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...LT, it's pure physics. "If you're lower than a tackler, you have better leverage, and he can't stop you from going forward," he explains. Since Tomlinson slithers, he's also less likely to take direct hits, keeping him durable. He has never missed a game because of an injury, a remarkable feat in the bone-breaking...
Tomlinson started his own football education in Waco, Texas, at 9 and later became a student at Emmitt Smith's running-back camp. "You knew he had that 'it,'" remembers Smith. LT even started sleeping with a football and didn't stop until his junior year of college at Texas Christian University, where he led the nation in rushing in consecutive years. "The ball would lie in his arms like a girlfriend," says Tomlinson's younger brother LaVar, 24. "And I can never remember that ball being on the floor." He who fails to fumble in slumber won't cough...
...falls on deaf ears in a league full of showboaters: Don't hog the spotlight. Are you listening, Terrell Owens? "I don't like the attention," Tomlinson says. "It's annoying at times." Although he would still be the league's top player on almost any other team, LT showers constant praise on his teammates, and the endless accolades he receives cause him consternation. When the best player in football suppresses his ego, how can anyone else call attention to himself? "It's learned behavior," says Chargers tight end Antonio Gates...
...LT could use a relaxation class. He might be the most stressed-out superstar on earth. Personal tragedy has weighed on his mind this season. An aunt to whom Tomlinson was very close died suddenly in June, and his wife's aunt passed away later in the summer. On a less personal level, the expectations of a sun-splashed, championship-starved San Diego-- the Chargers have never won a Super Bowl, the Padres a World Series--fall squarely on Tomlinson's stout shoulders...
...always look at myself in the mirror and ask, Am I doing enough?" he says. "I worry about a lot of things and honestly don't think I'll ever be stress free." Calm down, LT. Your team is going to the Super Bowl. It's in the cards...