Episode Four: "Got It From My Mama"

Martha Andrews, Mary Queen and Sonya Chatman-Davis join Cassie Calvert to talk about their sons (Mark, Patrick and Tyus) and what life is like as an NFL mom.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Tyas Bowser once tweeted, no one loves you like your
mother can, and that's what makes this episode so special.
You know number six, number eighty nine, and number fifty
four on the field, but today's guests raise them. Sure,
every young peewee football player dreams of being in the NFL,
but when did they know, Hey, this might actually be
a real possibility. How do you handle it when your

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son is criticized after a tough game. We dive into
this and so much more. So please welcome to the
Purple Chair Podcast. Martha Andrews, mom of Mark, and Mary Queen,
mom of Patrick, and we're joined midway by Sonya Chapman Davis,
who is Tis Spowser's mom. So a lot of kids
say that they want to be professional football players, but
only like zero point eight percent of high school football

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players actually reach the NFL. Is there a moment that
stands out to you when you realize, hey, my son
could actually be one of the few guys that makes
it all the way to the enna fell You're right,
I have four kids. They all thought they were going
to be a professional athletes. But the first time I
think we realized it could happen was Mark's first football

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game as a freshman in high school. He just took
off and the coach from the other side came up
to us afterwards and said, we're going to see him
on Sunday. And that was the first time we kind
of like whoa, you know, And from then on, I mean,
the phone didn't stop ringing, people didn't stop coming by
the school. So that was kind of our first time.

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What year was he in high school? A freshman? Freshman year? Yeah, wow,
that's crazy. What about for you? Mary? Is there anything
that stands out? Actually? For Patrick, it was his souphomore year.
You know, kind of like after a few high school games,
the coaches will come up to his dad and I
and they were like, this kid is going to be

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playing on Sundays. So we were like, you know, but
my husband actually declared it at the hospital when Patrick
was born. You know, he was like, you know, he
was like, yeah, he was like doing the whole thing.
He's like, oh, he's going to LSU and you know,
and I'm looking at him like are you crazy? You know,
but yeah, you know, so you know, he just had

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that faith, you know, and he kind of knew, you know,
he played ball as well, you know, and h for
Nickel State, you know, didn't go pro, but I guess
it was kind of, you know, a dream for everybody,
that's wild. So from day one, Dad knew Patrick's going
in the NFL. Got the ls port right too. Absolutely, absolutely,

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that's great. I know, like youth sports can be so
tricky and there's oftentimes there's a lot of pressure on
kids to specialize, like at a young age. How did
you How did you guys balance that? It was difficult,
and I think the balance between sports and school and
having enough time for family was really hard for us.
And what we would end up saying is you could

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each do one sport. They all, all four of my
children did competitive soccer. Mark as the baby, kind of
got to gin there and get a couple other sports
in as he was going around. But you know, we
just had to. I mean we were in the car
all the time every day after school, and our weekends

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were shot. We were traveling to soccer games, and you know,
we didn't have time for anything else. His older brother
tried to swim, but I mean it was a full
time job doing a competitive sport to begin with, so
it was a hard juggle. Mark probably got the benefit
more than anybody as the youngest to be able to
throw in basketball in there was there a reason that

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they all chose soccer. I think one or two started
and then what happens is then the others because you're
already going there, Mark, you I always tell The remark
was maybe five and the brothers were going to a
competitive soccer tryout and a coach who had a six
year old competitive team or seven year old competitive team, said,

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can Mark be on it? I said, you don't even
know how to play soccer. He doesn't know what he's doing.
He says, we don't care. He's bigger than everybody. I said, okay,
so we might as well if we're already going to
the games. So he went straight from you know, three
B three to eleven eleven on eleven full competitive soccer

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and did really well, Wow, what about Mary for you guys?
As Mark mom said, you know you're in the band,
you packed up, you know every weekend you're headed somewheres,
you know. So yeah, it was a bit much, definitely,
I'm sure like as a mom, one of the toughest
things about having your Sunday an NFL is like watching

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It's football such a grueling game, and you have to
see them take these really big hits. How tough is
that for you? It's a balance, like when you're watching
your child play and like you do see them take
these really big hits. Oh say that first. Yeah, what's
a big guy. He can have those kids. Yeah, but yeah,
it's tough to watch, you know, Patrick, He's always walked

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around like he's so bad, he's so tough. So you know,
I actually sit there with a little bit of confidence
knowing that, hey, he's gonna be okay, he's gonna pop
up off the ground, you know, thank god he normally does.
So yeah, it's sometimes it's you know, not easy to watch,
but you know, just sitting there knowing, like he's talking,

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he talks all this, you know, at home, saying how
bad he is and how tough he is. So yeah,
I kind of like, Okay, he's gonna get up. He's
gonna get up. Yes, I know that. When when he
was in high school, like Mark was the biggest player
on the field basically, I mean I wasn't he was skinny,
but I knew he could run fast and not get

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caught very often. And then when we showed up at Oklahoma,
I said, these are men, They are gigantic people. I said,
I think we need to rethink playing college football. I
was scared to death and didn't face him at all.
So we got through that, and if he went down,

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I just turned my face and said, you know, close
my eyes, let my husband deal with it. I'm not
going to watch. And then when we got to professional
and I show up at the Ravens place, I thought
they looked old in college. I mean these are serious, serious, grown,

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tough looking men that I just said, you know, Mark,
you just got to keep running fast and say, if
you can run faster than them, you're gonna be okay.
And I don't watch a lot of the games because
of that. My hands are covered. Family thinks I'm weird.
I just no sound on this past weekend. I just

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it's too stressful. Absolutely yeah, just outrun them all and
then you don't have to worry about it. I love
that when Martha, when we were in South Carolina for
the joint practices with the Panthers, Mark had some really
really bad cramping and there was an ambulance brought out
and it was kind of like all over Twitter. It
hit the news like immediately, did you see like when

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these things like that happened? Like do you see that
before we're able to talk to him? And like, obviously
he ended up being totally fine, but I imagine that that,
like seeing news like that pop up on the internet
when you're not able to talk to your son, like
has to be pretty freaky. It was his brother, Jack
called me and said, you need to call the trainer
Marks down, Like how do you know this? And I said,
I can't call him there in practice, He goes call

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the trainer. He sends me the video clip on Twitter,
so I did. I'm lucky I have the trainer's phone number.
I call Ron and he goes, how do you know
so fast? He says, it's body cramps were taking care
of him, and they called me back a couple of times,
and we're totally on top of it. And Mark called
his dad as soon as he felt better. You know,

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I don't know what I would have done from there.
I mean, what can you do? It was scary, but
once I knew the minute I heard Ron's voice, I
knew everything was okay. Well, yeah, that's really special that
you were able to get in touch with him. I
didn't know that, And that's I appreciate that about our
training staff for sure, because that's the downside of the
internet and the news that like they want to cover

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the team, but you have to remember that these are
people's sons and family and that it's more than just
football at that point, and thankfully he was totally okay,
and like one thing that he has to deal with too,
he's had to deal with throughout his career is obviously
managing his diabetes with playing football. What was that like
kind of when you began that process as you were
kind of figuring all of that out as he started

(08:52):
playing sports initially, well, because it happened and he was
already playing sports, so we had to have a way
to integrate it, and you know, it just meant that
we were always with him. He's a child that you know,
usually you're ten or twelve years old and you get
to be dropped off at practices and get to go
hang with your friends, well your mom, dad, brother or

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sister with you at all times, and you know, it's
a learning curve for everybody. I mean, you can't be
perfect at diabetes. It takes a lot of a lot
of work in there's days when you fail at it miserably,
and we just wanted to be there so in case
that was happening, it could. But every person along the
way has been there to help him. His coaches as trainers.

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You know, maybe I have to step in at the
beginning to give a little guidance and direction, but they
have never stopped me from doing it. They listen to me.
His father is the same way. I mean, really, it's
been an amazing situation where he knows how to take
care of it even better now by himself. Do I
worry about it on a day to day basis, Absolutely,

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but you know, it is what it is. We can't
do anything about it. One thing that's been really special
about his journey is well he's kind of been this
idol for other kids who have diabetes who are playing sports.
And you guys do a lot with his like community
efforts in kind of reaching out to those kids. Why
was that so important to you guys as a family. Well,
he's not good in huge groups. He doesn't like that.

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He likes that one on one where the kids could know.
He doesn't want anybody to think they can't do something
because of it. Right that the diabetes doesn't define him.
It's always been that way, and you know we didn't
let him. I want to be a professional football player.
No you can't. Of course you don't say that, right,
but there are parents out there that think that they
can't and they don't know, and it's an education and

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for them to see him and for him to be
able to talk to some of these kids one on one.
He didn't have a lot of time to do that anymore.
But I try to do as much as I can
for him in that regard, and you know, it's just
it's his way to give back because it is not
a fun disease. It really isn't. But but there's no

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reason that people can't do whatever they want to do.
It's not it's not a death sentence. It's it's just,
you know, you got to take control of your life.
And that's his biggest message. Love that. Mary. Let's go
back to draft night because your family has a very
unique distinction of Patrick is the only LSU player that
the Ravens have drafted. And what was Draft night like

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for you guys. I'm sure it's a magical time for
your family, but it's got to be pretty like stressful.
What were your emotions like when all of that was happening,
Emotions all over the place. One reason was, you know,
everybody's planning to go to Vegas, you know, and that's
all we talk about, you know, like, oh my god,
it's gonna be you know, an awesome experience. And then

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COVID happened, and so you know, we were told he
was going to be at home, you know, so that
was like, oh my god, you know, really but it
turned out to be wonderful, know, kind of more intimate
with the family. You know, the you know, the song
ships allowed, you know in the room, so you know,

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it was kind of intimate. You know, we enjoyed, uh,
you know, the whole experience of it. It was really great.
So you know, in spite of COVID, you know, it
wasn't as bad as we thought, you know, just missing
the whole you know, Vegas experience, or you know, just
being in the you know, at the actual draft. Sure,

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it was really cool for fans to kind of get
that unique look into players' lives at home and get
to see them with their I'm sure you guys would
have rather been in Vegas, but it was really neat
as a fan to like get to see people like
and you get to kind of be at home, which
is special. Like, I guess they'll be the only like
class that really gets to like do it that way
in the first round. Martha, what about for you guys,
You know you waited a little longer there, but I'm sure,

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like the emotions still are crazy. During that time, it
was absolutely crazy. We and we had people. We didn't
have people till the second day. You know, we didn't
want to make a big feel about it, but you know,
once the once the word came down, it was it
was really surreal. I didn't think I would be as

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emotional as I was. And uh, you know, the fact
that Orlando went right before Mark was pretty exciting for us,
knowing that you know, he was going to have somebody there.
I just kept saying, it's so far away, so far
I lived in Baltimore, I mean, I know, so uh

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it was. It was a little freaky, but he had
all of his best friends around him, and so that
was really a great thing. That gives me chills. I
love that. I didn't realize that you had lived in
Baltimore before, so were you able to give him some
pointers when he's like, moving out here, don't care what
I did from I as little, I had one child.

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I could drive by my old house, that's all. That's great. Mary.
One of my favorite things after Patrick signed after the
draft was he made a big deal about getting you
a car, and that was he shared on social media,
how you know, all the sacrifices that you had put in,
and that was something that he wanted to do. How

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much did that mean to you that he this is
a big moment for him and that's how he wanted
to kind of commemorate it. Yes, it was, Oh my god,
it's so so awesome doing Patrick's junior high and high school.
I actually owned into a luxury vehicle. So it got
down to going to camps, throwing the bats and the

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balls and the show the pads and everything in the vehicle,
and I'm like, oh my god, we're turning this car apart,
you know. So I actually had to get an SUV
and it broke my heart. I was like, oh my god,
I have to get rid of a car, you know,
And and he's like, i'll give it back to you
one day, you know, And of course I'm like, okay,
you're right. To myself, you know, and so it actually happened.

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So that was very special. He was like, I told you,
I'll give it back to you. Yes, yes, Now that
your sons are both like established NFL players, I'm sure,
what is it like? I guess as having like a
son who's a big name in the NFL. How do
you handle it when they're critiques? What is that like
for you? I get really angry when I read the critiques,

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and I don't like hearing anybody say you know a word.
I like to live in my rose colored glasses and
that everything is sweet and kind, and someone will say
something else and I'll just get so angry. To goes.
You need to stay off social media, and I do,
I really do, because that is it's almost like it's

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evil what people can say. And I don't even know.
I mean, I don't know who these people are. Why
do I care how they feel? Right? And so what
I've learned the first couple of years was very difficult.
More rely, I've learned to just shut that out and
not do that. I mean I don't turn it off.
I turn a lot of it off. But I've become

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that Mama bear, go kick somebody probably not a good look.
I talked to some of the some players spouses for
an earlier episode, and they said one of the toughest
things is keeping other family members off of social media
from like firing back at fans and reporters. Do you

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guys experience that, because, like Amanda Tucker was like, you
have the same last name as him, Like, people are
gonna know who you are. Yes, I don't have social media,
So like my husband and my daughter to you. She
bring me something and she's like, oh my god, what
they're saying about the c and this is what happened,

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and you know whatever. And I'm like, I'm usually the
bled one, the calm one, you know, and so I'm
always like, oh, don't worry about it. You know, it'll
be fun. I think with Patrick two, even at LSU,
they were kind of really taught to block out the noise,
you know, stay off media, social media and all that

(17:12):
stuff like that. So you know, I'm usually like, yeah,
like I said, I'm usually like, Okay, it's fine, don't
worry about But everybody else is like, oh, I'm gonna
make a page and I'm gonna go wag on them
and all that stuff, like that, and I'm like, oh,
don't do that, don't do that. Yeah, yeah, that's a
great point. I hadn't really thought about it like that. Like,

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your sons both came from big college programs, so that's
something they experienced in college, to which I'm sure is
even tougher at like eighteen than it is now in
your twenties. Like you kind of at this point, they're
probably pretty used to it. On the flip side, as
a mother, then, what's it like when your kid is
making huge plays and getting all that sort of adulation?
Do you kind of have to balance that? But are

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there any moments that have been particularly rewarding for you
now that they've been in the NFL? Yes, I was
like especially excited to night that Pad got the touchdown,
you know, like, oh my god, oh my god. You know,
I think it was a bulls bumble or something from

(18:13):
Marlond humphonies and yeah, yeah yeah, And just seeing him,
you know, I mean you could see it all over
his face. He's going into the zone. He's like the
glories all over his face. You know. So that was
really really you know, good for me, and I talk
about it all the time last like I'm getting like,
oh my god, you know, and he's like, well, it's
just you know whatever, you know, And I was like, wow,

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it's a big deal of me, but not to him. Yeah,
So that was that was a moment for me. I
think she's absolutely right, you know it is. It's it's
big moments to us, right that And and I use
it all the time, like she says, in real estate,
I try to find a way to tell who my

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son is, so you know, I get to talk about it.
But I there's one play I remember Mark had against
the Chargers his second year, I think, and where he
got the ball. He had not made a touchdown the
week before or two weeks before, and they all, you know,

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he was upset about it. He'd had a long run
but didn't make it to the end zone, and then
this one he had a huge long run and he
made it to the end zone and we were there
and it was exciting. It was that intimate stadium, more
like a soccer stadium, and it was probably the most
fun I've ever had at a football game, was watching
that and we still talk about it to this day,

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and that that is that's the one I want to
go on to social media and do all the bad
things that I shouldn't. He some mother, but I don't.
I love that you said that. You try to work
it into conversations. Like my dad even does that I'm
not out playing on the field, and he's like, my
daughter works with a Raven. The'd be like, that's just

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apparent thing, you know. I love you got to be
proud of your kids. It's kind of embarrassing my kids
like hide and shame. But I'm like, I'm going to
use whatever I can exactly exactly. I walked into the
store yesterday with a Raven shirt on and the guy
the guy goes, yeah, great team, and I'm like, yeah,
my son plays for Yes. I think moms are allowed

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to do that. Nobody else in the family but moms.
Maybe dad, But feel like moms A lot of times
people look at you like Okay, you're right, you know,
And I'm always like you're standing there and I'm like
one of the pictures like, yeah, there he is, you know.
Does he play? Yeah? Exactly? Does he play? Yes? Oh

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that's great. We recruited a lot of your families last
year to have wish the team good luck and a
special playoff video that was so fun. For us to
get to share all the guys families with the fans,
and I thought, like so many families had so much
fun with that, which was really really awesome. So I
love that family support that everyone does get when it
when it comes to big games and watching them play.
Do you have any game day superstitions that you go through.

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I know, Martha, you mentioned you're covering your eyes half
the time. Well, we have to. I have to do
a walk. I have a friend that's been a close
family friend, and we we walk. But after one particularly
great game, we had walked a certain route. So every
single game for the past three years we walked that
same route the same time. We have to wear the

(21:30):
same clothes. But after the first game of this season,
we said we're switching the route, and we switched throughout
for last week's game. That was a good thing. So
now unfortunately we added time to it in mileage, but
we're doing five point three miles every Sunday, every game day.
And if we don't do that, I mean, we have magic.

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That's what we we have control over the game. If
we do that route, it's your most ridiculous thing I've
ever heard. But yeah, that's what we have to do.
We're joined now too by Sonya Chapman Davis, who is
Tias Bowser's's mom, and we were just talking about the
playoff video that we posted last year when all the
families were wishing the guy's good luck. Your family had

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one of the best videos that we got. There were
so many people all in Tisis Jerseys just having a ball.
How much fun does your family have cheering him on?
Like all the time. When I tell you, that's just
us all the time when we talk about it, just
in groups, so we're out eating, it's just we're just
so excited. It's just such a blanting We're exciting like

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all the time. Yeah, Jersey On, now, don't you do?
So we're doing this over zoom and she came prepared.
You're right, it is purple Friday. I kind of have
my my purple on. It's white, but it still says
ra even so. So, fans obviously know what all three
of your sons are like on the field, but what

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is what was there something that would surprise fans to
learn about your guys off the fields, what they're really
like day to day. M hmm, A surprise, tis Is
almost I'm not gonna say predictable, but like when Tias
is home, whenever he's home, and whenever he's here, he's
out with friends. He loves to work out. That's like

(23:21):
a daily routine. Like I don't care it's off season whatever,
He's working out like all the time. Tis. I mean,
I guess you guys kind of saw a little bit
of it. Tis is a clown, Like people don't a
lot of people don't see it, but like I saw it,
like a couple of the dances, and I think the
karaoke Ties is such. When I tell you Tis, it's
such a clown and it surprises people because they don't

(23:42):
see it every day, you know, they see the serious Tis,
the focused, Tigest, but Tias is really a clown and
we die laughing at him. He clowns a lot. It's
so funny. I'll be down on the field, like recording
videos part social media, and he jumps in my face,
like every time. It's always Tiest. It scares me jumpy,
And when he's recording you while you're recording him, I said,

(24:03):
that's tied. Yeah. I think people think he's Shire, but
he's really not. He's really not. He's not sometimes he
can be, but he has a fun side too, for sure, Martha.
What about you, well, Mark is he's pretty predictable as well,
and he's quiet, and he's he's very loyal, very family oriented.

(24:23):
But yeah, he's so quiet. So really it's the fourth
child thing. I think he just let everybody talk for him. Okay, Yeah,
Patrick's the same way. He's the same way. Quiet, you know,
loyal family, you know all of that. Watch. Yeah, yeah,

(24:44):
for sure. You have to be that dedicated though, and
like locked in to make it this far. Like that's
probably what sets them apart. And on the flip side too,
is there anything that would surprise people you think about
being a mom of an NFL player, Like being an
NFL mom, maybe even that surprise for me remain the same.
So everybody's like, oh, oh, y'all doing speak house on

(25:06):
the hills and are y'all doing this and you know
and all that, We're like, no, we're good, you know.
So I think that was the most surprising thing, you know,
everybody just you know, just seeing us humble and grateful
and thankful and you know, not thinking too much, you know,
too holly of ourselves or anything. You know, love that

(25:28):
so it didn't change you at all. That's awesome, did not.
You know, we're grateful and you know and all that,
but we still still remain, you know, humble. I think
that's good. I'm going to just add to that if
I can, because I get that a lot too, people like, oh,
why are you not doing this? Why are you're not
doing Why y'all don't have this? Why are y'all It's
like it's just us and like, why are you still working?
I was like, because we have to work, but your

(25:50):
son is in the NFL. No, No, we we hear
that a lot too, and it's like, you know, we
still have a like she said, we're so humble and
just thankful for the opportunity just to be a mom,
you know NFL players. It truly is a blessing and humbling.
But it's also exciting, you know, because we get people
like when they find out like you're Ty's his mom.
Oh my god. We had this guy one time and

(26:11):
we were talking. We had our Ravens Jersey and we
was in the mall at our Chick fil A and
this one guy said he was from Baltimore. He's like, hey,
you guys like the Raven's like, yeah, you know, he's
kind of be Solda like, yeah, we like the Ravens.
He's like, man, I'm from Baltimore. I love the Raveist.
And it's like, who do you know? Who do you
like from Baltimore. We's like Tyers, you know, we got
his jersey on. We was like, Tyus, it's pretty cool
and he's our son. He just went crazy, all oh

(26:32):
my god, I know he's from Texas, but just went cool.
We just laughed and we laughed. It was so funny
that he was from Baltimore and we're here. You know,
tis his parents from Tyler and he just with We
laughed and we laughed. It was so funny. That's Tyler. Yes,

(26:52):
I'm from Tyler, Texans. I was a Tyler Rose Festival. Duchess.
I love the parades. Oh my god. It's a small world. Cool. Well,
Bartha and Sonya, your sons are both at the point
now too where they've signed extensions for the Ravens, And

(27:12):
obviously that's such a big deal for your family. Not
only are they in the NFL, but they're here to stay.
They're going to stay Ravens. How special was that for
your families? It is so awesome. We were so excited.
First of we were nervous because we know, you know,
since we've been in it, we've been we noticed how
things go. You know, one maybe on the team one
season and next season you may not. And it's like
we was like, oh, it's just a blessing to still

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be with the Ravens, a great organization. We hear nothing
but good things. The love, the family vibe. I love it.
I love it, I love it, and it was just
truly a blessing for him to stay there, you know,
four more years hopefully forever. But it truly is a
blessing and we're we're a grateful and plus we have
so much Ravens stuff. I was like, we can't change

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everything point the raven So I was praying that he
stayed with the Ravee. It's awesome, it's awesome. I'm just
glad it's over. Honestly, yeah, exactly. I didn't like that part, right,
but it is. It is. You know, it's it's such
a business, and I think as families were not really

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it's their job, so they have to take care of
their own business. The one time I felt like we
could really be involved and and and help, you know,
be a part of it. Of course it's always marked decision,
but you know, the whole getting to go through that process,
it was definitely fascinating. And then it does. It's like

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it's okay, you value it. It's like they value your child, right,
and that's what you want for them, and you want
them to be able to be where they want and
do the things they love to do. So that's what
it made me feel. In the process, I felt that
he was being valued and that he could be a

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part of the organization that he loves. Yeah, it's interesting
that I haven't really thought about it because you know,
the draft, you don't have a say, you know, you
just you go where you go. But this is a
chance for them really to have a say, and it
is special that obviously they both wanted to stay here,
which I feel like speaks to the organization. But yeah,
that's important for you to feel valued where you are

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for sure. All Right, one last thing before I let
you guys go, because I appreciate your time. Today. We
finish each episode with a little Since it's the Purple
Tear podcast, we call it the Purple hot Seat. It's
not a hot seat. I promise. It's not that it's
a little quick this or that game. There's a few
questions for you, so I'll let you each answer each
of these, just kind of rapid fire. So the first

(29:38):
one is the mom NFL Mom's Chunky Soup commercial. Would
you do it? Or no? Yes? Yeah, definitely, so we
like that. Okay, okay. The other one, second one is
which do you like? Which did you enjoy more watching
your son play college football or in the NFL. It's

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more exciting, I mean, I like college. NFL is so exciting,
love it. And the last one is two more sorry,
more nerves on draft night or for a game? Probably
draft night for me. Oh, I'm gonna say a game.
I missed a game because I'm always sitting here, like,

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you know, knowing, like you have to be on your assignment.
You cannot miss your assignment, you know, so I'm always
on the Yes, I would say game night too. I
didn't know very much about the draft. I didn't know
what was going on totally. I mean the first time
I'd ever actually watched it, so wow, Ignurn says Bliss

(30:44):
on that one. Yes, all right. And the last one
we'll do is Baltimore for a family meal night. Would
you rather do Baltimore crabcakes or your home cooking? Is
that a trick? Quick? You can't. You can't diss someone's
mom's cooking, you know, safe either way, I'm going the same,

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well because because you know, I've been trying to pacake,
but I kind of you know, trying to you know,
give but you guys are probably more crawfish anyways. So
oh yes, absolutely for sure. I did have a guest

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say they didn't like seafood, and I was like, oh boy,
and everybody in my family loves seafood, but I'm like
the only one. It's like, I just can't do it.
I've tried and I've tried, and I cannot do it.
So I have to go with mom's only cooking. They
might get you for that one. I'm not gonna lie,
but I know. Thanks for listening to this episode of

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