Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

Get right back to, I'm fixing to his post Malone about touring, but he asked me a question.

I don't want to be just me, grel and him.

What's the question you had?

How did you come up with the leg brace?

I had to.

I was playing football in North Texas State University.

It was run down on a kickoff return or a kickoff, whatever was.

I was on a kickoff team.

And the dude I was supposed to block, I hit him and he hit me.

And as soon as that happened, my left knee just went down.

And I just felt the pain.

I was laying face down on the turf.

And I was like, God dang, something ain't right. Right.

I tore my anterior cruciate ligament and a doctor looked at me and he said, hey man, your PCL is pretty strong.

I don't think we need to replace it. We'll just rehab you and you'll be good to go.

I didn't know anything about no surgeries or no knee problems back in the day. I was a kid 20 years old playing football, bulletproof.

You know the deal.

Right.

And so anyway, I came back in next year and started all 11 games at defensive end.

And then I got to the business pro wrestling.

I was working on a freight dock, loading, unloading trucks driving a forklift, saw commercial on TV, got in the business, jacked up my knees several more times.

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