It amazes me that we didn’t win four of them. We lost 11 games in four years and only won one Super Bowl.
I haven’t watched a game in seven years. I was a player, that’s it.
Like I told Ditka years ago, “I don’t care what you call, I just want the freedom when I get to the line of scrimmage, if it’s not a good play, to get out of it.” That’s what these guys don’t do now. Nobody wants to take it on their shoulders to say, “I’m not going to call that play. It’s not going to work.” They can just go in the locker room after the game and go, “Well, the coach called it.” They don’t want to take any heat. That’s another reason I don’t watch it. A bunch of robots.
We had our moments. He was a tough coach. Had we played together, I think he would’ve understood me a little bit better, had he been in my huddle. I think he finally figured out that I knew what I was doing.
I thought the best player I ever played against was Wilber Marshall, and that was every day in practice until he went to the Redskins.
I think the people who meet me and spend some time with me know that I’m not the guy they see in the papers.
The kid I met last week at the Elway tournament. He’s a 22-year-old kid, just got back from Iraq. He’s in the Army and he got his calf blown off. They had to amputate his leg. He caddied for me all week in Denver. He amazed me. Kid had a great attitude.
I said, “What happened?” He said, “We were out on patrol, got ambushed.” He said, “I thought I just took some shrapnel in my leg, and I looked down and my leg is gone.” I said, “What’d you do?” He said, “We were in a firefight. I kept firing.” He said he got three of them after they got him. That impressed me.
Golf, 185 days last year I was on the road. One-day, two-day events.
I’m 0-for-2. (1) Never again.
The fans are about the same–maybe a little more rabid in Green Bay, because there’s nothing else to do, other than ice fish, and I didn’t do that.
They’ve always treated me well, (2) even when I came back in a Green Bay Packers uniform. I got cheered. That’s why I’m still living in Chicago. Been there 22 years, probably another five until my youngest gets out of high school, then I’m probably getting out of town. Somewhere warm, man. I’m getting tired of the cold.
Money is dwindling out of my account with two kids in college.
I’ve been very fortunate that all my kids have been great. No trouble. That’s all I was ever in when I was a kid. They’re much easier on me than I was on my folks, I’ll tell you that.
I’d never had anything like that happen to me before. (3) Like I told the cop and the judge, I think someone put something in one of my drinks. You know, that’s not the first time I’ve had a drink. I’ve never been in a car not knowing I was in a car. I had no idea I was even driving. That’s pretty scary to drive 30 miles the wrong way and not know you’re in a car.
I’m on probation. Otherwise I’d be drinking a beer now. I won’t drink hard liquor anymore.
Played with a lot of great people. That’s what I remember–guys I played with, friends I made in the league. I just had a good time.
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(1): In restaurants carrying his name.
(2): Bears fans.
(3): His arrest for drunken driving in Florida earlier this year.
