Steve Smith Sr.

And there's so many things going on hours and weeks before the game.

As a player that I just didn't know, right?

And I remember working the Super Bowl away in Minnesota.

You know, I had the early shift.

It was like 5 a.m., so it was like 4.45 call time, 3 a.m.

getting up.

And, man, it was like a mini busy city underneath –

on the field, behind, in a tunnel of people laying wires, doing this, getting things prepared.

And it was 4 in the morning.

I'm getting up 4 in the morning, dressed, but not really cognizant, just kind of like, oh.

And, man, people are, man, they don't need a fourth cup of coffee.

They are going.

And so it just, that's one of the things I do love about my job in the media is, man, I get to meet some of the people who are the nuts and bolts of making our great game as good as it is, right, that you and I get to dress up in a suit or we get to look great.

But, man, there's people, so many men and women that's behind the scenes that don't,

Get as much accolades that they deserve because when something is happening or something that doesn't happen, that person never gets acknowledged.

All the stuff that they did, they stopped, their job stopped from happening.

We only like to complain and bring up people when things don't happen according to plan.

I've been through worse, so I'll be all right.

Please do that.

I got, you know, now with my situation, I got Christmas.