Former NFL Kicker Dishes On Why He’s Running For Congress: ‘We Need People In D.C. Who Truly Want To Be Civil Servants’

Retired NFL kicker Jay Feely joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to shed light on what prompted him to launch a campaign for a House of Representatives seat in Arizona’s 5th Congressional district.

“My job isn’t to go to D.C. to help me to be self-serving. It’s to go, to represent my constituents and to be there to create a better future for our children and our children’s children. And so, I think we need, people who’ve already been successful. I’m a business owner. I was in the NFL for 14 years. I broadcast for the last 10 years for CBS sports, you know, doing NFL games. I gave up my broadcasting job, a great job that I truly love doing. You only had to work five months of the year. I got seven months off and I got paid well to do it. I give up that career to run for Congress because it means so much to me. You know, the day that President Trump got shot, that was a big day for me. I had already thought, been thinking about running for office. I’d said no a few times, You know, Jim Jordan and President Trump and I sat down at Mar-a-Lago a few years ago. We watched the UFC fight together, it was one of my favorite nights ever. So Jim grabs me after this event at Mar Lago, and I was just down there helping out the Republican Party, going to an event and he grabs me and he says, hey, do you want to watch the UFC fights with President Trump and I afterwards? I’m like, yeah, that sounds amazing. So I hang out afterwards, we go in and we sit out on this couch and it’s just the three of us sitting on this coach. President Trump plops down in between us. And we watched the UFC fights and talk politics for a few hours and they’re trying to get me to run for office then. And it wasn’t the right time because I had two girls in high school at home I didn’t want to think about leaving my daughters. We certainly weren’t going to move them while they were in high school. So when Andy Biggs decided that he was going to run for governor and it was an open seat in my district were my wife and I have lived ever since we came here to play for the Cardinals where we’ve done all of our work. You know, she was a teacher. I was on the school board All of our foundation work has been in the district. It just made sense that this was the right time. But I was willing to step away from my broadcasting job to run for this seat because I care about Arizona. I care but our country so much.”

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