MICHAEL Strahan has revealed his in-depth pregame routine during his NFL career.
Strahan was a legendary New York Giants player and a Hall of Fame talent, but he had a hilarious pregame show.
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Strahan was very particular about his clothing before games and shared on In Depth with Graham Bensinger that he had a whole routine with his uniform.
“My pre-game was cool, I liked it” Strahan said.
“I had a whole routine of doing things. Everything was in order.
“Getting there at a certain time, getting my uniform ready, putting things in a certain order at a certain time.
“Everything was perfectly expired.”
Something Strahan was extremely particular about was his socks.
The NFL legend was so private that he literally talked to his socks before the game.
“One of my things was to look at my socks,” Strahan said.
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“Don’t verbally say, ‘Hey, where do you want to be today?’ Like I hadn’t spoken out loud to my midfielders because my teammates would have thought I was crazy.
“But I would look at my socks and think ‘hm, which foot would you like today?’ They argued sometimes.”
Another thing Strahan did was mess with other players’ pregame routines.
He wanted to get into his opponent’s head and did so with his photo.
“Then I would get the game program,” Strahan said.
“Over the years, I myself have learned that football players try to look bad on a game show.
“They try to look so evil. But if you look at someone in the game show and you hear that they can be evil and they look like that (while smiling), an evil person smiling is a crazy person.
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“Then I would be on the show doing glamor shots.”
Clearly something worked, because Strahan is one of the greatest defenders of all time.
In his career, he accumulated 141.5 sacks and was named to seven Pro Bowls.
Strahan was also named to four All-Pro teams, won the Defensive Player of the Year award and won the Super Bowl with the Giants.
He holds the record for most sacks in a single season with 22.5.
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