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Follow me down the rabbit hole. I'm your host, Danny, and today we are going to talk about Pat Tillman um this is this is

quite an interesting story it's kind of like a heartfelt story that turns bad in the end so um

yeah welcome back I hope that you guys are going to have a super awesome Christmas if that's what

you're celebrating this week remember I'm giving'm doing a giveaway. So today, this

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for people on Instagram. Go check that out. But anyway, let's get into this. This was a request

by a listener. So, Paige, here you go. Here's your episode. Anyway, some history behind Pat Tillman.

So Pat Tillman was born Patrick Daniel Tillman on November 6th, 1976. In, I think he was born in Fremont.

There was a little bit of confusion between the sources, either San Jose or Fremont.

They're very close together, but I'm pretty sure he was born in Fremont, California.

He was born to Patrick and Mary, and he was the oldest of three sons.

So Tillman played high school football, and he helped lead his high school team to the Central Coast Division I football championship.

And this actually helped gain him a football scholarship to play at Arizona State University.

So, and he didn't like start out with football.

He started out with baseball, but he wasn't very good.

He didn't make the varsity team. So then he switched to like just focus on football, which was good for him because

then he went on to Arizona State to play with a scholarship. And he got their last scholarship of

the year, the year that he went to Arizona State. He got the last scholarship. So good for him.

And he went to ASU and he played as a linebacker, although he was a

relatively small linebacker. Like he was only like five, 10, 511, like 200 pounds. Linebackers are

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