Julian Edelman Says 8-Year-Old Daughter Lily Likes the Chiefs More Than the Patriots: ‘It’s Tough’

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00:00Your daughter making the trip to New Orleans with you?

00:02She got school, so she will not be making it.

00:05Daddy's got to work.

00:06He does.

00:07I know.

00:08So maybe soon.

00:09Soon.

00:10Soon.

00:11Yeah.

00:12We'll bring her to a Super Bowl.

00:13Definitely.

00:14It's a lot.

00:15I mean, there's so many logistics.

00:16Of course.

00:17I don't even...

00:18You know, the Super Bowl's a lot.

00:19Mm-hmm.

00:20Passes for this, pass for that, line, this, that.

00:24I mean, it's chaos.

00:25Yeah.

00:26Are you going to try to score her a Taylor Swift autograph, though?

00:28Oh, definitely.

00:29Definitely.

00:30We'll get that.

00:31Yeah.

00:32I mean, try.

00:33Dude, help me out, dude.

00:34Have you met her?

00:35I have not met her.

00:36Okay.

00:37Mm-hmm.

00:38Maybe did I meet...

00:39I may have met her in 2010.

00:40Oh.

00:41Back in the day.

00:42Well, she played at Gillette, and I brought my sister to her concert.

00:47Mm-hmm.

00:48And you know who opened for her?

00:50It was like a 13-year-old Justin Bieber.

00:52Wow.

00:53And I walked...

00:54I met him, too.

00:55I don't know if we met.

00:56I think she may have...

00:58It was like people...

00:59I don't know.

01:00Sure.

01:01Yeah.

01:02What do you think of the extra eyes on football?

01:03I think it's great.

01:04Yeah.

01:05Mm-hmm.

01:06I think it's great.

01:07I mean, it's growing the sport, and that's what we all want.

01:09It's the first time that I'd be sitting on a couch, and all of a sudden, my daughter,

01:14who's eight years old, is starting to talk about football to me.

01:17Mm-hmm.

01:18You know?

01:19And I'm a football player, so I think it's been so cool for that aspect.

01:23You know, it's bringing all my daughter and her friends.

01:26They all talk about the Chiefs, this, that, and I mean, it's tough for Dad being a Patriot.

01:29I was going to say, what about the Patriots, right?

01:31I know.

01:32She still loves the Pats, but she probably knows more players...

01:37Yeah.

01:38No, but it's good.

01:39It's good.

01:40Right.

01:41You're like, don't you want to watch the highlight reel of like the Super Bowl?

01:42Hey, sit down here, baby.

01:43This is 10 years ago with your old daddy.

01:44I mean, look at what I did.

01:48What is the most challenging and rewarding part about being a dad right now?

01:52Challenging?

01:53Challenging is like dealing with the things that you can't control as a parent.

02:00When they go to school, they learn about this, they learn that, the other little kids, you

02:06know?

02:07That's challenging and like the phone stuff, like she's eight years old already talking

02:12about a phone.

02:13I'm like, you can't get a phone until you're 15, 16, maybe 19.

02:16Right?

02:17Like I didn't get a phone until I was driving.

02:20So I would say the phone, the friends and trying to keep that all in control, I would

02:28say the best thing is just...

02:31The best thing is when you see them progress at something they've been working at.

02:35You watch her and she's been struggling with her times tables or threes or something and

02:40like two weeks prior she couldn't do it and then all of a sudden she's starting to do

02:44it better.

02:45Or on the soccer field or when she's on the piano.

02:49Seeing her progress is like the happiest I get.

02:52That's like when I win a Super Bowl is when I watch her do something that she's been trying

02:55to do and finally do it.

02:57Yeah.

02:58It's fun.

02:59It is fun.

03:00It is fun to see them kind of achieving the next goal and the next step and yeah, but

03:03I totally agree with you.

03:04It's the outside things that are the most challenging.

03:06It is.

03:07Yeah.

03:08And then, and all, you know, it's not even her.

03:10It's the other people.

03:11It's the other parents.

03:12It's the other people.

03:13I get it.

03:15It doesn't matter how you parent.

03:16Right.

03:17Okay, I'll parent the way I parent.

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