I am James Brown, NFL sportscaster. Ask me anything!

Most consistently thorough responses of any ama i can recall. Props to Mr. Brown...

one of the best I've seen on here since smoot.

The first year with FOX, the debut show with FOX was a very interesting one in terms of the challenges that we went through on that day. I can't see my wife out of the corner of my eye, and because she regulates everything I have to run it by her and make sure that it meets approval, but I think this story is okay as I've told it before.

Terry Bradshaw, who considered himself to be the studio veteran, two minutes before we were on the air he wanted to make sure that everybody was calm, because the world was wondering, what in the world is FOX going to do because they've never done football before and this is their debut show? And everyone was watching with interest to see what it was going to be like.

So Bradshaw looks down the desk and sees Jimmy Johnson, who had just been fired by the Dallas Cowboys, and he wanted to make sure he was calm. Jimmy, by the way, had just got a two million severance package, so we all wanted to be fired that way! So he says, "Coach, I know this is your first TV gig, so just to be calm, take a little bit of this Carmex, which is like Vaseline, and put it on your lips so you won't get cottonmouth." And the producer says, "A minute to air!" So he turns to Howie Long who had just been retired from the Raiders. And he turns to him and he says, "Take a little bit of this Carmex, put it on your lips and everything will be fine!" You see where I'm heading with this, it's a true story. Then they said, "30 seconds to air!" Terry takes a little bit of it and puts it on his lips, caps it up and puts it back in his pocket. And I turned to him and I said, "Redneck, how come you didn't offer a brother any?" He pulls it back out, looks at his Carmex, then looks at my lips, and he says, "You're gonna need a whole handful of this!" And we came on the air laughing at me. That's the way we did it for 12 years, and they continued with just a laugh-a-minute fun on the air.

I also had an unfortunate experience on the air where when I came back from commercial break and I was doing the scores, I had my script with me. I was taught to keep your script with you just in case. Well, the teleprompter had my script, and the teleprompter was running the script backwards! I had to maintain my calm! Meanwhile, Howie Long is sitting next to me, and he's looking with his eyes wide open, "How in the world are you reading this information with the prompter going backwards?!" But that's why I kept my script. I had to look down more often than normal to make certain until the prompter operator realized 20 seconds later that he was running it backwards! But we got through that, everything went smoothly, it went wonderfully well the rest of the day, and that show has been certainly a juggernaught from day one, and it was a wonderful experience there.

So your handle is "u/brownboss"? That's typically what I call my wife!

Okay, but anyway, the funniest person that I've worked with ever would have to be, hands down, the self-described (I have to say that slowly and enunciated because my sister is Vice President in corporate America for two Fortune 100 companies in Human Relations personnel, and she'd say, "James, you have to be careful with this.") "lovable redneck" Terry Bradshaw, an absolute crack up!

I was blessed to work with Terry at Fox for 12 years. And every Sunday morning that we would go into the studio, Terry had something different to say. He just had a unique manner of keeping us all lifted up and engaged in having fun. Even when he made mistakes, I remember we were at a commercial break, the producer said, "When we come back from this commercial break, let's promote the great game that's coming on our air in the second half of the day." And the game was really between two NFC teams. When I came back from break I said, "Terry, we've got an outstanding game for the second half of the day, give the viewers some of your insight as to what you're expecting." He said, "Man, I think that Pittsburgh Baltimore game is going to be sensational" And I hit Terry and I said, "That's an AFC game!" He says, "That's quite okay, it's still gonna be a sensational game! One that's not on our air!" But Terry could get away with that because of his really humorous nature.

He also had a tendency to use animal examples in explaining football plays. Some of them I can't talk about, but that's just the nature of how Terry Bradshaw went about things. One I can tell you, we were asking what was key for this particular team in looking to stop this great offensive player. And he said, "Well you know, my daddy used to have this donkey that worked on our farm. He would take this donkey, and he would take a big 2'x4', and he would smack him upside the head!" And I stopped him and I said, "Terry, what does that have to do with the question I just asked you about what this team has to do to win the game?" He said, "It’s related. The point I'm trying to make is, at first you need to get the donkey's attention, so the defense will have to get his attention." Terry always found some way to make the animal reference work for the football game.

Wow, DJ, superb question. And let me preface it by saying that, who I am as a man of faith dictates everything that I do. I make no compunction about that at all. You know, maybe I could think of one or two examples, and not so much the NFL, as much as things that were asked of me period that were inconsistent with my philosophy, with my faith.

Once I was asked to do, and I won't give the name of the company or the person, but a promotion that was not the kind of promotion that I would want to engage in. It was salacious, period, and from my perspective it would have been profane. It was a trend that was kind of sweeping the country at that time, and people would engage in that in a humorous fashion, but there was a red flag that was raised in me, and it didn't feel good at all. So I told them that I wouldn't do it.

The producer tried desperately to convince me that it was a "hip" thing to do in culture, that it would be fine, that it would make me a bit more relatable to that segment of society that enjoyed doing that, but I steadfastly said, "No." Now I wasn't necessarily the strongest early on - here we go again - my wife played a major role in that, because she is a strong woman in faith as well. And I recall one time I was gonna do a TV show, and I brought the opening monologue home with me to review. and so my wife happened to pick up the opening monologue, and there were a number of references in there that were really inappropriate.

So my wife would up scratching through all the things that I was gonna say, and it was 3 pages! And by the time she got finished scratching through all the things, I had about 3 lines of my opening monologue that was supposed to be 3 pages! But the fact of the matter is, you know what, it made sense, it felt like it was the right thing to do, and the immediate future it seemed like, you know what, most people would say you're hurting yourself because you're missing an opportunity that could lead to other opportunities.

But those aren't the kind of opportunities that I want to pursue. I remember having an opportunity to do a voiceover for a major car manufacturer, and they were talking about a car, and the lines continued to talk about how sexy the car is. And my wife and a friend of ours said, "What's sexy about a car? Help me understand!" So I called the car manufacturer and I said, "You know what, I respectfully decline to do this. I appreciate you looking at me as a talent to do this, but I can't do that because of the lines here. Because, there's nothing sexy about a gas tank. There's nothing sexy about a tire! There's nothing sexy about a windshield wiper, I mean gimme a break! Thank you very much, but I decline." Well they called back an hour later and said that they would change the copy to be that which was reflective and more consistent with what I believe, and that was more appropriate in terms of defining what this car was about, and some of the features and the benefits of those features.

So if you stand your ground for what you believe, some things may not happen but that's okay because there's enough else out there too, but I decided not to do that, and that was one thing where the writers changed it to fit what I thought was more appropriate, and it worked out.

You know, early in my career, it was a challenge. Because, it was suggested that I might want to consider having a stage name as opposed to the name James Brown, and you can only imagine what that conjures up.

I remember one of my first basketball games I was doing, my first go around at CBS network with the great Brent Musburger who was our play by play guy, and I was doing the halftime show that was called "At The Half", and so Brent Musburger says, "just a reminder that coming up At The Half, James Brown will be coming along with highlights and all the scores for you, so please stay tuned."

Well, the phone lines - and this was before Twitter and online emailing and texting and the whole nine yards - the phone lines lit up, people were excited. Holy cow, you mean to tell me the straight and sterile and stayed CBS is going to have the hit godfather of soul to perform something at halftime? Outstanding! I'm staying to tune in. And of course I showed up on the screen, and they were like, you gotta be kidding me, why would you guys lie to us. The phone lines lit up again, so yeah I have considered that.

But you know what, I've been at it too long now. I was just always hoping that people would think that there was at least a third James Brown, other than the great running back Jim Brown who often I've been confused with, and people have asked for my autograph, thinking oh my mom and dad used to watch you when you played for the Cleveland Browns, and I had to tell them sheepishly that's not me. Oh the godfather of soul, oh that's not me either. And then on Fox they had a Bart Simpson a shtick about that where he said, oh so you're the no talent James Brown, the ignoramus James Brown, and I said son, I'm big enough to toss you at least 50 years. Chill out, you understand.

But it's with me now, and I'm cool with it.

You might like this clip from NFL on FOX- Week 1- 1995

Back when NFL on FOX had lengthy introductions tied around a theme; in this case, The Simpsons.

He probably tricks people into thinking he is the other James Brown for kicks and tacos.

My favorite NFL moment. You know what, it's awfully hard to choose one particular moment, but some of the ones that might compete for that might be the late Reggie White, the Hall-of-Famer who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers was search of a championship and he did get one with the Green Bay Packers and that meant an awful lot to me because he is such a fine person. A godly man, a caring man, a very team oriented guy. I think Doug Williams, the quarterback for Washington when they played Denver, and Doug, despite injuring himself, would not be taken out of the game and he commenced to throw four touchdowns in one quarter to help Washington to a very impressive victory over the Denver Broncos. Those are some of the moments, probably going back a few years, but quite frankly I enjoy everything I have ever done in the world of football.

Perhaps, the most memorable, if I may answer this way u/BornToulouse, it was my first football game that I announced. It was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, hosting the Atlanta falcons. Keep in mind, that despite the size of girth you see, I played basketball, these little bully basketball legs of mine, and so the producers are saying, “JB just call a clean game, don't worry about anything.” So I go through the first half of the game and I'm thinking “ Football is not that difficult”. And my producers told me “Never look at the stadium clock because it will always be wrong. Always look at the TV clock.” So, I go through the first half, everything is fine and I get to the third quarter and I'm a little complacent. And I said Steve Deberg, the quarterback, he's up in the center, he takes the snap, delayed handoff to James Rob the running back, he's off right tackle, he's at the 40, he's at the 45, he's at the 50, he's got daylight, he's at the 60, he's tackled at the 65 yard line. My producer gets in my ear and says, “JB there's no such thing as a 65 yard line! GO TO COMMERCIAL.” Now I'm shook up. I looked at the stadium clock, and I said, “Well, we're 8 minutes in, 99 seconds left in the 3rd period of play. We'll be right back after this commercial.” Compound at the matter.

My partner, who was a Harvard classmate of mine, Dan Jiggetts, who came back from commercial and he covered for me. He said, “For those of you who heard JB say 8 minutes and 99 seconds left in the 3rd period of play, he was just trying to see if you could do the mathematical conversion to figure out that it meant 9 minutes and 39 seconds left in the 3rd period of play. So, that's my most favorite memory from my first football game ever.

Thank goodness the game was only being televised to the local TV truck in the 7-11 down the street.

If I had a choice, what NFL rule would I change? Quite simply, it is the definition of what is a catch.

Are you kidding me, how difficult can it be? It's gone through one iteration to another. One says, when you catch the ball, you have to make a "football move". Well, what other kind of move is there to make on a football field, but a football move?

Some say, when you catch the ball and go to the ground, you must control it after hitting the ground. If you are a 230 pound tight end and you take all that weight and you hit the ground, if you hit the ground for a nanosecond, that to me is a touchdown. So what if the ball comes out of your hand? Many of you recall the great catch by Calvin Johnson, now retired, of the Detroit Lions and there was a question about that. So, quite simply, what is a catch. It is exceedingly simple. It should not be complicated, where one has to be a lawyer to interpret, despite my colleague Alvin Patrick's son, being a brilliant up and coming lawyer. You don't need a lawyer to determine that. A catch is quite simply, if you catch the ball and you have it for a second in your arms, showing possession, it is a catch.

It's probably an organized thing with the reddit admins. Why else would everyone have a printed-out professional reddit card to write their name on in their proof pic?

It's raining AMAs this week.

I believe they have a room or a booth at the Super Bowl and are coordinating with the NFL

One of the things that I've learned in this business is that a number of us will be on the receiving end of criticism from folks who don't like something we say, our broadcasting style, the substance thereof, and I understand. And people have a right to feel that way.

So with respect to my colleague Phil Simms, first of all, you know I'm not going to say anything derogatory about him because he is a team mate. I happen to think he's very good. Phil is passionate about the sport. There's no one who prepares any harder than Phil Simms. No whether or not he is your cup of tea, that's every bit your right to either find him favorable or unfavorable. People felt the same way, and maybe I'm going down a wrong path by saying this, but I know this gentleman very well and he shared this with me, but Cris Collinsworth. People have said the same thing about him. But the good thing is, they're talking about him. So something he's saying must be resonating.

Let me be clear; I'm sure there are a number of people who don't like what I have to say. I've been dragged into the 21st century. When I came in here, I had to ask all the people who are much more tech savvy than me, whether it's Ashley or Steve, or Alvin or Sharon, or my wife, I had to ask them because I don't understand a lot of this, and even at CBS they've said that if we're not engaging on Twitter, that we're really missing the most active social media that there is out there to engage with the fans. And I do, but not every day. I'm very selective, because there's some really tough people out there.

I realize I've been at this for a minute, and I will engage in self-deprecating humor. There's this one guy that's been picked up, he hates the fact that my hairline, which used to be down to my eyebrows is now back at the halfway point of my head. And he says, "JB, why don't you just go bald, my brother?" So I asked my wife again. My wife is a common thread through this! I said, "Sweetheart, do you want me to cut my hair and go bald?" And she says, "No, as long as you've got a few strands of hair that look pretty good, you keep it there!" So if I'm pleasing my wife with it, I'm cool. Now for those who may not understand this reference, I do wear a stocking cap at night to keep that bad boy pressed tight and to look as good as it possibly can, but it is what it is.

So I understand that people have the right to their own opinion, and there are some rough ones out there. So I'm selective in what I engage in on Twitter because it's tough. Bill Cowher, my colleague in the studio, he'll see me sometimes in between commercials and I'll check Twitter, and he sees me biting my bottom lip, and he'll just look over at me and say, "JB, don't read it! JB, don't answer it!" I've done my best because I have engaged in some Twitter battles with folks, but you know what, thank God everybody's entitled to their opinion. I just hang with it and do the best job that I can.

I know Phil Simms personally, and he does the best job for himself, for the viewers who listen to him, and the same with Cris Collinsworth and others. That was an honest response, and I hope it was comprehensive, expansive, and respecting the right for you to dislike the announcer also, but at least to understand a little about what announcers go through to make sure that they're on top of it as best as possible. And it is a Super Bowl MVP, the guy played in the game and as John Madden said, anybody that steps across those white lines and played that game, they are a man. They are men in my book because it is not a game because for the faint of heart.

WELCOME TO SUPER BOWL 50 WHERE I'M TOLD SUPER BOWL 50 WILL TAKE PLACE.

asking the tough questions

If you only answer one question, let it be this one please.

I honestly believe he has a severe brain injury. I have a family member who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident and they sound just like Phil Simms trying to explain something.

I think he's an awful analyst at any rate, but there's something there (in my opinion) fucking with his cognitive skills.

Phil Simms is the Donald Trump of NFL casters. He says ridiculous things, but it's probably on purpose so we're entertained by the ridiculousness and we keep talking about him.

First of all, if you know anything about Howie, none of us would dare say anything bad about him, even if he's a thousand miles away. We love him; we call him Big Boy. And Big Boy is one of the strongest, most tenacious colleagues we have ever worked with.

But, humor aside, Howie is always impeccably attired, (EXCEPT when he's going hunting). He will have his big boxer type shorts on because he is certainly very well-built, very strong, but then again you wouldn't expect to see him in a leather jacket and ascot going out hunting. But Howie is always impeccably attired. His wife, Diane, does a wonderful job dressing him and he always cuts a very dashing figure on TV, yes.

Asking the real questions

Wow. You know what? That is an easy answer. At home in Bethesda, Maryland in my own kitchen with my wife doing the cooking. That's the best place in the world for me to get a meal.

You know what, I probably could be a better one in terms of going out and enjoying matters and maybe from my wife's perspective she would probably want me to take her out a bit more frequently than I do because I'm such a homebody. But I was teasing with my colleagues here about the first date I had with my wife, who was born in Germany. The first thirteen years of her life was spent there. She was an army brat. She prepared me a German dish, actually I think she said it's Austrian, called “goulash.” Which, you know, it's a brown concoction with meat and everything, but it looked like mud.

Well, you know what, I might not be able to go home after I already started this story now, but the fact of the matter was it was the nastiest dish I have ever tasted in my life. But I asked for seconds, and thirds, because I wanted to get to know her, and thank god I wound up marrying her, and now she is the best cook in the tradition of my mother, god bless her. So, that's my favorite place. She does have a place, also in our neighborhood, called the Whitmont Grill, and they do make the best food in the world. She outghta have stock in the place, so I'll go there, so wherever she wants to go and eat, that's where I go.

Some of the challenges associated with my job... well, I like to think that I speak the King's English, at least fundamentally sound. Sometimes, some ebonics might creep in, so I try to make sure that I regulate that and not to engage in such slang.

But, I can't think of any real challenges associated with my job that I don't embrace and enjoy. Maybe from my wife's perspective... although, she might see this as a good thing as I travel pretty extensively, so she gets to have a quiet household and not have to worry about a big kid to take care of!

Some of the unknown perks--you know believe it or not, even though we're all well-compensated, and we all enjoy the travel and the life, we're still like little kids, and I find this especially true with athletes. They make millions of dollars per year. And if you've got a CBS sports hat or CBS news hat, they go crazy. As a matter of fact, if the interview has ended and you haven't given them a hat, they will remind you that you owe them a hat. So, that's amazing. Those are some of the nice perks that we get, and gift bags; most often I give them to my wife and make sure that she gets first choice and I get the leftovers.

Well, great question. First all, with respect to the game of football, I have great respect for the men that play that game. Having been trained under the great John Madden, who is an iconic figure in broadcasting circles, and even as a coach with the group that he coached with Raiders, he says any time those guys step across the white lines of that field to play football, that is a serious game. They do not joke out there. So, one has to understand that you really couldn't play the Pro Bowl at the same level, speed, and intensity as you would a regular season game, because all players know they are one hit away from their career being ended.

I would probably look at the skills competition; I think that's an excellent suggestion. Much like they do in hockey as well, with skills competition as a part of their all-star weekend as well. That's probably the closest you're going to get to like, the NBA, with the Slam-Dunk contest or the 3-point-shooting contest, where maybe some fancy dribbling drills are involved. And if that doesn't capture the public's fancy, far be it from me to suggest that they should get rid of the game. But you made the suggestion, so I think that might merit some examination as well. But, I'd hate to see that go by the wayside. I think there are some tremendous different athletes, and I would love to see something that really puts them in a position to showcase their skills.

Well, first of all, I'm very thankful and very humbled to have been in this game of sportsball casting for a very long time. I do not take it for granted and I'm not complacent about it and I'm very thankful that I still enjoy very much what I'm doing. I try to approach it to deliver excellence each and every time out. I don't know so much that I'm starstruck at this point, but the athletes, the people that I'm blessed to do some work with as a special correspondent for CBS News for my news producer Alvin Patrick, we see people who are, if you will, stars in the game of life. Whether it's in business, entertainment, you name it. I react more to what that person is like. Are they a person of character and integrity? Do they have a strong foundation upon which they stand? Those are the things that really mean the most to me.

I remember a number of years ago, I was blessed to host a Leadership Speakers Series and we had some of the best speakers in the country from General Cole and Powell to the personal development guru, Tony Robbins, to coach Don Shula. We had President Bush 41 on the show and also the late, great General Norman Schwartzgoff of Desert Storm. And I'll never forget what General Schwarzkopf said when talking about people who are successful. He mentioned prior to the interview that we were doing, and it was broadcast, what we call narrow-casting into a number of businesses around the country and these businesses, based on the speaker line-up would buy that package and it would be broadcast into their location.

There was an overwhelming demand to hear Schwartzgoff. I remember a lady asking a question. Saying that she was in a testosterone laid environment, she was managing men and some of them just weren't listening and how would she go about correcting that? And General Schwartzgoff, who had a great sense of humor, who was very light, a lot of levity in his comments, he looked into that camera with furrowed brow and a straight face and he said, "Ma'am, they have no choice, but to follow what you say. And you make certain that you enforce that. And I have two rules in respect to that: when you are given a charge to lead, rule 13 says you lead. And if, in fact, there is any question about that, you refer to rule 14. And rule 14 references back to rule 13. They need to listen to you period. And he talked about the successes in corporate America. He said, "If you look at the titans who head up industry in corporate America, he's seen a number of examples where people are tremendously talented, a lot of potential, a lot of talent, and their talent is taking them to the top very quickly. But if it's not rooted in a firm foundation of character and integrity, the fall is precipitous. And 8 out of 10 people who are fallen lack character and integrity."

Those are the people that I enjoy meeting because there is some value there that they are willing to share with all of us that we can take notes from and add to how we go about living life that will make life more meaningful. Particularly, in the essence that you're helping to contribute to others living a more fulfilled life. So, those are the people that I enjoy meeting.

Look, I've met some great superstars, absolutely, but some who I would not want to engage in a friendship at all because they lack those characteristics. I'm more about people with character and substance and people who are willing to give into, pour into the life of others. Speaking words of edification, words that are encouraging and strengthening. That is pretty much what I'm all about. Sounds pretty square doesn't it? But that's who I am.

Wow, u/swanbearpig. I'd like to do a little interview with you guys. You got some excellent handles here. I'd like to probe a bit further.

And having said that now, who is the most interesting non-athlete, non-football person that I've had a chance to talk with? That's a good question. Let me answer it this way as I try to go back to the rolodex of my mind. With the non-football stories that I did involving ordinary people, two stories come to mind.

One, I was blessed to go on a reporter involvement story climbing Mount Kilimanjaro over in the Tanzania. And at the time that my executive producer assigned me to the story, I mean asked him, “Wait a minute, I'm a brother from the city, and you're sending me where, to do what?” I said, you know what, if you're really thinking that I haven't done a job for you and you're looking for a way to move me out of the business, I said you know what, why don't you just fire me? Why are you sending me to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? But as it turned out it was one of the most emotionally involved stories that I've ever been involved with because these kids were special olympians looking to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, 12 of them ages 19-35 with various degrees of challenges if you will, and their sole aim and desires was to show the world that they were just as success driven as able-bodied athletes.

We were to go up four days and climb down three days. Well we ran into a real bad snowstorm at about the 16,000 foot level of a 19,340 foot height of Mount Kilimanjaro, so we had to camp out a little longer than normal, and a decision was made to send the majority of athletes back down the mountain and take the five strongest ones up to the top, and that was a very emotional time. There was an awful lot of crying, because all of them wanted to go to the top, but they put their hopes and dreams and prayers to the five who were selected to go to the top, but the crew also had to make a determination who they were gonna send back down the mountain with those kids.

Unfortunately yours truly was selected to go back down the mountain as well, and I was wondering why they sent me, and everyday at the end of the day as black as you are you're white at the end of the day, and I asked them well what is the problem, and the leader went through my backpack, and I was only supposed to have 10 pounds back there, I had 40 pounds of material back there. That's why. I did lose an awful lot of weight. It was a hard way to lose weight, but I did go back down the mountain and I cried with these kids, because it really was an emotional experience. The high point was that the five of the strongest kids did make it to the top, they put the Special Olympics flag at the top of the mountain, and that gave everybody a sense of joy, and I cried right along with them.

ow. You know what? I'm ashamed to say, I do not play Fantasy Football. My excuse: I've got so much on my plate right now that I really don't have time to add one more element to it. I do keep up with it tangentially, and the one thing that I can say that is exciting about Fantasy Football is I'm loving the fact that more often than not, women absolutely rule in Fantasy Football.

Guys think that it is a part of their DNA that they're supposed to know football so well, and they're gonna dominate. I'm telling you, I have seen, in more cases than not, where women either in their own leagues or participating with men have smoked them time and time again. I don't care what the reasons are or why they are excellent at it, but I'm loving the fact that women are dominating in terms of talent and picking players who are gonna bring about the most points for them.

A horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? Wow...that's a pretty strong visual there.

I would assume that that kind of scenario would only occur in Disneyland, Fantasyland. So if I could engage in a teenage or a toddler James Brown answering that question, I would probably be Superman in that scenario, be able to take off my Clark Kent clothes, and be able to fly above the fray. That is the way I would tend to deal with it.

If you're really serious and there is some type of deep psychological meaning behind this question and that my answer would reveal something pretty psychologically comprehensive as well, a horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses… you know what, give me the latter. I'd prefer to fight a hundred duck-sized horses.

My wife is gonna smack me for this, because I would think I'd be able to kick that sized horse out of the way, or get me a broom and knock them out of the way, that's probably a bit more polite. Or put on a suit that's a rubber protective suit, and be able to handle that one. Anything as big as me or bigger… I couldn't outrun the horse-sized duck, so, yeah, I'll take the latter.

Now since I've given you the answer, I really want you to provide me with some feedback on Twitter or whatever, what the psychological profile is for the answer I just gave. And if anybody is good with Photoshop, can you make an image of that? I'd like to see that. I'd like to actually blow that up and frame it. Again...if my wife allows it in the house. You know what, throughout this entire interview I'm just wondering whether or not this is indicative that my wife has had me in a bootcamp, has whipped me into shape, and I'm a docile husband. You know what, it goes back to Howie Long. Howie Long claims that how he runs his household, he calls his wife and he says that there are only two things he's afraid of; 1) rats, and 2) his wife, and not necessarily in that order. So I'm gonna take that and say that there are only two things I'm afraid of; rats, and my wife, and not in that order.

Lol Ray Lewis

These responses are incredible, easily one of my favorite AMAs due to the awesome depth

What?

What's up with you and Gio? I've seen you multiple times say he's the cutest player in the league or something like that, lmao.

Dope username

He doesn't work for the NFL...

You got swooped on by /u/spiderman96

Is cereal a soup?

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

lol downvote this but upvote the fucking hotdog question.