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00:00That's a football player.
00:01It happens to be a kicker, that being Adam Vinatieri.
00:05The guy played quarterback and linebacker in high school as well as a kicker.
00:10He's got a football mentality, and that's why we all loved him.
00:14He was just mentally tough as nails.
00:17That was the guy that you wanted out there when the game was on the line
00:20because he just never got rattled by the moment.
00:24And his kicks were so memorable, obviously.
00:28And there's so much on the line on so many of those kicks that he put through the upright.
00:34So it's not even, to me, a question who deserves to get in this year.
00:39To me, it should be Adam Vinatieri.
00:41And I think it should be Adam Vinatieri when you consider the other person going in,
00:46that being Bill Parcells.
00:47Bill Parcells believed in Adam Vinatieri in 1996.
00:52He was playing for the Admirals, the European League.
00:59Amsterdam Admirals, I believe.
01:00And after that season ended, he basically came to training camp with us.
01:04And it was a competition between him and Matt Barr, who Parcells loved.
01:10Parcells loved Matt Barr.
01:12But he went with the rookie in Adam Vinatieri, and it paid off.
01:18And so it's no question to me that it should be, at least this year, Adam Vinatieri should go in.
01:23Oh, he deserved to be in Canton.
01:25He will be in Canton.
01:26He will be.
01:26Soon, I hope they right that wrong.
01:28Next February as well.