23 years ago, today... Wiggy and the #Patriots pulled off the upset against the St. louis Rams in SB 36! Wiggy recounts the week leading up!
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00:00dogs mm-hmm with a Super Bowl victory in New Orleans yeah and and a lot of
00:05things I don't know like I don't think I've ever told this story like but they
00:09were super cocky than st. Louis Rams at the time I think we saw a few of them
00:15out on Bourbon Street on Bourbon Street like kind of in that area like what were
00:19you doing out yeah this was like early early in the well yeah this was like
00:23early getting a meal no no no it's like early in the week you know you get down
00:27there and it's like one day you figure out we got you know cuz you only have
00:29this time and then the rest of the day you kind of I hope you weren't having a
00:33hurricane the official drink of New Orleans no I don't think so bar called
00:37Pat O'Reilly's that O'Brien's okay and they were just like super cocky in the
00:44sense like the way Pat O'Reilly has the trademark on treaty
00:54Thursday for the tree piece yeah but they were like super cocky and I can't
00:59remember I don't remember if it was Tory Holt or Marshall for what a bitter
01:04guy Marshall yeah we saw them out and they were just like you could like you
01:08could tell like the arrogance and cockiness of like oh they were just
01:11gonna steamroll us and we kind of like knew that and remember that and that was
01:15kind of played into the week of of like the game is just like how arrogant like
01:21they gave us zero respect getting there and being there in New Orleans so this
01:28would be you know to the arrival the this would be the time yep were you more
01:34nervous then because you'd never played in one before you weren't expected to be
01:38there right where you were you more nervous than you had been ever um it
01:43didn't matter it kind of didn't matter because for us obviously this is a
01:49cliche thing you treat it like another game but because like some of us had
01:53never been there we were kind of naive to it but luckily there were plenty of
01:57guys like Willie and Teddy that had been there in in 96 so they kind of knew
02:03some of that of like okay to help us other guys that had never been there to
02:08say okay here's how you need to relax and treat it as a game because every I
02:13remember in that game like every time I looked at the clock when we were up I'm
02:18like all right is the game over is the game over because you're thinking like
02:21all right hurry up and get over because we are where we have the lead and same
02:26thing that this is ironic but that's what the listeners now do when you have
02:31a live read oh I know we've talked about it at times but new audiences could you
02:36explain how cuz you was the first time in Super Bowl history that a team was
02:41introduced collectively how did that come about when did you decide and what
02:45was that like so that came about in the in the locker room and I believe it was
02:53lawyer Malloy's idea because lawyer was one of our leaders and he kind of you
02:57know he said what was on his mind and they wanted the defense to come out
03:01right because I think the Rams offense came out and they wanted our defense to
03:07be introduced where you know the rest of the team runs out and then they
03:10introduced the starters individually and lawyer was like what a couple you know
03:16expletives was like we ain't doing that we're coming out as a team F that and
03:22even when we were in that tunnel and you see remember Brady's like head
03:26button the ish out of everybody like pissed yeah Willie's like calm down like
03:31we haven't even started yet they were still like all right defense you're
03:34gonna go out there and lawyer was like f-bomb and the guy like no it ain't
03:38happening we're going out as a team that's how we got here and that kind of
03:43was the whole introduction to you know why we came out like that and I feel
03:48like a lot of teams do it nowadays right isn't it doesn't everybody just
03:52run out now yeah but it used to be because that was not the first Super
03:56Bowl after the Ray Lewis gyrations wasn't that yeah that was like it used
04:00to be the big thing of the Super Bowl was all the guys and what they would do
04:03and run down and the Rams had just had this prolonged introduction oh and then
04:08when Summerall said that on the broadcast it was like holy crap they
04:11might win this that's when you knew you like made it like for me when I when I
04:14was in the NFL and I had the actual opportunity with the Vikings to be
04:19introduced as an offensive individual player and you get run down like that's
04:24when you're like oh wow I made it mama like I'm finally here and so you know it
04:28is a cool experience to be introduced individually but it was really cool for
04:35us to do it's crazy to me that if teams are going out at the beginning of Super
04:38Bowl week and it like you said the Rams you know are cocky you know maybe saying
04:43things to you that there's not more like fights that break