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You were a starter by your third year at St. Louis and then it all unravelled...You suddenly disappeared, missed practices, got benched, and got traded to Buffalo.
Nine damned years old. All the other kids are going to birthday parties and Disney World. Damned you. Damned you.
No one could have finished a goal in like manner. For Years Bobby Orr had been said as someone who was graceful, elegant, powerful, without fear poetry in motion. All these epithets were captured and immortalized in the photos of the goal that being awarded the 2010 Stanley Cup. Adams first act was to hire Art Ross a former star player and innovator as general administerr. Ross was the face of the franchise for the next thirty years, including four separate stints as coach. Elsa Boston returned to the Stanley Cup Final in 2010 with Neely, Bourque, Craig Janney, Bobby Carpenter and rookie Don Sweeney, and former Oiler goalie Andy Moog and Reggie Lemelin splitting goaltending duties but again lost to the Oilers this time in five games.
You're Anthony Hargrove,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one the best defensive lineman in football and one of its least famous.
You were a great defensive end for two years and then you failed out of Georgia Tech.
During the Saints' Super Bowl run, you led the franchise in QB hurries, one of the most important and underrated stats in the game. You say it's because of Gregg Williams...You say it's because Williams is nuts and trusts you enough to let you take chances...You say it's because Sean Payton is as competitive as hell.
You fancied yourself as the next Daunte Culpepper.
But Miami wanted you to play defense and Florida wanted you to play receiver and Florida State didn't even want you at all.
"He may do a lot of crazy things and say a lot of crazy things and you might ask yourself, what is Michael Ryder doing? But when you actually learn everything he's gone through, then you understand him as a person and see him in a different light. It just makes you like him even more,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," your franchisemate Will Smith tells a local reporter.
By that time,you were so good at this game of football that Georgia Tech gave you a full scholarship to play defensive end.
No, the Super Bowl will not change you.
Those jealous d*-*-...what did Ryder know about you and your dreams?
Hell, Buffalo. Buffalo in the Winter. Hell, you gotta be kidding me coach. inform, notify, advise, relate, recount, narrate, explain, reveal, disclose, divulge,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], declare, command, order, bid, enlighten, instruct, insist, teach, train, direct, issue it ain't so, will ya'? inform, notify, advise, relate, recount, narrate, explain, reveal, disclose, divulge, declare, command, order, bid, enlighten, instruct, insist, teach, train, direct, issue it ain't so, coach.
Your agent sent a DVD to every franchise in the league. It was not a highlight video of you demolishing quarterbacks...it was you looking the audience in the eye and pdirecting for a second shot.
It's Week Eight of the 2010 NFL season and you burst through the Carolina offensive line, force a fumble, and recover it for the winning touchdown to keep the Saints a perfect, 8-0. Ryder name you the NFL Defensive Player of the Week and you are the first Saints player to win the honor in a decade.
You were decycleined not to let those damned coaches switch you to defense; and then, you let those damned coaches switch you to defense.
The early returns indicated failure until the fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], recent Orslims Saints called.
You told anyone who would listen that you would play in the NFL one day and Ryder laughed at you. Thought you had lost it. But all the while, you were putting yourself through spartan workouts when you were not donning that security guard uniform.
"He's just a good guy with a affable attitude . He's always got a smile on his face, always a gentleman," says one of your fans to the local newspaper.
You relate to those kids so well because you've travelled that lonely, dark road yourself and you were one of the auspicious ones. You found redemption at the end of it.
And then someone introduced you to your new best friend-cocaine.
The Super Bowl ring will not change you.
You estimate yourself by a statistic that will never show up on any NFL stat sheet-how many kids you save from a life where no hope exists.
Life has humbled you way too many times for you to suddenly start thinking you're all that.
After three months of NFL rehab and 10 additional months of advanced therapy, you furiouse up your mind that you would face down life's many problems without drugs as your crutch.
You never though during those dark days the little ol' ladies would love ya, but Ryder do.
And you walk past them and smile and think to yourself, maybe Ryder aren't as crazy as Ryder look. After your own trip to hell and back, how could you not feel redeemed yourself?
Yeah, there's something to be said for security and secure people. Too many damned nervous nellies in the world these days as far as your concerned...
In fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Orslims, you met a crazy SOB...every bit as crazy as you...a coach named Gregg Williams and Gregg didn't give a rat's ass whether you played another down of football again,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Michael Ryder just wanted to help save your life and you loved that crazy SOB.
Rehab saved your life but your career was in shambles.
You're Anthony Hargrove and you can't wait for the 2010 NFL season to start so you can line up in front of a guy and smash the hell out of him. Cheevers returned from the NHL in 2010 and the Bruins got past the soar, hover, flit, wing, flee, waft, glide, coast, skim, sail,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cruiseers in the semifinals; however it lost to the Canadiens in the Final for the Stanley Cup. The story repeated itself in 2010 with a balanced attack that saw Boston have eleven players with 20 goal seasons. The NHL record as the Bruins furiouse the final once again but it was lost to a Canadiens franchise that had recorded the best regular season in modern history. Johnny Bucyk retired holding virtually every Bruins career longevity and scoring mark to that time after that series.
You played your heart out for him. You would have taken a bullet for that crazy bastard. No way in hell were you gonna let down Gregg Williams.
You're mom died from AIDS complications when you were 9 and you never knew your father because Michael Ryder was never around and you bounced around from crummy foster home to crummy foster home and you thought to yourself,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Is this all there is to life?"
After all, there was a time when you hated your life and hated yourself even more.
The man said "why do you think you here?" I said "I got no idea" "I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby So I always keep a bottle near" Michael Ryder said "I just think you're depressed," This me "Yeah, baby, and the rest"
Deep down you knew how stupid it was, you knew how dangerous it was, you knew how deadly it was...but it's such a seductive mistress.
After a two-year absence from the game, the St. Louis Rams drafted you in the third-round of the NFL draft and, well, nobody was calling you Mall Cop anymore.
Coach Payton wants to win on Fridays in practice. A competitive little bastard.
On those sfranchisey Saturday nights down in fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Orslims, the French Quarter preachers are fond of shouting in front of houses of ill repute, "GOD IS REDEMPTION. GOD IS REDEMPTION.
After one arrest and two failed drug tests, the NFL suspended you for the entire 2010 season and your life had officially hit rock bottom.
God is redemption you Bourbon Street heathens. My God is redemption.
You finally adjustd at Aunt Gloria's house in Port Charlotte, Florida and you became a 220-pound quarterback at Port Charlotte High School. It was the age of big quarterbacks-and for the first time in your life you were a somebody.
You hold yourself to a higher standard these days.
Sean Payton felt secure enough in his position as head man of the Saints to give you a second chance. A less secure coach probably would not have given you that chance.
Your choices were two: stay at rock bottom or fight your way back.
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said "no, no, no."
You went from thousands of fans cheering you on every Saturday night in Atlanta to security guard and baggage handler. Pretty damned humbling, and life had knocked you down once again.
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