Its not just about making a playoff run, Tony, now a television analyst, tells EW.
To me, Chris is the hero of the movie.
He is the hero in this.
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He is your average American chasing the dream, Tony says.
Hes like aTerminator: He will not stop until he gets his goal, and thats inspiring.
EW talked to Tony about his documentary, which premiere on Showtime tonight at 9 p.m. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What made you want to document what you thought was going to be your final season?
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TONY GONZALEZ:It didnt start out that way.
It was kind of something that evolved.
[Michael] Strahan, Wayne Chrebet I cant remember who the other person was.
So they start following us, then Andrea came to me and shes like, You know what?
This is a great story.
Theres much, much more there.
This is a better story to be told.
Once they gave me the premise of it, of course I was excited about it.
I never thought about it like, Hey, this is a great story.
It is kind of rare, the relationship [my brother] and I have.
You shared a recording of your stepdads reflections from the hospital, before he died.
What life lessons did you glean from him?
I asked a broad range of questions about myself and my brothers, and I gave it to him.
We all got a CD.
The thing that I would take away…
The family, too.
And teenage boys, too.
Maybe the worst time for children to get a new parental figure.
And he handled it great.
It wasnt easy at all, Im sure, for him.
Hes my brother, is the way we look at it.
How did you two push each other?
The way we always do.
Even if we dont agree with it … were going to listen.
Your mother says Chris always loved football more than you.
He got you into it.
Do you wish Chris was able to play in the pros?
I look at it all the time.
I even say that in there: I dont know why.
I didnt ask for it.
Genetics plays a big part of playing a professional sport.
I dont care what you do, its probably not going to happen.
Its very, very tough.
Yeah, of course.
Ive always wished it was somewhat different for him, but thats his path, though.
Hes going to make a great fireman someday.
Did you end up shooting footage in your actual last season?
It didnt go that way not even fing close.
Whatd we win, two games?
It was a disaster.
The Falcons won four.
I dont even remember.
Put it that way [laughs.]
