15 year anniversary of Channing Crowder retiring from the NFL - a look back at his final season

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A look back at Crowder's decision to retire from the NFL following the 2010 season with the Miami Dolphins.

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00:00You mentioned that this is the 10-year anniversary,

00:02or yesterday was, of you and Crowder becoming radio partners.

00:06Hawk and Crowder.

00:08Well, August 9th is the 15-year anniversary

00:13of Channing Crowder retiring from football,

00:16officially, from the NFL.

00:19Wow.

00:2010 years.

00:21And what year was that?

00:2215 years ago?

00:23Yeah, 2010, right?

00:24He retired in 2010.

00:25Wow.

00:26Isn't that when you lost your virginity?

00:28So you have been retired.

00:30I wish.

00:31You wish?

00:32He was like 15 years old.

00:3314, bro.

00:35I would have paid anything to lose my virginity in 2010.

00:40I retired from football for over 15 years.

00:45Yep.

00:45I've been married 15 years, and yeah.

00:48And I retired on Sid Rosenberg's show.

00:52Oh, I announced it on Sid Rosenberg's show.

00:54That was your big reveal?

00:57Yeah, yeah.

00:58Didn't really go the way I thought it would.

01:02Okay, buddy.

01:03Sounds good.

01:03Oh, so we're going to get to.

01:09We're just going to move on.

01:10Anyway, I was listening to Crackhead Bob on the Stern show.

01:13We moved past it very swiftly.

01:18Do you want to hear your stats in your final NFL career in 2010?

01:26How about his final NFL game?

01:28Do we have?

01:28Oh, I don't do that one.

01:30Were you effective in your last year at all, or did your play fall off?

01:33I don't honestly know.

01:34Not according to these stats.

01:37I know I was top.

01:38I was always like one or two in tackles on the team.

01:42Maybe.

01:47Sort of.

01:50Final NFL game in Green Bay.

01:55You know who was against Crowder?

01:55Oh, Green Bay.

01:56Oh, no, no.

01:58It wasn't.

01:59It wasn't.

01:59Green Bay was earlier in the season.

02:02Final NFL game.

02:03Do you want to guess?

02:04Final NFL game.

02:08It was a division opponent because that's when they went to that divisional thing.

02:12The Patriots?

02:13It was, yeah.

02:14Against the New England Patriots.

02:15Did you know it was your final game then?

02:17I didn't.

02:18I didn't know they wouldn't cut me.

02:19I didn't know they asked me to take a pay cut.

02:21The offseason was surprising to me.

02:24And then I didn't plan to retire until they were paying me to do nothing.

02:28Kind of like the radio station you talked about earlier.

02:30Once I get paid to do nothing, I'm not going to do anything.

02:37Well, the Miami Dolphins, their third consecutive loss to end the season, a 38-7 loss to the

02:45New England Patriots.

02:46Thanks, Crowder.

02:48And you had a total of four solo tackles in that game.

02:54In fairness, though, Cleo Lemon said, just keep them under 40 and I'll take care of the

02:57rest.

03:00All you gave us was 10, big homie?

03:05In 2010, you played 11 games total.

03:08Mm-hmm.

03:10You had 39 total tackles.

03:12Oh, my goodness.

03:1333 were solo and six were assisted tackles.

03:18You see how I take that?

03:19I didn't need no help tackling nobody.

03:20See, if I grabbed you, you were going to the ground.

03:23Well, apparently, just based on the number of tackles you had for the entire season,

03:26the reason you didn't have any help is because no one else was as out of position as you.

03:32I was getting to them twice a game, Hawk.

03:35Twice a game, I was going to be somewhere around that ball.

03:39In 2008, man, 113 tackles.

03:43Yeah.

03:4308, 08, 08's the year that got me paid.

03:46Yeah.

03:47Yeah, that was the playoff year.

03:48That's when they gave my money.

03:50Was it what happened?

03:50I'm being honest.

03:51What happened?

03:52In just injuries?

03:55Oh, with the football?

03:56Yeah.

03:57Well, how do you go from 100 and something plus tackles to 30?

04:00Then they moved me back to Mike, and then Sleazy came in, Dansby,

04:06and they moved him to the wheel and just let him run,

04:09and they just had me hitting damn guards all day.

04:11I hated the last couple years of my career.

04:13Yeah, that can't be fun.

04:15Because the defense sucked.

04:16I balled in Saban's defense and Dom Capers' defense.

04:20Then when they brought Sperano and them in, we tried to do it,

04:24and then it just, yeah.

04:25And I started getting old and hurt and rich.

04:28You coming in early?

04:35Nah, gee, I'm just chilling.

04:37I'm just kidding after a while.

04:40Yeah, because you played 15 games in 08.

04:42Then you played 13 in 09.

04:44You only had 51 tackles that season.

04:46That's a pretty precipitous dropout.

04:48I was an arbinger of things to come.

04:51Yeah, what was nine?

04:52Oh, you know what?

04:53That's nine is when I tore my foot up.

04:56You know what, Hawk, to answer your question,

04:58I think after I had the Liz Frank.

05:00It was an injury.

05:01I slowed down.

05:03Because 09 was the Liz Frank against Houston.

05:06I would imagine.

05:07That big, raggedy, stinking guard.

05:09That big center.

05:1155.

05:12Toed my foot up.

05:13And I think that was the beginning of the end.

05:15I would imagine you could look at most players

05:16who retire early and see, just statistically,

05:21a major drop-off if they've suffered numerous injuries.

05:25I mean, how would it be possible to play at the same level?

05:29You ask.

05:30I think it was that foot injury in 09.

05:32And I was like, yeah, I'm just not running like I used to run.

05:35That's what I got.

05:36And then I had the hernia.

05:38That's what I had to do, rubbing a watermelon on my stomach.

05:42And yeah, it was downhill from there.

05:44You had to rub a watermelon on your stomach?

05:50Remember, you went to see the Centero?

05:52I got a, I got like a.

05:54You did.

05:55You went to see the Centero, yeah.

05:57I got a Centero doctor.

05:59And he would put ground up.

06:01He'd put honey and ground up eggshells on my injuries.

06:06And rub a watermelon.

06:08And like the watermelon would be covered in honey and eggshells.

06:11And the poison, like the evil, was stuck in the watermelon.

06:16And we'd take it out and put it on outgoing tide into the ocean to pull the evil out of my body.

06:23Oh, so he had to suck out the poison.

06:28You think I'm playing.

06:30We used to go by Fort Lauderdale Airport.

06:32And we'd make sure it was outgoing tide because the energy of the earth would now take the evil out of my injury out into the ocean.

06:40Mr. Crowder, we are going to suck out the poison.

06:45Ain't you.

06:48It didn't work.

06:49I had 39 tackles in 11 games.

06:52Good grief.

06:53I love how you say that as if we didn't know the outcome even before the season started.

06:58It didn't work.

06:59Oh, it didn't?

07:01Huh.

07:01Because the story had me believing that you were headed towards a Pro Bowl season.

07:06I thought the evil was in the watermelon.

07:11Sir, we must suck out the poison.

07:15I'm glad I didn't take a pay cut.

07:16I was going to be terrible 12.

07:18Goodness gracious.

07:20I'm glad I didn't take a pay cut.

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