were you surprised that Coach Dungy actually kicked you the
ball in the Super Bowl knowing what you had done
in the regular season? Were you like I know
I know good and well they just didn't kick me
this ball. I think it was a pride thing
with that situation. I think it was just cry
for, you know, because it was in the
paper all week, you know, uh we read
papers a lot about what team's gonna do for kicking
the ball because that was always the number one key
to success of being the Bears was kicking what they're
gonna do, what they're gonna kick them or not
. So we read the papers the whole week and
you know, like one day they say they're doing
it in the next day, they said they decided
not to I didn't have a good day and pride
and on special teams. So leading up to the
to the game, I'm apparently co Dundee got a
locker room and the players told him that you know
what I mean? If we don't kick it to
him and you just that we don't kick it down
and you're just telling us that you don't have faith
enough. So they put his back against the wall
. He didn't Yeah, the gas mom. Well
I appreciate it though. But after that after that
they didn't kick it to you again. No move
man. So you get the opening kickoff, you
take it back. What's going through your mind?
You're like not only we win this game, I'm
gonna be the mvp, I just took over the
kickoff That ain't happening. Oh because you know once
you get that first with early you thinking I might
get to anything, I might get three anything.
Listen I haven't got to the sideline and the immediate
do what I say, how much it didn't be
paying for the M. V. P. Comes
in. Oh get ready going to be the real
shit. Hey I start how much they're paying for
the M. V. P. So now all
of a sudden they start kicking the ball away.
So when teams will start kicking the ball away,
did you get frustrated? How did you remain composed
? How did you make like well and not force
because a lot of times guys try to do too
much. You see all of a sudden they start
they don't punt the ball to you, they don't
kick the ball to you. And then all of
a sudden in a situation where you should fair catch
it or you should let the ball go into the
end zone. You start to press trying to do
too much. Yeah I did. I went through
that phase where I started doing it and I cause
like one or two farmers, one or two turnovers
, you know what I mean? And then I
got pulled to the side of my coach. Like
listen man, you got to tell you what they
give you, you cannot force nothing enough because you're
going to cause us to lose a game and it
was hard for me because I'm using, you know
what I mean? The kick off the pumps man
and then on the side, you know, you
just take that again and I go in the locker
room after the game or with a clean uniform on
my ain't like that. I want to see some
dirty things on my past man.