Mike Tomlin speaks on Nepotism in NFL and friendship with Levelle Moton:
I’m not overly social, you know. I’m not into the network game. In my business, man, I’ve never been positioned to network or to take advantage of networking, to be quite honest with you. I didn’t play in the National Football League, my dad didn’t coach in the National Football League—you know what I mean? I’m a minority. I’ve always been a mutt in this thing, to really be quite honest with you.
And so I don’t run from that—I run to that. I’ve always had my head down and been working. I just knew that I better be focused on getting better. And the way he approached that drew me to him. And so, man, that dude became my friend and my brother on that premise.
It’s not like we spend a whole bunch of time together, man. We don’t, ’cause we move the same way. He trying to keep his ship afloat, I’m trying to keep my ship afloat. But man, I appreciate our phone conversations. I appreciate rooting for him from afar, man, and staying connected.
He’s just one of those friends and brothers, man—we can go two, three months without talking, but we finishing the conversation that we just left. And so, like, above anything else, I don’t have a lot of friends in my life, man. I don’t connect with a lot of people, particularly professionally, because I’m a lone wolf.
I realize that I’m crazy, you know. My wife tells me that. You know what I mean? But you gotta be, right? When you chasing what we chasing—the rare air that we chasing. Like, I laugh all the time, man, at people that do regular things, they go through unique regular processes and expect unique results. That’s funny to me, you know.
I’m always willing and ready to go through a unique process. I’m always willing and ready to work hard and smart. And man, I saw that instantly in that dude.
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