**"I told her to watch the guy holding the ball—my job is to go get him."

That's what then-Kansas City Chiefs rookie first-round pick Tamba Hali had told his mother, Rachel Keita, back in 2006, when she had made her first trip over from Liberia to watch her son play football.

Hali had left the war-torn country when he was just 10 years old, and his mother was forced to stay behind.

Hali and his mother hadn't seen each other in over a decade, and during that time, Hali had become a standout football player at Penn State, ultimately being selected in the first round (No. 20 overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Chiefs.

This game against the San Francisco 49ers would be the first time she ever saw her son play football, and to this day, it's memorable for many reasons.

It was the third game of the 2006 season and Hali had racked up 11 tackles in his first two career games but hadn't yet brought down a quarterback for a sack.

With his mother, unacquainted with the game of football, in the stands, Hali recorded the first tally to an area of the box score that would soon define what is now known as "TAMBATIME."

"I remember the [dreadlock] beads coming out of the helmet—the visor," former 49ers and current Chiefs quarterback, Alex Smith, recalled of Hali. "I remember having lots of problems in there that day.

"It was not fun."

Smith was in his second year for the 49ers after being drafted No. 1 overall in 2005, and on this October day back in 2006, he would become the target of Hali's first career sack.