Listen: Jordan Jenkins (11/12)

video games? It's probably a sickening number. Oh back in the day when I played World of Warcraft. Still do every now and then with some people I know. But it was like, I think I played for like twelve four but you can't pause the game like get up and a bresh my teeth, you know. It's like maybe, well I had the Ellen on Ellen didn't count because I didn't get up and go leave the room whatever. But call of duty wise, I will say maybe about six to eight hours straight. This is no no food,

no nothing, just you on the sticks. Well not you gotta bring the food with you. Actually you can just reach over there. Everything's within arms. Read snacking though, like finger foods, I'm sure we're talking about. Yeah, but you're an athletic guy who is constantly moving on the field, or you're get in the weight room getting after it. Don't you feel like, oh man, I gotta I gotta get up, I gotta do something that stretching the chair? Yeah,

Now what your parents think about that? When you were a kid, were you always in the gaming Oh no, they hated the video Well they didn't hate it, but they knew, Oh I did was playing the video games, and uh, I got I'd go out Like if I wentn't outside, I was either getting in trouble or I was outside when I was on the video games. Combination of So you were that kid that would just like

be in his room just on the sticks all weekend. Yes, and only because down in uh the part of Georgia I'm from it, it takes a long walk to get to your name's house, I get to one of your boy's house. And if you didn't have a car, then you pretty much were the sol because it's a long walk to your neighbor's out. But how it was young Jordan's getting into trouble. How would you describe that? What can you share with us that you don't mind the world.

Remember back when I lived in Washington State, there was like a little this little uh patch of woods and there's a new uh suburbs getting developed on the other side, like a different neighborhood. Like I was in Tentnor Point. This place was called Deerfield or something like that. And we would sneak over to like the building site and take the wood and make like we've made a treehouse in the woods. Like there's like some path you can go through from our side of the neighborhood, go through

the woods and you'd be into the other ones. We would just sneak through all there and make a big, big little treehouse upstairs. But somebody caught you on that one. Oh yeah. Eventually some of the guys, like some of the older guys got caught and they're like all right, you know you guys in the woods, and like eventually he just came down and just broke it down. All right,

Building a treehouse doesn't seem too bad. If all kids get get in trouble doing that, well, I feel like nowadays, yeah, I mean it would be parents would be happy that their kids are getting out and doing stuff as opposed to being on their phones or maybe like Jordan playing video games. Well wait, wait, I gotta know what was the video game that like first struck you where you were like, Wow, this is fun. I could do this for six to eight hours. Um, it might be maybe

when when w w Day of breaking Ing. Uh, that was a good one though, back on the GameCube days. But Zelda the wind Waker on the GameCube. I would play that all day. So his GameCube your first system or no, actually the Nintendo was, but I played uh when whenever we go to my grandmother's house, we would play the Sega upstairs with my older cousin and my older brother and then we played the Super and nintendells sometimes going over the old relatives house or whatever. But

the Nintendo was my first one. Did your grandma have the system and you bring it over there? Oh no, no, it was already over there from like when my dad was growing up whatever that game like, he used to

play him every now and then. But we go upstairs and there's like a room like no one would go in, and my older brother always missed with me and my sister and say like, oh, someone died in the back room and he was trying like I'd love to go up there and play Sonic and but I would hate doing at ninth time because he would lock the door and leave it. Just leave me up there. But were you the kid that also had the Game Boy or the PSP? Yeah, the PSP socker I never had, all right,

so no PSP, but you had the Game Boy? Was that the d S and the Advance was the more square one, the more it was like the Game Boy Color was the one I had. My older brother had the original Game Boy, and then it was the Game Boy Advance that had the light on it. And then it switched to the d S. Oh no, no, no, it was the DS was the one that flipped right, yeah, and then it went to like a two d S or like a d S two that was wider and everything. And that's when I was like, all right done. You

mentioned the wrestling game. Did you do you watch wrestling to this day? Did he get into it when you were a kid? Are concerned or not? It's real big into it? Uh? Yeah, that that was the prime time, like the good old days. And uh like I had the old one, the NW overs w CW of Chris Jericho on it, the rock Man kind all the O G, the Doulei brothers, like Roddy Roddy Piper was on it like that. That's when I was really big into it

and everything. And then when I first moved to Georgia, like in two thousand and seven or six, we went to uh SmackDown, an e c W event in Columbus, and that was pretty fun. What's the atmosphere? Like, I always considered going to a SmackDown or Monday that Raw or something. I've never gone, but I'm always curious what the atmosphere was like. It actually was pretty high, like uh, and do you think like like, so, when were you

hear the impact of the chair. He's like, oh crap, like this dude really got hit in the back with his chair. And it's just like you actually get the here and you can almost feel the feel some of the hits and feel some of the slams like that that I hit the man. Everything. We talked about it, uh previously because your former outside linebackers coach, of course, was k k G. Kevin Green, who participated in the w c W himself, would you ever consider jumping in

to the squared circle? George Jenkins was asked to make a guest appearance. I couldn't do it all. I did always think think about doing uh going in m m A. And then there was uh we did sparring, uh just not even just mount transitioning at Georgia one morning for like a summer like a spring workout, and it was just five minutes just transitioning back and forth. I said, yeah, I can't do this. It was miserable. It's gotta be exhausting, right, yeah,

they're throwing in kicks. It was just grounded pound for like five like five minute intervals and it was just it was the worst training. Are you yeah? An m m A fan to this date, like oh yeah, yeah, I don't watch as much uh as I used to before, but like with some of a lot of the headliners of the UM fighting, I'll get into it and watch that one or whatever. And like the last one I

watched was Nate d Has his last fight. Uh he got in a little early, he got a little gash um that he was starting to make good, good little push towards the end. But do you want to see a rematch of that fight? Oh? Oh yeah, Nadreg would be uh that's uh, that's what I'm still waiting to see what do you think about the Notorious one Connor McGregor in terms of the way he goes about promoting, because it's hard to tell with him what is really Connor?

And also what's the act because he's a master showman. Yeah, I mean he's sort of just falling in the same footsteps as Floyd Mayweather. Like he he was the guy just was he started the whole thing of this promoting himself, like doing everything in the house and just being a little trashed, argy, show abouty kind of guy. And he just tore modeled himself after that. And it's it's smart

business wise and everything. But then again you see what him and could be even all this stuff, and like you don't know, like like you said, what stage, what's real? And it's just the authentic, the authenticity, I don't know if I don't even there. It's one day, but it comes into question, like you don't know it's really him. It was just a persona Yeah, because you see him attacking busses sometimes in Dublin. He was buying guys shots, I think, yeah, and he hit the old man, yeah,

the old man. And I'm thinking to myself. Well, you are trained fighter. I don't care. I know Connor's probably a smaller man, probably probably called McGregor small. Listen, I don't want I don't want to, I don't want a piece of it. May be shorter, but guarantee he'd make stuff. Yeah, I'm sure. I don't know. Yeah, I think you'd have a chance and listen to. But maybe if it was us three combined, if I miss a plant's it's over with because he's gonna grab it, you know. But he's

considered a striker, and I'm sure you could lay the lumber. Yeah, you know, I got some Yeah, you got big hands. My point is when I hear about Connor McGregor in a bar punching an elderly man, a guy who's up there in age, I'm thinking myself, oh my god, this guy's gonna die. Yeah, yeah, that is that. That does come into questions. But there's some folks you just don't

mess with, all right. So if you were to have a tag team and you have to choose one of your teammates to be your partner, not necessarily because you like him, but because you think he'd be good in the ring, who are you choosing. It's a good question. Uh. I would actually go with Nathan Shepard really solely because he's just frequently strong, and he's unpredictable and if anybody can take a point unprotectable on the field and off the field shop and you would say, yeah, like I would.

I would let Chef take all the punches and then go in there and be the clean up guy. Wow, so you're really growing Chef to the wolves here. Yeah, okay, I just could see Frankie Louisville coming off the top rope would yeah, yeah, m CIA was my guy, one of the hard He'd be Matt Hardy, That's what he would be. Yeah, yeah, a little crazy. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Bash would probably be like uh, Bash would

be great with the microphone. I think, yeah, he might be a rig Flair type for maybe maybe h b K. You're gonna give Bash h b K. I can see a little sweet him. Yeah. I think leaving a bow would be interesting and one of those Oh yeah, yeah, that is a good toss up there too. You know, I guess he's a showman. Who's the guy you don't want as your partner? Let's put it away. That's a tough one Henry Anderson. Okay, I can see that, Henry, but why why can't you see that? He's just unproportioned

and he always falls? No, no no, what we're doing, he's always fallen, and when he falls he exaggerated. Watching him fall is just like are you calling Henry a flopper? Yes, Henry's a flopper, and he just when he falls, it's just an unnecessarily awkward fall, Like it's I couldn't have him. We get we get trash talk about so much and it just me and Henry are just don't we can't work together. Alright. We actually ride on the plane side

by side together too. Yeah, all right, listen, you talked about Washington State before you traveled throughout your childhood and not necessarily just stopping by for vacation. What was it like being part of a military family and what did that provide you as far as experience wise? Uh, during Wall was going on, it was kind of rough, you know,

every like sometimes just every two years you move. Sometimes it's three years you move, and it's like you never really had like a true like you didn't really have a true identity growing up because's like, oh, well, lived in warn in Texas nine months later, moved to South Carolina. A year and a half later, moved to Alaska, stayed there for two and a half three years, moved to California, lived there for like maybe three or something years, and

moved to Washington. Lives for five and then finally got to Georgia until there for a little while. But it's as a kid is tough because you don't really like, you don't have any long lasting relationships, not relationships, but friendships. And my sister was more outgoing. I was more quiet, like quite like I'm smart and gifted athletically. She was also kind of gifted athletically and she smart, but she's just lazy at times. But she was the more outgoing,

uh one of the family. Like she was always into music, was always she's the social queen or whatever. What's the between you two. She's here and two months older, and uh she was. She was a great ahead of me in school. My mom got tired of paying for daycare and sent me to school early. And they never question the age because the size. But looking back now as an adult, um, it's definitely, uh, it was. It's sort of to find who I am now because I going

all those different places. Uh, you get to interact with different types of people and see different types of cultures, and you know how to relate to someone that's maybe not the same as you, like someone that didn't have the same minds to this. You you know how to relate. You know how to talk to different types of people and how to interact, how to belong with people at the same time. Did you say, I don't want to

let this slip by. Did you say that you your age was not questioned because of your size as a kid, Yeah, it was all I was a little bit tall, like uh, and I was supposed to be in the class. I was supposed to graduate high school, but my mom started me and uh, like preschool in kindergarten early because she didn't want to have a day car out and like I was like, I think I just maybe was like a day or two short on the threshold. Like I graduated high school when I was seven. Yeah. So what

how old were you when you graduated college? Uh? Just turned twenty one. You had just turned one, so yeah, you're really young. Yeah. So what your dad's retired military twenty two years in the army. What did he finish this he was just about to be promoted the sergeant major. So he finished right there, right right there, he was just about to be promoted, and and then just like

all right, I'm just gonna call it. I'm yeah, We're t all right until we can be in the same high school, middle school and just be in one place for our older, older, older childhood years. So what did you take from him in terms of um, his influence and how much are you guys on the other end of spectrum different? Um, he might have been more uh gifted like finesse wise like he uh, and um, I guess like speed wise like he he he was a

tight end linebacker and um back in his day. Uh he actually played a car on a state full year and then messed up his neck and then join the army. And then when he was staying in Germany, he wasn't supposed to play, but got on and played in Germany in the leagues over there for a little while. But um, I got uh, I got a lot of discipline. I learned respect and discipline from him, and pretty much just

being a tough guy. And in our family, like you never back now from no one, and you don't take nothing from knowing to being wrong, say something about it, and you lose a fight. You keep coming back to them, and so you don't want to fight you no more. And uh, but he was uh in his a like I was a tackle. I was a nose guard and right tackle all the way up until uh college and then like hi, my senior eyes goes the right tackle and defenseman. Really yea, and how big were you? Then?

I came into high school like one hundred eighty five pounds and then left two hundred fifty seven. Yeah, we had a pretty good uh. Like he honestly could have been, uh a collegiate strength coach if he would hire. If he got to speed. Gotta go with him because he we did all things like we were doing Olympic lifts. My when I was fourteen years old that summer going

into high school. We were getting our body's trained to do like power cleans, like cleaning snatch, um cleaning old cleaning jerk and then snatch and all the other stuff. And we would always train like uh, excuse me, We'd always do like flexibility stuff and strengthen the bodies. And then after every like I got on, I want I

needed a game, wait and game muscle. So I eat like five eggs of the protein shake in the morning before school, and then I'd have like first block or second block weight training, and after that our coach of makers have like we it's like a triple decor pedut butter sandwich just with no jelly and crunch and peanut butter, and you'd have to eat that after your lift and then go to lunch. But yeah, approachein shake and a triple decorpedum butter schandwich before you went to n What

did you left? Huh no, no, no, no, no no, it was it was at the high school. Yeah, I know, But did you ever like outside of school you and your pops get after it in the weight room or now. Uh sometimes, but he had that next surgery back in two thousand and four, two between two thousand and four and six, so you couldn't really do a lot of stuff. But uh, he was always there for like something like we'd go outside and might throw some until the baseball around a little bit back in the day, or we

just lose like some position stuff. When you're putting on the amount of weight that you did in high school, you have to have five baggus of the protein shake, peanut butter, triple decker sandwiches, and then go eat lunch. Isn't it like sickening the amount that you consume? It definitely sucks. Like having if you had first lunch at at my high school and you had second block weight training, you're pretty much screwed because you've just been just working out.

You just drank a protein shake. Like sometimes a lot of guys don't like eating after they just finished working out because just like I'm not really hungry, and then you don't eat, and it messes up the muscle game or the possible muscle game that you could have got. But I mean half the time, I just like all right, drinking protein shake like you'd have the sandwich. Or sometimes guys are like, hit, take a couple of by ites

s throwed away. But most of the guys that really committed, they just eat it and then get something in lunch. You're like, all right, I don't know, huncky, but I gotta eat anyway. Were you recruited to you to play outside linebacker, Yeah, Coose grant them. Uh one of his wanted me to playoffs linebacker, and he was like, justin Houston's the guy that who we see you being like

a similar mold too. And at the time he was like two sixty five or whatever, and I was like, yeah, I kind of see that like I was two or at the time, like in all the norms, just like you're too short to be a true demons event and you're not big enough really to be a true demons event, and you're too big to be a true linebacker in college or whatever. And it was like, I was just the twinter building. Your friend was like, well in r evens,

you'd be like the sandbacker. And I mean it pretty much was the same um as what uh, the same as what it was the last two or three years here. So you talked about all the different places that you grew up. Did you start playing football when you were in Georgia though, or did you have to like start in one one state, play a little bit, then moved and continue playing in another state? Like how did that

affect your football career as a kid? Actually, Uh, my dad really hates because he went to uh I think I can't remember. It might have been a sergeant major school or some school he had to go to for the army in El Paso, Texas. Um, well, I have rewind um my start to football. I didn't want to play football. I was a soccer player and I was playing soccer, baseball and basketball. And we're Washington. My dad's like, oh, you grab a soccer, gonna take you to a soccer camp.

Only the ends when we get there, it's not a soccer camp. It's football. And uh, I played flag football the year before. I was like, all right, it's kind of dull. This was in third grade. And then fourth grade we go to the camp and he's like, all right, get out and I'm like, no, I'm not getting I was just stubborn with kid, did you play a fast one on you? By saying that it was you know, he pulled a fast on? And uh, It's like all right, you can even sit in the car or get out

there and go blaring football. And I sat in the car for like ten men and I said, well, he's already out there, and I'm like, I'm not gonna sit in the car all day. Got out the first day, had fun, but I didn't want him to show it. I was like, no, I have fun. I don't even like it. And then Slowest Dirt that year, like me and it was I was I think it was a right guard at the time, and it was me and this other Russian kid would always be the last two

guys in every sprint we had to do. And then he also part time coach that league, and in fifth grade came around, he coached again, got a little faster, started understanding things a little bit better, and uh, I had a good time. Like he would purposely make me late to practice because we would have to. If you were late, you had the bear call the field down

and back on the yards. That's so when you knew, you're getting your stuff together and your dad's like, yeah, I'm not ready to go yet, and you know you're coming to practice later, Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of arguments in the car, what um ma? And it'd be quiet, like I just be like, man, you know him for to be late, and I know you're not gonna tell the other coaches. Yeah, I mean it was my fault, but no, it's like he knew. He was like, oh, coachy, seign, you don't get off easy. You gotta go to your

bear across. So so at what age did at at what age did to change for you from being forced to actually admitting that you like it. Obviously, now you're on the professional level, it's pretty remarkable considering that you were literally forced to play football. Yeah. I can't really imagine you're playing soccer. I gotta be honest, And just because I'm looking at maybe it's like a center fullback or something. Yeah, I just can't imagine you running around

a soccer field kicking. Yeah. It was pretty fun back, UH, in my soccer days. But I actually didn't play in sixth grade because my dad, Like I told you, my dad went down to UM I think it was sorry, the Major Academy or something like that, whatever it is, some training ended to get in el pass with Texas, and it was he had to be there for like

eight months out of the year. And I knew my mom wouldn't gonna make me play football and UM because he was gone, and I just remember them arguing on the phone and Moll I'm saying, Oh, he didn't want to do he didn't want to do it. I didn't play football in sixth grade. Then moved to Georgia and first year we go UH. I trial for the team, get cut in seventh grade, and then come back out in the UH for the spring team in seventh grade

going into eight grade year. They a couple of the coach asked me like, did you try out um in the fall, and I was like, yeah, no, I tried out. I remember getting cut and uh, to this day that was That was on one of the funnies years my life. Didn't have to play anything. I got cut from the

basketball team to the year. Didn't play a single sports in seventh grade like a Michael Jordan's story here, Yeah, I didn't didn't play out once sport, got cut from basketball and football, and I didn't know how all the baseball program work down in Georgia. So how many so you mentioned your sister before, how many siblings? And what did your mom do? Did she raise you guys or was she working as well? But no, she uh she

worked with sold security and as it claimed representative. So both family members in the government, so you know they, uh, they know all about us. There's no lying to get pell grant back in college. That was certainly couldn't do.

And she must have been tremendously adaptable, because that's not easy to be the wife or a spouse of a military person because a lot of times these sacrifices are amazing, you know, whether you're overseas or you're moving throughout the country in terms of being stationed at certain places for a couple of years. And you guys are a family who would just get up. Yeah, that's something more family's uh gotten really used to. Was just traveling around a

lot of places like we. Uh well, first of all, my mom, she's a tough woman, tough smart, Uh not one to cross because she's gifted in the words, and she's gifted and uh know when she knows how to get under your skin. So she's winning every she's winning every argument. Like she's hard at it, just like me. And she is a tough little nut to crack. But we would like we when we left Washington State to come to Georgia, we drove and excouraging me and my sister,

my brother he's six, five sisters six ft. I was six one at the time. I just passed her up. Uh dad's six. Three moms like I think five eight five nine, maybe five five seven eight or nine one of the three, but all of us all in the excursion with all our stuff from watching the state, driving across the country was pretty fun, uh, pretty fun trip, Like about a week, Like we stopped here and there, like the Four Corners stop. There, stopped at some littity

spots on the way. But it was a long ride with a lot of stops, and I would always get car sick as a kid, and like anything anything, anytime I drank anything with red dye in it, I would just start throwing up in the car. But yeah, it was something weird and this kid like I just couldn't drink red dye and be in the car Like, so, do you just like red gator right now? I tend not. That's also why I tend not to drink red gatorade.

It's because I like it didn't infect me now, but I always you have the flashback, Like even at sporting events sometimes I drink red Gatorade and I'd either get crams or I just start throwing up whatever. Yeah, it was kind of weird. Is that something you guys often talking about a family reunions or get togethers where everybody's together.

Because you just said that it's such a impact and yeah that you just think about that that move specifically from Washington, Georgia in that week, well just about oh yeah, that and all the stops and Uh, me, like I get cars to get like even now, like if I'm in the back seat whatever in the cars with that's over an hour. I'm just like, no, I gotta I gotta stop. Well, I gotta like I go to sleep in every cards right now? All right, Well, I I

got something for you. Speaking of cars. Forgot about this. E A probably did too, but we had Avery on earlier this year. Yeah, and he has a new shiny jeep apparently. Yeah have you Yeah you haven't really. Yeah, we shot a feature with him in the summer. But regardless, unfortunately,

ride let me tell you something beautiful, but it's rough. Unfortunately, we asked him who he would not let drive, and he said, you, oh see, I'm a point a point be driver, and me being like my mom, if you're driving bad, I'm gonna let you know you're driving bad. So hey, I ay, we didn't tell you. I drove baby around for during the bye week when I stayed up here and got treatment when I was out for the cab and uh, he couldn't drive at the time,

so he had to ride with me. And it was that like we went to treatment at like six in the morning or like seven in the morning, and there's some girls, this one group of guys in the morning just try cutting me off. And I've got like a light bar on my truck with spotlights on the bottom, so I mean when they get cut on there insanely bright.

And these guys cut me off, I said, okay, you want to cut me off, switch one switch too, Flash the heck out of those guys, and then went around him and got around and he was in the car now he was like, what were you doing. I was like, hey, don't cut me off like that. Yeah, otherwise I'm a big fan of that. Yeah, if you don't let people know they're driving bad, they're going to continue to drive bad before we let you go. I just have one question for you about to Salute the Service month week

in the NFL, depending on the team or whatever. Does it have different meaning to you, Like does it go through your mind or is it just are you more just appreciative that the NFL does something like salute to Service Month? Well, I always, uh always take great pride in that, uh because being military brat, like you can do certain struggles that now not not a lot of other kids go through, Like it's sometimes to strict their household, different different standards, and it's just you just have more

respect for the authority. Figured it just when you see like, uh, it's just all the everything just means more. Like I think about my dad, think about all the other uh, all the other military families, like living on base and just experience what we've had, and it's just such an honorable thing to me. Like I always try and play harder and uh in those games, Well, I don't have to play hard. It just gives me more amped up. I don't. I don't have to do a lot to

get hip for that game. And then any anytime they have like army pains or Army stickers, always trying to grab the Army paine or like army flag to take out just don't you have the towel to services camel towel? Yeah, because I'll always try and get uh, anytime anything, I always try and get Army, because army is the best one. Sorry Air Force, sorry, Navy can go Army. Well, my uncle was a former lieutenant colonel himself in the Army.

He's his past, but he served in Vietnam and Korea, and he would echo those sentiments of people here here. I thought you're gonna say, well, my family's Navy family. I don't know the one thing about living on base. Did you live on base it all those stops or not? In Alaska we lived on base and southall South Carolina. I'm not sure. I was too young. Alaska, we definitely lived on base. It was just like there's a neighborhood and a lot of a lot of Sometimes it's even

like do plexus or whatever, and it's like random. It feel like we're in a random neighborhood in the middle of nowhere, like a neighborhood of town, and then just wilderness everywhere. And then California we're on base. Washington State is when we stopped living on base and then uh moved out and got like two I think we lived in Tacoma and then span Away and then but we didn't live on base after after Washington. All right, well, we're gonna let you go play some video games now.

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