A lot of times when you try to kick away from Ted and Tone it messes up the rhythm of the punter, ... Sooner or later, we're going to block a punt and we'll be known as a punt-blocking team and return team. That's the goal. |
I just like to know that my dad's out there helping and he's not just sitting at home watching them help, |
I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting. |
I think I was in on every one of Ted's returns last year and Tone's return, ... It's fun and you get to see things develop. A lot of times you know when Ted's going to take it all the way because you're right there seeing it happen ... and helping to make it happen. |
I'm a big, physical guy, so you've got to do what you can do to play to your strengths, ... I have fun hitting people. I have fun blocking for Ted (Ginn Jr.) on bubble screens and Antonio (Pittman) on running plays. It's something I have to do. |
It [fire] endangers the lives not only of folks that live near the woods, it endangers the lives of our firefighters. That's the thing that firefighters will take very personally. |
It kind of scared me a little bit because he didn't move and nowadays you see so many people go down with spinal injuries. I hit him head up so I didn't think it was that serious. I was glad to see him get up. |
It's as bad as you can imagine. Imagine it's as bad as you can think of, multiply that by 10, and you'll be somewhere near what the devastation is. |
Right now, I'm catching the ball and getting looks, but I have a lot of other roles. I'm playing special teams. That's my role now. |
This is the best. We had a lot of injuries and sickness. We lost matches from the get-go and people started counting us out. It was a total-team effort, and that includes the families, because kids had to make the commitment to cut weight to get us to this point. |
We had people come into our camp in the middle of the night saying, 'Hey, there's an old folks home, and they don't have anything,' and we're loading trucks in the middle of the night, so we can go back there and give them MRE's [military Meals Ready-to-Eat], or give them water, |
We still haven't had that explosive game that we want to have, but we will have it soon. |
We were able to feed ourselves out of part of the first one, and then we were able to take that aid to the community there, |
We've been fortunate to have kids come in and want to be part of this tradition. |
You never want to see anything terrible happen to another player like that. I was happy to see him get up, but when I got up, I was pretty amped up. That return was pretty big. |