PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – There is the business part of the trip for TJ Watt playing at Houston on Sunday. There is also the personal part. TJ will be there as his brother, JJ, will be inducted into the Texans Ring of Honor.
“The event is going to be special seeing my brother get rewarded the way he deserves,” TJ Watt said Friday. “It’s special because I know all the hard work, dedication, blood, sweat and tears. Hard times. Great times. The behind-the-scenes, sometimes that people knew about and sometimes they didn’t.”
“I’m just very proud to call him my older brother.”
Watt said he will have dinner with his family the night before and he’s looking forward to seeing him being honored. The is no sibling rivalry where he needs to have a big game in front of his brother, he wants to soak it up for him.
“I don’t shy away from talking about my brothers,” TJ Watt said. “Both of them have had such an impact on my life.
Showing me how to be a good person and good player. How to handle myself in the community. Really just giving me the blueprint for how to be a man.”
“He was an absolute freak as a football player, especially when he was with the Houston Texans,” said Patrick Peterson who nearly was a teammate with JJ with the Arizona Cardinals. “When he was healthy, he was an All Pro. His career speaks for himself, but to be a Walter Payton Man of the Year. Whatever Houston needed to lend a hand, he was there to do that.”
“I can’t say enough about him. The man that he is the player that he was.”
How special it must be for the Watt family to see what their boys have become.