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Games with Names

Best Stories about NFL Legends

Games with Names

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Comedy

4.8684 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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NFL Players and Celebrities share their favorite stories about some of the NFL's most legendary players

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0:00.0

Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian Edelman and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel starting now.

0:08.5

Now Bill Burr and Julian Edelman share their favorite Lawrence Taylor stories.

0:13.1

Did you see that recent one that Lawrence Taylor drove by Giant Stadium? You saw the lights on and

0:17.8

he was like, oh fuck, I have a had a game yeah and showed up in the first quarter

0:21.2

he he showed up late they benched him for a series and then he went out and i think he had like

0:26.0

seven sacks all right i'm going to tell a story okay i don't feel like i'm talking out of school here

0:31.8

because this is this is uh this is a funny story so i I'm doing inside the NFL.

0:41.0

Phil Sims is on the show and Lawrence Taylor is coming in.

0:47.2

So it's Phil, Chris Collinsworth, Lawrence Taylor, and me, right?

0:50.3

I mean, one of those classic, like, what in the hell am I doing here, right?

0:52.5

So Lawrence hasn't showed up yet.

1:13.1

So Phil tells me a story. I can't believe Lawrence Taylor's going to be here. I mean, that guy was, he's just like he literally changed the game. And I was just going on and on about him. It goes, you know what's funny about that guy? He goes, he didn't even know the names of the teams in the leagues. I go, get the fuck out of you. He goes, yeah, he goes, yeah, he goes, we were, uh, we won some game.

1:13.1

They were on the road and they're on the team playing.

1:15.2

They're all hyped.

1:16.4

And Lawrence is psyched.

1:17.3

And Phil goes, yeah, hey, man, you know, if the Redskins lose, then we're going to be in

1:21.0

first place in our division.

1:22.3

And Lawrence goes, uh, oh, yeah, he goes, he goes, who's in our division and Phil goes you don't know who's in our division

1:28.5

and he goes man I don't give a shit right and I'm thinking like that is the genius that he was

1:34.2

let's say I don't need extra information in my head you have a different uniform than me I'm going to

1:39.0

ruin your day so I thought it was a hilarious story but as always you know you think maybe put a

1:44.0

little mustard on it or whatever. Ten minutes later, Lawrence Taylor comes walking in. Him and Phil both just start laughing, which was great. They just saw each other. They started laughing. They hugged and everything. You just know all this shit that they did back then. Who knows, right? So Lawrence sits down and he starts telling stories, right? They just start telling a thing. And in the middle of one story, he goes, we were down in New Orleans. And we were playing the, and he goes, Phil, what's the name of that team in New Orleans? And he goes, the Saints. He goes, we play in the Saints. It was unbelievable. And then fat sports writers would say that, you know, they would say that he wasn't smart, he was blah, blah, it's like, that's like some Einstein shit. I'm wearing the same shit every day. So my brain doesn't, I only need to worry about like, you know, you hear all those stories, how he would sleep through meetings and then get up and diagram the whole play. Or they would ask him if it was okay. The guy is like a fucking

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