Warren Moon tells Bret what it's like being a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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We the vehicle owners manual for important feature limitations and information. The following podcast is #boneproof. It's time for another edition of the Brett Boom podcast. I've ever read you almost with the blows. You lose that me down three times, too, so I know what you're talking about. It's your host, MLB All-Star. Brett Boom. Bottom line is, you will become a successful majorly hitter by hitting pitchers mistakes. As he sits down with his sports entertainment friends from around the world, you are not going to be a successful majorly hitter if you hit pitchers pitch. This isn't just any former jocks podcast. To change the outcome, you got to change the income. You got to change what goes in, and that changes what goes out. Often duplicated, but never replicated, just like his back flip. Okay, now the party starts. The responsibility starts now. Now in its fourth year, this is the one and only, Brett Boom podcast. Welcome to the Brett Boom podcast. I'm your host, Brett Boom. Today I'm joined by one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He's a friend of the podcast, and he's fresh off his yearly trip to Camp, Ohio. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Hall of Famer Warren Moon Warren. Thanks for coming on the program. Yeah. It's great to be on again, Brett. How you doing? Good. Got to see a couple of weeks ago, Mike Tyson's golf event that's become kind of an annual thing. It's funny, Warren, how I got involved in that. I got a phone call from Mike Tyson, and you know how you get the block number. You never answer the number, right? Right. For whatever reason, this particular day, I answered this phone call and said, "Hello." He said, "Hello." I said, "Yeah." He goes, "This is Mike Tyson." Okay. And he goes on and on. Next thing I know, I got off the phone, I had committed to a charity event in Seattle. Mike is very convincing. I had no idea how I did it, and I tell him that to this day. I love him now, and I've done it for four years. But I said, "Tice, I don't know how I'm even here." I should have never answered that phone call, and there's just those phone calls you get off and you go, "I don't know how that happened, but the guy in the other one, I just, I really liked him for some reason. I've never met him before." And I felt like I've known him for 30 years when I got off the phone, and it was the first phone call. Anyway, he does a great job up there. Yeah. I thought you guys had a history, maybe, because he was here in Seattle, and you played here in Seattle as well, and, you know, he coached in Minnesota. I don't know, maybe I thought you guys had crossed paths somewhere along the way. Never. He convinced me that we had though. You just picked up a random call on the air. Unbelievable. But I never do that. Something made me do it that particular day anyway. Good to have you on. You just got back from Canton. Just tell the audience, you know, I've never been to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I've been to the baseball a few times. Just tell the guys listening out there, listening to the Brett Booten podcast. What that week consists of for you, for the Hall of Famers? Yeah, it's a pretty intense week. It starts not the beginning of the week, but it starts on Wednesday, and we have the Board of Trustees dinner. I'm on the Board of Trustees, but all the Hall of Famers who were in town early that week. A lot of guys come in early to play golf. There's some great golf courses around there, you know, Firestone, where they play, you know, some of the PGA events and that. So a lot of guys come in early just to play golf and, you know, get ready for the festivities, but they start out with the Board of Trustees dinner. The next day, we have a lot of health screenings and things like that for guys who want to, you know, find out about their physical and their mental health. So they have doctors that come in and give you all types of exams, take blood, a whole bit. And then you have the game that night, the Hall of Fame game is that evening. So we all attend that. We have a toast before we go to the game. We go in the bus room where all the bus of all the Hall of Famers are in there and we have champagne and we give toast and your guys given testimonials is a pretty emotional evening, which I love. And then we go to the game right after that. The next day is a really full, full day, that's Friday. We have a meeting that morning and the Hall of Fame kind of gets us up to date on everything that's been going on with the Hall. If the guys have any questions about anything going on, those are answered in that meeting. Then we walk down the street as a group from our hotel down to this area they call Centennial Plaza that they created a few years ago, and it has the name of every professional football player that's ever played football in that plaza on the walls. It's really pretty cool. And that's where we take our group picture for that year's Hall of Fame induction class. And then we walk back to the hotel and then we go into the lobby for I mean into the main ballroom. We have the what's called the Ray Nitchke luncheon and it's a luncheon that's just for Hall of Famers. I happen to be able to host that luncheon now. It's quite an honor to be able to host that luncheon. And again, we have lunch. We give out pendants to guys who are going through their decade classes or their every five year classes. We give pendants to those guys who are there. You have guys again get up in that meeting and talk about what the Hall of Fame and what football has meant to them in their life. Again, it gets pretty emotional in there. Guys are talking about all types of things we've all realized whether they're having health problems, whether they're having mental health problems, all types of things come out of that meeting and but it's a meeting that only that information stays in there. Then that evening we have the what they call the gold jacket dinner and that's the dinner right before we go over to the civic plaza where they're going to give out the jackets to the new class and we're all we're all introduced that night. And then the new class is introduced that evening in front of a huge crowd. And then the next day on Saturday is the induction. And that starts around noon. This year was delayed a little bit because we had some rain in the forecast so they delayed it about an hour and a half because it's thunderstorms. But all the induction and the speech that you see on TV by all the guys, that's a pretty special day because that's when the guys get up and kind of thank everybody and their families and everybody that's played a part in a role in their career. And then after that's over that night all those new inductees have their parties at various places around Canton. So it's a pretty packed weekend and then on Sunday this year they had Carrie Underwood in concert on Sunday night and I went to that and then left Monday. So it's a full five days of stuff every day and I didn't list everything that I did because I'm on the board so I had some other meetings and things involved. But yeah it's a pretty involved, intense meeting of all these guys but it's a great weekend. It's one of the fun weekends of the year. Yeah you know it sounds like and with all the activities you got to go to it sounds like oh it could be a but when you get to when you get to get together with that group the guys that have got those jack the it's an exclusive group you were inducted in 2006. It's probably something you really look forward to to go into every year. Yeah I haven't missed a year since I was inducted like 18 years ago and myself and Troy Aikman and Harry Carson we only have the three of us left from our class John Madden passed away Rayfield right passed away and so did Reggie White he passed away before he was even inducted it but we vow that we come back every year and we've kind of stuck to that so it's a special weekend and it's something that I think guys relish we had about 130 guys back this year I think there's only about 200 guys that are living and a lot of those guys some of them aren't able to travel because of their age or or health reasons or whatever like that so and then we also had about 50 I think 52 widows who came back you know from guys that have passed away so a lot of a lot of people came back for that and it is like I said it's one of the great weekends of the year for me and one of the great weekends of the year for a lot of the guys you know I've been on a lot of teams you've been on a lot of teams you've been on more teams than I have but kind of on the field there's a pecking order yeah there's you know in football there's the star quarterback and then you know he's kind of important baseball it's it depends who you are but you know there's the rookie there's the utility player there's the star on the team so there's always a pecking order is there a pecking order at that Canton week like is there guys that have been there so long and that everybody kind of looks too like wow he's still you know he'd probably getting older but but he's just a little you know and then one day maybe you'll be that guy years from now where man warm moon you should have seen him you know back to these young kids is there a pecking order at the at the Hall of Fame take your business further with a smart and flexible American Express business gold card you can earn four times points on your top two eligible spending categories every month like transit US restaurants and gas stations that's the powerful backing of American Express four times points on up to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in purchases per year terms apply learn more at American Express comms slash business gold card well I think there's definitely guys older guys and younger guys look up to like for myself it's a quarterback you know when I see a Roger stall back there or when I say Joe Nameth there I mean or or Terry Bradshaw you know those guys really mean something to me because I watched all those guys growing up when I was a young kid and you know wished or dreamed of being in their shoes one day so yeah I'm sure there's pecking orders for for all the different positions of guys who you know looked up to guys that they played before them and they tried to emulate their careers behind them but it seems like when we get together everybody's the same you know we there's no egos that's one of the things we say leave your ego at the door because we are all on this team together doesn't matter how many times it took you to get here whether you're a first ballot guy or it took you 15 years to get in here we're all in here we're all on the same team and and we have a model that this is a team you can't be cut from you can't be waved from it you can't even dive on this team you know you're here forever so that's something that sticks in everybody's mind you know I was thinking about this for Warren Boom if not for the Hall of Fame is there anyone in your life relationship buddy that probably wouldn't have been your friend if it weren't for you guys coming together as two Hall of Famers is there anybody in my life that no no let's say if it weren't for the Hall of Fame so if you weren't inducted and you have to come every week is there anybody that's really important in your life it's become close to you that wouldn't have happened if you weren't a Hall of Famer wow there's a there's lots lots of people you know that you would have never met you see what I'm saying that that have become really close to you yeah there's a few Hall of Famers that have become really close to me that that I've gotten close to since I've been in there but I probably wouldn't have met those people if if I wasn't a Hall of Famer so yeah I'd have to say that there's a lot of great relationships that are that are cultivated from this and you know you meet so many different people around the country because when you become a Hall of Famer and now your your profile goes up and you're in demand a lot of different places and and you end up meeting a lot of great people around this country and around the world you know because of that title you have on your name now first year you got in for you it was 2006 you've got the speech you've got like you said they have their parties for the incoming class you got tickets for family coordinate and probably the biggest thing probably was right in your speech rather the biggest speech of your life now you've been there for a while so when you go how is it different for you now coming back is it stress free is it more I'm just going to enjoy what are the perks of being a Hall of Famer there's no there's no question the week I mean the year after you've been inducted it's a much less stressed weekend because you don't have to worry about that speech planning this thing is like planning a wedding and a family reunion at the same time because you want to include everybody that's kind of played a part in your life growing up to get you to that point because when you become a Hall of Famer you don't do it by yourself and it starts as far back as you know playing pop Warner football you know I had I had coaches and I had some some of my former teammates from my pop Warner teams at my induction ceremony I had guys from my high school I had guys from college I had coaches from all those different areas so then all the family members and and that's the main thing you don't want to do is is forget anybody you don't want to forget anybody in your speech even though you can't name every name you want at least be able to talk about those groups of people and yeah it's it's quite the it's quite the presentation I actually had to hire somebody and that most guys do hire you know a party planner or whatever to to put the whole thing together for you so it's a lot of work it starts almost at the time you're inducted you know and at Super Bowl in February it starts like right after that and work goes all the way up until now until August to get that thing done as far as coming into town you know doing site visits the whole thing whole bit that goes along with it but it's a lot of fun and then you want to be able to include everybody that's been involved in your life because like like I said you don't make that by yourself getting to this year's inductees Dwight Frini Devin Haster Patrick Willis Julius I want to get them while Julius Pepper Andre Johnson but there were two that stood out to me and I just want to ask you you were there the Steve McMichael induction yeah and the in the Randy Gratashire yes what was it like for you watching those guys Steve with it with a current health condition and Randy had to wait so long it was an extra special to see something like that and I don't know just describe the moments for those two in particular yeah you know for Steve McMichael I played against him and this was his twenty fifth year before he got in he is he's laid up now with ALS and you know pretty much incapacitated you know he can't walk he can't talk I don't think so his wife was was his representative there in Canton what they actually did on the Saturday that of the induction they flew his wife and a number of his teammates that are in the Hall of Fame Richard did Jimbo Colbert Mike Singletary and a couple others back to Chicago and they were with him you know by his bedside with his wife and his sister and they pretty much gave him his his jacket that day they gave him a bust that day just like if he were on stage so the Hall of Fame did a great job and we're very sensitive about the fact that he wasn't going to be able to be there but they still want to include him and everything that was going on I thought it was a pretty good touch they did all that on a on a big screen video in front of the whole audience at the Hall of Fame so everybody got a chance to witness that and then for Randy Gratashar and when I watched his highlights because I was a big fan of his and the Orange Crush defense back in the day when they were playing and in my mind I'm going I don't know why it took him so long to get in here because of the way he played I mean this guy had he has the second most tackles in the history of professional football only behind Ray Lewis and you got to remember that he only played in 14 game seasons where you know Ray was playing in 16 game season so this guy was all over the field making tackles he had 20 interceptions as a linebacker and you're talking about an error where they didn't throw the ball as much as they do now so for him to have 20 interceptions and over 2,000 tackles is just amazing and for him to wait this long I don't know what the what the hold up was but he definitely deserved to be there and I'm glad he did and I'm always happy for guys like that that sometimes maybe get frustrated with the whole process and maybe want to give up on it but then all of a sudden when they finally do get that call or that knock on the door all those feelings go away and now all of a sudden they're a Hall of Famer yeah that's that really is cool and on the baseball side of things there's a veterans committee for the guys that go through the regular process and you know the 10 years is up to see it years later kind of maybe got people getting together and just you know was there was there someone that was missed by the current writers you know the two programs NFL major baseball they have two different ways of selecting them it's very interesting and that's what these guys were too they were veteran committee guys yeah and it's it's cool to see maybe to right a wrong that was that was you know somebody that was not caught to see it's got to be pretty gratifying at the end all start closer Kenley Janssen we have a question what's the best podcast of all time this boy isn't boring baby I'm Rob Radford and every single day I'm sitting down with the biggest names to show you this great game is the greatest game it's my podcast it's my passion is a cause I started more than two years ago and is now the most prolific national daily baseball pod there is another fact so jump aboard the BIB Express follow and listen to baseball isn't boring presented by Wasabi hot cloud storage on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.
