Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Maurkice Pouncey on Steelers vs. Browns, Playing with Aaron Hernandez, & More!

Joe Haden (0:00)

Pouncey, so we came in, we graduated school early, bro. What was one of your best memories of when we first got to school? Me, you, Amar, Paul, all of the boys, when we graduated from high school and got to Florida.

Maurkice Pouncey (0:13)

Yeah, we went there, I'll never ever forget it. We went in, wow, with a storm. No matter what older guy was there, all of us came from a high school championship team, so we challenged everything. But man, our first week or two there, the team, because we all came in early, they went out to Scottsdale and played Ohio State.

I remember being on them scooters. You remember all us bought the most scooters.

To see that, everyone run outside the O'Connor Center, and for them to party and hang on the poles, and I'm just sitting back like, boy, I cannot wait for this to be us. Come on. I know we're going to do this, 100 percent. It is just the trickle down effect, just seeing the atmosphere, because at the time, I don't know if Joe remembers this, but they had a program set where they were trying to bring more minority people to UF. So we was a part of that whole thing where they brought in not just Black people, but Asians, every single different culture to try to bring more color and flavor to the University of Florida. So our era, where we had the number one party school right at two years in a row. So for us, it was an unbelievable time. Man, every single day, and I can guarantee you, if you want to party every single day, Joe Haden, we're going to meet you.

Joe Haden (1:17)

I'll show you, I'll be the one thing I'll tell you, but I knew where to be. I knew where to be.

Maurkice Pouncey (1:22)

Joe was the number one partyer in all of UF history, man.

Joe Haden (1:25)

Yes.

Shannon Sharpe (1:26)

And how you going to put him over me?

Chad Johnson (1:28)

Because I love that white man.

Maurkice Pouncey (1:29)

I love Miss Haden, man.

Chad Johnson (1:30)

I ain't going to lie to you.

Joe Haden (1:31)

This one I'm going to tell you, though, because me and Pounce, and when he says this, bro, we was grinding. We was working so hard. When you say- I bet you was grinding.

James Harrison (1:40)

No, no, no.

Joe Haden (1:41)

You said what? Yeah, that's a joke. Don't disrespect.

Listen, Coach Haden had us a Saturday night midnight lifts. We couldn't even go to the, we couldn't even go to the chimneys.

Maurkice Pouncey (1:55)

Joe partied so much that he would have to come in there and clean the weight room earlier in the morning and then come do his workout in the afternoon. You remember that joke?

James Harrison (2:03)

Yeah.

Maurkice Pouncey (2:04)

You'd be in the workout doing this wiping down weights. I'm like, oh, this is wild.

James Harrison (2:09)

Yeah. I got in trouble.

Joe Haden (2:11)

Got in trouble. Had to get in a little early.

Maurkice Pouncey (2:12)

That's the thing that's outside of that. And they say-

Joe Haden (2:14)

Thank you, Pouncey. Thank you, Pouncey.

Shannon Sharpe (2:16)

Man, y'all. Man, listen, man. You're good and terrible. Look here, man.

We gon be playing Joe's old team, them Browns. But you gotta tell me, how would you deal with this situation? So Platt, Friar moved. He added something that happened to his, you know what? Just play it right there for us. Let him see it. Let me see. Let me hear this.

Chad Johnson (2:38)

No, Cleveland Browns threw beer at my mother after my rookie year, after I screwed up at touchdown. So I'm gonna-

Shannon Sharpe (2:42)

Lock me up.

Maurkice Pouncey (2:44)

It's all good. Hey, it's all for the sports and all for the love of the game.

Chad Johnson (2:47)

My mom enjoyed it. So it was all good. No hard feelings, but yeah.

Gilbert Arenas (2:51)

That's what we not gon do.

Joe Haden (2:53)

That's what we not gon do. I didn't sign up. She doesn't go. She doesn't go.

Shannon Sharpe (2:59)

Listen, man, I'm gonna tell you something. I tell my people, do not go to away games. We don't have to go to away games. Do not go to away games. Don't do it because if something go happen, because I gotta get bail money, I'm locked up, everything going bad, because now I can't even think about nothing else, man. Look, man, my people was in Ohio, man. They was watching the Steelers game. And it's some paperwork out there, but some people got disrespectful.