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From Gridiron to Corporate Office: Lance Funderburk's Inspiring Story of Football and Success
Drumroll, please, as we welcome Lance Funderburk, a former Valdosta State University football player and now a corporate highflyer! In this compelling episode, we uncover Lance's unique journey from the football field to the world of sales. He shares exploits of playing in the Air Raid offense under legendary Coach Hal Mumme, transitioning from his high school's Wing-T offense. Tune in for a deep-dive into Lance's intriguing recruitment journey in the '90s that involved VHS tapes and hand-written letters - a far cry from today's social media-driven process.
Fasten your seatbelts as we proceed to Lance's NFL journey, revealing the camaraderie in the locker room and the evolution of sports culture over the years. Experience the demanding yet formative coaching style of Coach Mumme and Coach Tom Coughlin through Lance's eyes. Relive Lance's time as a pocket passer on the team, and grasp the profound impact of these experiences on his life.
As we round off this riveting episode, Lance shares his corporate journey post-football, from his transition into the corporate world to his current role as the Area Vice President for the Eastern US for Boston Scientific. Lance details how his experiences as an athlete have paved the way for his corporate success. We also indulge in Lance's gratitude for being inducted into the Valdosta State University Hall of Fame and richly deserved accolades to Coach Hal Mumme. Don't miss out on this inspiring episode that encapsulates a resounding tribute to football and an incredible journey of perseverance and success.
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Welcome everybody to another episode of the Ride Home Rants podcast. This is, as always, your host, mike Bono. I have a great episode for us today A grist, a great guest coming to us all the way, given to us from legendary football coach Howe mommy, we're gonna get into all of that with him. Lance Thunderburke joins the show. Lance, thanks for joining. Hey, mike, great to be here. Thanks for having me. Hey, not a problem. So, first and foremost, for some of the newer listeners out there that maybe don't know about you and what you've done in the past, you know, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I played at Vellasus State University we're coach Howe mommy, as you mentioned, and the late coach Mike Leach and had a great experience there. I played there from 1992 to 1996. Under coach mommy I was the first recruit. He signed about us at State University and I played in his last game as coach there about us at State University. So had a great career, a lot of fun. I grew up in a little small town in South Georgia and played in a wingtea offense. We ran the football a lot and they showed up in my living room and back then it was VHS. They popped in the VHS tape and I saw the offense that they were bringing from Iowa Wesleyan and they were throwing the ball over the yard spreading it out. I thought, yeah, I'd like to be a part of that, being a quarterback being able to be a part of that offense was pretty unique.
Speaker 2:So spent four years there playing in that program or, excuse me, five years playing in that program and then had the opportunity to play. After that I signed a free-agent contract with the Jaguars in 1997. I went through training camp, was released by them, unfortunately. Spent the next year playing in Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alamettes. And then I did a stint in the Arena Football League for about four years and had a lot of fun. I was with Kurt Warner, I was coming out on the scene, he had just come out of the Arena League, went to the NFL on the MVP, so I thought, well, maybe I should take a look at this league. So played in the Arena Football League for four years and then six years in. You know you're chasing the dream, trying to get back to an NFL camp, and at that point it was six years in. I was having fun.
Speaker 3:But I was married, had a kid.
Speaker 2:I thought you know it's probably time to go get a real job, but it was a great experience. Chased it for six years and had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:I can relate to that, I guess a little bit being a comedian. You know you're on the road, a lot kind of like a professional athlete. You know going to different games, different cities, you know prepared for that and everything like that. But you know, when you got a family back home it's tough to keep doing that. But you know, luckily, you know, I have a wonderful wife and son who supports the dream and we're going to keep rolling with that too as well. So you know I definitely get that part of it. So I know you mentioned, you know, popping in the VHS tape and showing, you know the little bit of what, the offense and the airway, that how mommy was going to do. So what else was like the recruiting process, like other than that? You know, coming out of high school, moving into college, so what was kind of like your recruiting process?
Speaker 2:Yeah, great question, it's interesting. So I have two boys, I have four kids, I have two daughters and two sons. I've gone through the recruiting process with both of my boys. One signed a plate football at Samford as a freshman last year and then the other ones are junior and high school and he's going through the recruiting process now. And so what I will say is it is nothing like it was back then, right With Twitter and social media, the access that these coaches have to these players through huddle and things like that, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2:So back then I was just telling my son last week I was like we had to literally take VHS tapes and mail them to college and you know that was our communication and you'd get handwritten letters. You get letters in the mail, you get the occasional phone call, but it was much harder to access, right, the coaches and then access you back in the early 90s. So it looked completely different. I had quite a few ACC schools and SEC schools that recruited me, some FCS schools or one double A back then. But unfortunately we weren't very good in high school. We won 11 games in four years and so there wasn't a huge market for, you know, four, six, 40 quarterbacks that had an average arm that won 11 games in four years. So you know my options ended up being I had some offers East Tennessee State, prestigeering College, velasquez State, had a walk on opportunity at University of Florida but I'm a bulldog and so I would never imagine going to play for the Florida Gators. So you know it was.
Speaker 2:As I look back now, it was my dream to play in the SEC again. I grew up a bulldog, wanted to play between the edges in San Francisco, but that didn't work out. I'm a person of faith and I look back now and I just see how God had a hand in kind. Every single step I took and ended up going about us in state having a great career met my life in the rest of history right. So you look back at the recruiting process and how it took form. Was I disappointed? Probably at times. I think every kid dreams of playing division one, a football or a powered five football, but it wasn't in the cards. But, man, I could have never imagined the experience I would have playing for those guys and what it set me up for for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, when I went through a recruiting process albeit it was for swimming, not football I did play football in high school but swimming was always my better sport and I had a lot of D one schools looking at me and what that recruiting process was like in the early 2000s and it was still kinda. You still kinda got the letters. You still kinda got the phone calls it was texts too as well. But it was a lot different and I had a dream school, west Virginia, mountaineer through and through, and ended up getting hurt playing football my senior year and it just so happened to be a shoulder injury. So they're not gonna take a chance on a swimmer with a bum shoulder. That's kind of our bread and butter. But everybody but a little D three school in West Virginia dropped their scholarship. And you kinda have those dreams of going to the D one schools, especially your dream school. I talked all through high school. You know I'm gonna be wearing blue and gold. It's gonna be blue and gold. I'm a Mountaineer, I live in the middle of Ohio State country right now and I hate it, but it's to the point where it bums you out. I can see what you're saying and not wanting to go and play for Florida and playing for arrival. I would never do it If Marshall would have kept us. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't go to Marshall, I can't do it. So I get it and you take the path that is laid for you and worked out.
Speaker 1:Had a chance at the 2012 Olympics and fate had it again re-injured the safe shoulder in the middle of a race. But it wasn't in the cards. And I'm wife, kids now too as well myself, and a happy 11 year veteran of doing standup comedy. So it's it's all too much to work out, right? Yeah, it all works out in the end, but you must have some memorable moments playing for coach Mummy as a quarterback and everything like that with that air raid offense. So I believe you were selected in the 72nd annual East West Shrine game, so can you take us through a little bit of?
Speaker 2:that yeah yeah, so playing in that offense, I was a backup. My freshman year worked my way into the backup role, played as a freshman and sophomore. The guy who was ahead of me is Chris Hatcher. He's actually now the head coach at Samford University. And so Harold came to me and just said, hey, let's red-shirt your junior year to give you another year between you and Chris. And so I said that's not like a great plan. So was a backup. My first two years red-shirted.
Speaker 2:My junior year ran scout team and had a lot of fun beating up on our first team defense and then that gave me two years as a starter and it was a great decision, great foresight by Coach Momey to think through like how do we get the most out of one answer and his talent and it was to give me another year and so great experience. We averaged so in the ball probably 40, 40 times a game, which at that time was kind of unheard of. We used the passing game as an extension of the running game. We did a lot with quick screens and quick game and we wanted to make. Coach Momey used to talk about making them defend the entire field and what we did? We spread it out and we also every year had a thousand yard rush. So I think a lot of people don't understand that in a high profile air raid attack, that the rushing game still is a critical part of what you're doing, what you're trying to accomplish. And so what would happen is we'd start spreading people out and they'd get people out of the box and then we'd hit them with runs and then they'd start creeping back in the box. We'd get back outside with the pass. So very, very intuitive. Coach Momey was a gosh. He was one of the best offensive minds I've ever been around.
Speaker 2:Like I say, I had the privilege of playing after college for several years and just the things that he would think through would be let's make it simple, we didn't have a big playbook. Quite frankly, we didn't even have a playbook, and I was shocked when I got to campus and I asked for a playbook, he said, yeah, we don't have it. We got 10 plays. I'm like 10 plays is a college football. I would think you'd have a couple hundred. He said, nope, we had 10 plays. And then we're going to master these concepts and that's what we did. We wrapped it, we wrapped it, we wrapped it. Now we had variations off of those 10 plays, but I learned a ton from him.
Speaker 2:I again knew a little bit about playing quarterback when I got there. I understood, you know how to read defenses and what are pre-snap keys, and by my senior year he literally would give me a formation and would allow me to call part of the game, and that made it incredibly fun. Right as I, you know, we would prep there in the week doing field study and he'd say, hey, here's what we're going to see and here's the two or three things we want to think about. And so we developed that relationship and that trust where we get into the flow of the game and I could check out of any play at any time and you would never question it.
Speaker 2:Now, if I threw an interception, he'd get in my ear and he'd let me know that was a really dumb jack or dumb play. But you know he would. He empowered me as a quarterback, which I think that's why his quarterbacks have a lot of successes because we were the, we were the coach on the field and we could see what was happening in real time. And so he trusted us and he empowered us to lead in that way. So it was a ton of fun you know it wasn't always easy because mama was very demanding.
Speaker 2:He was a demanding coach and we laugh. Now. I've got a lot of funny stories that I won't share on this podcast. We're inappropriate, but the way he used to motivate us. You're laughing. You're about to say something there.
Speaker 1:I was. We're not afraid of you, know Language or anything like that on this door what you're on the ranting podcast Tell one story we were.
Speaker 2:It was a homecoming game my junior year as a team. We should should be beating and they were hanging around. Like you know. Much closer game that should have been. There was a half-time and A production and, broken down, I'd scrambled out of the pocket and I was not known for running. If I was running, there was only two things that were gonna happen. They were both pretty bad. Right, you didn't want me running. I was a pocket passer. It was six, five, two, twenty five and I love to stay between the tackles. But I had broken out of the pocket and we're on about the ten yard one and I saw my guy flash open in the back of the end zone and I threw it. I didn't see a linebacker at undercut and he goes up high to catch the ball and he should have been, should have intercepted it. I tips it and it bounces back to my guy and score right. So we got lucky. And I come running off the field and and he said you know what the after you thinking.
Speaker 3:I'm like well, coach, you know what this is like. Why don't care, he's like you. Ever do that again. You wish you were never born.
Speaker 2:All right, I went on to the sideline. But you know he was like, he was a fun coach, he was emotional, he demanded excellence and he didn't mind getting your ear too.
Speaker 1:No, you don't see those coaches too often anymore, those you know hard nose in your face kind of coaches, and I think that's what sports is missing, you know nowadays, especially in football. You know I've watched a lot of it. I love the sport, you know, I've studied it and you know obviously I played four years in high school and everything like that Got to learn a lot of other teams offenses. I was the habitual backup and always did. I didn't play quarterback, but I was always the scout team quarterback and I don't know, so I guess I've experienced, you know, under center and everything like that.
Speaker 1:But you know it's, you know it's, it's a great game. But I always had this coach, even as the scout team quarterback they would. They were getting on me for messing up either the other teams cadence and or messing up a play that they were running. They get our number ones ready and you know, I remember that growing up and I just thought that was normal. And I see it now and it's like I don't, I don't, this doesn't coaching to me. You know what I mean. I do see that in the game at all. Anyway, watching it a little bit, you know, having the experience of playing, yeah, you know, I would concur.
Speaker 2:I'm not in the locker room anymore, obviously I do miss that. People ask me all the time what would he really miss the most about playing? I think it's the camaraderie. Just certainly I missed X's and O's and lights on Saturdays or Sundays, but I miss the camaraderie. But yeah, you know I, I do think that there is some of that that's gone from the game.
Speaker 2:Like I said, I how was a great coach but he demanded excellence and and you had a proper Was. Yeah, you knew it was. It was time to go to work and it was about business and he was very detailed in the way our practices were and you know, and if you screwed up, he didn't mind letting you know and but he also loved on you too, right he would. He would affirm you and praise you when you did well, but there was no parsing any words and I do. I think it's there. You know, today, or some of that I'm missing in the game. I do again, I'm not my practices and and in the locker rooms, but I feel like In general, culturally, we may have gotten a little softer. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Who'd agree? Because I mean you spent time in various pro leagues and like that. Like you said earlier, you know you played for the Jacksonville Jaguars under the. You know the legendary coach, tom Coughlin, you know so what kind of what was that like? And through the pro journey a little bit, you know the with Coughlin. And then you know the CFL and the AFL and everything like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a. It was a different world now. Coach mummy, in my experience playing for him prepared me because Coughlin was a very similar coach and Coughlin was older, very, I would say, militant, militaristic approach. Right, it was, if you're five minutes earlier, your late type deal and he wrote us his rookie so very hard. I mean, he was relentless on the rookies and that was just. You know, you kind of knew that going in and you taught some of the veterans and you'd ask you know, does this ever get better? And they're like, yeah, if you make the team and and and you're a contributor, it does get better. But you know, again, he was a guy that was, you know, high attention to detail and have been very successful. You know, boston College and then in the NFL, think his second or third year, they won the win. Today I see championship game, you know, as an expansion team, which was all you know. It's almost unheard of to have to assess that early, but I think a lot of it was because he ran such a tight program. But I'd be, I'd be lying, I said I loved it.
Speaker 2:You know there were days on my band this sucks, you know, one day I I was practicing that. I was there when Mark were now was there. You know everybody probably remembers that name all broke over back for years in the league and another guy named Rob Johnson Was the backup and he played the league for the Bills and the Redskins after he left Jacksonville. So I was competing for for 30 of the third spot and we're a practice one day and they try and means was was the running back and he had just run a little flare route and he was wide open and I missed them. You know, just kind of put it out on the edge of his fingertips. You know what wasn't a great bottle. And I get back to the bottle and Tom Coughlin says you know, well, I'm gonna get get over here and he said well, you see all those reporters over there.
Speaker 3:I'm like, yeah, coach is like every single day they're asking me how's Thunderbird doing house, thunderbird, thunderbird, this Thunderbird. That is like, what do you want me to tell? I'm like, coach, I guess, tell him the truth. He said you want me to tell him you can't hit a bull in the ass with a base fiddle. He's like get your ass in the huddle, stop making bad throws like yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was one of many Tom conference stories. But I learned to. You know, respect the NFL, that game. You know it's a job. This right guys at top of the game. Less than one percent of the people get that opportunity and I earn a new respect for it. Go into work and you know it's still a game and you're having fun. But but it's a job it is absolutely a job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I had a Buddy of mine you know I'm still real close with, we still talk daily and everything like that. He, you know, went to little old D3 Bethany College, like me, and he was the running back for our team and he was consistently in a thousand yard rusher for the four years that he was there and His freshman year he took over five games into a 10 game season and still rushed for a thousand yards Like he was. He's a very good player and athlete. He even, you know, tried to do the whole like walk-on open tryouts for certain teams. The Ravens was one of them and I believe I believe it was the bangles of Browns, I know it was a high-o team, can't remember which one and they were like, I mean, you're good but you don't have the size that they're looking for to run it back.
Speaker 1:And he's a pretty big boy, you know. I mean Size-wise, I mean he's probably six foot, maybe 250, but he's solid, you know, and this fast and catch can run and you know it. To see how him, you know, you know I, as the sports director at my college, got to announce all of his games and seeing him and seeing him run and what he could do, and it's like they think you're too small, like you, you're not good enough for like the practice squad, even like they're like they don't want that. I was like man, how could you got a B to be in the NFL? You know they just it opens your eyes to a lot of things. Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 2:Somebody was I don't talk about it a lot but if somebody asked me, I was here some stories and experiences. But somebody asked me within the last month, what was it like, you know, from, from a level of Athlete you know and I described. I played in, you know, but I was in the division to school. Now we were, I'd say, we're the Alabama Division. Two were really good and, you know, played at a really high level.
Speaker 2:But when you find up on a Saturday, there were there were a lot of good athletes, a couple of great athletes, right, and then you know, you get to the NFL, there's, you know, just, I mean, the level of talent is off the chart, right, there's not any good athletes, there's not any great athletes.
Speaker 2:They are a world-class athlete, they are best of the best at every single position. And so for me that, jump to your point with your friend, they go, yeah, he's the best on the field, right hands down, and I was prototypical 6, 5 to 25, that a really good arm Put up great stats through for 4200 yards my senior year. And so you know it was all there physically. But when you get on that field in the NFL, it is a different game because every single person is Elite at their position Elite size, elite speed, elite mental toughness, and so, yeah, it was a huge job. I mean, even from guys that play power five football is still a big job because, if you think about it, the guys are lining up in the SEC and ACC or big 10 Pack 12 every week. There's only two or three of those guys on every Starting 11 that will make it in the NFL, right? So just think about that. Even at that level, it's another, another step up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's crazy to like Dive into it and think about it that way, but you know, after you're playing days were done, you were also inducted into the well out of state Hall of Fame. So what was that like?
Speaker 2:Yeah that was pretty cool. That was. That was a great honor. You know, when I remember I got that call that had been inducted, it was. It was a surprise but a great honor and it was. I was able to bring my kids back and my family and it was a really neat event. You know, of course I tell my kids how good I was, but they don't believe that. But you know it was a really special, unique experience and to be a part of those early teams of us at State University to help build a foundation and be part of setting. You know we never want to. I was there and I was 15 years, they went for class, 20 years they went for. So you know the thing that you were a part of kind of building some of that success and the building blocks of a program.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, that's just got to be a surreal experience to look back and you know, now you're you could say you're a Hall of Famer. You know what I mean? I mean that you'll never be able to, they'll never be able to take that away from you and you know. Kudos to you for being able to do that. That's an awesome Accompaniment, and being able to share it with your family too, that's what I don't think a lot of these athletes are Able to once they get inducted into their you know colleges, hall of Fame and stuff like that. So that's got to be, you know, great. But you know football is over. So tell everybody, what are you doing now for a career?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So as soon as I finished place I mentioned I chased that dream for six years. I say, if I did the tour of leagues through all the leagues that were available at that time and Six years in, I decided, you know, getting back to an NFL camp probably won't happen. So I just decided, you know, it's probably time to walk away. I had you know. I think I mentioned I was married, I had my first daughter and I was a pre-med biology major in college and thought, hey, I'm going to go to medical school and be a doctor. But I decided against that. I was 28.
Speaker 2:So I had some friends that were in the medical device field and a lot interest in health care. So I started looking around at pharmaceutical and and medical device jobs and landed a job I should have never gotten, honestly and there's no sales experience, but it was with a. I live in metro Atlanta now and the company was based out of metro Atlanta and a friend of a friend told me hey, you should talk to this guy and so Call the guy of the blue. And Fortunately there were huge football fans. It was a small company and the guy who was the president of the company at that time was Bill Peterson. Bill Peterson's dad was the head football coach of Florida State, part of Bobby Powell, so Bill Peterson's team. So there was a whole lot of football in their, in their company. And so they looked at my resume and so they looked at my resume and, again, I should have never got the job. But they like me as a person.
Speaker 2:I like my personality but I like my background with a poor back and playing football. So they gave me a job and I started in sales here in Metro Atlanta and over the last 20 years I've kind of worked my way up into a regional manager job and then moved into a vice president of sales job nationally and now I work for a company called Boston Scientific. That is a company based on a Mark Marlboro Mathematicius and I've been with them for about five years and I'm the area vice president for the Eastern US, so kind of east of the Mississippi I'm responsible for, say, those who might be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome. And I've always said, you know, I'd rather be lucky than good, especially when it comes to jobs. You know I'm doing state of comedy 11 years, but you know I still work a day job too as well. And I've been in sales. You know, somebody knew somebody right when I graduated. You know, just because you graduated, those student loans don't, don't wait till you find a job. So you know it was.
Speaker 1:You know it's kind of they're like well, it's Verizon, it's sales. I mean, you got a pretty good personality. You know you were an athlete, so you have kind of that mentality of you know wanting to beat a goal and stuff like that. So you know, and well, hold on, I've been in sales, you know, 11 years. You know this is as long as I've been doing comedy. So you know it's because, like you said, a friend of a friend, new person at Verizon that was looking to hire a sales rep, and you know I've sold everything except for pharmaceuticals and houses. It seems like you know. You know you work through that and you know he find the right fit and I think I have. You know, I sell sheds for the Amish now, which is awesome. But yeah, you know sales. I don't think a lot of people it correlates to being an athlete too as well, because there's always goals you have to be and you could always move up, and I don't think people see the correlation with that, do you yeah?
Speaker 2:Now you know, and it's interesting, we I would say we in the medical device industry. You know a lot of people, a lot of people, and we are drawn to ex-athletes. I mean there's something to be said, much like you just mentioned with if someone was a high school athlete but in particular a college athlete or maybe even a professional athlete, you know they typically not always, but typically have the right motivation, drive, determination, work ethic that you're looking for right. And so if you've got a half personality and no other link to people that usually shines to an interview. You know military and ex-athletes.
Speaker 2:It's I don't want to say I've never hired someone that was an ex-athlete or military. That didn't work out, but it is almost bill-proof because you are getting those people with those qualities, that winning spirit, that desire to compete. Again, you're competing every day against a number, against. You know others in the company and there's a school board up there. You know, when you see that you're 95% of the plan and your buddy's over there 105% of the plan, you know those competitive juices get flowing. So as sales leaders we try to keep that competitive nature going as well. But yeah, it's rare that we hire someone from that background that doesn't have success.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's funny because, you know, I don't think my company knew what they were in for when they got me, because I like that inner company competition, you know what I mean. There was another sales rep. He's always been the top dog and they asked me like so what's your goal now that you started? We opened up this brand new lot. It's yours, blah, blah, blah. And what's your goal?
Speaker 1:I went to beat Shane. He's like take out the top dog and we have message boards and all this and we're always, you know, taking shots at each other and just having fun, you know, and just pushing each other to be better. And, like you said, you know beating numbers. And he was like oh well, your numbers don't match my numbers and it's like well, yeah, you're a bigger lot, but I'm also 151% to my goal for the year. Where are you at for your? You know your goal? I was like a little bit, you know, a little razzling, but you know it's all good fun and my sales manager absolutely loves it, like he's always on because he could see the message boards and that, and he's always firing back and making it like it's just, it's a lot of fun and I don't think people really realize you can have a lot of fun in a sales job.
Speaker 2:No doubt.
Speaker 1:No doubt.
Speaker 1:But, lance, we are running down near the end of the episode here. I do have to get this segment in, if not the manager of the podcast will kill me. And it is the fast fitty five, five random questions from the wonderful manager of the podcast, johnny Fitty Falcone. And I gotta tell you, lance, these have nothing to do with what we've been talking about for the entirety of the third. These are kind of rapid fire, but you can explain if you, if you have to, if you're ready, all right, let's go, all right, let's go. Our good floor is no question. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Number two when is it better to have a Friday night wedding during the summer months or during the winter months?
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:I would say Friday night wedding during the summer months. I guess it depends on fear in the north of the south right, you don't want to do.
Speaker 2:If you live north of the Mason Dixon line, there's not much you want to do on a Friday night in the winter. In the south, though, you could get by with a winter wedding on a Friday night. I was thinking, though, if you get in the late summer in the south, football kicks off on Friday nights and high school football down here is king. So yeah, I'd say that's a bad idea for Friday night wedding late summer in the south 100%.
Speaker 1:I agree with that 100%. Number three Could the worst D1 football team in America beat the best D3 football team in America?
Speaker 2:Oh, I would say yes On any given day. And just a quick explanation D1 D1 programs have 85 full scholarships, d3 scholars, d3 typically non scholarship by none of them mean there aren't great players in D3 football. What that means is that death in a D1 program is typically going to be a lot, lot better right. So in a given, in a given game, d3 team the best D3 team could probably compete, but I would say the depth of a D1 team would have lost it.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's accurate. You know that. Yeah, for sure. Number four what is the most realistic and accurate of a Sports movie any given Sunday being like the NFL or the Rocky movies being like pro boxing?
Speaker 2:Gosh.
Speaker 1:He brought the thunder with these ones.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna tell you that right now, like these were, I would have to say I don't know much about boxing. I Say any given Sunday being.
Speaker 1:Okay, can't be mad at that number five. What do you think the hardest Olympic sport to win in an individual gold medal in is wrestling the hundred meter dash in track or archery?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm gonna go a hundred meter dash. I think I Wrestling is definitely a difficult sport, but a hundred meter down and you, you have to be. You're competing against ten people on a track yeah, essentially the fastest man in the world. You know wrestling. You could have a bad day, a bad day Maybe. Maybe you wrestle better than you should on one day. But yeah, I think it had to be the only the dash.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not mad at those, but that was the fast 55 and I gotta tell you he brought the thunder with those questions We've kind of We've got us. Got away from the fast 55 for a little while and we're bringing it back because we've had a lot of roundtables and stuff like that in the show. But man Really testing that, you know NFL. But like I said, lance, we are running down near the end of the episode here.
Speaker 1:I do give every guest this opportunity. At the end, I'm gonna give you about a minute. If there's anything you want to get out there promote Whether it's just a good message or anything like that I'm gonna give you about a minute. Floor is yours.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Yeah, I mean nothing I really want to promote other than you know I appreciate the opportunity. It's always fun to get get on a show and talk about my past and something I'm passionate about with football and All your listeners out there. Thanks for the opportunity. Let me speak in your living room, your car or where we're today. It's been a lot of fun and really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 1:Hey, not a problem at all. I'm glad to have you on, glad to talk to, you, get the dive into the mind of, you know, lance Funderberg, and you know it was a lot of fun to sit and talk to him. Glad we were able to connect with us with a Good old coach how mummy, to get us connected here, I'll give him another. Give him another shameless plug on the show. He's been on it a couple times so I can't, I can't help it. Love talking with how a lot of fun every time. But that is going to do it for this week's episode of the ride home ranch podcast. As Always, if you enjoyed the show, be a friend, tell a friend. If you didn't tell him anyways, they might like it. Just because you didn't. That's gonna do it for me and I will see y'all next week.
