This was the top song in the year that Chris Hinton was drafted into the National Football League.

And this is interesting because Chris Hinton, a native of Chicago, his high school, of course not far from Gary, Indiana, where you would have found the birthplace and home of Michael Jackson, but also same high school as Nat King Cole, Sam Cook.

All kinds of greatness coming out of the high school of Chris Hinton in Chicago before he found his way to Northwestern.

By the way, that is Window Phillips Academy High School.

Prolific career Northwestern led him to be drafted by the Denver Broncos, in which case then he passed John Elway in the air on his way to Baltimore, which would become

Indianapolis in that trade that would lead him to a great career with the Colts.

And he joins us now on former Colt Friday on the Express Pro Tire and Auto Guest Line.

Chris, it is a pleasure.

How are you?

Good.

I'm great.

Thanks for having me.

And the intro was nice.

Wrapped up my whole life in like 30 seconds.

Well, thanks for joining us. That concludes today's conversation.

Hey, let's begin with this. You know, here's how I recall it, Chris. And I want to know from your perspective what it was like,

because in the early years of the Indianapolis Colts, you know, first off, you had officials

occasionally that would, you know, say, holding Baltimore and the crowd in the dome would

boo because everybody was like, no, it's Indianapolis.

And Ron Stark and Chris Hinton were the two names that everybody around here kind of out and the dome would boo because everybody's like no it's indianapolis and ron stark and chris

inton were the two names that everybody around here kind of hung their hat on because the team

wasn't very good but we knew that there were two players that were amongst the best at their position

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