Danny Amendola Stories
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman talk Texas football, life, and their favorite stories their years together in New England.
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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. |
| 0:07.7 | Now, Danny Amandola talks Texas football stadiums, rivalries, and his hilarious fake ID story. |
| 0:14.7 | You went to high school in Texas, the Woodlands? |
| 0:17.3 | Yep. |
| 0:17.9 | Shout out. |
| 0:18.6 | You played in Texas Stadium in high school? |
| 0:20.6 | Yes, sir. Didn't you play in the Astrodomeome in high school too? Yes, sir. Jesus Christ. And the Alamo Dome too. And the Alamo Dome. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Just getting dome all over Texas. So much Texas Dome. The trifecta. Now, give us, give us one cool thing of each of those stadiums. |
| 0:38.6 | I mean, Texas, there's nothing like the old school Texas Stadium. |
| 0:40.9 | You see highlights of Emmys Smith, Troy Aitman, you know, Dion back in the day, making plays. |
| 0:46.1 | They hung a couple of banners up in there, too. |
| 0:48.0 | So the tradition in Texas Stadium, it's a mecca for high school football championship games a bunch of bowl games |
| 0:55.9 | used to come through there and and you could you walk into that stadium and you could feel the tradition |
| 1:01.1 | you know it wasn't the prettiest site but you know that you know there's there's been great |
| 1:06.6 | football played there and and they said an old texas you know, folk tale is that they, they cut a hole in |
| 1:13.1 | the roof so God could watch. |
| 1:15.1 | America's team, right? |
| 1:15.9 | America's team. |
| 1:17.0 | So, so it was, it was really kind of, it was, it was the mecca for, for high school |
| 1:21.2 | sports. |
| 1:22.3 | I played a, I played a three overtime game versus Tyler Lee in that stadium. |
| 1:26.7 | What year is this? This was 2003. This is your senior year? It was actually 2004. I think it was, yeah, one of those two years, because football years suck. Yeah, it was end of the 2003, right before I graduated in 2004, but it was the 2003 year of the season. Is this state championship? It was a playoff game to go to the, it was a semifinals. |
| 1:48.1 | So we're playing playoff games in Texas Stadium. |
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