it's a scene repeated through the years at nfl games fans of all ages awestruck by an encounter with their favorite player it happens to the young old and even people considered stars themselves best ever ever hey big fella nice to meet you what's it like for an nfl player when they first share the field with someone they once looked up to i would say the moment that that i had like wow for me was when i made it to the pro bowl and i saw darren sproles i told him basically when i was young and
still like learning about like my love for the game of football my dad had showed me dance bros's heisman website called him like the little tank and it was just showing how dominique was in kansas state and i was just like wow this running back is i don't know who he is but i want to be just like him and i remember i wore 43 when i was young because of darren's pros and i told him that story and he laughed and then he signed a jersey for me and gave it to me and it's
crazy because now we have such a great relationship it's like this one i came out of retirement dion easily with the ravens war 37 admired one to be like even though i played a different position everything about him if i get in the end zone make sure you keep the camera on me did you line up against him i didn't get a chance and if he didn't want to anyway he didn't want no smoke that was in my prime then got chad johnson out there [Applause] floats one for the end zone it is caught by
brandon marshall during the marshall it was so crazy because i like look up to him and study him and then to end up on the same team and my locker right next to him used to like at first i was like kind of nervous even like speaking to him being around him you know and then we just drew like a real tight bomb hey robbie be smart all right be feisty but be smart i learned the majority of what i need to know as a nfl player through him proud of you boy i'm here i'm
ready to rock first time i saw john randall i was like oh like do you know who you are man you are john randall man i used to have john randle jersey in my dorm room this is his practice jersey with his dirty neck you couldn't tell me i wasn't john around just like a character man right you light up regulators mount up we're coming randall coming in next for real he's supposed to call i ain't going nowhere there man for real like me and john got to kick it red rover rover let them come
on over i grew up man just like i had your practice jersey it's john randall appreciate that oh my god i'm like if i were white i'd be blushing right now we play the giants in new york dude lauren taylor comes in the stadium man they were all chanting [Music] [Applause] a slow run it looked like he was something out of a movie tim for bo derek he's just going i'm like [Music] oh god where's right with vikings can't be doing that [Music] mars taylor yelled at me you're mine and asked me did they tell
you about me yes tell me hey how you doing man nice to meet you good to meet you too man hey much respect you bro appreciate it thank you i was a running back growing up bro freaking man you a legend my dog man best running back in the league growing up i had this big poster in my room and it was adrian peterson like you know it was like middle school high school and i remember coming back home i had to rip that off i'm like i'm in the nfl now i can't have this
and i remember i got a tackle on him and a body odenabo runs down the veteran from behind he was saying are you celebrating so hard man i was like yo dude i just tackle the hall of famer honestly when you're drafted by the packers and your first quarterback you have is aaron rodgers that's pretty special i mean seeing him play in person i never met him but it was pretty crazy i remember the first time we played against him i was just in the sidelines i was like man like i'm on the same field
as aaron rodgers like who would ever thought in a million years the very first time i became starstruck was when i walked in the saints training facility and drew brees was walking past me you know when you only see him on tv but when you actually see him walk past he was like i triple took i looked at him looked at him again and i'm just like dang like all right this this is serious business here and he spoke you believe you're a champion you play like a champion you know introduce yourself and i'm just
like yes sir like i know who you are sir it's no surprise that a meeting with one player looms larger than the rest tom brady tom brady tom brady tom brady he won his first super bowl when i was uh seven years old i remember my rookie year at mini camp i'm sitting there getting my ankles taped number 12 walks in tom brady says chandler it's a pleasure to have you on the team literally got off the tape i got off the table got on the phone called my brother i said tom brady knows my
name and i was a first-round pick but it's tom brady first president of the game was against tom ready crazy feeling just uh i saying just being out there and i want to feel with future hall of famer consider the goat it was the super bowl when i played against tom brady the first play of the game i was looking across the huddle like man that's tom brady like i've watched every super bowl he's played in ever since i can remember dang i can't believe i'm playing against him whether it's tv 12 or any other
player who leads rookies in awe he better turn quickly from idle to rival i tackled julia jones because you have to prove yourself that you're just like that that person that you want to look up to prior to being in a league only then will a rookie have a chance to go from star struck to star we got to play san francisco and i got to cover jay rice the greatest receiver that's ever played i'm a rookie i'm expected to lose so there's no pressure but if i win oh now we're talking i'm the man
now you become the man and everybody's trying to meet you
