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1097852 What I noticed most about this episode is how badly I was limping during the walking scenes in the woods. By the time this airs, I'll have had surgery on my right ankle. I'm probably just days away from running a 4.6 in the 40.  Wait. I never ran a 4.6 in the 40. Maybe once. In track shoes. With a roll start. With a guy not stepping on the watch very quickly. I do remember one 40 I ran in about 5.4. That's not very fast. It was a free agent tryout for a CFL team held down in Las Vegas, about two years after I'd finished school there. I was told it was an exclusive tryout. Then I found out it was exclusive to any of the 400 ex-college players who had heard about it. They had us run 40s into winds right around 60 mph. I didn't get out well. I nearly got blown over about halfway through. I didn't even get to throw during the drills. I wasn't asked to come to camp. I recall watching the movie Thief, with James Caan. I didn't watch it with James Caan. He was in it. I was watching it in the apartment of another player who ran a 5.4 40 that day and a few others who found a way to run under the wind but still weren't invited to camp. Anyway, a bunch of guys not invited to camp watched James Caan in Thief. Good movie. What I was trying to get to here was how James Caan kept pulling out this little collage of pictures he carried with him. The pictures told the story of his life. Running a 5.4 40 into 60 mph winds and watching James Caan pull out his little collage is part off my collage. In mine, I have a picture in my mind of running a really slow 40 and then watching a movie that really got to me. Whether I'm soon to run a 4.6, a 5.4 or something in between, I don't know. At this point, who cares what my 40 time is? For that matter, who cares what the 40 time of any of the current players is? Do they stop games and run 40s? What I took out of that 5.4 40 into the wind was no matter how bad things seem, you don't give up on yourself. You keep running. At some point the wind might even be behind you. <object width="440" height="361"><param name="movie" value="http://espn.go.com/broadband/player.swf?mediaId=4299662"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://espn.go.com/broadband/player.swf?mediaId=4299662" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="440" height="361" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object> true

2009-07-14T14:59:09Z

89121 4 Feed the Tape

2009-07-14T17:34:52Z