Tom Genode, before we dive into your profile on the prolific but often forgotten running back

Frank Gore, there's one play from 2007 that I want to talk about. They give it to Frank Gore,

and the second effort by Gore, and he breaks it.

And he's going to score.

Wow!

What determination by Frank Gore as he goes 43 yards on fourth down and won for the 49ers and that

quiet's this crowd dramatically. Well that is an inspired football player today.

Why does this one snap represent just about everything

you learned about the man you call the NFL's last running back?

Well, I think that number one it gets to his motivation,

and I think his motivation, you know, his motivation was I think the thing that sort of distinguish and marked him as a running back.

In this case, his... and marked him as a running back.

In this case, his mother, with whom he was extraordinarily close,

had died of kidney failure just days before this and he was basically given a choice

whether to play or not and decided to play for her because she would have wanted him to.

He talked to me about like crying in the locker room because she called him before every game to say play your best and this time the call didn't come.

There was this empty space where the call should have been.

It was not a game that meant a lot,

but when you watch it and when you hear it broadcast,

there's a couple of things that are going on.

In the story, I say that the players that he runs into appear, you know, notch a lot

lot by comparison. And I think that that's like a thing that is really consistent throughout Frank's career.

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