Friends & Legends with Skip Martin
Host: Skip Martin
Summary:
Part 2 of Skip Martin's conversation with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon turns to the part nobody puts on a highlight reel: what a career on the road costs a family. Warren talks about meeting his wife in high school in Los Angeles, marrying at twenty three, raising four kids, and a marriage of twenty seven years that ended without either of them falling out of love. They are still good friends, eleven grandkids later, and still together at Christmas, birthdays and graduations. He is honest about the games and the dance recitals he missed, and Skip matches it with eight months a year on the road and the alienation that can follow a father home. It finishes on Warren's message to young people about phones, noise and keeping your circle small, and Skip's story about a goat in a well.
Main Topics:
Meeting his wife at Hamilton High and marrying at twenty three
Twenty seven years, four kids and eleven grandkids
Why a marriage can end without either person falling out of love
Staying friends, and still showing up at Christmas
Skip on eight months a year with the Dazz Band and Kool and the Gang
The appearances, the TV show, the radio show and the foundation
The games and the dance recitals Warren missed
The alienation of daddy, and only one side of the story getting told
Taking his two daughters to the Kentucky Derby for the first time
All four kids going to Canton for his twentieth Hall of Fame anniversary
Fifty years of the Dazz Band and a street dedication in Cleveland
What Warren would tell young people about social media
Intriguing Quotes:
"We never stopped loving each other. We just kinda outgrew each other." - Warren Moon
"It's a tremendous sacrifice." - Warren Moon
"I missed some of their games and I missed some of their dance recitals." - Warren Moon
"That is the alienation of daddy." - Skip Martin
"You never get to tell your side of the story." - Skip Martin
"Make that group that you have very small around you." - Warren Moon
"Set your goals high, dream big and believe in yourself." - Warren Moon
"The goat would just shake it off." - Skip Martin
"Use that phone for what it was supposed to be for." - Warren Moon
Key Moments:
[00:00] Skip welcomes Warren Moon back for part two
[02:07] High school sweethearts, San Jose State and the University of Washington
[02:35] Twenty seven years, four kids, and why they parted
[03:11] Still good friends, still together at Christmas
[04:56] Skip on the grind, and what it does to a partner
[05:34] Daddy's home, guess where we're going
[06:09] Warren on the tremendous sacrifice
[07:03] The games and dance recitals he missed
[07:31] Skip on the alienation of daddy
[08:35] Two daughters at the Kentucky Derby
[08:59] Taking all four kids to Canton
[12:14] A hundred and thirty legends back in Canton every year
[13:12] Fifty years of the Dazz Band in Cleveland
[16:16] Warren's message on social media and bullying
[17:25] Keep your circle small and set your goals high
[18:31] The goat in the well, and how to shake it off
[20:40] Skip closes out, don't play no games
Notable Resources:
Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio, where Warren Moon is enshrined
Connect with Warren Moon:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warrenmoon1/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HWarrenMoon1/
X: https://x.com/WMoon1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenmoon1/
Connect with Skip Martin:
Website: https://www.skipmartinmusic.com/
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