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Shout out Donna. And shout out Gary McCune, his ex stepdad. Because they would let me stay there. I didn't like my mom's boyfriend. I didn't like going home. So every weekend in seventh and eighth grade, I spent the night at McDaniel's house. I bring a bag with me, put it in my locker, slept there Friday night, slept there Saturday night. After all the football games on Sunday, my mom would pick me up and take me home. Donna Gary McCune, Mike's ex stepdad, worked for the Denver Broncos. So that's how Mike was able to be a ball boy in 97 and 98. And Gary was like the first dude I met, like, that was a dad. That was cool that you're like, I'm gonna go in the garage and hang out with Gary. Like, Gary rules and big Broncos house. Mike was a huge Broncos fan, and that's why week three, Broncos at Miami. We're going down. Oh, this season I'm not missing that. I'm not watching Mike coaches ex, like his favorite team. Growing right? It's going to be awesome. So all I would always wear 49er stuff because I was my. My family's from the Bay. I lived in Denver, but I was a huge Niners fan. I would always go into Mike's house and Donna would always say the same thing. She'd always go, you're wearing the wrong colors. Like, just as like a little ball busty. But she'd always say that. She'd be like, you're wearing the wrong colors. And I was like, joe Montana's better than John Elway. That's always what I came Back. So, Mike, you know, coaches in the NFL starts in 05 in Denver, goes to Houston, goes coach Dennis Green in an upstart league, then comes back to the league for Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta, gets hired by the 49ers when Kyle. Yeah, when Kyle takes over the head coaching job. First game I go to is Seahawks at Niners after Thanksgiving of that first season. And Mike's wife is like, hey, I'm going to leave you passes. Come say hi to him on the sideline. Great. I drive down from my grandmother's house, I go to the Levi's, I go to the sidelines, I get on the sideline, and there's Donna, Mike's mom, standing there. And the first thing she says to me is when she sees me. And she goes, I'm finally wearing the right colors. And I was like, best callback I've heard. Because I. I haven't heard that since probably eighth grade, right? And I was like, that's amazing. You know, I hugged her. I was like, this is amazing. So to watch him go to the Super bowl in 2019, all that. So then 49ers lose to the Rams NFC championship game, 2022 season or 2021 season, I'm like, I think McDaniel's going to leave. I think it's about time. He's like, probably going to. And Katie, I swear to God, I remember where she was standing. Katie's in the kitchen of our old place in Jersey. And she's just in the kitchen doing something. And she goes, yeah, that's cool. Just nothing in the AFC East. And I go, right. And then two weeks later, I'm like, he's the Dolphins head coach. I was like, he took the Dolphins job. And she has been great about it. She softened up. Because at first the rule was no Dolphins. No Dolphins merch. It was the first rule. And then I bought a Finkel versus Einhorn.
