Ep 71 - The Character of a Team with Booger McFarland

What's Next with Eric Wood

Eric Wood

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5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Super Bowl Champion and former Monday Night Football analyst Booger McFarland joins Eric on the show today. Booger was a 1st Team All-American at LSU and was drafted in the 1st round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1999 NFL Draft.

The former NFL veterans get into some locker room talk, and also discuss:

How he got the nickname "Booger" (2:35)

The proudest moments of his career (7:40)

Stories of Warren Sapp and Tony Dungy (9:30)

What made Super Bowl winning teams different (16:45)

His transition into broadcasting (19:00)

Advice to transitioning athletes (24:30)

Stories from broadcasting Monday Night Football (26:10)

How to obtain parity in College Football (34:20)

And much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Here's the most important thing.
0:06.4	Eventually you got to be comfortable with being yourself.
0:09.7	Whatever that is, you've got to be comfortable because those are the most authentic people
0:14.7	and the most authentic moments happen when you're just being yourself.
0:19.1	TV just kind of gets in the way.
0:23.8	Welcome to the next episode of What's Next with Eric Wood.
0:27.2	Our next guest is Booger McFarland.
0:29.7	After being a first round draft pick out of LSU,
0:32.2	Booger went on to have a nine-year NFL career and win two Super Bowls,
0:35.8	one with Tampa Bay and one with Indianapolis. In his
0:39.1	post-playing career, Bougar would climb from doing radio in Tampa Bay to being on SEC Network
0:45.2	to being in the booth for Monday night football, a career journey that I couldn't wait to talk to him
0:50.8	about. In this episode, you will hear about how he got the nickname Bougar and how it stuck.
0:56.4	Sorry, lame dad joke.
0:57.6	He also gives his advice to young players transitioning into the NFL, talked about what made
1:03.2	the teams he played on that won the Super Bowl so special and so much more.
1:08.1	Please take the time to rate, review, and especially subscribe to this podcast
1:12.1	so that every new episode will get pushed to your phone automatically each week, and you
1:16.5	will help spread the impact that I hope to have through this podcast. Enjoy. Booger, welcome to the show.
1:25.1	Hey man, glad to be here, man. Yeah, I know. Usually we're just connecting,
1:28.7	whether it's via Twitter or a Peloton ride, so it's good to get you on the line here.
1:34.3	Yeah, hey, dude, I'm glad to be here. I actually envy you. Every time I see you on the Peloton,
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