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Rocket mortgage can help you get there. Problem solutions that fit your life rocket to Canon's kinda cool when interviews and special guests fall into my lap doesn't happen very often. But about a month and 1/2 ago, a PR contact reached out to me he had gotten my name and number from a fellow friend of of hours and he said, was wondering if you'd be interested in having Danny Warfel on your show should know is that when you watch Denny Warfel played college football at Florida and remembers the hullabaloo and the excitement that he generated but also that gator football tradition that was started with him and Steve Spurrier put them on the map as a national power. I said absolutely. So we set it up, but not so much to talk about football but because Danny Warfel has found a new passion and a new purpose in his life.

He and his family. They have taken a pretty drastic turn in terms of where they spend their time and their focus and what they pour their lives into and you are really going to love this conversation.

He's had a lot of challenges he's had to go through major pitfalls, and yet I it's clear that he is on the right path.

The path that he is supposed to be on.

He and his wife Jessica was after hours here on CBS yardage is to catch up with the former Heisman Trophy winner and college football Hall of Famer also former NFL QB earlier on Tuesday and I had been perusing his Twitter and saw a couple of photos that caught my eye.

So that's where I started with deity. I saw a photo with you and your son that he would move them into his dorm room in Florida and I was wondering what that was like for you Danny and what the fall, conjures up in terms of football all the emotions with the years that use playing the game. A lot of double fault all the time all back a lot of memories you'll get all those things in this you're very very special and different. You know, we have three kids are old on your first drop them off and leave a big deal for mom really bittersweet moment. No interesting though my my wife. She loved gator fan but we live in a land don't get to allot again but now that you have the phone but also that you want to go to Gainesville every everything so that works out well.

What is your son considering other schools. In addition to Florida or was Florida always his destination well.

He always loved to go on board a flight of the plate pretty tough to get on the floor once again, just yesterday announced that it was ranked in the top five belt public university really great school very excited to get accepted and we are very real well.

Congratulations and there was a photo there with your former coach Steve Spurrier who has been around football in various forms whether be college or pro that relationship mean to you I got it has impacted so many lives in that arena. Yeah, I'm think about people live.

Certainly my life are trajectory of my life would play for him. We had and it really should.

The arc of my life in general and also just honestly been great. After he retired. You know you got a lot more time a lot more energy you really fond took to be around this, like some people say when someone from your parent is one thing but then when your grandparent if like another experience a coach. First, like not target like the grand coach work it all. The best part on grid to be around all weekend again. It's been a few years since you were at Florida and won the Heisman Trophy international championships and the game has changed so much, Danny. When you look at the landscape of college football. Whether it's the growth in terms of its popularity. Whether it's the and IL. Whether it's this conference realignment that seems to take a new shape and a new form every year. What's your reaction to what you see now you know you talking with my wife today about the very thing and you feel like when you're in all your thinking about the transfer portal and IL all the things going on, like, man, what's happening to sort of amazing amateur sport that we all love that a lot of people wonder how effective will never be the same.

I certainly have thoughts and opinions. All those things but also say that one started, it's like immediately. You're drawn back in to help. Amazing fun college football is really really excited that fall is here and the games were going and you upset. All these things are going on and that's what you love about the game was really happy that will impact all really excited to spend a few minutes with former Heisman Trophy winner Jenny Warfel also part of the college football Hall of Fame from his days at Florida and kicked around in the NFL for a few years. I actually saw an interview that you did with Tony Dunphy in which you are describing your very first play with the New Orleans Saints.

But when you look back on that teeny how you believe football prepared you for the next phase of your life. The next, calling the next mission field really that will talk about well you know we could talk for days about. I think the lesson that you learn playing football that that are part of like prepare you for like going to tough times and teamwork and not about you and all the things that that are important, but very specific way, you know, I was drafted by the bank and got a chance to go to New Orleans and that's where I was introduced to small organization working in the ninth Ward of New Orleans very under resourced neighborhood called desire street ministry started volunteering there and when I retired. That's where begin working in an and at work there ever since.

Even up to now desire street works in under resourced neighborhood all over Southie help people and English tough neighborhood do a lot of academic afterschool enrichment summer camp help start school help start medical clinics always help start churches help start housing program. People getting jobs and starting the incredible journey to be a part of that and not just very, very grateful for desire street and chance to be part of it. Now you are the executive director and as you talk about. It's more through various phases and moving out of New Orleans and into Atlanta and obviously has grown why this ministry. Danny why desire street. I mean, I think it is a combination of that was where I felt like I was led and don't drawn into it. I always felt like I've been very blessed and fortunate person and not at some tremendous people pouring to me and give me support.

We talked about coach Juergen I'm not here talking to you Amy without him. And people like him in my life. When you look at the landscape of the world. Even in America. A lot of people that don't have the same opportunities that many of us did the chance that to get back to be a part of that I think is incredibly exciting and rewarding opportunity and interesting newsworthy moment is not just all Nebraska interim head coach now after Scott brought Nikki Joseph, who many people may not know this was working with us, that desire street around Hurricane Katrina, giving back, and he was coaching on our football team there and I've got a lot of war stories are just tough things that we went through together and I'm just really happy to see the success that you have that hopefully this opportunity will will lead to more for him as well were spending a few minutes with Jenny Warfel here in after hours on CBSSports you mentioned Katrina I wasn't even sure if I was to bring this into the interview because you had so many experiences in your life. It's hard to pinpoint one or two and I want to make sure that we highlight desire street, but people may not know I did not know until I started doing some research that you and your wife and your son lost her home in Katrina. How did that experience change you and prepare you for what you're doing now that I'm going to wait a few days after the storm we realize the full picture of our neighbors house that was underwater on our house with a one-story house at that moment.

We sort of realized we had lost everything but the same time. Amy like we were really worried because so many of the people we knew and love from the ninth Ward were missing a lot of people that we could talk to her missing family members and the mayor of New Orleans was speculating that maybe up to 10,000 people at possibly drowned at that point. Fortunately it didn't taste but so is this weird feeling. Where on one hand we have lost everything we we had but at the same time I was sick with my family and I felt like I had everything I really needed and I just thought that was a very powerful reminder, you know, so that your kids a lot you know you don't really need that you want that but I think we all get mixed up between what we want and we need to work very blessed in many cases spoiled and Americo in so many ways that just a great reminder of the simplicity and and and having the main things in life cow very grateful. It's not a natural disaster that changed America over the last couple of years Danny but there are so many more people in need now because of the pandemic. We see it everywhere in our nation and the economy and the struggles for families how much have you seen the impact of desire street grow or maybe even how much has the focus had to change a little bit because of what's happening in our nation will currently during COBIT.

Some of the interesting unique challenges that when kids were not at school you know one what the education kinda gap where people like my kids you had resorted to get resources we have Internet that you went right and online will, but if you don't have Internet or midmorning system that was able to provide that the academic support was vital. So we have a lot of sort of different types of pod learning that was happening from the organization of the other thing was a lot of people don't realize and under resourced neighborhood. A lot of children get to reveal that school. So if there's no school now you're in a situation whether sort issues within you on top of that, a lot of the parents can't work because the businesses of enclosed and you can even afford food so a lot of the place about this yesterday at one of our organization here in Atlanta all kids and they started are still running a distribution center providing essentials for people in the community is used to incredible adaptation to current needs and I'm just really proud of all the making, leaders in and around the desire street family that have just done such great work. The college football awards have gotten so extensive. There is a national broadcasting and there are these incredible young men who are honored every year, mostly for what they do on the football field. The gaudy numbers the incredible individual feats you have the Warfel trophy that you established in 2005 which actually honors athletes for something different. But what was the focus. When you created this award we will come when we came to me group in Florida that we want to start a national football award named after you and out very honored by what you know there's plenty of awards. A lot will need another award notices different. We want to honor the person most community service and name it after you and it was a very intriguing idea, and in fact it was the, the former Executive Director of the Heisman. Really Risko fondly said to me, and you need to do this, though the world need and so we did it incredible journey we have amazing winters. We often have had over 100 nominees and one of my desires is just a shine the light on the good work. These guys are doing so many people are doing heroic things, but unfortunately we cannot live in a world where you know if you're not the best player on the winning team or you did something really bad you probably are going to get a lot of coverage so you give us a chance shine spotlight on young men that are doing great things and know they inspire me and hopefully it inspires others to do more and our were really excited our winner was invited this year to be in New York, also for the Heisman Trophy weekends that's can be a really awesome opportunity talk to highlight our winner as well so Lotta great things are happening and Greg glad to be part of it. Do today's college football players know your name or recognize that you also stood on that stage as a Heisman Trophy winner is. Is that too far back for them like I go spend a lot of time in Florida and all very very nice and kind and know who I am. But I also think that maybe coach Napier maybe had given him a little.

I remind you, date Florida gator grout sort of a big student pep rally and they asked me to host this year. The thought that a promo video hey my name is Danny Warfel and if you're under 30, you can ask your parents, who I am know what it say don't know. You can ask your grandparents benefit really popular with older people to the moms the grandmom's. They love me. 1996 Heisman Trophy but also in the College football Hall of Fame from 2013 Danny Warfel is with us here after hours on CBS portrayed how much does it mean to you that Florida as well as Georgia. Actually, because now you're basing Alanna former players from each of these schools that are going to get together and try to highlight and support desire street with an event really are our biggest on fundraiser in front of that desire cop and we play off the rivalry of the Georgia Florida Florida Georgia game and write for that game. We gather bunch of celebrities and coaches from both schools and transfer them both out very competitive golf outing and a wonderful event and I we have a lot of fun and this year we also added a pickle ball event which actually some people know that pickle of all the fastest growing sport in the country I love ball and putting together celebrity program. We got some of the best professional pickle ball players in the world you are our professional pickle ball players in the world and were pairing them with celebrities from the same college so we have a college. The celebrity program pickle ball tournament as well. The week of the desire cop. Very exciting stuff. People can check out desire cop.com for all the information I can't not ask dead as a guy who was part of those epic Florida, Georgia, rivalry games, what was that like well usually if I appear Georgia people are asking you why are you living there like Georgia hate you and are going to give you all this trouble and I know I played four times and never gave us any troubles they don't like that either. If the gray we had a good run. I'm very fortunate to have gone for an elegant Georgia doilies can fall back on that but they are certainly the big dog in the hunt now and Kirby Smith Kirby smart doing is absolutely fantastic use really proud of that program to what did you take away from that. In terms of just that tradition and and how much it matter to you when you were there, even if it's a quote unquote distant memory outright.

All will part of what was exciting about it was, you know, in the 90s Lord really hadn't experienced a lot of success in the path and in so that the fan you know like they were just so real with anything and then start winning the national championship was really exciting. In fact, I remember I took a visit to Alabama in one of the selling points is that you show you all the history of these incredible you know team the bear Bryant years, you know, like exciting to go there but you might be 13th got to get a chance to help them with national championship at the coast of Florida man.

They were just starving so I was really fun. Even to this day. Gator fan.

I remember those moments in that when in the national title and kind of starting that tradition of excellence was very special when I look back at it.

So it's the desire cop and desire cop.com any workable.com links to all that and I'm just really excited with Lotta things that are happening that we get to be a part of and sometimes up to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming what I think about what happened in my life and what I get it now and the things happening in the future and like a very very blessed person and very thankful and glad to help give back. Did you have to practice getting ready for the gator grout.

Well, I've got a little bit of time.

The event is not actually fill homecoming in October. Job and you know going to Matt my scale know Flo Rida is the musician so I thought that we couldn't pry really appreciate if upper for one of the songs or something like my kid thought that was not a good idea, but I felt some jokes collect think I'm funny but they fell and got his bad jokes like now started below will you know conscientious about health conscious of the minor say if I can do that when in doubt, just talk about gator football and Heisman. Every now and then just dropping the conversation that brilliant drop a score of our game against Florida State joke about Georgia now you're talking I did you doing great so you can find Dede on the various websites he mentioned are also on twitter at Danny Warfel W you ERF FPL misspelled for people who may not remember. And yes, he played football.

He was a Heisman Trophy winner.

He won a national championship. He was in the NFL, but his life's work now is desire Street ministries Danny, it's so good to catch a couple of minutes with you. I'm sure you can and nail the gravel thank you so much for the time, good stuff, I had no idea. Not at all that he had lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, but he credits his time in the NFL. And this time with the saints with putting them in New Orleans where he found desire Street ministries and and yes he did lose his home, but it really opened his eyes and gave him a completely different perspective as well as heightened his purpose and heightened his passion for those who are underserved and underprivileged. And in the work that they're doing now and so if you want to find out more desire cop desire Street desire Desire cop.com and then Danny Warfel.com as well but were to put that conversation about our YouTube channel because I we feel like those types of themes and and that passion is timeless. It's after hours with Emile are we are zooming through the hump show. It's going fast. Glad to have you with us once to get through that show you are downhill toward the weekend here on CBS sports radio you are listening virtually health is here here for you and all the moments that because they all matter here to be your trusted healthcare partner from the simple to the serious reinsurer, you can feel your past and live your life to the fullest. Find a virtual physician and virtual attack work virtually health here for good after-hours podcast waiting off delivers to strike out swinging the slider down to is right out of the game for personal out of the 421 Line Dr. title is game 500 is one of domination's fees after hours on CBS radio. The great Charlie Steiner on Dodgers radio and after a brief respite away from the NL West title you may remember last year, the Dodgers and Giants rivals in the division went down to the wire very last day of the baseball regular season to determine who would win the NL West and as it turned out it was the Giants not happening this year. Charlie is right domination when he or something crazy Mark abilities back here in studio. I know the Yankees have more homeruns than any other team in major league baseball. They have a healthy run differential to run differential meaning.

How many more runs. They score than their opponents collectively, +320 that disgusting the doctors are disgusting I mean that total gobbling what they're doing this year.

Anything short of winning another World Series is an epic disappointment. That's the problem is that's the difference right there exist but as great as the regular season is as great as the season is been for the Dodgers.

They put too much excellence over the last 10 to 12 years much excellence, much too much excellence so you got figured out you World Series what they pat the one and I want to hear about the cove.

Thank you. You and I realize the seas were short on care.

You still figured out you got it done. That was the bugaboo they got over the top on that one. They need to.

Kinda, it also another one this year will really help catapulting, put a stranglehold on what they've done over the last few years because this would be a major disappointment. The problem is the Braves and the Mets can be rough going through nationally.

This is the first time for Freddie Freeman with the Dodgers, but of course he has a World Series ring from his time with the Braves last season the all know how that divorce went post-lockout. He's got his sights set on World Series then nothing else will do. Hope three weeks ago the wire to wire them here for the novice rest know the off-season landing sponsor that is true they do try. Now it's really difficult to be at the top for as long as they have nine division titles in 10 years and Dave Roberts is at the helm mean he gets question like every manager does when decisions don't work out, but he is a constant driving force, regardless of who's on the roster and what changes that they make guys last year, some so a lot of hard work so long way to go tonight.

To feel so enjoy this.

I do love that field to the stadium there in Phoenix that was me was kind of what Freddie Freeman said three weeks ago in the regular season and they have a 20 1/2 game lead in the NL West and so that was, underscoring the point that I made last night which is they were there not be pushed have to be internal, but they were not veterans on that team that they should recognize even though there's no sense of urgency now.

There's a lot still on the line you have to find a way to increase that tension and that edginess when you get closer, Clayton Kershaw was the picture on the mound got the win in Arizona tossed seven innings of scoreless ball only gave up two hits. The doctors definitely need him to be locked into many not MVP Clayton but to tap into a pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, the one that's meant so much them over the years. I will say this though, when they were celebrating in that the Dodgers was a visiting clubhouse in Phoenix. Every single photo every single video had Clayton Kershaw shirtless like he's JR Smith or something so personal and go seven scoreless of my.please protect special Clayton Kershaw represents quick Clayton and a couple of these other guys represent this like it's almost like that the foundation for the Dodgers because short they got. They spend money and they bring a lot of big pieces Freddie Freeman being one of those, but he's not the only one Trey Turner. They acquired last year Max shares her to even though Max is now with the New York Mets, but they go out and they get pieces they never stand pat what you do have a few guys who have been part of the Dodgers all the way through and as Marco mentioned they won the World Series in 2020, and the drought that stretched back to 1988 but boy were they sure love to now turn around and win one after a full season and the bar is set very high right now they're on pace to I think I heard that there are on pace to win 112 games as of this sitting on 98 and there are still multiple weeks to go, but we had kinda done some quick math last night, even if they only go 500. The rest of the way your ear still talking about another say 10 wins which would put them at 108-ish 108109. I mean, far and away the best you major league baseball in pretty much every metric so can they capitalize in the postseason. I think to be the one thing that's Congress lost a little bit so they just clinch the vision Susan second-place the pond.

Roger yeah so that's coming you look at a 20 or whatever 21 game lead three weeks left, you didn't win the division because you were really good in everyone else's average you just dominated your way through what second-place team is going to likely be in the playoffs. That's impressive.

That's really really hard to do but again with everything that they set the bar that they have set over the last whatever it is, 12, 15 years now.

Anything short of getting and then winning another World Series is going to be looked at as a failure for a line you know what rifle he so best home record in the majors best road record in the majors get the exact same number of wins home as they do away handful of acts or losses away from LA but they 49 when the dodger Stadium and 49 wins on the road this year and they been able to overcome a lot of injuries a lot of issues that a lot of teams were blank them immunity if you take away what computer you take away may click on the IL twice you do that with a lot of teams recheck with their 80s probably and I'm one of their top three or four in the rotation struggle and understandable, not the Dodgers they don't skip a beat. They always seem to find somebody else it's a most plug-and-play.

It's really wild. Other able to do that and after hours here on CBSSports Dodgers first team into the playoffs have already clinched the NL West. The rest of that picture will start to fall in the places we had through the stretch run of September but were just gearing up weeks two in the NFL got an update on the significant injuries TJ Watt Jack Prescott coming from Jerry Jones himself.

That is straightahead you are listening to the after-hours podcast, you get to the back end of the work we will go home show's he's a game changer. He's a freak of nature. We know it runs in the family with the Watt brothers three of them in the NFL. And he's also the reigning defensive player of the year Pittsburgh Steelers fan feeling like the victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in overtime on Sunday came at a very steep price because not only was 90 Harris injured, though it does appear like he will be on the field come week two against the patriots by. It was fairly evident that right away when TJ Watt got heard he was uttering the phrase torn pack. I tore my pack. I have a torn pack and so that that really didn't temper a lot of the enthusiasm it's after hours with Amy and something for Bill Hill Grove on Steelers radio. Well we knew that TJ was seeking a second and third opinion may be looking for someone to tell him he did not need surgery because that would eliminate him for the rest of the regular season.

As it turns out he's not going to have surgery is going to attempt to return this season. I can definitively say that TJ will play this week make any commitments beyond that were incurred and will just continue to look at the situation and gain opinions and do what's appropriate you know we going to do what's appropriate. As we always do, whether similar others. From a health perspective. This can be a cast of characters honestly fulfill his role on the link to mere being the lead candidates are going to lose a guy like him is not about the guys that occupy this position of left outside linebacker is about how we redistribute our responsibilities collectively to produce the collective outcome that we desire those guys and I will be TJ is not realistic to think that the going to be TJ, but we expect them to be varsity formulate a plan of responsibilities to lean on our strengths to minimize our weaknesses like we always do. One thing that never changes is Mike Tomlin. He took Baptist. So the same number but no never. The working theme now is that TJ will be out for six weeks will not have surgery on his torn pack, but is expected to miss about six weeks. He tweeted he and JJ actually know if Derek is active on Twitter. I'm not sure, but he and TJ are he and JJ excuse me are very active and he tweeted a gift of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

If I tell you that producer Jay do you know what phrase he used.

Arnold figured out guy.

I'll be back. I'll be bock so that Arnold's olive bebop I can do impressions over asking anything so don't expect any more of that.

You know that's not my forte and after hours on CBS sports right else. Speaking of forte, I answer questions I taught for a living so you can send yours to our show Twitter after-hours CBS or a Facebook page because we got asking me anything inside of an hour from now. Malika Reed is the maleic that Coach Tomlin is referring to. We heard from him on our last show he had started up several dozen games for the Denver Broncos just doing the Steelers right before the season kicked off, so it falls on him to pick up a lot of the snaps and to do what he can to fill sizable shoes as and sizable shoes 90. Harris will be back in so they he's already box but they certainly had to fill in for him when he left the second quarter against the Bengals technology was out and this little gem from Mike Tomlin. He was asked about Jaelyn Warren who stepped in and picked up some of the carries when dodgy was unavailable in a place to begin, capable, happy for you guys so indicative of him throughout this process and that's why he's gone from being an undrafted God's will guide as part of the rollout. Now you producer J is that a hollow flame candidate or is that just a drop that were going to hear over and over time so as not to haul a flame candidate is really upset is hyping them up.

Same Drawdown ball on the hollow flame with the people who are fired up and full of adrenaline.

You don't think the I was really impressed that in that moment he didn't use vernacular for the action. Instead he actually use the proper verb for the action and said that it can happen to actually does happen. So I'm wondering if we could give truth serum to young guys that there might in fact have been a few of these instances that Mike Tomlin knows of where rookies are young players with allotted experience are thrust into this pressure cooker and they do in fact urinate down there legs. No more happy for younger see what I mean. It is capable of happening for a young guy I've never actually urinated down my leg. But happy my pants before and I just want to know that when people tickle you and you laugh if you really do have an aversion to being tickled, you're not laughing because it's funny you're laughing because that's the involuntary reaction, but I once this is in college I was in high school I was a sleepover with basketball teammate and they got to be really funny to tickle me until I just… Which by the way, you can have a heart attack if you're being tickled to.

But really, I'm telling you it's not funny even though her laughing. I am allergic to being tickled, but I have this adverse reaction. It's terrible and one time they got me laughing but also so like upset that I peed on myself. I was it was really mean and then I tried to warn you that it's not funny and is terrible is like torture.

Actually when you tickle someone who is that ticklish. I'm deathly ticklish.

I guess it's better to pee on myself then to have a heart attack but still yeah I get I guess, but women don't really have the aim amended okay.

We are not bodily functions on the show is where I draw the line generally put your hand in water like a classic sleep away camp right where are you deathly ticklish are now in some spots. I don't like it like under my arms. I don't do that, most funny, it's awful mean I eat you near me to tickle me and I start to get like I break out in hives.

I'm likely ticklish doing.

You know it's it's not all it's it's all fall, but the laughter is the involuntary and I'm telling you they would not let up, it was I'm pretty sure with high school because I can picture some of my high school teammates right now. It was so unbelievably traumatic. Yes, thank you, also, that is the maybe the second time ever, I told that story on the radio. So let's just strike that from the podcast please can you not ask me anything about that at all during asking anything I can pack into questions on a budget, I could make that will just coordinate it's just between me and you and Colton, who happens to be sitting in the corner as Colton, who is learning how to run the board if he is deathly ticklish because I need someone else who who empathizes with me now ticklish you so sure. I'm sure he okay so you understand that it's not funny just because you're laughing.

It's not all, so no questions about peeing on myself for asking anything of Artie told you there's one more time that I can tell you I know that's that's embarrassing, and more embarrassing than that. Okay, so you can send your questions were asking me anything to our show Twitter after-hours CBS you never quite know what I'm going to say. Also on our Facebook page because were now dead center of the hump shout is after-hours CBS for