Dan Pastorini on Dick Butkus
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dan Trasterini is our guest you may know him as the race car driver, the movie actor, |
| 0:29.8 | the race boat driver, the famous hunter, the penthouse model. But a lot of people don't know this. |
| 0:37.1 | He was also a 10 year NFL superstar quarterback. And we're talking about the passing of dip |
| 0:44.5 | buck, because when you found out that buck has had retired, because even though he was 31, |
| 0:50.0 | which is not young, he still had years in him, but apparently had a pretty bad knee, do you |
| 0:54.9 | remember finding out how he had, finding out that he had retired? Remember how that came about? |
| 1:02.4 | I think, yeah, I mean, it was kind of a relief throughout the league that he did retire. |
| 1:08.7 | To everybody but bears fans. Yeah, I know, but even in his, the twilight of his career, |
| 1:16.0 | and he had the bad knee and everything else, he was still a horse to deal with. I mean, on one leg, |
| 1:20.5 | the guy was a better football player than most guys on two legs. And, you know, he was just, |
| 1:26.9 | you know, he had enough. You know, you figure out, when we're 30 years old, we maybe lived half |
| 1:33.8 | of our life. We're lucky, maybe a little bit more. And your whole life has been your career, |
| 1:39.8 | in goals of becoming a professional athlete. And then all of a sudden, it comes to an end. |
| 1:44.8 | And, you know, here you are 30, you're early 30s, and you're done with your life's mission in life. |
| 1:52.0 | And you go, what do I do now? And, you know, he had that similar situation. And he was found out |
| 2:01.1 | that he could do a lot more things than he was capable, or thought he was capable of doing, |
| 2:05.6 | like television and commercials. I mean, a lot of the commercials he did were funny. He did |
| 2:09.6 | some broadcasting. He was on a speaker's tour and did a lot of things like that. And, you know, |
| 2:15.5 | led a very good, solid, long, productive life, not just from football, but from after football. |
| 2:22.8 | And, you know, that's admirable, because a lot of guys in our positions when we retire, |
| 2:29.0 | don't know what to do. And they find it tough. You know, it was difficult for me because |
| 2:35.0 | in my situation with Mr. Davis, but, you know, you wanted to reinvent yourself, go racing, |
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