Delanie Walker on his journey to become a pro drag racer

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you can find us on the NFL Player's Second Acts Podcast. Peanut, let's dive in. Tell them who we got today. So we have a former NFL legend, mister Delaney Walker. Welcome, to the show box. Thanks for having y'all. The legends. I'm trying to get like y'all, so thanks for having you. Know, man, this is when you make it, When you make it to the league. You know, look, I got the legend.

You know what I'm saying, you got it. Uh, But the way it was explaining to me, you know, talking to shout out Tracy Perlman, anyone that made it to the league, you are a legend. You know, they got the legends limb. Whether you played one year, whether you played teen years, Hall of Fame, no Pro Bowls, all pro no like, it's we all legends in our in our in their eyes, and I legit trying to call

everybody a legend. So I'm you made it, brother, whether you thought you had a good career not not so well like you you made something what is the top point point zero one percent? I don't know what I made. I played strong, says you out of covers. Got a lot. So I know Delaney Walker really well because of how fast he was. This man's speed was in pec West for all tight ends. He's one of the fastest one

in the league for many many years. Yeah, probably still faster than eighty percent of them now, and so that was always the biggest threat with him. I would allow Delaney to catch the out route or anything all day long because you're the only thing you didn't want to do was be right beside good at yeah, because then he leaving you. So that was what you're always known for. Should be always four four four or four. So I read it was in high school. I don't know if

it was high school of college. You won one hundred meter right, yes? And what you didn't know that? What was that time? Ten? Two ten two? How heavy were you running a ten? Two? I was two ten. I was two hundred and ten pounds for like, it's my sophomore year. Al so I wasn't fair playing football, but two I was two hundred and ten. Everyone else was smaller than me, and I took it every time. So talk could we? I want you to give us a little bit of because I know you. I watched your

whole career. I watched you when San Francisco, when you start out your career your most special teams guy. Then you started getting some more catches and really standing out, but it was most of you had burning davids in front of you. So that's why you didn't get all the reps that you really were able to shine when you moved on to Tennessee. But I want to specifically talk about your time in San Francisco. You were at that game in two thousand and eleven in the playoffs

when the New Orleans States traveled to San Francisco. We lost a game. Let's just get it out of the way. But what I want to talk about they had a whole bunch of turnovers. It was bad they had it was great. Whatever y'all got scared. I want to talk about that environment. That was the best environment I'd ever been a part of. And they literally had what was his name, the future? Your future was playing Tony Montown every time they scored, and it was a lot of

touchdown that game. So please take me into that. Tell me so I didn't who set that up? Jim Harball. So like when Jim Harball came in, we will play music. I know every want to play music at practice, but he heard that Tony Montage. He was like, what song

is that? We like? That's Tony Montany Like I like that because when that came up all and then he came into the special team's room one day, it was like, you want to play that for kickoff and see how it goes with the crowd, And were like, let's do it. And then they start playing and we be dancing and then a kickoff dance, just going nuts, pointing at the other team like yeah, I'm getting oh, I would hit up. Crowd going nuts that kickoff go off, we gonna smack them.

They still playing Tony Moteen, everyone getting hyped on the sideline, and it was just the atmosphere that they brown the crowd brown the hyped us up because every time they heard that song, they would stand up start screaming. We all pointing at him. We all were not even in the right places. And because he's like, just just run everywhere, you know, we'll bix it up. So it was just it was in they just gave us so much freedom, and I think that's what the crowd felt, that energy

of that freedom. But it was Jim Warball. He brought that to the teams. So they didn't just play this older loudspeakers in this playoff can p Nut Future was on top of the San Francisco dug out because it was by the Cample Stick, so it was like he was on top of the dugout and like, I'm literally

like watching this day. They kicked the ball off, I'm like, hello, it's this future, like really there and they started playing it the crowd what was going but no, and then we almost go down there, We almost go down there and score. We get a fumble San Francisco and back down in scores. Next you know, it's right back again. And this Tony Montana, I mean, I was really low key jam in the whole. Yeah. It was that lit bro. It was. It was on fire. That was literally one

of the best experiences. What were y'all, don lost? What were yall doing? So, what were y'all doing? It was only on social teams, only on kily, only on y'all doing on the scene, y'all y'all intimidated? Was y'all scared? Well, no, now we weren't scared. It was definitely, but it was it was a different environment. So early on we were kind of taken back back. Yeah, but then once we started scoring a little bit too, and then start going

back and forth. At this point, everybody's like just yeah, like everybody watched the other team and you're like, oh yeah, they can't hike too, Let's go. That's the best part was the fullback of ditson back. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm like God, he was always run and he ran as my boy. Anybody, anybody, I'm like at one point in time, I was out there when I'm like, bro, you own your special teams, t me like this, but yeah, I get it. It was a great game. I just that

was one of the biggest moments. Uh. And I shared that with you, and I wanted to share that with everybody else because I was a great environment everybody. But you know, you're not the first person that told me. Everyone but like, yo, you thrown back when you first come out, and we always kick off first because we want to let you know what it is about to be, and we're about the dads and the whole crowd. Every

might be like yo, we wanted to do that. We used to get back home like no, that was amazing. They talked like they kickoff team was insane, just hearing the music telling my time. But when they broke him out for y'all, and then it was like we actually had don't even French future and then everybody was like what I was ya, We didn't know. It was shocked. No, we didn't even know, Like, no, they ain't future, that's there the boom. It was like, oh, we're about to

beat them. That's just no doubt now about I'm getting shill. I't know why we lost, the fact that it was a surprise for the guys that it was disappointing. It was the playoffs we lost. The only thing that was good that came out of that was my oldest daughter was born literally in the second quarter. I did not know that. So it was it was sadly, no, I mean it was it was when when we the last touchdown and Bernard Davis like, no time for the dog. I mean, talk good about talk good? You got you

got more? You got more? Couple of banxt question question, all right, so you really retired to two years ago? Three years three years ago, three years ago? Still lately you still look like you were in football shape. Uh. We got our second career. We are in our second half right now. It was rumored, you know, I can't confirm it, but you're in the driver right you You like the black uh fast cheers what's his name, Ben

ven Diesel. Yeah, you're like a black ven Diesel. So I tell me about the whole or you could be like Tyrese. His name is Roman. Actually black ven Diesel sound better. I agree with that. Actually accident swollen stupid, right, yeah, I agree with So what kind of driving are you doing right now? I drag race? You drag race? Now? Tell how did you even get into drag racing. Well,

like we said earlier, I grew up in Los Angeles, California. Uh, then I moved to Pomona, and Pomona has the Los Angeles County fairt one of the biggest fairs that's out there. But we also have the Pomona Speedway and that's one of the biggest drag tracks you can go to. So growing up in that area, we used to go down to the Ferret and I used to see these drag races, racing Carney right, Oh, I want to try. I want to see that. So I had a couple of friends and then who does it too? And we'll go to

these races and watch these guys race. But then in my neighborhood, cats had the five point z yeah man roles and stuff. So I grew up seeing fast cars. Um and I used to you know, debble and dabble growing up for the cars and stuff. Yeah, so yeah, I didn't. I used to do crazy stuff when I was kid, but you know, football was my passion, so I took that serious and obviously it got to me.

It got me where I'm at, and that's I'm able to buy these cars too, race because it costs a lot of money to drag race, and uh, I did just took over me once I retired. I'm like, I mean, so are you doing stock cars? Stock? Oh? Okay, okay, So what's been like one of them? Explain that explain the difference between stock and pro stock. So pro stock is more I use a stock engine pretty much, but it's got some pro mods on there. So I got a three forty one with a two hundred shot of NAS.

That's the engine, right, that's the engine. Three forty one is the engine, and then the NAZ of the button, you know what I mean. Yeah, so two shot and I can raise pretty much any kind of car that's like a normal car that got us racing set up. Yeah, so that's pretty much. One body is your card out of nineteen sixty nine Dodge Dark. Uh that's a great. Yeah, that's fully dragged out. But the one I race a lot is a track Hawk. It's a two thousand and

eighteen track Hawk. Yeah, Jeep track Hawk, yea thousand horse powers and a hundred but you yeah, I put a magnus in blower on their twenty five fifty. It's tune on e eighty five fuel jus Man headers two inch pipes. I mean when you you know, when I started, it's like drafts, like, yo, that's a Geep. I'm like, yeah, I know, but that it's all well dry. I love driving that, but the drag cards. But when I really get into bracket racing, so it's two types of racing.

With the Jeep, I can just race, you like, if you have the track, we can race for a thousand dollars. Yeah. So um, the nineteen sixty and sixty nine dart it's more of a bracket race. So I had to have the same time constantly to win black and it's consistent. And what's that time? My time is a five four So it's a five forty one, so high seconds instance, it's an eighth eighth of the month a mom All right. Yeah, So so what initially attracted you to the drag racing.

Is it the sound because if you've never been doing draft s like and that is, man, it is. It is a sexiness to it. It is. It's something that like get you because you don't get that feeling anywhere else. No, there's no other sound, like, there's no other feeling like And I've been in there down there and they're like, oh, you might want these air pills and I'm like, I don't know that. One time, I'm like I need those air plus. Yeah, blow your ear out because the pipes

is coming out the side. So all you getting is everything I know. I'm just sitting there like, there they go, because you gotta get your burnout. You do your burnout, yeah, slide out, and that's what we all want to see. I think it's just the feeling of, you know, competing. Man, I don't know. I like everything about like the smelling gas, like, yeah, if my garage smelled like a hunting because I got all racing feel when you're going there, it's like if

something happy. I'm blowing the whole the whole neighborhood because I got my name's had gas leading it. Yeah, I had engine feeling it. Yeah, so the whole house was old, and that's why I always tell people, Yeah, I gotta be careful in my gruge because I got tire stacked up to the ceiler. I got because I got changed tires all the time. Yeah, I got uh taints of gas.

I pumped my own gas so into my cars. Um. I think it's just the smell of the gas that atmosphere, and then the variety of people, you know what I mean. It's so many different kinds of people, and they don't carry it of your color and anything. They just care about this racing. And I think I just like that because it reminds me of football when I with all our brothers and I'm playing because we all different, we all come from different backgrounds, but we played this game

because we love it. And it's the same way when I drive race. So I think that's what that just drawn me in. Stay tuned in. We'll be right back after a quick break. So I know you're one of the first former players to ever drive. Tell me about like one of your worst crashes, because I assume you have crashed. It was just this just happened like three months ago, a crash. Yeah, Yeah, I saved it from hitting the other person and it looked it really bad,

but it ain't as bad as it was. But you know, I just crashed and like I said, but I got all the equipment off, so it didn't really it didn't affect me. The car was messed up. And that's kind of where it goes because I don't have a sponsor. So whenever I crashed, you something breath, I gotta fix it. Yeah, that's the only hard part with with crashing. But you don't want to crash. But I always tell people it's two types of drivers, ones that crash the ones that

are gonna crash. It's just that's just the first part. It's the same thing with rotting motors. Yeah, same when amos I'm pushing this car to the top of his level with that seconds, you know what I mean. So you don't always hook, and that's what we tell people. Don't always hook. And when I mean by hook, when the car just like drops down and takes off. Yeah, sometimes you get that. And then if you don't know how to corrected, that's when ship happy. So the last track,

I broke my axle right off the jump. I got it off on them. I can I always peek the sea where he as, yeah, yeah, just and when I got I'm like, oh, I'm ahead of them, and because I kind of ease on, then I get on it. So once I got on it, I felt the car jumped dirt back and then it turns towards the wall. So I hooked it. And when it was so I was so far in front of them, I'm like, damn, I'm about to hit them. And then that's you can

see me stump in the brakes. It's a video out of and like, I stumped the brakes because you never step on the brake till if you step on the brakes, it's like driving into snow, you're gonna just shot. Here. I sky it out, so I stumped them just enough I miss him. Then I come back this way because

I was about to crash into the wall. So I get off falling the wall and I start coming back towards my lane and I turned back and I smacked my back end and the whole car shut off and all you see is the car rolling down the track. But because I was trying to start it, but they went into Lepmo for some reason, I'm like, damn, this shit. It marits now people out here and I just crashed. And then you see all the people on the fire, people on the truck coming down like trying to make

sure I'm good. I get out like I'm great. They're like you sure. I'm like I'm good. They're like, we gotta get the car off the off the track. Cann't drive. I'm like, look at the wheel of wheels being out like all the way out. I'm like, yeah, we can drive it. So I drive it. Don't know, we drive it out, put it to the side. Everyone coming because they know who I am. Like, that's the way one. Everybody like, man, we got it. Don't feel we got it. Don't feel that was the craziest thing we ever saw.

You saved it. You don't was hit old buddy. I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm not like I'm calm. They like, why are you so calm? Like you just I'm like, man, I don't know. It was like it's normal for me, Like playing in the NFL sometimes it helps when we do things like that because we calm in certain situations, you know what I mean. So that's all it was. I was just being calming, got it. Told people like you're

gonna follow on your insurance. I'm like, man, I can't follow it so much, like they're gonna see that I crashed at the drag track and try to sue me for fraud, like like so that had happened, but that yeah, I am the one of the only dudes that race that's at that a football or athlete. So and now that you're there, do you do you still get the same respect or at you got a place? Where where are you trying to get to? What is your goal?

I want to hopefully I can't try to go prone get some sponsors, and so you want the stickers on the I want all that I want. That's a big deal. It's like it's a big deal. You know what I'm being I'm being paid to do it instead of paying out of my pocket. Yeah. Right, So how many how many I guess how many wins do you have to get to actually try to get sponsor? You got to get points. So you got to build up points and

explain the point and explain the points system. It's just like so every bracket race you win, they give you a certain point system. It depends on what what circuit you in, and then they build up them points through the year. And then at that end of the year, that championship happens and then you race. But all these guys that stare they seeing you race, they seeing your team,

they're gonna buy into it. But it's like a point system where you have they I can't explain how to get that point system up there because I'm barely getting into it. I'm like rookie to these guys like, yeah, I'm I'm following with these other man and Sponge like show me how to do it. Show me, like, you

need to bracket, bracket race more, bracket race more. Because at first I didn't like bracket racing because you have to be so consistent, and at that time, I didn't have the right kind of car, so I'm like, dude, this is this ain't for me, so I just rather race cats. But then it like, if you really wanted to go pro, you need to get your bracket racing on. So then that's when I win, got the nineteen sixty nine dollars dark and start building it because everything is consistent.

I know I'm running the eighth is built to run an eighth. Nothing else. I won't be able to go pass that eight. It's gonna shut down so and you got a baby alternator. So every time I pull my car out, I gotta charge it because it won't start if you don't. So we got to charge a car every time we get done racing. And I got a few bracket race wins, but at the most of the time I raised people just for hard cash. You talked about your team. Who's all, isn't it because you gotta

have a crew. You can't. I don't think you're under the hood, no like that. I would love to know. All right, you have a team, and how did you find this team? And I mean, are these are guys like mechanic friends, you know what I'm saying, Just then working on my other cars and just building close relationships with them. And they always like, man, you should you know you got all these fast cars. Why are you

know what you're doing. I'm like, when I'm there playing football, trust me, it's going down so karma in Nashville, they work on all our cards. They have my mechanics. And then most of my boys are just my my tire guys, like they wipe my tires. They get me set up, you know, they give me my helmet because the car is hot. In the car. It's all men on no air condition, it's just all engine. So they really much do everything for me until I lead up to the race,

like pulled me in. So how long have you been collecting cars? You said? All my cars? Like, are these like street legal cars or street legal? Most of them street legal? All of them. Couple them with old school So I got seven old schools and then the rest of trucks and in Neword cards. What's your favorite car? My favorite car? Right, my favorite favorite, favorite old School because I'm my favorite old school that I don't own is Lincoln Continell. Okay you shut your side. Yes, I

got a nineteen sixty six black old Black. I just wrote it, just wrote it, the plea favorite card. But they want so much because most of the time they already done up. Every time I come across them, they be like, man, I'm like, I know the history, but why don't you trying to see the phone? Yeah, we'll talk offline. There's a there's a guy that I followed on Instagram and they got some They got some pretty good I can I can vouch for him. They were

good people. All he does is Lincoln Coninals. That's the only he goes from like sixty one to sixty nine. That's all he has the best though. The sixties is the best ships. That's all he does. Doors literally, you know, it's everyone in here game. I can't when we get off the pot, I'll I'll get you as page. You can hit them up. Yeah, and see my favorite card is a muscle card. Okay, So I'm a muscle car guy, and I like my favorite ones is like a seventy Camaro.

I like the sixty eight fast shock. I mean, like a fast back, you gotta get fat if you don't. If you didn't get the fast back, you just played yourself. You don't have a fast back, then what are you really doing? What are you doing? Yea? So those are my two favorites. So I'm not a big Corvette guy. Um, but I do love the seventy Camaro. Yeah, and I love the sixty eight fast back. Those are like I mean, if you go eleanor so, I mean you can't even

get though. Bro know, everyone doing replicas now, everyone's doing a replica telling the wine actually have a replica of that card? Oh nice? Yeah, the Eleanori. So we're doing a like a transition to a star we're trying to do a new segment right now. Did you know Rome before today, I'm just playing against just playing against some perfect When you saw this beautiful young man right here, how old did you think he was? Yeah? That great hair. For a very very long time, I just watched it.

I used to look at him on the scholar report and I'm like, dude, how old is this? I know he played for whatever, he didn't have great here. Yes, every y I've seen him playing and watching him and and just I always had to be Okay, he's probably gonna be guarding me. Let me see. I'm like, yeah, I kis you beat this dude? This is this is exactly why they're gonna do this secent because they literally like I have had great here with my whole life. Yeah, I had my whole life. So it's not shocking, but

it is funny though. It's like, man, he got to be every thirty five, damn that everybody talk to you look at wrong. He was like damn, I thought he was like an old school vet. Yeah. I thought he hadn't been in the game for like ten twelve years like that. It's just your two brother. Yeah. I was just like dude. I mean, they go, how old is he? But then I'm like every time, every time I saying, I'm like, he always had gray hair. I wonder if

that's just a genetics, like genetically genetically just gray. One day we charity, your charity. We're gonna raise a whole lot of money. I've been trying to get him the dice hair black. We got to pop up to like five geeps. He never you never died your hair? No, I never. I'm driving too, Halloween Halloween dealing. He looks so big, never because I've only seen you like this, So it's like, wouldn't even recognize, like, oh my god, yeah, Halloween,

we're gonna do it. I'm not I'm not guaranteed. Yeah, I appreciate it. It is a hymen who organ Halloween that good man. Thanks for the story. It is. It is cool to see so outside of racing, what consumes your day and where's your passion outside of racing? Right now, I've worked for the legend community and so like he everything he was saying, it is true. We tell everyone who played in the NFL, if you made it, you are a legend. Because it's not easy to get to

this level. But my passion right now is just my kids, my family. You know, I played football for fifteen years and I missed a lot of birthdays. I missed a lot of parties, I missed a lot of family growing up. So I spent a lot of time with the family and just trying to, you know, do things that I didn't get to do. My birthday was always is in August, so I never celebrated my birthday. So I take trips every year on my birthday, I try to wake up in a different place. So yeah, this stuff like that,

just trying to clear my mind. I know, only been out three years, but I know I'm gonna get back into football, so I'm trying to do things that I can be free because once if I get back into coaching and I know, you know, it's gone, it's gone. It's gone. So it's funny how everybody they they're so used to that schedule, right and it's not even like just a day to day schedule. But we know since like for me, it was from fourth grade till I

was thirty four, almost thirty five years old. When that calendar gets close to you know, when I get to Martable May January like all of a sudden, you start getting back around the coach, you get doctor August. You gotta be ready to play ball, like this is like what I've done for all these years, and now for the first time, you're like, I don't have that yes, and it's probably a little shocking at first. How's that transition? Dealing with that? Maybe that first year, that second year

out now you're saying about your third year. My goal is to wake up in a different place every year my birthday. I'm not gonna lie it was. It was tough the first year, and you know, people bring up articles and me talking about I'm coming back. I'll be back next year. It gonna be stronger and better. And second year, I'm like, daang wanted me. So did you

go out? So you were, as Mike Boyd like to say, I was retired by yeah, I was re talking about in the the NFL, and I actually said that an interview. Somebody brought that up, like you said that, you said, you not trying to retire, but the NFL may retire me.

And that's what kind of happened. You know. I fell into that box where I worked out with the with the forty nine ers, and it's like you just don't look like you healthy, like your ankles still look like hurts you limping, And I'm like it's okay, yeah, you know, but for all of that, don't know it's never got

that conversation from a doctor about that hurts what everything? Like, you know, like man, I was kind of like moving right there and then like it looked like you limping, Like yeah, I finished the workout, was like okay, And they said you may want to think because I also I race boats, but don't raise boats. Like I don't race like like to beat people. We do pokem runs.

So John literally was like, oh yeah, I see you on them vote on Instagram like the Poper Run and Poper Run is like so it's like a gang of guys that have these um you know, like the cocaine boats that yeah, yeah, a fifty foot out of the the limits with the twenty thirteen hundred, so the boat thirteen fifties to boat do one hundred and sixty miles per hour on the ball need for speed? Yeah oh yeah. I tell Cays, I said, I played with a dangerous sport and I'm now I'm doing all this dangerous other

dangerous stuff. But I was doing that. He literally was like, oh yeah, we saw your Instagram and just looked like you really not focused on football. And I'm like driving the boat late, I can't. I was like, yeah, He's like, it's just something you may want to think that this is what you want to do because we think you're a great player, but you really got to be all in. And I went home and I thought about that, and I'm like, damn, that's true, you know what I mean,

because I found other hobbies. Yeah, and it's not football the first thing anymore. Soon start sitting down and I was like, that's probably it, this is this is probably not gonna happen. And then for the third year, I was just like, this is it. I'm not going back. I'm not talking football. This ain't gonna happen. Let's start taking trips. And that's what happened. So it's cool when you can kind of, you know, make that transition and kind of get that release and you find a love

for other things. Um. One of the things we'd like to ask a lot of the guests on the show is Mount Rushmore. If you have four people to pick from on your Mount Rushmore, who those people be influence, influence you some somewhere, don't have to be sports. I have to say the most definitely my mother. I grew up in a single household and she she worked two jobs to make sure we had the Nikes, the Jordan's, the close so we didn't, you know, have to fight at school people bagging on us. And she did it

all by herself. And I always just tell people my mom still works to this day and she she always been a fighter, and I think that's what I got from her. The second person, it's probably gonna be my uncle Big as well Anthony, but we call him Big as I only played football because of him. He was He was outstanding. Coaches wanted them all. They used to come to the house and talk to him. Show it's highlighting. I just give me sitting there like I don't be better than my uncle man. He used to be, but

he didn't. He failed, you know, he didn't do what he was supposed to do. When he end up going to prison. And I remember when he got out and I was playing very well, he was like, don't ever do what I did because you got it. Heal it is in you, he said, but don't follow him. My footsteps. I want to see he'd be great and he still tell people that today and he's like, when I told you,

I've seen the sparkle in you. Yeah, And I was like, no, I felt every bit of that because I wanted to be in his footsteps, but I didn't want to go that route. Yeah, I wanted to go to the other route. And yeah, I chose that and told my uncle And then I'm gonna have to say one of my coach there in age. He was my receiver coach in college and at that point where at Central Missouri State and I went to a small school. I you know, I got into a few trouble was why I didn't recognize

the coaches. So yeah, he was a small time coach for d D two football and I remember going there and I just didn't like the other coaches, so I wouldn't go to nothing that workouts. Now. I just was like, and al, I'm better than everybody. Yeah, I shouldn't be a D two football Like you know what I'm saying that that's that mentality that I kind of had coming from California going to Missouri and I just remember he come knock on the door and I didn't know who

he was because they just hired him. And I'm like, man, this dude knocking on the door, like what you're doing. He like, hey, I'm your new coach. I'm like, no, you know, I'm my coach White. You know what I'm saying. Gardner was my receiver coach. You know, they fired him and hired me. I said, okay. He said, why are you now that workout? No one told me we had workout. He was like, the one told you we had workout? Said no, sir. He said, well let's go. I said

right now. He said yeah, let's go. So he took me up to the facility start working out. He was He talked to me like a real dude. Yeah yeah, behind closed door, like yeah, And I felt that, like put your own games. But he's like, you can go to the NFL. You don't let the yeah tell you you can't make it. Don't let nobody ever stop you from being who you can be. And he's like, just talk to me. If you can't talk to him, you

talk to me. It's amazing how the hardest coaches are sometimes the most disciplined coaches of people in your life are the ones that you love the most. Yeah, it's not the ones that give you stuff. It's the ones that like are like hard on you and like really like they hold your account. Yeah. Those aunts that like man, you look big man really affected me and changed my life. Yeah. Sorry,

you don't know. And it's funny because now he works at test Shoe and I'm now I'm about to be going up to test Shoe just sitting up there chilling with him because he did a lot. He even helped me pick my agent, just all type of stuff. And I always thank this man for that because I picked the great agent with his help, and he moved me.

He made me become a better player because I was a selfish player at one point, and he was like, you can't do this all by yourself, neither, So you gotta be friends with these cats on the team because they don't like you because they think you you think you better than him. I'm like, well i am, but he like, yeah, don't tell him that, you know, you dude to go out there and ball out and left them up. So I did that. And then my last the last guy will be Jim Harball. And I say

Jim Harball because when I was in San Francisco. I only played special teams right until Jim Harball got there. When Jim Harball got there, he said, I don't know why you're not on this offense. I said, I don't know that. They just want they don't put me on the offense. He said, that's gonna change that man. I played. I came out at the Forge magazine and they said I played seventeen different positions that year Jim Harball came

and that's what got me that contract in Tennessee. So and I still talk to Jim Browball today and all of that because I tell them, if it wasn't for you, I probably wouldn't be in a situation right today because you need that coach. Every coach don't like you, and then when you do get a coach they like, you can get an opportunity because I feel like sometimes you have great players on the team, but they never get that opportunity right until they go to that team with

that coach. Season Jim Harball scene it in me. Gave me an opportunity, and I took advantage of it. Everything. Every time I had an opportunity, I took advantage of it. And that goes back to my mom because every opportunity she had, she took advantage of it. She worked it butt off and and you know she did it all by herself. So thank you so much. I know that was great, man. I mean it's it's really here. It's really good when you hear great stories about the people

that poured it to you. Yeah. And now that you continue to put it, you know, push it forward and pouring into other Yeah. Man, I mean you just poured out some really good stuff for our fans. And I listened up there too. And so my last question for you is my name is Delaney Walker, and my life right now is my life is great right now, be honest with you. I get to work with guys like y'all and the Legends community. I get to drive cars,

I get through rached boats. I saved a lot of money so I live comfortably take care of my family. I really can't complain, you know. I wake up every day. I tell people. The best thing is I wake up every day and I'm blasted because some people don't. I get up and I get to tell my mom my lover. I get to kiss my kids, I get to see the world. I breathe, so I would say, yeah, I'm blast and I'm great. You know what I'm saying. That's good. I appreciate you. So that's what's up. Thank y'all for

tuning in the episode NFL Player Second Next Podcasts. I'm Peanut Roman, our guy Dejelaney. Appreciate y'all and ed it. Like I always say, Man, remember to tune in. Give us always a rating of review. I always hit that follow button on iHeart or Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts at Man, we out of here. Man, I appreciate it. Man, it's been a great one Radio row piece super Bow thirty seven. We out