01-08-2015, 07:11 PM
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I wasn't sure where to put this so here it is. I have no idea if teams would take him seriously but I love his story. He'd fight tooth and nail for the position for sure. And be a great leader in the locker room. I don't know how solid our LS is. Would it be worth it for us to at least try him out?
It's a long but good article, the video is a Cliff's Notes version.
"<a class="" href='http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/players/193605/'>Nate Boyer</a> – Green Beret, Texas Longhorn football player, NFL's most improbable prospect – had just finished fixing a sat-com radio in the rear of an M-ATV, light-armored, mine-resistant vehicle. Now he was scrambling to get back to the relative safety of its cabin.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">This was July 2014. This was on a thin ribbon of road on the edge of Tagab, a small village in the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">This was war.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">Boyer was part of the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group, which he linked up with as a sort-of summer job, leaving major college football where he was Texas' starting long snapper for the field of battle, only to return to the States, and his team, on the eve of preseason camp."
I wasn't sure where to put this so here it is. I have no idea if teams would take him seriously but I love his story. He'd fight tooth and nail for the position for sure. And be a great leader in the locker room. I don't know how solid our LS is. Would it be worth it for us to at least try him out?
It's a long but good article, the video is a Cliff's Notes version.
"<a class="" href='http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/players/193605/'>Nate Boyer</a> – Green Beret, Texas Longhorn football player, NFL's most improbable prospect – had just finished fixing a sat-com radio in the rear of an M-ATV, light-armored, mine-resistant vehicle. Now he was scrambling to get back to the relative safety of its cabin.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">This was July 2014. This was on a thin ribbon of road on the edge of Tagab, a small village in the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">This was war.
<p style="color:rgb(95,95,95);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.1999998092651px;">Boyer was part of the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group, which he linked up with as a sort-of summer job, leaving major college football where he was Texas' starting long snapper for the field of battle, only to return to the States, and his team, on the eve of preseason camp."