9/2/03

Two-Minute Drill: Brock Edwards

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What do you guys do the day before a game and what has the experience meant to you?
"We go the hotel and we have a good time. It's just a great time and something I'll never forget when I'm old. We have a pasta bar, and I hang out with my boys on the bus. We go to a movie and it's nice being just one of the guys. Then we step off the bus and it turns to business. We go to meetings and start to break down film. Then we have a little snack before we go to bed and talk amongst ourselves for a minute and that's about it until the morning. When we wake up, it's just meetings and all business and getting ready to go."

What are some of the things you like to do off the field?
"I like to do a variety of different things. I like to hang out with the guys on the team and go fishing here and there. This weekend I plan to go hog hunting with my old man and just spend some quality time with him."

Where do you guys go hog hunting?
"My dad has a little lease up here in Burnett, which is about an hour north of here. I would like to get out there more often if I had the time, but I enjoy it when I get to go."

What is something most people don't know about you if they just look at you as a football player?
"I guess my sensitive side. People see me out here spitting and cussing and throwing people around. That's just the way I play the game, which is hardcore. People get that feeling from me because they see me just on the field. Even talking with my girlfriend, people say to her, 'You're Brock Edwards girlfriend? Isn't he mean?,' and she just laughs at it. People just get a persona, and they think I am like that off the field, it's a completely different thing and it's like a light switch when I get off the field."

What is in your CD player right now?
"I have Jimmy Buffett's new album in right now. It's a two-disc set. It has some of his old hits and some of his new hits on hit."

Jimmy Buffett is a big concert draw every time he is on tour. Have you ever had the chance to see him live?
"I have never seen him. I wish I could afford a ticket."

If you weren't playing football at UT, what sport would you want to play?
"I would play baseball. I was even thinking about playing in college and I checked out a few places, but I decided I just wanted to do the one-sport thing. Two sports was not the ideal thing for me. I played baseball up until my senior in high school and that was it."