Tamba Hali
Tamba Hali
Tamba Boimah Haliis a Liberian-born American football outside linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played college football at Penn State, where he earned All-American honors, and was drafted by the Chiefs in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft...
explain feeling gone happened hard maybe people produce seen situation somebody today war
It's hard to explain to somebody what it's like when they haven't really gone through it. We produce a lot of war games, and we've seen (on TV) what happened in Iraq. But it's hard to explain to people what it's like to actually be in that situation and feeling like maybe today I could die.
knew
I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.
blood file
When you file for a person you have to be a relative, blood born.
amateur contact reached sponsored united uses
We got in contact with him from the airport. He uses amateur radios, and that's how we reached him. He sponsored us to come to the United States.
football great prove team week
We've got to prove that we can be a great football team week in and week out.
happening
We didn't know what to do. Then it started happening all the time. So we went into hiding.
contact hard knowing relief stable
Before it was real hard getting in contact with her because we didn't know where she was. Now she's in a stable place. It's a relief just knowing she's doing better.
drop pressure time
We weren't going to let them drop back and pass. Every time he went back, we got to him. The pressure was great. They weren't going to get down the field.
file married
We were blood-born (to his father). He was already (remarried) here. She was married as well. So she couldn't file for her.
bodies maybe people road side stack
Sometimes you'd see a lot of people killed, sometimes maybe just a person. Sometimes you'd see a stack of bodies on the side of the road as you were walking.
bodies road side sitting stack
Sometimes it would be a lot (of people). Sometimes it would be just one. Sometimes you'd see a stack of bodies sitting on the side of the road while you're walking.
couple flee mother
After a couple of times of this, my mother and (stepfather) thought (the kids) should flee the country.
game thinking
You never come into a game thinking it's going to be easy. But everything really went our way in this one.
bring trying
That was 1994. But I'm trying to bring her over now. My sister, too.