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with the code Shannon. The Crown is yours. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Nightcap.
I'm your favorite UNC, Shannon Sharp.
He's your favorite number eighty five route Runner, Extraordinary Bengals legend, ring or Famer, three time three time All Pro, six time Pro bowler, Chad O Chosenko Johnson, mister Liberty City himself. Y'all know what it is. Please please make sure y'all like, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Oh Jo, we're a nine hundred and sixty five thousand subs. We're thirty five thousand away from that magic number. We gotta get
on the ball, oyo, oh Joe. We got to get on the ball because the goal is to have it by Thursday before we go line right.
So I've been thinking to myself, I said, I tweeted earlier today or might it might have been yesterday? Who can I hit or who can I call? I had people in mind to give us a serge, to give us a push, the push we need to be at one meeting before the live show. Everybody told me, listen at the rate, y'all going. You don't need to call nobody. You will get there by Thursday's live show. So I kind of held off on it. At where were at
nine nine sixty five? If we at nine sixty five right now with the where we're going, I'm not gonna make a call. I'm gonna wait and see what happened to see if we get there at some point. But we hit Wednesday, we hit Wednesday, I'm gonna make that call. Make that call.
Man.
Listen, bro, I need you to do me a solid.
I never ask you for nothing, but just get us to a me and suck because I need to understand what the fuss is about about Kanyac. So I want to be able to taste alcohol for the first time.
Ever in my life.
Yes, people in the chat, I don't I've never had alcohol before, so that will be my first time. So I'm hoping we hit a million so I can give my own honest take and.
Keith Lee Fashion.
Keith Lee Fashion on what that cognac tastes like by alcohol in general.
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you what georgrab you to do. Oh yo, the Chiefs are the underdog for the third straight game. There are now a two point underdogs according to Draft Kings sportsbook. Oh chore Mahomes and Andy Reid being disrespected. Why do they continue to do this? Why do they continuously poke the bear? Why do they continuously poke the bear.
I'm I'm not really sure how they come up with the scenarios on why there the underdogs. Is the fact that there are so many Pro Bowlers, so many great players offensively, I mean and defensively for the forty nine ers, based on what the Chiefs have been able to do.
In the postseason.
Why I think this is what maybe the second or third game they've been underdogs, underdog.
Being tied player with the exception of the first game. They weren't underdogs against Miami, but they were underdogs against Buffalo, uh Buffalo, Buffalo, and Baltimore in Baltimore and now the forty nine ers.
I'm not sure if someone has something against Andy Reid. I'm not sure if somebody has something against Patrick Mahomes and just the Chiefs in general. I understand they played bad during in the middle of the season, you know, from an officers standpoint, as a statistical standpoint, as far as the receiver goal they led the NFL in drops. As a corps themselves, yeah that as well. But to say that they are underdogs and betting against Patrick Mahomes is asinine and I think it's an angle that might
¶ Are the Chief being disrespected?
have something to do with gambling and having people put more money on the forty nine ers to.
Win, as opposed that people really believe in.
Whoever came with this scenario that they're the underdogs, I think it had that might be the angle they're going to get people to lose money on betting with the forty nine ers.
Well, what happens is, though, Joe, you notice is that they said the line.
If I'm not mistaken, the original line was minus one, right, and so in order for it to move the minus two, that means a lot of bad came in on the Chiefs because we got to open the line up and we want people to bet on the forty nine ers also, so that's seemingly why they opened the line up.
Okay, all right?
That that gives me a better better understanding because logically, a two time Super Bowl champ, there's no way I'm being against that. As good as Rock Purty played last week, as good as that offense looked, you know, coming back from the deferences they were able to do come back from.
But I still just so with you explaining to me like that. I knew it had to do.
Someone numbers and money, you know, because I I don't understand that. I don't understand that part.
Well, go back, what was the original line? Because I see someone say one and a half two and a half. It's one and a half. The original line was one and a half, right, So it moved a half a point. So that means a lot of people been laying money on the on the on the chiefs.
Okay, okay, okay, that that that makes sense, And that's one thing.
A lot of people betting money, a lot of people betting money on the forty nine ers. They just dropped it, right because they don't want to. They don't they don't really want to get one side too heavy, one sided either way.
Right, But uh so they so basically what they're doing is they line to the people like some damn politicians.
Well what happened they started just just just to sway where the money need to go. Yeah, because what happened is started at one and a half now said two. That means a lot of money for it to move. A lot of money has having him been coming in on Kansas City. So we'll see, we'll see how it plays. Because at the end of the day, oh Joe, this is a neutral site game. It's not like they're playing in the forty nine ers building. It's not like they're
playing in Arrowhead. Obviously, this is as legit a neutral site game as you're gonna get. I think both fan bases will be in full effect. It's gonna be part to tell who's who comes. Both teams were read.
I have a problem. I got a question now.
I got to stop you right there when you say both teams fans will be in full effect. Have you seen the ticket prices for the Super Bowl? And when I think about it, I think the hard earned, blue collar fans of these teams, the people that show up to every home game, the eight game that they do have throughout this not for them.
It's not for them.
They are priced out. They're priced out. I think it's unfair. Obviously, we understand what the end goal is, and the bottom line goal is for the NFL, especially an event of this magnitude, it's about money.
That's always been the end goal. This is for the wealthy.
This is for the rich to come together and have some fun and enjoy the last game of the season. It's not for the true, authentic fans that work hard in this goddamn economy to support their team eight weeks out the season at home.
They're priced out. They are priced out based on the prices.
I saw, I got it and ain't no damn wigh in hell, I'm paying sep eight thousand.
Dollars for a goddamn ticket.
What average ticket price now is twelve thousand dollars. Because here's the thing the NFL. I remember when we went to the Pro Bowl, if I'm not the Pro Bow, the Super Bowl, I think the highest ticket was one thousand dollars. But if you turn around, yes, one thousand dollars. But if you scalt the tickets, people was willing to
pay you seven or eight thousand. So the NFL said, hold on, y'all willing to pay seven eight thousand dollars, We'll just go ahead and put the ticket at seven to eight thousand dollars since you want to pay that. But what has happened is that you take all the all the advertising and sponsors. That's where the tickets go. Oh chill, you need to tell me for a billion dollars, For two billion dollars, I can't get.
No tickets right right, right, right? Come on, It's crazy. Listen. This is Super Bowl is a corporate event.
Yes, Super Bowl is a corporate event, and there needs to be some type of structure or something done for the hardcore fans, the fans that put on the costumes, the fans that paint their faces, the fans that been at Arrowhead Weeke in and week out when they played home, and the fans that better goddamn Levi Stadium week in and week out. They are priced out because in this is a goddamn economy, nobody can afford a goddamn ticket for twelve thousand, damn dollars.
And then you got some people. You got some people that are gonna get scammed. They're gonna be sold fake tickets.
You know.
They have they have to find some happy medium for the people that are part of the median households that have been going to games year in and year out, and all of a sudden they make it, their team makes it to the biggest game of them all.
Now you're gonna have people digging in.
Their life savings, watch watching digging and they goddamn life savings.
Watch it on TV. I mean, come on, we.
Got the one thing that we're gonna be on this on this podcast is honest and they probably when the tickets started. When you got tickets starting out in six thousand, what average fan is going to be able to pay six thousand dollars?
Okay, that's for the ticket. Well, the hotels you got a three night minimum.
Three nights right, So that so even if you come in and say, oh, well I just want I'm just gonna come in for the game.
What you're gonna sleep in your car? That's that's that's something that's something that that that would be a choice of mind without Are you going to eat? Are you gonna eat? They have fast food? They have fast food and uh in in Vegas, you.
Think you will get a normal price as a normal price that you would normally be if you was in Vegas.
Listen, Vegas got Bahama Breeze. If you want to go fancy, now that's dinner? Are you going to bring it down a notch? Vegas has in and Out, Vegas has Burger King, Vegas has McDonald's. They have a Poyo Loco. You don't have to go fancy. We talk about based on if you're on a structured income budget because you paid ya on a budget and you paid a lot the Let's say you took some of your life savings. You want to go to Super Bowl, sleep in your car heat.
That what I consider some of the lower tier restaurants. I consider them high tier. Other people consider them low tier. I mean that's what I would do. I would see, I don't have no problem set with my car, and I got to use the bathroom. I go to a twenty four hour seventy eleven twenty four our eye hop.
You know that my bathroom. And you ain't buying no potator to gyms with no gas or no soda, no, or they don't have a choice. They they do have a choice.
That's a that's a private entity. You just can't go use the bathroom where you ad you think you have a recreation.
Center by a stake of gum, buy a stake of gun. You got to buy something. What have you ever know?
People at home win an event, Grammy's, Emmy's obster, some type of event that's coming over.
You see what happened when the gas price is what they do with the gas prices? They jack?
Okay, then so they got they got in a bit coming to Vegas. Tell me what you think they're gonna do with food prices?
But they gonna hang it up a little bit, a little bit. They can only do it so much, so much.
You still listen, You still want to you still want to attract not only business, but you still want to be able to make money if you price yourself out. Listen, nobody go to establishment. They already go to the establishment. They are already coming. They are already coming. We already know we're gonna get an influx a million, two million people, right, so listen, there's an influx of a one million, two million people. You think those people wanna find somewhere else
to eat? If your prices are outrageous from ridiculous, what's the likelihood of the people that's that's coming. And they got hotel rooms for a three night minimum? What you say, That's the part of the thing is they're gonna stop by your establishment anyway.
That's a good one. Hey, that's a good one. I mean a good one.
I mean they got combanas going for one hundred thousand to see twelve people, one hundred thousand companda will at the clubs at the clubs one hundred dollars a quarter of a meal and see, and you wonder why, and you wonder why I've never parted in life because it makes no sense.
What are you getting for a hundred thousand that you can't get it home? Turning your radio real, real, goddamn loud, invite all your friends over boom, same concept, same energy, same vibe. But you're paying one hundred or two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or whatever it may be to go to do what?
Just to show? Look, I got money. Okay, that's cool, that's fine. It ain't how much you make, how much you keep.
Now you're talking like me, I like where you're going. Now we have something that we have something else to address based on that comment right there.
Later, I'm just said, look, when you and Ocho to think like I said, I believe that that what the NFL saw is that and what you see any time if somebody willing to pay for it, if they willing to pay, y'all scap of the NFL's like, hold on, We sell sold all these tickets and the players can only get thirty fifteen tickets. You get thirteen tickets. You get too free. Now, it used to be team it was at the team discretion. Teams could give you twenty ticket.
You know, twenty thirty tickets, or whatever the case may be, but there was there was a discrepancy. Many years ago, one team gave a team thirty tickets and the other team gave So the NFL said, you know what we're gonna do.
We're gonna take it over.
You're gonna be able to give them two free comp tickets, just like you get at home, and they can buy thirteen and.
Guess what, and guess what, guess we'll play. Sometimes players did with them thirteen tickets. Oh do you follow them? Well, I don't know.
I mean your mom, you're close close mom, you know dad? If you got if you gotta if you got a significant other or wife, obviously you got kids.
But listen, you know how, you know how players think? Now we ain't ween.
Can my family, no kid? If I ain't playing, no goddamn super Bowl? I don't care nobody going?
Should we? Finna made this money? O Jo?
You got the families came in on Thursday. So Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night. That's fortnight. Now, I got a mom, I got a sister, I got girlfriend, I got kids. Right, that's four rooms and that's that's bare minimum for a room, possibly fifth.
And who do you think feeding them? Who you think you entertained them? Who you think flew?
Now I could have flew. I could have flew now my family. This was pre nine to eleven, so this was pre the tickets was high as giraffe. Huh. But so ojo, I gotta bring my mom from Chicago. I gotta bring my sister and at that time, my cousin mud she flew with her. I gotta bring them from Georgia to San Diego. My kids, okay, the kids. My sister picked up the kids, brought them from Georgia. And now my girlfriend was on the charter, and so okay,
cool charter. I was like, I could have got my But what since does it mean to fly my family from Georgia's Chicago to Denver to get on the charter and then get now get on the charter. Now they gotta fly back from San Diego to Denver or from Miami, because you know, we flew in them we played in Miami, or when I was in Baltimore, we flew to Tampa. So I just like, okay, I mean I think I've been like fifteen grand just in flights.
Well, you better than me, because my family would understood.
No, none of those souper Oh mom my sister, Oh they got to go to kids, they got to go to that the super Bowl. Now, there are a lot of people that have never seen Shannon Shape player a football game, not a preseason game, not a regular season game, not a playoff game.
You mean in per in person persons.
But they wanted to go to the Super Bowl, right, please, that's all.
That's all you have to tell it. Please.
Now, my homeboy, I had one homeboy, Bucket that it was. I heard Bucket names, so goddamn much. I feel like I know that's my dog.
Then now him and Burns. But the team, so they're gonna be in Vegas? No, hell no, hell nona.
So you know I had a ticket. I had a ticket for one of my homeboys. But something came up. That's something would discuss in the later day time. He wasn't able ten and so I had two tickets. I said, brother, Bucket, I got a ticket for you and my other homeboy. Now I ain't got nothing for your wife. Hey, you had to let it know. No no, no, no, no, no, no no no no no no, you ain't getting thought, you get you, you and you and my other homeboy. Well,
my other homeboy wasn't able to come. Something came up.
He hit me up.
He said, man, such and such and not gonna be able to come. Can I use the other ticket for my wife? I said, hell, yeah, okay, But as long long as it was free, long as it was free. Anytime it was close right Jacksonville, he would come to Jacksonville, he would drive close by.
He ain't got a whole lot at the time, he was a police officer.
Then he laid to work for ATF so he ain't like he making a hard ton of money to be able to put himself up and come.
So I always took care of me.
But but in a situation like that, oh Joe, you know, like I said, the super Bowl, that's a special occasion. My mom come to everyone. And at the time my step pops Pops came with my mom. So I gotta fly him. But I'm feeding everybody every day. I'm playing for entertainment every day. And the hotel room and the flight. So like I said, I spent probably I probably spent like thirty grand for the entirety of the trip.
But everybody and we won all of them, so everybody had a really good time, right, And you know it's funny, I'm sitting here talking. I'm not even realizing.
When I was with the Patriots we made the Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm not even realizing. And obviously, you know what little CJ was there, My daughter was there, the mom, Grandma, no g Grandma, grandma, grandma, Yeah she was.
She wasn't able to travel at that point. No mom.
You know, me and Mom, we didn't see. We weren't seeing eyed eye during that time. You know, her and I have a whole Listen. There's a reason we call a hurricane, Paula. You know, that's the reason we call it that. So we weren't seeing eyed eye during during that time. And you know, it wasn't much.
Your kids was there? Two? Three? Maybe maybe three? No, two, I think it was CJ and G.
But you had to have somebody to take care of them, because hell you couldn't. Yeah, because I had who I was seeing, got a practice, you gotta do it.
Yeah, it during that time. Your girlfriend at the time.
Yeah, so I didn't. I ain't spend nothing close to what you did. Nothing, nothing close.
And obviously you have to think you get one, so you probably had one hotel room probably.
Probably that was it.
And then you have to also think, like why is everybody flying? And you understand I wasn't the same Chad that we used to seeing. So it ain't like I'm forna come out here and be god there, maybe have an opportunity to win goddamn m VP of this damn super like. So let' let's slow down a little bit, talk about what I'm coming to watch you play? Well, ship, I ain't do nothing do in the regular seats. I'm
not sure you're expecting this one goddamn game. So yeah, it kind of didn't make sense, you know, full effect, and when I look at it in ninsight, so I mean it was cool, but I ain't spend nothing like that.
Yeah, And so the thing was, oh Joe, I ended up like for the flight because I didn't have all like, I only used one one seat on the plane, so I didn't. Well, I had a friend my name was Sharing and she did everything for me. She cleaned the house, she did all the shopping, she did all the washing, and rest her soul. That was my dog Sharon. I could come. She was like my aunt and she had her face, was her credentials. He could go anywhere in
the stadium and they had to show no ID. They let her in the stadium.
They knew were good.
She's sharing people. She good, her and her daughter. I got them on the plane. I got them. I got them tickets. So but other than that, and then for the most part, I ended up giving my seats away. Go hey, bro, you need he I got you know you got X amount of seats. Hey, go ahead, bro, I ain't got nobody. I ain't flying my family, my family flying straight to the game. I ain't flying my family here to put them on some plane because when they leave San Diego, I already know my sister and
my mom gonna want to go straight home. They're not gonna want to go to Denver, and they're not gonna have to know. So I flew them straight home. But it was a great experience. We won all three games. That made it even sweeter. You know, Uh, the kids had to go, you know, they their mom. The kids was down for a little while because you know, we had a party. Obviously, when you win the game, you have a party afterwards, right, you know, you have a
little party. Then obviously. You know, my mom tell the kids upstairs. Me and my sister stayed down a little while. Then me and you know, hey, you know, I had to say, hey, super Bowl, I want we got to take the covers.
Dog wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait now let's let's let's rewind a little bit. I need better context on who you're shaking the covers with during this time. Is there somebody specially like a girlfriend?
Yeah, yeah, the girl?
Yeah yeah, because wait a minute, wait wait wait wait, stay with me, now, you one you want?
You got three super Bowl rings? I got three super Bowl ring. So did you have a different girlfriend for the super Bowl?
Well, the second super Bowl, I didn't have eight girl, I didn't have anybody, but you had somebody come in though.
No, no, no, I didn't, No no, I didn't. No, okay, okay, no I didn't.
So you first to have a girlfriend, and the and the last I had a girlfriend, and and the first super Bowl my girlfriend at the time, and she was amazing and and I got high respect. We're still cool today because she was up front. Women say, shann and I want to move on. I want to go see somebody else.
Oh hell no, she ain't trying my dog like that. Yeah, he had the audac What do you mean? What you mean? I mean how many times if you told a girl you not you want to move on? Never?
Everybody left me, everybody left you. That's besides the point. You women need to understand, Shannon Shaw. I'm not a woman, but.
Even I can see the vision of where you're going. No, even I can see the vision.
When I can see the vision when you was headed, you don't want to leave that because look what you got Now.
I'm hell to deal with.
I'm not gonna sit here and I'm not going to sit here and tell somebody. Yeah, I mean everything that looks good. And you see how diligent I am and hard hot, hard working I am. But I'm not easy to get along with.
I'm not. I wouldn't tell nobody that life.
Listen, even even if you're not easy to deal with, right, everybody come with baggage. You know, it's all about finding that one person based on the life you want to live, the willingness to unpack that baggage, unpack that baggage at the time. Listen, you're a dog and I ain't. I'm just saying hype of things. If I was a woman, there's some ship that I don't like about you, but I'm gonna have to just do it.
Oh no, no, no no.
You just to baggage, Jojo. I came with more baggage than the dew To airline you could be.
That's all right, that's all right, that's all right, because there's a woman out there that is willing to unpack because you Oh sh my bad, I'm bad.
But you're a good dude. A you're good dude.
Listen, you mean well, I have well because when when somebody needs you, based on the stories, you're gonna always be there for sure.
If you can always no no, no, no, that's not everybody. You need to be cool. You need to be cool with me.
That that's what I'm talking about. But but you got
¶ Shannon Sharpe talks breakups
to we come about people you are intimate with. You understand, if you cool with me, we're gonna always be cool. Because my number one thing is protect the brand.
I said, because as the brand goes away, Shannon's gonna go away, and I can't do what you asked me to do for you.
So that's number one. You've got to protect the brand.
And so if you cool with me. And like I said, when them kids came, my mom came. They came on a Thursday. My mom, my sister came over. She brought the kid, They brought the kids. Oh we want to because that was the last time I was gonna see the kids until after the game.
They weren't gonna be running, they weren't gonna be.
I wasn't gonna be coming over to the hotel and hanging out and doing all that stuff and splashing in the pool.
I the festivities and all that other stuff that's for families. I came down.
My event was gonna happen at six thirty on Sunday night, and everybody understood that. And her job, my girlfriend job, was to make it as easy as possible on my mom and my sister. So when the kids wanted to go to a sea world to see share move, don't Sandy gonna do? Don't she got me gone, no hesitation. My mom m doing whatever they want to do. Hey, you got the keyids right. And so when it came time for us to go our separate ways, she came to me like a woman.
I'm good with that. On Joe, I'm good with that. I see, let me tell you.
I'm telling I'm trying to explain to you why I'm not good with it because as women, I think women at times they think that I would be able to find what it is I have right now or better if I move on, and I think they don't understand it's very difficult to find someone like yourself that you can always count on. Now, there might be some things that you don't like that we can work through and get by, but always having someone you can count on twenty four to seven, come hillo high water. It's very
difficult to find someone that's loyal. Yeah, a good person.
They're gonna be some issues, you know, we all have our issues.
Yeah, And I'm telling you, man, it's it's dangerous, ot dare and it's real thin.
It's real thin.
I just think the mindset of women at times is like, you know what, I can find this again because look I'm pretty, or look at me, I got a shape, or look at me I got asked.
You know if I've done that. It's quantity.
It's quantity, but quality of what you're looking for is very difficult to find. And it sometimes women have to learn the hard way because they hard headed. For they thing based on aesthetics and the visual. I'll be able to find it again. But what comes with that is the games that women have to deal with women. You're you're a straight shooter. Yeah, o Jo, it's good to have a straight shooter. What do you like a Magnum three fifty seven?
Do you know how many women I look over because I saw something more aesthetically pleasing and I left the best woman that I had just because I saw something more aesthetically pleasing.
Now you can't do that.
So that's why I don't get upset when a woman comes to me and tell me she wants to go on.
I like the where you put that, not not that give down.
Okay, I feel a little better now because you done made the same mistake too. You know what, I feel a little better, Oh Joe, you I'm just honestly speaking. You are you made that mistake leaving a leaving a good woman for something.
That looks better aesthetically and plead. Okay, y okay, okay, okay.
And so I told I told my girlfriend. I said I'm not happy. I said I'm miserable in my own home. I said, I have a headache all the time, always do it argue. I said, I want to be with somebody else, and I'm gonna go find them.
It ain't not there.
I'm telling you, man, well you know through experience, I ain't got to tell you nothing. I wasn't gonna I was gonna sit here in priest to you just you know. I know it's Sunday, but I don't already know. Oh boy, come on now, come on now.
And so like I said, I I've made the mistake, oacho, And I'm not perfect, and I don't sit here and proclaim to be perfect. And I don't say, you know, oh all shit, no no, no, no, no, Shanna didn't leave everybody. Women have left Shannon Sharp. And that's okay, that's that is perfectly okay, right because they made they made me better, and they made me look internal at some of the blow and I fixed some of them, right, well,
we got some more to work on. I fixed some of them, but like the most dilapidated the buildings, I'm still under repair.
And I'm okay with that. Hey that was nice. That was a bar right there. That was nasty.
Hey, I've been watching this. I've been watching battle rap man. I've gotten the battle rap, real real, real heavy, and that was a bar.
I was a bar that was filthy.
I like that, you know, back of my day when I used to write, when I used to write love letters, O Joe, you know your boy, back of the day.
Without the high school you know, high school, early in college. Yeah, yeah, junior high you used to write love letters.
Hot like college, uh college and uh like late like like late high school, early college.
It's how I know you're a good dude. You know, you know what it takes for a man to be able to sit down and to put thought in a sum on paper and.
Use the pen. That is that that's that genuine, that's that.
Notebook type of I'm really I'm really feeling you, and I'm going to express my feelings and my thoughts through paper instead of communicating it.
Sometimes because sometimes I could, I could, I could write down what I couldn't say to the young lady in person.
It makes it that much easier because now everybody, everybody's not equipped to be able to say or communicate some of the things they're feeling and being able to express it verbally. It's very difficult at times, especially if it's someone you just met, you know, you. You kind of don't want to open up like that and be a little bit too vulnerable too soon until you understand that the reciprocation is there.
Yeah, you know, start that thing off.
You know, time and opportunity presents itself that I take this time that I tell you just how special you are to me.
You know, I'll tell you what I told you. Hey, bro, I like that. I like that.
You know what, I'm gonna put that in. I'm gonna put that in my bowl. That's how I'm start my vow that my wedding. Yes, so I like that, don't Joe, you boy back in the day, oh your band? You know, Hey, you and that boy. That's that's why I still can't. I can't figure out where they left.
Now.
Guarantee listen, I guarantee this.
I guarantee this, and it's a non but it's not really disrespect those in your past. I said, I bet if they look at the review mill, they'll put that motherfucker in reverse.
I bet that.
I bet if those that left you, if they look in the review mill, I guarantee you, they put.
That motherfucker car reverse right now. Well, you know what, Joe, I had an.
Ex today and we had and we hadn't been together in twenty five thirty years, and I was just straight up with her. And you know, from time to time she hit me up. In time to time I hit her up to check on us, to make sure everything's okay. And I said, I said, w how did that start it up? I think I said something about I've.
Known you.
Thirty five, nineteen eighty seven, thirty seven years. Yes, sir, you you've been different places. I've been different places, I have different different situations. You've been married. I said, this is what I know for one hundred certainty, for categorically, for certainty.
I said, other men's might have had your body, but I've always had your heart. Come on, give me the bars.
Still their text back, saying, as much as I wanted to hate you, and I've tried for.
So long, always have my heart. Well I got to stand up on it.
But she wasn't telling me anything that I didn't already know. I know so much, Vitrio. I knew why she put so much vitriof towards me and did the things that she did because you loved me.
Yeah, I see, Remember I said this in the show not too long ago. Remember I said this in the show not too long ago, Phyllis, you're always dealing with somebody, You always dealing thet woman. She You might have her physically, but there's a guy from her past. There's a guy from her past that will always have access. I have half her mentally up here, no matter what, no matter, no matter how happy she is.
Remember I told you that.
I told you that, and you just explained the situation right there. Well, yeah, I'm a wake her ass up because everybody, everybody got one. Everybody got one. If you're in the chat women, if you're listening and you just heard the explanation that just told tell me, I lie, there's always somebody, even even if they don't reach out to you, there's always somebody.
I mean, look, I remember the first time a woman actually took me on vacation. It was her. I said, I said, I ain't took you. Yes, let that go Saint the Virgin Isle of Saint Thomas. I said, baby, I ain't got I said, baby, I ain't got no money. I said, I ain't got no money. She said, I got this hotel, food, I ain't pay for nothing. That's the one all all I was was a plumber for
the whole weekend. Hey, young, that's all I was that when you playing quart a five dollar hour, Yeah, that's all you playing for plumbing service on THEO because you know, you know what I'm saying. I ain't hadn't been. I hadn't been out of the country. I mean I don't Thomas is theoretically side of the continental. But anyway, I hadn't been nowhere.
Old Choe. Yeah, she put it on.
Hey, it ain't too many like that, now hold on, let me let me, let me let so you can see my head. Now, ye ain't too many like that. That's gonna pay for you. That really got you because you know women they looking for provider.
We know what that means. We know that's cold far Yeah, I say, but like.
I said, look, I've been in situations and and seemingly what I had wasn't enough, and and I think the thing is now is being able to accept enough, right right, so at least appreciating what you gotta have. But back but you know, oh, show you back then. I'm nineteen twenty twenty two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, YEAHA man, please you.
Listen when you're young is one of the things that that that is going to get the younger generation as well. It's always thinking that I can always get better and I could always attain better. And you know what, all that goal or all that glitters ain't going because the higher up you go, and women love to say this is well, women love to say, oh, I'm gonna get a man with a bigger bag, or I'm gonna get a man that's richer than you. I'm gonna get somebody
that looks better than you. But always understand what comes with that. There's always pros and.
Cons to everything.
As you continue to want to climb the ladder and whatever it is that you do or whatever it is you're trying to attain, there's always a con and a bad side to it. Yes, outside of the pleasing aesthetics that we're used to seeing. And the question is we don't we were stuck in the now. We don't think long term? But nothing, Yeah, we don't think long term?
Yeah.
I bet, like I said, don't you I look back and I said, man, what was I I mean, I have my moments because I spend a lot of time alone just men and the dogs, and I'm all alone in my thoughts and I go back and I'm paying over the course of thirty five forty years of my.
Life and saying.
That was that there they have been, Like, honestly, I can honestly say there have been free free mm hmm, that I should that that no question should have been miss mister Sharp, no question.
We all got the Okay, well you So if you were someone that asked you the question, do you have somebody in your life?
You know what?
Damn she was the one that got away. So you got three of those? Yeah, you got three of them? Okay, okay, and that you know, that's that's dope. That you could be honest about that too.
Oh for sure. That's that's real dope because a.
Lot a lot of people would be like, ah, nah, I don't need nobody from my past. They are ex for they are ex for a reason. But there are there are some good people that we have lost we left behind. Yeah, the due the circumstance, whether it be pride, whether it be ego, or feeling that we could find better than that.
And most of the time we're not successful in doing so.
Yeah, and I and and and actually one of them was the one that played that Michelle and dego Cello song, Oh, okay, okay, But I remember she told me this early in our relationship, and she said, Shannon, and I remember her and I was having a conversation. She said, says, Shannon, You're the worst thing that's ever happened to me. And I'm looking, I'm like, what y'am? She says, Shanna, I'm never going
to meet a man like you. I'm not gonna meet somebody as disciplined, as hard working, as funny, as driven, as motivated. She says, I'm not gonna meet that. She says, I know, she says, Shannon, I know that. She says, I know you was a lifetime man. But she says, I also know you're not ready for what I'm ready for. She says, I I will take it. I will take it for what it's worth. I'm gonna have, I'm gonna have, We're gonna have as much fun. But she says, I
know it's gonna stop. She said, because you're not ready for what I'm ready for.
Now, say you know what when you when you when you talk like that, and based on what you're saying, I notice is the older woman, This is a seasoned woman.
This was someone that was that type of maturity. Yes, yes, oh Joe, Now you talk about look here talking like that. Oh she was. I mean when I think.
Everything, everything you just said sounds like a season vet that don't want to play no more games.
That was done with the game. I'm not sticking around for him to change.
Where I was in my life. Yeah, and what I had going on, Yeah, it was just I wasn't ready for what she could offer, and she was. When I say she, look I'm talking about said, there's only been a hand I've had women that I can have conversation with and we laugh and we talk. And there's one right now that's that's that's really special. And I've really never had the chemistry with her with with someone else like I've had with her. But she's in a different situation.
She's in her situation and I'm happy for and I wish them the best of love. But this situation that I'm talking about old Joe right right right, I'm talking about.
Laughing and talking and just carrying on.
I mean, get on the phone and we could talk hours and all we do is talk about and it's nothing. You know, we're cracking jokes, we're making fun uh. We go to a restaurant and I asked her that we go in there. It's like okay, And I was like, excuse me, will you guys let me bring my horse in? And I point to her and she just and she just busts out laughing, right right, right, right right. And so we start to order, and she was like, I noticed you don't have any oats and apples on the menu.
And she points and they look at it like, yeah, you know, I got my horse sitting over here, and he likes olds and apples, So yeah, is fun. Yeah, yeah, it's fun. She said, she's sending me a text and said the Kentucky Derby said that your entry was denied and you're not.
Gonna be able to run this year, you know, stuff like that. Old Joe so right, Oh I wasn't ready oyo.
I was, yeah, well, I'm based on what you're telling me, listen, it sounds like the perfect story.
But I guarantee you during this time, you were still playing oh.
Yeah, and I had just I had just started, yeah, to get into my own now all of a sudden, know, yo, I'm a this was I'm a two time, three time first team All Pro I've gone to like three consecutive Pro Bowls thousand yard seasons. Now I'm John elway'sgo two guys. I'm now I'm really very good about myself, right.
I know what you I know what you mean. I know what you mean.
So you know, hey, if she think I look good, I'm sure somebody else think that too. And that's the mistake I made. That was just mistake I made.
Yeah.
God, as you know, I could see the chat. Somebody just somebody just said I'm dressed like beetlejuice. And this is this is this is somebody said, I'm just like beetlejuice and really not understanding of who I'm wearing. Tell me, tell me, do me a favor.
What's the name on the back of this, just for the people in check get it better understanding on culture swines.
That's that's Naymark Jr. The great Brazilian. Yeah.
Yeah, this is the Club Santos where he played at in Brazil before he made it to I like.
To call the big leagues. This guy here, it's about it, dressed like beetlejuice. O Cho.
We got some news and that's gonna probably take over. And I'm sure Patrick Mahomes is gonna be asked about it. Patrick Mahoons Senor was addressed and charged with his third d w I, third or more dw I. Mahomes Senior was arrested on DWI charges multiple times over the last twelve years twenty twelve, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and a recent rest over the weekend. Mahomes was arrested for his second driver while intoxicated charge in twenty eighteen. Sir forty
days sentence and he served those over the weekends. The news come a week before his son takes the field in Super Bowl fifty eight. How do you expect young Patrick to handle this distraction?
I mean, this is this is this is this is not a distraction. This is not a distraction. It's something that's he's dealt with before. His father has had two other issues and it hasn't affected his play on the field.
And when it comes to they're going to ask him, you know, media day, Oh.
Yeah, but he know he ain't paying that no mind. You know, ain't paying that no mind even if they do ask him. We talk about a two time Super Bowl champ, one that will never be rattled, that's been in the highest of situations.
He'll be fine. He'll be fine again.
It's unfortunate, especially for your father, to to not learn from the past two times. That's what mistakes make, and as a father, I would think you would at this point. You want to get an uber. You want to get uber if you're inee braated, if you're drinking, if you
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assume an alcohol, if you're out somewhere, don't even drive yourself.
Have a driver.
Obviously, you have a son that we already know that is completely well off. Talk to your son, Pat, have a talk with dad. Listen, Pops. If you want to go out, if you want to have fun, let me get a car service for you, let me get a driver for you. That's really nothing, you know. To make
sure issues of this extent don't happen again. I think that's something that they should do going forward so they don't have to deal with this again, because obviously it's sustained on the family and it's going to affect It's not going to affect Pat on the field, but off the field, having to deal with the media, having to deal with the scrutiny, having to deal with everyone in their personal family business.
It's a bad Look, any time someone in the family becomes more prominent, high profile, everybody have to move differently, Patrick Mahoone Senor your son is Patrick Mahomes Junior.
You can't move the same way you once could. You just can't.
Oh yo, I understood that my brother now was Erling Sharp and he's the seventh pick in the NFL draft of the Green Bay Praca.
All that strifle and stuff that I wanted.
To do, oh that I was doing before, I couldn't do it anymore because they're gonna say the younger brother of All Pro packer receiver Sterling Shark, Shannon Shark, was arrested or come home, Patrick mahone Senior. Yeah, yeah, I mean clearly he has an issue. I mean there's no other way around it. And I hope he hopefully he gets that resolved and not not put himself because he lucky.
Because remember Andy Reed's son had a dw I three days before the Super Bowl fifty five crashing his crashing into a broken down car on the roadside and the crash left a five year girl in a carlla for ten.
Days and he was permanently disabled. My goodness, And.
So you you like I said a lot of times people think, well, oh, it just it was just the d nobody was hurt, right, But I mean the times have we heard situations where people was hurt. Henry Ruggs alcohol, driving at a high rate of speed, slams into a car doing over one hundred and twenty miles an hour. She's dead, his NFL career, he's in jail. Yeah, let her little involuntary manslaughter, ram ram Let little Yes from Florida, from Florida. Yes, I made alahamicide. Dante did Dante Stalwart.
I mean, I forgot. I don't even remember these situations. That's crazy.
I just had that put himself in that situation. He put himself in it. He put himself in that situation. And like you said, oh show. But here's the thing, oh Joe, you and I you and his dad was a professional athlete. The one thing about athletes is that we don't think it's gonna happen to us what has already happened twice. So you can't you can't be thinking
like that it's already happened twice. Yes, you think you're thinking invincible based on the situation and the circumstance that you're in now, Pat Mahomes, where if I am if someone does stop me, you know what if you're slapped on the wrist.
Listen, mister Mahomes Senior. You can be out here driving like that. Okay, they let you go. You can get it.
You can get away with a lot of things based on who your son is right now, But you're run into that one officer, right that one officer who wants that credit. He wants to be you know, the talk, the talk of the town in the department. But were you the one that they're looking for that? But again, there's a problem that he might have. But there's a there's a solution to it.
Yeah, hey, yeah, hey, look if my and my dad, my dad was a was an alcoholic, but had he been alive, yeah, to see me and my brother play, you could have tried to get him out.
But if he couldn't, Hey, hey, dad, they're a car. You don't drive?
You got a car, but don't you Because I'm a spitting image of my dad. I looked just I looked just like my dad. But and I'm gonna have somebody with it now. I'm gonna fire your ass if you let my daddy get behind the wheel real. Yeah, yeah, your responsibility is to make sure he gets too in front you driving.
M But listen, the funny thing is, I have a little experience when it comes to having a parent that that love, that likes to drink, that loves to drink. Obviously, on my end, you know, it wasn't she didn't like to drink and drive at the same time, but she would drink and it would affect our relationships.
So you know you asked me earlier.
You know, with your mom at the super Bowl, for hell, it was hard to deal with her and be around her more than goddamn two or three goddamn hours because of her consumption of alcohol.
And for those that don't know, we did.
Matter of fact, just to give a small a small glimpse of you never met my mama. I think the world got a chance to see who she was and see what I had to deal with my mom and I. She was an alcoholic. She drunk a lot, drunk a lot, you know, to the point where my grandma is. You know, my grandma raised me for that specific reason. Obviously, I
can tell y'all because we're all family. The drug use, the alcohol and abuse in it, so my grandma was like, listen, you leaving this little boy here with me and you can go ahead, and my mom moved off to La. That's how I ended up at Centemonic, right, Okay, back to the story. So dealing with her is she would always consume alcohol, and this might be one of the reasons why I never drink. She would always consume alcohol,
and then she would become someone I didn't even know. Right, she would become someone I didn't even know, and I couldn't quite understand why you're always angry. You can't be angry at me because I didn't do anything wrong. But then my grandma always having to explain to me, baby, this is what happens when she drinks boom along with other things. So I kind of empathize in a sense with pat because I was still able to play regardless what was going on in my personal life and dealing with her.
Right, So it's like it's.
Crazy and one of the reasons she got the name Hurricane Paula because when she does alcohol, she becomes just that.
It's a hurricane, right, It's a hurricane.
And we had we had a funny, funny thing with friends of mine throughout the years, you're really not a friend of mine, or you ain't been around long enough. If you haven't been cursed out by my mama, if you ain't been cursed out by mama, you aren't really a friend of mine because you ain't been around long enough.
My kids got it. I got it.
Anybody I dated got it, my coaches got it, my friends got it, everybody, my teachers got it, everybody. And it was hard to even have her around important events because I boy listen my mama, and I wanted to help my mama the same way I'm sure Pat wants to help his dad. So I say, you know what, the opportunity to present itself. Well, not only we can we can make a little money. I can get you some change, but we're gonna go on the show with some doctors. We did marriage boot Camp and chat. If
you haven't seen Marriage boot Camp. Family addition, between me and my mom watched that. When you get some and you'll understand who she really was, because you know, most of the time you had FEL members going camera and they put on and be someone that they're not.
They put on their representative because the world is watching. Me and my mom went on that show.
The whole point was to try to mend our relationship and find a way to make things work because and figure out what's wrong with her past. They offered places she can go, They offered the rehab. Every morning she woke up, what's the first thing you think she would have gotten to drink? Something to drink, and they purposely allowed her to drink and drink and drink, and un man, that woman stole the show. That woman stole the show. And obviously I let people that want to go back
and watch it and see who Hurricane Paula was. Cust everybody out on the show, cust out the producers, cust out the cast mates, and we didn't end up finishing the show because she cussed everybody out. She cussed everybody out and left the show before it ended. And from that point on, with me trying to help, there was really nothing I could do because she wasn't even trying to help herself. And maybe my mama passed. She just passed in twenty twenty one, which you think she died from.
M probably scoliosis, hard soorrosis, not scoliosis sorosis.
Alcohol poisonous YEP, alcohol poisoning and so that's that's just the story with pat and it kind of resonated to me in a sense, not to the sense of her getting in trouble and arrested, but dealing with someone who liked to consume alcohol and there's really no way to control it. Even when you try to get him help them, they just they just won't listen.
Yeah.
I don't understand why people like giving up control like that, Ojoe. I mean, I think I think for us, especially like me, I gotta be in control. I don't like you knows. I can only say There's been one time that I kind of lost control, but I was able to regain it, and that was the Lakers situation at that game. But I don't like being out of control, Lojo, right, are you.
You think you think you was? I was like, nah, yeah, I'm glad drink. No, I wouldn't drink hell now, So you were good? Yeah I was a hood Yeah yeah, no I wasn't. No, no, no, no no.
That's that's one of the reasons, you know, I think because my father was an alcoholic also, and he ended up he ended up having both jawbones removed, ended up having a he ended up dying at when I was thirteen years of age, and uh, I saw him once to actually know who I was looking at. I saw him when I was in I think the first the kindergarten, first grade. I saw him in first grade. And the next time I saw him, he didn't know I was looking at him. His face was like a looking glass.
I was just looking down and staring at him, and he didn't. He didn't look nothing like the man that I remember seeing all those years ago. But that's what the drinking had done to him. That's what the surgery of having both of his jaw bones removed, and why he didn't want to come because he said told my grandma, grandma child, that he didn't want his kids to see him in this kind of condition. Okay, okay, but what he didn't realize. I just wanted to see my father.
It wasn't the conditions. It was the that I wanted to see and what I would give to have if I could just have him and my grandfather, Barney Porta, the one that raised me and him, just just to see see what me and my brother became, just for one day right now that it Yeah, I would love to see years and years, but just for one day. Yeah, to see what me and my brother became. That would probably be that would top any day, any.
Day Pro Bowl, Hall of Fame.
This for them to see that, because I remember my grandfather and my grandmother was because remember I told you, o Joe, my grandfather and grandmother didn't see sleep in the same bed. My grandfather and my brother slept over here, and me and my grandmother slept over there, and they were having a conversation, and they they thought we were all out of sleep.
I wasn't.
This had to be about two o'clock in the morning. We didn't have a clock in the room, so I couldn't tell you, but I'm assuming it's probably around two oclock in the morning. And I remember him saying so vividly. He said, Mary, he said, I might be dead and gone, but them boys gonna make something. He said, They're so smart, they so attentive. They don't give us.
No back talk. They don't talk back.
I'm thinking to myself, man, do you understand the punishment and the rap that would rain down? And we were afraid to talk back. But he said, he said, and he said that young one, he said, Mary, that boy remember everything. He because we were we we was our dad's were our grandfather's no path because you know, back then, oh chi, I ain't nobody had no say, had no cell phone. So somebody told you their number. You just
had to remember it. My grandfather, somebody would tell my grandfather get oh, hey, BARTI you know, I got a new number, or I got a fuck got a phone because there by the time didn't have phones. Hey bartiy I got it, I got a number, I got a new phone, I got a phone. Hey, telling to them boys. So it was my me and my brother's job to remember the phone number. And I just remember that, and
that's up with me. Here I am five six years of age, and he could project into the future thirty year, twenty five years later that them two boys gonna make something.
Man. That made me so That made me so proud to hear him say that.
As I'm going, as I'm playing in high school, as I'm playing in college, and I'm playing in the NFL, and I'm thinking back, my grandfather saw this, and so to have my dad, my actual dad, and my grandfather, if only for one day, to see what I became, even if they don't see me play football, but just see the man that I became because I named my son. I named my son after my dad. But man o jo, that was I mean my grandparents and my grandparents didn't.
I remember my grandfather got stopped by the state trooper. My grandfather was probably driving one hundred and twenty so got said licensed registration insurance. My grandfather reached in the glove box, handed it to it. He said, uh, mister porter said yeah. He said yeah. He said, uh, you've been drinking. My grandfather said yeah, about forty years ago. Boy, that's before your time, right, He said, yeah, it was, mister porter. He said, okay, now I'm gonna need you
to slow it down. He said, okay, but I think my grandmother said that's why, you know, they started having kids and they stopped drinking. And I never obviously did drank communion, but we never had an alcohol in the house. But just to just to I just would want my grandfather and my dad to see what me and my brother became.
Yeah, that's it, you know what that that that's that's dope.
And I always I've never thought about it like that because my mom, my mom was around to see, to see all of my success. I would love for to see how far I've come after falling, you know, uh off that mountaintop and the climb that I'm making to get back to where I fell from. But I would love to see would have been like what our relationship would have been like if she hadn't alcohol. I would love I would love you to be at every event I had. I would love you to be at games.
I would love you to be at Red Carper stuff. I would love for you to travel. I would love for you to go to Pro Bowl, listen to games she did go to. She got into it with people and embarrass me. You know, the Red Carper stuff that I did take her to. You know, I got to get this drink before I put my clothes on.
She embarrassed me. You know. So every time I will try to.
Bring around those those events where your mother's supposed to be present as a reason on why you here as an example of you know, listen, I'd have made you proud.
I need you front center, and all those instances, what does she do?
Cut somebody out, put a hands on somebody, and these are times, well, these were suable offenses that she's done, and people kind of understood based on Okay, you know what, I don't think that's really her. I think the fact that she is consumed alcohol because you can spell it along with other things.
But I'm not gonna I'm not I'm not gonna go there. There's no point for that.
But you know, I got off a lot, and I think that's probably why I've never had alcohol before.
And a lot of people don't believe me. A lot of people perception when you see the person oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
No, people think I'm wild. They think I club because they let that on field persona that I put on. But that want but a character I'll feel. I'm nothing like that, nothing like that. But that's enough for that far. I started crying like a little girl