Was that you making peace with the possibility that the NFL might never happen? And how did the door finally open?

It really was.

I really believe that if the CFL was my life, my career path, then it is what it is.

And I was really at that point in my life 28 years old.

I had bought a home there in Calgary, like you said.

I opened up a Mexican food restaurant, bringing a little bit of that flavor north of the border, so to speak.

And, you know, for me, I was having such a great time in my life.

What did that drive give you and what did it cost you?

I still don't quite understand why, um, flying the sun line, as you've described, would lead her to go southeast without at least saying that's what she was doing on her radio.

Well, yeah.

So the other, uh, im- important, uh, thing that happened was there was a, you know, a, a communication, uh, systems failure.

So she could hear, uh, Itasca speaking, um, uh ...

Or sorry, uh, wait, other way around.

Uh, you know, she was speaking to Itasca, and they could hear her.

She could not hear them, okay? So that, that's a key point too, which I'm sure likely drove up her stress.

What, what do those records show? What were the revelations that you found in those records that haven't been picked up yet?

You, you do some camps and stuff, but-

Camps, coaching kids.

I was coaching high school ball last year.

Not my own kids, somebody else's kids.

And this year, I'm just looking at myself and my children.

They're in high school.

They're at that age where soon enough I'm not gonna be able to coach them anymore.

Yeah.

Sure,

sure.

Absolutely.

I mean, it was really a childhood dream come true for me, being able to grow up in the South Bay area an hour away from San Francisco and Oakland, kind of equal distance from both cities.

I was able to grow up with the 70s Raiders with Ken Stabler, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes, all the greats that came through that organization in the 70s and 80s and watch them win Super Bowls, and then the 80s and 90s with Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, all the greats that came through the Niner organization, and to be able to be a fan of that, to be able to watch a guy like Joe Montana try to emulate Joe as a player, as a young kid watching him and just idolizing him, and then to live out that...

Dream, so to speak, to be able to play for the 49ers from 99 to 03 and be that third guy in the lineage of quarterbacks.

You go from Joe to Steve and then I had to step in and try to follow that was not easy.

need dollars to keep this thing going.