Brandon Marshall

And I was like, oh, this concussion thing is real.

It's when I just like literally just put my head down, just closed my eyes.

I wanted to sit a little bit, maybe 15, 20 minutes in a sauna.

And as soon as I put my head down, I almost tipped over.

And then I jumped out.

I didn't know if it was because of the heat, and that probably wasn't a good idea at the time.

And I did not tell this to the team because it was my contract year.

If I had lost games, I probably would have lost a big deal.

And so I got out the sauna, and then I, you know, got dressed.

I went to go put on my shoes, and I fell over again.

And that was two weeks after the concussion.

I said, dang, this is two weeks ago I had this concussion.

And every time I would bend over to put, you know, put my shoes over, close my eyes, I would just fall, I would almost fall over.

You know, it was very scary at the time.

And I had to promise my lady that I would never do that again.

But what I was thinking about was my kids that never came.

You know, I was thinking about my kids that I have now, Z, Ziggy and Zoe.

I said, there's no way they're going to drag, take me off this football field.

I came too far from the poorest county in all of Pennsylvania, one of the toughest cities.

poverty stricken there's no way i'm going back there that's the only thing i could think about so all i was saying is i'm finishing this year finishing here i end up finishing having over 100 catches you know another pro bowl year and i went on to the miami dolphins came down here with you dan uh you did not invite me on the show at the time i think you still was at espn you was with the bad guys at the time um and and yeah so that was my my situation with the with with concussions