He pointed out the fact on last night's Conan while talking about how he'll flash the ring to get out of a speeding ticket.
He and his team mates talked to ESPN about his short career:
I started in January of 1992 and left in August of ’93. There’s a side of me that would have loved to play. The time spent there I felt was very precious and I learned a ton. I was doing school, I was doing football and I was doing theater and those days really taught me about work ethic and what you have to do: You have to work really hard at the thing you love doing to be able to do it.
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And a photo of Joel at the Rose Bowl in 1992. Believe it.
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