onlydarksets
09-30-2005, 09:39 AM
There's way too much use of "heroic efforts" to describe NFL players these days. This is what I would call a heroic effort - someone who does what they are told they lack the ability to do. It's just unfortunate that there is always someone in the crowd that is working against them. (http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050922/COL03/509220387/1082/SPT)
The story spilled from the page like blood. It ended up where all these stories end up, in the center of my stomach, dead. Next to it was a picture of the player, a Dayton high school footballer named Bobby Martin. He has no legs.
The story said the referees told him he couldn't play. They leaned on a national high school rule that says every player has to wear shoes, thigh pads and knee pads.
Even players without feet, thighs or knees.
SI has a members-only article (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/09/27/gallery.martin/content.1.html?cnn=yes).
The story spilled from the page like blood. It ended up where all these stories end up, in the center of my stomach, dead. Next to it was a picture of the player, a Dayton high school footballer named Bobby Martin. He has no legs.
The story said the referees told him he couldn't play. They leaned on a national high school rule that says every player has to wear shoes, thigh pads and knee pads.
Even players without feet, thighs or knees.
SI has a members-only article (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/2005/09/27/gallery.martin/content.1.html?cnn=yes).