Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews the Lee Matthews Podcast
Speaker 1: more what You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.
Speaker 2: He's one of the greatest players in NFL history, and
Speaker 2: he is coming to town tomorrow. The most successful quarterback
Speaker 2: in the history of the Washington Redskins. But it all
Speaker 2: came crashing down upon him with a season and career
Speaker 2: ending injury. Joe thisman has turned it all around and
Speaker 2: he's going to help you do the same at the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City town hall event tomorrow at the Church of
Speaker 2: the Servant, Northwest Oklahoma City, and that's on North MacArthur.
Speaker 2: We will give you some ticket information in just a minute.
Speaker 2: But I'm glad to have Joe thisman on high. Hi.
Speaker 3: Lee, thank you so much for having me. It's great
Speaker 3: to be out here in Okasey. Just a beautiful day.
Speaker 2: Beautiful day to do that. What are some of the
Speaker 2: things you're going to be touching on in your lecture
Speaker 2: at the at the town hall event.
Speaker 3: Well, I wrote a book called How to Be a
Speaker 3: Champion every Day, available Amazon and other places, and it's
Speaker 3: sort of a I talk about the relationship between the
Speaker 3: world of sports, the world of business, and our own
Speaker 3: lives and how they all parallel one another, and you know,
Speaker 3: talking about goals and how important attitude is and relationships
Speaker 3: which you know in the world of businesses customer service,
Speaker 3: and you know, working together as a part of a team,
Speaker 3: whether you're a family, unit of business and sports team,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. And then you know, what are the
Speaker 3: things that get us motivated in life? You know what
Speaker 3: we're all different and how do we define success as individuals?
Speaker 3: And I'll tell some stories. I'll talk about my record
Speaker 3: setting punning performance of one yard and lots of just
Speaker 3: lots of stories about the NFL, I'm sure, and going
Speaker 3: to open the floor to questions. I'm sure people have
Speaker 3: some questions about what's going on in the NFL and
Speaker 3: in college football. So looking forward to a really, really
Speaker 3: fun eleven o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 2: NFL's most Valuable Player inducted into the College hot Football
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame twice, named the Pro Bowls Most Valuable Player,
Speaker 2: Joe Theismann in Oklahoma at the town Hall events. If
Speaker 2: you want to look into getting tickets OKC Townhall dot
Speaker 2: org four or five two O two four two six
Speaker 2: to lunch is included. I might add when after your
Speaker 2: after you realize that your football career was over, what
Speaker 2: was what was the first thing and what was the
Speaker 2: first place you turned?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I went back to football
Speaker 3: Lee because it was it was all I'd known. I'd
Speaker 3: enjoyed wonderful success there because of the people that I
Speaker 3: was you know, I was coached by and the people
Speaker 3: that had a chance to spend time with the players,
Speaker 3: the coaches and everybody, and you know, I guess I
Speaker 3: started looking for a new foundation. And so that's really
Speaker 3: the basis of what I talked about when I do
Speaker 3: my presentations is you know, you really need it. It's
Speaker 3: like the great Pyramids of Egypt were not built on
Speaker 3: their points. I think we all need a foundation to
Speaker 3: start from. And sometimes when we get off track. So
Speaker 3: if you go back and take a look at when
Speaker 3: things were going well or things were going the way
Speaker 3: you'd like it, what were the reasons why? You know?
Speaker 3: That's why one of the questions I asked all the
Speaker 3: time is how do you define success? You know, as
Speaker 3: a parent, as a partner, as an athlete, as a student.
Speaker 3: Everybody has a different definition for it. And for me,
Speaker 3: I went I went back, literally back to the world
Speaker 3: of sports and said, what's foundationally there can I take
Speaker 3: and build going forward? You know, I had with the
Speaker 3: success that I was able to enjoy in the world
Speaker 3: of football, I sort of became full of myself and
Speaker 3: I lost some of the principles I think that were important,
Speaker 3: and one of the most important things is people. And
Speaker 3: I you know, I thought, you know, I was the
Speaker 3: reason why we were successful and it was all about me.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudd sudden, on that faithful
Speaker 3: night on November eighteenth, nineteen eighty five, my career ended.
Speaker 3: And you know, it mattered the type of person I
Speaker 3: wanted to be more than what I wasn't able to
Speaker 3: do again. You know, football had a place in my life,
Speaker 3: but then all of a sudden, it wasn't there anymore.
Speaker 3: So now where do you go? And so really, for me,
Speaker 3: I went back to foundationally, back to football.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how a humbling experience can make you reevaluate that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've had it happen here in my career
Speaker 2: of forty two years in this business, and I finally
Speaker 2: came to the conclusion this business is not me. It's
Speaker 2: what I do. I am am, not this business. So
Speaker 2: you know that once I was able to put that
Speaker 2: in perspective, I was able to kind of separate myself
Speaker 2: from what I do and the egomaniacal aspects of what
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it happens. And you know, I believe
Speaker 3: firmly that we were put on this earth to serve people,
Speaker 3: not to be served, and so often we get caught
Speaker 3: up thinking as I as I did, Like you know,
Speaker 3: you go through it too. It's like, you know, we
Speaker 3: we should be served by this or served by that,
Speaker 3: and that's not the way it is. And you I
Speaker 3: find so much more gratification now in my life as
Speaker 3: I look back when when you're able to do something
Speaker 3: for someone, you know, there's that instant gratification that, Okay,
Speaker 3: I accomplished this. But then if you're able to do someone,
Speaker 3: if you're able to put a smile on somebody's face,
Speaker 3: if you're able to make somebody feel good, that's a
Speaker 3: much more warming feeling in my mind.
Speaker 2: NFL's Man of the Year Joe Thaisman, leading a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl team to a championship. He's also an Emmy Award
Speaker 2: winning analyst for two decades on ESPN and certainly a
Speaker 2: big star with the Washington Redskins, Oop and Joe Thaisman,
Speaker 2: I say Redskins anymore?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's what I was. There's the commanders
Speaker 3: now And there was a time period when they were
Speaker 3: the Washington football team. When we were the Washington football team,
Speaker 3: it sounded like we've belonged in the premier league of soccer. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we just didn't flow flow for me. And so you know,
Speaker 3: the command and this is the way I analogize the
Speaker 3: commanders is you know, when you think of Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: It's the seat of command of all our military. So
Speaker 3: that's where that's where they play. And so why not
Speaker 3: let it be the commanders? And who knows, you know,
Speaker 3: what holds with the future holds as far as anything
Speaker 3: else goes, I have no idea. But right now, right now,
Speaker 3: everybody's excited about the commanders because you're winning. Well, it
Speaker 3: doesn't if you're calling almost anything you want. As long
Speaker 3: as you're winning, people are excited about it.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you that you will drive through
Speaker 2: Oklahoma and find many a high school with a Native
Speaker 2: American mascot, and they are proud to call themselves the Redskins,
Speaker 2: or the Cherokees or the war Lords. Or the Tomahawks
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be. They find no offense in
Speaker 2: it whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I know it was I think I think some of
Speaker 3: it had to do with the period of time in
Speaker 3: society where things were just different, let's put it that way.
Speaker 3: But you know, I remember when we won the World championship,
Speaker 3: I received a chiefs headdress as a gift and it
Speaker 3: was one of the proudest things I'd ever gotten, and
Speaker 3: so to me, I was very proud to you know,
Speaker 3: to wear their uniform and represent the Washington Redskins on
Speaker 3: the football field.
Speaker 2: Go and see Joe thisman, the NFL quarterback of the
Speaker 2: Washington Redskins. He'll be speaking at the town hall events.
Speaker 2: It is at the Church of the Servants, lecture and lunch.
Speaker 2: Go to Okctownhall dot org or four or five two
Speaker 2: oh two four two six two. I believe the gathering
Speaker 2: begins at eleven and then lunch and the and the
Speaker 2: lecture and Joe th Eisman will be answering questions as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, I will. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody, visiting
Speaker 3: with everyone out here. And you know, with the things
Speaker 3: that are happening in the collegiate world, they're certainly upside
Speaker 3: down and a lot of young faces in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and so you know, we'll tell some stories, have some fun,
Speaker 3: and hopefully be an enjoyable time for everybody.
Speaker 2: Joe Thaisman, thanks for joining us and we look forward
Speaker 2: to seeing you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Lee appreciate it.
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