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00:00Hello everyone, once again it's Adam Kaplan here with Danny Wuerffel. Good to see you, Danny. It's been a couple years, my friend.
00:07It's been a bit. Great to be with you.
00:08Good to be with you, my friend. So, first of all, what brings you to our fine town here for the Super Bowl? What brings you here?
00:14Well, this is my kind of hometown-ish from playing with the Saints, so it's great to be back for an event.
00:20So, the Wuerffel Foundation, part of my goal in life is to sort of leverage sports to do good in the world, create community service, create some unity and so forth.
00:28And I'm partnering up recently with a group called IS Nation, and they're developing an online platform using sports to develop relationships among especially youth athletes.
00:40And it's kind of like an alternative to a lot of the negative social media stuff you'll see. It's been a lot of positive stuff, and they're teaming up.
00:47The NFL Alumni Association, Kyle Richardson started Huddle for Health, which is a way of kind of creating opportunities for health resources, campaigns.
00:57And so, they're going to run a lot of the Huddle for Health stuff on the IS Nation. So, just another effort to do some good in the world.
01:04So, have you been to Radio Row? I'm sorry, Media Row now. Have you been to Media Row before?
01:09Not at the Super Bowl, no.
01:10Really? It's your first one?
01:11No, no. Some other events, but not quite like this.
01:13Okay. So, let's turn our attention to football. You're playing monster games, huge games as a collegiate.
01:19And now, obviously, you play in the NFL, and this is the Super Bowl. This is the big daddy of them all.
01:26Just in terms of when you played in big games leading up to that game, what was the week like?
01:31Were you a guy that got butterflies? Did you get nervous? Were you like, you know what? I've been in big games. I'll be fine.
01:35How do you handle with all the hype during the week?
01:38I think one of the challenges is sometimes in certain places of your life, you need to sort of amp up some energy.
01:44But in something like this, you don't need to amp it up. You want to make it as normal as it is.
01:49You want it to feel like a normal week as much as you can.
01:52Everything else is not normal. Everything else is crazy and hype.
01:55But you want to, as best you can, have a regular practice schedule.
01:59You want to be focused on the things that you're doing. Try to get all the media stuff as much as you can out early.
02:04And really not pay attention to any of the extra circus, because what matters is what's happening on the field that day.
02:12All right. He said it best. You've got to limit the distractions, get ready for the game.
02:16For Danny Werfel, I'm Adam Kaplan.