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This episode of After the Whistle contains profanity. Listener discretion advised. Please enjoy. 20,

24 years ago today.

I woke up on a Saturday, gorgeous Saturday morning in Buffalo, 24 years ago.

I was 18 years old.

Okay.

And my agent at the time, who I wasn't the Bartlett, so I won't mention his name because

he was a complete scumbag.

But so my agent at the time, uh, calls me and he says, are you, because you know how

the newspapers used, the hotels used to throw newspapers at the door all the time.

Yeah.

So my agent calls me at like 7.45 in the morning.

He's like, have you, uh, have you read the USA today?

And I said, uh, no, I haven't.

He said, good.

He said, don't look at it.

Don't look at the sports section.

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