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>> but every real sports fan has had a moment when an athlete has failed and said, i can do better than that. >> on your mark, get set -- >> on this episode, youre about to find out all the reasons you cant do better than that. ♪ ♪ going for a touchdown, sharpshooter from this court. youre looking at the spirit of america. >> i grew up resenting sports. when youre a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over 6 feet tall, every conversation goes to, you play basketball. i o...

failed and said i can do better than that. >> marks get set -- >> on this episode, youre about to find out all the reasons you cant do better than that. >> woo! ♪ >> for a touchdown, a sharpshooter from the midcourt. were looking at the spirit of america. >> i grew up resenting sports. when youre a black kid who everybody knows is going to be over six feet tall, every conversation goes to you play basketball. i only did in eighth grade. i went the whole season without scoring a point...

>> cry up, cry up, cry up. >> cry up, man. >> so come on, everybody. lets cry up. because we all know, it aint just athletes who need to practice and process emotion. >> be vulnerable. if youre not vulnerable, youre not a real man, sorry. >> i just read, im just standing here. okay, ill be more vulnerable! >> it shouldnt be complicated. athletes are human. no matter how much better they are at the physical part of being human, theyre just people. even tom brady. and we cant care about their phys...

Choked up talking about the racist emails of then coach jon gruden, many people took this as an opportunity to call randy moss soft. randy moss is one of the greatest nfl players of all-time. if he cant cry, who can? >> we often look at athletes as machines. and we do not look at them as humans. right? we have a saying, you know, when people cry, we say, cry up. hold your head high when you cry. >> oh. >> 80 up. >> thats deep. >> yeah. >> darius payton is a senior youth specialist at the becomin...

All those pieces together. >> sorry, bub. i didnt mean to throw a ball to somebody wearing a baseball glove. my fault. >> but obviously, throwing a baseball well doesnt mean youre a man, right? but in the world of sports, we often connect masculinity to physical and mental toughness. vulnerability is weakness. >> national football league, this hurts me. >> so when nfl hall of famer randy moss got choked up talking about the racist emails of then las vegas raiders coach jon gruden, many took the ...

>> i failed out of college three times. got my degree. >> the lessons that ive taken from that, that has all become a part of me. but now im able to impart that to yall. and to see the way that yall are achieving, the way yule are kick life in its ass and just loving life and being able to freely express yall selves. >> yeah. >> when i think of my goals and my accomplishments, yall are my accomplishments. >> cry up, cry up, cry up. ♪ >> so come on, everybody. lets cry up. because we all know i...

You are saying that it is not necessarily the drama but looking like you are emotionally engaged. >>guest: there is a difference. the president got kudos during the campaign for being for drama obama, removed from the back and forth of politics. where people want more, particularly with president obama in oklahoma city, an emotional connection and president obama after 9/11 indignant and emotional, and we miss some of that and in tucson he started to do it and looked uncomfortable but it was mor...