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February 14, 2024 33 mins

On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts Podcast NFL MVP Shaun Alexander and eight-time Pro Bowler, Brian Urlacher join Peanut and Roman. Shaun opens up about the honor of having an award named after him and reflects on the significance of his legacy in the NFL. He shares his goal of chasing his favorite player, Barry Sanders' career total of 99 rushing touchdowns, a pursuit that culminated in Shaun finishing his career with 100 rushing touchdowns. Shaun takes us back to one of the defining moments of his MVP career. Shaun recalls the memory of putting up 5 touchdowns in the first half against the Vikings and reveals what his motivation was for that extraordinary performance. 

Then Peanut’s former teammate, Brian Urlacher joins the show. The guys take a trip down memory lane as they reminisce about their playing days in Chicago. Brian shares his favorite memory of Peanut from his rookie year, where Peanut left a lasting impression after going one-on-one versus Randy Moss. Then Brian shares the profound influence Peanut had on him and why he felt compelled to honor Peanut in his Hall of Fame induction speech. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
O' pnut TOOHI man, and this is the NFL Players
Second Acts podcast, My God, Roman Harper super Bowl fifty eight.
It's been going down all week in Vegas. Baby, it's
been amazing. It's been a lot of traffic. It's been
a lot of some stuff track I just call it stuff.
We'll just say it's a lot of stuff that happened
this week. But we recorded a lot of podcasts, eighteen
eighteen different guests. We all brought them all out. They

(00:31):
showed up, showed out. It was awesome. First of all,
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couple comments, Please share Pnut. Who we got on this

(00:53):
next episode. We had great duo Shan Alexander, one of
my old teammates, bron Arlacker. These episodes are going to
come out. We did this clearly ahead of time. But
these next two episodes, you're gonna love them.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
No, no, no, they're definitely gonna love him.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
But Brian Urlacker Hall of Famer one of your best apologize,
one of your best teammates of all time, Sean Alexander,
one of the few running backs to be have the
audacity to claim the NFL MVP and before that role
damn Tide.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
All right, Our next guest is here and I am
reading the bio this time because it is so home
with me first and foremost role Tide, because we are
here on the building, sharing the stage right in here
with one of the greatest all time players from the
University of Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
He played nine years in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
He is a rare breed of being a running back
who has won the NFL MVP. Yes he has, and
he's in this house all time leading rusher. After football,
he's poured himself into his business and charitable work with
the Standalone Foundation, along with being a dad.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
To a quote unquote very large family.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
My man, running back number thirty seven, and you're on
the field number one in your hearts, Sean Alexander.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, roll time, my man.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Time. Welcome. I'm not saying that. Welcome, Welcome to the show,
you know show.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I just will say this and we can move on
from Alabama pretty fast. But I always know it's a
big game, or that I'm always around Royalty whenever I
get to see Sean on the sidelines.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
He's always been amazing to me. He's he was a
great teammate.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
He accomplished so much for the University of Alabama, and
I love just seeing him back.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
And I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Many young people get to appreciate you, especially when I
just read through your accolades of how great you were
at what you did.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now, thank you for saying that.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
You know, it was weird, you know a car That day,
both Pete Carroll and Nick Saban both decide to, you know, retire,
people calling me shoing, how you feel, how you feel?
Shy you all right? My brother called, man, I gotta
take the shoe strings out your shoes. Man, how are
you feeling right now? You know, because when I retire,
Nick becomes the head coach of Alabama and Pete becomes
the head coach of Seattle, and so they really much.

(03:15):
That whole seventeen year run has been my years of retirement,
and so it's been it's been amazing. They both open
the doors wide for me to come be a part
of you know, in those seventeen years, I only had
ten more kids, giving a tough number thirteen now and
so so family's big.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Bama football is big Seahawk football.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Big.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
My boys don't even understand what it's like for Bama
or Seattle.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Not to win it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
They're like, oh, being three two more years normal, something
gonna happen, you know, so so yeah, so so now.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
But thank you.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I've loved my time in Alabama getting to see you guys,
you know, go play.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Play in the league and retire, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Like it's it was just great Nick saving open those
doors and uh and Pete care opened up those doors.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
It was just really wonderful.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So for me, I think one of the best awards
that I won probably in my career was when I
won Man of the Year.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
But like Rom said when he read when he read
your bio in an.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
MVP running back that won MVP, Yeah, I feel like
it's hard to do that because the we could just
say it the quarterbacks they always win MVP. Oh now
it should just be the quarterback award. But you won that,
and I feel like that's hard to do. As a
running back, it is, and you had an amazing season
How did that feel to win that award being a

(04:30):
running back.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
So that year, the first game of the season, I
had about fourteen carries in about sixty or seventy yards,
and on the last play we're playing Jacksonville, we try
to throw this hell Mary yeah, and the defensive end
clip hasselbacks shoulder, So a shoulder was hurt.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Next week, twenty.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Something caries yard two, next week Hunter some ton of
something yards, two more touchdowns. And then the coach was like, oh,
you know, even though his man was playing, he was
kind of tweaking the offense to kind of be like
gadget passes and then run the ball with Sean And
so we just rolled that all the way through there
and that eighteen eighty twenty eight touchdowns. I sat out

(05:11):
of nine quarters that year. Nine really I would have
had two thousand someth yard.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I played up till halftime against the Eagles. They had
a big Reggie White.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
So some of my heroes, Reggie White was being honored
Sunday Night football. I had three touchdowns at halftime. They
was like, oh, we're taking you out. Were going to
the Cup. You ain't gonna get it. On our dime,
and you know, and and so my last last game
of season to get the rushing title, to make sure
I want it.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
You know, they took me out at halftime.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
So you know, there was four quarters there, and then
there was five other games I didn't play in the
fourth quarter. We were just it was a rare year
where we'd beat teams that bad in the NFL. Right,
And you know, I still say, yeah, I'd probably had
another four hundred yards in them nine quarters, definitely, and
now I'd have had the greatest rushing season ever.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
There's for honors, and notably they announced the twenty twenty
three class of the Hall of Fame. Clas excuse me,
I think personally you.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Need to be in there.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
You should have had your jacket a long time ago.
So what are your what are your thoughts on not
having that jacket?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, I try not to make it everything.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, but you know, you work so hard to go
do your stuff that's special, and you know, we had
about ninety nine touchdownsand five years, you know what I mean.
So like you want to be like, can we just
drop the mic and walk off? Like yeah, you know, yeah,
but so you wait the process. But I definitely think
that you have to be special to get in the
Hall of Fame, right, you have to take your team

(06:42):
to places that they haven't gone. And I know, before
I got there, people come to Seattle, get a fish
dinner and a victory. And then by the time, they
only had three division championships in the first twenty six
years of playing. And then I get there and now
it's known like loudest fans, you ain't gonna beat them
in there, and they stadium so like that was the
stuff that we built. And I laughed because you know,
you get Russell and Bobby, you know, I retired, Pete

(07:03):
comes in, Russell Russell, Russell, Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson come
in and they're like, ooh, this water is already warm.
I'm like, yeah, all y'all gotta do is just tip
the water a little bit young, Yes, And that's what
they did. So they get all the cool that they
deserve to win in our first Super Bowl. But we'd
already showed them how to get there, how to be champions,
how to play championship football at home, how to win
on the road. I think that all those things, I

(07:26):
think all those things set the stage for me to
be able to get in. And at the same time,
if you say it too much, then they look at
you like you funny, you know what I mean. So
so you know, my one of my favorite running backs
is Barry Sanders, and everybody understands why. He had ninety
nine career touchdowns Russian touchdowns, and so that was my goal.
I can get to one hundred, and so that's what
I did.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I didn't know that was a Goalieg, that's crazy, but
I mean that's beautiful. I'd like to and look, I
think you were great in the league, but you'll never
be better than what you were LSU your freshman year.
What you just took over the whole college football space
by storm. You had the big dipass kind of hanging
out on the side.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It was like the ugly It was hilarious.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
But yes, that part and so accomplishing everything that you
did at the University of Alabama at in Seattle as
a professional player, could you maybe talk about what it
feels like to have the Shawn Alexander Award to go
to the most impressive or the best freshman in college football.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, so it was really cool.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
You know if you Uh, I tell people, if you're
the best player in the country, you win the Heisman.
If you're the best freshman, you win to Shawn Alexander.
And it's been, uh, it's been with a great honor,
you know about. This is our sixth year. Caleb Downs
won it this year. But about seven years ago, the
Football Writers Association one of their one of their main presidents,
Mike Griffith. He said, he was a beat writer at

(08:52):
Alabama when I was there. He went on from there
to Tennessee and now he's Georgia's main writer. I said,
I said, I don't know if it's if it's us
players and you you know that they get their juice from.
But he said, hey man, we got to put you
around football. I just retired, and he said, love to
get you a part of picking the freshman team. And
so I picked the all freshman team with him a

(09:13):
bunch of other writers. And then the next year he said, yeah,
we're thinking about naming it after somebody, somebody whose name
is relevant and somebody who's you know, at the end
of day, not a stinker. They'd be young enough that
they could be around the players, but their name is solid.
And I said, man, let me think about who I
can help you all with.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (09:30):
He said, Nashan, like, we've been monitoring you for a year.
It's gonna be you. And I was like, oh, man,
what an honor. And so Trevor Lawrence was the first winner.
Kenneth Gainswell, running back for the Eagles, he was the
second winner. Great, and I got to beat all these
guys and hear their stories and when they're young too, yeah,
so I get to touch them at eighteen and nineteen
and watch them grow to the men they are. Will
Anderson wanted. Brock Bauers was the fourth winner. Drake May

(09:53):
So it's really cool because Brock and Drake they'll both
hopefully be top ten ten players this year, you know,
so it's gonna be for them.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
And then Caleb Downs won it last.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Year, and you just get crazy stories, you know, like
you know, I remember, you know when saving a size
you retired. Caleb and I are talking on the phone
one day and then all of a sudden, he's like, man,
everybody's blowing my phone. All yeah, they're blowing on my
phone too, and we FaceTime, so you know, he had
that little blur and then he looks up and says, hey,
did we just pick a new coach. I was like,

(10:22):
oh my gosh. We're like, hey, we call you to back.
We hang up the phone and it's all the alumni
has been calling me. It's all players calling him, and
so you get to have these moments with all these
young players. So the award is great. We built it
on four things. Talent Number one, you turn that film
and you're like, ooh, I want him on my team.
You know, a character, you know what I mean, Like,
you ain't got to be Mary Poppins, you know what

(10:43):
I mean, But I need you to have some character. Yeah,
I'm too young. I can't you get in trouble him
my name. Then number three, we say an ambassador. We
talked to the schools like man and am Bashard's one
that speaks on behalf of somebody else. So hey, is
he an ambassador to your school? And we just do
the work, you know what I mean. And then before
we call a legend. And so since they're eighteen nineteen
years old, you know, we don't know, but we we

(11:05):
assume and try to find out is this kid going
to be a pro. And we've been proud with all
our five our six now current winners, you know, from
starting from Trevor Lawrence. It's been pretty awesome.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
So I know Roman out we both do a lot
of nonprofit work with our foundations. And I know you've
been working with the Stand Together Foundation. Yeah, Cafe Momentum. Yeah,
talk about what's that been like? Man, that's been like working.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's been just wonderful. So I've been with them.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I've been with Standing Together Foundation about five years being
an ambassador for them. It's about eight hundred of some
of the most successful men, women, and philanthropic leaders in
the country. I mean, like, you know, I tell you
some of the stories of these people, you'd be like, oh,
that's who they are. I've been really honored to help
some of them people you know, spend their money, use
their leadership to go impact some of the country's biggest

(11:53):
issues and poverty. My heart was into a juvenile justice.
Y'all be around me, y'all know, I'm a mentor at heart.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
And so so I love pouring into people and watching
them mature into what they've been created to be. And
Kafine Momentium just touched my heart. The chef, Chad Hauser's
award winning chef. He he left his restaurant and started
Calf of Minium because he did a he did a
little cooking session at a juvenile place and touched his
heart because he had this belief that most people have.

(12:22):
All these kids are trouble. These kids probably did it,
they didn't, and he got to hear their stories and
he was like he was ashamed of himself. But instead
of like most people just be like, Okay, I guess
I gotta do better, he was like, I'm gonna do
something about it. He started calf Momentium. It's a year internship,
paid internship, and the kids come in, they learn how
to cook. Some of them are front front door. They
rotate through the through the whole year, from cooking to interest,

(12:47):
to management to the chef in the back. But the
secret sauce as he brings in now I call him
the aunties and uncles, even psychologists, social workers, tutors. And
what you're seeing is reciviotism in our country for most
places is about forty five to fifty percent. That means
they're going to go back to prison again. The thousands
of Catherine wnhim kids, it's eleven percent. And so I said, well,

(13:10):
why don't we just put one of these in every
NFL city that we have? And so, you know what,
if we changed how we traded and treated these kids
that made problems, that probably should get some punishment, and
we ain't got a little little whipping at the head
out what time? They need some discipline. But to be
labeled as something like a throwaway, that's what they call
most these kids. A throwway for something you did at fourteen,

(13:31):
fifteen sixty. Hey, I don't want them to know what
I did at sixteen, yeah, labory something forever we didn't
have these phones. Yeah right, you know what I'm saying.
And so so we now have we started with Dallas,
We now have started opened up Pittsburgh Steelers Pittsburgh one.
We've opened one in Nashville this year.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's Denver.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
The Broncos jumped in, they put money in, they put
some some of their stuff in. We've also got a
land of ready to go twenty end of twenty four,
twenty five, Houston, Miami, Tampa, LA starts.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
All the works. Chicago is in the talks right now.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
So we're getting all the goal is you go from
one to three, three to six, six to twelve, you
know what I mean. And we when we slowly just
change how we view these kids that may promise. At
the end of the day, people need dads, people need moms,
people need aunties and uncles, and when you put them
around it, we already got the proof these kids actually
become successful people.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
It takes the village, as they say it does.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Now, Sean, I got to know this because I think
I know you, but I don't know this answer.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
What was your first welcome to the NFL moment?

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Wow, oh man, I would tell you on the good side.
Was my second year playing against the Raiders. Now, it
was a big game Sunday night, and I break this
eighty eight yard touchdown run and that's when I thought, oh,
I'm fast, though, Sean, enough this place about to have
a problem with shot, you know, But I remember getting head.

(15:01):
I tell you my hardest hit was by Roy Williams.
And you know how football is. You know when you
hit that hole when the college opens up, you're like, ah,
just not being speed. You know that whole open up.
In the pros, somebody's coming to field that's on purpose.
That's said that's perfect. That whole opened up and I
was like, wow, this is not cut back. And it

(15:21):
was like Roy and I was like, oh, and I
hit him like but I stepped into it, so I
hate him. Ah, you know everybody's you know, our teams
up up. Yeah, I feel that, you know, they hyping up?

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Man?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
What was your feeling?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Man?

Speaker 2 (15:35):
My body?

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I said, oh, you know, And then you know, we
talk with Roy a little bit later.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's like, oh, you know, I know it's a good hit.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I don't even remember.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm like, boy, did you stay in the game or
did you come out?

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Now?

Speaker 4 (15:49):
I stay in the game, you know, like you know,
you know, you just wired a little different. You're like,
now you're gonna to knock me out, to take me
out of the game, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
But he hit me good.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I mean good, he hit.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Me good enough to be like, okay, you know which
one of.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah it happened. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness.
So I know one of my best seasons was twenty twelve.
It was my MVP year or whatever if you want
to call it that. I remember one game that I
just was I don't know, probably one of my best games.
What was your your moment in your in your MVP season, Like,

(16:29):
what moment stands out the most of you?

Speaker 4 (16:32):
You know, we play, you know, so we we that
time we beat the Eagles on Sunday Night football. That's
when I knew we had a super Bowl team. You know,
I had three touchdowns in the first half. They took me
out and I also knew that. That's when I was like,
oh man, I'm not gonna get the two thousand yards
because I knew that they were going to start taking
me out of games. Yeah, to make sure I didn't
get hit at the end the end of the games
because we was we was that squad man. We was

(16:54):
putting teams under. But I but I remember, and I
can't forget. You know, one of the worst things to
do as a play against somebody that wants that heat.
Oh yeah, and they don't know it, you know what
I mean. Well, that's what happened my second year when
we played the Minnesota Vikings. See in high school, you know,
there wasn't no cell phones, so you going around and

(17:16):
they'd be like, oh man, hey, you know Lou Holst
comes in from Notre Dame. Hey, you three guys come, man,
you know I got mister west Virginia, mister Ohio, mister Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
That's why I'm mister Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
Man.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
You three come, we gonna win that shipship three years
in the row. I'm like, well why not? Four? Oh,
y'all ain't gonna be here four you? That was Lou
Holst talking. Well.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
I didn't know it was until we all got older
and we all went to different schools. One mister west
Virginia went to Notre Dame and then and then transferred out.
Mister Ohio went to Michigan, and mister Kentucky went to Alabama.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
We didn't know.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
We just all, hey, I hope I see you, blah
blah blah blah, until we all realized after we got
in college who we was. Mister west Virginia was Randy Moss,
Mister Ohio was Charles Woodson, and so we all now
you know today we'd all went to the same school.
I've been at Bamblely, you know what I mean. But
we but we all went to different schools. Well, Randy
goes to his career signs to Notre Dame, Florida State

(18:08):
and the Marshall they're all hyping him up. Charles wins
the Heisman, goes over there, gets the pros. He's turning
this chair, and I'm over here, like, you know, I
want the SCC, you know, SC Player of the Year.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
But I'm like, hold on, say, I'm the show up
on this thing, you know what I mean. So so
we playing the Vikings.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
It's our second year, it's my show now, and they're
all talking about Randy Moss and I'm like, oh, they
don't know what they about to happen. I scored five
touchdowns in the first half, the only time it's ever
been done. And that's when I was like, oh, yeah,
let's go. I was like, I was so hungry for
that game, and no one knew I had to add
that fire up on here. I ain't gonna let everybody
know I'm going off the night. And man, when that

(18:45):
thing was over, Randy was like, yo, bro, we're going on. Yeah, Rady,
We're going on with all that, you know. But I
want because I did not want my high school buddy
to upstage me, you know what I mean. He was
already starting to make that name and I was like, oh,
and that was my beginning, you know, what I mean.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
After that, they was all like, oh, they got to
run it back in Seattle. It started with that night.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
That's funny. As you talk.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Charles Woodson right behind us, so he's just walking over there.
Look at that.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
That's how it is.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
That's how it is. What does matter? Yeah, that's how
it is.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Here I've written down how you scored those five touchdowns?
All right, but I want to know this though. I
want to know you have thirteen kids. Can you reel off?
I know you can. Yeah, I want the names in
the ages of thirteen, from oldest to youngest.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Go. So, Having's twenty, she's a sophomore at Liberty. Trinity
is eighteen. She's a freshman at Churney. She runs track
Eden as a junior. She's sixteen. So that's my three girls.
Eating was a sophtomore All American in track. But she
there today. My boys Joseph and Justice fourteen and twelve,
get ready. And then then after them, we thought, oh

(19:49):
we got three girls and two boys.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
It's gotten good.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Two more girls came up Temple and Honor. They eleven
and ten right now, did awesome great athletes, funny smart,
you know them.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
The Queen Bees right there.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Okay, Then we thought, okay, next to Jededdigh, he's eight,
the most alpha dude. He come in here, be like,
is that my seat? You're like, do you eight mantle?
You know what I mean? Uh So, then so then
we had five girls in a row. So I thought, man,
we had five girls, three boys. Man, we're gonna get
these two more boys and we don't no five girls
in a row. So Tora is the one that we lost.
She was seventy days old when she passed. Us said,

(20:22):
so I still say that I had thirteen kids because
she counts.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
She's living in.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Heaven right now. You know, we all want to get there,
you know. So, so she would be six right now.
Then you got Eternity is five, and then you got
Hoseannah zan Zan is that power mama, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
So she's three.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Then you got little Hopey Hopi's two, and then you
got new Judea. She's our fifth girl, Judaea seven months.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
There it is. I knew you could do it.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I just think it's amazing that you have that many kids.
You already they already have personalities, You already know who
they are.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Oh for sure, man, it's so funny because you know,
once you have them in there there it's a lot
of work, no doubt, no doubt, but you value those
one on one times all. So, like part of the
normal week is everybody has a one on one date
with Dad, whether it's thirty minutes or an hour. And
we rotated like so who gets the one block of time?

(21:14):
So I got to be very intentional with that time.
But everybody gets to one on one day. Sometimes it's
watching a video, like a fifteen minute video and then
talking about it. Sometimes it's driving off and getting a
little slurpy and and having a conversation. And it just changes,
like depending on the age of the kid. Like what
we're talking about from right from from issues boys, you
know what I mean, Like, look that I needed somebody

(21:35):
like you I need they gonna have to be wealthy like.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
About that character like all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
When I'm tall them, I'm be like, it don't sound
right when you say that, you know, and to the
boys just you know, football and sports and faith, you know,
just learning, Hey, well dad, would you you know, what'd
you do? Like, you know, hey, what'd you do? When
a girl said, oh, we having that conversation Okay, okay,
we're ready, you know, like good boys, Okay, let's have this.

(22:02):
So every one of those one on one conversations is
so like lovely and uh. I just love being able
to pour back into those kids. And and that's part
of like me mentoring some of the guys, Like I
get to come and remind them like who they are,
let them understand, Like I don't want you to have
a plan B for football.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
I want that to be Plan A.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
But I also want you to have a plan next
like what we're gonna do afterwards, So like we get
to come and talk about all that from the.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Girl you're around. Is this gonna be a wife?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:29):
How much how much time we want to give to
somebody that eight you know what I mean? To to
making money and spending money and so so that's all
a part of like my pop my professional leadership development
program and yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
And all that.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
So I just love all that, but you just got
to be very intentional to go do it well.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, look, man, thank you for blessing us. Yeah, your
presence and coming on the show. Yeah, Alabama Royalty right
herealty over here, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
I always fel good when I see him and doctor
Anderson on the side.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, we show up.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You know what again whenever I see you and doctor
and it is like, okay, you know what.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
We know what's really interesting.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
When I came down to Atlanta for the SEC Championship,
you know, I got to talk with coach Sabans because
Coach Savings like handle the guys, you know. So all
are talking and I said, I said, I saw Nick
you was sitting over there, and he kind of looked
at me and gave me like the nine. I said,
how's he feeling. He's nervous. I say he should be nervous.
I said, you know what I mean. Were winning before
he got here. We're gonna be winn after, you know.
So I'm giving that tough love. And then I said,
y'all know we've been whipping Georgia this whole time. They

(23:31):
were like, oh, there's a dynasty. We don't play them.
Twice in the dynasty and got two doves, yes, you
know what I mean, like championship twice. They both for
ls for them, you know what I mean. And so
so we're just like how big with that season? You know?

Speaker 2 (23:46):
We did what we did?

Speaker 5 (23:46):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
We want another one they didn't get to go.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
And we will continue to do what we do. Sewn Alexander,
you are blessing. Thank you so much, man, appreciate you
joining us. All Right, you just saw Sean Alexander one
of the great the greatest running back in Alabama history.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I apologize to that. Thank you. Now.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Our next guest none other than Peanuts Hall of Fame
teammate Brian Keith Erlacker.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Keith Erlacker.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
This next guest is one of my favorite teammates of
all time. I probably don't need this, but I'm gonna
read it anyway. Played his entire career in Chicago thirteen years.
Is considered one of the greatest players in the team's history.
Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in twenty eighteen.
My guy, the biggest dummy I know, mister, Brian Urlacker.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Brian keith Lacker, Oh, Anthony, shut up, dumby.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Do you want your name was Anthony? Yes?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I did?

Speaker 5 (24:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
I just think it's funny because I've heard dunt dummy
at least twelve times since you guys have both been
on the stag.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
He has an issue with words.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
You are very insulting. Yes, the maker of golf. The
best golf equipment there is the custom clubs. What's cut
like design fitted for you?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Like fitted for me?

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Well, most you.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Don't play golf, of you play, I don't play golf.

Speaker 6 (25:20):
So you know that most clubs are fitted for are
custom made for you because you're going I'm talking to
so you go in and you get fitted, you know,
and they sized them to you and stuff like that,
and then you're going to go. So, yes, Charles, they
are off custom.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Psg specifically is like everything you have a hookup? I
need a contact.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yes, we have a hookup, definitely, Leila right there.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
All right, tell me your first impression of this young
man when you guys were teammates, first impression.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
As a rookie. Yes, two thousand three is your rookie, right,
sir Roman.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
So we played Randy Moss used to be in our
division and this and Charles was good.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
He started from day one.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
He was always a good player, always running to the ball,
always talking, always blabbing. But we played the vikings. Was
it late and season? We didn't to that point we
didn't have answer for Randy Moss. Well, we put Charles
versus him one on one and it was late in
the game they had to score it. They throw a
pass up to Randy Moss and a Charles inception it Uh.

(26:14):
I didn't run it back, but he got a nice
player on the ball.

Speaker 5 (26:16):
I knew right then.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
And we had the guy you know, you know, you know,
you guys get your like and I knew before then.
But man, put him on one on one versus Randy
Moss rookie year, Randy was established already, you knew you
had a dude right there because great locker room guy.
Great you can see. But there's a little banter going
back and forth. But we had fun, man, and we be.
Another thing that if you put put a guy who's

(26:39):
in the Hall of Fame and then put Charles number
up there, and don't don't put their names there, and
pick who's in the Hall of Fame, I bet you'd
pick him because just come from his stats. If you
didn't know his name, that's that's how good a career
he had. And there doesn't get enough of respect for that.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I received you.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
If you didn't know for him that you like, if
you put a Hall of Fame guy there and put
your numbers next to him. They probably pick you for
those beating the Hall of Fames, right, I assume I
would assume your numbers are stupid and you got something
named after you. They're still doing it. Every time I
watch TV they talk about the peanut punch. They still
talk about it. I agree, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I'm excited because I think you will have a chance
to go into the Hall of Fame at some point,
hopefully closer than later.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
But we'll have to see. None of us have a vote.
Maybe you got a vote.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
I wish I had a vote. I have a lot
more teammates than would be in. You'd be in, or
you at least be closer to being in. That thing
is weird how they do that, man, Yes, I don't
understand that.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
So the two thousand and six that was our Super
Bowl year. We're in Arizona.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
You know the game we are the Monday night.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Yeah, what do you remember most about that game?

Speaker 5 (27:46):
The halftime speech from Owen was amazing, dude, O G.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
Yeah, he said, we're not going to We're gonna get physical,
We're gonna beat them up. We're not I don't know
exactly there's some other choice words in there, but we
were down toy to zero halftime. We won twenty four
to twenty three. Nuts scored a touchdown through the game,
Mikes a forced fumble he had jud you scored a
touchdown Tymore hard Park. We we didn't score off the touchdown.
We won twenty four to twenty three. Devin also ran

(28:11):
a kickback to Selo for US.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yes he did so, Mike Anderson, Oh no, no, no, Mark,
Mark and Cush on the strip.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Cush, yeah, class class. Mike picked score.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Then he got hurt the next quarter list Frank injury
and you did the same. And then we beat him
and they missed the field goal. Neil Racords missed the
thirty seven yard field goal.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yes, yes, and that was when the precious Dennis Green
was like, we let him off the hook. It was
they did, but thank you.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
I don't know who's calling plays from that game. But
the second half they ran the ball about twenty five times,
twenty eight plays. They quit throwing the football. First half
they lost success throw on the ball, and then they quit
doing it. They got on their lead.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
They had lar and Andombo did.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
I don't think Fis played that game.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I want to know this. Tell me your favorite peanut
story of all time.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Oh man, I don't know if I could tell that
one my favorite one. But you said, we're good, box
him up in our locker room, box them up, box
him up?

Speaker 5 (29:09):
Remember the game? I remember.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I have a video of you getting boxed up.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
That didn't happen that I will show later. It's like
the worst quality I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I know.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
But anyway, the boxing up game was like you'd have
to hide someone's like around the corner and just slamming
off someone's head and starts to box them up and
slapping the box. I got this dude about forty times.
I was the best boxer of all time.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
But when he goes, yes, how old are you guys
in the locker room?

Speaker 6 (29:38):
Man, you're going to work, You're going to work, but
you're hanging out with your bikes having fun.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I think we got him the best though it was
from the second story.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
Don't say we you didn't have anything to do with it.
I ca is he did it. Walked down the locker room.
Is the biggest box I've ever seen, and this box
falls on my head and they.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Got you can start.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
He's just like standing there and this box just collapses
and everyone goes up and they started slapping the box and.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
He's like, what do you guys?

Speaker 5 (30:13):
But they got me from the second floor.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
I watched the video the other day, Dixon. I knew
you wouldn't remember.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
I love it when those videos reservice. Remember the ones
from training camp?

Speaker 6 (30:20):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (30:21):
John, I have a video of me jumping out of
Bron's closet, scaring that out of him.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
It's raining camp. You scare me.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
First of all, you might have startled me, but it's
a difference. There's a big difference difference. Like I scared people,
I don't, but I get started when it happens to me.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, they don't know, they don't. So I want to
know this.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
You mentioned Peanut in your Hall of Fame speech, Yes,
and so number one why and number two Peanut? How
did that make you feel when you heard those words
of Brian, like who you let off us? In one
of your best friends and best teammates.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I will just say I'll go first.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
It felt good to be seen. It felt good to
be recognized for the work that I've done. But it
wasn't just me though it was. He mentioned Alex Brown,
He mentioned a lot of us I think that Brian
recognized that. I know he didn't do it alone, but
he recognized the supporting I was the support staff, right
supporting cast, and I think.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
We did it together.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
We did it together, but he was a face of
the franchise we were supporting.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
I was up there at that time, but it was
for all of us.

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Man.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
Yeah, I was the one that I recognized at that
point in time, but I would I would have mentioned
twenty guys, Roland, but you can give you this little
amount of window you can get up there and talk.
I didn't mention any coaches because if I mentioned one,
I wanted to mention them all, and I felt like
it was fair to say one coach and I mentioned
another coach. But player wise, I felt I could do
that because the guys that I mentioned, the guys that
meant the most of me so and the guys that

(31:50):
probably had the biggest effect on my career maybe or yes,
mostly in the positive light, most of them.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
I know there's a team that was so tight though
on that team, the team was great.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
We just had what made us, what made us bond
was I think the games that we played and that and.

Speaker 5 (32:06):
We just football games.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
We played for one another.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Are you about football games?

Speaker 1 (32:11):
No, just in the locker everything. Yeah, we just we
played for one another. We were down for each other
and going to work every day.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Man, it was son, you know, you know legacies like
my body hurts.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Hell.

Speaker 6 (32:23):
No, I couldn't wait to get that. I couldn't wait
to play baseball. I couldn't wait to play ping pong.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
I couldn't. I just couldn't wait to get door. It
was a blast to me.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
The soccer game for a square. Yeah, we could go
on and on about this. I know you, I know
you got to get out of here.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
How about that mister Keith himself with the great interview,
I'm calling him Keith. Now his mama named Brian. I'm
gonna call him Brian or I ain't call him whatever
you said, Keith.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, it was a good one, awesome job by Sean, Alexander,
Brian o'lacker.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Man.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I was just thank them for coming on the show.
I just they blessed us with some knowledge. They drop
a lot of heat, man. I appreciate that, and also
I want to appreciate all of our fans and viewers
that always.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
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Speaker 1 (33:08):
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