same way. I may have a couple
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more bucks to hand him, but it's still won't be
anything more important than the name. And I don't want
him to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well except in your in junior's case, he's gonna have
Uncle Parney and Uncle Jay Noaks coming to visit him
on weekend, so good luck.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's right, and they're gonna try to get him screwed up.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So that's right. Well, MP, you're on deck. That was great.
That was great, Jerome. Before we go to MP for
a one shotter, this goes back into our relationship a
little bit, my personal relationship with you. Number one One
of the connections that we have is our fathers. And
when my father passed away, one of the moments Jamal
was at my mom's house on the night before the funeral,
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and as I walk my mother down the aisle to
the party, time listeners uh at the at the funeral service.
I'm from Locus, North Carolina, which is Jerome will tell
you because he's been there is in the middle of
not many places. And I looked to my left and
there was Jerome Bettis sitting in this little country church
for Ray Parnell's Ray Parnell's funeral. I think that's just
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one And when you have strong relationships, that's one of
the connections. And and Jerome and I have that with
Jamal as well. And then the second thing I'll say
before we move on is on my wedding day, I
recited my vows to three people before I recited them
to Tanya. One was Jamal Doaks and I was so
hung over when I signed them to Jamal, I don't
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even remember what he said.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What he said, I do, you probably did.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And then the other person was Brendan Porter. The other
one was Brendan Porter, who Jerome you met before runs
our team down to Montgomery, and now he does stuff
that I used to do here in Richmond, because as
you just pointed out, I don't do shit anymore. And
then thirdly was JB and my daughter Sammy was sitting
there with us. We were in my hotel room and
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I remember Jerome said, what you rushing for? Remember that
you said, what are you rushing for? Slow down? You
got some imported shit to say? And I said, but
I got to do it in three minutes. And Jerome said, well,
are you going to get married again? I go, Hell,
don't know, and he said, we'll slow down. So those
are some moments that we've had JP seventy two.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Hour rule go so early. And our friendship.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Parney had a tendency to upload me with drinks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That I was not factoring in.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Right, you factor in three to four, but it must
room much further than that. And my business manager is
a degenerate as well. And he just joined the show.
He just joined the show. Of course, of course he
did right on point. See what I'm saying, This is
what I'm saying is not by accident. This happens, and
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so when all three of us come together, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's not electric by any stretch of imagination. Is deadly.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's a shit show.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's it's a ship show.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Is it's Jay Oaks, Jan Oaks, It's shit show.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's toxic. So I've instituted a rule for Party. It's
a seventy two hour rule. I cannot be in his
presence anywhere close in as seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's it. That's maximum maximum m p H.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Give us a one shot. Jane Oaks and I just
had some one shots at the Savage Island Beach Bar
last week.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Uh, JBA, you've been around the Steelers. Everybody knows that
it's a great franchise. They build the family of the community.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Party obviously does that with with the Squirrels family and
the baseball family. You've seen that. What are some of
the things that make that atmosphere that people want to
be around that you've seen through the roonies in Pittsburgh
and through your time you know in baseball? What is
it that creates those bonds that gives people want to
come back?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it's it's when p people care about one another,
that's when you see it. Really it changed the dynamic,
and so most organizations. They're business organizations, but when the
individuals inside the business start to care for one another,
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then you see a different type of culture being established
and being built. And it was never more apparent than
for me going from Los Angeles, for going from the Rams,
they left LA went to Saint Louis, and then going
from that organization and going to Pittsburgh, I saw it firsthand.
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There was not a lot of care, not a lot
of consideration, not a lot of love in the RAMS
organization at that time. I'm sure it's changed since then,
but at that time it was not. And then to
come to Pittsburgh where you see organization that the first
question is how are you anything I can do for you? What? What?
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What can we do to make your time here better?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Unbelievable words to hear, but it was something that was
in the the DNA of the organization. And so when
I look at organizations as to what makes them special,
like the Stillers organization, I say, it's it's a lot
of tender love and care that's that's established and and
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Party is one of those guys who cares about all
the guys in the organization. And you see it firsthand
and it's it's infectious. So then now everyone else understands that.
You put your put your arm around a guy, you know,
you tell him, hey, I care about you. I want
to make sure you're okay? Is everything all right? When
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you start asking those kind of questions, it goes. It
goes past baseball and into a person's life. And you
never know when someone needs just to hear something other
than that that baseball story. You know, they want to
connect on a personal level.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
MP.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I was just gonna say it just you know, when
when when party gets too.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Many and them that affect is love stills out over everybody, so.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Hey, hey, they'll become contagious.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Where the hazmad suit after seventy two hours? That's that's
what happened to that. I want. I want to know
about the Jerome Bettis Aquatics Center.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, that's a fictitious place. It does not exist. Okay,
the freaking place does not exist. Okay, you're gonna you
almost had me cursed there almost you curse.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You cursed in the first sentence, So you're done.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You tried to I was gonna go real bad, though,
I was gonna go real bad. That is not a
that's a fictitious place that does not exist, okay, and
it's quite frankly, it's bullshit, okay, right.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Now, the guy writing these questions then, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
The fact that you know, he uses my name all
right on that, that is I need I need to sue, okay,
because there's some kind of there's laws against that, right,
you can't put somebody's name on something that's not theirs,
and it is not right. There won't there will not be.
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There will not be a renovation. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh my goodness, that's that's hilarious. Hey, since jokes is here,
we've done some trips through the years as friends. One
of my favorites was recently, what was it like for
the both of y'all to have the NFL Draft come
to your hometown?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh? Yeah, that was now, that was that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And also last more than I was there with you
more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Too, and and I met Detroit Rick. Yeah, I love
the party.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, it's white boy Rick for the right.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's right. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, but dogs goes, Hey, you know who that is?
I got no fucking clue man, I have no idea
who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I do now, Yes, White Boy Rick of of the
of Fame. But anyway, you got us off of of
the the shiny moment that Detroit to have the Draft
in Detroit after a historic run in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
In thirty years jama or about thirty some years even
long actually longer than that, going to the NCY Championship game.
I think it had been I think it was. I
think it was like thirty forty years or something like that.
So to see something like that happened, to see the
city go crazy for Honolulu Blue, and then to have
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the Draft come to Detroit, and then to see the turnout,
I mean, set new records and all that, and the
energy in the city.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It was dynamic.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And so to be a part of it was really
special because obviously the Lions have have been.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
A source subject.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And you know what I always would say about the
Lions every Sunday. What would I say Porty about the Lions.
Don't fuck with the Lions. If you if you bet
on them, they're gonna break your heart. And if you
bet against them, they're gonna break your heart. My wife
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walks around the house. Tanya walks around the house Sunday
morning on Remember honey, don't fuck with the Lions. Don't
fuck with the Lions. So so growing up with that thought, right,
and then now seeing it transformed kind of overnight, it's
been it's pretty been pretty impressive, uh, to see and
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then to see that the NFL kind of, you know,
award the city this draft obviously not knowing about the
season I was upcoming. And to see it all come together,
and to see what these fans where they've taken it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And now you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
See every other city seeing in themselves we have to
top what Detroit has done. That's a that's an incredible
kind of uh moment for us, Detroitter.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The hottest ticket in town, Jamal was what uh the
drum vettist boys and girls draft arted? Right?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
We had on Thursday night to open up the draft, uh,
Wednesday able to open up the draft, and like you said,
like Drum, I echo his comments that it was a
wonderful sight to see the energy of the NFL and
the might and the muscle of the NFL come to
the city of Detroit. He had over what was it,
drum you know, over a million people or something like that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah, I think over that entire weekend you had almost
a million. I think seven hundred I think over seven
hundred thousand people for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But it was a lot of people there. And no no, no,
no incidents though.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
No, no, no, no, no violence, no no arrest and
and I think that's the beauty of it, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know, listen, the.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Lion the Lions fans, and I'm not talking about the
new ones, the ones that's been around since, like you know,
they during the playoff run, this whole guy that's been
a Lions fan since like the fifties, right, and this
kid was crying every week they went further and further.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Like that's the guy I'm happy for.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Right, because that's the guy that's been with those guys
thinking thin a lot of you know, heartbreak and disappointment.
And for him to be able to see that and
get that joy and excitement, I mean, that's what truly
the NFL is about, That's what true sportsmanship is about.
And it was good to see and I'm glad to
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see they're still doing well.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
But I don't fuck with them though.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I was just I was just about to say that wasn't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I wasn't one of those guys that he's happy for
because I did not.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I don't. I still a long time ago, A long
time ago, I said I wouldn't fuck with him, and
I do not. I'm happy. I'm so happy for him
now though.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We are, and I would love to see I was
actually rooting for him, but I wouldn't bet on him.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Jero have you said, Jamal and I and your brother
John a thing about Junior scoring a touchdown and we
were showing in the stands, right, So tell Junior that
Uncle j Doaks and Uncle Parney made him famous by
being at one of his games. Uh, but he said,
y'all played pickleball. I gotta ask, like you play pickleball? Yeah?
(29:27):
I played?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So? What what's so? With your eyes all poked up?
What's so?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Or?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Maybe how do you feel on a pick ball court?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I'm a I'm a world class athlete, Okay, I understand
that world class you.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Hear me, I hear you A lout and clear Hall
of famer.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Clearly you don't that for you to get for me
to get that response.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I think that's why he's asking if you. I think
that's why he's asking why you play pickleball.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm just I'm trying to figure out what what's so surprising.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
As you're saying. So let me get this.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That was not That was not my tone of voice.
That was not, Hey what you got?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
What you got? Jr. Said Yeah, my dad eats pickled
out of jars. Like, oh, okay, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey he eats pickles on his varsity burgers in Atlanta.
He puts pickles on his varsity burgers.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, okay, get that, Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
All right, now we now we tag team and okay,
I just need to know where the bullet's coming from.
That's all because I will shoot back. I didn't know
where to coming from.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Hey, hey, I already got the hot hundred. I got
hot hundred last Sunday. And you can't do it two
days in a row, then Pete, get ready, I'm gonna
are you gonna do one last running out of time here?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I asked this question to somebody else, and Dromone
asking to you. You're a huge golfer, so is Jade Oaks.
Let me ask you this not included you. So just
this is gonna be You're gonna be playing in a fivesome,
you have a four people you want to play golf with,
dead or alive. Who are those four people gonna be?
It's gonna be a fivesome. Who's your four people you're
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gonna play with at the d c C on me
and Doaks Surrender cigar lounge having a titos and having
a cigar.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Obviously the golfers would uh would be the you know,
obviously Arnold Palmer loved him. Pittsburgh guy, got a chance
to talk with him quite a bit. Never really played
around the golf with them. Would have loved to do that, right,
(31:49):
have that back and forth with him. And then you know,
you always put that you know Nicholas and that that
those guys, But I would I would kind of deviate
a little bit from that, And.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Because one would be.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
If I had the opportunity, I would talk to just
understand Martin, Luther King and Malcolm X.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Just kind of talk to those guys to kind of
get an idea of.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What, you know, what made him tick and what they
thought should be done and what could be done going forward.
But one other person I would love to play tea
homes with is my father because Obviously he's not not
with us anymore. So if I could steal eighteen holes,
you know, with him now, would be tremendous. I tried
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to get him to play golf. I bought him golf
clubs and all that kind of stuff, and he just
he just could not find himself to you know, going
out out and hitting balls. He just would not, would not,
would not do it. So I think I got cheated
of that at that moment. I think later in life,
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if he would still be with us, he would he'd
be playing golf by now. But he didn't get I
didn't get that opportunity to get a ten hoes with him.
So to get at hoes with with Dad would would
be uh, would be meat.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's awesome. When and Junior said that y'all play together now, right?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah? We do? We do. He's now in the does
he beat you? No? We don't beat me.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No. And if he tried, if he was close to
beat me, I would end the round on the spot.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
We play seventeen holes.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Always, Hey, j Oaks, does that shock you that he
would do that?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Last MP coming to you. But we played golf when Jerome,
Jerome and Jamal came here in twenty sixteen to thought
the first pitch. We played golf at Kenlock the next morning. Yeah,
and let's just say that we did not go right
home after opening night. We stayed out a little bit, right,
Jamal and I show up Jerome and we get ready
(34:09):
to play. And what does Jerome Bettis do? They don't
have carts at Kinlock. He had a knee injury all
of a sudden, right, Jamal, Remember that you took You
took a card that day, Jerome, I.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Was injury ate it. That's all I needed that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I mean, yeah, I played eighteen holes with a blood
alcohol level of seven point four to nine and you
took a golf cart. MP bring us home.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Great, great to have you, Jami. There's been a ton
of fun. Uh. What'd you learn from your time being
involved with minor league baseball?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh? How I think everybody involved with with minor league
baseball are alcoholics, every everybody, Because everywhere you go you
could get a beer. I mean everywhere everywhere in the
stadium you can get a beer. I mean in the
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manager's office, Haney's office, in the club house, it's in
the training room. Not going anywhere, office's office, you get
a bear anywhere.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Hey, get me a beer boom. It's like, give me.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Beer everybody. Everybody drinks in Minor League Baseball, no question,
no question that.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Uh, that is not endorsed by Major League Baseball and
Minor League Baseball Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Take you, But it's the truth. It's the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, it's not. My mother listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That is not true.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, we're going to bring this to it in it's five,
getting close to five. MP's got to go do a
political function here in a second. But but I want
to thank not just Jerome Bettis for being here, but
Jamal Doaks. I am not exaggerating at all when I
say that these two guys I consider like brothers to
me and my family. My kids called them Uncle Jerome
(36:24):
and Uncle Jade Oaks. Jade Oaks has had a very
big role in my daughter Lindsay's life, particularly when it
come came to bringing her back to life for my
wedding day.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And Jerome witnessed that Jaye Oaks was ubering all over
Richmond getting peda light for me and Lindsay. Uh. But
I'm really honored, Jerome that you joined us, and I'm
really really honored to Jamal that you that you jumped
on with us for the final inning of the season
one and Jamal's playing an important role with Wyatt and
and Octagon and myself too, so I appreciate that so
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love you both. Thanks for being on Party time with us.
Joe tag the show.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
He yeah if.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
We will have Joe T hell Yeah T shirts available
to purchase very very soon. All right, everybody, listen up,
follow us on, follow us everywhere you get your your podcast.
The season one is over, but we will be replaying
all these throughout the course of the next ten weeks
and make sure you follow us. And we're looking forward
to season number two with Octagon starting right after the
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new year. Thank you to Jerome Bettess, thank you to
Jamal Doaks, thank you to Joe T. Thank you to Wyatt.
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at West Broad Honda. Hell yeah, welcome everybody to the
tenth inning. That's right, not nine innings, ten innings and
extra innings. And normally I hate extra innings, but this
week I do not. We have in the pup club
MP Cheats could not make it for the Black Baseball Mixtape,
(01:56):
so we missed Cheats. And as always my sidekick to
my ride into your left Joe t who is excited
for inning number ten? Hell yeah, real quick, we've had
nine innings. We've had Will Clark, Hell yeah, Steve Klein,
Colin Sam Ravage, Tony Beasley, he louda bella Hell yeh
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Ben Verlander, Hell yeah, he's a hit of bananas. Owner
Jesse Cole, NASCAR drivers Er Elliot, Elliott and Hermie Sadler,
Hell yeah. And Squirrel's manager at the end of a
long season, Dennis Pelfrey.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And today we have NFL Hall of Famer. But most importantly,
quite often, my partner in Fun Crime Jerome Bettis JB.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
He yea, thank you for having me. That is quite
the introduction, I'll tell you that. Well, no, it wasn't introduction, JB.
It was the roster of the Party Time podcast. We
could get everybody to see how we were finishing off season.
Number one, whyt our producer is happy we did not
get canceled in many ways over the season.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Number one. We're gonna jump right into it today. MP
as the Party Pub Club JP. Every every inning the
Party Pub Club has a one shot. It's not a
liquor shot that maybe you've seen me take before, but
it's a couple of one hit questions. MP is going
to come in. But let's start off. I never I
never prepare for these shows because I just wanted to
(03:30):
be organic. Uh and this one's you don't prepare.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
For record.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Party said, it's extra inning. So we'll start on second
base yet familiar with second base?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Oh, I don't like to prepare for these I like
to be organic. Yeah, okay, god you go with that one, mister.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, we're all about relationships, as you can see, me
and this fucker have a good one. So but we
met now, Tune, I've had a great relationship, You've obviously
had a Hall of Fame career. Let me start with
this question. This isn't an interview, Jerome. This is a conversation.
We talk about relationship in your football life. Is there
one relationship that you point to as far as maybe
(04:15):
it's a teammate, maybe it's a coach that's been important
to you.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, I mean it's been a lot of relationships through
the years that I think had been kind of instrumental
to my success.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't think any one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
More significant than early at the beginning with my high
school coach, because if not for him, his wisdom is guidance,
I wouldn't be playing running back. Be quite honest with you,
I would I would be playing linebacker.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That was always my.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Love and my first love, the position I thought I
was best suited for.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And when you weren't gonna be no safety, I can
tell you that right now gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Be no safety. I was gonna be all the way
a linebacker for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
The problem is I was just a little too short
in his in his estimation, in my estimation, I was
perfectly fine. But I may have been just a couple
of inches on the low side in terms of height,
which would have put me at a undersized linebacker instead
(05:31):
of the prototypical size linebacker. So he convinced me to
play running back play fullback and thought that I would
be the prototypical size.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And there was one decision that I'm glad I listened
to my coach because obviously it put me in the
best position possible because if I, you know, you go
in as an undersized player, you don't really know where
you going to end up with round.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're never going to be.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Really that first round guy because there's a big question
marks on you.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Whenever there's a question mark, you get knocked down.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I'm just glad I listened to my high school
coach and took his guidance because it was very instrumental.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I met him at the Hall of Fame induction in
twenty fifteen, and I think last week when we were
in Atlanta together, I mentioned to you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, we just we just talked about him here.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He passed away fairly recently and was a huge loss
obviously to myself but to a lot of young men
that he helped guide along the way.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, but one of the things with our with our
party time. Guest, you know, if all everybody's had success
in their different a lot of times they're going back
to their high school coaches and and I met him
at the Hall of Fame induction, which Tanya and I
and our kids were very honored to be. Hey, guys,
by the way, most Hall of Fame inductees have one party, JB.
How many parties did you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Have a couple?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I think too, Hey, Bez Marquis was the DJ? And
who was the first night? Who was Adini?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah? Who did just come out at night?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The freaks come out at night.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The freaks come out at night.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And clearly you were out. Clear Let's let's let's bounce
to that. I've never been inducted in the Hall of Fame.
And again I was honored to be one of your
friends that were there in Canton.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I know that. You just like the first question you
can't point to one is there is there a memory
to the Hall of Fame induction for me?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, when I think about that day, right, it was,
it was, it was special, It's real. I just think
about the crowds, right too. It's two things that really
was was strong. One seeing a terrible tiles way. That
(08:03):
was like amazing, right because obviously you see it when
you play the game, but once you retire, you don't
see that anymore. You don't get that feel. So, you know,
ten years later, to be in the stadium and to
see those terrible tiles way for me one more time,
(08:24):
that was a really really special moment. And the other
moment that was real special to me was remembering my
father because he wasn't there, and this was something that
I would have loved for him to have seen because
(08:44):
he got a chance to see my entire football career.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
He was at every single NFL game that I played.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
He I think they may have missed one college game
or two college games I ever played.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Laughing because remember you you bought them a You bought
them a dish so you can watch all your games.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, they suckered me. They was watching HBO and all
the other ship. They wasn't watching no football, yeah they yeah,
they That was very clever.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
They had to They had to direct TV.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Dish before there was even direct TV, right, Yeah, I
was a guinea pig.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I was. I was paying for it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And so for him not to be there, you know,
that was just one of those moments that you know,
I so wish that he could have seen.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh, the culmination of my career, what it ended up being.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
So those were if I had a moment one outwardly
seeing was those terrible tiles waving inwardly for me, it
was thoughts to my father and uh, wishing that he
was there with me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
So that was for me as your friend, that was
it for me too.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But when you talked about your dad, because one of
my favorite stories that you told me years ago when
when we were we were somewhere and I was doing
some stupid shit and you said, you told me the
story that you told the Hall of Fame about your
dad dropping you off a notre dame. Can you just
give the guys it like like thirty second version of that.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So basically, you know, I neverget he's dropping me off.
And you know, you have those moments with your father
and you don't think they're as significant as they are, right,
And so in that moment, I'm getting ready to go
and he pulls me to decide, and you know it's
(10:44):
time for me to go, and he says to me,
I don't have you know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't have much to give you.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I don't have anything to give you, he said, but
I'm giving you a good name, so you know, don't
screw it up. And I'm like, all right, Dad, y'all,
I appreciate it. You know what's you have some cash
for me? But okay, I said, you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Should have as you should ask.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Where's the hot hundred?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What I love? You know, you don't think about that,
but you fast forward. Uh, And it's a funny story
about that in my speech. After the after that Saturday
night party, I go back to the hotel and I'm
reading my speech just to go over one more time,
(11:33):
and I don't like what I write about my father,
so I change it that night. So all of this
is after partying with party for an entire night.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Imagine that I'm party.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I was.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
So imagine I was. I was in halfway in a stupor,
saying to myself, this isn't right.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I know for sure that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
My father channeled his energy through me to write this,
because there's no way that I was even in the
right space to write this. But at three, no, about
four or five in the morning, I write this about him,
and I remembered it right and so, and I'll never
(12:25):
forget it was so important to me because I had
a son, right, and so for me to take that
information that he gave me because what he told me,
when he told me that, I didn't realize that was
going to be he was really setting my moral compass
(12:47):
all right in a way that as I would do
stupid stuff, as we all do, right, you know, twenty
years old, nineteen years old. What I didn't realize that
that was going to be in the back of my
head every time that I got to these crossroads and
making a stupid decision and.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Be like, okay, don't screw it up right.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And that was part of what brought me back, you know,
in between the lines, if you will. So, and it
did that my entire life. I got out to La
playing with the rams. Here I am, you know, twenty
one years old, pocket full of money, you know, with
no restrictions, right, no guardrails. But it was always that
(13:31):
in the back of my mind, saying don't screw up,
don't screw this up right. And it was those words
that my father gave me that was in my subliminal
that really kept me on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
So that me penning that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was so significant, and so basically, you know, in
the speech, I say, you know, my father told me
it didn't that much to give me, but you know,
good name. And then I then wanted to transfer that
to my son.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And so.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
At the beginning at his side, when I was talking
about my dad, I ended that with, I hope you
know I made you proud basically of the name, uh that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I've kind of kept kept going.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And so at the end of the speech, I referenced
that same thought to my son, and I told him
that I didn't have I didn't have anything to give
him that was more important than my name, because I
got a couple of bucks that I you.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Know, yeah, but I know you you just don't want
to You don't want to give him any money. I
know you.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, Hey, a good friend of mine told me a
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
He said, if you don't fly private, your kids will.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Mean if you leave it.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To them, they're gonna party like a rock star. So
you right gonna get some of that value out here.
So but anyway, the point was to tell my son
that there's nothing more important than the name.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That I'm leaving you a good name, right, do not
screw it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Up right, So just really trying to implore and use
his focus, you know, his moral compass in the right direction,
much like it did for me. So that was a real,
real special moment in my speech and one that is
always in the front of my thinking because my son,
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especially now is about to leave and he's about to
get dropped off and go to school in the same situation.
So it's become full circle. And in a couple months
in January, I think January the tenth, I got to
drop him off at Notre Dame and the same way,
much like the same way. I may have a couple
(15:53):
more bucks to hand him, but it's still won't be
anything more important than the name. And I don't want
him to screw it up.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well except in your in junior's case, he's gonna have
Uncle Parney and Uncle Jay Noaks coming to visit him
on weekend, so good luck.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
That's right, and they're gonna try to get him screwed up.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
So that's right. Well, MP, you're on deck. That was great.
That was great, Jerome. Before we go to MP for
a one shotter, this goes back into our relationship a
little bit, my personal relationship with you. Number one One
of the connections that we have is our fathers. And
when my father passed away, one of the moments Jamal
was at my mom's house on the night before the funeral,
(16:33):
and as I walk my mother down the aisle to
the party, time listeners uh at the at the funeral service.
I'm from Locus, North Carolina, which is Jerome will tell
you because he's been there is in the middle of
not many places. And I looked to my left and
there was Jerome Bettis sitting in this little country church
for Ray Parnell's Ray Parnell's funeral. I think that's just
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one And when you have strong relationships, that's one of
the connections. And and Jerome and I have that with
Jamal as well. And then the second thing I'll say
before we move on is on my wedding day, I
recited my vows to three people before I recited them
to Tanya. One was Jamal Doaks and I was so
hung over when I signed them to Jamal, I don't
(17:16):
even remember what he said.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What he said, I do, you probably did.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And then the other person was Brendan Porter. The other
one was Brendan Porter, who Jerome you met before runs
our team down to Montgomery, and now he does stuff
that I used to do here in Richmond, because as
you just pointed out, I don't do shit anymore. And
then thirdly was JB and my daughter Sammy was sitting
there with us. We were in my hotel room and
(17:46):
I remember Jerome said, what you rushing for? Remember that
you said, what are you rushing for? Slow down? You
got some imported shit to say? And I said, but
I got to do it in three minutes. And Jerome said, well,
are you going to get married again? I go, Hell,
don't know, and he said, we'll slow down. So those
are some moments that we've had JP seventy two.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Hour rule go so early. And our friendship.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Parney had a tendency to upload me with drinks.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That I was not factoring in.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Right, you factor in three to four, but it must
room much further than that. And my business manager is
a degenerate as well. And he just joined the show.
He just joined the show. Of course, of course he
did right on point. See what I'm saying, This is
what I'm saying is not by accident. This happens, and
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so when all three of us come together, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's not electric by any stretch of imagination. Is deadly.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's a shit show.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's it's a ship show.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Is it's Jay Oaks, Jan Oaks, It's shit show.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It is.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
It's toxic. So I've instituted a rule for Party. It's
a seventy two hour rule. I cannot be in his
presence anywhere close in as seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's it. That's maximum maximum m p H.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Give us a one shot. Jane Oaks and I just
had some one shots at the Savage Island Beach Bar
last week.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Uh, JBA, you've been around the Steelers. Everybody knows that
it's a great franchise. They build the family of the community.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Party obviously does that with with the Squirrels family and
the baseball family. You've seen that. What are some of
the things that make that atmosphere that people want to
be around that you've seen through the roonies in Pittsburgh
and through your time you know in baseball? What is
it that creates those bonds that gives people want to
come back?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think it's it's when p people care about one another,
that's when you see it. Really it changed the dynamic,
and so most organizations. They're business organizations, but when the
individuals inside the business start to care for one another,
(20:20):
then you see a different type of culture being established
and being built. And it was never more apparent than
for me going from Los Angeles, for going from the Rams,
they left LA went to Saint Louis, and then going
from that organization and going to Pittsburgh, I saw it firsthand.
(20:43):
There was not a lot of care, not a lot
of consideration, not a lot of love in the RAMS
organization at that time. I'm sure it's changed since then,
but at that time it was not. And then to
come to Pittsburgh where you see organization that the first
question is how are you anything I can do for you? What? What?
(21:06):
What can we do to make your time here better?
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Unbelievable words to hear, but it was something that was
in the the DNA of the organization. And so when
I look at organizations as to what makes them special,
like the Stillers organization, I say, it's it's a lot
of tender love and care that's that's established and and
(21:33):
Party is one of those guys who cares about all
the guys in the organization. And you see it firsthand
and it's it's infectious. So then now everyone else understands that.
You put your put your arm around a guy, you know,
you tell him, hey, I care about you. I want
to make sure you're okay? Is everything all right? When
(21:55):
you start asking those kind of questions, it goes. It
goes past baseball and into a person's life. And you
never know when someone needs just to hear something other
than that that baseball story. You know, they want to
connect on a personal level.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
MP.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I was just gonna say it just you know, when
when when party gets too.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Many and them that affect is love stills out over everybody, so.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Hey, hey, they'll become contagious.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Where the hazmad suit after seventy two hours? That's that's
what happened to that. I want. I want to know
about the Jerome Bettis Aquatics Center.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, that's a fictitious place. It does not exist. Okay,
the freaking place does not exist. Okay, you're gonna you
almost had me cursed there almost you curse.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You cursed in the first sentence, So you're done.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You tried to I was gonna go real bad, though,
I was gonna go real bad. That is not a
that's a fictitious place that does not exist, okay, and
it's quite frankly, it's bullshit, okay, right.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Now, the guy writing these questions then, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
The fact that you know, he uses my name all
right on that, that is I need I need to sue, okay,
because there's some kind of there's laws against that, right,
you can't put somebody's name on something that's not theirs,
and it is not right. There won't there will not be.
(23:43):
There will not be a renovation. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh my goodness, that's that's hilarious. Hey, since jokes is here,
we've done some trips through the years as friends. One
of my favorites was recently, what was it like for
the both of y'all to have the NFL Draft come
to your hometown?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh? Yeah, that was now, that was that was really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And also last more than I was there with you
more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Too, and and I met Detroit Rick. Yeah, I love
the party.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, it's white boy Rick for the right.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's right. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah, but dogs goes, Hey, you know who that is?
I got no fucking clue man, I have no idea
who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I do now, Yes, White Boy Rick of of the
of Fame. But anyway, you got us off of of
the the shiny moment that Detroit to have the Draft
in Detroit after a historic run in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
That hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
In thirty years jama or about thirty some years even
long actually longer than that, going to the NCY Championship game.
I think it had been I think it was. I
think it was like thirty forty years or something like that.
So to see something like that happened, to see the
city go crazy for Honolulu Blue, and then to have
(25:27):
the Draft come to Detroit, and then to see the turnout,
I mean, set new records and all that, and the
energy in the city.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It was dynamic.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And so to be a part of it was really
special because obviously the Lions have have been.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
A source subject.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And you know what I always would say about the
Lions every Sunday. What would I say Porty about the Lions.
Don't fuck with the Lions. If you if you bet
on them, they're gonna break your heart. And if you
bet against them, they're gonna break your heart. My wife
(26:13):
walks around the house. Tanya walks around the house Sunday
morning on Remember honey, don't fuck with the Lions. Don't
fuck with the Lions. So so growing up with that thought, right,
and then now seeing it transformed kind of overnight, it's
been it's pretty been pretty impressive, uh, to see and
(26:33):
then to see that the NFL kind of, you know,
award the city this draft obviously not knowing about the
season I was upcoming. And to see it all come together,
and to see what these fans where they've taken it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
And now you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
See every other city seeing in themselves we have to
top what Detroit has done. That's a that's an incredible
kind of uh moment for us, Detroitter.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
The hottest ticket in town, Jamal was what uh the
drum vettist boys and girls draft arted? Right?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
We had on Thursday night to open up the draft, uh,
Wednesday able to open up the draft, and like you said,
like Drum, I echo his comments that it was a
wonderful sight to see the energy of the NFL and
the might and the muscle of the NFL come to
the city of Detroit. He had over what was it,
drum you know, over a million people or something like that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah, I think over that entire weekend you had almost
a million. I think seven hundred I think over seven
hundred thousand people for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But it was a lot of people there. And no no, no,
no incidents though.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
No, no, no, no, no violence, no no arrest and
and I think that's the beauty of it, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
You know, listen, the.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Lion the Lions fans, and I'm not talking about the
new ones, the ones that's been around since, like you know,
they during the playoff run, this whole guy that's been
a Lions fan since like the fifties, right, and this
kid was crying every week they went further and further.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Like that's the guy I'm happy for.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Right, because that's the guy that's been with those guys
thinking thin a lot of you know, heartbreak and disappointment.
And for him to be able to see that and
get that joy and excitement, I mean, that's what truly
the NFL is about, That's what true sportsmanship is about.
And it was good to see and I'm glad to
(28:31):
see they're still doing well.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
But I don't fuck with them though.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I was just I was just about to say that wasn't.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I wasn't one of those guys that he's happy for
because I did not.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I don't. I still a long time ago, A long
time ago, I said I wouldn't fuck with him, and
I do not. I'm happy. I'm so happy for him
now though.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
We are, and I would love to see I was
actually rooting for him, but I wouldn't bet on him.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Jero have you said, Jamal and I and your brother
John a thing about Junior scoring a touchdown and we
were showing in the stands, right, So tell Junior that
Uncle j Doaks and Uncle Parney made him famous by
being at one of his games. Uh, but he said,
y'all played pickleball. I gotta ask, like you play pickleball? Yeah?
(29:27):
I played?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So? What what's so? With your eyes all poked up?
What's so?
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Or?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Maybe how do you feel on a pick ball court?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
I'm a I'm a world class athlete, Okay, I understand
that world class you.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Hear me, I hear you A lout and clear Hall
of famer.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Clearly you don't that for you to get for me
to get that response.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I think that's why he's asking if you. I think
that's why he's asking why you play pickleball.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm just I'm trying to figure out what what's so surprising.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
As you're saying. So let me get this.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That was not That was not my tone of voice.
That was not, Hey what you got?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
What you got? Jr. Said Yeah, my dad eats pickled
out of jars. Like, oh, okay, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Hey he eats pickles on his varsity burgers in Atlanta.
He puts pickles on his varsity burgers.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, okay, get that, Yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
All right, now we now we tag team and okay,
I just need to know where the bullet's coming from.
That's all because I will shoot back. I didn't know
where to coming from.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Hey, hey, I already got the hot hundred. I got
hot hundred last Sunday. And you can't do it two
days in a row, then Pete, get ready, I'm gonna
are you gonna do one last running out of time here?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
But I asked this question to somebody else, and Dromone
asking to you. You're a huge golfer, so is Jade Oaks.
Let me ask you this not included you. So just
this is gonna be You're gonna be playing in a fivesome,
you have a four people you want to play golf with,
dead or alive. Who are those four people gonna be?
It's gonna be a fivesome. Who's your four people you're
(31:16):
gonna play with at the d c C on me
and Doaks Surrender cigar lounge having a titos and having
a cigar.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Oh man.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Obviously the golfers would uh would be the you know,
obviously Arnold Palmer loved him. Pittsburgh guy, got a chance
to talk with him quite a bit. Never really played
around the golf with them. Would have loved to do that, right,
(31:49):
have that back and forth with him. And then you know,
you always put that you know Nicholas and that that
those guys, But I would I would kind of deviate
a little bit from that, And.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Because one would be.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
If I had the opportunity, I would talk to just
understand Martin, Luther King and Malcolm X.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Just kind of talk to those guys to kind of
get an idea of.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
What, you know, what made him tick and what they
thought should be done and what could be done going forward.
But one other person I would love to play tea
homes with is my father because Obviously he's not not
with us anymore. So if I could steal eighteen holes,
you know, with him now, would be tremendous. I tried
(32:48):
to get him to play golf. I bought him golf
clubs and all that kind of stuff, and he just
he just could not find himself to you know, going
out out and hitting balls. He just would not, would not,
would not do it. So I think I got cheated
of that at that moment. I think later in life,
(33:10):
if he would still be with us, he would he'd
be playing golf by now. But he didn't get I
didn't get that opportunity to get a ten hoes with him.
So to get at hoes with with Dad would would
be uh, would be meat.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
That's awesome. When and Junior said that y'all play together now, right?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah? We do? We do. He's now in the does
he beat you? No? We don't beat me.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No. And if he tried, if he was close to
beat me, I would end the round on the spot.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
We play seventeen holes.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Always, Hey, j Oaks, does that shock you that he
would do that?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Last MP coming to you. But we played golf when Jerome,
Jerome and Jamal came here in twenty sixteen to thought
the first pitch. We played golf at Kenlock the next morning. Yeah,
and let's just say that we did not go right
home after opening night. We stayed out a little bit, right,
Jamal and I show up Jerome and we get ready
(34:09):
to play. And what does Jerome Bettis do? They don't
have carts at Kinlock. He had a knee injury all
of a sudden, right, Jamal, Remember that you took You
took a card that day, Jerome, I.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Was injury ate it. That's all I needed that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I mean, yeah, I played eighteen holes with a blood
alcohol level of seven point four to nine and you
took a golf cart. MP bring us home.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Great, great to have you, Jami. There's been a ton
of fun. Uh. What'd you learn from your time being
involved with minor league baseball?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh? How I think everybody involved with with minor league
baseball are alcoholics, every everybody, Because everywhere you go you
could get a beer. I mean everywhere everywhere in the
stadium you can get a beer. I mean in the
(35:12):
manager's office, Haney's office, in the club house, it's in
the training room. Not going anywhere, office's office, you get
a bear anywhere.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Hey, get me a beer boom. It's like, give me.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Beer everybody. Everybody drinks in Minor League Baseball, no question,
no question that.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Uh, that is not endorsed by Major League Baseball and
Minor League Baseball Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Take you, But it's the truth. It's the truth.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, it's not. My mother listens to the show.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That is not true.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, we're going to bring this to it in it's five,
getting close to five. MP's got to go do a
political function here in a second. But but I want
to thank not just Jerome Bettis for being here, but
Jamal Doaks. I am not exaggerating at all when I
say that these two guys I consider like brothers to
me and my family. My kids called them Uncle Jerome
(36:24):
and Uncle Jade Oaks. Jade Oaks has had a very
big role in my daughter Lindsay's life, particularly when it
come came to bringing her back to life for my
wedding day.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And Jerome witnessed that Jaye Oaks was ubering all over
Richmond getting peda light for me and Lindsay. Uh. But
I'm really honored, Jerome that you joined us, and I'm
really really honored to Jamal that you that you jumped
on with us for the final inning of the season
one and Jamal's playing an important role with Wyatt and
and Octagon and myself too, so I appreciate that so
(36:56):
love you both. Thanks for being on Party time with us.
Joe tag the show.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
He yeah if.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
We will have Joe T hell Yeah T shirts available
to purchase very very soon. All right, everybody, listen up,
follow us on, follow us everywhere you get your your podcast.
The season one is over, but we will be replaying
all these throughout the course of the next ten weeks
and make sure you follow us. And we're looking forward
to season number two with Octagon starting right after the
(37:24):
new year. Thank you to Jerome Bettess, thank you to
Jamal Doaks, thank you to Joe T. Thank you to Wyatt.
This is party time, saying it's always party time and
you never ever know what's gonna happen during party time.
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