Eric Allen: Hall of Famer on and off the field
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You know, I've had the opportunity over the last few years to spend a lot of time out in Vegas around my favorite team.
And there's just something incredible about the man, not, not even just the football player.
Eric Allen is just an incredible guy, and you know, it blew my mind the first time we walked up and knew my name, and I thought, man, this is Eric Allen, and you sit down and you watch film with him and I've had the chance to do this a couple of times, watching live games.
And as we're watching, just his ability to see it, say it, understand it, explain it, I feel like I got smarter in just a matter of a couple of hours just watching bad football with somebody that is so incredible.
What he does.
And it also reminds me of one of the great things about some of these players that played in a different era that have waited so long to get inthe humility, Frank, the, the, uh, opportunity, like the understanding of, man, I gave my everything to this game and I just hope this game recognizes it someday is such an incredibly beautiful and special thing to have seen it up close for, for him.
Uh, to see what it would have meant to him, but also to see that he never carried animosity with any of it, just waiting for the process to allow him this opportunity.
I think everybody that's ever been a fan of him on the field appreciates it, but man, being a fan of the human being and knowing how much this meant to him, like this is gonna be one of the first times I've ever watched the Hall of Fame where I felt connected in a real way with somebody that's getting in that that just makes it even more meaningful.
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