Former NFL Punter Marquette King Joins Shawne Merriman And Gives An Honest Opinion Why He's Not In The League

maybe in history. Marquette King, former Raider and Denver Bronco. Um. You know, I've always watched him and he's animated. I love guys with personalities. Obviously I had, you know, lights Out, and I had a personal personality myself. So I love to see guys who make the game fun, make the game interesting, because that's the way it's supposed to be. Um. So let's talk to him a little bit about the

lights Out dance and why he did it. And I walked up to a Twitter trending on social media hymptom lights out there So anyway, can't wait to get into this interview. Marquette King. I see posting videos, I see you training, I see working working out. So why do you thinking in in your opinion that you're not you don't have a job right now. It's it's tough now. Honestly, I've been hitting a lot of different things, like, uh, everybody's not saying it's like I'm getting a bunch of

different feedback. Um, I don't know exactly what it is though, Like it's it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. Maybe it's the fact that I don't fit the stereotypical mode of upon it. And uh, I'm okay with that. Um. One of my main things in life is to just live and be happy with who you are and be honest to who you are and and not that. And two years ago I was kind of struggling with the football thing because it was like, man, it's not fair

that I'm in this situation. Why when I gotta go play the XFL, When I gotta keep going to these different counts, when I proved myself statistically to fit with the best of the best of the so called best of the best, and I'm still in this situation. So just not to attach myself in one thing, just just like what you're doing, like with your show, with your boxing and mm A stuff. Don't tie your stuff to

one thing. So so do you think it's because and I always had a theory with this too, especially when you got a personality you're playing in NFL, you stand out and you almost in a sent sometimes do become the black sheep right because you you're you, You don't fit the mold at that position, or you don't fit the mold of what the organization may be looking for.

So I'm not gonna call it being stereotypical, But do you think that because of your personality and like all the other stuff, that that has a role and you're not being on the team right now for sure? If for sure does man? And I don't gonna care with that, man, Uh, I mean it is what it is. I can only control what I can control, and all I can do is just keep busting my ass like every day like

I've been doing. And I don't know, maybe if maybe if a coach or GM with somebody's uh open minded enough to go and do resurgency, what's what's really going on or the type of person I really am, then I mean opportunity comes, you know, because I'll tell you this, man, like you know the I mean, I've always watched you and stuff like that, and so I wouldn't when you know, when you guys played the Broncoles, I saw you doing the you know, the donkey and know you know, like

I watched that. But I tell you that the first time I was like, I was in a hotel and I was traveling somewhere and I was taking a nap or doing something. I woke up to like six miss calls and I said, I said, you know, what's going on? Like you know, whenever you wake up the calls people hitting you up, so you're thinking of something like seriously happened. So they said, hey, man, you know the put it from the from the Raiders just did your dads and

said what you're talking about? So I woke up and I looked right and I saw on Twitter that it was trending. It was trending, and I said, man, this is crazy. So and it's you know, I think that people people made it a big deal for one because you played the Raider. We you know, but charges the Raiders always gonna have that. Like now, I still talk so many ship to the Raiders fans even online, because for me it's fun. I just love messing with the fans.

I got you know, I got boys on the team to play, and you know I got boys to play the team now, but me mess with the fans. So what what happened going into that game? Man? Because I woke up to like text messages trending like like did you tell somebody you just like, yeah, I'm about I'm about to I'm about to do something. No, so like before the games, I just trying to find out like

and so. But a lot of people don't realize that is when we played for the When I played for the Raiders, um uh, the team was kind of like started Mountain. It wasn't a lot of energy on the shot line. Sometimes the people from upstairs are come to me and they be like, man, just do something. Get everybody a little lit man, like everybody it's too quiet over here. And I'm like, all right, that so go out on the fit. Well before the game, I'm like, man,

who could I like do impression up? Just be funny as well? And then uh, one of my best friends when he was like, uh, well they had this guy named Sean Merriman used to played for him. He didn't like something. So that's what that's what I thought about it that I was like, all right, well, and I actually looking up and stuff, and I was like, damn, this is cool, Like I don't like what you was doing.

You did some big time stuff, so like, but at the same time, I wanted to be funny, like it's just fun to have fun because we playing a kids game. So after the plant that worked out, um, and I was like, oh yeah, I forgot I just dud. I mean, look, you know, at some point in time, you're like, all right, cool. So it wasn't like really, I don't look at that

as as shade, right. I mean, when people know who you are, they do something into anything you do, it's like you flatter, like, oh man, that's that's that's dope. That's super cool to me, Like, yeah, I watched college games, and I watched some of the bowl games and some of the you know, some of the guys they were

doing lights out that. So to me, it's it's cool because then you realize your old and ship right, I'm like, yo, I'm retired, done, but somebody's doing what you did and I'm sitting around looking like because it's social media, like your your kicks and some of the stuff you've been doing going viral, Like who who started that? The well you were you just like yeah, I'm about to start kicking the light poles and about to start doing all this stuff. But who who? Who really had the mindset

to go out and do that? I just I just felt like doing it. Man. It's like, man, I'm not getting a bunch of traction, uh, showing that I can normally put on a regular football field. So maybe I gotta get a little more creative and show like, hey, I'm not tired. I'm still trying to play in the NFL, Like look I hit this light pole on the first trial, or look I just put this ball through the basketball hoop. Look I can hate this ball up so high, hit the uh the crossbar at any time on any command.

And I know a lot of punis can't do that. And uh, it's it's almost like me challenging now the league, like, well, this is a performance based business, so like, um, what's up? Like I got the stats and it's almost it's also entertainment as well, and uh that's what I'm trying to promote man, like I want my fair shot because I know I've known punished. It's been out the game for three years, two seasons, three seasons, and they still get put back and so like, I don't know, just a

question of why. I mean, like, you know, have your agent, have you got a chance to talk to anybody over there? Like what what's he? What's he saying? He talking to teams and they're saying, hold on and we'll give him a shot in training camp, But like, what's or somebody get hurt we're bringing in? What what if? The Asian is saying it's it's At one point it was the Cowboys and uh they shaip that went down even though I had a really good workout there. Um hit the

selling a couple of times. What else? Um it was a couple of other teams. But like, I don't know, I can't get no straight answered. I don't I don't know why. I mean, I don't know. I'm gonna keep it clean, yeah, I mean, look, you don't. You you can because you know you. I get where you're coming from. But for me, it's just like um, and I always say this with a lot of guys, especially when you

got a personality, you stand out. Um, and I do know that the NFL and and I had it to expect when I got injured and I wasn't playing well. Like when I was balling, everything was fine and I was doing a light South dance and I was talking ship and everybody loved it, you know, because I was balling out. But you know, when I got injured, it

was that became a problem. And I never forget that, even for me, that the general manager at the time for the charge, they came out with a big article about how I wasn't focused on football right and this and this is because you know I did TV and stuff like that. So I took offense to that because I was always I never missed a meeting, never was late, last one in the gym, last one in the field.

And so when that article came out, like I took that ship personally for me, and so I can I feel you don't understand like when you when somebody put that out there about you and you are doing what you need to do, Yeah, it sucks, man. And you also got to realize too, man, Like, yeah, I don't understand how people actually sitting listen to people that just because it's like some people that talk so much trash about players, they've never been in that player situation before.

They've never played sports. And even even with I don't know, similar to like some coaches maybe in college, maybe from or whatever that's never played the sport, but they tell you to do certain things that they've never done before. They've never even played a position, like you know what

I'm saying. So like its it comes to a point where you just gotta you just gotta know exactly who you are because people gonna make up body stories about you and stuff, and and same manage trying to do with me two years ago, I was struggling, like all these random stories that people believe, and I'm like, man, I ain't even say none of these stories. But it's like they're trying to make a story so bad to

what's the what's the craziest one? What's the crazy the one that was just so of like so off the charge wasn't even close completely made up, getting wasn't even like close to being I mean, I all love them a bullshit, of course, but what's which one like really got to you? Um man? What was it? I think? Uh? I don't even know how to pinpoint one story. It's just a bunch of different stories, like personality issues or u or um running my own fake playing where he

played the Broncos a couple of years ago. I'm like, bro, why would I call my own faith play? And then I even saw the dude, Paul it was a play, But you have to stick with it. You can change them back to the pump play. But even with the personality issues, just like man, how they're saying that, uh, I'm an issue in the locker room when Kickers punted a long snippers and not with the team. Ninety five percent of the time, y'all are meetings, defense meetings, offensive meetings.

The whole time, I'm hanging out with Jenna Kowski and Condo and Jenna Kelsey is looking at Zello trying to find some other properties and houses by I'm over there working on my computer making beats and come those and they're just stretching, lifting weights and doing all this what do you kind of stuff in the weight room and stuff like like, bro, so how do they come up

with these stories? And then it's like, man, it makes you feel a little angry because it's like man, they're trying to tear up the person I am, like, they're trying to tear up like my while I'm representing stuff. And it's like, you just gotta come to the realization where fucking like you are who you are and as long as your authentic to who you are, and that's what really matters. In the people that you're meant to attract, you're gonnattract them. It's so funny story. John Condo played

behind me in college at the University of Maryland. He played linebacker. He played behind me. So I used to get so piste off because you know, Condo is super intelligent, super smart, and he would always leave. He would only come to practice like one or two days a week, but he always had like he would take his business classes. And these business classes would allow him either to come late or miss practice sometimes and so I would have to take his reps. So I was piste off, right,

And so Condo fast forward, he go up. He could make it to go to the league, and so he ended up playing how many years with fourteen? I mean he played up, He played for a minute, He played for a minute. But Condo, John T. Con was he was playing behind me. At the University of Maryland, and I was pissed when I had to go take his rep. So what I did was I went over and start grabbing my hamstring A couple of days when John was when Condo was gone, I said, a man, coach, my,

you know, my hand strings a little tight. I can't go today because I knew I was gonna have to take all the John Condo's reps. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. So that was my guy, man, That was That was my dude. No, he's a solid dude, man. And that's how you know, like you know, you met a solid person when they stay in contact with you

outside of football. You know what I'm saying. You just you just moved out here in a z and uh. Shoot, I've been over there a couple of times to hang out with him and his family and his kids. We just hung out a couple of times. So he just slid, dude, So you know what's so one thing and I saw you a boxing and stuff too, and I this is my thing and I always try to Yeah, I know I saw it. I saw it over there. You won't post a video, but I saw the hand wrap, so

I knew you just finished doing something. And look, I tell I tell that I see this all guys, right, especially when you just either retire or you got some space and your guy before you go and do something else. I always tell people, just pick up some kind of combat sport, whether it's boxing or whatever it is, because we're so used to peating at something and then like all of a sudden that something like gets taken away.

And when that something gets taken away, now you're sitting around like man, like you know, it got to a point a couple of times to me where I was feeling depressed or I was like I just wasn't feeling myself because I couldn't compete in anything. So what what what got you to you know, doing more boxing stuff for like how long you've been doing it? You know what got it? Got you into it? Man? I've I've

been hanging out with Mikaela Mary. She's uh one of the best women boxers out there in the country, and uh, man, I just just like I was in Michigan with it for the whole week and I was training with coach Al Mitchell. He's one of the most legendary boxer coaches in the country as far as training. Um, so I was just there. I've been doing it for a couple of months. She sent me gloves on Christmas, got the

gloves and I started working. I started some YEO videos and like, man, okay, and I just started like getting into it more and it's fun. It makes you thinking you gotta work at the same time, so you get tired as hill of ships. Wow. But man, I've been sticking to it a pretty pretty hard and uh the m m A. That's a lot to think about because you gotta worry about a kick coming to the head, you gotta worry about punches and bows like boxing just you just it's everything from the waste up so you

just it's fun. But I tell you, man, because you already can kick. You know what's sound like a lot of but believe it or not, Man, a lot of dudes, especially football players, just tighten the hips, so kicking is their last part. But you know, as you know, you're working on your hips and exploding stuff like that all the time. So if you learn how to turn on the kick or what I'm telling you. Man, you you can go in and do some damage. I mean, see if we get man, put some of these people from

the league in the ring, I'll do a show. Look. But see that's what I'm working on. You know, I got so right now, I got um. You know, I told you about the show the we're shooting up on May sixteen. But you know, I got like six former athletes, uh just coming over. And some of them just only boxed, right, so some of them just learning to kick, or they're

just learning to grapple and stuff like that. Man, But you're gonna start seeing especially you know, guys who like you, don't have the opportunity right now, should have an opportunity. Guys are looking to get that aggression out. Like you know, when I was piste off and I remember getting um, I remember getting let go by Buffalo with the Bills like two weeks before the first game. And so I went down Miami and I was training football stuff, but I was going to I was spawn. I was spawning

like twice a week. I was. I just wanted to hit somebody. Hey, It's just it's weird though, because it's like, man, like I don't know you. You you're motivated to work hard and just do something physically to get better, but it's like sometimes like you're spending wheels, like especially with the football things, Like it's I gonna spending wheels. I need to do something else, Like I want to work hard, but like it's like I'm working hard with this football thing,

but it's not working out. So like what if I start shipping something else like you just said? So yeah, so I know I knew you had that that quick stint with the with the XFL, and I think they're coming back in two I think they're coming back around. Uh would you if an opportunity to present itself, would you go back and do that again? Or that was

a one of done situation. The only reason I did it was because I was told by several different coaches around the league they didn't think I still had it, Like what, okay, So, I mean as hard as it was for me to go to the XFL, I told my agent at the time, I was like, all right, well I'll just do it, man, because I mean I ain't got no other choice. I mean, ain't got no recent film with what I could do or what I could show. So I go to XFL leading to XFL

and I'm still back at the situation. I maan now, So it's like I don't know what the fucking do? Like it all I do now? I was just making music, work on box and stuff and just a live party, have fun like I always do. But like it was fun. XFL is fun as hell. Like they embraced personality. Never been the stadium with the whole stadium like uh yo boom every time I hunt the ball. Never heard that before. They created a whole corner like a King's corner. That

was tight. Man. They showed a lot of love. Man, I'm as good people in that whole organization. So if it's if they come back up and that opportunity presented itself, would you would you think about doing it again? Because some some people that like once once they have don't have that that initial chance, like that another chance. They're like, okay, you know what I did it, It was cool. I don't see myself doing with It's something some guys. One

of my boys play running back. He said, if they when they come back and I got the opportunity, I'm going back the only way I'll do it is Uh. I talked to my homeboy. You know, I don't know if you know if destroying he's like a little YouTuber. Uh. I told him the only way I'll come back to the xfls and me and him both played on the same team. That's the only way I'll do it again. And uh, because I feel like, like I said, man,

you got you got plenties out here. This still getting picked up and still getting cycled around the league, like they gotta go through what I'm going through. But I understand everybody has their own journey in life. They gotta walk. So it is what it is, and it's gonna make me even a better person later on the life, you know what I'm saying, even the next couple of years. So I mean, it is what it is. That's the

only about plantings to fellows of these strong players. But but until then, you're just waiting on the right call, right call from the NFL. You know you you're ready to go. Body feel good. No no injury because I remember you got um you had an injury when you're playing for the Broncos, right something you had a special teams coach wanted me to change my whole kicking style. So if you do something that's foreign to what you normally do that you've been doing for years, then you're

gonna tell your lego. So I told my act ductor and uh, shoot, man, it's I don't know. That's that's how I ended up getting hurt. Man, I shouldn't have got hurt, because I mean, I was told when I first got there that we're gonna they wanted to do the same thing I did when I was in Oakland. And I feel like I had a manage when I was there because I had an altitude and I'm like, man, it's like eight yards every plan. Yeah, So it didn't

work out like that. Man, It's it's crazy. I talked to a lot of guys and sometime, and I was fortunate when I came in to leave because I got a chance play for way phillips Um. I had Marty Shottenheimer, I had uh Pagant job Pagano, I had Greg MANUSCA had great coaches. So I got spoiled, you know what I'm saying that, And I know so many guys to get into the league, and imagine if and I'm not trying to shoot nothing at the Broncos and the cult

or whatever happened there. But you get some coaches you come into the league and they forced you to do something that you're not that's not your thing. And I had that my first year out in Buffalo, where they put me at defensive end. I'm like, they put me in a four three D and I'm taking on double teams. I'm sitting there looking like y'all listen, listen here. I can't. I just came off three straight Pro Bowls and all pros.

Let me do when I when I do best. And then you guys formed this defense or formed this position so I can go out and make plays. And that happens all the time. Man. So I've been through it, so I get it. I understand. It's bro, it's so actively man. I remember when I was in dinner at one point, I started crying when I got home from practice, like I was just I was on the phone my cousin. I just started to crying. I was like, bro, like

why am I in this situation right now? Like I feel so very I was so barriers because I had teammates at the time, like, uh, but what the fund is you doing? What kind of kicking is that man blew the ball like you do. I'm like, I'm following directions, don't like I don't even know what I got let go from the Raiders, So I'm just now I'm just doing whatever I think I need to do to stay on the team or whatever, when that wasn't really the case. It's just some people like you, some people don't, and

you gotta do it works for you. And I mean I was just in a very vulnerable stage where I was just doing what I thought I had to do. So I was just follow everything I was told to do and it just affected my, uh my performance in a negative way and just from following directions. So because it is what it is, I mean, it's the situation sucks, but I don't regret nothing that happened, Like it is what it is. My music has gotten way better. I got half of me strings on one of my songs

is popping right now. Like I've been doing a little acting stuff, being trained with the box and stuff meant a bunch of cool people outside of football and ship getting a chance to do this an interview with you, Like, I mean, it's all working out the way we're supposed to. Good man. But I still hope that somebody smartened up and they get they get the act together over there, and you get another shot because you need it. Man. So hey, my dude, I appreciate you. Man. Um taking

a couple of minutes, and we're gonna wrap two. We'll talk about the May sixteenth, and you know what what you open to do that that should be fun. It's gonna be a big production. Thank Yeah, I appreciate you too. Man. All right, my dude, I talked to you a minute. All right, thanks guys for listening to another Lightstot podcast from me Seawan Merriman, and that was awesome. Man. You know, I'm always gonna give Raiders hell. I love giving Raiders fans hell. It's the thing that I love the most.

It's fun for me. You see me on social media poking that Raiders fans all the time. But uh, Marcatte King was a great player, and I really hope he gets another shot, another opportunity to go and uh play again in the NFL. You see his uh Instagram videos going viral of him kicking light poles from fifty yard our sixty yards away, dropping it on a dime on the Pylons. I mean, this guy's just and awesome and he has a great personality. He's good for the league,

hopefully gets another opportunity. So thanks guys listening in for another lights Out podcast with me Sean Marraman. Next week we're coming back again, and I want to say this. We're growing extremely fast over here and it's because of you, guys, so I want to say thank you again. I can't thank you guys enough for leaving, leaving those reviews. I wish I can respond to many of you guys, but um, anyway, keep subscribing, keep telling people about the lights of podcasts,

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