Russ Francis

She's from Oakland.

She was friends with Russ Francis, the great 49er tight end.

I remember he also played for the Boston Patriots before they were the New England Patriots.

Hope I have that correct.

Oh, really?

She used to go up and swim with Russ and Dwight Clark.

Russ Francis.

Joe Montana up at Rockland when they had the training up there.

Jim Plunkett back.

He's got Russ Francis for 10 yards.

Over the middle to Randy Vitaja.

The handoff goes to Sam Cunningham.

So they had activities for us.

We got to meet pretty good Russ Francis.

He played tight end for the New England Patriots.

I hung out with him a little bit.

Otherwise, I had never

met somebody

like Russ Francis.

He was a javelin thrower.

I'm going.

Well, we have a – like we both have an affinity for Russ Francis.

I think Russ Francis is one of the most underrated great football players ever.

He was great.

And you had a connection with Russ Francis.

Yeah, I mean, so listen, he was a tight end that played with my dad at the Patriots.

And so, like, if you ever get, like, a 49ers-Patriots combo in your immaculate grid and you choose Jimmy Garoppolo, then all you are doing is killing your rarity score.

Whereas if you dig deep with the Russ Francis... like now then like might have a pretty good day

They're probably like, man, this dude's here to take my job.

I mean, did it happen to you? When you were young, when you were coming up, Did, you know, did Russ Francis give you the cold shoulder? No, no, it

never happened to me because, remember, I wasn't drafted high enough to be able to put fear in people saying, oh, this guy's here to take my job.

When you're the number three overall pick, I think there are a lot of people in that room going, uh-oh, my job is not safe.

Like, he's not going to be in the Hall of Fame or anything.

Who, Russ Francis? Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.