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"During your #NFL career, were you ever spit on?" Ninko: That's the ultimate insult right there... Has Ninkovich ever got into a fight? Story time!
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00:00you uh during your nfl career rob nikovich were you ever spit on no that's the ultimate insult
00:06right there that's that's disgusting that's fight because you know when you're playing football you
00:11don't have that it's like that sticky spit you know you're sweating and you're running and it's
00:16like that that's bad and that's why you see those reactions anytime you see someone get spit on it's
00:22a it's a fight it's more of a girl thing too i think really oh wow that's really like in the
00:27real world so suspension for jamar chase justified oh yeah when the spit flies of course and then you
00:37have the fight because you do that then you're getting you're always going to have a scuffle
00:40you're spitting i've never been spit on so thank you yeah for not doing that that's one i think
00:47i've had like two fights in my playing career i was never a fighter because you get so tired
00:51it's one of the most tiring things you get it's like wrestling right because you never really get
00:55a quality shot in unless you take the helmet off i've been in two ryan wendell and uh cannon
01:03marcus cannon did you win uh i won both of those yes cannon cannon grabbed you know i would always
01:10grab or uh grow my beard out during the season this was at the end of the year so he got you
01:14right on that beard and he had it in my jersey and i just that's like one of them pain reflexes you
01:20just go yeah on my fight i was like i'm not because i saw fred baxter i think it might have
01:27been my rookie year and i played with fred baxter at the jets in here and he played for new england
01:31punch a guy and broke his hand and and that was done for the year and do that and harcells was like
01:38you you know like what are you doing you more so when i did get into my fight um in minnesota i said
01:45all right all body shots or just open hand if you open hand palm strike a helmet i didn't even want
01:52to do that you're gonna it rattles it rattles the cage so i went straight body shots i hit him with
01:57like four or five body shots and then what about steve smith when you found him uh steve smith we
02:02never got into we never went came there was always something wrong with steve smith he would always
02:05want to fight i remember him catching a ball over the middle and i'd brush the guy and i hit him with
02:11the shoulder and he got up doing the whole like face smack thing and like you know like he played
02:15angry for this yeah yeah he played angry him and i almost came to blows at the patriots thing but
02:20you know since then i think we've kind of you know so window this was in otas we had this non-padded
02:26practice in otas and he was holding me or something and i was frustrated so i pushed him and then we
02:31started pushing each other and then we got in a fight and the rule was if you get in a fight you have
02:36to run a lap yep so me being a linebacker him being a chubby offensive lineman i'd take off on
02:43my lap and i cruise and i can't let this guy beat me or even come close to me so i'm i'm literally
02:48like sprinting this lap and i get back way too fast so bill looks at me he's like just go again
02:54so the second i run the second lap he's still trying to get me right he can't he can't catch me
02:59right get back for the second lap bill looks at me blows the whistle two minute getting no huddle
03:04that's it like oh that's the worst that is the absolute worst and generally the guy a little
03:09insight to this the guy who starts the fight generally is getting whooped during the play
03:16that's why they get mad and frustrated and they want to fight because they're you know they're
03:21getting their butt whipped at their time which it's kind of weird like you're actually getting
03:25your butt whipped between the whistles now when it's over you want to get mad and you want to fight
03:30but inner team fighting to me is always shocking because then you have to go to a locker room and
03:35happens all the time i mean there's been some crazy fights in the locker room yeah in the locker room
03:40i've seen guys get knocked out like ko'd in a fight really oh yeah college sleep sleepy time
03:49in the locker room are they in the locker room uh no naked
03:52that's the first time were they in the shower were they lathered up what was going on
04:00your head you're like how were they were they were they nude i mean everyone was thinking it
04:05how was before you go how was gronk day oh great great day uh you know that's just a
04:13reflection of gronk um you know one of his close friends unfortunately passes away and one of her
04:18last wishes wishes was for him to retire a patriot so instead of him waiting to get into the pats hall
04:24of fame which is probably coming very soon he decides uh to do that right now which that's just
04:30a reflection of gronk he's the best the one guy i can say from the start the first time i ever met
04:35the guy to now he is the same very humble great dude gives back to the community he did call you out
04:43though yeah he loves to but you know it's because he's average because he's just an average said that
04:47that was the easiest blocking in his life was blocking yeah i can't wait to do this fundraiser
04:51thing he's all in on it so i gotta figure it out yes he wants to do it so i'm gonna drag him out by
04:56the bottom of his feet how are we doing this again it's you so it's it's basically you v him
05:01me and rob mono a mono yep and then we can get you know whatever bar in uh boston thinks they got
05:08the biggest bouncers that can remove people we'll see you know who's trying i thought you guys were
05:12going full helmets no no no no you know he's sitting in the middle he's there and i say listen
05:17you gotta kick somebody the bar's closed sir i gotta get you out you gotta get him out of the
05:21have you ever been to the front porch in a gunkwit no okay we're not doing it there
05:26they have a bouncer there who is the largest man i have ever seen in my life let's get him in the
05:34i was there on saturday night he is enormous winner moves on enormous that's i bet there's
05:40some strong boys and i would know i would not want not want any part of that trying to get throw
05:44anybody out the club anything that's why i took him and threw him out of the club yeah he's huge
05:49i bet he's like six nine bronc's a big man big boy and he's a bronc is getting tired i was a
05:54bouncer a woodland once i could help out big tree fall hard
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