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Some people were surprised after the end of the 1988 season when Gicewicz was named the captain for the 1989 squad. First, because he was a nose tackle. On the gridiron, the nose tackle position is about as glamorous as working the drive-thru shift at a local McDonald's. When you talk football, you mean running backs, quarterbacks and wide receivers. Nose tackles just get their uniforms dirty...
Second, because he was already a senior, which meant that he would have to take the spring semester off in order to remain eligible. The reason? Gicewicz wanted one more season to play. Cool...
Then came the profile "Stir Frey" wrote about Gicewicz and his roommate, Harvard tight end Kevin Collins, who also took a semester off to play another year. In the article, "Stir Frey" described Gicewicz as a "philosopher on football." I couldn't believe it. How could football be philosophical...
Once the season began, I began to learn that, yes, football and philosophy do mix. And Gicewicz had mastered the subject...
...Gicewicz a question, and he would talk. Not just say what most sportswriters are used to hearing (e.g., "We have to take this season one game at a time"). Gicewicz would talk as if every word meant something. He is the type of player who could find different answers to the same questions. In other words, he was a sportswriter's dream...