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Inside The Huddle

ITH Special - Legends on tour

Inside The Huddle

Sky Sports

Sports, Football, News, Sports News

4.4637 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Neil Reynolds is joined by NFL Hall of Famers Michael Irvin & Kurt Warner, 3-time Super Bowl champion Willie McGinest and former member of the Seahawks Legion of Boom, and Super Bowl 48 winner Cliff Avril, as they travelled the UK as part of the recent NFLUK Live Tour

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0:00.0

Go Inside the Hullo with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rhinebole.

0:13.0

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Inside the Huddle. I'm your host, Neil Reynolds. I'm not joined by my regular partner, Jeff Reimbold,

0:21.5

but this week I'm on the road with four legends of the NFL as we conduct our NFL UK

0:27.9

tours. I've been joined by Kurt Warner, Cliff Avril, William McGinnis and Michael Irving. Every one of them,

0:34.7

a Super Bowl champion. Every one of them are pro bowler.

0:38.0

So our conversations were taking place this week on our tour bus as we traveled from Manchester to Newcastle for one of our shows.

0:46.0

And I began with a conversation with Kurt Warner, whose story is just one of the most glittering in NFL history.

0:53.0

He went from supermarket shelf stacker to Hall of Fame quarterback, an NFL MVP, a Super Bowl MVP.

0:59.8

And we began our conversation on the bus with me asking how Kurt feels about the ever-growing passion for the NFL here in the UK.

1:07.8

I think it's just the excitement of, you know, when you come from the States and you

1:12.7

understand what American football is all about, you understand what the NFL is all about,

1:17.2

and the fan base is incredible. But then, you know, you watch a game in London and you see

1:24.7

the enormous amount of fans that come and the different teams that are represented.

1:30.2

So then you go, okay, well, that's a big event.

1:32.7

What's it like everywhere else?

1:35.1

And I think that's what was fun the first time I came on the tour.

1:38.1

And what I enjoy so much is that you start to see that there's some really huge pockets of people

1:43.7

that love American football.

1:45.8

And, you know, I think my natural inclination is, well, nobody really got excited about American

1:51.0

football until we started playing NFL games over here.

1:54.1

But I was talking to a couple of guys in Cardiff the other night, and they were saying that

2:00.8

it's been around for 40 years,

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