And man, the guy comes over and he sits on my bed.
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And he puts his arm around me.
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And we start talkin' about the football game.
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And I said, "Well, I'd kinda like to see the Packers win here because I've got a bet."
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And I said, "By the way, I might add, I plan on collecting this bet."
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And he just looks at me and he smiles again.
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And he stays there with me until the game is over. And then he says, "All right, I'm gonna go home and get some rest. I'll see ya at 6."
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Well, I didn't know, but when he got home, he got an emergency phone call and he was up half the night.
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But right there at 6 o'clock in the morning, they wheel me into surgery.
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As I'm goin' down the hall, there's a few people yellin', "Go-Go!"
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They really were. It was funny. It was nice and light.
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And then, of course, we had a very touching moment with Becka and the kids before I went into surgery.
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But I told 'em, and I meant it sincerely, I said, "I'll see ya in a few hours. I'm tellin' ya the guy is cool. Everything's gonna be OK."
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Becka says, "It better be."
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And I said, "It's gonna be. I promise you.
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"I don't break my promises."
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So the next thing I know, I wake up.
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Problem was, I woke up six hours too early.
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They explained to me I'd have this breathing pipe down my throat, and there wasn't gonna be anyone there to take it out until 7 in the morning.
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I opened up one eye, and it was 12:30 in the morning and it scared the hell out of me. I felt like I was gagging and I couldn't breathe.
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That was probably the worst six hours of my life.
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But Ham showed up at dawn. They took the pipe out.
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From there on in, it was a piece of cake.
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And I got out of the hospital a week later and started my recuperation and all that.
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I went to see Ham and I brought him an autographed picture.
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And the autographed picture said, "Ham, you saved my bacon."
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And I said to him, "You tell me no one ever said that to you before."
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