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PlayersTribune.com: Josh Norman- Steal Your Bologna


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http://www.theplayerstribune.com/josh-norman-redskins-panthers/

JOSH NORMAN

CORNERBACK / WASHINGTON REDSKINS

I remember when I was a kid, nobody would pick me on their team for street ball. Not even my four older brothers would let me get on their squad. So when everybody was playing ball, I would be on the other side of the park all by myself, shooting Js on the crooked-ass rim with no net.

I’d wait for two or three hours trying to play. “Yo, I got next! Come on, man. I got next!”

But nobody was hearing it. The older dudes would just look at me like, “What the hell you gonna do about it, kid?”

I wasn’t going to do anything about it. I was skinny and shy. I’d be out there by myself, slamming the ball, yelling, crying …

At home, I had to hide my food. I’d always cook up some eggs, grits and bologna. We usually didn’t have enough money for bacon. We only had the po’ man’s meat. If I left my plate out for a minute, my older brothers would try to steal my damn bologna, and I was too small to stand up for myself.

Then one day, they made a mistake. They messed up. They let me put on a football helmet. They let me get in the dirt. Now, all of a sudden, the same dudes who used to steal my “next” were hearing a very particular sound. It’s a sick sound, really. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it.

It’s the crack of a football helmet obliterating some poor dude’s chest protector. Then you hear him wheezing. You see the spirit draining right out of his body.

At home and at school, I was shy. But when you put me in the dirt? I was transformed. I was a savage. From the first day I put on a football helmet I have repeated the same three words to myself every time I go out on the field: seek and destroy.

Seek and destroy everything.

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Best line is right here:

 

For real — I do not talk that much ****. Go ahead and look at the film when I’m mic’d up against Julio Jones. We don’t talk when we play. When I’m playing Mike Evans? O.K., I’ll give you that. We have some conversations. He’s trying to be about that life. I am about that life. You can’t get in somebody’s head who is already in his own head. I came up through the darkness. I was born in that. I was molded by that. I love it, man.

 

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That's beautiful...what an attitude, still playing with ferocity and a chip on his shoulder. Sounds like it's going to easily carry over to the Redskins and hopefully starts to infecting those around him. 

 

Breeland has come into his own, working side by side with Norman...oh man, I am ready for the season!

 

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