Curtis Martin's Emotional HOF Speech
Monday, August 6, 2012 at 9:52PM
Curtis Martin's emotional and very personal Hall of Fame acceptance speech from this past Saturdays induction ceremony in Canton, Ohio at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A must listen.
1:56 - Martin starts his speech off by saying he was "never a football fan"
5:40 - Martin talks about watching his father "torture my mother"
9:30 - Martin tells the story of his grandmothers murdered "with a knife in her chest"
11:10 - Martin tells the audience that he has had "so many brushes with death." A guy had a loaded gun to Martin's head and "pulled the trigger seven times", but the bullet never came out.
15:23 - Martin always thought he "would die before 21"
16:25 - Talks about "making a deal with GOD"
17:15 - Discusses Bill Parcells and "Parcells-isms"
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