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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

Tim Brown talks almost playing for the Cowboys, Top-5 all-time receivers, being Arena League commissioner

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

NFL Players: Second Acts hosts Peanut Tillman and Roman Harper sit down with legendary Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown for a candid reflection of his Hall of Fame career. Starting with his iconic NFL debut kick return touchdown in 1988, Brown recounts the highs and lows of his 17-year professional campaign -- all but one of which being in silver and black. From vouching to have the team part ways with former coach Bill Callahan to his innate skills as a kick returner, Brown shares anecdotes that are seldom told publicly. The Hall of Famer even speaks of a time when he pleaded with then-Dallas Cowboys WR Michael Irvin in an effort to land with his hometown team. All that and more on the latest episode of the NFL Players: Second Acts Podcast!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

I told Michael, Michael, I want to come play. Don't you come down here. He ain't knowing you. Oh, man. Michael was like, I'm glad you told me. I'm going to tell Jerry right now. That was in 93. Me and Jerry, we all met the pro ball. And I made the mistake. I went to Micah. I said, Mike, man, look, man, I want to come home and play.

0:21.7

I'll play second fiddle.

0:22.9

That's not what it's all about.

0:24.3

I just want to come home and play.

0:21.7

I say, I'll play second fiddle. That's not what it's all about. I just want to be, oh, no. Oh, you know, Mike. Oh, no. Oh, you ain't coming down here. You ain't coming here. What's up, everybody? I'm Peanut Tillman and and this is the NFL players second acts podcast with me. As always, my trusted co-host, Mr. Roman Harbor, what's up? You know, what's up, man? I'm really, really excited about this one. I played with this guy on video games for many, many years. Like, this is a whole fan. I actually played against the guy.

1:28.1

I mean, you're older than me. It is all good. I'm really looking forward to this. This is one of the greatest of all time. Peanut, please introduce our next guest because I don't want to ruin it. He's a Hall of Famer. Yeah. He's a Heisman trophy winner at Notre Dame. He is one of 10 players to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and win the Heisman trophy. A nine-time pro bowler. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the podcast. Mr. Tim Brown! Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Appreciate their love. Just put mine down and clap. Thomas get mad. I mean, he'd be here. So good. Good to be here, guys. Welcome to the love. With this mic. Thomas get mad.

1:28.7

I mean, he'd be here. So good. Good to be here, guys. Welcome to the pod, brother. Thank you. I just saw you about a month ago. I saw you in Notre Dame. I went to the Notre Dame spring game. How often do you go back to South Bend? Oh, man. I try to get back for all the warm games. Okay. before it gets cold.

1:44.4

So last year, I had,

1:46.5

I missed a couple of the warm games. And so I had to go back for a Florida State game, which was okay. Yeah. But then they make the playoffs. So I'm now back there in December, you know. Did you come down? Did you travel at all with the with the playoff games in New Orleans?

2:01.5

Yeah, I went to,

2:02.4

I didn't go to the Georgia game,

2:04.0

but I went to the other three games.

2:16.4

Okay, okay, yeah. It was, man. Yeah, it was great. Incredible. Yeah. It was. I mean, shout out to Notre Dame and everything they're doing. Yeah. Really, really cool. I did not understand the new helmet situation with the true gold dome.

2:18.1

Like, it is sweet.

2:19.2

What is that?

2:20.2

Like, the gold dome.

2:21.4

Like, did not understand the new helmet situation with the true gold dome like it is sweet what is that

2:19.7

like the gold dome like they they have this uh this brighter uh gold it's not like the dull gold

2:26.4

it's we yeah we we wore the the dull gold yes okay now they have this shiny real shiny gold

2:33.3

sparkly and all that's kind of a little flashy little flash. A little flashy. A little flash. A little flashy as Notre Dame gets. That's all you're going to get right there. You're not getting any more flash. Is it true that you consider becoming a pastor after you're done playing football? Yeah, brother, that's not over though. I mean, that's still. You've never done tasting the Lord. Look, I mean, I'm at a church now. My pastor's 93 years old. And, you know, he's doing all he can to hang in there, but, you know. And there's going to be a serious transition that's going to happen there. And so, I mean, there's some things I'm going to have to do before that. But, I mean, if he was to say to me, which I believe he is going to say to me, hey, Tim, I want you to have something to do with this, then it would be something I'll be more than happy to look into. I like that you put it out there. Speak it. Speak it into a distance. I like that. Look, brother, this is, you know, I come from, my grandfather was a preacher. My uncle was a pastor. Mama's a missionary in the church. Big brother's a deacon in church. So it wouldn't be, you know, people who know me, know the family. Yeah. They'd be like oh timmy pat okay yeah yeah it wouldn't be

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