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Brian Banks, still chasing his NFL dream
The thing you can't help but notice about Brian Banks is an absence of anger. Take 10 years of a man's life for a wrongful felony conviction and you assume the words will come from a burning place, ready to scorch everyone who sent him to prison and left him to rot.But what has amazed the NFL people for whom Banks has worked out the last few weeks is how planted he appears.
He is thoughtful and deep. Everything he says has power. When he talks, other players listen,need wear the discount cheap nfl jerseys . "He doesn't seem to carry hatefulness or a grudge," one of his trainers, Gavin McMillan, wrote in an email this month.Banks is 26 and has lost part of a high school and almost all of a college career. Five years spent in prison and five more trying to prove his innocence have all but ruined his dream of being an NFL linebacker.
He almost certainly will not make a roster this fall.Still, the NFL needs Brian Banks. It needs him very much.The league he is trying to make is one filled with dissent. Several players withgoogle jerseys are fighting bounty suspensions despite what the alleged believe is any real evidence to justify the punishment. Many in NFL circles are furious with commissioner Roger Goodell for edicts that appear to come for the sake of public relations. The fires of last summer's lockout still smolder.
Somewhere there has to be a place for a man with an amazing capacity to forgive.Everyone knows Banks' story by now,and all know he like thecheap Nike nfl jerseys. He was an aspiring football star in Long Beach, Calif.until a female classmate accused him of rape after they mutually made out in a hallway at the school. He says his attorney urged him to plead guilty, saying that as a black man he would face a 40-year prison sentence if he didn't. He got a six-year sentence and went away at age 17.
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The thing you can't help but notice about Brian Banks is an absence of anger. Take 10 years of a man's life for a wrongful felony conviction and you assume the words will come from a burning place, ready to scorch everyone who sent him to prison and left him to rot.But what has amazed the NFL people for whom Banks has worked out the last few weeks is how planted he appears.
He is thoughtful and deep. Everything he says has power. When he talks, other players listen,need wear the discount cheap nfl jerseys . "He doesn't seem to carry hatefulness or a grudge," one of his trainers, Gavin McMillan, wrote in an email this month.Banks is 26 and has lost part of a high school and almost all of a college career. Five years spent in prison and five more trying to prove his innocence have all but ruined his dream of being an NFL linebacker.
He almost certainly will not make a roster this fall.Still, the NFL needs Brian Banks. It needs him very much.The league he is trying to make is one filled with dissent. Several players withgoogle jerseys are fighting bounty suspensions despite what the alleged believe is any real evidence to justify the punishment. Many in NFL circles are furious with commissioner Roger Goodell for edicts that appear to come for the sake of public relations. The fires of last summer's lockout still smolder.
Somewhere there has to be a place for a man with an amazing capacity to forgive.Everyone knows Banks' story by now,and all know he like thecheap Nike nfl jerseys. He was an aspiring football star in Long Beach, Calif.until a female classmate accused him of rape after they mutually made out in a hallway at the school. He says his attorney urged him to plead guilty, saying that as a black man he would face a 40-year prison sentence if he didn't. He got a six-year sentence and went away at age 17.
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