- Bro, these are the ones, these are the Deions.
- Oh my God, they made Deion?
I never.... - Is that crazy?
- I never seen these in my life.
These are crazy!
- And I used to hoop in these when I was....
These were my first hoop shoes as a kid.
- What? Was it?
- When I was 10 years old, beautiful,
but the Oregon ... these are crazy right here.
Oh my God, bruh! - That was my boy!
- Big Baller's back, baby!
- Teach me how to shoot!
That puck's loud.
Oh! What the...?
- Oh yeah, that's how quick it is.
- Ooh! You're gonna be a cowboy, Nate, after this.
Look out! - I'm learning.
"Houseguest." Let's get it.
Pulling up to my guy Nate Burleson's house.
Too cold out here.
I gotta call him first.
Let me call him.
- Nate-Rob.
Hello?
- Hey, man, it's cold out here, bro. What's good?
Which one's your house?
Which one's your house? - You here, baby?
Hold on, my guy is here? - Yeah, B, I'm pulling up.
Yeah. - Whassup, my G?
- Hey man, it's cold, bruh.
- Hey, yo! Nate Rob's here!
Oh! - You feel me!
- I appreciate you joining me, man.
- Man, thank you, bro, big time.
- Of course. - It's such late notice.
- Long time coming.
- Man, it's been a minute, man.
- I poured me a little wine.
- Man, pour up. Nate-on-Nate.
I gotta get some wine.
- Pour up, what you mean? It's already poured up.
- Is it ready?
- Did you think that I was gonna have my little bro-bro
out here, and not already have you one on deck?
- Man, I appreciate you, my brother.
- To success. - Cheers.
- Well, let's start right here.
You know, everybody got a Christmas tree.
You know what I'm saying? Black family gotta have
that room where you open the gifts.
But it's funny because this room - we never
actually come in and kick it.
- To kick it, just chill.
I have a room like that at home, too.
- Everything that you gonna see today....
- Yeah. - ... is the wife.
Yeah, so let's roll on over here,
because we had to pour up.
But just in case we get low,
this is where we make our pit stop.
- This is pit stop? - It's the pit stop.
- The drink. - The wine.
So you telling me this is your first glass of wine?
- First glass of wine, my brother.
- Man, how 'bout that? - And I'm with my big bro!
You feel me? - That's what
I'm talkin' about, man.
It's like an after-school special.
Peer pressure, I done got him.
- It's not bad.
- Not bad at all.
- So what's next?
- All right, bro. Let's go upstairs, man.
You know, this is where the family goes to sleep, you know.
All right, so this is the master bedroom.
- Another chandelier. - Another chandelier
game on point. - On point-point.
- And then we got the mirrors.
- So is this where you come when you check your fit?
Be like, "Yeah, this is it.
Nah, I'm go back and change again!"
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is where, you know, I get dressed
so I can see every single angle.
- Right.
- And then, you know, if me and the wife got the house alone
you know, this is also a good little ... never mind.
- O.K. [Laughs.]
- All right, bro, so it's time to check out
my favorite part of the house.
- Mm-hmm. - The basement.
We got the video games, got the theater area.
- Lit. - And then we
got the sneaker room.
- My favorite!
- We got a game-worn jersey.
This is from my Minnesota days.
Still got a little dirt on it,
'cause your boy was gettin' busy for real....
- Question: What was it like gettin' drafted,
playin' with, what argualbly saying,
the best receiver to ever play the game?
- Bro, playing with Randy, like the stuff
that people would see in highlights,
it would blow their minds.
But that paled in comparison to stuff we saw at practice.
One time, Randy's lookin' at this ball,
Antoine Winfield's right here.
Staring up at Randy.
Just all in his mix.
Ball's coming like this.
Randy looks at it,
goes, and gets.... - What? Y'all
talkin' about catches it over his...?
- It hit the blind spot, bro.
It his his blind spot. Like it's almost like
he was tracking it to see where it was gonna hit.
And he's like this.
- Talk to me about playing for the home team.
Was that like your dream - a dream come true, kinda?
- It was a dream, but it was kind of a nightmare, bro.
- What? - Yeah, because look,
my first game, I like got out there, and instead of like
playing free, like when I was in Minnesota,
or at Nevada-Reno, I felt like I was playin'
in front of like strangers.
So it's kind of like I had nothing to lose.
Like they don't know me.
Like I could create my own identity.
- Right. - And then when
I got to Seattle, for some reason,
I walked in the stadium for the first time
and I was like, "D*** man, my first-grade
teacher probably up there."
- They comin' to watch you....
- "My old girlfriend probably up there."
You know what I'm sayin'?
And like, anxiety, my whole first year.
And then I like tore my thumb,
and I didn't tell anybody,
so I was playing injured. And like my mind was fractured,
just 'cause I was over-emotional.
And then I settled down.
I was like, "Bro, it's just football."
And my second year, that's when I really got cookin'.
And it was kinda like my big thank you to the town.
So let's go to the sneaker room.
- Oh, yes!
- This is where I spend a lot of my time.
- What's your favorite shoe of all time?
Like if you had one shoe like, "Yo Nate,
this is your...."
- All right, let me get my ladder.
- "... last shoe before we leave the earth."
- O.K. - Oh, the Concords!
- That's the best shoe ever made!
- Ever made?
- Are you kiddin' me? - Concords, man?
- That's the best shoe ever made!
Bro, listen.... - So do you
remember the commercial? - Of course I remember
the commercial! - You remember the commercial
when Jordan dunked on that high hoop?
- Of course! - Aw, man.
I went and bought these immediately!
- Immediately!
These are crazy.
- Oh yeah. - You gotta keep 'em clean.
I got a couple of pairs.
- If.... - This is....
- ... I haven't worn the shoe, then most likely,
there's another pair hidden in the house,
because, you know.... - You gotta have one or two
pairs of the same shoe.
- Now we gotta give a shout-out to Melo, man.
Melo's been out here, ballin'! - Ballin', came back!
- Shout-out to hoodie Melo!
Shout out to all the women's shoes out there.
- Hey, low-key, the women's J's
be some of the fire J's that ever come out.
And it be ... it sucks because they never
really have our size!
- And then we move along to the Chucks.
So, you know, I keep some Chucks and Vans.
But the one's that like.... - "Green Eggs and Ham"?
Hey, I'm outta here.
- I'm just sayin'.... - I'm outta here.
- I'm a kid, I like.... - Fire, "Green Eggs and Ham."
Those is tough. Nobody gonna have some of these shoe, man.
- But see, I'm not messin' with him, though.
- That's tough!
- Listen, Nate-Rob was the only dude in the NBA
that was like, "Forget whatever my sneaker deal is."
- Yeah, I'm rockin' whatever....
- He would rock the ... he rocked Yeezys on the court.
- Look, I wore Yeezys. I wore these.
- Custom shoes. - It wouldn't even matter. These is tough.
- Y'all don't understand.
Reason I put these down here,
LeBron went on a run when he was like....
- He's good at mixin' his shoes.
- Huh? - When he started
mixin' his shoes. Like.... - Bro, that's what I'm sayin'!
- When he mixed them
with the Griffey, I was like....
- I couldn't believe that.
And the Deions?
I was like, "Yo, you a fool for that."
- LeBron's like ... it's like if Fresh Prince
and Martin got together and made a TV show.
- Oh my God! - Look, LeBron was like this,
"I'mma take a basketball shoe...."
- "... and turn it into a football shoe and merge it."
- You ever see like an animal on the Internet,
and you're like, "Is that real?"
- "Is that a lion or a tiger - a liger."
- These is ligers, fam!
- These is tough. - A hoop shoe
with the Deion nicks! - Yeah, this is tough.
They should make cleats like this.
- You know these here are different.
- And that was the Griffy.
Yeah, that touched my heart.
Hey Bron, you touched my heart with these - the Griffeys.
- Hold those, hold those, hold those.
- These are the ... so where we're from,
Seattle Washington, we love "the Kid."
The Kid was one of the - to me he was one
of the best baseball players of all time.
These are the Griffeys. Everybody
in Seattle had these kicks.
When I was in middle school, if you didn't have these,
it was like you wasn't cool.
The fact that he.... - LeBron said,
"I'm gonna take this shoe and this shoe...."
- Together. - "... and it's gonna make a baby.
- And it's gonna be that. - And it'll go.
And it comes out this.
- Perfect! - That's crazy!
- Are these Rodmans?
Don't tell me those ain't Dennis Rodmans?
Come on, man. First you....
- You hoop in these? - What!
Man, come on.... - Did you hoop in every shoe?
- I hooped in almost every shoe.
- Do you have the record for hoopin' in the most shoes ever?
- Of course we gotta give some....
- Gotta show love to the Ewings.
- I'm out in New York, so I gotta rock these.
I wore these to a Knicks game one time.
Everybody was feelin' it.
- Goin' crazy.
- I got some Mutombos. - Mutombos!
Yo, I aint gonna lie, he had some sneaky....
- On the low! - Like back in the day,
like we didn't know what we were gettin' into with those.
Those is tough. - On the low!
- Those is tough!
I'mma show up to my daughter's recess,
go to her recess in these.
All the kids like, "What are those?"
On this show, we talk a lot about,
you know, I always gotta show love to people in Seattle.
We talked about Seattle atletes, and I feel like
we need, you know, more respect,
'cause there's so many others.
- Yeah man, the 206 is a special place to me, man.
Like, I got the Space Needle tattooed
on me three different times.
- Me too, look.
- There were so many individuals
that I saw growing up that I felt were overlooked.
So that kinda motivated me. You know what I'm sayin'?
Like, I saw Doug Christie grind,
and like make a career out of being
like a complimentary player.
I saw Jason Terry become, in my opinion,
one of the most decorated hoop stars of all time....
- Facts.
- ... and still not get appreciated.
This isn't like, "Oh, we're all from spread-out areas, bro.
We're all from....
- The heart of the city, yeah. - ... a concentrated area,
bro, South Seattle.
- Let's transition to our offspring, bruh.
Like how cool is it being a dad?
- I just want to be here, man!
I got a grind-up schedule, brother.
But like right now, as it stands, I got five jobs.
I remember being in the gym, and just lookin' up
and like my dad's there. You know what I'm saying?
Scoring a touchdown, my mom's there.
And I know they was tired.
When I get done with work, I'm not done with work,
because the most important work happens in this home.
- Right. Listen, I commend you, 'cause I see
you grindin' and workin' with 'em.
For me, I have somebody to look up to.
One, no just being, you know, trying to follow
in your footsteps, and being, you know,
the greatest athlete, or whatever.
But just trying to be
a better man, father, husband, all that!
So....
- You were a fantastic all-around athlete,
better than I ever was. And then now
you're transitioning into media space.
So....
- So speakin' of that, we were just about to -
that was my next question.
So what is that like - transitioning
from, you know, being on the other side?
- There is a certain disconnect between
athletes and the media that reports on the game.
And I remember when I got done playin'
I was trying to figure out
what I was gonna do next, you know?
It all came to like a crashing halt when I was
sitting at home watching my highlights on a iPad
as if it was a completely different dude.
And I was like almost envious of that guy.
And I was like, "Man, I want to get back in the game."
Mind you, I'm coming off a broken arm,
and a torn hamstring with Cleveland, and they cut me.
And I was so in my feelings about being
cut by the Browns, these teams calling
me to basically play sub, that like
I just told myself I would never play again.
And that was the main reason why I retired.
Most people don't know that,
but I was like, "Man, I'm not gonna
keep chasin' the game," 'cause the way
I look at the NFL, bro -
and this is the way I feel like most athletes
look at the sports that they get involved in -
it's HER, and it's an acronym for this everlasting romance.
So my relationship with football
was like a relationship with a woman.
I met her when I was young, played Pop Warner.
I was scared before I was intimate.
I dated her because it reminded me
of the same type of woman my father dated.
He was a football player.
Wanted to be like my dad.
High school, it's puppy love.
Playin' other sports, I don't know if
it's gonna be the one I choose.
College, we get engaged.
I'm committed, but you never know what can happen.
I might not get married to her.
In the NFL, I propose, she says yes.
Eleven years our marriage lasted, a tremendous love affair.
Then there was bad times, bro, where
I got injured, tore my ACL, broke my arm.
And then, right at the end, when I'm trying to like
pick up the relationship, and pick up all these pieces,
she looks at me, and she's like,
"Yo, we gotta talk. I'm movin' on without you.
I found somebody else." Which is a younger player, right?
"And I'm happier, I'm happier."
And you're like, "F***!"
And it's just like ... it's a blow to you.
So that's why like my ego, it was too big for me
to chase her back down.
- That's deep! - Because I knew
that she moved on.
So once I came to the realization that I need to go into TV,
that's when I looked at the NFL.
And I looked at HER, and I was like,
"Baby I get it." And the only thing I could say
was it was real while it lasted.
And an analogy with relationships, TV became my new love.
And now, I'm interviewing J-Lo, fam!
Like.... - Man, listen, listen.
- I interviewed Al Pacino!
- I can't even.... - Robert DeNiro!
- Look, I can't even, I can't even....
- It's crazy!
- I can't even ... just like it's mind-blowing
even to just be with you here right now.
Because it's the same thing
that's happened to me transitioning.
Same thing with basketball.
People tell me now, "Yo, you still
should be in the league."
I said, "I should, but I'm not about to just keep,
you know, going back like I'm begging to get back."
I'm fine, I'm good, I'm having fun.
And you know, luckily, E.J. came to me with this,
you know, with the "Houseguest,"
and he was like, "Bro, I think
you'll be perfect for this."
I didn't think I'd be doing stuff like this.
- Like I tell my wife, tell my kids - like I tell my agent -
when it comes to business ... and like I'mma tell you, bro,
"We just gettin' started!" - Man, I'm with that,
I'm with that, all the way!
- Takeover is just gettin' started.
- Man, well listen, man, that's what it is.
Y'all know what it is, "Houseguest."
Nate Burleson episode been lit, mind-blowing.
I hope you guys really stay tuned to this.
'Cause, you know, Nate always got something cooking.
- That's right! - You know what I'm sayin,
Nate's always got something cookin'!
Y'all just stay tuned.
"Houseguest." Man, we out!