Clay Harbor tells the story of "The Bachelorette"

The former Eagles tight end once injured himself playing a game of football on the reality tv show.

Transcript

00:00but i literally remember going come on what is wrong with this guy all right hey hey let me let

00:05me defend okay let the guy ball out for crazy let's see let me defend myself here right so i've

00:11just finished my eighth year in the league right and um you know i was on ir with the saints look

00:17i'm doing the pose for the i noticed it yeah that's the pose he's letting you know right now

00:20shut your mouth or you're getting it and um so my agent's like yo this this dating show the

00:28best friend it's a popular show you know they've had guys like jesse palmer aaron rogers brother

00:32jordan rogers and like stuff has like come from they're interested in having you come on and i'm

00:37like and he's like they're willing to work with you because they know you're a football player and

00:42whatever and i go a dating show i'm like ah maybe like what's the worst that could happen i'll be

00:46dating you're not not even a second flash in my head that i think okay there's a chance i could

00:51get hurt i broke my wrist and my toe in the same game first game of the year with the saints

00:56and uh rehabbed it rehabbed it ready to go and um go on the bachelorette and i'm saying okay what

01:04the heck what's the worst that could happen going on the bachelorette so go on there and in the third

01:10day of course they want to get the professional football player playing football against the uh

01:13the male model and the in the dictionary salesman over there this would be funny this would be some

01:18good tv i go guys i am not gonna play football they give us like hockey pads and i go i'm not gonna

01:23so i'm playing quarterback yeah i'm not a great quarterback and we're ended up at the end of the

01:27game we're tied okay we're tied playing this game on tv i'm playing quarterbacks i don't want to

01:32just tackle football it's tackle football yeah and against the male model and a dictionary salesman

01:38and whatever else these guys do and uh end of the game i'm like damn i'm not completing these passes

01:44i'm throwing to uh you know i didn't have the best receiving court in the world that's that's my

01:48excuse i mean these guys are dropping ball hitting off a guy's head these guys aren't football players

01:52so i go okay throw me the ball at this last drive i'm gonna go down and score and just you know

01:58whatever you know i'm just gonna make sure so i they throw me the ball a couple times and i end up

02:03going down in the last play like this isn't scripted i go into the end zone and i stiff arm this guy i can

02:09demonstrate right here

02:10no no don't don't

02:12no don't do it freaking key

02:14are you serious

02:15no please everyone say pick up the cancer page because i don't know what you're talking about

02:18because show me this

02:19yeah so i stiff arm this guy and as soon as i do it i go yeah they never fix my wrist

02:25oh no and you can see right here you know i got oh that is nasty yeah i got a couple surgeons

02:30and i ended up it never fixed so i had to leave and go get surgery on my wrist

02:35and um i'll tell you guys the rest of the story because i ended up having workouts the next year

02:40i'm on the field with the buffalo bills brian dable sean mcdermott

02:43end up tearing my groin the next year and you could have done that in the bachelorette too in another

02:49way exactly exactly i know you guys are uh pushing the don't touch it yeah yeah

02:55first month's free

02:59exactly that's a colorful life though i mean it's a that's a i'll have a lot of stories to tell my

03:06mom wants me to have if i ever have kids one day i'll have a lot of stories to tell

03:10at the dinner table with my grandkids and you know my kids sitting around pull up a chair

03:15we're going to