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Welcome back, All the Smoke, Las Vegas, Players Era, College Basketball Tournament. Shout out to the MGM and Park MGM for having us. But we decided to throw a little curveball at y'all. Or maybe a, not a curveball. A long ball. An audible? There you go, Dylan. A hell marry. A hell marry. That would work, too. Man, someone, I grew up idolizing, one of my favorite football players. I wore the number 12 and initially wanted to be quarterback because of him,

but I found out I was a better receiver than quarterback. I actually got a chance to go watch him preach

Sunday and kind of sealed the deal here as well. Man, welcome to the show, the great Randall Cunningham. Thank you, brother. I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you. It's a pleasure for being here with you guys. To be able to sit next to, you know, this is probably kind of the perks of what we do is, you know, we get a chance to interview some amazing

people, but this is special for me because, again, you were one of my, you and Jerry Rice

were my two favorite players growing up and to be sitting here with you today.

It's a treat. I want to read a comment that we found online that was really praising you.

It said, Randall set the standard for all black quarterbacks who were not getting drafted

up until him.

Not McNabb, not Vic, not Lamar.

It was Randall Cuttingham.

When you sit back and look at your career, do you understand now how important you were

and the ceilings you broke and the doors you broke down for today's modern quarterback? No, I don't. And once again, thanks for having me on the show. I've seen you guys and, yeah, you guys got it going on. We did. I don't really do podcasts, so you know, I'm always busy at church. So it's like to be able to sit here, it's an honor. It's my honor, really. We appreciate that. And you guys are doing great things. No, I don't. I don't look back and think that I deserve any credit in a form of humility. I'm just grateful that these guys are getting the opportunity. I saw a statistic recently that they were speaking about the African American quarterbacks who were

starting in the NFL now and it was half of the league and and I just I kind of just

smiled because I know what I went through it wasn't as dark and gloomy as maybe

would Vince Evans or Doug Williams or Warren or Shaq went through back in the day. But I did have my experience of people who didn't like me because of my skin color. How did you deal with that? Again, this is, you know, talent aside, you're one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the game, but still you can't outrun the color of your skin. and that's what a lot of people, the standards,

some people held you to.

You know, I kind of, I went through a lot when I was a kid, being in Santa Barbara, California growing up, where it was, you know, not very many African Americans, predominantly Hispanic and

Caucasian people.

So I got to see the other side of growing up with friends that didn't look like me, but how did I handle it?

When I first was drafted to the Philadelphia Eagles, I went into the press conference, and the first question was, how do you feel being a black quarterback in Philadelphia?

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