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...for giving this guy a shot:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,236766
I read about this guy before the draft and hoped that he'd get a look somewhere.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,236766
One of the rookies invited to this weekend's New York Giants minicamp will be older than every player on the team's regular-season roster.
Brandon Crawford, 33, will get a tryout with the team beginning Friday. If the former Ball State defensive end were to eventually make the team's roster -- a longshot -- he'd be the oldest NFL rookie since 1946 and likely become the most senior player on the Giants roster. Not bad for a guy who took a decade off from the sport.
After getting arrested and watching his college football hopes vanish in the 1990s, Crawford worked a few jobs and eventually enlisted in the Marines. He was discharged after four years and used the money he earned from his service to enroll at Ball State at 29. Despite the long layoff from football, he made the team, helped them to two bowl games, was named to an all-conference team and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. And he did this all while being older than a handful of the team's coaching staff.
Brandon Crawford, 33, will get a tryout with the team beginning Friday. If the former Ball State defensive end were to eventually make the team's roster -- a longshot -- he'd be the oldest NFL rookie since 1946 and likely become the most senior player on the Giants roster. Not bad for a guy who took a decade off from the sport.
After getting arrested and watching his college football hopes vanish in the 1990s, Crawford worked a few jobs and eventually enlisted in the Marines. He was discharged after four years and used the money he earned from his service to enroll at Ball State at 29. Despite the long layoff from football, he made the team, helped them to two bowl games, was named to an all-conference team and graduated with a degree in criminal justice. And he did this all while being older than a handful of the team's coaching staff.
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