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Gary Wilson aka Legend

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You know, Paul, going from coast saving to coast to bore, it's like going to bed buried to Beyonce and waking up with Whoopi Goldberg laying next to you, brother.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Yeah, I always wear them. I have like a little eye problem I've had since I was a kid. Anytime I'm in a bright room, I kind of have to wear some glasses. Kind of like Jim McMahon. Got the Jim McMahon syndrome, you know? What's your day job? My day job is I work at a steakhouse. A few years ago, I was working construction. I had worked construction for 20 years.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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About two years ago on a construction site, I was working on a exhaust fan. when a restraining bar broke and shattered my front grill, shattered it, I still can't have a conversation with any of my partials in the front.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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So I'm two flips in Alabama this morning for one reason, brother, on this show, because I love Paul Feinbaum that frigging much that I'd come on two flips from Alabama to tell folks how much I love this man. This man

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Paul, I'm in sports hell, brother. I'm in sports hell. I never thought I would utter these words. Bandy! is my daddy. Can you believe that?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Let me tell you how pissed I am, Paul. Can I tell you, brother?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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My neighbor gave me a picture of Coach DeBoer last Thursday, a signed picture, an 8x12 in a frame, and I put it in the fire pit Saturday night instead of match to it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You don't lose the Vanderbilt. That's the ugliest little sister on the block. You don't lose the Vanderbilt. The honeymoon's over and we need some damn marriage counseling. Legend has left the damn building.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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2008, I'm riding down the road. I'm listening to rock radio in Birmingham. And, you know, it was just sucking. So I got flipping through the dial and came across somebody talking. It was Tim Brando talking to Feinbaum. You made some crazy statements this year concerning Alabama.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And I just wondered if you'd be willing to admit now that you were wrong concerning several statements that you made over the last year. But he was talking how Alabama should keep Mark Godfrey. And I said to myself, well, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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So just off the top of my head, I told the guy that picked up the phone, I said, I'm the legend, and I want to talk to that moron, Tim Brando, about Mark Godfrey. They sent me through that day, and it went viral that day, me attacking Brando and telling him what an idiot he was for wanting to keep Mark Godfrey alive.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You know what the funniest moment of this football season was to me, Timmy Brando, is when they came to you at the halftime of the Ole Miss-Alabama game and you realized that Alabama was kicking the fire out of your Ole Miss Rebels. It looked like somebody had hit you in the face with a big-mouthed bat. And that's how the legend was born, ladies and gentlemen. Blame Paul Feinbaum.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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He's the reason for this monster.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Well, I was born in Annapolis, Maryland. My father was from Alabama. And it's pouring down rain outside. I hope it don't start leaking here in the little ledger cave. My father was from Alabama. He was in the military. My mama was from Maryland. We spent the first 10 years of my life right outside of Baltimore, Maryland, and Glen Burnie, Maryland, and Rivera Beach, Maryland.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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So I grew up in a sports fanatic family in Maryland. But the whole time, my father's influence of Alabama, my first rattler was an Alabama roadside rattler. My first words were roadside, not daddy, but roadside. That was my first words.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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I'm president of the Sidewalk Alumni, you know, and a lot of good people with diplomas love me, but there's a lot of people in Alabama don't like the legend. I am that fan that the administration don't want to talk about, the one that never went to school, that never got a diploma, and never been in class. You know, how dare him talk for the Alabama Crimson Tide?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And they don't like that because they think, you know, that old fan, sidewalk alumni fan, he's stupid. The only thing he knows about is flag football. He don't know nothing about road ramp football. Shut up.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Legend, if somebody told me we can't allow that, it would be my last day here. Hell yeah, we can say whatever the hell we want to say. And I got a few things to say.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You know, they say that a team takes on the personality of their coach. Well, our team is undisciplined and soft. And no doubt you, Coach DeBoer, are undisciplined and soft. Strike frigid, dude, man. Strike frigid, too. We're about to go to the Birmingham Bowl. I ain't let the building up kick the damn door down because I'm pissed off at this crap. This ain't Alabama football.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And any Alabama fan that accepts it ain't a real damn fan.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You know, Paul, going from Coast Salmon to Coast of Boar, it's like going to bed, Barry, to Beyonce and waking up with Whoopi Goldberg laying next to you, brother.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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It's not a performance. I'm a fanatic in the sports world. I'm not a criminal. I'm a fanatic. There's a difference. A criminal poisons trees, hurts other people. A fanatic might cuss his coach out, might cuss the quarterback out, might cuss the general manager out, the owner. That's what a fanatic is, but he's doing all that and the fact that he loves his team.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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We were distant cousins, you know. We grew up in a little town where there wasn't but 30 people in the whole town, you know. We grew up around each other all of our lives. And then when we got up to about 17, you know, I was already deep in the drugs, you know.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And so when we got to that age, we got into a fight over a young lady and it escalated from the fight over the young lady and to the incident that happened.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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When I was 17 years old, I took a young man's life, another 17-year-old young man. It was an act of a coward. Anybody that takes a gun and takes a life is committing an act of cowardice. You know, God gave you a brain and we ought to be able to use it. I killed a man, destroyed his life. I threw my life away as a young man. I destroyed many families associated. It was a horrible, horrible thing.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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I'm very ashamed of it. I faced the electric chair for 18 months. And at the time in the state of Alabama, Charles Graddick, was running for governor. He was the attorney general of the state of Alabama, and he wanted to lock everybody up and throw away the key.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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That was his big commercial. So they were going to intently, they Was going to make an example of me. It was intended to give me the electric chair for 18 months from 17 to I was 18. I faced the possibility of going to what they call the Big Yellow Mama in Alabama. And it looked for a while like that is what would happen.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And then we went to court and my lawyer worked out a deal for a life sentence with the possibility of parole. And we went that route realizing how young I was that, you know, there was, it wasn't guaranteed, but there was a possibility that I would get another chance in society, you know, and I'm so thankful for it.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You know, I spent 15 years in prison, 15 hard years in prison. It was a rough life, and when I came out, I was determined to make it when I came out.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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I don't. The first few years I was out of prison, I traveled the country as an evangelist, preaching the gospel and sharing the goodness of what the Lord had done in my life. And when I would go to different churches across the country, because I had been in prison, one of the things they would do is have me go into the prisons and preach in the area.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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So I was in Defuniac Springs, Florida, preaching at a big church, and they had me go down to the prison one Sunday night and preach at a minimum security prison. And I preached there that night, and over 100 men came to know the Lord. And as I was leaving the prison, an inmate was running behind me saying, that guy is a legend. That guy is a legend. He's a legend.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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And a preacher that had brought me in with him, he picked it up and he started calling me legend that day. And before I knew it, everybody around me was calling me legend.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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They think, hey, that's crazy. That might be in sports. But in real life, it's serious. Real life is different than sports. And in real life, put the guns down. Put them down.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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I grew up in a house, you know, watching my grandfather throw the remote at the television, cuss the TV, you know. I grew up in that kind of house, you know what I'm saying? But thanks to Paul and that therapy that I get each day, I managed to move on.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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We are the castaways. We are the throwaway fans. We are the fans that nobody says, I'm not Kenzo, one of them fine bomb callers. You know what I'm saying? The fine bomb callers are crazy. We're that fan. We're that fanatical, crazy fan. And we are real. We are real.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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You can have my tickets, brother. Listen, if it ain't for Champ, no offense. You know, a lot of Alabama fans say, oh, good boy, Legend. We pull for Alabama in every game. Let me ask you something. If the Yankees are out of the playoffs, do they care about an exhibition game with the Toronto Blue Jays?

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Man, I tell you the truth, man. What I wish would show up under the Christmas tree was a 40-year-old Nick Saban ready to go back to work at the University of Alabama, baby. That's what I wish would show up under my Christmas tree. Yes, a 40-year-old Nick Saban ready to go kick some butt and lead this university and this program back to where it belongs, the mountaintop, the mountaintop.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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We're in the gutter this morning, DeBoer. No playoffs for us. Playoffs? Come on, man. Are you kidding me? Give me a 40-year-old Nick Saban ready to go back to work. That would be the greatest Christmas ever.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - The Legend of The Paul Finebaum Show: Behind the Scenes in "Scrooge City"

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Blame Paul Fanbaum. He's the reason for this monster.