Izell Reese talks playing with Cowboys DB legends, Bringing flag football to 2028 Olympics and college sports
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the latest NFL Players: Second Acts podcast, Peanut and Roman welcome former defensive back turned flag football pioneer Izell Reese to the show. Izell shares his journey from undrafted free agent out of University of Alabama-Birmingham to playing with guys like Deion Sanders, Darren Woodson, and Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown on the Dallas Cowboys. Izell later shares details of the brawl versus the San Francisco 49ers sparked by Terrell Owens touchdown celebrations at midfield. Izell has become a pioneer in the flag football space as the founder and CEO of RCX Sports, the official operator of NFL Flag Football. Izell shares the journey to bring the game to college athletics, championing the game for young girls, and what we can expect when flag football is unveiled at the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.5 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm Peanut Tillman, and this is the NFL players second acts podcast with me. |
| 0:16.8 | As always, my trusted co-host. |
| 0:19.0 | This Roman Harper, what's up, baby? |
| 0:20.3 | What's up, up dog I like that |
| 0:21.2 | shirt thank you I appreciate it man just learning that you can't count because you went from |
| 0:25.3 | one two to ten and it's easily just to say three and then start but you don't like to do anything |
| 0:30.3 | that way so let's just jump right to I guess uh yeah he and he's an Alabama guy he's from Alabama |
| 0:36.1 | introduce him introduce him no no introduce him I just want because I don't think you were going to say that Yeah, he is an Alabama guy. He's from Alabama. Introduce him. |
| 0:37.7 | Introduce him. |
| 0:38.2 | No, not, no. |
| 0:38.7 | Introduce him. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't think you were going to say that. I didn't think you were going to say that. I don't even have my nose in front of me. Okay. I'm going to make you do this one. All right. He's a defensive back that played for the Cowboys, Broncos, Bills. He is in the University of Alabama or UAB, |
| 0:57.0 | University of Alabama, Birmingham's Hall of Fame. |
| 1:00.9 | And he's now CEO of RCX Sports, |
| 1:03.5 | which is a leader in youth sports in all different sports. |
| 1:07.2 | Welcome to the podcast, Aizel Reese. |
| 1:09.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:10.4 | Fellows, thank you. Thank you. I like that shirt too, man. I might have to, I'm askingiselle Reese. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:11.1 | Thank you. |
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