Chris Long

balling dude you know not that anybody's gonna judge you you ain't the only one with tears in your eyes after your season ends but you know i'm a 33 year old man and so you know it's um it's a delicate thing man it's um if you're an nfl player and you go in and i've seen i've had teammates that like beat the shit out of the bathroom stalls for 15 minutes to the point where i gotta go in there and get my buddy and the coach is like hey you gotta go in and like there's banging in there you can hear the

You can hear screaming.

You can hear doors slamming, things breaking.

Like, do fans want that?

You know, do fans want us to go... I don't know.

I think they... Set our houses on fire and shit?

Like, you know, it's like...

Here's what hit me, Dave, and I've been trying to say this the right way.

Respectfully, I don't think fans know how hard it is to succeed in the NFL and win football games.

And so when I'm sitting there on the couch watching my favorite team, because I'm as big a sports fan as everybody.

I grew up Panthers fan, painted my face, used to cry when the Penguins lost.

I remember the Penguins lost to, I think, the Florida Panthers.

1996.

Yeah, and I was 11 years old, and I was crying like, here I am crying again.

Damn, this guy, he can't stop crying.

Went to the showers.

Don't worry, old man.

My dad's like, good, cry more.

You should care.

You know, like take off the sweater while you do it.