Graham Shelby
speaker
55 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Graham Shelby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The next day, I went to the trainer to get fitted for the pads and equipment and everything.
And after a while, the trainer just said that there was not a helmet in the building that would fit me because my head was too physically large.
I said, coach, we're going to have to special order one for this guy.
Huge, really.
I was assigned to work with the offensive line.
These are big dudes who try to block the defense and protect the smaller guys who have the ball.
And I was sort of trying to get the moves down, and the coach came over and gave me some tips.
And he said, son, when you get in the game, what you want to do is get your elbow in there and kind of bloody the guy's lip a little bit.
And I thought, that's so mean.
And I almost said, coach, I don't really want to hurt anybody.
Is that going to be a problem?
And then they gathered us all at the end of practice for an announcement.
They said, gentlemen, we are holding a fundraiser to get some new weight equipment.
We want each of you to take a pledge form, go around, talk to your friends, your neighbors, your relatives, and get them to agree to give a little bit of money for each pound that you lift, because we're going to have a public weightlifting display next Saturday at the mall.
And this was just multiple layers of humiliation just running through my head.
I thought, what am I going to do?
And I get home, and I'm like hyperventilating.
And I hear this voice in my head, and it sort of sounded a little like Woody Allen circa 1986.
And it just said, you know, Graham, you don't have to play football.
It's not required.
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