Born on December 27, 1979, Carson Palmer is a young quarterback football player of the National Football League and currently plays under the Arizona Cardinals. Due to his remarkable physique and arm strength, he was an active football player in his college time where he played for USC and won Heisman Trophy in year 2002. Since 2003 he was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals for eight consecutive seasons after which he…
He is second all time in career receptions and receiving yards by a tight end…
Andrew Luck is an American quarterback for the National Football League. Currently he is the QB for the Indianapolis Colts. He attended college at Stanford University where he played football. He was selected first overall in the 2012 NFL draft. He was born in Washington DC but spent a lot of time in London where he picked up his love for soccer.…
In the NFL, there is always a player that ends up having a tremendous year. Such as Tom Brady, Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, and many more players. The New England Patriots tight end, Aaron Hernandez, was a remarkable player. He had started off pretty well, then the tables turned for him.…
In other football related stories, several former Packers players nominated for NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame. These include LeRoy Butler, Sterling Sharpe, Donald Driver and head coach Mike Holmgren are all nominated for the Pro Hall of Fame Class of 2018, according to Packers.…
Ray Lewis was born May 15, 1975 and is a linebacker who has played for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL since 1996. Lewis has been selected to eleven Pro Bowls and been named an Associated Press All-Pro nine times. He won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2000 and 2003; he was the sixth player to win the award multiple times. He was also the second linebacker to win the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award and the first linebacker to win the award on the winning Super Bowl team.…
There, the coach catapulted to fame by leading the Green Bay Packers into a winning team in two short years. The team went on to win five championship games, two of were Super Bowl tournaments. The NFL later named the trophy issued to winning team the Vince Lombardi trophy. The coach’s life inspired motion pictures and Broadway plays. Despite his stern demeanor, he had a gift for rallying players. Even through the most difficult challenges, he possessed a special talent for inspiring his players to…
a. Rated #34 all time football player, 8 pro bowls, 8 all pro and 2 superbowls.…
Regardless of Manning being released by the Colts, the Brady and Manning rivalry are a series of games between the two greatest quarterbacks in the NFL. As was previously stated, Brady has played with the New England Patriots since 2000 when he was picked in the sixth round of the NFL draft. Manning, however, was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, in the first round of the NFL draft and played for the Colts until he suffered a neck injury. “Brady, and Manning have played one another a total of seventeen times,” with Brady leading the series 11-6. Although Brady leads the overall series, the two are currently tied 5-5 over the last ten seasons (Myers 23). They’ve also met five times in the NFL playoffs, with Manning leading the series…
Michael Vick is an extraordinary example of a tragic hero. Although Vick doesn't come from some great monarchy,he was still a person held in admiration by fans. Vick is currently the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but getting there was very difficult after a series of downfalls that almost led to his demise. His mother worked two jobs to support him but still required public financial aid. They lived in a crime filled neighborhood in public housing. Starting at infancy, his life was surrounded by crime.…
Would you rather be a Peyton Manning fan and love the broncos or be a fan of the Indianapolis Colts who own a multi- million dollar stadium in downtown Indy. Most bronco fans where colts fan but changed to the broncos when they got Peyton Manning. Once again, the slight advantage goes to the Broncos. Quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck have remarkably similar statistics, but Manning has been better defended.In the defensive statistics, the two teams are very close but the Broncos have the edge in this category too.Here's what linebacker Von Miller had to say about the Broncos' pass rush in the upcoming playoff game:"That is every week. You want to affect the quarterback. You just don’t want to have it seven on seven. We have great cornerbacks—probably…
Michael Vick did not have the best childhood. Vick grew up in a city dominated by gang violence.Michael's family situation was not ideal. His mother,Brenda Vick, already parenting one girl,Christina. was only 16 when she became pregnant with him. His father, Michael Boddie, was just one year older. After five years they finally decided to tie the knot.Along the way they had two more kids, Marcus and Courtney .He learned from Aaron Brooks,A cousin of Michael’s. Brooks would go on to have a successful NFL career.Despite his surroundings he grew up being respectful ,and kind.When he was in grade school he also showed tremendous talent in baseball,but when he entered high school he dropped all of his other sports and pursued football.Vick went through two high schools.He attended Ferguson High School for two years. After it shut down in 1994 he was transferred to Warwick senior high.In 1997 Vick was one of the top 5 high school players in the country. On his varsity debut he passed for 433 yards on only 13 completions. At the end of his high school career his team’s overall record with Vick on the team was 20-13.He threw for 4,846 yards,and 43 touchdowns.He also rushed for 1,048 yards,and 18 touchdowns.Michael went to Virginia Tech for college (jockBio: Michael Vick Biography).…
Emmitt Smith is known as the record breaking Dallas Cowboy’s running back that led himself to a place in the hall of fame and his team to different spots in the Super Bowl. He is known as the man who broke the all-time rushing record and passed up Walter Peyton and Jim Brown to be known as one of the greatest men to ever see an NFL field. However, despite all his success on the field, you rarely hear about the fact that he’s almost more successful off the field.…
The difference between two NFL quarterback’s varies based on skill level and how much they want to succeed in the league. Not all Quarterbacks in the league will be hall of famers, and some of these players come into the league and will have to improve on their talents. Great quarterbacks ranging from Tom Brady and Drew Brees had to prove they were worth a starting job. For example, Tom Brady was a 6th round draft pick and was a backup behind another QB. He went down and Tom entered the game to prove his worthiness for a football team; and the rest is history. This leads up to an NFL quarterback, by the name of Mark Sanchez. This quarterback had the glory and praise during his college career unlike Brady. However, Sanchez was not able to capitalize on that in once entering the league, because as a quarterback his mechanics and decision making proved he was not that much of a great player as stated in his college days. College skills compared to NFL skills does not always mean the football player will succeed in the ruthless league off the NFL.…
The year is 2013 and it is the week of Super Bowl. It is also the week where my younger sister died. It was about seven years before this incident and it was always just in the back of my mind. This is the first time that I have really told anybody about this event that isn't part of my family.…