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>> Announcer: THE FOLLOWING IS A

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PRESENTATION OF HBO SPORTS.

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>> Bryant: TONIGHT, ON

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"REAL SPORTS," THE NFL'S BRIGHT

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AND SHINY NEW STADIUM IN

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LAS VEGAS REPRESENTS A TRIUMPH

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FOR RAIDERS BOSS MARK DAVIS, A

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MAN WHO'S OFTEN VIEWED AS LITTLE

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MORE THAN THE BUTT END OF A

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JOKE.

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>> NOW THAT IS A SUPER BOWL.

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[LAUGHTER]

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>> Andrea: DO YOU REALIZE THAT

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IF YOU PROBABLY TOOK A POLL OF

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NFL OWNERSHIP, NOBODY WOULD HAVE

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EVER THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD BE

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ABLE TO GET THIS DONE?

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>> I HOPE THEY CONTINUE TO

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UNDERESTIMATE ME.

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[LAUGHS]

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>> Bryant: THE AMERICAN WEST

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IS ONCE AGAIN BEING RAVAGED BY

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WILDFIRES, ON THE BATTLE LINE OF

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THOSE FIRES IS A STRANGE PLACE

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TO FIND ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S

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TOP ULTRAMARATHONERS.

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>> Jon: WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT THERE,

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YOU'RE FACING A WALL OF FIRE,

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WHAT'S IT LIKE?

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>> IT'S INTENSE.

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THE SMOKE'S BLOWING, IT'S

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GETTING IN YOUR EYES, YOU FEEL

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LIKE, IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS,

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I'M GOING TO GET BURNED UP RIGHT

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HERE.

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>> Bryant: ADAM SCHEFTER IS THE

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BEST-KNOWN NFL NEWS REPORTER ON

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TELEVISION, BUT IT'S HIS

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PERSONAL STORY THAT HAS MADE THE

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PAST MONTH ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT.

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SPEAK OF THE TWO WEEKS LEADING

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UP TO THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF

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9/11 WERE AS DIFFICULT AS ANY I

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COULD REMEMBER.

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BECAUSE THE MESSAGING

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OF THE ANNIVERSARY AND THE

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COMMEMORATION OF IT WAS SO

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PREVALENT.

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>> Bryant: AND AS LEAGUES,

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TEAMS, ARENAS, AND STADIUMS

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CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH

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COVID-19, WE'LL TALK SPORTS AND

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PANDEMIC PROTOCOLS WITH

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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI.

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WE'VE BEEN AT THIS BATTLE FOR 18

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IF THIS WAS A BALL GAME, GIVE ME

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AN IDEA OF WHAT INNING WE ARE

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IN?

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BRYANT, I HOPE WE ARE IN THE

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SEVENTH INNING, COMING TO THE

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>> Announcer: AND NOW, FROM THE

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HBO "REAL SPORTS" STUDIO IN

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NEW YORK, BRYANT GUMBEL.

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>> Bryant: GOOD EVENING AND

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WELCOME TO "REAL SPORTS," WHERE

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WE'VE GOT THE PANDEMIC, THE WEST

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COAST WILDFIRES, AND THE RECENT

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20TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 ALL IN

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OUR STORY LINEUP TONIGHT, BUT WE

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BEGIN WITH THE NFL.

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THE LEAGUE'S SHINIEST NEW

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STADIUM THESE DAYS IS IN

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LAS VEGAS, HOME NOW TO A

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TRANSITORY FOR DECADES.

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MARK DAVIS IS THE 66-YEAR-OLD

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OF THE TEAM'S LEGENDARY FORMER

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EVER IN SEARCH OF RESPECT.

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ANDREA KREMER HAS HIS STORY.

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>> Andrea: IT'S 100 DEGREES IN

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LAS VEGAS, BUT THE HOTTEST PLACE

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UNDER THE DOME OF

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ALLEGIANT STADIUM, HOME OF THE

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LAS VEGAS RAIDERS.

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BECAUSE THE CURTAIN IS FINALLY

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ABOUT TO RISE ON THE MOST

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ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF THE

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TOMORROW, THIS PLACE IS GOING TO

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I GET TO GO.

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>> Narrator: MARK DAVIS HAS BEEN

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WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR A

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WHILE THE STADIUM HAS BEEN

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OPERATIONAL FOR A YEAR, IT'S

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NEVER HOSTED FANS FOR AN NFL

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GAME, AS COVID RESTRICTIONS LEFT

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THEM LOCKED OUT ALL LAST SEASON.

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AND IN A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY,

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DAVIS, THE OWNER OF THE TEAM,

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LOCKED HIMSELF OUT AS WELL.

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>> I SAT OUT ALL LAST YEAR.

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I WATCHED IT ON TV, YOU KNOW,

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WATCH THIS EMPTY STADIUM HAVING

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FOOTBALL GAMES IN IT.

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AND IT DROVE ME CRAZY.

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>> Narrator: SO DAVIS HAS CUT NO

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CORNERS ON HIS BIG PREMIERE.

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>> MIC CHECK, ONE, TWO.

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>> Narrator: WE WATCHED AS THE

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INCLUDING A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR

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THE GAME'S HALFTIME ACT,

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CARLOS SANTANA, WHO CAME ACROSS

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THE STREET FROM HIS RESIDENCY AT

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THE MANDALAY BAY TO GRACE THE

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STAGE HERE.

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THEN, FINALLY, IT WAS TIME FOR

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DAVIS TO OPEN THE SHOW.

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>> RAIDER NATION, WELCOME HOME!

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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>> Narrator: THE REST OF THE

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NIGHT WAS A CELEBRATION, OF

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RAIDERS FANS FINALLY COMING

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TOGETHER IN THEIR NEW CITY AND

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THEIR NEW STADIUM, AND OF THE

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MAN WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE.

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>> WE LOVE YOU!

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>> LOVE YOU GUYS, TOO.

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>> Narrator: A MAN WHOM MANY

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AROUND THE LEAGUE DOUBTED WAS

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CAPABLE OF PULLING THIS OFF.

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OR, FRANKLY, DOING ANYTHING

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NOTEWORTHY AT ALL.

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>> Andrea: DO YOU REALIZE THAT

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IF YOU PROBABLY TOOK A POLL OF

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NFL OWNERSHIP, NOBODY WOULD HAVE

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EVER THOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD BE

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ABLE TO GET THIS DONE?

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>> I HOPE THEY CONTINUE TO

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>> Narrator: FOR MUCH OF HIS

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NOT AS A POWER BROKER, BUT AS A

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A MAN WHO MERELY INHERITED HIS

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TEAM, AND HIS WEALTH, FROM HIS

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FATHER, AND INDULGED IN STRANGE

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FOR YEARS, HE WAS LAMPOONED FOR

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CHAIN RESTAURANT, P.F. CHANG'S.

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>> Andrea: WHEN PEOPLE KNEW THAT

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I WAS DOING THIS STORY ON YOU,

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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE FIRST

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THING THAT THEY SAID TO ME?

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>> I HAVE NO IDEA.

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>> Andrea: "WHAT'S WITH THE

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WHICH ONE?

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>> Andrea: ALL OF THEM.

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>> OH, ALL OF THEM.

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>> Andrea: WHAT DO YOU LIKE

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>> I JUST BLOW-DRY IT.

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HANGING LIKE THIS.

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I DON'T REALLY HAVE TO COMB IT.

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BARBER THAT YOU GO TO?

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>> WELL, THERE'S ONE IN PALM

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DESERT NOW BUT IT'S NOT HER

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FAULT WITH THE HAIR, IT'S ME.

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I FORCE HER TO DO IT.

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ABILITY TO JUST LAUGH AT

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YOURSELF AND JUST NOT TAKE

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YOURSELF THAT SERIOUSLY?

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PEOPLE ASK WHERE I GREW UP, AND

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I SAY, "I HAVEN'T."

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>> Andrea: YOU HAVEN'T GROWN UP

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YET, HUH?

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NOPE, NEVER WANT TO.

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WHAT I SAY IS, "I WAS RETIRED

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THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF MY LIFE,

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AND NOW I'VE GOT A JOB."

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>> Narrator: FOR THOSE FIRST 50

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YEARS OF HIS LIFE, MARK DAVIS

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WAS SELDOM SEEN OR HEARD FROM,

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AS HE GREW UP IN THE SHADOW OF

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ONE OF THE GIANTS OF NFL

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HISTORY: HIS FATHER, THE

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LEGENDARY OWNER OF THE

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THEN-OAKLAND RAIDERS, AL DAVIS.

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>> THIS IS THE FINEST HOUR IN

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THE HISTORY OF THE OAKLAND

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>> Narrator: DAVIS WAS KNOWN FOR

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HIS SINGULAR FOCUS ON VICTORY.

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>> JUST WIN, BABY!

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>> Narrator: AND LESS SO FOR HIS

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FOCUS ON FAMILY.

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WHILE NFL OWNERS OFTEN INVITE

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THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO HELP

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THEM MANAGE THEIR TEAMS, AL

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>> Andrea: YOUR DAD OBVIOUSLY

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ATTENTION TO FOOTBALL.

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>> ABSOLUTELY.

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>> Andrea: HOW MUCH TIME DID HE

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SPEND PAYING ATTENTION TO YOU?

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>> I WAS ALLOWED TO BE AROUND

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ANY TIME I WANTED.

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>> Andrea: BUT JERRY JONES'

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KIDS, ROBERT KRAFT'S KIDS, LAMAR

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HUNT'S KIDS, JUST FOR STARTERS,

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ALWAYS INTEGRALLY INVOLVED.

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AND I HAD ONE PERSON WHO WAS

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COVERING FOOTBALL BACK THEN AND

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THEY SAID TO ME, "I NEVER KNEW

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THAT AL DAVIS HAD A SON UNTIL

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AL DAVIS PASSED AWAY."

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I KNEW WHAT HIS DREAM WAS, AND

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THAT WAS TO BUILD THE GREATEST

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ORGANIZATION IN SPORTS.

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AND I JUST FELT THAT WOULD BE

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SELFISH OF ME TO ACTUALLY EXPECT

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HIM TO TEACH ME ALONG THE WAY.

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>> Narrator: OTHERS WHO WORKED

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FOR THE TEAM REMEMBER IT THE

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SAME WAY.

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>> MY RELATIONSHIP WITH AL DAVIS

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WAS DAILY, NIGHTLY, ALL THE

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TIME.

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I NEVER REALLY SAW MARK MUCH.

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>> Narrator: JON GRUDEN WAS

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HIRED BY AL DAVIS TO COACH THE

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SILVER AND BLACK IN 1998, AND

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SOON LEARNED HIS BOSS WAS ONLY

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CONCERNED WITH ONE THING.

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>> ALL HE DID ALL DAY WAS STUDY

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FOOTBALL SCHEMES.

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ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, AROUND THE

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CLOCK, 365 DAYS A YEAR.

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>> Narrator: GRUDEN, WHOM I

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INTERVIEWED IN A MASK, PER THE

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RAIDERS' HEALTH PROTOCOLS, SAID

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THAT DAVIS ACTUALLY TAUGHT HIM A

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BIT ABOUT FOOTBALL, AND THE TWO

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DEVELOPED A FATHER-SON-LIKE

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BOND.

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>> HE WAS LIKE A DAD SOMETIMES.

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HE'D YELL AT ME, DISCIPLINE ME.

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[LAUGHS]

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YOU KNOW?

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HE WAS TOUGH ON ME SOMETIMES.

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BUT I THINK AT THE BOTTOM OF HIS

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APPROACH WAS THE RAIDERS AND --

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MAKING US BETTER.

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>> Narrator: BUT FOR AL DAVIS,

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THAT MEANT GETTING RID OF ANYONE

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WHO WASN'T GETTING THE JOB DONE,

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AND AFTER A FEW YEARS, GRUDEN

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HIMSELF WAS SENT PACKING.

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IT DIDN'T MATTER THAT GRUDEN

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LOOKED TO HIM AS A FATHER

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FIGURE.

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IN FACT, EVEN HAVING AL DAVIS AS

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YOUR ACTUAL FATHER DIDN'T CHANGE

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THINGS.

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>> I WAS FIRED ONCE.

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>> Andrea: "FIRED" BY?

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>> MY DAD.

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OVER SPOTTING THE FOOTBALL.

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>> Andrea: HOW OLD ARE YOU?

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>> PROBABLY 14.

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>> Andrea: OKAY, SO YOU'RE THE

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BALL BOY, AND YOU'RE SPOTTING

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THE BALL AT A PRACTICE?

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>> YEAH.

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AND I PUT IT TOO CLOSE TO THE

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LINE.

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AND HE SAID "I DON'T WANT IT BY

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THE LINE, I WANT IT 4 YARDS OFF

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THE LINE."

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AND I TALKED BACK, I THINK.

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AND SO HE TOLD ME TO GET MY ASS

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IN THE LOCKER ROOM AND GET READY

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TO GO HOME.

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>> Andrea: HOW WOULD YOU

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CHARACTERIZE THE WAY YOUR DAD

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TREATED YOU?

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>> HE TREATED ME LIKE HE TREATED

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EVERYBODY ELSE.

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>> Andrea: WHICH WAS WHAT?

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>> "DO YOUR JOB.

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BE A RAIDER."

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>> Narrator: FOR MARK, DOING HIS

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JOB SOMETIMES MEANT PROVIDING

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ENTERTAINMENT TO THE PLAYERS.

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>> AT TRAINING CAMP, THEY'D TAPE

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ME UP -- TAPE MY LEGS TOGETHER,

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TAPE MY ARMS BEHIND MY BACK, AND

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LEFT ME OUT ON THE FIELD IN THE

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SPRINKLERS.

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THEY SHAVED MY HEAD BALD.

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>> Andrea: HOW'D YOUR DAD REACT?

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>> I DON'T THINK IT BOTHERED

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HIM.

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>> Narrator: DAVIS SAYS IT MADE

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HIM FEEL ACCEPTED AS ONE OF THE

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GUYS, SO HE CONTINUED TO HANG

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AROUND HIS FATHER'S TEAM, WHERE

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HE FELT HE WAS NEEDED, IF NOT IN

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THE CONFERENCE ROOM, THEN AT

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LEAST IN THE EQUIPMENT ROOM.

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>> WORKING IN THERE AND CLEANING

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UP JOCKS, SOCKS, T-SHIRTS --

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RUNNING WATER, LINING THE

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FIELDS, AND I WAS ALWAYS TRYING

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TO PICK UP ON THINGS.

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>> Narrator: HIS GREATEST

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CONTRIBUTION TO THE NFL WHEN HE

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WAS A YOUNG MAN?

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INVENTING THE MUFF-STYLE

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HAND WARMER THAT EVENTUALLY

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BECAME STANDARD GEAR FOR NFL

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QUARTERBACKS.

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OVER TIME, DAVIS DEVELOPED A

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CLOSE BOND WITH THE TEAM'S

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PLAYERS, TO THE POINT THAT, WHEN

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STAR WIDE RECEIVER CLIFF BRANCH

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WAS RESIGNING WITH THE TEAM,

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DAVIS ACTUALLY TOOK HIS SIDE,

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REPRESENTING BRANCH IN CONTRACT

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NEGOTIATIONS.

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>> THAT DIDN'T GO OVER SO WELL

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WITH MY DAD.

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>> Andrea: WHY?

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>> WELL, HE JUST, YOU KNOW,

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CLIFF IS HIS -- ONE OF THE BEST

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PLAYERS ON HIS TEAM.

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>> Andrea: AND YOU'RE

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REPRESENTING CLIFF --

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>> AND I WAS REPRESENTING --

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>> Andrea: AGAINST YOUR DAD?

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>> YEAH.

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SO I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE

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HOUSE.

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>> Andrea: YOUR DAD LITERALLY

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KICKED YOU OUT?

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>> YEAH.

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WE SPENT A YEAR, MAYBE, APART.

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>> Andrea: THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS

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WHEN YOU GO UP AGAINST HIM: YOU

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GOT A SENSE OF THAT, DIDN'T YOU?

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>> YEAH.

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NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

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>> Narrator: DAVIS MAY HAVE BEEN

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SHUNNED BY HIS FATHER, BUT FOUND

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SOLACE WITH THE PLAYER,

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CLIFF BRANCH.

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AND THE TWO EVEN BECAME

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ROOMMATES.

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>> CLIFF AND I LIVED TOGETHER.

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AND WE JUST DID EVERYTHING

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TOGETHER.

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>> Andrea: EVEN BOUGHT SOME

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ANIMALS TOO, HUH?

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>> POT-BELLIED PIGS.

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>> Andrea: POT-BELLIED PIGS.

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>> YES.

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HARRY WAS SILVER.

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AND SALLY WAS BLACK.

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>> Andrea: I'M JUST TRYING TO

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WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS IMAGE.

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>> THEY WERE AMAZING ANIMALS.

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THEY WERE VERY SMART.

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VERY CLEAN.

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BUT THEY LIKED TO GO INTO

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PEOPLE'S STUFF.

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IF SOMEBODY CAME OVER AND THEY

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LEFT THEIR PURSE IN THE LIVING

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ROOM, DISASTER.

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>> Narrator: IT MAY NOT HAVE

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BEEN THE CLASSIC BACHELOR PAD,

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BUT FOR YEARS, DAVIS LIVED THE

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CLASSIC BACHELOR'S LIFESTYLE,

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WELL INTO MIDDLE AGE.

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UNTIL, HE SAYS, HIS FATHER'S

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HEALTH BEGAN TO FAIL.

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AND HE QUIT DRINKING, DECIDING

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IT WAS TIME TO GROW UP, AT LEAST

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A LITTLE.

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>> YOU CAN'T JUST GO OUT THERE

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AND BE PARTYING ALL THE TIME.

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>> Andrea: WERE YOU A BIG

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PARTIER?

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>> I HAD FUN.

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I OVERDID IT AT TIMES, YOU KNOW?

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>> Andrea: YOU THINK YOUR DAD

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WAS EVER CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR

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PARTYING?

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>> I'M SURE HE WAS CONCERNED

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ABOUT EVERYBODY IN HIS LIFE

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PARTYING, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T.

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HE DIDN'T DRINK.

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HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.

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BUT I KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO

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BE PREPARED TO DO SOMETHING --

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REAL SHORTLY -- THAT WOULD BE

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LIFE-CHANGING.

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SO I'M NOT GOING TO DRINK UNTIL

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THE RAIDERS WIN THE SUPER BOWL

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OR I GET MARRIED.

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ONE, BECAUSE I WANT TO.

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AND THE OTHER, BECAUSE I HAVE

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TO.

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>> Narrator: DAVIS SAYS WHILE HE

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WAS PREPPING HIMSELF TO TAKE THE

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REINS FOM HIS FATHER, AL NEVER

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GAVE UP ON HIS ULTIMATE GOAL:

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FINDING A PERMANENT HOME FOR THE

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RAIDERS.

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OVER THE YEARS, HE MOVED THE

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TEAM FROM OAKLAND, TO

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LOS ANGELES, AND BACK TO OAKLAND

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AGAIN, MAKING THREATS AND FILING

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LAWSUITS ALL ALONG THE WAY.

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>> THE THING THAT DISTURBED ME

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MOST OF ALL WAS THE BAD FAITH

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AND FAIR DEALING.

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>> Narrator: BUT HE WAS NEVER

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ABLE TO FIND A CITY THAT WOULD

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BUILD HIM A STADIUM.

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>> HE FOUGHT A LOT OF BATTLES,

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AND HE WAS RIGHT IN THE BATTLES

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THAT HE FOUGHT.

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BUT SOMETIMES YOU WIN THE

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BATTLES, BUT YOU LOSE THE WAR.

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>> Andrea: SO MUCH TIME AND

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ENERGY AND EMOTIONAL CAPITAL

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SPENT.

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WHAT TOLL DO YOU THINK IT TOOK

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ON YOUR DAD PERSONALLY?

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>> HUGE.

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SO I FELT MAYBE IT'S A LITTLE

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EASIER TO GET THINGS DONE WITH

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SUGAR RATHER THAN SALT.

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>> Narrator: THAT'S WHY, WHEN

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AL DAVIS DIED IN 2011 AND MARK

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TOOK OVER THE TEAM, THE FIRST

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THING HE DID WAS REBUILD SOME

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BRIDGES THAT HAD BEEN BURNED BY

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HIS FATHER.

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AT LEAGUE MEETINGS, HE SAYS HE

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TOOK ON A DECIDEDLY DIFFERENT

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TONE WHEN DEALING WITH OTHER

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OWNERS.

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>> I JUST FELT THAT I WANTED TO

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START ON A CLEAN SLATE WITH THE

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, WITH

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THE OTHER OWNERS.

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AND IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME

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TO DO THAT.

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>> Narrator: THEN HE BROUGHT

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BACK SOMEONE HIS DAD HAD EXILED

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FROM THE TEAM LONG AGO,

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JON GRUDEN, WHO WAS OUT OF THE

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LEAGUE, BUT HAD BUILT A TRAINING

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FACILITY IN FLORIDA FOR FORMER

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COACHES TO COME STUDY FILM, DAY

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AND NIGHT, A PLACE THAT WOULD'VE

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MADE AL DAVIS PROUD.

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>> EVERY TIME I WENT BACK TO

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TAMPA, TO GO TALK TO HIM ABOUT

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COMING OUT HERE, HE WAS SO

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EXCITED ABOUT WATCHING FILM AND

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SHOWING ME FILM AND CUTUPS AND

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EVERYTHING ELSE, IT'S JUST -- IT

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REMINDED ME OF MY DAD AND BEIN'

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AROUND MY DAD.

520
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>> THAT'S A HELL OF WIN FOR US.

521
00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:47,987
FOR ALL OF US.

522
00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:48,721
>> Narrator: DAVIS REHIRED

523
00:14:48,787 --> 00:14:49,388
GRUDEN AS THE TEAM'S HEAD COACH,

524
00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:50,022
BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL OF

525
00:14:50,089 --> 00:14:50,656
ALL WAS TO ACHIEVE HIS FATHER'S

526
00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:53,058
DREAM, BY FINDING THE RAIDERS A

527
00:14:53,125 --> 00:14:53,859
HOME OF THEIR OWN.

528
00:14:53,926 --> 00:14:54,727
>> LAS VEGAS IS THE PERFECT

529
00:14:54,793 --> 00:14:55,461
PLACE FOR AN NFL TEAM CALLED THE

530
00:14:55,527 --> 00:14:59,231
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS!

531
00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:00,032
>> Narrator: THE DREAM BECAME

532
00:15:00,099 --> 00:15:00,733
REALITY IN LAS VEGAS, AFTER

533
00:15:00,799 --> 00:15:01,867
STATE OFFICIALS PLEDGED A

534
00:15:01,934 --> 00:15:02,835
WHOPPING $750 MILLION IN PUBLIC

535
00:15:02,901 --> 00:15:03,569
FUNDS TO HELP BUILD A STADIUM, A

536
00:15:03,636 --> 00:15:04,436
MASSIVE SUBSIDY THAT DELIGHTED

537
00:15:04,503 --> 00:15:07,139
THE RAIDERS BUT UPSET SOME IN

538
00:15:07,206 --> 00:15:12,611
THE COMMUNITY.

539
00:15:12,678 --> 00:15:14,680
SOME AREN'T SOLD ARGUING THAT

540
00:15:14,747 --> 00:15:15,314
STATE SHOULD'VE USED THAT MONEY

541
00:15:15,381 --> 00:15:15,781
FOR EDUCATION.

542
00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:16,515
>> WE ARE HAVING THIS RAMMED

543
00:15:16,582 --> 00:15:17,316
THROUGH AND BASICALLY SHOVED

544
00:15:17,383 --> 00:15:18,083
DOWN OUR THROATS AS THE PUBLIC

545
00:15:18,150 --> 00:15:18,851
AND WE ARE OPPOSED TO THAT.

546
00:15:18,917 --> 00:15:19,818
>> Narrator: OF COURSE, THEY

547
00:15:19,885 --> 00:15:20,619
WERE NO HAPPIER BACK IN OAKLAND,

548
00:15:20,686 --> 00:15:21,620
AS THAT COMMUNITY WATCHED THE

549
00:15:21,687 --> 00:15:22,554
RAIDERS LEAVE FOR THE SECOND

550
00:15:22,621 --> 00:15:23,689
TIME, THIS TIME FOR GOOD,

551
00:15:23,756 --> 00:15:25,758
ABANDONING THEIR HARDSCRABBLE,

552
00:15:25,824 --> 00:15:27,059
BLUE-COLLAR TOWN FOR A CITY OF

553
00:15:27,126 --> 00:15:28,260
GLITZ AND GLAMOUR.

554
00:15:28,327 --> 00:15:30,029
>> UNFORTUNATELY THE SITUATION

555
00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:30,663
IN OAKLAND BECAME UNTENABLE AND

556
00:15:30,729 --> 00:15:31,297
IT'S SAD, AND SO IT WAS

557
00:15:31,363 --> 00:15:32,998
BITTERSWEET TO LEAVE.

558
00:15:33,065 --> 00:15:34,867
>> Andrea: YOUR DAD WAS ALL

559
00:15:34,933 --> 00:15:42,341
ABOUT "THE RAIDERS," DIDN'T

560
00:15:42,408 --> 00:15:44,743
REALLY MATTER IF IT WAS IN L.A.

561
00:15:44,810 --> 00:15:46,078
OR OAKLAND.

562
00:15:46,145 --> 00:15:46,879
WHY DID YOU TAKE IT MORE

563
00:15:46,945 --> 00:15:47,513
PERSONALLY WHEN YOU HAD TO LEAVE

564
00:15:47,579 --> 00:15:48,213
OAKLAND?

565
00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:49,014
>> WELL, BECAUSE THE FANS REALLY

566
00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:50,349
DON'T HAVE A SAY IN IT.

567
00:15:50,416 --> 00:15:55,688
BUT I KNOW THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE

568
00:15:55,754 --> 00:15:57,089
THAT BELIEVE IN WHAT WE'RE DOING

569
00:15:57,156 --> 00:15:58,123
AS RAIDERS, AND ALWAYS WILL.

570
00:15:58,190 --> 00:15:58,857
>> Narrator: THE RAIDERS DO SEEM

571
00:15:58,924 --> 00:15:59,525
A PERFECT FIT WITH THEIR NEW

572
00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:00,926
HOME, THE REBELS OF THE NFL, NOW

573
00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:01,694
PLAYING IN THE CITY WITH NO

574
00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:02,594
RULES.

575
00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:03,495
AND AS DAVIS SHOWED ME

576
00:16:03,562 --> 00:16:04,430
FIRSTHAND, THE STADIUM WAS BUILT

577
00:16:04,496 --> 00:16:10,336
TO BLEND THE TEAM WITH THE TOWN,

578
00:16:10,402 --> 00:16:11,837
FROM THE VIEWS OUT THE WINDOW.

579
00:16:11,904 --> 00:16:12,504
>> THIS OVERLOOKS THE STRIP,

580
00:16:12,571 --> 00:16:18,544
LOOKING OUT.

581
00:16:18,610 --> 00:16:19,812
>> Narrator: TO THE ART ON THE

582
00:16:19,878 --> 00:16:21,246
WALLS.

583
00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:22,114
>> THAT'S MARILYN MONROE AS A

584
00:16:22,181 --> 00:16:23,482
RAIDERETTE.

585
00:16:23,549 --> 00:16:24,717
AND ELVIS PRESLEY AS A PLAYER.

586
00:16:24,783 --> 00:16:26,719
>> Narrator: DAVIS SAYS, WHEN HE

587
00:16:26,785 --> 00:16:27,553
FIRST MOVED TO VEGAS HE WANTED

588
00:16:27,619 --> 00:16:46,205
TO IMMERSE HIMSELF IN THE LOCAL

589
00:16:46,271 --> 00:16:49,775
TEAM, DAVIS ENDED UP LOVING

590
00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:51,009
THE WNBA'S LAS VEGAS ACES SO

591
00:16:51,076 --> 00:16:52,010
MUCH, HE BOUGHT THEM.

592
00:16:52,077 --> 00:16:52,611
>> SHE'S A SHARP-SHOOTER, SHE

593
00:16:52,678 --> 00:16:55,180
REALLY IS.

594
00:16:55,247 --> 00:16:56,682
>> Andrea: IS THERE A PART OF

595
00:16:56,749 --> 00:16:57,549
YOU THAT SITS AND WATCHES A

596
00:16:57,616 --> 00:16:58,951
GAME, WHETHER IT'S THE ACES OR

597
00:16:59,017 --> 00:16:59,985
THE RAIDERS, AND THINKS, "I'VE

598
00:17:00,052 --> 00:17:01,353
NEVER WORKED A DAY IN MY LIFE?"

599
00:17:01,420 --> 00:17:02,421
>> NO.

600
00:17:02,488 --> 00:17:04,156
NOT AT ALL.

601
00:17:04,223 --> 00:17:05,958
I'VE WORKED A LOT OF DAYS IN MY

602
00:17:06,024 --> 00:17:06,992
LIFE.

603
00:17:07,059 --> 00:17:11,864
IT HASN'T BEEN A FREE RIDE.

604
00:17:11,930 --> 00:17:13,198
AND WE'RE WORKING OUR ASSES OFF

605
00:17:13,265 --> 00:17:14,400
RIGHT NOW.

606
00:17:14,466 --> 00:17:15,234
>> Narrator: BUT DESPITE ALL

607
00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:21,173
THAT HE'S DONE IN RECENT YEARS,

608
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,741
INSTEAD OF SEEING MARK DAVIS'

609
00:17:22,808 --> 00:17:23,308
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, SOME STILL

610
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:31,216
CAN'T SEE PAST HIS HAIRCUT.

611
00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:33,352
♪ WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON UP

612
00:17:33,419 --> 00:17:35,821
THERE? ♪

613
00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:39,625
♪ HE'S A NONPLAYER WITH HELMET

614
00:17:39,691 --> 00:17:40,993
HAIR ♪

615
00:17:41,059 --> 00:17:46,331
>> Andrea: MARK DAVIS HAS TAKEN

616
00:17:46,398 --> 00:17:47,599
HIS SHARE OF PEOPLE MAKING FUN

617
00:17:47,666 --> 00:17:49,001
OF HIM FOR THE HAIR.

618
00:17:49,067 --> 00:17:49,668
>> WE HAVE THE SAME HAIRSTYLE SO

619
00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:54,306
WE GOT THAT GOIN' FOR US --

620
00:17:54,373 --> 00:17:55,107
>> Andrea: LET ME SEE.

621
00:17:55,174 --> 00:17:55,507
>> WE DO.

622
00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:56,341
WE JUST GET IT DRY, LET IT FLY,

623
00:17:56,408 --> 00:17:57,209
YOU KNOW?

624
00:17:57,276 --> 00:17:57,943
IT'S REALLY NOT A BIG DEAL, YOU

625
00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:58,410
KNOW?

626
00:17:58,477 --> 00:17:59,044
>> Andrea: THE REALITY IS PEOPLE

627
00:17:59,111 --> 00:17:59,745
MAKE FUN OF HIM.

628
00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:00,379
I TALKED TO ONE NFL OWNER AND HE

629
00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:01,380
SAID, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE JOKED.

630
00:18:01,447 --> 00:18:02,014
THEY USED TO CALL HIM "CAPTAIN

631
00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:02,481
KANGAROO."

632
00:18:02,548 --> 00:18:03,081
>> I THINK THAT'S A BUNCH OF

633
00:18:03,148 --> 00:18:03,982
BULLSHIT.

634
00:18:04,049 --> 00:18:04,650
IF YOU KNOW MARK DAVIS, YOU LIKE

635
00:18:04,716 --> 00:18:05,217
MARK DAVIS.

636
00:18:05,284 --> 00:18:05,784
AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW MARK

637
00:18:05,851 --> 00:18:06,452
DAVIS, YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN

638
00:18:06,518 --> 00:18:07,686
OPINION.

639
00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:08,387
SORRY THAT HE WASN'T AS

640
00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:09,021
EXPERIENCED AS SOME OF THE OTHER

641
00:18:09,087 --> 00:18:10,556
OWNERS.

642
00:18:10,622 --> 00:18:11,156
BUT HE -- HE GOT HERE AND HE

643
00:18:11,223 --> 00:18:12,191
LEARNED FAST.

644
00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:12,791
AND HE PROBABLY TOOK SOME HEAT

645
00:18:12,858 --> 00:18:14,593
FROM SOME OF THESE PEOPLE.

646
00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:15,661
BUT -- HE KEPT SWINGIN'.

647
00:18:15,727 --> 00:18:16,028
HE KEPT DIGGIN'.

648
00:18:16,094 --> 00:18:16,462
HE KEPT PRODUCIN'.

649
00:18:16,528 --> 00:18:17,496
AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW.

650
00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:19,798
>> Narrator: FOR DAVIS, WHAT'S

651
00:18:19,865 --> 00:18:20,432
MOST IMPORTANT ISN'T WHERE THEY

652
00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:23,602
ARE NOW, BUT WHERE THEY ARE

653
00:18:23,669 --> 00:18:24,336
HEADED.

654
00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:25,304
>> RAIDERS!

655
00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:26,104
>> Narrator: WHICH IS WHY THIS

656
00:18:26,171 --> 00:18:27,172
SEASON ISN'T JUST ABOUT THE

657
00:18:27,239 --> 00:18:28,373
RAIDERS HAVING A NEW HOME, BUT A

658
00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,976
NEW HOPE THAT THEY CAN JUST WIN

659
00:18:31,043 --> 00:18:31,510
AGAIN.

660
00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:32,744
>> Andrea: WHAT WOULD YOUR DAD

661
00:18:32,811 --> 00:18:34,313
THINK OF THE MOVE TO LAS VEGAS?

662
00:18:34,379 --> 00:18:34,947
>> I HOPE HE WOULD BE VERY, VERY

663
00:18:35,013 --> 00:18:35,914
HAPPY AND PROUD.

664
00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:37,115
>> Andrea: HOW ARE THE AL DAVIS

665
00:18:37,182 --> 00:18:37,783
RAIDERS DIFFERENT THAN THE MARK

666
00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:38,550
DAVIS RAIDERS?

667
00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:39,551
>> THEY WON.

668
00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:40,652
WE HAVEN'T YET.

669
00:18:40,719 --> 00:18:41,286
THAT'S WHERE I'VE GOT TO GET IT

670
00:18:41,353 --> 00:18:46,125
RIGHT.

671
00:18:46,191 --> 00:18:59,471
♪ ♪

672
00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:02,140
>> Bryant: ANDREA,

673
00:19:02,207 --> 00:19:06,979
WILL MARK EVER GET OUT OF AL

674
00:19:07,045 --> 00:19:13,852
DAVIS' SHADOW?

675
00:19:13,919 --> 00:19:14,953
>> Andrea: HE WANTS HIS

676
00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,222
PERSONA TO BE DIFFERENT.

677
00:19:17,289 --> 00:19:19,925
IN HIS HOME AND LIFE, HE IS

678
00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:24,963
COMPLETELY PERVASIVE.

679
00:19:25,030 --> 00:19:27,499
>> Bryant: PRIVATE ENTERPRISE,

680
00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:31,069
THAT IS DISTURBING, HOW DO THEY

681
00:19:31,136 --> 00:19:31,403
JUSTIFY THAT?

682
00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:34,973
>> Andrea: WE SPOKE TO SOME

683
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:35,807
ECONOMISTS OUT OF STANFORD.

684
00:19:35,874 --> 00:19:36,542
HE SAID IT WAS THE WORST DEAL

685
00:19:36,608 --> 00:19:40,679
HE'S EVER SEEN FOR A CITY BUT HE

686
00:19:40,746 --> 00:19:41,513
SAID DON'T RAIL ON MARK DAVIS

687
00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:42,581
FOR THAT.

688
00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:44,850
IF YOU WANT TO BLAME SOMEONE,

689
00:19:44,917 --> 00:19:47,185
BLAME STATE LEGISLATORS, THE

690
00:19:47,252 --> 00:19:47,819
GOVERNOR, THE COUNTY

691
00:19:47,886 --> 00:19:48,153
COMMISSIONER.

692
00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:53,692
IT'S BEEN MONTHS DAD'S DEATH,

693
00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:54,660
THE RAIDERS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT

694
00:19:54,726 --> 00:19:54,893
LOSERS.

695
00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:01,300
WHAT DOES THAT SAY?

696
00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:02,868
>> Andrea: HE SAID "I HAVEN'T

697
00:20:02,935 --> 00:20:04,536
DONE ANYTHING YET BECAUSE I

698
00:20:04,603 --> 00:20:05,938
HAVEN'T WON YET."

699
00:20:06,004 --> 00:20:09,007
THEY START THE SEASON 2-0 BUT

700
00:20:09,074 --> 00:20:12,010
WHO KNOWS, HE'S VERY COGNIZANT

701
00:20:12,077 --> 00:20:13,312
OF THE FACT THAT HE HASN'T WON A

702
00:20:13,378 --> 00:20:13,946
SUPER BOWL.

703
00:20:14,012 --> 00:20:15,781
YOU CAN'T PUT HIM IN THE SAME

704
00:20:15,847 --> 00:20:16,348
CATEGORY AS HIS DAD UNTIL HE

705
00:20:16,415 --> 00:20:19,017
DOES SO.

706
00:20:19,084 --> 00:20:21,653
>> Bryant: ALL RIGHT, ANDREA,

707
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:22,788
THANKS.

708
00:20:22,854 --> 00:20:23,956
LET'S MOVE ON, AS I SPEAK, THE

709
00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:24,590
FOREST FIRES ON THE WEST COAST

710
00:20:24,656 --> 00:20:29,127
ARE STILL RAGING.

711
00:20:29,194 --> 00:20:31,029
THERE ARE ROUGHLY 70 OF THEM

712
00:20:31,096 --> 00:20:31,697
SPREAD OUT ACROSS ALMOST A

713
00:20:31,763 --> 00:20:32,598
MILLION ACRES.

714
00:20:32,664 --> 00:20:33,465
WITH CLIMATE CHANGE HAVING

715
00:20:33,532 --> 00:20:33,966
INTENSIFIED THE PROBLEM,

716
00:20:34,032 --> 00:20:34,600
CONTAINING THE DAMAGE AND

717
00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:35,834
DESTRUCTION HAS BECOME AN ALMOST

718
00:20:35,901 --> 00:20:40,038
NONSTOP OCCUPATION FOR THOSE ON

719
00:20:40,105 --> 00:20:41,473
THE FRONT LINES WHO ARE QUITE

720
00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:42,107
LITERALLY FIGHTING TO SAVING THE

721
00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:42,741
EARTH.

722
00:20:42,808 --> 00:20:43,375
AMONG THE EXHAUSTED FIREFIGHTERS

723
00:20:43,442 --> 00:20:44,009
IS A MAN WHO HAS GROWN

724
00:20:44,076 --> 00:20:44,876
ACCUSTOMED TO FATIGUE BY WAY OF

725
00:20:44,943 --> 00:20:45,477
HIS OTHER PASSION: RUNNING THE

726
00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:46,578
LONGEST EVENTS THAT ROAD RACING

727
00:20:46,645 --> 00:20:47,879
HAS TO OFFER.

728
00:20:47,946 --> 00:20:48,614
JON FRANKEL HAS HIS STORY, IT'S

729
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,615
ABOUT RUNNING, RECOVERY, AND

730
00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:52,718
RENEWAL.

731
00:20:52,784 --> 00:20:53,919
>> Narrator: ACROSS THE AMERICAN

732
00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:55,587
WEST, WILDFIRES HAVE LEFT A

733
00:20:55,654 --> 00:20:57,723
TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, CONSUMING

734
00:20:57,789 --> 00:20:59,858
MILLIONS OF ACRES AMIDST ONE OF

735
00:20:59,925 --> 00:21:02,561
THE WORST FIRE SEASONS EVER.

736
00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:04,997
TASKED WITH FACING THE INFERNO

737
00:21:05,063 --> 00:21:08,700
HEAD-ON ARE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF

738
00:21:08,767 --> 00:21:10,902
THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE,

739
00:21:10,969 --> 00:21:12,137
INCLUDING A CREW HELMED BY JERRY

740
00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:13,305
GARCIA, OF COURSE, NOT THE

741
00:21:13,372 --> 00:21:14,873
GRATEFUL DEAD FRONT MAN, BUT A

742
00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:18,243
FIREFIGHTER UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

743
00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:19,277
>> Jon: WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT THERE,

744
00:21:19,344 --> 00:21:20,312
YOU'RE FACING A WALL OF FIRE,

745
00:21:20,379 --> 00:21:21,980
WHAT'S IT LIKE?

746
00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:23,882
>> IT'S INTENSE.

747
00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:25,083
THE SMOKE'S BLOWING, IT'S

748
00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:32,591
GETTING IN YOUR EYES YOU FEEL

749
00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:33,825
LIKE IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS,

750
00:21:33,892 --> 00:21:35,594
I'M GOING TO GET BURNED UP RIGHT

751
00:21:35,661 --> 00:21:39,564
HERE.

752
00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:40,365
>> Narrator: WITH SO MANY FIRES

753
00:21:40,432 --> 00:21:41,233
BURNING ACROSS THE COUNTRY,

754
00:21:41,299 --> 00:21:42,134
CREWS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO BATTLE

755
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,602
FOR DAYS ON END.

756
00:21:43,669 --> 00:21:44,269
>> WE'RE SHORTHANDED ON CREWS.

757
00:21:44,336 --> 00:21:49,941
THE GUYS ARE TIRED.

758
00:21:50,008 --> 00:21:50,909
THEY WANT TO GO HOME AND THEY

759
00:21:50,976 --> 00:21:52,044
NEED SOMEONE TO STEP UP.

760
00:21:52,110 --> 00:21:53,211
>> Narrator: FORTUNATELY, GARCIA

761
00:21:53,278 --> 00:21:54,312
HAS BEEN UP TO THE TASK, BECAUSE

762
00:21:54,379 --> 00:21:55,247
TO HIM, PUSHING THROUGH

763
00:21:55,313 --> 00:21:55,847
EXHAUSTION IS SECOND NATURE.

764
00:21:55,914 --> 00:21:57,182
WHEN HE'S NOT FIGHTING FIRES,

765
00:21:57,249 --> 00:21:58,050
HE'S A STAR IN PERHAPS THE MOST

766
00:21:58,116 --> 00:22:02,587
EXHAUSTING SPORT IN THE WORLD.

767
00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:03,789
GARCIA COMPETES IN

768
00:22:03,855 --> 00:22:06,858
ULTRAMARATHONS, GRUELING RACES

769
00:22:06,925 --> 00:22:07,926
THAT TEST BOTH MIND AND BODY

770
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:11,463
OVER THE COURSE OF 100 MILES.

771
00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:14,399
FEW RUN THEM FASTER, AS HE'S WON

772
00:22:14,466 --> 00:22:16,201
SOME OF THE TOUGHEST RACES IN

773
00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:20,105
THE COUNTRY, BUT THAT DOESN'T

774
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:20,906
MEAN HE FINDS THEM EASY.

775
00:22:20,972 --> 00:22:22,507
>> IT'S BRUTAL.

776
00:22:22,574 --> 00:22:23,642
MAN, JUST FROM THINKING, LIKE,

777
00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:24,509
"HOW AM I GOING TO RUN ANOTHER

778
00:22:24,576 --> 00:22:25,677
70 MILES?

779
00:22:25,744 --> 00:22:26,311
HOW AM I GOING TO RUN ANOTHER 40

780
00:22:26,378 --> 00:22:27,813
MILES?"

781
00:22:27,879 --> 00:22:29,681
>> Jon: I IMAGINE THAT THE

782
00:22:29,748 --> 00:22:34,252
PHYSICAL TOLL THAT THE RACE

783
00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:35,120
TAKES ON YOU IS EXTREME.

784
00:22:35,187 --> 00:22:40,759
>> YEAH.

785
00:22:40,826 --> 00:22:42,294
I'VE ACTUALLY ENDED UP IN AN

786
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:47,999
EMERGENCY ROOM THE FOLLOWING DAY

787
00:22:48,066 --> 00:22:51,937
AFTER A RACE.

788
00:22:52,003 --> 00:22:53,338
>> Narrator: NOT MANY WITH JOBS

789
00:22:53,405 --> 00:22:54,106
LIKE THIS KEEP A SECOND JOB AS

790
00:22:54,172 --> 00:22:55,207
TOUGH AS THIS.

791
00:22:55,273 --> 00:22:56,041
BUT GARCIA USES BOTH TO SATISFY

792
00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:56,708
AN INBORN NEED FOR DANGER, A

793
00:22:56,775 --> 00:22:57,509
NEED THAT ONCE NEARLY DESTROYED

794
00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:58,243
HIM.

795
00:22:58,310 --> 00:22:59,878
BECAUSE AS A YOUNGER MAN, GARCIA

796
00:22:59,945 --> 00:23:00,512
FOUND HIS FIX ON THE STREETS OF

797
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:01,113
LOS ANGELES, LIVING A LIFE OF

798
00:23:01,179 --> 00:23:01,947
CRIME.

799
00:23:02,013 --> 00:23:02,948
>> BURGLARIES.

800
00:23:03,014 --> 00:23:07,919
BREAKING INTO PEOPLE'S

801
00:23:07,986 --> 00:23:09,888
HOUSES, GOING INTO A STORE,

802
00:23:09,955 --> 00:23:15,393
ROBBING IT, AND THEN USING THAT

803
00:23:15,460 --> 00:23:16,328
MONEY TO -- GET DRUGS.

804
00:23:16,394 --> 00:24:10,415
>> Jon: WHAT SORTS OF DRUGS?

805
00:24:10,482 --> 00:24:11,049
>> Jon: WHAT WAS THE WORST THING

806
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:15,520
YOU DID IN THE NAVY?

807
00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:21,860
>> AS A MOTHER, YOU WANT THE

808
00:24:21,927 --> 00:24:23,728
VERY BEST FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND

809
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:25,564
WHEN I COULD SEETHAT HE WAS

810
00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:34,206
TAKING THE WRONG PATH -- I FELT

811
00:24:34,272 --> 00:24:35,207
HELPLESS.

812
00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:36,508
BECAUSE THE MORE I TRIED, THE

813
00:24:36,575 --> 00:24:37,876
MORE HE KIND OF PUSHED AWAY.

814
00:24:37,943 --> 00:24:40,679
>> Jon: HOW FRUSTRATING, HOW

815
00:24:40,745 --> 00:24:41,780
DISAPPOINTING WAS IT FOR YOU?

816
00:24:41,847 --> 00:24:43,348
>> IT WAS HEARTBREAKING I WANTED

817
00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:44,349
MY HOME TO BE A SAFE PLACE FOR

818
00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:45,116
ALL OF OUR FAMILY.

819
00:24:45,183 --> 00:24:45,984
AND IT WASN'T.

820
00:24:46,051 --> 00:24:46,818
I JUST TOLD HIM HE COULD NO

821
00:24:46,885 --> 00:24:50,322
LONGER LIVE HERE.

822
00:24:50,388 --> 00:24:51,089
>> Narrator: WITH NO PLACE TO

823
00:24:51,156 --> 00:24:52,090
GO, GARCIA WOUND UP ON THE

824
00:24:52,157 --> 00:24:52,657
STREETS, WANDERING SKID ROW,

825
00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:53,425
HOMELESS AND ALONE.

826
00:24:53,491 --> 00:24:54,326
>> JUST WALKING DOWN THAT STREET

827
00:24:54,392 --> 00:24:58,363
AND WITH THE DUFFEL BAG FULL OF

828
00:24:58,430 --> 00:24:59,998
YOUR STUFF, AND I'M LIKE, "MAN,

829
00:25:00,065 --> 00:25:01,199
THIS IS WHERE I'M AT."

830
00:25:01,266 --> 00:25:02,000
THAT'S DEFINITELY THE BOTTOM.

831
00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:02,634
>> Narrator: GARCIA SAYS HE KNEW

832
00:25:02,701 --> 00:25:03,268
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

833
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:03,869
BEFORE HE'D WIND UP IN PRISON,

834
00:25:03,935 --> 00:25:04,870
OR DEAD.

835
00:25:04,936 --> 00:25:05,770
SO HE CHECKED HIMSELF INTO

836
00:25:05,837 --> 00:25:11,142
REHAB, AND BEGAN TO HEAL.

837
00:25:11,209 --> 00:25:12,277
>> I COULD TELL IN HIS EYES THAT

838
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,545
HE REALLY WAS READY TO CHANGE,

839
00:25:13,612 --> 00:25:14,412
AND NEEDED HELP.

840
00:25:14,479 --> 00:25:15,413
I TRIED TO HELP HIM TO GET SOME

841
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,281
SORT OF JOB OR CAREER, OR

842
00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:16,948
SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE HIM

843
00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:20,085
FEEL THAT HE WAS OKAY.

844
00:25:20,151 --> 00:25:21,486
>> Narrator: THAT'S WHEN GARCIA

845
00:25:21,553 --> 00:25:22,621
HEARD ABOUT A FIREFIGHTING

846
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:23,355
PROGRAM AT A NEARBY COMMUNITY

847
00:25:23,421 --> 00:25:25,223
COLLEGE.

848
00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:26,324
HE THOUGHT IT JUST MIGHT BE A

849
00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:27,993
WAY TO CHANNEL HIS

850
00:25:28,059 --> 00:25:29,227
THRILL-SEEKING INTO STABLE WORK,

851
00:25:29,294 --> 00:25:31,863
AND A STABLE LIFE.

852
00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:36,768
BEFORE LONG, HE'D LANDED A JOB

853
00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:37,502
AT A FIRE STATION IN SOUTHERN

854
00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:38,103
CALIFORNIA'S ANGELES NATIONAL

855
00:25:38,169 --> 00:25:39,404
FOREST.

856
00:25:39,471 --> 00:25:40,272
SUDDENLY FACED WITH THE PROSPECT

857
00:25:40,338 --> 00:25:42,674
OF FIGHTING MASSIVE WILDFIRES,

858
00:25:42,741 --> 00:25:44,175
HE RESOLVED TO BOOST HIS STAMINA

859
00:25:44,242 --> 00:25:46,077
AND ENDURANCE, WHICH IS WHAT

860
00:25:46,144 --> 00:25:47,879
PROMPTED HIM TO TRY SOMETHING

861
00:25:47,946 --> 00:25:49,314
HE'D NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED:

862
00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:52,984
RUNNING A MARATHON.

863
00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:55,754
>> MAN, IT WAS DEFINITELY A

864
00:25:55,820 --> 00:25:56,788
HUMBLING EXPERIENCE.

865
00:25:56,855 --> 00:26:00,091
AFTER MILE 6, WITH ME CRAMPING

866
00:26:00,158 --> 00:26:08,833
UP AND SEEING, LIKE,

867
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:11,036
GRANDMOTHERS PASS ME I WAS LIKE,

868
00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:12,137
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?

869
00:26:12,203 --> 00:26:12,938
I EVEN HAD TEARS COME DOWN IN MY

870
00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:17,475
EYES ABOUT MILE 24, JUST BECAUSE

871
00:26:17,542 --> 00:26:19,210
I'M JUST SO BROKEN, AFTER THAT I

872
00:26:19,277 --> 00:26:19,978
WAS LIKE, "OKAY, IT'S ON."

873
00:26:20,045 --> 00:26:20,512
>> Narrator: FUELED BY THE

874
00:26:20,578 --> 00:26:21,179
HUMILIATION, GARCIA BEGAN TAKING

875
00:26:21,246 --> 00:26:21,880
DAILY RUNS THROUGH THE TRAILS OF

876
00:26:21,947 --> 00:26:22,547
THE ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, AND

877
00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:23,381
IN TIME, THE RUGGED MOUNTAIN

878
00:26:23,448 --> 00:26:24,716
TERRAIN AND PUNISHING HEAT

879
00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:25,650
TRANSFORMED HIM INTO AN ELITE

880
00:26:25,717 --> 00:26:27,319
RUNNER.

881
00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:29,821
BUT GARCIA SAYS THOSE LONG,

882
00:26:29,888 --> 00:26:30,355
LONELY RUNS ALSO GAVE HIM

883
00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:33,992
SOMETHING ELSE: TIME TO REFLECT

884
00:26:34,059 --> 00:26:34,626
ON THE WAYWARD YOUNG MAN HE USED

885
00:26:34,693 --> 00:26:36,194
TO BE.

886
00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:38,029
>> THERE'S A LOT OF SHAME.

887
00:26:38,096 --> 00:26:42,767
WHEN I'M OUT THERE RUNNING,

888
00:26:42,834 --> 00:26:44,202
THERE'S THAT KIND OF, LIKE,

889
00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:47,572
TUCKED IN.

890
00:26:47,639 --> 00:26:48,306
IT'S LIKE AN -- LIKE AN EMPTY

891
00:26:48,373 --> 00:26:49,541
TRASHCAN, YOU KNOW?

892
00:26:49,607 --> 00:26:50,909
UNDERNEATH THE PLASTIC LINER

893
00:26:50,976 --> 00:26:52,110
THERE'S, LIKE, THAT LITTLE STUFF

894
00:26:52,177 --> 00:26:54,045
IN THE BOTTOM OF THE TRASHCAN

895
00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:54,779
THAT'S STILL KINDA CRUDDED AND

896
00:26:54,846 --> 00:26:55,413
DIRTY.

897
00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:02,554
IF YOU DON'T GET IN THERE AND

898
00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:03,888
SCRAPE THAT STUFF OFF, IT

899
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:04,756
HARDENS UP.

900
00:27:04,823 --> 00:27:05,724
>> Jon: IS THE RUNNING HELPING

901
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,058
TO BREAK DOWN THE DRECK THAT'S

902
00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:07,892
STILL SITTING IN THE BOTTOM OF

903
00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:08,460
THE GARBAGE CAN?

904
00:27:08,526 --> 00:27:09,861
>> I THINK SO, YEAH.

905
00:27:09,928 --> 00:27:10,495
>> I FEEL LIKE HE WAS RUNNING

906
00:27:10,562 --> 00:27:11,096
FOR HIS LIFE.

907
00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:12,030
HE WAS RUNNING FOR HIS SURVIVAL.

908
00:27:12,097 --> 00:27:13,064
HE WAS RUNNING TO BE SOMEONE, TO

909
00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:14,199
BE JERRY.

910
00:27:14,265 --> 00:27:16,101
>> Narrator: STRONGER IN BOTH

911
00:27:16,167 --> 00:27:16,868
BODY AND MIND, GARCIA BEGAN

912
00:27:16,935 --> 00:27:17,969
TURNING HEADS ON THE CALIFORNIA

913
00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:20,105
MARATHON SCENE.

914
00:27:20,171 --> 00:27:21,506
>> HE'S JUST SUCH A STRONG

915
00:27:21,573 --> 00:27:23,208
INDIVIDUAL.

916
00:27:23,274 --> 00:27:25,043
WHEN HE FOCUSES AND HE PUTS HIS

917
00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:27,345
MIND INTO A RACE -- HE'S GOING

918
00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:30,882
TO GO 110%.

919
00:27:30,949 --> 00:27:34,586
HE UNLEASHES THE BEAST.

920
00:27:34,652 --> 00:27:35,420
>> Narrator: MAYRA LOPEZ MET

921
00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:36,154
GARCIA AT THE STARTING LINE OF A

922
00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:37,555
MARATHON IN 2015.

923
00:27:37,622 --> 00:27:48,767
>> WE GOT INTRODUCED.

924
00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:50,201
QUICK 5, 10 SECONDS --

925
00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:51,236
BEFORE THE GUN WENT OFF AND WE

926
00:27:51,302 --> 00:27:54,039
TOOK OFF.

927
00:27:54,105 --> 00:28:02,080
>> Jon: DID YOU RUN TOGETHER

928
00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:03,214
IN THAT RACE?

929
00:28:03,281 --> 00:28:03,681
>> NO.

930
00:28:03,748 --> 00:28:04,049
HE -- HE LEFT.

931
00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:04,916
[LAUGHTER]

932
00:28:04,983 --> 00:28:05,216
HE TOOK OFF.

933
00:28:05,283 --> 00:28:06,317
HE DEFINITELY TOOK OFF.

934
00:28:06,384 --> 00:28:06,951
>> Narrator: AFTER THE RACE,

935
00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:08,486
GARCIA AND ASKED HER ON A DATE.

936
00:28:08,553 --> 00:28:09,254
THE TWO BECAME INSEPARABLE, AND

937
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,088
LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, JERRY

938
00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:10,655
PROPOSED, FITTINGLY, AT THE

939
00:28:10,722 --> 00:28:13,558
FINISH LINE OF ANOTHER

940
00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:15,460
MARATHON, THE PAIR ALSO BECAME

941
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:16,561
TRUSTED RUNNING PARTNERS, AS

942
00:28:16,628 --> 00:28:17,429
LOPEZ PUSHED GARCIA TO TAKE ON

943
00:28:17,495 --> 00:28:18,029
THE MORE CHALLENGING DISTANCES

944
00:28:18,096 --> 00:28:19,464
OF ULTRAMARATHONS.

945
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:20,365
SO GARCIA SET A NEW GOAL: TO WIN

946
00:28:20,432 --> 00:28:22,067
THE ANGELES CREST 100, THE HOLY

947
00:28:22,133 --> 00:28:23,868
GRAIL OF CALIFORNIA'S

948
00:28:23,935 --> 00:28:24,969
HUNDRED-MILE RACES.

949
00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:25,804
IT'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST

950
00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:28,473
CHALLENGING ULTRAMARATHONS IN

951
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:29,307
THE WORLD, AND FOR MANY RUNNERS

952
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:30,241
THE BRUTAL MOUNTAIN TRAILS ARE

953
00:28:30,308 --> 00:28:34,012
TOO MUCH TO BEAR.

954
00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:35,680
BUT LUCKILY FOR JERRY, IT

955
00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:37,816
HAPPENED TO TAKE PLACE IN THE

956
00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:38,950
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, HIS

957
00:28:39,017 --> 00:28:41,119
HOME TURF.

958
00:28:41,186 --> 00:28:46,157
>> HE WAS SO FAMILIAR WITH THE

959
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:48,193
TRAILS THAT, YOU KNOW, HE KNOWS,

960
00:28:48,259 --> 00:28:49,994
"OH, SOME -- A HILL'S COMING UP.

961
00:28:50,061 --> 00:28:50,695
A DOWN'S COMING UP.

962
00:28:50,762 --> 00:28:51,696
I HAVE TO SLOW DOWN HERE.

963
00:28:51,763 --> 00:28:52,197
THERE'S A TREE TRUNK.

964
00:28:52,263 --> 00:28:53,198
[LAUGHS]

965
00:28:53,264 --> 00:28:54,432
LIKE, I HAVE TO WATCH FOR THAT."

966
00:28:54,499 --> 00:28:58,269
>> Narrator: OVER THE COURSE OF

967
00:28:58,336 --> 00:28:59,904
20 EXCRUCIATING HOURS, GARCIA

968
00:28:59,971 --> 00:29:03,808
POWERED THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.

969
00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:05,110
BY MILE 90, HE STILL TRAILED THE

970
00:29:05,176 --> 00:29:06,244
RACE LEADER, HIS BODY WAS

971
00:29:06,311 --> 00:29:07,212
DETERIORATING, AND HIS WINDOW TO

972
00:29:07,278 --> 00:29:08,980
MAKE A MOVE WAS CLOSING RAPIDLY.

973
00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:13,551
>> WITH EVERY STEP, I COULD FEEL

974
00:29:13,618 --> 00:29:14,185
MY TOENAIL MOVING ON -- ON BOTH

975
00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:15,220
FEET.

976
00:29:15,286 --> 00:29:21,726
AND I'M JUST, LIKE, CURSING IN

977
00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:23,461
MY HEAD AND THEN FROM A

978
00:29:23,528 --> 00:29:24,496
DISTANCE, YOU SEE A HEADLAMP.

979
00:29:24,562 --> 00:29:25,063
AND YOU'RE LIKE, "THAT'S THE

980
00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:25,964
GUY."

981
00:29:26,030 --> 00:29:26,764
>> Narrator: IN THE DEAD OF

982
00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:27,765
NIGHT, HE MADE ONE FINAL PUSH

983
00:29:27,832 --> 00:29:29,067
AND TOOK THE LEAD WITH FIVE

984
00:29:29,134 --> 00:29:29,767
MILES TO SPARE.

985
00:29:29,834 --> 00:29:30,435
WHEN HE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE,

986
00:29:30,502 --> 00:29:38,009
HIS FAMILY WAS WAITING FOR HIM.

987
00:29:38,076 --> 00:29:39,177
>> WHEN I SAW HIM COMING, OH,

988
00:29:39,244 --> 00:29:40,111
I WAS PRETTY EMOTIONAL.

989
00:29:40,178 --> 00:29:41,146
BECAUSE I KNEW HOW MUCH IT MEANT

990
00:29:41,212 --> 00:29:41,412
TO HIM.

991
00:29:41,479 --> 00:29:51,890
I KNEW HE WANTED TO FINISH FIRST

992
00:29:51,956 --> 00:29:52,891
AND HE WANTED TO PROVE THAT

993
00:29:52,957 --> 00:29:53,825
EVERYTHING WAS OKAY.

994
00:29:53,892 --> 00:29:54,459
>> Narrator: TO JERRY GARCIA,

995
00:29:54,526 --> 00:29:55,727
THE MEMORIES OF THAT VICTORY AND

996
00:29:55,793 --> 00:29:57,262
HIS JOURNEY TO RECOVERY ARE

997
00:29:57,328 --> 00:29:58,196
FOREVER TIED TO THE TRAILS OF

998
00:29:58,263 --> 00:29:59,264
THE ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST.

999
00:29:59,330 --> 00:29:59,864
THOSE MEMORIES WOULD COME

1000
00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:01,799
FLOODING BACK AS THOSE VERY

1001
00:30:01,866 --> 00:30:02,700
TRAILS WENT UP IN FLAMES LAST

1002
00:30:02,767 --> 00:30:05,303
SEPTEMBER.

1003
00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:07,005
>> IT WAS BURNING MY HOME.

1004
00:30:07,071 --> 00:30:08,673
I WAS LIKE, "WE GOT TO GO OUT

1005
00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:09,741
THERE."

1006
00:30:09,807 --> 00:30:11,609
LIKE, I GOT TO GO OUT THERE.

1007
00:30:11,676 --> 00:30:13,611
>> Narrator: HOPING TO SAVE THE

1008
00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:14,679
LAND THAT HAD SAVED HIM, HE LED

1009
00:30:14,746 --> 00:30:15,613
A CREW TO FACE THE INFERNO HEAD

1010
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,483
ON.

1011
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:20,285
FIREFIGHTERS HAD THEIR WORST

1012
00:30:20,351 --> 00:30:21,219
FEARS REALIZED AS THE BLAZE

1013
00:30:21,286 --> 00:30:22,620
BEGAN TO CRAWL UP THE SIDE OF

1014
00:30:22,687 --> 00:30:24,622
MOUNT WILSON -- HOME TO VITAL

1015
00:30:24,689 --> 00:30:27,625
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS, WORTH

1016
00:30:27,692 --> 00:30:28,293
BILLIONS, AND A MAJOR SCIENTIFIC

1017
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:32,897
RESEARCH CENTER.

1018
00:30:32,964 --> 00:30:34,999
THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE

1019
00:30:35,066 --> 00:30:36,100
DISPATCHED CREWS AND PREPARED

1020
00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:37,702
FOR WHAT WAS EXPECTED TO BE A

1021
00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:38,870
LONG, BRUTAL BATTLE TO PRESERVE

1022
00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:41,606
THE MOUNTAIN PEAK.

1023
00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,107
GARCIA CHANNELED HIS

1024
00:30:43,174 --> 00:30:47,745
ULTRARUNNING ENDURANCE.

1025
00:30:47,812 --> 00:30:51,549
>> EVERY DAY, MY ADRENALINE WAS

1026
00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:54,852
JUST KIND OF KICKED IN.

1027
00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:57,522
LIKE I WAS READY LET'S GO THERE

1028
00:30:57,589 --> 00:30:59,624
WAS NO OTHER PLACE I WOULD

1029
00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:00,425
RATHER BE THAN RIGHT THERE ON

1030
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:01,092
THAT FINAL STAND FOR MOUNT

1031
00:31:01,159 --> 00:31:01,993
WILSON.

1032
00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:03,928
>> Narrator: GARCIA LED HIS CREW

1033
00:31:03,995 --> 00:31:05,129
AS THEY FOUGHT TO SLOW THE

1034
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:06,130
DEADLY BLAZE.

1035
00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:06,731
FLAMES EVENTUALLY CAME WITHIN

1036
00:31:06,798 --> 00:31:08,533
FEET OF THE OBSERVATORY AND

1037
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:09,200
TOWERS BUT THE CREW STOOD THEIR

1038
00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:10,668
GROUND.

1039
00:31:10,735 --> 00:31:11,636
AFTER ONE LAST HERCULEAN 40-HOUR

1040
00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:12,670
SHIFT, THEY FINALLY STOPPED THE

1041
00:31:12,737 --> 00:31:15,273
FIRE IN ITS TRACKS.

1042
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:16,241
>> Jon: WHAT WAS THAT FEELING

1043
00:31:16,307 --> 00:31:18,910
LIKE, WHEN YOU -- WHEN YOU

1044
00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:19,510
PRESERVED MOUNT WILSON AND YOU

1045
00:31:19,577 --> 00:31:21,613
CONTAINED THIS FIRE?

1046
00:31:21,679 --> 00:31:22,180
>> FELT GOOD.

1047
00:31:22,247 --> 00:31:23,114
I WAS LIKE, "MAN.

1048
00:31:23,181 --> 00:31:24,349
I -- I DID IT."

1049
00:31:24,415 --> 00:31:28,553
YOU KNOW, WE DID IT.

1050
00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:30,255
SEEING THIS DEVASTATION RIGHT

1051
00:31:30,321 --> 00:31:31,689
HERE -- IT HURTS.

1052
00:31:31,756 --> 00:31:32,390
>> Narrator: THOUGH GARCIA AND

1053
00:31:32,457 --> 00:31:33,691
OTHER FIREFIGHTERS MANAGED TO

1054
00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:35,893
PRESERVE MUCH OF THE LAND, PARTS

1055
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,295
OF THE ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST

1056
00:31:37,362 --> 00:31:40,198
ARE STILL SEVERELY CHARRED.

1057
00:31:40,265 --> 00:31:41,833
DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRES

1058
00:31:41,899 --> 00:31:43,434
WILL CONTINUE TO RAVAGE THE

1059
00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:45,236
AMERICAN WEST AND SCENES LIKE

1060
00:31:45,303 --> 00:31:46,571
THIS ONE ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO

1061
00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:50,074
BECOME MORE COMMON.

1062
00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:51,609
>> Jon: YOU LOOK AROUND, YOU SEE

1063
00:31:51,676 --> 00:31:57,448
ALL THE DAMAGE THAT'S BEEN

1064
00:31:57,515 --> 00:31:58,383
CAUSED BY THE FIRES.

1065
00:31:58,449 --> 00:31:59,050
BUT THE EXPERTS SAY IT'S ONLY

1066
00:31:59,117 --> 00:31:59,884
GOING TO GET WORSE.

1067
00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:01,753
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?

1068
00:32:01,819 --> 00:32:02,387
>> IT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO GET

1069
00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:03,354
WORSE.

1070
00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:04,022
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO BE OUT

1071
00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:05,223
HERE TRAINING AND STAYING READY

1072
00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:07,191
TO PROTECT OUR FOREST.

1073
00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:08,826
>> Jon: FOR ANYBODY WHO LIVES IN

1074
00:32:08,893 --> 00:32:09,460
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THERE ARE A

1075
00:32:09,527 --> 00:32:13,064
LOT OF FIRES.

1076
00:32:13,131 --> 00:32:14,032
AND THEY THREATENED EVERYBODY.

1077
00:32:14,098 --> 00:32:15,800
BUT YOU'VE GOT A SON WHO WAS

1078
00:32:15,867 --> 00:32:16,834
RIGHT IN THE HEART OF IT.

1079
00:32:16,901 --> 00:32:18,503
ARE YOU PROUD OF WHAT HE DOES?

1080
00:32:18,569 --> 00:32:19,804
>> I AM VERY PROUD OF HIM

1081
00:32:19,871 --> 00:32:21,306
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE HE'S A

1082
00:32:21,372 --> 00:32:23,308
WARRIOR.

1083
00:32:23,374 --> 00:32:26,010
HE'S SOMEONE THAT CAN DO A LOT

1084
00:32:26,077 --> 00:32:29,213
OF GOOD IN THIS WORLD.

1085
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,415
>> Narrator: MEANTIME, GARCIA IS

1086
00:32:30,481 --> 00:32:32,016
BACK TO RUNNING ON HIS BELOVED

1087
00:32:32,083 --> 00:32:33,951
FOREST TRAILS, HIS CONNECTION TO

1088
00:32:34,018 --> 00:32:37,188
THE LAND NOW DEEPER THAN EVER,

1089
00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:38,823
AND AS THE SCORCHED EARTH HEALS,

1090
00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:39,524
HE HOPES TO CONTINUE TO HEAL

1091
00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:43,628
HIMSELF.

1092
00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:44,796
>> IT DEFINITELY FEELS GOOD TO

1093
00:32:44,862 --> 00:32:45,963
BE ENJOYING TIME.

1094
00:32:46,030 --> 00:32:46,964
YOU KNOW, SETTING UP SOME NEW

1095
00:32:47,031 --> 00:32:48,032
GOALS MAYBE FOR SOME FUTURE

1096
00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:49,167
RACES.

1097
00:32:49,233 --> 00:32:49,801
>> Jon: YOU GOT ANOTHER WIN IN

1098
00:32:49,867 --> 00:32:50,168
YOU SOMEWHERE?

1099
00:32:50,234 --> 00:32:51,269
>> YEAH.

1100
00:32:51,336 --> 00:33:00,478
DEFINITELY, MAN.

1101
00:33:00,545 --> 00:33:01,446
EVERY DAY IS A WIN FOR ME, I

1102
00:33:01,512 --> 00:33:02,347
FEEL.

1103
00:33:02,413 --> 00:33:07,518
EVERY DAY.

1104
00:33:07,585 --> 00:33:12,890
>> Bryant: JON, JERRY IS A

1105
00:33:12,957 --> 00:33:14,392
PRETTY IMPRESSIVE DUDE.

1106
00:33:14,459 --> 00:33:15,827
WHAT ABOUT THE SMOKE THAT HE

1107
00:33:15,893 --> 00:33:16,427
INHALES AS A FIREFIGHTER, DOES

1108
00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:23,201
THAT COMPROMISE HIM?

1109
00:33:23,267 --> 00:33:25,336
>> Jon: I THINK HIS ROUTINE

1110
00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:27,839
HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED BY THE

1111
00:33:27,905 --> 00:33:28,840
WILDFIRES.

1112
00:33:28,906 --> 00:33:31,242
IT HAS LIMITED HIS TRAINING RUNS

1113
00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:32,810
AND HIS ABILITY TO COMPETE.

1114
00:33:32,877 --> 00:33:34,846
>> Bryant: YOU DID AN

1115
00:33:34,912 --> 00:33:35,279
IRON MAN.

1116
00:33:35,346 --> 00:33:38,015
DON'T ROLL YOUR EYES, CAN YOU

1117
00:33:38,082 --> 00:33:39,450
IMAGINE DOING 100 MILES?

1118
00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:39,951
>> Jon: I IMAGINE IT AND

1119
00:33:40,017 --> 00:33:44,155
THAT'S WHERE IT STOPS.

1120
00:33:44,222 --> 00:33:44,422
[LAUGHTER]

1121
00:33:44,489 --> 00:33:45,323
>> Bryant: HIS TWO PASSIONS,

1122
00:33:45,390 --> 00:33:47,358
RUNNING AND FIREFIGHTING, THEY

1123
00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:49,427
ARE THE PURSUITS OF THE YOUNG

1124
00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:49,594
MAN.

1125
00:33:49,660 --> 00:33:51,596
IT'S A TERRIBLY CONSCIOUS OF THE

1126
00:33:51,662 --> 00:33:53,564
FACT THAT HIS ABILITY TO DO

1127
00:33:53,631 --> 00:33:55,733
EITHER, LET ALONE BOTH, IS

1128
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,302
PRETTY BRIEF?

1129
00:33:58,369 --> 00:33:59,737
>> Jon: HE DID NOT TALK ABOUT

1130
00:33:59,804 --> 00:34:00,538
IT IN THOSE TERMS.

1131
00:34:00,605 --> 00:34:02,907
I THINK HE STILL FEELS LIKE HE

1132
00:34:02,974 --> 00:34:04,475
GET OUT THERE AND RUN.

1133
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,677
EVEN IF HE DOESN'T RUN HIS

1134
00:34:06,744 --> 00:34:09,313
FASTEST, HE CAN STILL -- I DON'T

1135
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,717
WANT TO SAY PACE HIMSELF -- BUT

1136
00:34:12,784 --> 00:34:13,651
MANAGED HIS WAY THROUGH FIGHTING

1137
00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:13,985
THE WILDFIRES.

1138
00:34:14,051 --> 00:34:16,854
>> Bryant: HE IS SO PASSIONATE

1139
00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:18,256
ABOUT THOSE PURSUITS, ESPECIALLY

1140
00:34:18,322 --> 00:34:20,291
THE CALIFORNIA HILLS.

1141
00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:20,925
IS THERE PREVENTIVE CAPACITY HE

1142
00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:22,527
CAN LOOK FORWARD TO, PAST BEING

1143
00:34:22,593 --> 00:34:24,429
A FIREFIGHTER?

1144
00:34:24,495 --> 00:34:26,998
>> Jon: YOU MEAN, CAN HE STAY

1145
00:34:27,064 --> 00:34:29,033
IN THIS INDUSTRY?

1146
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:30,802
I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THEY ARE

1147
00:34:30,868 --> 00:34:31,769
DOING MORE THROUGH COMPUTERS AND

1148
00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:32,370
SUCH.

1149
00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:34,439
THERE MIGHT BE AN OFFICE JOB FOR

1150
00:34:34,505 --> 00:34:36,107
HIM AND HE CAN USE WHAT HE'S

1151
00:34:36,174 --> 00:34:37,875
LEARNED OUT IN THE FIELDS AND

1152
00:34:37,942 --> 00:34:39,410
BRING IT INSIDE TO AN OFFICE,

1153
00:34:39,477 --> 00:34:40,645
SURE.

1154
00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:41,078
THE ONE GOOD STORY.

1155
00:34:41,145 --> 00:34:44,715
THANKS, JON.

1156
00:34:44,782 --> 00:34:45,516
LET'S SHIFT GEARS NOW, ON THE

1157
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:46,184
HEELS OF SEASONS THAT PLAYED OUT

1158
00:34:46,250 --> 00:34:46,984
IN EMPTY STADIUMS AND ARENAS A

1159
00:34:47,051 --> 00:34:47,819
YEAR AGO, FANS OF ALL SPORTS

1160
00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:48,686
HAVE APPLAUDED THE RETURN TO

1161
00:34:48,753 --> 00:34:49,353
SOME DEGREE OF NORMALCY THIS

1162
00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:50,488
YEAR.

1163
00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:51,255
WITH DOORS REOPENED, SEATS THAT

1164
00:34:51,322 --> 00:34:52,857
WERE EMPTY A YEAR AGO HAVE BEEN

1165
00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:54,592
FILLED AND AS A RESULT THE GAMES

1166
00:34:54,659 --> 00:34:55,626
HAVE BEEN RE-INJECTED WITH THE

1167
00:34:55,693 --> 00:34:57,028
KIND OF ENERGY THAT ONLY FANS

1168
00:34:57,094 --> 00:34:58,729
CANS PROVIDE.

1169
00:34:58,796 --> 00:35:03,668
CAN PROVIDE.

1170
00:35:03,734 --> 00:35:06,070
>> AND A GRAND TRADITION RETURNS

1171
00:35:06,137 --> 00:35:10,741
TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL!

1172
00:35:10,808 --> 00:35:12,143
>> Bryant: IT'S NOT JUST

1173
00:35:12,210 --> 00:35:12,844
STADIUMS AND ARENAS THAT HAVE

1174
00:35:12,910 --> 00:35:14,045
SEEN NEWFOUND ENERGY.

1175
00:35:14,111 --> 00:35:14,846
IT'S BEEN EVIDENT IN THE

1176
00:35:14,912 --> 00:35:15,780
INDIVIDUAL SPORTS AS WELL, AS

1177
00:35:15,847 --> 00:35:17,215
FANS LINED THE FAIRWAYS OF THE

1178
00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:18,916
PGA TOUR AND THE US TENNIS OPEN

1179
00:35:18,983 --> 00:35:20,051
RETURNED TO APPRECIATIVE CROWDS.

1180
00:35:20,117 --> 00:35:21,085
OVER 40 MILLION HAVE ATTENDED

1181
00:35:21,152 --> 00:35:22,019
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES THIS

1182
00:35:22,086 --> 00:35:23,488
YEAR, AND THE BUSINESS OF

1183
00:35:23,554 --> 00:35:24,088
FOOTBALL AT BOTH THE PRO AND

1184
00:35:24,155 --> 00:35:26,290
COLLEGE LEVEL, IS BOOMING AGAIN.

1185
00:35:26,357 --> 00:35:27,391
BUT AMID THE SCENES OF PACKED

1186
00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:29,293
STADIUMS AND CHEERING FANS,

1187
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:30,228
THERE'S STILL A CONTRASTING

1188
00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:34,398
COVID REALITY: ONE THAT'S

1189
00:35:34,465 --> 00:35:35,633
FACTORING IN ALMOST 2,000

1190
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:37,468
AMERICAN DEATHS DAILY, AND

1191
00:35:37,535 --> 00:35:38,169
PRODUCING OVER 140,000 NEW CASES

1192
00:35:38,236 --> 00:35:44,141
EACH AND EVERY DAY.

1193
00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:45,576
TO HELP US SQUARE WHAT SPORTS IS

1194
00:35:45,643 --> 00:35:48,079
DOING IN SPITE OF THE PANDEMIC,

1195
00:35:48,145 --> 00:35:48,713
WE TURN TO DR. ANTHONY FAUCI IN

1196
00:35:48,779 --> 00:35:49,947
WASHINGTON.

1197
00:35:50,014 --> 00:35:55,353
DR. FAUCI, WELCOME, WHEN YOU SEE

1198
00:35:55,419 --> 00:35:58,022
90,000 PLUS FANS, ALMOST ALL OF

1199
00:35:58,089 --> 00:36:04,362
THEM UNMASKED, JAMMED INTO

1200
00:36:04,428 --> 00:36:06,197
STADIUMS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, OR AT

1201
00:36:06,264 --> 00:36:07,031
PENN STATE, OR AT THE UNIVERSITY

1202
00:36:07,098 --> 00:36:11,469
OF MICHIGAN, YOU THINK WHAT?

1203
00:36:11,536 --> 00:36:12,904
>> I DO GET CONCERNED ABOUT IT.

1204
00:36:12,970 --> 00:36:15,940
IT'S GOING TO BE MEMBERS OF THAT

1205
00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:18,242
COHORT THAT ARE AT THE STADIUM.

1206
00:36:18,309 --> 00:36:19,877
NOT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE

1207
00:36:19,944 --> 00:36:20,645
VACCINATED.

1208
00:36:20,711 --> 00:36:21,512
THEY ARE NOT WEARING MASKS.

1209
00:36:21,579 --> 00:36:23,247
EVEN THOUGH BEING OUTDOORS IS

1210
00:36:23,314 --> 00:36:27,318
MUCH MORE SAFE THAN BEING

1211
00:36:27,385 --> 00:36:27,852
INDOORS, WHEN YOU ARE THAT

1212
00:36:27,919 --> 00:36:30,254
CONGREGATED TOGETHER, THERE IS A

1213
00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:32,557
RISK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE

1214
00:36:32,623 --> 00:36:34,659
SPREAD OF INFECTION IN SUCH AN

1215
00:36:34,725 --> 00:36:34,959
ENVIRONMENT.

1216
00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:35,693
UNTIL WE GET THE OVERWHELMING

1217
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,131
MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION

1218
00:36:40,197 --> 00:36:43,868
VACCINATED AND CASES GO WAY

1219
00:36:43,935 --> 00:36:45,870
DOWN, RIGHT NOW, WE ARE

1220
00:36:45,937 --> 00:36:47,905
AVERAGING ABOUT 150,000 NEW

1221
00:36:47,972 --> 00:36:50,841
CASES A DAY, WHICH MEANS THE

1222
00:36:50,908 --> 00:36:52,009
DYNAMICS OF THE OUTBREAK ARE

1223
00:36:52,076 --> 00:36:52,977
VERY ROBUST.

1224
00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,613
THE CHANCES OF THERE BEING

1225
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,048
SPREAD THERE ARE CONSIDERABLE,

1226
00:36:57,114 --> 00:36:57,381
UNFORTUNATELY.

1227
00:36:57,448 --> 00:36:59,450
THAT'S THE REASON WHY I DO GET

1228
00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:00,851
CONCERNED WHEN I SEE THAT.

1229
00:37:00,918 --> 00:37:02,720
>> Bryant: YOU ARE, OF COURSE,

1230
00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:03,621
FULLY VACCINATED.

1231
00:37:03,688 --> 00:37:04,989
WOULD YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE

1232
00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:07,291
ATTENDING A FOOTBALL GAME THESE

1233
00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:08,960
DAYS?

1234
00:37:09,026 --> 00:37:09,594
>> BEING AN 80-YEAR-OLD PERSON,

1235
00:37:09,660 --> 00:37:12,463
EVEN THOUGH I AM VACCINATED, I

1236
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:13,164
WOULD THINK I WOULD WANT TO BE A

1237
00:37:13,230 --> 00:37:15,166
LITTLE BIT MORE CAREFUL AND TAKE

1238
00:37:15,232 --> 00:37:17,802
THE EXTRA STEP OF EITHER GOING

1239
00:37:17,868 --> 00:37:20,204
THERE WITH A MASK IF I WERE

1240
00:37:20,271 --> 00:37:22,473
GOING TO DO IT, OR NOT GOING AT

1241
00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:22,640
ALL.

1242
00:37:22,707 --> 00:37:25,509
I LOVE SPORTS.

1243
00:37:25,576 --> 00:37:27,578
I LOVE GETTING BACK TO BE ABLE

1244
00:37:27,645 --> 00:37:28,446
TO SEE THEM.

1245
00:37:28,512 --> 00:37:29,714
BUT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES

1246
00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:32,183
RIGHT NOW, GIVEN THE FACT THAT I

1247
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:33,484
AM IN A HIGH-RISK GROUP, I WOULD

1248
00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:36,754
TAKE THE EXTRA STEP OF CAUTION.

1249
00:37:36,821 --> 00:37:37,355
>> Bryant: LET'S EXTEND THAT

1250
00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:41,225
CONCERN A LITTLE BIT.

1251
00:37:41,292 --> 00:37:42,226
A VACCINATED GRANDPARENT

1252
00:37:42,293 --> 00:37:43,194
CONSIDERING TAKING A YOUNGSTER

1253
00:37:43,260 --> 00:37:44,095
TO A GAME.

1254
00:37:44,161 --> 00:37:48,366
GOOD IDEA OR BAD IDEA?

1255
00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:52,870
>> YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE

1256
00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:53,638
CHILDREN.

1257
00:37:53,704 --> 00:37:55,239
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, CHILDREN,

1258
00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:57,875
LESS THAN 12 YEARS OLD, OR NOT

1259
00:37:57,942 --> 00:38:00,111
YET ELIGIBLE TO BE VACCINATED.

1260
00:38:00,177 --> 00:38:02,313
THE CDC DOES MAKE THE

1261
00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:06,250
RECOMMENDATION THAT CHILDREN IN

1262
00:38:06,317 --> 00:38:07,518
AN OUTDOOR SETTING DON'T

1263
00:38:07,585 --> 00:38:08,519
GENERALLY HAVE TO WEAR MASKS BUT

1264
00:38:08,586 --> 00:38:10,888
IF THEY ARE IN AN INDOOR SETTING

1265
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:14,558
WHERE VERY CROWDED CONGREGATED

1266
00:38:14,625 --> 00:38:15,292
OUTDOOR SETTING, YOU SHOULD HAVE

1267
00:38:15,359 --> 00:38:18,195
THEM WEAR A MASK.

1268
00:38:18,262 --> 00:38:19,930
IF YOU AREN'T ABLE TO DO THAT, I

1269
00:38:19,997 --> 00:38:22,033
WOULD SHY AWAY FROM DOING THAT

1270
00:38:22,099 --> 00:38:24,502
EVEN THOUGH IT SUCH A WONDERFUL

1271
00:38:24,568 --> 00:38:26,137
EXPERIENCE TO BE AT A GAME.

1272
00:38:26,203 --> 00:38:27,471
>> Bryant: LET'S TALK ABOUT

1273
00:38:27,538 --> 00:38:27,805
YOUTH SPORTS.

1274
00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:31,308
I'VE SEEN YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT

1275
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:32,076
SPORTS CLUSTERS AND THE EXTENT

1276
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:33,444
AND ROLE THAT THEY'VE PLAYED IN

1277
00:38:33,511 --> 00:38:35,579
DRIVING THE NUMBERS UP.

1278
00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:38,315
YOUTH SPORTS ARE SEEMINGLY GOING

1279
00:38:38,382 --> 00:38:40,284
ON AS IF THE PANDEMIC,

1280
00:38:40,351 --> 00:38:41,385
UNFORTUNATELY, DID NOT EVEN

1281
00:38:41,452 --> 00:38:42,253
EXIST.

1282
00:38:42,319 --> 00:38:44,622
HOW CONCERNED ARE YOU ABOUT THE

1283
00:38:44,689 --> 00:38:46,524
EXTENT TO WHICH YOUNG ATHLETES

1284
00:38:46,590 --> 00:38:46,924
ARE BEING EXPOSED?

1285
00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:49,827
>> IF YOU LOOK AT THE FACTS,

1286
00:38:49,894 --> 00:38:51,962
BRYANT, IT TELLS YOU THAT YOU

1287
00:38:52,029 --> 00:38:52,963
SHOULD BE CONCERNED.

1288
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,598
WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUNGSTERS,

1289
00:38:54,665 --> 00:38:55,566
ADOLESCENTS WHO ARE NOT IN

1290
00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:58,369
SPORTS, THE TRANSMISSION AND

1291
00:38:58,436 --> 00:39:02,039
CONTEXT OF SPORTS PARTICULARLY

1292
00:39:02,106 --> 00:39:02,907
CONTACT SPORTS.

1293
00:39:02,973 --> 00:39:04,875
OR EVEN MODERATELY CONTACT

1294
00:39:04,942 --> 00:39:06,944
SPORTS, THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE

1295
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:07,578
NUMBER OF INFECTION MUCH GREATER

1296
00:39:07,645 --> 00:39:10,581
THAN IN THE SCHOOL IN GENERAL.

1297
00:39:10,648 --> 00:39:13,184
IN FACT, IT'S INTERESTING THAT

1298
00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:15,152
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WHERE

1299
00:39:15,219 --> 00:39:16,620
I LIVE, THE MAYOR NOW HAS SAID

1300
00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:20,424
THAT STUDENT ATHLETES NEED TO BE

1301
00:39:20,491 --> 00:39:20,858
VACCINATED.

1302
00:39:20,925 --> 00:39:22,827
WHICH IS REALLY INTERESTING,

1303
00:39:22,893 --> 00:39:23,894
BECAUSE THAT IS A RECOGNITION OF

1304
00:39:23,961 --> 00:39:27,465
THE INCREASED RISK AMONG THE

1305
00:39:27,531 --> 00:39:30,835
ATHLETES WERE IN THAT CONTACT

1306
00:39:30,901 --> 00:39:32,670
SITUATION OF MOST OF THE

1307
00:39:32,737 --> 00:39:33,204
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS.

1308
00:39:33,270 --> 00:39:34,805
>> Bryant: YOU ARE A FATHER OF

1309
00:39:34,872 --> 00:39:37,174
THREE GIRLS, ONE OF WHOM,

1310
00:39:37,241 --> 00:39:39,477
ALLISON, WAS A D1 ATHLETE.

1311
00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:41,879
IF YOU ARE A YOUNG PARENT TODAY,

1312
00:39:41,946 --> 00:39:43,080
WOULD YOU LET YOUR CHILDREN

1313
00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:48,018
PARTICIPATE IN OUTDOOR SPORTS?

1314
00:39:48,085 --> 00:39:48,452
>> I WOULD, BRYANT.

1315
00:39:48,519 --> 00:39:51,422
JUST BECAUSE I REALIZE IT MEANS

1316
00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:52,223
SO MUCH TO THEM.

1317
00:39:52,289 --> 00:39:54,792
WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT MY

1318
00:39:54,859 --> 00:39:55,659
DAUGHTER, SHE WAS IN COLLEGE.

1319
00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,896
SHE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO BE

1320
00:39:58,963 --> 00:39:59,764
VACCINATED.

1321
00:39:59,830 --> 00:40:01,332
IF SHE WERE FULLY VACCINATED, I

1322
00:40:01,398 --> 00:40:04,401
WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH HER

1323
00:40:04,468 --> 00:40:07,071
BEING ON THE CREW TEAM RIGHT NOW

1324
00:40:07,138 --> 00:40:07,838
WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.

1325
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:09,006
>> Bryant: I AM QUOTING YOU.

1326
00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:11,408
WE ARE AT A POINT IN TIME WHERE

1327
00:40:11,475 --> 00:40:13,244
VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE,

1328
00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:15,579
EFFECTIVE, CONVENIENT, SAFE, AND

1329
00:40:15,646 --> 00:40:16,013
FREE.

1330
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,582
AND YET, WE'VE GOT 70 MILLION

1331
00:40:18,649 --> 00:40:20,518
AMERICANS WHO REMAIN

1332
00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:20,918
UNVACCINATED.

1333
00:40:20,985 --> 00:40:22,353
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT DAUNTING

1334
00:40:22,419 --> 00:40:24,755
NUMBER, DO YOU SEE ANY REASON

1335
00:40:24,822 --> 00:40:26,957
FOR OPTIMISM, THAT THAT MIGHT

1336
00:40:27,024 --> 00:40:27,258
EVER CHANGE?

1337
00:40:27,324 --> 00:40:30,728
>> YOU KNOW, I THINK IT WILL AS

1338
00:40:30,795 --> 00:40:33,364
WE CONTINUE TO GET TRUSTED

1339
00:40:33,430 --> 00:40:34,799
MESSAGES.

1340
00:40:34,865 --> 00:40:35,366
YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING,

1341
00:40:35,432 --> 00:40:37,468
SPEAKING IN THE VENUE OF A

1342
00:40:37,535 --> 00:40:41,939
SPORTS AUDIENCE, BRYANT, I THINK

1343
00:40:42,006 --> 00:40:43,240
TRUSTED MESSENGERS ARE OFTEN

1344
00:40:43,307 --> 00:40:47,344
SPORTS FIGURES, CLERGY, FAMILY

1345
00:40:47,411 --> 00:40:49,180
PHYSICIANS, PEOPLE THAT ARE

1346
00:40:49,246 --> 00:40:49,446
RESPECTED.

1347
00:40:49,513 --> 00:40:54,852
AND VERY, VERY MUCH EMILY RATED

1348
00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:58,789
AS ATHLETES BY FANS, THEIR

1349
00:40:58,856 --> 00:40:59,023
PEOPLE.

1350
00:40:59,089 --> 00:41:02,693
>> Bryant: THEY HAVE MADE LIFE

1351
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,862
SO DIFFICULT FOR THOSE THAT ARE

1352
00:41:04,929 --> 00:41:07,231
UNVACCINATED THAT IT'S A MUCH

1353
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:08,065
EASIER FOR THE ATHLETES WHO ARE

1354
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:11,068
VACCINATED TO CONTINUE TO LEAD A

1355
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:11,268
LIFE.

1356
00:41:11,335 --> 00:41:12,169
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE YOU WOULD

1357
00:41:12,236 --> 00:41:13,337
LIKE TO SEE THE PROBE LEAKS

1358
00:41:13,404 --> 00:41:15,439
DOING THAT THEY ARE NOT?

1359
00:41:15,506 --> 00:41:17,875
>> I THINK THEY'RE DOING A

1360
00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:20,878
REALLY GOOD JOB IN GETTING THEIR

1361
00:41:20,945 --> 00:41:21,712
PLAYERS AND ATHLETES VACCINATED.

1362
00:41:21,779 --> 00:41:24,548
I REALLY DO THINK IT'S SO

1363
00:41:24,615 --> 00:41:28,986
IMPORTANT FOR ATHLETES TO GET

1364
00:41:29,053 --> 00:41:30,988
VACCINATED.

1365
00:41:31,055 --> 00:41:32,022
BECAUSE THERE'S NO QUESTION

1366
00:41:32,089 --> 00:41:32,756
ABOUT THAT IN THIS COUNTRY, FOR

1367
00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:34,925
GOOD REASONS.

1368
00:41:34,992 --> 00:41:36,594
ATHLETES ARE LOOKED UP TO.

1369
00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:37,361
THEY ARE THE HEROES THAT MANY OF

1370
00:41:37,428 --> 00:41:40,965
US FANTASIZE ABOUT, SAYING "GOD,

1371
00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:41,999
I REALLY WISH I COULD BE OUT

1372
00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:44,869
THERE CATCHING THAT TOUCHDOWN

1373
00:41:44,935 --> 00:41:46,203
PASS OR DUNKING THAT BALL

1374
00:41:46,270 --> 00:41:46,637
BACKWARDS."

1375
00:41:46,704 --> 00:41:49,340
YOU CAN RELATE TO THOSE PEOPLE.

1376
00:41:49,406 --> 00:41:51,075
IF THOSE ATHLETES GET

1377
00:41:51,141 --> 00:41:53,244
VACCINATED, A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL

1378
00:41:53,310 --> 00:41:53,777
FOLLOW.

1379
00:41:53,844 --> 00:41:55,212
>> Bryant: YOU ARE A SPORTS

1380
00:41:55,279 --> 00:41:55,880
FAN COME AT YOU PERSONALLY FIND

1381
00:41:55,946 --> 00:41:59,049
IT DIFFICULT TO RESPECT AN

1382
00:41:59,116 --> 00:41:59,683
ATHLETE, PRO ATHLETE THAT YOU

1383
00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:02,920
MAY HAVE ADMIRED BEFORE WHEN YOU

1384
00:42:02,987 --> 00:42:03,520
FIND OUT THEY'VE CHOSEN NOT TO

1385
00:42:03,587 --> 00:42:07,057
BE VACCINATED?

1386
00:42:07,124 --> 00:42:10,995
>> I WOULDN'T GO SO FAR TO SAY,

1387
00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:11,562
BRYANT, THAT I DON'T RESPECT

1388
00:42:11,629 --> 00:42:11,795
THEM.

1389
00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:14,198
I HAVE THIS FEELING, LIKE I WISH

1390
00:42:14,265 --> 00:42:15,833
I COULD SPEND 5 MINUTES WITH

1391
00:42:15,900 --> 00:42:18,736
THEM TO TRY TO ANSWER ALL OF THE

1392
00:42:18,802 --> 00:42:19,303
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REASON.

1393
00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:23,574
YOU WOULD ASSUME THAT THEY ARE

1394
00:42:23,641 --> 00:42:28,512
WITH IT ENOUGH TO HAVE A GOOD

1395
00:42:28,579 --> 00:42:28,846
REASON.

1396
00:42:28,913 --> 00:42:30,514
I WOULD WANT TO GIVE THEM A

1397
00:42:30,581 --> 00:42:33,984
RESPONSIBLE ANSWER TO A QUESTION

1398
00:42:34,051 --> 00:42:36,654
THEY MIGHT HAVE THAT MIGHT BE A

1399
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:37,021
VALID QUESTION.

1400
00:42:37,087 --> 00:42:38,389
>> Bryant: IN NO WAY DO I WANT

1401
00:42:38,455 --> 00:42:40,557
TO MINIMIZE DIFFICULTY OF THE

1402
00:42:40,624 --> 00:42:42,726
TASK BUT AS A CLOSING QUESTION,

1403
00:42:42,793 --> 00:42:43,794
WE'VE BEEN AT THIS BATTLE FOR 18

1404
00:42:43,861 --> 00:42:46,196
MONTHS NOW.

1405
00:42:46,263 --> 00:42:47,998
IF THIS WERE A BALL GAME, GIVE

1406
00:42:48,065 --> 00:42:51,602
ME AN IDEA OF WHAT INNING WE ARE

1407
00:42:51,669 --> 00:42:51,769
IN.

1408
00:42:51,835 --> 00:42:54,438
>> IF IT WERE A BASEBALL GAME,

1409
00:42:54,505 --> 00:42:55,272
BRYANT, I WOULD HOPE THAT WE ARE

1410
00:42:55,339 --> 00:42:58,275
IN THE SEVENTH INNING, COMING TO

1411
00:42:58,342 --> 00:43:01,011
THE END.

1412
00:43:01,078 --> 00:43:02,713
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE

1413
00:43:02,780 --> 00:43:03,414
ONE OF THOSE THINGS, IF YOU WANT

1414
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,515
TO KEEP THE METAPHOR GOING, WE

1415
00:43:04,581 --> 00:43:07,551
ARE IN THE SEVENTH INNING BUT WE

1416
00:43:07,618 --> 00:43:09,853
DON'T WANT TO GET STUCK BY A

1417
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:10,621
RAIN DELAY.

1418
00:43:10,688 --> 00:43:12,923
WE WANT TO GET THE GAME OVER

1419
00:43:12,990 --> 00:43:15,459
WITH!

1420
00:43:15,526 --> 00:43:22,599
>> Bryant: WE ALSO DON'T WANT

1421
00:43:22,666 --> 00:43:23,334
TO EXTRA INNINGS.

1422
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,768
>> THAT'S A GREAT METAPHOR.

1423
00:43:24,835 --> 00:43:27,438
WE WANT TO GET THIS OVER WITH.

1424
00:43:27,504 --> 00:43:30,774
>> Bryant: THANK YOU SO MUCH,

1425
00:43:30,841 --> 00:43:31,075
DR. FAUCI.

1426
00:43:31,141 --> 00:43:33,277
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

1427
00:43:33,344 --> 00:43:34,845
>> Bryant: OUR LAST STORY THIS

1428
00:43:34,912 --> 00:43:35,412
EVENING IS ABOUT ONE OF THE

1429
00:43:35,479 --> 00:43:35,980
SPORTS WORLD'S MOST FAMILIAR

1430
00:43:36,046 --> 00:43:36,780
FACES.

1431
00:43:36,847 --> 00:43:37,681
HE'S ADAM SCHEFTER, ESPN'S BEAT

1432
00:43:37,748 --> 00:43:38,983
REPORTER ON THE NFL.

1433
00:43:39,049 --> 00:43:40,617
WE FIRST PROFILED SCHEFTER A FEW

1434
00:43:40,684 --> 00:43:41,552
YEARS AGO -- WHEN OUR JON

1435
00:43:41,618 --> 00:43:42,286
FRANKEL DETAILED HOW SCHEFTER'S

1436
00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:43,354
UNLIKELY PERSONAL STORY,

1437
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:44,254
INVOLVING HIS MARRIAGE TO A 9/11

1438
00:43:44,321 --> 00:43:45,522
WIDOW, MIRRORED HIS OWN.

1439
00:43:45,589 --> 00:43:46,757
SINCE THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF

1440
00:43:46,824 --> 00:43:48,392
9/11 WAS JUST COMMEMORATED, WE

1441
00:43:48,459 --> 00:43:50,361
THOUGHT IT A FITTING TIME TO

1442
00:43:50,427 --> 00:43:52,463
UPDATE THE STORY OF A BUSY

1443
00:43:52,529 --> 00:43:53,597
FOOTBALL REPORTER WHO'S LOOKING

1444
00:43:53,664 --> 00:43:55,399
AHEAD TO A SPECIAL UPCOMING

1445
00:43:55,466 --> 00:43:56,233
WEEKEND THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO

1446
00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:57,401
WITH THE GRIDIRON.

1447
00:43:57,468 --> 00:44:06,243
JON FRANKEL EXPLAINS.

1448
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:07,745
>> Narrator: IT HAPPENS ALMOST

1449
00:44:07,811 --> 00:44:08,645
DAILY, A BIG STORY WILL BREAK IN

1450
00:44:08,712 --> 00:44:10,114
THE MOST IMPORTANT REPORTING

1451
00:44:10,180 --> 00:44:11,315
BEAT IN SPORTS, THE NFL, AND THE

1452
00:44:11,382 --> 00:44:25,629
SAME MAN WILL BE BEHIND IT.

1453
00:44:25,696 --> 00:44:26,497
>> Jon: WHAT'S BEEN THE BIGGEST

1454
00:44:26,563 --> 00:44:27,498
GET?

1455
00:44:27,564 --> 00:44:28,132
>> JON, HERE'S THE THING IN THE

1456
00:44:28,198 --> 00:44:29,066
NFL.

1457
00:44:29,133 --> 00:44:29,867
THERE'S A GET EVERY DAY.

1458
00:44:29,933 --> 00:44:30,467
EVERY DAY IN THE NFL, THERE'S

1459
00:44:30,534 --> 00:44:31,668
NEWS.

1460
00:44:31,735 --> 00:44:32,703
I DON'T THINK ABOUT WHAT I GOT

1461
00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:35,539
YESTERDAY OR LAST WEEK OR LAST

1462
00:44:35,606 --> 00:44:36,273
MONTH, PEOPLE GET FIRED.

1463
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:37,141
PEOPLE GET HIRED.

1464
00:44:37,207 --> 00:44:37,941
PEOPLE GET IN FIGHTS.

1465
00:44:38,008 --> 00:44:39,009
PEOPLE SIGN CONTRACTS, GET

1466
00:44:39,076 --> 00:44:39,376
TRADED.

1467
00:44:39,443 --> 00:44:39,877
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING

1468
00:44:39,943 --> 00:44:44,248
HAPPENING.

1469
00:44:44,314 --> 00:44:45,115
>> Narrator: WHEN IT DOES, IT'S

1470
00:44:45,182 --> 00:44:46,083
ALMOST ALWAYS ADAM SCHEFTER

1471
00:44:46,150 --> 00:44:46,683
WHO'S TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT

1472
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:54,858
IT.

1473
00:44:54,925 --> 00:44:56,493
SOMEHOW, THIS 5'8" GUY FROM LONG

1474
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,828
ISLAND -- WHO'S NEVER WORN A

1475
00:44:57,895 --> 00:44:58,495
HELMET IN HIS LIFE -- HAS BECOME

1476
00:44:58,562 --> 00:44:59,163
THE ULTIMATE INSIDER IN THE NFL,

1477
00:44:59,229 --> 00:44:59,763
LIABLE TO BREAK NEWS ANYWHERE,

1478
00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:03,333
AT ANY TIME,

1479
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,201
>> EXPECTS TO SIGN WITH NEW

1480
00:45:04,268 --> 00:45:04,968
ENGLAND.

1481
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:05,836
I JUST POSTED.

1482
00:45:05,903 --> 00:45:06,703
HOW'S THAT FOR A BOMB?

1483
00:45:06,770 --> 00:45:09,006
WOO!

1484
00:45:09,073 --> 00:45:11,108
>> Narrator: WE FIRST TRIED

1485
00:45:11,175 --> 00:45:11,742
KEEPING UP WITH SCHEFTER NEARLY

1486
00:45:11,809 --> 00:45:14,745
THREE YEARS AGO.

1487
00:45:14,812 --> 00:45:17,514
>> GOOD MORNING.

1488
00:45:17,581 --> 00:45:18,415
>> Narrator: THAT MEANT RISING

1489
00:45:18,482 --> 00:45:19,616
BEFORE THE SUN, AS HE TRIED TO

1490
00:45:19,683 --> 00:45:20,684
GET THE JUMP ON THE COMPETITION.

1491
00:45:20,751 --> 00:45:21,318
>> WILLIAMS IS IN CONSIDERATION

1492
00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:23,253
FOR THE JOB.

1493
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:24,655
>> Narrator: BY DAWN, HE'D

1494
00:45:24,721 --> 00:45:26,390
ARRIVED AT THE MANHATTAN STUDIOS

1495
00:45:26,457 --> 00:45:27,758
OF HIS EMPLOYER, ESPN, READY TO

1496
00:45:27,825 --> 00:45:28,392
TELL THE WORLD WHAT HE'D ALREADY

1497
00:45:28,459 --> 00:45:29,827
LEARNED.

1498
00:45:29,893 --> 00:45:30,494
>> ADAM GASE IS GOING TO BE THE

1499
00:45:30,561 --> 00:45:31,962
HEAD COACH OF THE NEW YORK JETS.

1500
00:45:32,029 --> 00:45:33,497
>> Narrator: THEN IT WAS A

1501
00:45:33,564 --> 00:45:34,565
TWO-HOUR DRIVE TO BRISTOL,

1502
00:45:34,631 --> 00:45:36,433
CONNECTICUT, ESPN'S MAIN CAMPUS,

1503
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:38,235
WHERE HE APPEARED ALL DAY LONG,

1504
00:45:38,302 --> 00:45:43,440
ON SHOW, AFTER SHOW, AFTER

1505
00:45:43,507 --> 00:45:44,708
SHOW.

1506
00:45:44,775 --> 00:45:45,642
>> THE DAY STARTS AND IT NEVER

1507
00:45:45,709 --> 00:45:48,312
STOPS.

1508
00:45:48,378 --> 00:45:49,713
THIS IS THE OFFICE.

1509
00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:51,615
>> Narrator: NOT EVEN WHEN DAY

1510
00:45:51,682 --> 00:45:52,182
TURNED BACK INTO NIGHT, AND

1511
00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:53,283
SCHEFTER RETURNED HOME.

1512
00:45:53,350 --> 00:45:55,385
BECAUSE WELL BEFORE THE PANDEMIC

1513
00:45:55,452 --> 00:45:56,720
MADE BROADCASTING FROM HOME PART

1514
00:45:56,787 --> 00:45:59,756
OF A TELEVISION REPORTER'S LIFE,

1515
00:45:59,823 --> 00:46:01,258
SCHEFTER ALREADY HAD A HOME

1516
00:46:01,325 --> 00:46:03,260
STUDIO, SO HE COULD GO BACK ON

1517
00:46:03,327 --> 00:46:04,394
AIR ANYTIME THERE WAS NEWS TO

1518
00:46:04,461 --> 00:46:05,829
BREAK.

1519
00:46:05,896 --> 00:46:06,463
>> RIGHT BEHIND THIS DOOR, IS A

1520
00:46:06,530 --> 00:46:07,965
LITTLE CAMERA.

1521
00:46:08,031 --> 00:46:10,167
NOT VERY BIG, RIGHT?

1522
00:46:10,234 --> 00:46:12,769
BUT THEY CAN REMOTE CONTROL THAT

1523
00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:14,004
FROM ESPN.

1524
00:46:14,071 --> 00:46:15,606
>> Jon: SO WHAT YOU HAVE TO

1525
00:46:15,672 --> 00:46:16,373
HANDLE ON YOUR END IS THROW ON A

1526
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,911
SHIRT, GRAB A TIE.

1527
00:46:20,978 --> 00:46:27,851
>> THAT'S IT --

1528
00:46:27,918 --> 00:46:31,855
>> Jon: EVEN IF YOU'RE WEARING

1529
00:46:31,922 --> 00:46:33,390
SHORTS, IT'S --

1530
00:46:33,457 --> 00:46:35,626
>> PUT THE TIE ON AND SIT DOWN

1531
00:46:35,692 --> 00:46:36,960
IN THIS CHAIR RIGHT HERE, RIGHT?

1532
00:46:37,027 --> 00:46:37,294
HERE'S MY MIC.

1533
00:46:37,361 --> 00:46:38,195
HERE'S MY IFB.

1534
00:46:38,262 --> 00:46:39,463
SIT DOWN IN THE CHAIR.

1535
00:46:39,530 --> 00:46:40,898
"WE HAVE A TRADE, ANOTHER TRADE,

1536
00:46:40,964 --> 00:46:42,966
ESPN HAS ACCESS TO ME AT ALL

1537
00:46:43,033 --> 00:46:46,570
TIMES."

1538
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:47,104
>> Jon: THEY OWN YOU.

1539
00:46:47,171 --> 00:46:48,872
>> ESPN OWNS ME AND IS NOT SHY

1540
00:46:48,939 --> 00:46:54,044
ABOUT EXERCISING ITS OWNERSHIP.

1541
00:46:54,111 --> 00:46:54,678
>> Narrator: SCHEFTER'S

1542
00:46:54,745 --> 00:46:55,212
OBSESSION WITH INFORMATION

1543
00:46:55,279 --> 00:46:55,779
EXTENDED BEYOND THE GAME OF

1544
00:46:55,846 --> 00:46:56,346
FOOTBALL.

1545
00:46:56,413 --> 00:46:56,980
HERE IN HIS HOME STUDIO, WHEN HE

1546
00:46:57,047 --> 00:46:57,514
WASN'T ON AIR, HE WAS

1547
00:46:57,581 --> 00:46:58,115
METICULOUSLY REPORTING ON HIS

1548
00:46:58,182 --> 00:46:58,882
VERY OWN LIFE, BY KEEPING A

1549
00:46:58,949 --> 00:46:59,850
DAILY JOURNAL.

1550
00:46:59,917 --> 00:47:00,484
>> I'VE DOCUMENTED EVERY SINGLE

1551
00:47:00,551 --> 00:47:01,485
DAY SINCE 1990.

1552
00:47:01,552 --> 00:47:02,352
AND I CAN GO BACK -- YOU COULD

1553
00:47:02,419 --> 00:47:03,353
ASK ME, "WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON

1554
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:04,087
NOVEMBER 4TH, 1994?"

1555
00:47:04,154 --> 00:47:04,721
AND I COULD GO TO MY COMPUTER,

1556
00:47:04,788 --> 00:47:05,322
AND I HAVE FILES FOR EVERY DAY

1557
00:47:05,389 --> 00:47:05,989
OF EVERY YEAR.

1558
00:47:06,056 --> 00:47:06,690
>> Jon: IT'S THAT FIXATION WITH

1559
00:47:06,757 --> 00:47:07,791
RECORDING AND REPORTING

1560
00:47:07,858 --> 00:47:08,725
EVERYTHING, THAT'S MADE SCHEFTER

1561
00:47:08,792 --> 00:47:09,593
THE MAN FOOTBALL FANS LOOK TO

1562
00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:10,294
FOR INFORMATION.

1563
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:11,562
8 MILLION OF THEM FOLLOW HIM ON

1564
00:47:11,628 --> 00:47:13,830
TWITTER, AWAITING HIS EVERY

1565
00:47:13,897 --> 00:47:14,665
POST, WHICH IS WHY, BETWEEN

1566
00:47:14,731 --> 00:47:18,101
GATHERING INFORMATION AND

1567
00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:19,236
TWEETING IT OUT TO THE MASSES,

1568
00:47:19,303 --> 00:47:21,104
SCHEFTER NEVER PUTS DOWN HIS

1569
00:47:21,171 --> 00:47:21,805
PHONES, ANY OF THEM, FROM HIS

1570
00:47:21,872 --> 00:47:24,007
DAILY WORKOUT.

1571
00:47:24,074 --> 00:47:25,475
>> HOW WE DOING?

1572
00:47:25,542 --> 00:47:26,476
>> Narrator: TO THE SIT-DOWN

1573
00:47:26,543 --> 00:47:29,079
INTERVIEW WE DID FOR THIS STORY,

1574
00:47:29,146 --> 00:47:29,713
WHICH WAS INTERRUPTED AGAIN, AND

1575
00:47:29,780 --> 00:47:33,016
AGAIN.

1576
00:47:33,083 --> 00:47:37,454
>> UM, HOLD ON, UM.

1577
00:47:37,521 --> 00:47:39,256
ONE SECOND, WE GOT SOME NEWS

1578
00:47:39,323 --> 00:47:40,791
HERE.

1579
00:47:40,857 --> 00:47:45,395
>> Jon: AS IT GOES OFF AGAIN.

1580
00:47:45,462 --> 00:47:47,030
>> OKAY, SORRY.

1581
00:47:47,097 --> 00:47:47,731
>> Jon: CAN I TELL YOU

1582
00:47:47,798 --> 00:47:51,101
SOMETHING?

1583
00:47:51,168 --> 00:47:53,737
>> I'M ANNOYING.

1584
00:47:53,804 --> 00:47:54,438
>> Jon: IT'S ANNOYING.

1585
00:47:54,504 --> 00:47:55,072
>> YEAH.

1586
00:47:55,138 --> 00:47:56,006
AND WHEN YOU'RE HAVING A

1587
00:47:56,073 --> 00:47:56,940
CONVERSATION AND YOU HAVE TO

1588
00:47:57,007 --> 00:47:57,741
LOOK DOWN AND THERE'S AN OWNER

1589
00:47:57,808 --> 00:47:58,342
TEXTING YOU AT THIS POINT IN

1590
00:47:58,408 --> 00:47:58,909
TIME SOMETHING INTERESTING,

1591
00:47:58,976 --> 00:47:59,643
OKAY.

1592
00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:00,244
THAT'S THE JOB.

1593
00:48:00,310 --> 00:48:01,078
AND IT IS ANNOYING.

1594
00:48:01,144 --> 00:48:01,712
>> Narrator: SCHEFTER'S

1595
00:48:01,778 --> 00:48:03,013
COMMITMENT TO REPORTING BEGAN

1596
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,181
ACCIDENTALLY, BACK IN 1985, WHEN

1597
00:48:04,248 --> 00:48:05,215
HE WAS A FRESHMAN AT THE

1598
00:48:05,282 --> 00:48:05,983
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND

1599
00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:06,583
COULDN'T QUITE FIND A PLACE TO

1600
00:48:06,650 --> 00:48:09,052
FIT IN.

1601
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:09,686
>> FRATERNITY DIDN'T LET ME INTO

1602
00:48:09,753 --> 00:48:11,154
THE FRATERNITY.

1603
00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:11,722
FOOTBALL OFFICE DIDN'T NEED

1604
00:48:11,788 --> 00:48:12,856
SOMEBODY TO PICK UP JOCKSTRAPS.

1605
00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:13,724
BASKETBALL TEAM DIDN'T NEED

1606
00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:14,391
SOMEBODY TO PASS OUT WATER

1607
00:48:14,458 --> 00:48:15,993
BOTTLES.

1608
00:48:16,059 --> 00:48:16,860
AND WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE

1609
00:48:16,927 --> 00:48:18,295
AND NOBODY ELSE THAT WANTED ME,

1610
00:48:18,362 --> 00:48:19,296
I WENT DOWN TO THE STUDENT

1611
00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:20,130
NEWSPAPER AND VOLUNTEERED AS A

1612
00:48:20,197 --> 00:48:24,268
LAST RESORT.

1613
00:48:24,334 --> 00:48:25,602
>> Jon: YOU WENT KNOCKING ON

1614
00:48:25,669 --> 00:48:26,236
THOSE OTHER DOORS FIRST?

1615
00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:26,970
>> CORRECT.

1616
00:48:27,037 --> 00:48:27,604
AND I JUST STARTED WORKING AT IT

1617
00:48:27,671 --> 00:48:28,272
AND WORKING AT IT AND WORKING AT

1618
00:48:28,338 --> 00:48:28,572
IT.

1619
00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:29,139
>> Narrator: AFTER SCHEFTER

1620
00:48:29,206 --> 00:48:29,840
GRADUATED, HE BECAME A PRINT

1621
00:48:29,906 --> 00:48:30,974
REPORTER IN DENVER, COVERING THE

1622
00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:32,142
BRONCOS FOR 15 YEARS BEFORE

1623
00:48:32,209 --> 00:48:34,144
JOINING THE NFL NETWORK, WHERE

1624
00:48:34,211 --> 00:48:38,215
HE SOON BECAME A STAR.

1625
00:48:38,282 --> 00:48:39,316
>> I'M TOLD THAT VERY LITTLE, IF

1626
00:48:39,383 --> 00:48:41,184
ANY, PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE.

1627
00:48:41,251 --> 00:48:42,552
>> Narrator: WHILE HE HAD A

1628
00:48:42,619 --> 00:48:44,521
THRIVING CAREER AND LOVED HIS

1629
00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:45,055
WORK, IT CONSUMED HIM, AND

1630
00:48:45,122 --> 00:48:47,057
THAT'S ALL HE HAD.

1631
00:48:47,124 --> 00:48:48,692
>> I WANTED SOMETHING ELSE.

1632
00:48:48,759 --> 00:48:50,627
AND ALL YOUR CLOSE FRIENDS FROM

1633
00:48:50,694 --> 00:48:51,895
COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL,

1634
00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:52,596
EVERYONE'S MARRIED AND HAVING

1635
00:48:52,663 --> 00:48:54,831
KIDS AND STARTING FAMILIES.

1636
00:48:54,898 --> 00:48:56,066
AND YOU THINK, "OKAY,

1637
00:48:56,133 --> 00:48:57,768
SOMETHING'S MISSING HERE."

1638
00:48:57,834 --> 00:49:00,470
>> Narrator: THEN, ONE DAY, A

1639
00:49:00,537 --> 00:49:02,172
FRIEND SET HIM UP ON A DATE WITH

1640
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:02,806
A WOMAN WHO WAS ALSO LOOKING TO

1641
00:49:02,873 --> 00:49:04,441
FILL A HOLE IN HER LIFE.

1642
00:49:04,508 --> 00:49:06,076
A SINGLE MOTHER WITH A YOUNG

1643
00:49:06,143 --> 00:49:08,278
SON, WHO'D BEEN LEFT WIDOWED BY

1644
00:49:08,345 --> 00:49:10,881
THE TERRORIST ATTACK OF 9/11.

1645
00:49:10,947 --> 00:49:12,916
>> IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HOW I

1646
00:49:12,983 --> 00:49:13,216
DREW IT UP.

1647
00:49:13,283 --> 00:49:14,217
IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN, "OH I'M

1648
00:49:14,284 --> 00:49:16,053
LOOKING TO MEET A 9/11 WIDOW

1649
00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:16,553
WHO'S THE MOTHER OF A

1650
00:49:16,620 --> 00:49:17,921
ONE-YEAR-OLD SON."

1651
00:49:17,988 --> 00:49:19,723
>> Jon: ANY RESERVATIONS?

1652
00:49:19,790 --> 00:49:23,694
>> WELL, JON, AT THAT POINT IN

1653
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:24,528
MY LIFE, I WAS OPEN TO TRYING

1654
00:49:24,594 --> 00:49:25,629
ANYTHING.

1655
00:49:25,696 --> 00:49:26,530
>> Narrator: SO SCHEFTER, TRUE

1656
00:49:26,596 --> 00:49:28,131
TO FORM, DID A LITTLE REPORTING,

1657
00:49:28,198 --> 00:49:29,232
AND REACHED OUT TO SOMEONE WHO

1658
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:30,801
HAD DATED AND MARRIED A 9/11

1659
00:49:30,867 --> 00:49:33,470
WIDOW, WHO ALSO HAD A YOUNG SON,

1660
00:49:33,537 --> 00:49:40,577
THAT PERSON WAS ME.

1661
00:49:40,644 --> 00:49:41,678
>> Jon: I HAD BEEN MARRIED TO MY

1662
00:49:41,745 --> 00:49:42,879
WIFE, ERIN, FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS.

1663
00:49:42,946 --> 00:49:44,214
SITTING IN MY OFFICE ONE DAY,

1664
00:49:44,281 --> 00:49:44,815
PHONE RINGS, "HI, THIS IS ADAM

1665
00:49:44,881 --> 00:49:46,249
SCHEFTER."

1666
00:49:46,316 --> 00:49:46,917
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU KNEW MY

1667
00:49:46,983 --> 00:49:47,918
SITUATION.

1668
00:49:47,984 --> 00:49:48,652
BUT YOU CALLED ME AND ASKED FOR

1669
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,287
SOME ADVICE.

1670
00:49:50,354 --> 00:49:53,357
WHY?

1671
00:49:53,423 --> 00:49:54,291
>> I THINK, LIKE ALWAYS, JON, I

1672
00:49:54,358 --> 00:49:56,326
WAS LOOKING FOR INFORMATION.

1673
00:49:56,393 --> 00:49:57,461
AND SO I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR

1674
00:49:57,527 --> 00:49:58,328
SOMEONE TO SAY "HEY, THIS IS

1675
00:49:58,395 --> 00:49:59,896
WHAT IT'S LIKE.

1676
00:49:59,963 --> 00:50:00,497
THESE ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT

1677
00:50:00,564 --> 00:50:02,632
ARE THERE.

1678
00:50:02,699 --> 00:50:03,266
IT'S NOT ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN'T

1679
00:50:03,333 --> 00:50:04,935
DO."

1680
00:50:05,001 --> 00:50:06,970
>> Narrator: WITH THAT, SCHEFTER

1681
00:50:07,037 --> 00:50:08,438
BEGAN DATING SHARRI MAIO, WHOSE

1682
00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:10,173
HUSBAND, JOE, HAD WORKED ON THE

1683
00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:11,141
105TH FLOOR OF THE WORLD TRADE

1684
00:50:11,208 --> 00:50:13,610
CENTER.

1685
00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:16,313
>> Jon: WHEN YOU WERE AT YOUR

1686
00:50:16,380 --> 00:50:17,247
DEPTHS, DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D

1687
00:50:17,314 --> 00:50:18,281
BE ABLE TO MEET ANYBODY THAT

1688
00:50:18,348 --> 00:50:19,916
COULD MAKE YOU AS HAPPY AS JOE

1689
00:50:19,983 --> 00:50:22,719
DID?

1690
00:50:22,786 --> 00:50:24,788
>> HE WAS MY FIRST LOVE.

1691
00:50:24,855 --> 00:50:27,858
AND I HAD A CHILD WITH HIM.

1692
00:50:27,924 --> 00:50:30,360
AND I DIDN'T THINK I'D MEET

1693
00:50:30,427 --> 00:50:32,596
SOMEONE LIKE ADAM.

1694
00:50:32,662 --> 00:50:33,397
>> Jon: WHAT'D YOU LIKE ABOUT

1695
00:50:33,463 --> 00:50:34,364
HIM WHEN YOU MET HIM?

1696
00:50:34,431 --> 00:50:35,232
>> HE WAS A NICE PERSON, HE WAS

1697
00:50:35,298 --> 00:50:36,733
FUNNY.

1698
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:38,835
HE WAS VERY CUTE.

1699
00:50:38,902 --> 00:50:39,736
AND I LIKED THE FACT THAT HE

1700
00:50:39,803 --> 00:50:42,406
CONNECTED WITH MY SON.

1701
00:50:42,472 --> 00:50:44,307
>> Narrator: ONE YEAR LATER,

1702
00:50:44,374 --> 00:50:46,943
ADAM AND SHARRI WERE MARRIED.

1703
00:50:47,010 --> 00:50:47,911
I ASKED ADAM IF HE'D READ ME HIS

1704
00:50:47,978 --> 00:50:48,512
JOURNAL ENTRY FROM THE DAY HE

1705
00:50:48,578 --> 00:50:51,615
PROPOSED.

1706
00:50:51,681 --> 00:50:53,750
>> FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 2006.

1707
00:50:53,817 --> 00:50:55,318
I WAS COMING HOME FROM

1708
00:50:55,385 --> 00:50:56,453
PITTSBURGH.

1709
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:57,921
I WAS DOING A THURSDAY NIGHT

1710
00:50:57,988 --> 00:50:59,289
GAME ON NFL NETWORK.

1711
00:50:59,356 --> 00:51:01,825
I GOT ON THE PLANE THEN I DOZED

1712
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:02,526
OFF THERE AND WOKE UP WHEN WE

1713
00:51:02,592 --> 00:51:04,294
WERE CIRCLING NEW YORK.

1714
00:51:04,361 --> 00:51:05,495
I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY FITTING

1715
00:51:05,562 --> 00:51:08,098
THAT WE FLEW ALMOST DIRECTLY

1716
00:51:08,165 --> 00:51:10,867
ABOVE THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.

1717
00:51:10,934 --> 00:51:12,769
I SAID, "JOE, I'M GOING TO BE

1718
00:51:12,836 --> 00:51:16,139
LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR FAMILY."

1719
00:51:16,206 --> 00:51:16,940
>> Jon: LET ME ASK YOU THIS.

1720
00:51:17,007 --> 00:51:18,408
YOU WROTE THAT.

1721
00:51:18,475 --> 00:51:19,943
YOU SAID, "JOE, I'M GOING TO BE

1722
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:21,411
LOOKING AFTER YOUR FAMILY."

1723
00:51:21,478 --> 00:51:21,978
YOU THINK YOU'VE DONE A GOOD

1724
00:51:22,045 --> 00:51:22,546
JOB?

1725
00:51:22,612 --> 00:51:25,816
YOU THINK HE'D BE PROUD?

1726
00:51:25,882 --> 00:51:27,617
>> I HOPE SO.

1727
00:51:27,684 --> 00:51:29,619
I MEAN, I'VE TRIED AWFULLY HARD.

1728
00:51:29,686 --> 00:51:31,621
AND I'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT I

1729
00:51:31,688 --> 00:51:33,657
COULD.

1730
00:51:33,723 --> 00:51:34,958
>> Narrator: SCHEFTER BECAME A

1731
00:51:35,025 --> 00:51:37,093
FATHER TO SHARRI'S SON, DEVON,

1732
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,430
WHO WAS OVERJOYED TO HAVE A MAN

1733
00:51:40,497 --> 00:51:41,965
BACK IN HIS LIFE.

1734
00:51:42,032 --> 00:51:42,999
>> VERY LUCKY TO BE HERE TODAY

1735
00:51:43,066 --> 00:51:45,969
FOR MY MOM'S WEDDING.

1736
00:51:46,036 --> 00:51:52,442
AND YOU GUYS ARE TOO.

1737
00:51:52,509 --> 00:51:59,583
I LOVE MY NEW DAD, AND I'M JUST

1738
00:51:59,649 --> 00:52:01,985
THANKING MY MOM FOR MARRYING

1739
00:52:02,052 --> 00:52:04,921
ADAM.

1740
00:52:04,988 --> 00:52:06,957
>> Narrator: SCHEFTER WOULD ALSO

1741
00:52:07,023 --> 00:52:07,958
GO ON TO HONOR THE MAN HE

1742
00:52:08,024 --> 00:52:09,159
REPLACED, IN TYPICAL FASHION, HE

1743
00:52:09,226 --> 00:52:11,795
REPORTED ON JOE MAIO, WRITING A

1744
00:52:11,862 --> 00:52:12,529
BOOK CALLED, "THE MAN I NEVER

1745
00:52:12,596 --> 00:52:17,334
MET."

1746
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:18,802
>> Jon: WHO IS IT MOST IMPORTANT

1747
00:52:18,869 --> 00:52:20,370
TO KEEP HIS MEMORY ALIVE FOR?

1748
00:52:20,437 --> 00:52:21,638
IS IT SHARRI OR IS IT DEVON?

1749
00:52:21,705 --> 00:52:22,239
>> I THINK MORE IMPORTANT FOR

1750
00:52:22,305 --> 00:52:23,573
DEVON.

1751
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:24,207
I MEAN, SHARRI KNOWS THE TYPE OF

1752
00:52:24,274 --> 00:52:25,675
MAN JOE WAS.

1753
00:52:25,742 --> 00:52:26,243
DEVON WAS A YEAR OLD WHEN HE

1754
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:26,743
LOST HIS FATHER.

1755
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:27,511
SO HE DOES NOT KNOW.

1756
00:52:27,577 --> 00:52:28,778
AND HE STILL HASN'T READ THE

1757
00:52:28,845 --> 00:52:29,913
BOOK.

1758
00:52:29,980 --> 00:52:31,114
AND ONE DAY I HOPE HE WILL.

1759
00:52:31,181 --> 00:52:31,781
AND HE WILL HAVE A BETTER IDEA

1760
00:52:31,848 --> 00:52:35,519
OF THE TYPE OF MAN HE WAS.

1761
00:52:35,585 --> 00:52:36,286
>> Narrator: BUT SCHEFTER SAYS

1762
00:52:36,353 --> 00:52:37,754
IT'S NOT ALWAYSEASY LIVING IN

1763
00:52:37,821 --> 00:52:38,889
THE SHADOW OF SOMEONE ELSE,

1764
00:52:38,955 --> 00:52:40,357
SHARRI AND DEVON HAVE KEPT JOE'S

1765
00:52:40,423 --> 00:52:41,625
LAST NAME, AND THEY STILL LIVE

1766
00:52:41,691 --> 00:52:42,759
IN THE SAME HOUSE THAT JOE AND

1767
00:52:42,826 --> 00:52:44,127
SHARRI SHARED.

1768
00:52:44,194 --> 00:52:56,673
ADAM MUST EVEN SHARE HIS

1769
00:52:56,740 --> 00:52:57,574
BIRTHDAY WITH JOE.

1770
00:52:57,641 --> 00:52:58,808
REMARKABLY, THEY WERE BORN ON

1771
00:52:58,875 --> 00:52:59,609
THE SAME DAY.

1772
00:52:59,676 --> 00:53:00,410
>> JOE IS STILL PART OF OUR

1773
00:53:00,477 --> 00:53:00,977
FAMILY, AND I DON'T THINK I

1774
00:53:01,044 --> 00:53:01,478
COULD BE WITH ANYONE WHO

1775
00:53:01,545 --> 00:53:02,913
COULDN'T ACCEPT THAT.

1776
00:53:02,979 --> 00:53:05,916
>> Jon: DO YOU THINK THAT'S HARD

1777
00:53:05,982 --> 00:53:08,051
ON ADAM?

1778
00:53:08,118 --> 00:53:09,286
>> HE MAYBE INTERNALIZES IT, BUT

1779
00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:10,153
HE NEVER -- COMPLAINS OR TURNS

1780
00:53:10,220 --> 00:53:10,787
THE OTHER WAY WHEN I BRING UP

1781
00:53:10,854 --> 00:53:20,530
HIS NAME.

1782
00:53:20,597 --> 00:53:21,831
HE HANDLES IT THE WAY THAT I HAD

1783
00:53:21,898 --> 00:53:22,499
HOPED THE PERSON I MARRIED

1784
00:53:22,566 --> 00:53:23,400
WOULD.

1785
00:53:23,466 --> 00:53:23,833
>> IT'S NOT EASY.

1786
00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:24,601
YOU ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO BE A

1787
00:53:24,668 --> 00:53:25,435
BETTER HUSBAND AND A BETTER

1788
00:53:25,502 --> 00:53:25,969
FATHER.

1789
00:53:26,036 --> 00:53:26,736
LIKE, YOU ALWAYS KNOW THAT, YOU

1790
00:53:26,803 --> 00:53:27,370
KNOW, IF JOE WERE HERE HOW WOULD

1791
00:53:27,437 --> 00:53:28,171
IT BE DIFFERENT?

1792
00:53:28,238 --> 00:53:28,838
I KNOW SHE WONDERS THAT.

1793
00:53:28,905 --> 00:53:29,539
SHE WONDERS THAT TOO.

1794
00:53:29,606 --> 00:53:30,473
SO YOU LIVE IN THAT SHADOW.

1795
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:31,641
DO YOU EVER GET THAT?

1796
00:53:31,708 --> 00:53:34,010
>> Jon: SURE, YOU WONDER.

1797
00:53:34,077 --> 00:53:34,711
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT THERE

1798
00:53:34,778 --> 00:53:36,980
WAS SOMEBODY ELSE THAT MEANT A

1799
00:53:37,047 --> 00:53:37,581
LOT AND, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS --

1800
00:53:37,647 --> 00:53:41,084
IT WASN'T A DIVORCE.

1801
00:53:41,151 --> 00:53:42,719
>> CORRECT.

1802
00:53:42,786 --> 00:53:43,353
AND IT'S THERE AND IT DOESN'T GO

1803
00:53:43,420 --> 00:53:45,922
AWAY.

1804
00:53:45,989 --> 00:53:46,523
>> Jon: YOU END THE BOOK, "JOE

1805
00:53:46,590 --> 00:53:50,827
NEVER KNEW ME.

1806
00:53:50,894 --> 00:53:51,494
BUT HERE I AM, LIVING HIS LIFE.

1807
00:53:51,561 --> 00:53:52,929
I OCCUPY HIS SPACE.

1808
00:53:52,996 --> 00:53:54,030
I FALL ASLEEP NEXT TO HIS WIFE

1809
00:53:54,097 --> 00:53:55,899
AND HAVE HELPED RAISE HIS SON.

1810
00:53:55,966 --> 00:53:56,600
I CALL HIS PARENTS ON HIS

1811
00:53:56,666 --> 00:53:59,102
BIRTHDAY.

1812
00:53:59,169 --> 00:53:59,703
I HAVE LIVED IN THAT HOUSE FOR

1813
00:53:59,769 --> 00:54:01,271
ALMOST 12 YEARS NOW.

1814
00:54:01,338 --> 00:54:04,507
FAR LONGER THAN JOE DID.

1815
00:54:04,574 --> 00:54:06,242
BUT EVERY TIME I COME HOME, I

1816
00:54:06,309 --> 00:54:07,744
FEEL LIKE I'M WALKING INTO JOE

1817
00:54:07,811 --> 00:54:09,846
MAIO'S HOUSE.

1818
00:54:09,913 --> 00:54:10,614
AND I AM."

1819
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,315
STILL FEEL THAT WAY?

1820
00:54:12,382 --> 00:54:12,882
>> YEAH.

1821
00:54:12,949 --> 00:54:14,618
I STEPPED INTO THEIR LIVES.

1822
00:54:14,684 --> 00:54:15,685
THEY DIDN'T STEP INTO MINE.

1823
00:54:15,752 --> 00:54:19,589
THEY MADE ME HAPPIER.

1824
00:54:19,656 --> 00:54:20,290
THEY GAVE ME PURPOSE THAT I

1825
00:54:20,357 --> 00:54:23,293
DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE.

1826
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:24,928
>> Jon: PEOPLE SAID TO ME, "ERIN

1827
00:54:24,995 --> 00:54:26,329
AND ASHER ARE SO LUCKY."

1828
00:54:26,396 --> 00:54:27,130
AND I SAY, "NO, I'M THE LUCKY

1829
00:54:27,197 --> 00:54:28,331
ONE."

1830
00:54:28,398 --> 00:54:29,499
>> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

1831
00:54:29,566 --> 00:54:35,639
100%.

1832
00:54:35,705 --> 00:54:36,873
>> Narrator: OVER THE YEARS,

1833
00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:37,474
BOTH ADAM AND I HAVE GROWN OUR

1834
00:54:37,540 --> 00:54:38,475
FAMILIES.

1835
00:54:38,541 --> 00:54:39,075
AFTER I ADOPTED ASHER, MY WIFE

1836
00:54:39,142 --> 00:54:40,410
AND I HAD TWO DAUGHTERS.

1837
00:54:40,477 --> 00:54:41,244
AND AFTER ADAM, SHARRI, AND

1838
00:54:41,311 --> 00:54:41,811
DEVON BECAME A FAMILY, THEY

1839
00:54:41,878 --> 00:54:42,445
WELCOMED A LITTLE GIRL OF THEIR

1840
00:54:42,512 --> 00:54:45,382
OWN.

1841
00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:46,549
BUT NO MATTER HOW MANY YEARS GO

1842
00:54:46,616 --> 00:54:47,784
BY, OR HOW BIG OUR CHILDREN

1843
00:54:47,851 --> 00:54:48,718
GROW, THE IMPACT OF THAT FATEFUL

1844
00:54:48,785 --> 00:54:52,956
DAY LINGERS.

1845
00:54:53,023 --> 00:54:54,758
EACH SEPTEMBER BRINGS PAINFUL

1846
00:54:54,824 --> 00:54:55,759
FEELINGS BACK TO THE SURFACE,

1847
00:54:55,825 --> 00:54:56,826
AND THIS MONTH HAS BEEN

1848
00:54:56,893 --> 00:54:59,763
ESPECIALLY HARD.

1849
00:54:59,829 --> 00:55:00,597
>> I WOULD TELL YOU THAT THE TWO

1850
00:55:00,664 --> 00:55:02,799
WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE 20TH

1851
00:55:02,866 --> 00:55:05,669
ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 WERE AS

1852
00:55:05,735 --> 00:55:08,038
DIFFICULT AS ANY I COULD

1853
00:55:08,104 --> 00:55:09,172
REMEMBER, BECAUSE THE MESSAGING

1854
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:13,677
OF THE ANNIVERSARY AND THE

1855
00:55:13,743 --> 00:55:14,377
COMMEMORATION OF IT WAS SO

1856
00:55:14,444 --> 00:55:16,179
PREVALENT.

1857
00:55:16,246 --> 00:55:16,780
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GO THROUGH

1858
00:55:16,846 --> 00:55:18,114
THIS.

1859
00:55:18,181 --> 00:55:20,383
BUT YOU WANT TO BE THERE TO

1860
00:55:20,450 --> 00:55:21,217
SUPPORT YOUR WIFE BECAUSE IT IS

1861
00:55:21,284 --> 00:55:27,090
A HARD WEEK.

1862
00:55:27,157 --> 00:55:28,625
BUT YOU ALSO WANT TO GIVE HER

1863
00:55:28,692 --> 00:55:29,159
HER DISTANCE AND LEAVE HER

1864
00:55:29,225 --> 00:55:30,060
ALONE.

1865
00:55:30,126 --> 00:55:30,694
THERE'S REALLY NO RIGHT OR WRONG

1866
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:31,261
AND IT'S VERY HARD TO FIGURE

1867
00:55:31,327 --> 00:55:32,095
OUT.

1868
00:55:32,162 --> 00:55:32,862
YOU FIND THE SAME THING?

1869
00:55:32,929 --> 00:55:33,997
>> Jon: OF COURSE.

1870
00:55:34,064 --> 00:55:34,631
IT'S A DANCE AND THEY'RE

1871
00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:35,665
LEADING.

1872
00:55:35,732 --> 00:55:36,966
>> AND THERE'S NO PATTERN TO IT.

1873
00:55:37,033 --> 00:55:37,701
THERE'S NO RHYTHM OR ROUTINE TO

1874
00:55:37,767 --> 00:55:39,169
IT.

1875
00:55:39,235 --> 00:55:40,370
THE DANCE COULD GO ANY WHICH WAY

1876
00:55:40,437 --> 00:55:43,106
ON ANY DAY.

1877
00:55:43,173 --> 00:55:44,674
RIGHT?

1878
00:55:44,741 --> 00:55:48,778
>> Jon: ABSOLUTELY.

1879
00:55:48,845 --> 00:55:50,113
>> YOUR WIFE STRUGGLING THESE

1880
00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:50,880
TWO WEEKS?

1881
00:55:50,947 --> 00:55:51,281
>> Jon: OH, YEAH.

1882
00:55:51,347 --> 00:55:52,148
YEAH.

1883
00:55:52,215 --> 00:55:53,049
>> MORE SO THAN NORMAL?

1884
00:55:53,116 --> 00:55:53,650
>> Jon: I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S

1885
00:55:53,717 --> 00:55:54,751
MORE SO.

1886
00:55:54,818 --> 00:55:55,351
I -- I WONDER WHAT THE IMPACT OF

1887
00:55:55,418 --> 00:55:56,319
"20" MEANS.

1888
00:55:56,386 --> 00:55:57,087
I THINK IT'S REFLECTED IN SEEING

1889
00:55:57,153 --> 00:56:01,324
OUR SON BECOME A YOUNG MAN.

1890
00:56:01,391 --> 00:56:02,392
AND I THINK THAT REALLY

1891
00:56:02,459 --> 00:56:03,626
EXPRESSES THE PASSING OF TIME

1892
00:56:03,693 --> 00:56:06,763
MORE THAN ANYTHING.

1893
00:56:06,830 --> 00:56:08,765
>> Narrator: ASHER, WHO WAS JUST

1894
00:56:08,832 --> 00:56:10,266
3 YEARS OLD WHEN I MET HIM, IS

1895
00:56:10,333 --> 00:56:12,902
NOW A MAN OF 21.

1896
00:56:12,969 --> 00:56:14,904
SO IS DEVON, WHO WAS ONLY 7 WHEN

1897
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:15,672
HIS MOTHER MARRIED ADAM

1898
00:56:15,739 --> 00:56:17,907
SCHEFTER.

1899
00:56:17,974 --> 00:56:18,775
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL THE BOYS HAVE

1900
00:56:18,842 --> 00:56:20,477
IN COMMON.

1901
00:56:20,543 --> 00:56:21,144
LIKE ADAM AND ME, THEY SEEM TO

1902
00:56:21,211 --> 00:56:24,481
BE LIVING PARALLEL LIVES.

1903
00:56:24,547 --> 00:56:25,715
BOTH ARE NOW SENIORS IN COLLEGE,

1904
00:56:25,782 --> 00:56:27,083
BOTH AT SCHEFTER'S ALMA MATER,

1905
00:56:27,150 --> 00:56:30,253
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

1906
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:31,354
AND BOTH ARE SET TO GRADUATE IN

1907
00:56:31,421 --> 00:56:34,190
THE SPRING, ON THE SAME WEEKEND

1908
00:56:34,257 --> 00:56:35,258
OF THE BIGGEST NEWS EVENT ON THE

1909
00:56:35,325 --> 00:56:39,863
NFL'S ANNUAL CALENDAR.

1910
00:56:39,929 --> 00:56:41,030
>> Jon: DEVON'S GRADUATION

1911
00:56:41,097 --> 00:56:41,698
WEEKEND COINCIDES WITH THE NFL

1912
00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:44,968
DRAFT.

1913
00:56:45,034 --> 00:56:46,936
YOU GET PAID A LOT OF MONEY TO

1914
00:56:47,003 --> 00:56:50,607
BE RESPONSIBLE TO ESPN.

1915
00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:56,112
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO

1916
00:56:56,179 --> 00:56:56,713
WANT YOUR INFORMATION, WHAT DO

1917
00:56:56,780 --> 00:57:00,550
YOU DO?

1918
00:57:00,617 --> 00:57:01,584
>> WELL, I'M GOING TO THE

1919
00:57:01,651 --> 00:57:05,288
GRADUATION.

1920
00:57:05,355 --> 00:57:06,489
GOING TO THE GRADUATION.

1921
00:57:06,556 --> 00:57:08,892
I'M -- I HAVE NEVER MISSED AN

1922
00:57:08,958 --> 00:57:09,826
NFL DRAFT IN 31 YEARS BUT I ALSO

1923
00:57:09,893 --> 00:57:10,693
HAVEN'T HAD A SON WHO'S

1924
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:11,528
GRADUATED FROM MICHIGAN IN THE

1925
00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:13,062
CIRCUMSTANCES THAT HE'S HAD.

1926
00:57:13,129 --> 00:57:13,763
AND SO, TO ME, THERE'S ONE

1927
00:57:13,830 --> 00:57:14,464
ANSWER.

1928
00:57:14,531 --> 00:57:15,064
THE PROBLEM IS, THE PHONE'S

1929
00:57:15,131 --> 00:57:15,698
GOING TO RING AND THE TEXTS ARE

1930
00:57:15,765 --> 00:57:16,633
GOING TO KEEP COMING IN.

1931
00:57:16,699 --> 00:57:17,267
AND THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMEBODY

1932
00:57:17,333 --> 00:57:21,905
WHO CALLS AND SAYS, "HEY, WHAT

1933
00:57:21,971 --> 00:57:23,506
DO YOU THINK'S GOING ON, PICK

1934
00:57:23,573 --> 00:57:24,874
NUMBER FOUR?"

1935
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:25,875
AND I'M GOING TO BE, "I DON'T

1936
00:57:25,942 --> 00:57:26,409
KNOW.

1937
00:57:26,476 --> 00:57:26,876
I'M IN ANN ARBOR.

1938
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:28,011
I'M AT GRADUATION RIGHT NOW."

1939
00:57:28,077 --> 00:57:28,745
RIGHT?

1940
00:57:28,812 --> 00:57:29,312
AND SO, THAT WILL BE A TIME

1941
00:57:29,379 --> 00:57:30,580
WHERE I WILL BE UNAVAILABLE, AND

1942
00:57:30,647 --> 00:57:31,014
THAT WILL BE WEIRD.

1943
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:31,347
VERY WEIRD.

1944
00:57:31,414 --> 00:57:33,616
>> Jon: PAINFUL FOR YOU?

1945
00:57:33,683 --> 00:57:44,027
>> UNCOMFORTABLE BUT RIGHT.

1946
00:57:44,093 --> 00:57:45,295
>> Bryant: ALTHOUGH ADAM

1947
00:57:45,361 --> 00:57:46,262
SCHEFTER'S PRIVATE LIFE HAS

1948
00:57:46,329 --> 00:57:47,063
MIRRORED JON FRANKEL'S, THEIR

1949
00:57:47,130 --> 00:57:47,964
SONS HAVE NEVER MET AND NEITHER

1950
00:57:48,031 --> 00:57:48,765
IT SEEMS IS INTERESTED IN

1951
00:57:48,832 --> 00:57:49,432
FOLLOWING THEIR DADS INTO SPORTS

1952
00:57:49,499 --> 00:57:50,700
JOURNALISM.

1953
00:57:50,767 --> 00:57:51,568
THEY'RE SMARTER THAN THAT.

1954
00:57:51,634 --> 00:57:52,769
THEY'LL BOTH GRADUATE FROM

1955
00:57:52,836 --> 00:57:53,303
MICHIGAN THIS SPRING WITH

1956
00:57:53,369 --> 00:57:55,939
DEGREES IN ECONOMICS.

1957
00:57:56,005 --> 00:57:57,273
THAT'LL DO IT FOR TONIGHT.

1958
00:57:57,340 --> 00:57:57,907
FOR ALL THE GOOD FOLKS HERE AT

1959
00:57:57,974 --> 00:57:58,641
"REAL SPORTS," I'M BRYANT

1960
00:57:58,708 --> 00:57:59,576
GUMBEL, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH

1961
00:57:59,642 --> 00:58:00,543
FOR BEING WITH US.

1962
00:58:00,610 --> 00:58:00,944
PLEASE STAY SAFE.

1963
00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:05,682
GOOD NIGHT.

1964
00:58:05,748 --> 00:58:43,219
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