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Joe Thomas, Cleveland Brown's offensive lineman, eight-time all-pro, ten-time, pro-bowler,

and now a Hall of Famer.

We did it, Joe.

Wait, are you a Hall of Fame elect or are you a Hall of Famer? How does that work?

Since it's not official yet. That's true. I think I'm merely an elected Hall of

Famer as of right now. It's not official till this summer. Do you have a jacket?

Just like a winter jacket or like the gold jacket?

No, they just fitted us.

No, no, they fitted us for the gold jacket this weekend.

And then we actually get the gold jacket at the gold jacket dinner, which is like the

Friday before the Hall of Fame game this summer.

Where are you right now?

I am in Wisconsin at my farm. And I didn't know it was going to be video, but at the last minute,

I had to put a real fire on in the back because I heard you have a real fake fire in your studio.

Can you have a real fake fire?

That's what you have. A real fake fire.

I think I just have a fake fire.

No, it's very fake. Yours is real is mine's real real real okay tell the story about how you found out and how your wife kept it a surprise

that you got into the whole affair yeah makes me a little nervous how good my wife was at keeping a surprise from me.

I was sure that the announcement, whether you made it or not, was going to come close to the Super Bowl because they were going to tell us weeks in advance, because of course, in today's social media world, you'd think it would leak. But sure enough, two weeks before NFL honors, there's a knock at my door.

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