Super Bowl Champion wide receiver and longtime Indianapolis Colt Reggie Wayne joined Dukes and Bell on Radio Row at Super Bowl 53. Wayne on the Patriots offense, “One thing about it is right when the playoffs started they got a good running game going, and this game is different in all aspects that you can think of and them having a good running game is something they should take advantage of and they should run it as much as they can, don’t get into a shootout with Tom Brady.”
Wayne on the new rules that protect wide receivers in the NFL, “My last three years in the league I had these rules and if the rules were like this when I started I would still be doing it, because it was an all out brawl when I started, and it made me better, it made me work harder it’s gotten to the point now that if they their finger on you it’s a penalty.”
Wayne then told Dukes and Bell what it was like to lose the Super Bowl in his hometown, “Both of my Super Bowl’s were in Miami, I went to school in Miami, I’m from New Orleans so I wanted to beat the breaks off them, at halftime we had all the momentum and we said if we score to start the second half we have this. When they got that recovery it changed all the momentum and when a team gets that momentum it changes that whole flow, it’s not a good feeling when the other teams confetti hits your shoulder pads.”
Dukes and Bell then asked Wayne about Tony Dungy's decision to sit the Colts' starters when the team was undefeated in 2009 on the way to the Super Bowl, “I think it does, and we were pissed, football is fun it’s a kids game, being in sync matters and we were at the point where we wanted to go undefeated, I feel like if you’re able to play you play and by us not playing the rest of the regular season it took something out of us, but it was something that when the game was over we were wondering why they didn’t play us and it wore on us an made us think what if we were in the Super Bowl and undefeated.”
Wayne on what it was like to play with Peyton Manning, “He’s a big jokester, corny dude who thinks all his jokes are funny, but he’s the hardest working, most prepared guy you will ever be around. I think his entire day is planned out, from the moment he wakes up and there is nothing that will catch him off guard.”