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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

Inside story of the 2011 CBA deal, taking BBQ sauce to the head, starting a food business with Reggie Kelly

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, former tight end Reggie Kelly joins Roman and Peanut. Reggie talks about being a player representative during the 2011 NFL lockout and what went into negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. He also shares the life lessons he learned from former Atlanta Falcons receiver Terance Mathis which helped him in both in football and his second act as the founder of Kyvan Foods, a BBQ sauce and salsa company. Reggie explains why he went into the food business, shares some of his sauces with Peanut and Roman, and makes the hosts drink the sauce straight from the bottle.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

This is Reggie Kelly kicking in with my boys, Peanut and Roman, on NFL Players Second Axe podcast.

0:18.8

Thank you for tuning in to the NFL player's second acts podcast.

0:23.9

I'm Tina Tillman, and with me as always, my guy, Roman Ribby Harper.

0:30.1

Ribbi.

0:31.9

He calls me Ribide now because he had a taste of my delicious ribbyes. By far the best steak I've ever had in my life. Oh, really? I kid you not. But we'll get, we'll die a little bit more than that in a little bit. Let's thank all of our listeners and viewers out there and let them know where we are, Peanut. That is the I-Heart Radio Studios right here in Atlanta. A-town. Yeah. So we're in Atlanta this week. It's fun. We got a lot of different guests coming in. Let's jump right into our first one. All right, this first one, it's a goodie. This gentleman was the second round pick, like the two of us. 42nd overall. Absolutely. Forty-third. Class of 99, played 13 seasons with the Bengals and the Falcons.

1:13.2

After football, he got into the food business.

1:16.2

He is the founder of Kaiving Foods.

1:19.4

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the show, Mr. Reggie Kelly.

1:25.9

And by the way, you got it right the first time. Most people's butchers that butcher that man. So what's the worst? Kaiban, Kaibon, whatever the case may be, but Kaiving Foods, you hit it right on the nail the first go. Oh, cool. That's good, man. I did my research. That's a professional for you, ladies and gentlemen. If you look at my notes, I have it like the way I have it, I have the phonetic form so I wouldn't

1:44.4

mess it up myself.

1:45.4

Smart.

1:45.9

I wanted to make sure.

1:46.7

Because I didn't write it that way.

1:48.2

I would have the van part. But that's why Peanuts, the real professional around here. Well, I feel naked up here. You have notes. You have notes. I have nothing. So I'm hoping I can hold my weight here, hoping I can hold my own.

1:58.8

Nah, you're going to answer everything truthfully.

2:01.5

You're an expert on yourself.

2:03.2

Let's get it, man.

2:04.1

Let's jump off into it, though. How do you feel a recent accomplishment about yourself? Is that you were named in 2003 an SEC football legend. How did that feel? Well, it felt absolutely great. My athletic director at

2:19.3

Mississippi State gave me a call, Zach Selma, who's doing an excellent job. He is. He's a,

2:24.0

he's doing an outstanding job. He has a great pedigree, come from a football family, and just a

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