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We're Tudcher and Rich yesterday.

We had Rob Nincovic on.

He had retired from the NFL on Sunday.

And when Rich was researching Rob Nincovic, he found out about an interesting tidbit that we asked him.

Yeah, he was actually speaking about it when he was doing his big 20-minute goodbye when he retired.

He mentioned something that I had never heard of this happening before. I kind of felt bad for him because you're a kid where this happens to you. It can't be very good for your self-esteem. But here's Rob. I was 10 years old and I told myself I was going to make it to the NFL. Even though I was too chubby to play when I was telling, I'd have garbage bags on trying to make weight. and they said you're not going to play this year you're too heavy so being 145 pounds in fifth grade doesn't help

so I tried in eighth grade and I was 185 pounds they said you're way too heavy the weight limit's

135 so you can't play now either so I had to wait until high school in high school they put me

at O line and I hated every second of it you know I was like I'm not an offensive lineman then I had to wait until high school. In high school, they put me at O-line, and I hated every

second of it. I was like, I'm not an offensive line. Then I switched to defense, and that was my

calling. The feeling of having a guy in front of me trying to stop me get to a quarterback or the

running back or somebody they don't want you, they don't want you to go and beating them, That was my fix. I was like, this is what I love. From that day forward after my... So suffice it to say that he was too fat to play. I had never heard of that before. And could you imagine that, like, if you have a love of a sport and you're a kid and you end up trying out and they say I'm sorry you can't be

on the team why well you're too fat or if they tell you the parents that and then you have to break

it to your kid that they're too fat to play but if you're 10 years old like in fourth grade

running around in garbage bags trying to make weight how awful is that for yourself is like my

son turns 10 in May and so I can only imagine him running around in a garbage bag trying to make weight. Could you imagine it? And especially like it sounds like Rob is a guy who really wanted to be there. So you're watching like, and knowing you could just wreck these kids, knowing you could just destroy them, and you're sitting

there and you're like, oh, come on, you've got to be kidding me. And they wouldn't let you play up either. Like, if you're so big, why wouldn't they let you play up? I mean, that is strange as well. But, I mean, I also think, you know, at fifth grade, really, how big of a advantage would you have? Pretty big. I mean, in fifth grade, there's kids that are like three five.

Jeez, one forty five. You're 11 in fifth grade, am I right? 1112. Oh, my sweet Lord. 10, 11. Is that 1011 in fifth grade? Yeah, yeah, 1011. So it like 10 years old, 145 pounds. And he's not even that tall of a guy. 6-2. He's not, he's not like ridiculously tall. 6-3 in there. I thought I was taller than him. No. I thought we were eye-to-eye. I thought he's a little taller than 6-3. He can't be. He's 6-2, 6- three in there. Well, I mean, but, but Neil is to say, he's not a height that at 145 when you're 10 years old would make a big kid. Right, that's a really, really, really big kid. My son's five feet tall. He's nine. He's five feet tall and he probably weighs four pounds. No, he weighs like

70 pounds. He's six to by the way, Rob Nickovich. Yeah. I think I was tall on him. But

nonetheless, yeah, my son is five feet tall and he weighs like 70 pounds. So that is quite a

weight jump. As I said, I don't remember being 100 pounds until I was in sixth grade. I mean, I was also, you know, not the world's biggest kid. I was pretty damn skinny. Look at the videos I put up on Twitter. John was 40. What he frets it on? Dude, Nikovic was 1.45 when he was 10. I was 150 when I graduated college.

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