The Flagship: Longhorn Legend Phil Dawson recalls top Texas moments, weighs in on Steve Sarkisian
Horns247 Podcasts: The Flagship Podcast
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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On this week's interview edition of The Flagship Podcast, we welcome in Longhorn Legend Phil Dawson for an exclusive one-on-one interview. One of the top kickers in Texas football history, Dawson takes us down memory lane for some behind the scenes moments from his time with the Longhorns, weighs in on Steve Sarkisian and the current state of UT football plus much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Very excited to bring in to the flagship podcast interview, a legend, Longhorn legend. |
| 0:19.3 | LHN needs to do one of those Longhorn Legend commercials for this guy, Phil Dawson, |
| 0:26.4 | unbelievable human being first and foremost. |
| 0:30.3 | And I'm so old, I covered him when he was a player at the University of Texas. |
| 0:35.5 | But now is the new head coach at Hyde Park High School |
| 0:39.7 | right here in Austin. Phil, thanks so much for taking some time for us. |
| 0:45.0 | Man, it's an honor to be on with you. Like you mentioned, I've known you for a good while now. |
| 0:50.7 | We won't say how many years, but it's an honor to be on with you and talk a little |
| 0:56.8 | shop with you. Yeah, I mean, I think this will be fun for our, for our listeners because they |
| 1:04.2 | certainly know, well, if they were around, they certainly know when you were at Texas. I mean, you burst on the scene. |
| 1:14.7 | I was looking through the record book and your first attempt was a 50-yarder at Pitt as a freshman |
| 1:26.7 | and you made it in a 3028 victory. Do you remember that? Oh man, |
| 1:33.1 | do I ever? I can remember taking the field going, man, this is awesome, but I don't know. |
| 1:40.5 | This is my first time to be in a college football game. |
| 1:46.3 | You know, I don't know. |
| 1:51.0 | This seems like a tall order, but, you know, for whatever reason, |
| 1:55.1 | God gave me the mentality that I loved the big moment. |
| 1:57.5 | I mean, even as a kid, you know, playing baseball, |
| 2:03.4 | if it was 0 and 2, bottom of the ninth, you know, game online, I just, I just loved it. |
| 2:04.9 | Some people don't love it. |
| 2:06.9 | It doesn't mean they're less of a player or whatever. |
| 2:08.8 | It's just it's one of those things. |
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