Chad Hennings on his Air Force fighter pilot missions, 3 Cowboys Super Bowls, Jimmy Johnson stories
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast. Former Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Chad Hennings joins Peanut and Roman. Chad is the first guest on the show who’s second act is playing in the NFL. He shares incredible stories from his first act; serving the country as a fighter pilot in the Air Force. Chad describes why he relished being a pilot, catching G-Forces in A-10 Warthog jets and the dangers of combat missions. And we hear how that Air Force experience helped him transition to the NFL in 1992 as a 27-year-old rookie playing for none other than Jimmy Johnson’s Dallas Cowboys. What was it like inside the locker room of the ‘90s Cowboys dynasty? Chad tells us in a conversation you won’t want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Chad Hennings, former Air Force A-10 fighter pilot, |
| 0:08.4 | three-time Super Bowl champion with the Dallas Cowboys, |
| 0:10.9 | and this is NFL Players' Second Acts podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL player second acts podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you guys for listening. |
| 0:27.0 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm peanut. |
| 0:29.2 | My guy, Roman, what's up? |
| 0:30.3 | How you doing? |
| 0:30.8 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm very, very excited about our next. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm jacked right now. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, it's not even the Dr. Pepper we're drinking either. |
| 0:37.3 | No. It's like, like, like, share, subscribe, follow. Let's read the resume. Let's get right to it. There it is. He was a defensive lineman in the NFL for nine seasons, which is probably, I mean, one of the lower things that he did in life. He won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the |
| 0:54.5 | only three. Only three. 90s era. And before he entered into the league, he was a fighter pilot |
| 1:00.7 | in the Air Force. And he is now a successful businessman, author, and philanthropist. Guys, can we |
| 1:08.3 | please welcome in? Chad Hinnings thank you thank you thank you |
| 1:13.6 | Joe you like G.I Joe over here man that's that's awesome that's awesome that's a |
| 1:18.6 | first lead off that's the first yeah hey my dad they didn't call you that in the locker room |
| 1:24.4 | are you serious it was fly boy okay you know Billy Bates calledboy. Okay. That's what kind of stuck back in a locker. I think I'd have called you G. I Joe. That's the good one. Yeah, G.I. Joe was still hot in the 90s. Yeah. For sure. I was a G.I. Joe kid. My dad was in the Army, D. did 20. And I thought my dad was like roll block. Like, I wanted to do |
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