
RR: Now that was a time when Tampa Bay, the Tampa Bay Buchaneers and and they had no tradition. They didn’t have any tradition of winning or losing, it was a new team. And so they started their own tradition, which at that time was lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose. Now here’s a young man who won in high school, he was a star with the University of Michigan, the first round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers, win, win, win, win, win, go to the Super formed Seattle Seahawks, and suddenly it all comes crashing down around you. What happened to you while you were there?
DB: Well, no question, it was definitely different and I don’t think it had an effect on my character and I believed I still was a very, very fine, I was the best football player in my position. But again, I realized that it wasn’t just because of my ability I was able to do the things that I was, that I did. I’d been very fortunate to have not ever missed a game of football in high school and in college, and my first year in professional football I missed one game. And since that point I’ve only missed, I’ve missed six games. I broke my leg in 1981. But there was a guy who was on our football team, because at that point in time every team in the National Football League had put 13 players on a list and I was chosen off that list. So we had guys from just about all the other 26 teams in the league. And there was one guy in particular that I watched, because we had a group of guys on the team that they were different. One guy in particular, he just seemed to have a smile on his face all the time, seemed to have something different. And I watched him and he received an injury and his career was ended, and just because of his witness when he had the injury and all during the time when he rehabilitate his knee and his career was ended–
RR: What was his name?
DB: His name was Kent Hutchison.
RR: And his witness had an effect upon you?
DB: No question about it.