Thomas Q. Jones talks choosing acting over alcoholism after the NFL
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ep #9 of the NFL Players: Second Acts podcast. On the show, co-hosts former All-Pro Charles “Peanut” Tillman and Super Bowl champion Roman Harper talk with NFL legends about how they’ve found success in their post-NFL careers. Today, they’re joined by 12-year NFL veteran running back and current Hollywood actor Thomas Q. jones.
Thomas Jones was a bruising Pro Bowl RB who punished defenders on his way to 10,591 career rushing yards in his 12-year career. It was a career worthy of Hall of Fame consideration in 2022. Yet, when he left the game Thomas spent the first 10 months of his retirement drinking beer…all day, every day…starting with a Corona…at 6am! He joined Roman and Peanut to talk about the dark days of that struggle and how showbusiness saved his life. The man who chose acting over alcoholism also talks of how he channeled his football competitiveness into a thriving Hollywood career as Thomas Q. Jones the actor, producer, showrunner, and entrepreneur.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Nice. You know, you guys are getting better at saying this second axe. No, no, me that didn't even mess it up the first time. I'm very intentional about it. Y'all got it. Hey, I wouldn't have messed it up if it literally is not on top of my head. I'm looking at myself. Like, I'm not lying. I would totally mess it up. I'm very intentional about it. |
| 0:24.7 | No. it up if it literally is not on top of my head. I'm looking at myself. Like, I'm not lying. |
| 0:21.0 | I would totally mess it up. I'm very intentional about it. I can tell Peanut. You really are. |
| 0:27.2 | Like, Rome, I don't never forget your name. But I was thinking I was like, I was like, damn, I forgot his name. |
| 0:35.7 | I can't even laugh at it. Until all of a sudden you needed it. |
| 0:39.3 | Until, yeah. |
| 0:40.7 | I'll never forget your damn name. |
| 0:42.9 | Never. |
| 0:43.5 | Until I needed it. |
| 0:49.6 | Everybody, what's going on? |
| 0:51.3 | I'm one of the hosts with the most peanut tune. |
| 0:53.8 | And you're listening to the NFL player second acts podcast. Our special |
| 0:58.8 | guest today, Thomas Q Jones. And I got my guy with me as always, Roman. I want |
| 1:05.3 | Thomas Jones, Arms Harper, with me on the show. What's up? What up? What's up, what up? |
| 1:10.5 | What's up, brother? what's up my guy and |
| 1:12.3 | uh I hear no lies in that statement I totally want Thomas Jones arms well let me let me read a |
| 1:18.9 | little bit about this brother so Thomas Jones the football player he played 12 years he was my |
| 1:24.6 | teammate in Chicago for a couple of years ran He ran for over 10,000 yard. |
| 1:28.4 | He ranks 26th all time on the NFL rushing list. So when he retired in 2011, he transformed |
| 1:36.0 | from Thomas Jones, the football player, into Thomas Q Jones, the actor, the writer, the producer. |
| 1:43.3 | I tell you what, Rome, I was super lucky and blessed to have this guy as a teammate. |
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