Welcome to podcast number 121. We have a special guest. He's a Pro Bowl wide receiver, Super Bowl champion, the man who owns the giant single season franchise receiving yard record, New Jersey native Victor Cruz. What's going on, guys? Thanks for being here. Thanks for me. Thanks for having me. Yes, sir. From Patterson, New Jersey, 100%. My, uh, my dad grew up in Wayne. Okay. So, so right next door. I was just in Wayne today. There you go. I was hitting some balls over at the old range over there.

Which, of course.

Freezing my balls off. My dad grew up in Wayne. Okay. So right next door. I was just in Wayne today. There you go.

I was hitting some balls over at the old range over there. Which course. freezing my balls off. It was just arranged by they have it. It's like a mini golf range. Oh, they have the mini golf with the lake. With the lake. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I get the name of it. But I was in Wayne today. I was in way. I was in New York. So growing up in New Jersey, were you always a Giants fan?

That's the, we're just going to, we're just going to, I wasn't Wayne today. You guys were there and are you here? We're in New York. Whatever it takes. It's cooking.

So growing up in New Jersey, were you always a Giants fan?

That's the, we're just going right out the gate. We're coming right at you. So let me give you the full story. So my dad growing up was an avid football fan. And I remember being in the other room and I'm playing whatever. and I hear him just screaming at the TV.

And I'm like, what could he possibly be screaming at?

And I come out and it's the Cowboys.

It's NFL, it's Sunday afternoon. He's screaming at the Cowboys and mind you this is, what is this? 1990, 91, 92, 93.

Cowboys were pretty good then. They were winning some games. They were in contention. They had players

like Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Dion Sanders, like guys that you could really rally behind. And as a child, like these are guys that are really cool, you know what I mean, to be fans of. So I started that, I started there, started a cowboy fan. But I always, I wasn't the cowboy fan that hated the Giants. I kind of, you know, I had to drive by Giant Stadium every day, damn near, going to them from the city, moving around. So I always respected them, and they always drafted high character players and high character guys. So I always like, was like, damn, I wish the Cowboys, I always loved the type of players that they had, but I wish they had like those lunch pale guys at the Giants had.

That's fair.

If your dad was yelling at the TV, I thought it would deter you.

But I'm the same way.

My dad, you see out the Mats, Knicks, everything. Most of the time, he's probably yelling in excitement, too, too. He would yell in excitement also. So it was both. That's fair. I'm assuming a miserable fan Matt's Nick's offense, offence, it's bad

It's just notoriously bad

But we're better reasonless

That's true.

I'm very good

I'm assuming you're. Matt's nixed offense. It's bad. It's just notoriously bad. But we're better reasonless.

That's true.

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