He’s always been a legend to us but it was the magic of a quarter-of-a-century of memories flooding back on the field when Super Bowl XXXV champion center Mike Flynn returned to the Baltimore Ravens as a “Legend of Game” with his family and personal tales of Lamar support for MVP. And Costas crabs, of course on his way outta town…
Nestor Aparicio interviews Mike Flynn, a former Ravens player, about his return to Baltimore as a “Legend of the Game.” Flynn discusses his emotional experience, bringing his family, and the recognition he felt. They reminisce about Flynn’s NFL career, his family’s achievements, and his current life as a coach and community member. The conversation shifts to the Ravens’ season, highlighting Lamar Jackson’s performance, the team’s tough schedule, and the challenges ahead in the playoffs. Flynn praises Jackson’s development and his humility, emphasizing the importance of winning from the pocket.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Mike Flynn, Ravens Legend, Lamar Jackson, MVP Support, Steelers Game, Family Tales, NFL Career, Playoff Hopes, Derek Henry, Super Bowl, Football Analysis, Baltimore Love, Community Involvement, Coaching Kids, Emotional Experience
SPEAKERS
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Nestor Aparicio, Mike Flynn
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. We’re positively into the fun season. It is Festivus for the rest of us. Steelers are coming to town this weekend. Luke’s going to be maybe back and forth, based on the weather, I don’t know. We had a Maryland crab gate tour all set up to go give some Maryland lottery scratch, also way up at libs grill, in Bel Air in the snow game. And might be more snow coming this week, but there was a guy that managed to get in and out before the snow got in and out of a 20 point game where the Ravens covered. And we’re allowed to talk about all that, because I can’t imagine anything they would have got my press pass. Take it away quicker than saying to Mike Flynn, how’s banks really throwing the ball? Tell me how it’s still for feeling all right. How’s he doing? I want to, I want to gamble with Louie, the bookmaker on it. Mike Flynn is here. He is the main event. Times have changed. It has been 24 January’s now since we gathered he was younger, I was the same age. We once rode on a float together during the first parade of and the only parade I think he’s ever ridden in. And somehow, some way, you came to Baltimore, you brought your whole brood, the whole Waltons family, Brady Bunch. You got the all of Eight is Enough. You got all the kids. I think you left your parents at home, which is unfortunate, because I was like, Yeah, better than any. Everybody likes your parents better than like anybody. And you sneak in, I wake up at three o’clock in the morning because I’m 56 and I’m a guy, and three o’clock in the morning to get up, you know, and the cat was yelling. And I look online, and I’m like, is this it? Is that Mike and Mary Flynn with all their kids. It cost us in well, at least you were well fed star the game, Legend of the game. All of
Mike Flynn 01:51
it took him 25 years to finally get to me. Hey, in my defense, listen, I will say this. I am not a three star guy by any stretch imaginings imagination. But over those years, I have been asked, but I couldn’t make it. So at least, I mean, they haven’t asked me 20 times, but they certainly asked me before. So
Nestor Aparicio 02:12
let’s bring him in for the Browns game at the end. It’ll mean something, and it
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Mike Flynn 02:16
was for the division. I mean, honestly, they they needed somebody to close the door, and what better guy who has been in a couple hat and t shirt games than Mike Flynn to get the crowd going? So games, I love that, believe it or not, though, people, you know what I walk through, people actually recognize me. Knew who I was wearing
Nestor Aparicio 02:36
your jersey. Did it say? Flynn, I saw the 62 I saw you sitting in the stands.
Mike Flynn 02:40
This was early. This was certainly after, and it wasn’t all the over 55 plus crowd either. There were some youngins in there when, I mean, Youngs probably in their 40s, to probably recognize, but I’m sure there’s a huge segment of that crowd was like, Who, what? But, you know, listen, in my a list, I always say, if you could play 10 plus years in the NFL, right? You’re a legend to me, and I’m just, I guess I’m a legend of my own mind. So they finally invited me, but it was, it was a blast, man. It, you know, I did bring the whole family. Was the last minute I knew I was going to kind of head down there, but bringing the whole family, and it’s an ordeal to bring those six, okay,
Nestor Aparicio 03:16
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give me get four animal. Okay, tell everybody where you are, because you and I, for anybody in my audience, they know of my love affair with you and your family and your wife and all of this, and they know how pissed that I currently am at you first. I haven’t lit it up. I just figured I’d do it face to face with you and saying You probably didn’t call falau or anybody else denial? Anybody right? No, I’m
Mike Flynn 03:43
not the only one. I was. I mean, I guess I forgot how your
Nestor Aparicio 03:47
children, your kid was on Broadway, your kids a legend. Then you got three other kids, and they’re making videos and they’re doing stuff, and you’re like, coaching ball, and you’re like, You’re everything I always knew you would be Flynn. You’re like a regular guy. You really are. You just settled into like you’re not super bowl legend. You were on Sunday for five minutes, and you got your free fear, and they brought you in, and they did all of that. But when you go back home, you don’t walk around with your ring and say, Get you know who I am. Like you you really are a real parent of like, like, all
Mike Flynn 04:25
the hard when you get a pat on the back. Now you it feels real good. You can make a case that it feels better than 2002 when I would get a pat on the back because I play, there’s a jersey I get that. But now at 50 where you get a pat on the back up in nine, neck of the woods, for whatever reason. It’s, it’s, it’s a good feeling. But yeah, you know, you, you, you’ve had a kid. Imagine three of those. And, you know, plus, you know, I’m bringing my wife and arrangements and everything, yes, but I should have, but it was kind of in and out. And, you know, I wanted to go to
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Nestor Aparicio 04:59
college. I mean. Your What are your kids know of all of this? Have you shown them the video in the in the Yeah. I
Mike Flynn 05:08
mean, I’ve showed them bits and pieces of that. I mean, we’ve seen the Hard Knocks Super Bowl videos, bottles. Is one
Nestor Aparicio 05:14
of them more interested than the restroom? Just not. I think they care. But I don’t know if
Mike Flynn 05:19
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they can appreciate it. If that makes sense, you know, unless you’re part of it. Part of it. And but
Nestor Aparicio 05:23
did Sunday meet did something I gotta, I
Mike Flynn 05:26
gotta be honest. You know, I was, I always kind of put that stuff behind me, and there’s opportunities to go down to Baltimore or bring the kids, and I just like, and not that. I mean, listen, I became a man in Baltimore. I love Baltimore, so that’s probably, you can make a case. You know, the best time of my life, certainly.
Nestor Aparicio 05:45
So it’s Saturday night. You love Baltimore.
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Mike Flynn 05:48
I just, I mean, we’re, I mean, listen, you go to Baltimore. You want crabs. Where do you go? Dundalk, I mean, I was, what do you think I was going to the Inner Harbor and throw my kids some crabs from the Inner Harbor? Dude, I
Nestor Aparicio 05:59
listen, why can I can really, I am pissed at you for sneaky. I’m like, because these opportunities, we get older, and, you know, I’ve, I haven’t had a lot of rock bands on. And you know, Tommy Conwell, he might be familiar with. His brother played in the NFL. His brother was a lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles back before you in the Baldinger era, Tommy was a rock and roll guy who had a couple of hits. He did his thing, and his band broke up. And it’s bad. It’s bad, not bad vibes with the BAM, just not enough money to be made to be in the band anymore. You’re older, you’re in your 40s, you’re 50, shaking your ass. You’re more into the blues than playing pops up like all of that. And he said to me, like, two years ago, I had him on in one of these flashback ways, like I’m having you on. And he said, you know, we were playing once a year on Thanksgiving, because the band doesn’t all live in Philly. They’re Philly band. They get together. He says we’re getting together. And we thought, well, I’m 61 now, two, three. Like, are we only going to do this 12 more times in our life? I mean, like, you know, if we only do it once a year, how many more times are we going to do it? And it’s worth more than that. It’s more valuable than that to all of us. So they play like, three or four times a year now. They go down the beach one they get together every quarter. They go up here, there. They’ll play a Baltimore show. They’ll move around. But there is a point where, like, you don’t get as much chance to get together. And I don’t know your children, and I think that for you to come in and have a special thing. And I saw dude, I saw the smiles, I saw what your wife put up. I thought I got to call you, and I don’t even we’re going to talk Lamar, we’ll talk Steelers and all that. But from a me to you and our relationship, what it means to me at this point where I’ve been locked out, thrown out, like all that, you’re away, but you came back, I would think that it probably meant the world to you on Sunday in Yeah,
Mike Flynn 07:38
it was the emotional part of it, and it was my son’s hit a lot more than I thought it would. I was probably, you know, we little bit of a whirlwind. When you bring it down, you do a bunch of the media stuff. But then we went out to the field, and really it was just all about my boys. Man, they couldn’t believe it. You know what? I mean, they had a great time. And then about the third quarter, you had great seats. And I watched the guys in the sideline and reminisce about being down there, you know, it kind of, it always flips right. You can only be on that side of the fence for so long. But, yeah, I mean, it was emotional. It was the first time I could be honest with a long time where I actually missed it, and missed that, and then seeing, you know, how my kids reacted, I was so happy for them, you know, because they enjoyed it, you know
Nestor Aparicio 08:20
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that moment that we had, that they were here, I was
Mike Flynn 08:24
proud, not that you know what I did, but just the proud that they looked at me like, holy cow, dad, like you kind of you really did do this, you know what I mean, and
Nestor Aparicio 08:32
put you up on a scoreboard,
Mike Flynn 08:35
little montage. And you know your how many games I started consecutive this and the other, and then they bring you out. I
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Nestor Aparicio 08:43
would have brought you out this week for the playoff game, because that’s how I feel about you. But you know, well, of course, you know, of course.
Mike Flynn 08:49
But you know, late season game Browns is more of a Mike Flynn legend of the game, you know, for somebody else. But hey, you know what? I’m fine with that, because there ain’t many guys are getting rolled out for legends of the game in this world. So Beggars can’t be choosers. But yeah, it was great, man. Imma tell you how much fun I had down there, and to honestly, to the point where, you know, I work, you know, one of my son’s schools. I help out there running a mural program. And my wife works at one of the schools, like you said, normal life, keep them busy. And I, I text my wife, I said, Man, that’s about a good 2436 hours I’ve had in a long time, and it really wasn’t me, it’s just my son’s here. So we’ve had a
Nestor Aparicio 09:27
really interesting parenthood. I mean, your your child was on Broadway, you and your parents and your wife were taking turns living in New York. I’ve had you on you go to the but you, you’ve really lived an incredible story from the minute I met you in the corner of the Slappy locker room with Bernstein and those guys, and saying, like, how was this going to turn out for you? To pop up for me, I look, I don’t get the game notes. They’ve taken me off all like, Now Luke gets all of that. And Luke didn’t say to me, Hey, you know Flint’s coming in this because it was New Year’s and this and that the games every day’s been the same day since December 10. Dude. Right? Um, and, but like for you to come in and experience that I’m just I’m thrilled for you. I’m thrilled they selected you, not that you’re not qualified or worthy, but they play eight games a year. Ray Lewis, anytime Ray wants to come by, you know what I mean?
Mike Flynn 10:15
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So those guys, you got, your standard guys, will come every year, you know I mean? And why not? Right? No, there those guys are carried franchise for years. So yeah, I thought it was a huge honor. And was something they asked earlier in the year, actually, and I really I could not make it, and I was kind of crushed by and part of the reason I couldn’t make it, I was coaching, but my one son had a game, other son had a hockey game, Jake had so it would be like me and Mary going down, and my wife was like, you know, it’d be great, but like, what are you doing it for? Why would you do it for you? For me? I’m like, No, I knew I wanted to bring my sons, and I just told him, Hey, listen, if it ever comes up again, and, you know, it came up, and, you know, I thank him for that, because really wasn’t an experience for the kids to kind of be behind the scenes a little bit. And the boys got a chance to be Lamar Jackson, which, you know, that made their year, who, by the way, nice guy for doing that, by the way. I mean, I’ve always thought, from afar, Lamar, he’s been a humble guy, but this was, this is before the game to come up, and that the kids a little bit. I was just not many guys would do that, and it wasn’t expected. But, uh, so impressed by him. I couldn’t believe it. What a guy. I mean, seriously, best player in the league, and he’s doing that. I could do no wrong in my mind, but in terms of the day, yeah, it was phenomenal. Like, from start to finish, everything about it was awesome.
Nestor Aparicio 11:31
Alright, Mike Flynn is here, the main event my life for PAL, whether he likes it or not, like, you know, like everybody else is, like, I’ve won him over. He’s here, not enough to get crabs on Saturday night causes. But hey, I would say this for you where the team is. Let’s talk a little football, because you did, you had this afterlife doing sports radio in New England for a dozen years up there, on in Boston, and talking about games and all during the Brady era. Now he’s doing television. Right? Where do you put all of this? Because so much is said, not just about your team not being the best team during the regular season. You win a month without scoring points, and every time I have Stokely home, seems like you played Denver every year. Have him on and we talk about your era. But then there’s just the notion of Joe Flacco era trying to climb that mountain, losing a couple of big games, the kind of kick all the disappointments this team’s getting into that disappointment land now we’re like, my god, if they were to lose it home to the Steelers, is a nine and a half point favorite at home, and your ERA never played these games at home. Yet that one playoff game against Denver, next era, the Flacco thing, was all road show. And you know, Lamar, thinking about Lamar winning in Buffalo next week, thinking about Lamar winning in Kansas City two weeks, thinking about, like, whoever they would get to the Super Bowl. It is a really, sort of hideous path they’ve given themselves this year by losing a couple of games.
Mike Flynn 12:54
Yeah. I mean, I think they played an incredibly tough schedule, and they played really well at times. And sometimes they kind of hit a little plateau, but they played pretty good competition. You look at their schedule, and more importantly, right? It’s easy to look at a schedule at the end of the year, but at the time when they played these teams, whether it was Tampa, you know, they were playing well. They beat the snot out of Buffalo, yeah, that’s what I mean, they were playing well. So, I mean, the ravens are a good team, but certainly it would be disappointing. It always is in the playoffs to begin with. But you know, last year, I think coming off having, you know, the AFC Championship game at home, you didn’t play well. Offense did not play well. You lost that game, right? So anything at this point now you’re like, when’s it going to happen? Right for this group? Because it does seem like that’s third era of the ravens, right? I was there, moved our guys out of there. Ray Lewis was kind of that carryover guy. Then you have, you know, Lamar coming in and that next group, right? This is kind of their time. They got a tough road. But, I mean, I think the ravens are a pretty good football team, certainly, offensively, they’re pretty explosive. Lamar has been great, but you know how it is? I mean, it’s the ear of having a good defense, good quarterback to average quarterback and winning a Super Bowl. It’s it’s almost impossible to do. So to some degree, the idea like, as a quarterback, you’re not good unless you win a Super Bowl. You know, that’s a tough standard to have, but that’s kind of what it is. But it’s a QB center League. He’s been great this year, and he’s going to have to play well, but you got to throw in the playoffs right? When you you’re going to have to play the Steelers, right? They’re going to start. They’re going to figure out a way to stop the run. You’re going to play buffalo Kansas City, right? If they’re going to take that away from you, they’re going to scheme it up, and you’re going to have to beat him throwing the football, you know? So now the health of zay flowers. I mean, that guy’s phenomenal. I remember seeing him up in BC here, and I, you know, I’m not a BC fan, but I would watch that year he, before he got drafted, I just happened to watch a lot of games. I was coaching high school football here. I knew a lot of guys from New England that were playing at BC that kind of connection I’d watch. And every week I’d say, this guy’s something else. And when he was on the board for the ravens, They got him, I said, this kid is going to be phenomenal. And I knew that just from watching a BC and he is losing a guy like that hurts, you know, certainly, how does Lamar adjust with him not there? But yeah, they’re going to have to score points. They’re going to stop the run. Teams will scheme. You may get one game where you just, you know, cream somebody. But like, those teams are good defensively. They’re good and they’re going to say, we’re going to take this away from you. I don’t care what you do, I’m taking it away. And when they do that, you know, can you win from the pocket? Can you win throwing the football? And they’ve done that in the past, where they’ve taken the run away and they haven’t thrown as well. So that’s going to be a challenge, but they’re good football. They’re really good football team. They’re capable of beating anybody in the AFC. They’ve done a lot during the years, the teams, the games that they lost with the browns, the Raiders like real stinkers. And that’s a frustrating part of it, you know, it’s one thing. If you lose into the bills and the chiefs, you know, you lose into the Steelers, and that’s why you don’t get, you know, home field in the first two rounds. But when it’s the browns and the Raiders, stuff like that. It’s a killer. But they’re, you know, but they they played incredibly tough schedule. Played really well against really good teams, so they had a chance. But like I said, you have to prepare. Teams are going to take away the run. What do you do next? Gotta throw the football.
Nestor Aparicio 16:13
You say, take away the run. How are your parents doing? By the way? Because when you’re looking shoes up on a timeline, everybody’s like, I used to drink with his parents in the parking lot, like you too. They were good at
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Mike Flynn 16:23
that. They were legends of the game. If they, if they had legends of the game for drinking fans and parents, oh, they would have been sponsored. They would have been on the Ray Lewis, Jonathan Ogden schedule twice a year. They or if they do come in, they get a Steelers game or something like that. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 16:39
they get their own charity event. For sure, they’re doing well. Your parents are beautiful. Yeah, hang out here. 83 man. 83 so your old man. I love your old man, right? But if, if your old man had gone off the Mars and called me in his great New England accent and said, hey, here the ravens are playing good ball. Tell me about them. I’d say that they have a running back, that the only comparable that I have. And I know you saw Jamal Lewis play a little bit with your son. And I would compare Jamal to Earl Campbell, whom I saw play. And I’m, I’m a legend of the game around here that’s seen them all play, to compare someone to Jim Brown for your father, or my father, who you know would have been under five at this point, but of the era of anyone older than us, of the next generation back to say this guy is comparable to Jim Brown, dude I’ve been on the radio 33 years before you were here, before the team was here. I ain’t never compared anyone to Jim Brown. You know Jim Brown, just in a different category of the kind of there’s not a Jim Brown kind. Eddie George was not a Jim Brown kind. This Derek Henry thing and you being alignment and getting off the bus, I said to Luke this week, I’m like, because we’re talking about losing Corbin burns and baseball and like, what all that means. And I know you’re a big baseball fan as well, but I said, if they have to get off the bus with Derrick Henry this time next year or all year next year, because ain’t no replacing him. We’re not taking Jim Brown out and going to bring in JK Dobbins or whatever. This guy’s unbelievable. He’s a Hall of Famer. He and you’re like, they’re going to take away the run. Go ahead. Try. I try. Well,
Mike Flynn 18:18
I mean, it’s not easy. But, you know, I I’m a firm believer, like with the coaching nowadays, there’s ways you can scheme, and maybe you don’t take it away, but you it loses its effectiveness. But in regards to Derek Henry, yeah, he it’s hard to compare into somebody, because the biggest, you think of a lot of these great backs, even Jamal Lewis, Earl Campbell. And to, you know, this is the first time I was, you know, five feet away from in the game. You know, before the game, his size, I think a guy that big, those guys don’t last long as running backs, the shelf lifes, you know, they run a little run a little bit higher, harder to protect their knees, you know, the higher center grab Christian, the Barry where, yeah, bigger backs and stuff like, they don’t last long. He does Jamal, Jamal being a great example, and bigger back, but still much shorter than Derek Henry, different running style, I think. But yeah, Derek Henry is unique. It’s hard, really, compared to everybody, anybody. So, you know, scheme wise, there’s ways you can maybe limit him. I guess that’s a better way. But I also put Lamar into that category too, right? Limit him for making plays in the running.
Nestor Aparicio 19:27
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One touchdowns, four interceptions, dude, dude.
Mike Flynn 19:29
He’s, you know, I remember, do you remember a few years ago we had a conversation where the do you sign this guy? Is he worth it? And you ask me, and I thought it was one of the most ridiculous questions, and I did it from my eye, saying, Listen, this guy’s a dynamic player. He needs to throw the ball better, but he’s always going to win. And then I looked at it, not only my eyes, and what kind of player was, but I looked at it financially, or not even financially, but just logically, like, Okay, you. If you let him go, Where are you going to get another guy? Right? There’s no other guy like him, and there’s no other guy you can trust in the draft, right? So, and thank God that they resigned him, but he has, he’s that he’s developed over I mean, I think that was when did they sign him? Three years ago? Maybe, yes, yeah. So over those three years, he’s grown dramatically. You know, as a person, as a player, his skill set, yeah, three years ago was the Yeah, yeah, three seasons. So, I mean, of course, yeah. Does he want to win a does he need to win a supershore but he’s a great football player. He’s, he’s the MVP of the league. I know he is, whether he wins it or not. I don’t get all the the push for Josh Allen. They act like, you know, if Lamar was playing for Tennessee and we had me playing quarterback the ravens, the ravens are going to be like, 10 and six. Like, it’s ridiculous. That’s kind of the argument. Like, well, if Josh Allen wasn’t on the bills, I’m like, Oh, really, okay, if Lamar wasn’t here, you know what? I mean, it’s a ridiculous argument to some degree,
Nestor Aparicio 20:56
because you ran for 900 yards. He threw for 4000 yards and threw four interceptions. I, you know, like, I don’t know what else to say. You know,
Mike Flynn 21:06
you can get Baker me field and to some degree, and do what Josh Allen does, right? He’s pretty Yook it. But, yeah, he’s phenomenal. You know, the way he’s playing that. And I really for him, and I told you, he came up to my sons before the game, you know, did not need to do that. Made their year right and humble. Talk to them guys like you want him to win because, you know, deserves, nobody deserves anything this game. You gotta earn it. But you’d like to see him to win because he’s played good enough, and in some moments in the playoffs, he hasn’t. And I’m hoping that this is the year, right? When he’s given that opportunity to make the big plays there, he’ll get it done consistently, right? Not just one or two plays. He gets it done consistently, but the way he’s played all year, he’s been phenomenal. You know, hadn’t seen him live, to watch him in the pocket and the patience and everything like that. And sometimes you scream, I know my son, when he watched he watched it as a fan, you know, like you and I would where you’re like, why isn’t he running dead? Why isn’t he just running like, son, trust me. A, you don’t want me to get hurt, but B, right? There’s something he sees that’s going to open, that’s what you want, because at the end, that’s how he’s going to win. And you know, you have those John Elway moments in the Super Bowl, right, when he finally takes off and he does that helicopter and a B green band on. And there’s going to be moments where he’s going to have to run, and he’ll know when that time is, but his development of the pocket is the key, and I hope it shows here in the playoffs. Oh
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Nestor Aparicio 22:27
man, it’s playoff time. Mike Flynn is here getting everybody fired up coming out for Cleveland as the stalwart you’ve always been a legend to me. You know what I mean? So like,
Mike Flynn 22:38
and a really small subset of the Baltimore Ravens fandom, very glad
Nestor Aparicio 22:43
that the organization has finally come around and realizing that you have been overlooked. And I’ll say this Stoney case called me maybe, yeah, I don’t know. Maybe it was before the plague. It was probably 1718, they were doing this halftime thing where they were quarterbacking, and this is where cadre got hurt and blew his leg out right. Quarterbacking, they were bringing people into quarterback this halftime thing, and it wasn’t lottery sponsor, because they do a pass for cash thing too. And Stoney called me. He’s like, dude, they called me like, I like, I don’t even know that. I didn’t even know that they remembered that I played here, you know. So there’s a point where, like, for all of the rest of you not named Ray Lewis or Ed Reed or John Ogden, who you’ve already brought in, because he’s your real legend that you know, you feel like, well, they remembered me. It’s like the Sally,
Mike Flynn 23:34
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right? It’s the Ray Lewis of the world. The Ed reads, those aren’t the stories the mike Flynn’s the Stoney cases, the mike Fredericks, right, the Eric zyres, the those are the stories. Those you sitting in a back room smoking a cigar with a couple bottles of wine. Those, when you get the good stories, the real football guys, right?
Nestor Aparicio 23:53
I’m writing my own North Dallas 40. It would not be with right? Those are the real stories,
Mike Flynn 23:58
because there’s only so many Ray Lewis and John and I like they could write the real stories of the guys like me, Stoney case, you know, Scott Mitchells, of the world, even he Scott Mitchell a little taste of the high life. It’s gotta be lower than that. You know what I mean, Edwin, molitalos, Jeff Mitchells, those are the back those are the real See, I
Nestor Aparicio 24:15
think the interesting thing is that you have a ring too. So, like, there’s that subset of only the guys with rings. Yeah, better
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Mike Flynn 24:23
than have really guys like me that don’t have a ring. I agree. There’s a
Nestor Aparicio 24:27
lot of guys who don’t have a ring that are nobody lunch pail legends. Get out of here. Don’t tell me what you’re going to do now. You’re going to tutor kids or something, right? You’re not.
Mike Flynn 24:39
No, I got, I got a hockey I got I got a cook dinner and I got hockey. No, I said I was running late today. No, we’re gonna try. So
Nestor Aparicio 24:45
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you’re a chef, you’re a chauffeur, and you know
Mike Flynn 24:49
me, I saw some high school kids in the football team. God forbid I just let them do their own thing. I had to interject myself and teach them how to work out. It’s the kind of guy I am. So I was running a little late.
Nestor Aparicio 24:58
Do they know you want a Super Bowl? Or do they not? But they don’t care. Do
Mike Flynn 25:01
they No, they do. I think they do here it’s I live in a relatively small and
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Nestor Aparicio 25:06
I was thinking, this community needs me, like everybody. You have a reputation and stuff, but it has been 24 years. So when you go back and the kids get on the field, like to me, you’re always a legend. You’re always 62 you still look the same, even though you don’t. We’re all look older if we put pictures together, no, but we’re still us, but like your neighbor, like, that’s the guy that once played in the Super Bowl, and then you show up as that guy for one day again, right? Well, it
Mike Flynn 25:32
was good, and everybody saw it. So, you know, give me a little street cred back. That’s what I’m thinking. Yes, he really did. It helped. Yeah, you know, it helped me. So I
Nestor Aparicio 25:39
probably Summer Picnic season, you’ll get invited over. Mike Flynn is here. He’s got a brood of children. He still eats Costas crab cakes, and because he knows what’s good love your parents tell Mary, I’m not I’m I’m thinking she’s avoiding me. I’m thinking, should I blame it on her? Yes, do that. Okay, um, Mike Flynn, Legend of the game, and if they lose the Pittsburgh this week, I’m never having you on again, because you’ll be bad luck. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, A, M, 15 70,000 Baltimore, a festive us. For the rest of us, stay out of the snow. Beat the Steelers. You.
