Ed McCaffrey
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65 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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We were talking about all the father and son and brother combinations and the Matthews family has got uncles and fathers and players. There's so many great football families. I don't think you can beat the Manning brothers. Their dad played, and they both won two Super Bowls. Right, yeah.
I'm surprised that more professional athletes don't have their kids that follow in their footsteps. Because obviously, if they're genetically blessed, it's probably a path. There's people in venture capital and private equity in Silicon Valley whose kids go into venture capital and private equity. They grow up around it, and they fall in love with the sport.
I think it's the greatest sport in the world. But I have four boys, my oldest son, Max. They're on this picture, by the way. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Yeah. If it was NIL, they could have cashed in in college. Well, maybe they still can. My oldest son, Max, coaches for the Dolphins. I'm so proud of him. He played in the league five or six years, fell in love with coaching. Christian, obviously, is playing with the 49ers. My son Dylan played at Michigan, played FBS football. I got to coach him a year. He's now a fisherman in Hilton Head Island.
So if you ever want to go fishing for some redfish in South Carolina, let me know. But he helped. I'm going to let you know. I think I will. He's been part of this whole McCaffrey brand. He's no longer playing. But he has really helped us develop this product. And as a fisherman, he's out on the boat all day long and very outdoorsy and hunting, fishing, you name it. And so he carries them around.
But he's been very helpful with the brand. It's been fun to work with him. And then Luke was a rookie with the Washington Commanders this season. So Lisa and I still travel to games every single week.
Every single week we're watching an NFL football game. And when we're not there in person, we're watching games on television. Sometimes we're at the game with an iPad watching them at the same time.
Paving his own way. Exactly right. Paving the way, baby. You know, we were talking about that. You're talking to all these NFL families, right?
It's a blessing and a curse.
I mean, genetically, you've got to be talented enough to play in the NFL. I don't care who you are or what your name is. Right. If you're not physically gifted, you can't be one of the best .001%. of the people at what you do, but it requires a lot of hard work and determination. Nobody in my family played pro sports.
And I was the oldest of five kids. The expectations for me were zero.
Like, do whatever you want. What do we care? Sure. Right? But when you're the kid.
Yeah. Football for me was like cheap babysitting. Hey, we're going to practice. What practice?
Really? I didn't know I was on a team.
Drops me off with a water bottle, and you start running laps. What are we doing here? It was. You've got five kids. You're parents. You've got three kids in three years, and all of a sudden you're like, they've got to be participating in activities. Get out of the house. It wasn't fun in the beginning, but I fell in love with it. My kids have pressures I never had.
Like these guys that you're talking about that grew up, like the Manning brothers even, their dad played in the NFL. Who knew they were going to be as good as they were? But they're probably, when they were younger, always getting compared to their dad.
If you're not an NFL player, then you didn't live up to expectations. I never had to deal with any of that. So I know a lot of pro athletes in football and other sports, they don't even want their kid to play the sport. I don't want them to have to endure that kind of criticism or pressure. And so Lisa and I never signed them up.
We said, you have to do something. You're not going to sit around the house playing video games all day.
Hey, join the chess team. Play sports if you want. But you have to be engaged. Follow your passions. What is it you love to do? And so we made sure they had to do something, but we let them choose. So when they asked, it was my oldest son, Max, when he was nine, had a friend that played football. He was like, hey, can I sign up for football? I'm like, no.
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