In his own words - Glenn has game and drive to keep up with NFL's next generation
IRVING -- Cornerback Aaron Glenn has grown comfortable
with his role as resident sage in the Cowboys' locker
room.
As a 14-year veteran, he knows all and has seen all.
He is a father figure and sounding board to the younger
players -- many of whom were in high school when he began
his NFL career.
But Glenn can still hang in the locker room -- he has
rapper Lil' Wayne on his iPod -- and on the field. His
pass deflection led to Kevin Burnett's 39-yard interception
return for a touchdown in Sunday's 21-14 victory against
Indianapolis.
But don't be misled. Glenn, who wants to challenge former
Redskin Darrell Green's streak of 20 seasons playing cornerback
in the NFL, says his main focus is to finally get his
hands on a Super Bowl ring. That's why he came to Dallas
to be reunited with coach Bill Parcells last season and
why he's OK with being a nickel cornerback.
We have a chance. This team has high character guys.
Everybody is trying to reach the same goals. I think that
excites me more than anything. We are all striving to
get to the playoffs. As long as we get in, that is all
that matters. Pittsburgh just got in last year and won
it all.
Sometimes my son [Aaron II], he's 12, helps me adapt
to some of the younger generation. I've got some Roca
Wear and Sean John stuff. It's fun to go out and see how
I can adapt to being around the young guys. I give them
my iPod and let them put songs on it. I do well with the
rap music. I don't know it all. I got Lil' Wayne the other
day. I am an R&B man myself, Isley Brothers, Maze.
But I really like that Neo right now.
What's important to me right now is winning the Super
Bowl. I feel I could have gone somewhere and still been
a starter. But right now, in my career, just being able
to see my wife and kids and not being far away, that's
important. They are in a good school in Houston. And for
me to be far away or to move them would have been selfish.
Ronnie Lott was a big role model for me. I wouldn't say
Ronnie took me by the hand; he took me by the head and
kind of made me into the player I am today. How to take
care of your body, study, I learned that all from Ronnie....
I want to pass on the knowledge given to me so those guys
can do the same thing.
I think I can play for six or seven more years. Darrell
Green went 20. I am shooting for it. Darrell is a real
good friend of mine. He is from Houston. I continue to
pick his brain.
My wife [Devaney] and I are really close. We have been
together since I was at [Navarro Junior College]. We have
been together for a long time. She was a senior in high
school when I met her. We have been together ever since.
If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be in the position I am
in now.
I own a couple of franchises and I dabble in construction.
My franchises are Frenchy's [Chicken] in Houston. I had
some Williams [Chicken] franchises down here in Dallas.
I have a passion for playing. I don't think that is ever
going to leave. My wife tells me I am going to play until
I am 60. I don't know. That's the one moment I'm going
to dread. I'm going to dread the day I'm going to say
it's time to stop.
