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Shawn Springs on his business philosophy!\n\n". . .the way a football team is structured is very similar to how I structure my business. You've got the admin side, and the people who take care of the game experience from the sales, and marketing, and all the different things, the stadium. And then you've got the players. . .Who actually perform on the field. And that's like my engineers, and industrial designers, and people. . . I have one rule I live by. If I'm the smartest person in the room, then I leave."\n\nShawn Springs - Entrepreneur, Innovator and Former Pro Football Player, and Andy Ockershausen in studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen in a wonderful moment with a very dear friend, a man who used to work at this very radio station where we're doing our recording, who did a sports show. And this is not about sports. I want to tell everybody that this is about a human being and his great accomplishments, and a very dear friend, Shawn Springs, a local boy that grew up here in the Washington suburbs. And I just found out he was born in Williamsburg, Virginia.\nShawn Springs:\tBeautiful Williamsburg, Virginia.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tShawn, welcome to Our Town.\nShawn Springs:\tHey, I'm happy to be on it. Andy, we're beyond friends. I'm like your and Janice's adopted son. You know? I'm just a little darker, that's it.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell I know so much about you, and there's so much about you I don't know. But you keep it that way with everything, but I won't tell anybody. So you can tell me.\nShawn Springs:\tOkay, that's right.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd the only, the millions of people that listen to Our Town will hear about it. But your dad had you in Williamsburg? Or was he ...\nSprings' Family Legacy's in Williamsburg, Virginia\nShawn Springs:\tYeah, so my parents had me very young. They were seniors in high school.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWas he born in Williamsburg? Was he from Virginia?\nShawn Springs:\tMy whole family's from Williamsburg, Virginia.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWow!\nShawn Springs:\tI have grandmothers on both sides in Busch Gardens, so if you ever go tour the hometown, my beautiful hometown, and learn about the history of our country; you'll see that's my birthplace. I love that place.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWilliamsburg's a fabulous ...\nShawn Springs:\tEspecially in the Fall. I think everybody should, in your life, everyone should go see the Governor's mansion, see the hometown. And you know, growing up, there used to be a big thing about the Christmas parade down in Williamsburg, Virginia. They still have a little parade down there. I think we all should go check that out.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tStill big time, huh?\nShawn Springs:\tEh ...\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell why didn't you go to William & Mary?\nShawn Springs:\tWell, come on, you know ...\nAndy Ockershausen:\t'Cause that's a big part of Williamsburg.\nShawn Springs:\tWell, I thought about it, but Andy, you've got to have immaculate grades to get into William & Mary. Although I was the Student Athlete of the Year in the Washington, DC area, I couldn't turn down the opportunity to go play for the Buckeyes.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut you grew up in Silver Spring, or what is now Silver Spring?\nShawn Springs:\tMm-hmm (affirmative).\nAndy Ockershausen:\tSilver Spring's gotten so big now. I remember it was a crossroads, and now ... Of course, I've been around so long. But Silver Spring is so big now, and so much going on. And that was where you went to high school, at Springbrook.\nCoach Bob Milloy\nShawn Springs:\tYeah, at Springbrook High School, and I played for the legendary Coach Bob Milloy. If you haven't had him on the show ... I think we have had him ...\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd we talked about Shawn Springs, sitting right next to me.\nShawn Springs:\tAnd hopefully he said some good things. I think I was his very first pro that he had. And it's amazing, because since then, there's a lot of guys, from Stefon Diggs,