July 24, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Vetted Conversations, former NFL star and Green Bay Packers all-time leading rusher Ahman Green joins us from Radio Row to discuss his latest ventures in gaming, athlete-led media, and community-driven Esports. As a founder of Alumni Media Network and AME Leagues, Ahman shares how he is building inclusive spaces for former athletes and military veterans to connect through content, competition, and service. From hosting gaming tournaments that benefit charities to honoring his family's military legacy, Ahman brings passion, purpose, and innovation to everything he does beyond the football field.
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SPEAKER_03 (00:48):
Hey everybody, this is Anil Nathan.
We are live on Radio Road herein New Orleans.
I have the pleasure of beingjoined by Amon Green, legendary
running back all-time Green Bayrushing record holder.
Yep.
Which is pretty impressive tostill be in that, still be
holding that record.
But thank you so much for makingthe time to chat with us.
SPEAKER_04 (01:06):
Hey, no problem, Mill.
Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_03 (01:07):
Yeah, so uh maybe to start, what what brings you to
New Orleans this week?
How's the how's the week been sofar?
SPEAKER_04 (01:12):
Our week's been good, and what brings me down
here is that I uh work withAlumni Media Network.
I'm one of the founders alongwith Gus Farrat and Craig
Richardson, the managingdirector there.
And the whole Alumni MediaNetwork started a few years ago
where it's basically a networkof former athletes uh doing
their podcasts, doing theirshows that they wanted to do.
(01:33):
You know, whatever passion,whatever topic they wanted to
talk about for an hour or twohours or three hours, and then
put it in um between long form,short form, media, clips, and
stuff like that.
We managed to put together agroup of guys and uh and
soon-to-be women, uh girls aswell, to talk and uh spread what
they're doing now as formerathletes from their profession.
(01:55):
So we're not just football,right?
We're not just we're basketball,we're baseball, we're women's
basketball, we're women'sfootball, we're partnered with
the NFL wives, we're partneredwith the USA Olympic Committee,
um, the Women's FootballAlliance, Women's Football
League that's been created inthe last couple years.
And so we have right now aninflux of over 20,000 athletes
(02:17):
that we are connecting throughthrough the network and also
bringing them into my space.
Another space that I grew up inis in the gaming space, the
video game space.
So playing games like SuperMario Brothers and Mario Kart
and uh I say flash forward toGrand Teresa Mode or Madden and
FC Soccer, which is what's FIFAnow, it's FC Soccer.
(02:39):
So bringing that to into a spaceto where it grows another
community, just like thefootball space did.
You know, for the fans that Imet in Nebraska being a Husker
to the fans I met in Seattle asa Seahawk in Green Bay, they
were pulling hard for their, youknow, for us to win and you know
come out of the victor.
And the same thing with uh withI say with the video game fans.
(02:59):
They love to see, you know,athletes or just a gamer play, a
game of Madden or or Call ofDuty and say, oh man, I play
that game too.
Right.
And then and know that thatathlete is on the same level as
them of communication.
And so bringing, I want to growthat community with the league,
um, obviously get sponsors sothey can support our league, and
uh also bring the uh, I say theI say the charity part of it,
(03:22):
because then, you know, andduring this competition, these
athletes can uh win, you know,money for themselves or money
for their charity or for theirown foundation.
Right.
So express that community andgiving aspect of it because
that's one thing when you log onto Twitch or Kick or even
YouTube gaming and stuff likethat, you see the influencers,
(03:42):
they're giving back all thetime.
Um there's companies out therethat we haven't partnered with
yet, but we soon will, because Iknow a few of them.
So definitely going to do thatmoving forward to progress our
league because we always uh saythe more support we get, the
easier it is to give.
And we have the good thing is wehave like a uh we have a
schedule going on where we'llstart our first virtual weekend.
(04:04):
So the three matches that aregoing on for this season will be
third three virtual matches,online tournaments.
Okay.
We'll be fighting uh startingwith sports games, so Madden, uh
FT Soccer, and 2K, and maybetennis.
I might throw in a littlecricket as well.
Correct.
Just to see to see if gamers arepaying attention to playing
games and because it's all aboutfun.
Yeah.
But then the next after that'sgonna be all the fighting games.
(04:25):
So we got Street Fighter, we gotMortal Kombat, Tekken, Guilty
Gear Strive, and Super Mario uhSuper Smash Brothers as well.
And then the final uh virtualweekend will be a little bit
more into maybe some little bitof shooters, so some some Call
of Duty, some Halo, someValorant, and maybe maybe either
RTS with uh League of Legendsand Dota.
So we'll see.
(04:46):
You gotta be a dynamic gamer,just like a dynamic athlete,
right?
To play certain sports.
So, like I said, it's all forfun, it's for it's gonna be for
charity, but then the good thingat the end we're talking with a
company out of uh Las Vegas tohave our final event in person
and in on and off the strip.
So we're working on that.
We'll be excited to make thatannouncement once we're done
(05:06):
talking and figuring out all theall the details.
So tomorrow, uh Friday at theSheridan Hotel not far from
here, uh 500 Canal Street, we'llbe launching this event starting
at 12 uh p.m.
go all the way to 8 p.m.
Um tomorrow night.
SPEAKER_03 (05:20):
Very cool.
It's uh that's pretty awesome,both on yeah, kind of the
podcasting community as well aswhat you're doing connecting in
the gaming community.
And I see the t-shirt, you'vegot your own podcast
specifically.
That is that that's where kindof a lot of the discussion
around gaming comes in, or 100%.
SPEAKER_04 (05:35):
So, like I said, from the passion of learning and
play video games, learning abouta computer, it just grew into
that.
And so I wanted to share thispart of my life with my fans out
there.
I have, you know, you know, Ihave a fan base, I was a packer,
you know, I was a corn husker, Iwas a Texan, I was a Seahawk.
So there's fans that stuck withme all the way through those
(05:56):
years, from being a drafted tothe Seahawk all the way to
finishing back in Green Bay andbeing a Texan for two years.
And probably none of them,probably there's a few that, oh,
he plays Madden.
Oh, he streams on Twitch anddidn't know that.
Right.
You know, because they figurethat we're athletes, we might
just do a certain thing, workout, and then attend to our
family.
I do all that, but hey, I'm agamer too, man.
(06:17):
You know?
You know, but if I'm not agamer, the whole podcast thing
is like we have some of thepodcasts that are on the online
alumni media network where wegot former athletes talking
about financial literacy and uhhow to take care of your body,
so healthcare and fitness andall that.
So this is my my my region or mygenre of uh a part of my life
that I want to share withpeople.
(06:38):
And I'm I'm passionate about it.
That's why I talk about thedifferent uh topics on my show.
Um and you can find all my pastepisodes on YouTube at Amon
Green Gamers Lounge and onTwitch at Amon Green TV.
And it's all the trendy talksgoing on in the gaming space,
you know, from a couple youknow, years ago when COVID hit.
Um, what active what was goingon with Activision behind closed
(06:59):
doors that shouldn't have beengoing on?
Sure.
You know, we discussed thosetopics to what's going on with
uh, I say, with Call of Duty andsome of the I say some of the
hacks that were going on withpeople shoot, able to shoot
through walls and see guys.
Hey, you're not supposed to dothat.
Yeah, the aimbots, you can'tbring that in the game.
But Call of Duty did somethingabout it.
They had a lot of band, theylot, a lot of band accounts uh
(07:21):
during that week and month.
So um, so we we we talk aboutthe topics, then we have fun
with the with the show as well.
We have a segment called GameReleases where we talk about all
the new games coming out.
You know, I I love theside-scrolling, the Metro Davian
type of games.
You know, I played a lot ofMetroid growing up on Nintendo.
Yep.
So there's a few that came out,and we always talk about that,
(07:42):
and then we have fun with thisor that.
You know, you know, saying if ifyou're a DC or Marvel person.
Marvel.
Marvel.
Okay, I'm DC.
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (07:50):
Back on Metroid, I I remember I didn't realize
Metroid was a woman.
SPEAKER_04 (07:55):
Yeah, I didn't find out until I got to high school.
SPEAKER_02 (07:57):
I was like, Metroid is a woman.
SPEAKER_04 (07:59):
It's Sammons.
I'm like, I thought that was aguy's name.
SPEAKER_02 (08:01):
The best games that everyone ubiquitously played and
didn't realize the character themain character wasn't woman.
SPEAKER_04 (08:06):
A hundred percent.
I think I was a sophomore inhigh school, and uh I was
watching, I think it was like acommercial of a new Metroid game
coming out, and she took off thehelmet and did the hair thing,
and I was like, no, is that theend of Metroid?
It's when you beat it.
When you beat the game, that'sright, that's what it was.
And she takes it does the hairswing, and I'm like, I was like,
that's so cool.
(08:27):
I was like, awesome, that'sthat's who the badass is.
Okay, I love it.
Great prot twist right there.
So you know, actually I have aquick question.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (08:36):
Could you speak to some of the overlap of the skill
sets of both playing games andplaying sports?
Like people don't understand.
They try to separate it.
There's no separation.
Can you just talk about like youknow, some of the benefits of
both that you've seen you playat the professional level, now
you're playing sports at thehighest level.
Or you know, EA sports, yeah.
Electronic.
(08:57):
Can you talk to some of theoverlap of the skills?
SPEAKER_04 (09:00):
Easy, easy.
The skill, let's say the sort ofold so the overlap of the skills
in training for let's pick anygame, let's go, let's go with
Madden, make it real easy.
At the same time, you put in tolearn how to use the mechanics
on Madden, knowing that you havewide receivers at the A button,
the B button, the X, and the Ybutton, and sometimes the R B
button is no different than aquarterback learning his
(09:21):
progression.
If you're teaching thequarterback how to read a
progression in his routesequence on a flood concept, you
we know that the flat route isyour first read, then the corner
route is your second read, thenthe backside corner or the
backside street will be yourthird read in progression.
So you got to do the same thing.
But now just with your fingers.
Right.
You know, and you gotta put timein it.
You can't just play it one time,once a week practice, and it
(09:45):
takes a lot of energy, hoursputting in, just like if you
were a football player, abaseball player here, a
basketball player, a trackathlete, putting that time in.
It takes that dedication too tosay, you know, unless you just
know, okay, I'm gonna just be acasual gamer, but yeah, then
your expectations are casually.
So, but if you're talking about,hey, I want to beat everybody in
my neighborhood and eventually Iwant to be a professional and
make money off of it, well, yougotta get into it just like I
(10:07):
got into football.
I gotta start early, gotta wakeup early, gotta hit the weight
room, then I gotta go home andrun some, uh, do some
conditioning, I gotta learn howto cast the football, learn how
to hold on, five points ofpressure, all that stuff.
So it's the same commitment.
And like, and I'll go into thenext uh genre of game, it's like
a first-person shooter, so FPS.
Like, when I started coachingit, that's when I've gotten a
(10:29):
little, I dug a little deeperinto it because it was just
learning, not just learning howto shoot with a controller, but
obviously there's mouse andkeyboard, and it's actually a
little bit faster.
You know, some argue it's athat's a great debate between
you know FPS shooters withcontrollers, FPS shooters with
mouse and keyboard.
Great debate.
Um it's more it's more of apreference, you know, in my
(10:50):
opinion, but if you're good atone, stick with it and go with
it if you're gonna go pro.
But if you're gonna be casual,you can mess around with it, see
what, you know, see what uh whatyou like.
But it's also still a trainingstyle to that.
Because what's funny is I got atraining module from one of my
assistant coaches where I wasworking at Nebraska to track my
eye my eye tracking.
So it's this one app I do that'son uh the on YouTube.
(11:12):
If you go on YouTube, it got eyetraining modules that you could
search on YouTube.
So I you basically following theball and popping, it's popping
on the screen left and right.
So I do that, and I starteddoing AIM labs and easy, and and
it was Aim Lab and Easy EasyAim.
Two apps where you could eitherprogram aim training bots or
(11:33):
they'll give you ones that'salready pre-made.
You could go on there and itonly takes, like any warm-up, 10
to 20, 30 minutes.
As much time you didn't in awarm-up, then you could go into
a Call of Duty match, a Fortnitematch, a Halo match, or Valorant
match, and then my my KDA, trustme, I'm I'm sitting in Call of
Duty, even though it's justcasual.
I'm not in rank yet.
(11:54):
I'm in casual, but my call my uhKDA, which is my you know, kill
to death assist and assist, myKDA is like one 1.5 right now.
And so most pros are at a one,but I'm in casual ranking right
now, so that so don't don'tdon't just don't don't judge me
off of that.
Don't be like, oh my god, you'rereally good.
No, I'm just in casuals, not inranked yet, but I'm gonna start
(12:14):
ranked this week to see where Iland, you know.
But that dedication, thatknowing that you gotta do that,
because I played against pros inMadden, I played against pros in
Call of Duty, and trust me, it'sa world of difference.
Exactly.
So when I and so when people, ifsomebody played me in football,
when I was probably at my prime,it was a big difference.
When like, okay, now I see whatthe football.
(12:37):
And now so I played with Call ofDuty plays like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (12:39):
That's a pro.
SPEAKER_04 (12:40):
That's a pro.
I was like, I could barely get II my KDA, I'm like negative, and
he's like positive five.
So, okay, there is a difference.
Because you know, it's just adifferent way you you you you
train your hand-eyecoordination, it helps you um
get better, and then you don'teven, there's no type of anxiety
there because you know whereyou're going with your shots.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Yeah.
Well, I mean, speaking ofoverlap in communities, right?
I mean, the military community,veteran community is huge
gamers, right?
SPEAKER_04 (13:08):
Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_03 (13:09):
I'm sure do you come across vets or people in the
military and your your your fanbase?
SPEAKER_04 (13:15):
I used to do um an event called Pro vs.
Joe's.
Okay.
So I have a friend, I don't knowif y'all ever crossed path with
him.
He doesn't do it anymore, um,but his name is Greg Zion.
Okay.
And he worked with all the milall the Army bases across
America where he would part, hepartnered, pretty much partner
with them.
He would reach out, and forwhatever NFL team or major
league baseball team, and Ithink maybe NBA that was near
(13:38):
the base, he would invite acouple of the pro athletes to
the base, and they were sit andplay whatever game the veteran
picked.
And what was crazy, a lot of theveterans picked Call of Duty.
SPEAKER_03 (13:48):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (13:48):
And I would I would have thought the other way
because they obviously y'allwere living it, you know, but
that's what I found out.
A lot of the veterans wereplaying Call of Duty.
SPEAKER_03 (13:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (13:58):
You know, every now and then a Madden player would
show up or a FIFA would show up.
But the majority, and I waslike, well, I would.
They were like, why?
Well, I would think y'allwouldn't, because y'all living
that real life.
Like we live Madden, but Maddento playing, not playing, but
being in the Army was is, youknow, as we know, it's serious.
So it was like, oh, like, no, westill like to play Call of Duty,
(14:19):
you know.
So I was like, oh, so that wasthat was a subtle surprise for
me.
Yeah, yeah.
But that was great, that's whatGreg did, and I I joined him.
He he did an event with the umwith Washington.
I flew out for that event.
He did it with the Seahawks oneyear.
And so I was able to go thereand support, and I think that
was it.
I did two events in one year.
So that was but then and thenbut to see the the military uh
(14:41):
crew going out there and havingfun, having a good time was
always good to see.
SPEAKER_03 (14:45):
Yeah, no, it's uh it's very much like a part of
the fabric of I mean, especiallywhen you're deployed, you know,
in the in the downtime that youmight have.
I mean, it is there's alwayssome form of gaming going on.
Um and I think for a lot ofpeople, I mean it is it is a
release, right?
SPEAKER_04 (15:00):
It's a means of hundred percent release.
SPEAKER_03 (15:01):
Taking your mind off of other things and being able
to kind of focus on somethingelse.
And so I think a lot of a lot ofvets and people on active duty
get a lot of, you know, kind ofuh they get a lot out of that,
right?
In the kind of gaming world.
SPEAKER_04 (15:13):
So yeah, because went from uh that's what the
mom, that's what the parents,you know, the families that
would come into events, the thedad or the mom would play with
us, but then the kids are thererunning around having a good
time, right?
Mixing with other families thatalso deployed with their mom or
dads just getting back home sothey we could see that.
You know, they're kind ofreuniting and just kind of
letting their hair down, havinga good time.
(15:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (15:35):
Well, do you do you have any family that served in
the military?
Or close friends?
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
Oh, yeah, I've had close friends, family.
So I had where where could Istart?
I'll start with my on my mom'sside of the family, uh great
uncle Buck, he was naval.
Okay.
Um, I'm gonna say one war two.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, and then come back intopresent time.
My uh my dad, he he was inreserves for a little bit.
(16:00):
And then um, and I'll say notquite military, but it's still a
force.
My my older brother, Jerry, hewas in the police, he was a
police officer for 24 years inOmaha, Nebraska.
Okay.
And then my other brother,Nikki, he was also in the army.
So he was in the army for, Ithink about eight years.
He did most of his time up inSeattle in a Lewis base McCourt,
(16:22):
uh McCord up there.
Um, and then my and then anothercousin, four, three, four years
younger than me, he did eighttours of Iraq.
Wow.
Um, and his last tour was 2008.
Okay.
And as soon as he got out and hewas able, he was okay mentally
and physically.
He still, he still was working,I think he works with soldiers
(16:45):
now, you know.
I think dealing with PST, S Tand all that.
But he got away, he got right,he got done, was okay, was ever
and started his family.
So now I would say his kids, hehas two boys and a girl, and
they're I think they'reteenagers now.
Because I say, like I said, heright retired in 08 and he got
making kids right away.
He was ready for that because hewas done.
You know, he was done, you know,traveling the world, going to
(17:07):
protect us for, you know, andserve, serve us, serve our
country.
So when he was done, and andwhen I and when I when I say
eight tours, everybody was like,what?
He did eight tours?
And I to me it wasn't, he waslike, oh yeah, I'm going for it.
He just made it like it wasnothing.
Yeah.
I'm yeah, I'm hey bro, hey, cuzI'm going for another tour.
I'm like, okay, man, you know,be safe, you know.
And I I just and I never, nevernot thought I would not talk to
(17:29):
him again.
Yeah.
You know, that was one thing Ialways thought.
I was like, oh, I can't waituntil we talk again.
You know, keep that positivityup.
Because I know, you know, I hada brother that was a cop.
And now one of my cousins that Igrew up with was in the
military.
So it's like you you know whatthey were facing, but you just
gotta, you know, this realityand and live with it, but also
know that stay at stay ahead ofthe game, be like, hey, I'm
gonna see you again, no matterwhat.
SPEAKER_03 (17:50):
100%.
Well, uh, Military 250, I mean,what we're doing is we're
celebrating this year, isactually the 250th birthday of
the Army, Navy, and MarineCorps.
And so it's a little fun factthat a lot of Americans aren't
aware of, and so thank you foryour family service and um
everything that they've done.
And we are um we are using thiskind of celebration of the
(18:14):
military's birthday to inspireyou know all Americans, but
especially the veteran militaryfamily community, to find new
ways to serve again.
So honor the service of peoplefrom before us by our own
service moving forward.
So that's what it's all about.
And yeah.
Well, uh I'm uh thank you somuch for making the time to
chat.
No problem and uh before we go,I gotta ask, uh, well, first
(18:36):
off, where can where can peoplefind more information about your
your podcast and gaming and allthat sort of stuff?
SPEAKER_04 (18:41):
We'll do, we'll do.
So uh for I say Alumni MediaNetwork, so it's alumnymedia
network.com.
And for all the former athletes,professional or college, um, you
can find the AML, so ame-lesports.com.
That's the landing page and aregistration form for um for the
league.
And if you're in town in NewOrleans for tomorrow's event, is
(19:03):
at the Sheraton here in umFrench Quarter, 500 Canal Street
from 12 to 8 p.m.
tomorrow.
Um, and then myself, AmonGreen's Gamer Lounge, I am on uh
Twitch, Amon Green TV, and thenon TikTok, Amon Green's Gamers
Lounge, and uh I will say X,Amon Green30.
So those are all my socials.
Love it.
(19:23):
You know, where I'm at,streaming once a week on Gamers
Lounge, that's every Wednesdayat 2 p.m.
Okay.
And then the Green and Go GLounge with Gilbert and Dorsey,
Gilbert Brown, Dorsey Levins,that's every Tuesday morning at
uh 10.30 a.m.
So we got our last episode ofthe season after the Super Bowl,
and see we'll find out ifGilbert is not licking the
bottom of the barrel in pickinggames because he's been not
(19:45):
doing good in his picks.
I'll say that.
SPEAKER_01 (19:47):
It'll be nice to say that.
Hey everybody, this is Anil Nathan.
We are live on Radio Road herein New Orleans.
I have the pleasure of beingjoined by Amon Green, legendary
running back all-time Green Bayrushing record holder.
Yep.
Which is pretty impressive tostill be in that, still be
holding that record.
But thank you so much for makingthe time to chat with us.
SPEAKER_04 (01:06):
Hey, no problem, Mill.
Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_03 (01:07):
Yeah, so uh maybe to start, what what brings you to
New Orleans this week?
How's the how's the week been sofar?
SPEAKER_04 (01:12):
Our week's been good, and what brings me down
here is that I uh work withAlumni Media Network.
I'm one of the founders alongwith Gus Farrat and Craig
Richardson, the managingdirector there.
And the whole Alumni MediaNetwork started a few years ago
where it's basically a networkof former athletes uh doing
their podcasts, doing theirshows that they wanted to do.
(01:33):
You know, whatever passion,whatever topic they wanted to
talk about for an hour or twohours or three hours, and then
put it in um between long form,short form, media, clips, and
stuff like that.
We managed to put together agroup of guys and uh and
soon-to-be women, uh girls aswell, to talk and uh spread what
they're doing now as formerathletes from their profession.
(01:55):
So we're not just football,right?
We're not just we're basketball,we're baseball, we're women's
basketball, we're women'sfootball, we're partnered with
the NFL wives, we're partneredwith the USA Olympic Committee,
um, the Women's FootballAlliance, Women's Football
League that's been created inthe last couple years.
And so we have right now aninflux of over 20,000 athletes
(02:17):
that we are connecting throughthrough the network and also
bringing them into my space.
Another space that I grew up inis in the gaming space, the
video game space.
So playing games like SuperMario Brothers and Mario Kart
and uh I say flash forward toGrand Teresa Mode or Madden and
FC Soccer, which is what's FIFAnow, it's FC Soccer.
(02:39):
So bringing that to into a spaceto where it grows another
community, just like thefootball space did.
You know, for the fans that Imet in Nebraska being a Husker
to the fans I met in Seattle asa Seahawk in Green Bay, they
were pulling hard for their, youknow, for us to win and you know
come out of the victor.
And the same thing with uh withI say with the video game fans.
(02:59):
They love to see, you know,athletes or just a gamer play, a
game of Madden or or Call ofDuty and say, oh man, I play
that game too.
Right.
And then and know that thatathlete is on the same level as
them of communication.
And so bringing, I want to growthat community with the league,
um, obviously get sponsors sothey can support our league, and
uh also bring the uh, I say theI say the charity part of it,
(03:22):
because then, you know, andduring this competition, these
athletes can uh win, you know,money for themselves or money
for their charity or for theirown foundation.
Right.
So express that community andgiving aspect of it because
that's one thing when you log onto Twitch or Kick or even
YouTube gaming and stuff likethat, you see the influencers,
(03:42):
they're giving back all thetime.
Um there's companies out therethat we haven't partnered with
yet, but we soon will, because Iknow a few of them.
So definitely going to do thatmoving forward to progress our
league because we always uh saythe more support we get, the
easier it is to give.
And we have the good thing is wehave like a uh we have a
schedule going on where we'llstart our first virtual weekend.
(04:04):
So the three matches that aregoing on for this season will be
third three virtual matches,online tournaments.
Okay.
We'll be fighting uh startingwith sports games, so Madden, uh
FT Soccer, and 2K, and maybetennis.
I might throw in a littlecricket as well.
Correct.
Just to see to see if gamers arepaying attention to playing
games and because it's all aboutfun.
Yeah.
But then the next after that'sgonna be all the fighting games.
(04:25):
So we got Street Fighter, we gotMortal Kombat, Tekken, Guilty
Gear Strive, and Super Mario uhSuper Smash Brothers as well.
And then the final uh virtualweekend will be a little bit
more into maybe some little bitof shooters, so some some Call
of Duty, some Halo, someValorant, and maybe maybe either
RTS with uh League of Legendsand Dota.
So we'll see.
(04:46):
You gotta be a dynamic gamer,just like a dynamic athlete,
right?
To play certain sports.
So, like I said, it's all forfun, it's for it's gonna be for
charity, but then the good thingat the end we're talking with a
company out of uh Las Vegas tohave our final event in person
and in on and off the strip.
So we're working on that.
We'll be excited to make thatannouncement once we're done
(05:06):
talking and figuring out all theall the details.
So tomorrow, uh Friday at theSheridan Hotel not far from
here, uh 500 Canal Street, we'llbe launching this event starting
at 12 uh p.m.
go all the way to 8 p.m.
Um tomorrow night.
SPEAKER_03 (05:20):
Very cool.
It's uh that's pretty awesome,both on yeah, kind of the
podcasting community as well aswhat you're doing connecting in
the gaming community.
And I see the t-shirt, you'vegot your own podcast
specifically.
That is that that's where kindof a lot of the discussion
around gaming comes in, or 100%.
SPEAKER_04 (05:35):
So, like I said, from the passion of learning and
play video games, learning abouta computer, it just grew into
that.
And so I wanted to share thispart of my life with my fans out
there.
I have, you know, you know, Ihave a fan base, I was a packer,
you know, I was a corn husker, Iwas a Texan, I was a Seahawk.
So there's fans that stuck withme all the way through those
(05:56):
years, from being a drafted tothe Seahawk all the way to
finishing back in Green Bay andbeing a Texan for two years.
And probably none of them,probably there's a few that, oh,
he plays Madden.
Oh, he streams on Twitch anddidn't know that.
Right.
You know, because they figurethat we're athletes, we might
just do a certain thing, workout, and then attend to our
family.
I do all that, but hey, I'm agamer too, man.
(06:17):
You know?
You know, but if I'm not agamer, the whole podcast thing
is like we have some of thepodcasts that are on the online
alumni media network where wegot former athletes talking
about financial literacy and uhhow to take care of your body,
so healthcare and fitness andall that.
So this is my my my region or mygenre of uh a part of my life
that I want to share withpeople.
(06:38):
And I'm I'm passionate about it.
That's why I talk about thedifferent uh topics on my show.
Um and you can find all my pastepisodes on YouTube at Amon
Green Gamers Lounge and onTwitch at Amon Green TV.
And it's all the trendy talksgoing on in the gaming space,
you know, from a couple youknow, years ago when COVID hit.
Um, what active what was goingon with Activision behind closed
(06:59):
doors that shouldn't have beengoing on?
Sure.
You know, we discussed thosetopics to what's going on with
uh, I say, with Call of Duty andsome of the I say some of the
hacks that were going on withpeople shoot, able to shoot
through walls and see guys.
Hey, you're not supposed to dothat.
Yeah, the aimbots, you can'tbring that in the game.
But Call of Duty did somethingabout it.
They had a lot of band, theylot, a lot of band accounts uh
(07:21):
during that week and month.
So um, so we we we talk aboutthe topics, then we have fun
with the with the show as well.
We have a segment called GameReleases where we talk about all
the new games coming out.
You know, I I love theside-scrolling, the Metro Davian
type of games.
You know, I played a lot ofMetroid growing up on Nintendo.
Yep.
So there's a few that came out,and we always talk about that,
(07:42):
and then we have fun with thisor that.
You know, you know, saying if ifyou're a DC or Marvel person.
Marvel.
Marvel.
Okay, I'm DC.
Yep.
SPEAKER_02 (07:50):
Back on Metroid, I I remember I didn't realize
Metroid was a woman.
SPEAKER_04 (07:55):
Yeah, I didn't find out until I got to high school.
SPEAKER_02 (07:57):
I was like, Metroid is a woman.
SPEAKER_04 (07:59):
It's Sammons.
I'm like, I thought that was aguy's name.
SPEAKER_02 (08:01):
The best games that everyone ubiquitously played and
didn't realize the character themain character wasn't woman.
SPEAKER_04 (08:06):
A hundred percent.
I think I was a sophomore inhigh school, and uh I was
watching, I think it was like acommercial of a new Metroid game
coming out, and she took off thehelmet and did the hair thing,
and I was like, no, is that theend of Metroid?
It's when you beat it.
When you beat the game, that'sright, that's what it was.
And she takes it does the hairswing, and I'm like, I was like,
that's so cool.
(08:27):
I was like, awesome, that'sthat's who the badass is.
Okay, I love it.
Great prot twist right there.
So you know, actually I have aquick question.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (08:36):
Could you speak to some of the overlap of the skill
sets of both playing games andplaying sports?
Like people don't understand.
They try to separate it.
There's no separation.
Can you just talk about like youknow, some of the benefits of
both that you've seen you playat the professional level, now
you're playing sports at thehighest level.
Or you know, EA sports, yeah.
Electronic.
(08:57):
Can you talk to some of theoverlap of the skills?
SPEAKER_04 (09:00):
Easy, easy.
The skill, let's say the sort ofold so the overlap of the skills
in training for let's pick anygame, let's go, let's go with
Madden, make it real easy.
At the same time, you put in tolearn how to use the mechanics
on Madden, knowing that you havewide receivers at the A button,
the B button, the X, and the Ybutton, and sometimes the R B
button is no different than aquarterback learning his
(09:21):
progression.
If you're teaching thequarterback how to read a
progression in his routesequence on a flood concept, you
we know that the flat route isyour first read, then the corner
route is your second read, thenthe backside corner or the
backside street will be yourthird read in progression.
So you got to do the same thing.
But now just with your fingers.
Right.
You know, and you gotta put timein it.
You can't just play it one time,once a week practice, and it
(09:45):
takes a lot of energy, hoursputting in, just like if you
were a football player, abaseball player here, a
basketball player, a trackathlete, putting that time in.
It takes that dedication too tosay, you know, unless you just
know, okay, I'm gonna just be acasual gamer, but yeah, then
your expectations are casually.
So, but if you're talking about,hey, I want to beat everybody in
my neighborhood and eventually Iwant to be a professional and
make money off of it, well, yougotta get into it just like I
(10:07):
got into football.
I gotta start early, gotta wakeup early, gotta hit the weight
room, then I gotta go home andrun some, uh, do some
conditioning, I gotta learn howto cast the football, learn how
to hold on, five points ofpressure, all that stuff.
So it's the same commitment.
And like, and I'll go into thenext uh genre of game, it's like
a first-person shooter, so FPS.
Like, when I started coachingit, that's when I've gotten a
(10:29):
little, I dug a little deeperinto it because it was just
learning, not just learning howto shoot with a controller, but
obviously there's mouse andkeyboard, and it's actually a
little bit faster.
You know, some argue it's athat's a great debate between
you know FPS shooters withcontrollers, FPS shooters with
mouse and keyboard.
Great debate.
Um it's more it's more of apreference, you know, in my
(10:50):
opinion, but if you're good atone, stick with it and go with
it if you're gonna go pro.
But if you're gonna be casual,you can mess around with it, see
what, you know, see what uh whatyou like.
But it's also still a trainingstyle to that.
Because what's funny is I got atraining module from one of my
assistant coaches where I wasworking at Nebraska to track my
eye my eye tracking.
So it's this one app I do that'son uh the on YouTube.
(11:12):
If you go on YouTube, it got eyetraining modules that you could
search on YouTube.
So I you basically following theball and popping, it's popping
on the screen left and right.
So I do that, and I starteddoing AIM labs and easy, and and
it was Aim Lab and Easy EasyAim.
Two apps where you could eitherprogram aim training bots or
(11:33):
they'll give you ones that'salready pre-made.
You could go on there and itonly takes, like any warm-up, 10
to 20, 30 minutes.
As much time you didn't in awarm-up, then you could go into
a Call of Duty match, a Fortnitematch, a Halo match, or Valorant
match, and then my my KDA, trustme, I'm I'm sitting in Call of
Duty, even though it's justcasual.
I'm not in rank yet.
(11:54):
I'm in casual, but my call my uhKDA, which is my you know, kill
to death assist and assist, myKDA is like one 1.5 right now.
And so most pros are at a one,but I'm in casual ranking right
now, so that so don't don'tdon't just don't don't judge me
off of that.
Don't be like, oh my god, you'rereally good.
No, I'm just in casuals, not inranked yet, but I'm gonna start
(12:14):
ranked this week to see where Iland, you know.
But that dedication, thatknowing that you gotta do that,
because I played against pros inMadden, I played against pros in
Call of Duty, and trust me, it'sa world of difference.
Exactly.
So when I and so when people, ifsomebody played me in football,
when I was probably at my prime,it was a big difference.
When like, okay, now I see whatthe football.
(12:37):
And now so I played with Call ofDuty plays like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (12:39):
That's a pro.
SPEAKER_04 (12:40):
That's a pro.
I was like, I could barely get II my KDA, I'm like negative, and
he's like positive five.
So, okay, there is a difference.
Because you know, it's just adifferent way you you you you
train your hand-eyecoordination, it helps you um
get better, and then you don'teven, there's no type of anxiety
there because you know whereyou're going with your shots.
SPEAKER_03 (13:00):
Yeah.
Well, I mean, speaking ofoverlap in communities, right?
I mean, the military community,veteran community is huge
gamers, right?
SPEAKER_04 (13:08):
Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_03 (13:09):
I'm sure do you come across vets or people in the
military and your your your fanbase?
SPEAKER_04 (13:15):
I used to do um an event called Pro vs.
Joe's.
Okay.
So I have a friend, I don't knowif y'all ever crossed path with
him.
He doesn't do it anymore, um,but his name is Greg Zion.
Okay.
And he worked with all the milall the Army bases across
America where he would part, hepartnered, pretty much partner
with them.
He would reach out, and forwhatever NFL team or major
league baseball team, and Ithink maybe NBA that was near
(13:38):
the base, he would invite acouple of the pro athletes to
the base, and they were sit andplay whatever game the veteran
picked.
And what was crazy, a lot of theveterans picked Call of Duty.
SPEAKER_03 (13:48):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (13:48):
And I would I would have thought the other way
because they obviously y'allwere living it, you know, but
that's what I found out.
A lot of the veterans wereplaying Call of Duty.
SPEAKER_03 (13:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (13:58):
You know, every now and then a Madden player would
show up or a FIFA would show up.
But the majority, and I waslike, well, I would.
They were like, why?
Well, I would think y'allwouldn't, because y'all living
that real life.
Like we live Madden, but Maddento playing, not playing, but
being in the Army was is, youknow, as we know, it's serious.
So it was like, oh, like, no, westill like to play Call of Duty,
(14:19):
you know.
So I was like, oh, so that wasthat was a subtle surprise for
me.
Yeah, yeah.
But that was great, that's whatGreg did, and I I joined him.
He he did an event with the umwith Washington.
I flew out for that event.
He did it with the Seahawks oneyear.
And so I was able to go thereand support, and I think that
was it.
I did two events in one year.
So that was but then and thenbut to see the the military uh
(14:41):
crew going out there and havingfun, having a good time was
always good to see.
SPEAKER_03 (14:45):
Yeah, no, it's uh it's very much like a part of
the fabric of I mean, especiallywhen you're deployed, you know,
in the in the downtime that youmight have.
I mean, it is there's alwayssome form of gaming going on.
Um and I think for a lot ofpeople, I mean it is it is a
release, right?
SPEAKER_04 (15:00):
It's a means of hundred percent release.
SPEAKER_03 (15:01):
Taking your mind off of other things and being able
to kind of focus on somethingelse.
And so I think a lot of a lot ofvets and people on active duty
get a lot of, you know, kind ofuh they get a lot out of that,
right?
In the kind of gaming world.
SPEAKER_04 (15:13):
So yeah, because went from uh that's what the
mom, that's what the parents,you know, the families that
would come into events, the thedad or the mom would play with
us, but then the kids are thererunning around having a good
time, right?
Mixing with other families thatalso deployed with their mom or
dads just getting back home sothey we could see that.
You know, they're kind ofreuniting and just kind of
letting their hair down, havinga good time.
(15:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (15:35):
Well, do you do you have any family that served in
the military?
Or close friends?
SPEAKER_04 (15:39):
Oh, yeah, I've had close friends, family.
So I had where where could Istart?
I'll start with my on my mom'sside of the family, uh great
uncle Buck, he was naval.
Okay.
Um, I'm gonna say one war two.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, and then come back intopresent time.
My uh my dad, he he was inreserves for a little bit.
(16:00):
And then um, and I'll say notquite military, but it's still a
force.
My my older brother, Jerry, hewas in the police, he was a
police officer for 24 years inOmaha, Nebraska.
Okay.
And then my other brother,Nikki, he was also in the army.
So he was in the army for, Ithink about eight years.
He did most of his time up inSeattle in a Lewis base McCourt,
(16:22):
uh McCord up there.
Um, and then my and then anothercousin, four, three, four years
younger than me, he did eighttours of Iraq.
Wow.
Um, and his last tour was 2008.
Okay.
And as soon as he got out and hewas able, he was okay mentally
and physically.
He still, he still was working,I think he works with soldiers
(16:45):
now, you know.
I think dealing with PST, S Tand all that.
But he got away, he got right,he got done, was okay, was ever
and started his family.
So now I would say his kids, hehas two boys and a girl, and
they're I think they'reteenagers now.
Because I say, like I said, heright retired in 08 and he got
making kids right away.
He was ready for that because hewas done.
You know, he was done, you know,traveling the world, going to
(17:07):
protect us for, you know, andserve, serve us, serve our
country.
So when he was done, and andwhen I and when I when I say
eight tours, everybody was like,what?
He did eight tours?
And I to me it wasn't, he waslike, oh yeah, I'm going for it.
He just made it like it wasnothing.
Yeah.
I'm yeah, I'm hey bro, hey, cuzI'm going for another tour.
I'm like, okay, man, you know,be safe, you know.
And I I just and I never, nevernot thought I would not talk to
(17:29):
him again.
Yeah.
You know, that was one thing Ialways thought.
I was like, oh, I can't waituntil we talk again.
You know, keep that positivityup.
Because I know, you know, I hada brother that was a cop.
And now one of my cousins that Igrew up with was in the
military.
So it's like you you know whatthey were facing, but you just
gotta, you know, this realityand and live with it, but also
know that stay at stay ahead ofthe game, be like, hey, I'm
gonna see you again, no matterwhat.
SPEAKER_03 (17:50):
100%.
Well, uh, Military 250, I mean,what we're doing is we're
celebrating this year, isactually the 250th birthday of
the Army, Navy, and MarineCorps.
And so it's a little fun factthat a lot of Americans aren't
aware of, and so thank you foryour family service and um
everything that they've done.
And we are um we are using thiskind of celebration of the
(18:14):
military's birthday to inspireyou know all Americans, but
especially the veteran militaryfamily community, to find new
ways to serve again.
So honor the service of peoplefrom before us by our own
service moving forward.
So that's what it's all about.
And yeah.
Well, uh I'm uh thank you somuch for making the time to
chat.
No problem and uh before we go,I gotta ask, uh, well, first
(18:36):
off, where can where can peoplefind more information about your
your podcast and gaming and allthat sort of stuff?
SPEAKER_04 (18:41):
We'll do, we'll do.
So uh for I say Alumni MediaNetwork, so it's alumnymedia
network.com.
And for all the former athletes,professional or college, um, you
can find the AML, so ame-lesports.com.
That's the landing page and aregistration form for um for the
league.
And if you're in town in NewOrleans for tomorrow's event, is
(19:03):
at the Sheraton here in umFrench Quarter, 500 Canal Street
from 12 to 8 p.m.
tomorrow.
Um, and then myself, AmonGreen's Gamer Lounge, I am on uh
Twitch, Amon Green TV, and thenon TikTok, Amon Green's Gamers
Lounge, and uh I will say X,Amon Green30.
So those are all my socials.
Love it.
(19:23):
You know, where I'm at,streaming once a week on Gamers
Lounge, that's every Wednesdayat 2 p.m.
Okay.
And then the Green and Go GLounge with Gilbert and Dorsey,
Gilbert Brown, Dorsey Levins,that's every Tuesday morning at
uh 10.30 a.m.
So we got our last episode ofthe season after the Super Bowl,
and see we'll find out ifGilbert is not licking the
bottom of the barrel in pickinggames because he's been not
(19:45):
doing good in his picks.
I'll say that.
SPEAKER_01 (19:47):
It'll be nice to say that.
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