Word: nfl
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...group of Nike marketing executives gathered in a fourth-floor conference room on the company's Beaverton, Ore., campus and looked into the future. On the whiteboard were the names of five possibilities for the company's next big sponsorship push. Two of them, the NFL and the NBA, were in sports where Nike was well established, but the other three represented worlds where Nike was all but unknown: the Brazilian soccer team, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and a teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow...
...football field, where New England Patriots receiver Darryl Stingley took the intentional hit from Oakland Raider Jack Tatum during a 1978 exhibition game. Tatum, who defended his play, saying "My best hits border on felonious assault," was not penalized, never apologized and later wrote books billing himself as an "NFL assassin." Stingley visited paralyzed players, started a nonprofit group for inner-city kids and forgave Tatum. "It was only after I stopped asking why," he said, "that I was able to ... go on with my life." He was 55 and suffered from numerous ailments related to his quadriplegia...
...account for the fact that they played it and even organized their own leagues in the early 20th century--when they had less money, less access to space because of segregation, fewer resources, and faced more rigorous racism? And blacks make up about 70% of players in the NFL, even though football requires just as much green space, organization and uniforms...
...tiny Grambling State University on the national map. Until 2003, when John Gagliardi of St. John's topped him, his 408-165-15 record over 56 years made him the winningest coach in college football. But he was proudest of the 200-plus players he sent to the NFL, including Paul Younger, the league's first player from an all-black school, in 1949, and Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams, who in 1998 succeeded Robinson as Grambling coach...
...Harvard’s linemen. And for them, with the simple goal of protecting the quarterback or opening holes for the running back comes another objective: being big. Real big.A typical Harvard lineman is around 6’4” and weighs in at 275 pounds, while NFL linemen tip the scales at an average of 300 pounds. How do they do that, you ask? They eat. And they eat a lot. They eat as much as they can, and sometimes even more. Eating becomes almost another form of training. After all, it takes a special something for someone...