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Slow people want to talk about that at 1-800-919-3776, including Grant in Texas.

You get to start it off here in the four o'clock hour on the K show. What's up, man?

Hey, Don. Yeah, I'm 82, so I've been around when Jim Brown played, and I was a giant fan,

and the giant's had a middle linebacker named Sam Huff. Oh, yeah. In both Huff and Brown,

they were battle. But in the brown one time said he went into the line, he got his bell

wrong by Huff and Huff said, Brown, you stink. Well, Brown went back into the dugout

with auto-gram and said, give him the ball, and he went like 50 or 60 yards for a touchdown,

and when he got to the end zone, he turned around and he said, hey Huff, how do I smell from here?

And then always without my mind, that was a great comeback by Jim Brown. They were two of the best,

both olive amers. Thanks for taking my call. Oh, my pleasure, Grant. And I think it was on

Giant's Among Men. And if you're a giant fan of a certain age, like in your 50s, that 86 Super Bowl,

the video of your book, I guess, of that season was called Giant's Among Men. And because it was

also the 30th anniversary of the Giant's 56 championship, which was the last championship

before Super Bowl 21, they went back to that 56 team, and they interviewed people, and one of

the people they interviewed was Jim Brown, and he said that nobody hit him harder than Sam Huff.

And I think I've told you, I became a giant fan because of my dad, became a met fan because of

my dad as well. My dad loved the Giants, and he hated the fact that they gave up Sam Huff

to have all teams Washington, hated that they gave him up, and he hated Allie Sherman. Whether

it was right or wrong, he just blamed Allie for getting rid of all those rosy brown and

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