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Luck Episode 6: The End

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

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4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Wait ... what?!? That was a common reaction to the stunning news that came down the night of August 24, 2019. Andrew Luck — just 29 years old, coming off his most efficient season ever — was walking way from football, broken down and battered, his love of the game gone. How? Why? In Episode 6 of LUCK, host Zak Keefer examines in detail one of the most shocking retirements in NFL history: the lead-up, the clues, the scene, the reaction then and now. Voices include Jim Irsay, Chris Ballard, Jacoby Brissett, Robert Griffin III, David Shaw and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

0:13.6

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

0:17.9

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

0:21.6

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:40.1

Somewhere, somewhere along the way this dark shadow emerged in the quarters of all of our hallways

0:46.4

and and we don't like it. None of us like Andrew doesn't like it.

0:50.1

Asam is you know the shoulder was hard man I was freaking hard man that was a hard year but now

0:56.5

I never I didn't envision this. It's no secret. We go to Houston we went okay we go to Kansas City

1:02.4

we come up shore he plays in the probe wall in Orlando and then the offseason hits.

1:07.7

I walked down and I was like oh shit like I was like frozen yeah I see I think I seen

1:12.3

valor in the hallway and valor just looked at me like no words it was just like yeah like

1:17.8

fuck. Of course the question is you know always going to be asked is Dave Hammer leaving me a

1:24.0

voice mill saying we have a minor lower lake thing that we're looking at but it should be okay

1:29.8

to where we are today. The guy played through a ruptured spleen for Christy.

1:34.3

He was going to play through a calf. We have nothing but gratitude and thankfulness for

1:40.9

for the blood sweat and tears he spilled as number 12 and part of our hearts broke in the night.

1:48.9

Andrew Lux retirement remains one of the most shocking moments in NFL history.

1:54.1

The way it happened when it happened everything that he and the team had said in the month prior

2:00.3

what his teammates had seen so how did we get here. This is luck episode six the end.

2:13.2

Let's go back to January of 2019. The cults had just lost to the Kansas City

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