Joey Porter Sr. shares what it means to him to watch his son breakout for the Pittsburgh Steelers in his rookie season.
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00:00 >> Well, I try not to do that a lot, I've been to the locker room once after the game.
00:05 I just try to stay out of the way, let him have his moments, his turns.
00:09 One of the biggest things for me was watching him come out there and
00:12 how much he's doing the kick, doing the boot.
00:13 So that was dope in a simple fact of life.
00:18 He understands what it takes to get a recession from a crowd, right?
00:26 The farther you get backed up in the lineup means something.
00:30 So it's the reason why Cambo last and TJ and the roar of the crowd,
00:35 kinda let you know where you fit and how the city feels about you.
00:39 And he knows for the eight years I was here, six of them,
00:43 I got to come out last and that meant something, you know what I mean?
00:47 And when I see him waving the towel and doing the kick,
00:51 that was just a crazy surreal moment for me.
00:53 Because it was like, they're saying my name, but it's not me, it's my son.
00:59 He's coming out now.
01:01 And he was like two in 2001, you know what I mean, 2000.
01:07 So for him to be here now and he's coming out,
01:11 I can't make that up, that's just crazy in itself.
01:16 So that was pretty much one of the biggest moments I've seen.
01:18 >> Did he run that by you or did he do that on purpose?
01:20 >> No, I didn't know what he was gonna do.
01:22 Cuz he came out the week before and he just came up, pounded his chest and
01:24 he was just fired up to get caught out the tunnel.
01:28 So it caught me off guard when he did it, but
01:32 I definitely soaked it all in as a real moment because for me, that was surreal.
01:39 >> He's been really proud of being the guy to follow some of the top receivers
01:43 on the opposing side.
01:44 Does he get that confidence from you?
01:46 Where does that come from?
01:47 >> That's just him, that's him.
01:49 That's him being a football player, him believing in himself.
01:52 Him wanting to challenge, we're competitors and
01:55 I haven't seen him battle with everything.
01:56 It's just, he's been raised one way, but I can't say that's me.
02:01 That's just him being JJ.
02:03 JJ is a competitor, he's a fish competitor.
02:06 He's not the guy that's gonna sit back and
02:09 let somebody else go against who they say is the best.
02:13 If you say that guy's the best, he wants to guard the best.
02:16 He don't wanna guard the second best.
02:18 That's just a natural quarter gene that he has.
02:22 If he guards number two and do a good job, it ain't the same as guard number one,
02:28 right?
02:28 So he's not ducking nothing.
02:30 He's gonna do it how he do it.
02:33 And that's not him being me, that's him being him.
02:36 That's who he is.
02:38 He's looking for the challenge.
02:40 The same way when he started off camp, he went against Pickens every day.
02:45 He didn't wanna go against the other guys.
02:47 He wanted to go against Pickens.
02:49 Pickens or Deontay, that's all he wanted to go against.
02:51 He's not trying to work on guard and the other guys.
02:54 He wanna guard whoever he considered best.