JJ Watt always wanted to be a football player. He never had it easy in football, he always had his setbacks. He never really had it go his way ,but his parent’s never lost faith in him and always believed in him. He like the challenge and it drove him to do better. JJ Watt is now one of the best defensive players in the NFL.
JJ Watt was born in Pewaukee ,Wisconsin on March 22 ,1989 to John and Connie Watt and had two younger brothers named T.J and Derek. He appeared in a newspaper article when he was seven. He was ask who his favorite football player was. He answered “Reggie White. He’s a good football player. They played really good Monday night. I want to be a football player.”. That was his first real confession that he wanted to play football. JJ Watt went to Pewaukee High School where he played quarterback ,but wasn’t very good. He then settled at both tight end and defensive end. That was his first hiccup in his life. He always wanted to be a badger for Wisconsin ,but he had to settle for Central Michigan due to an injury in his summer before senior year. He left Central Michigan because he said “This is not what i was looking forward to.”. He went home
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for a year to work before he could get into Wisconsin. He finally became a Wisconsin Badger in 2008 and played football for them. When he was picked for the Texans in 2011 he wasn’t liked much.
Houston fans didn’t like that their 11th pick was JJ Watt. He got booed on his first game that he ever played for the Texans. On his first game he got a fumble recovery and returned it for two yards. He was pressuring the quarterback the whole game. He ended that game with five tackles he didn't receive any sacks. His first NFL sack was in week three when he sacked Drew Brees. By the end of his rookie year he had won over Texans fans. During that first season texans won their first AFC South title. JJ Watt ended his rookie season with 16 tackles, 13 tackles for loss he also had five and a half sacks and swatted down four passes. He had won NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year and set a record for batting down passes at
16. JJ Watt has always given back to Houston from charity to just helping out. When he was still at Wisconsin he established they Justin J. Watt Foundation. Watt said that the foundation’s goal is “to provide after school opportunities for middle school aged children in the community to become involved in athletics, so that they may learn about accountability, teamwork, leadership and perseverance while in a safe and supervised environment with their friends. He has always helped out even before he some to the NFL. JJ Watt was never driven by money ,buy just to play football. He never spends much time partying and with girls. He has only been seen with a few girls in his time at Texas. He is Houston’s most eligible bachelor. He never wanted to have ,much money or to be greedy with it. He gives it to his mom and family to help them in their life since he doesn’t need it. He has payed off any mortgage that his family has. JJ Watt has never given up on that dream of playing football , and he got to play it for a living. He is the top defensive player and was rewarded for all his hard work. He owns it all to his parents that never gave up.
Jerry Rice was a hardworking brick layer with his dad and his siblings. He found out about football from school when the coaches there picked him up. Jerry Rice was very talented and caught the eye of college scouts and was enrolled at Mississippi Valley State University in 1981. Through his 4 year college career, he hauled in 4,692 receiving yards and collected and 18 Division I-AA records.
Charley Johnson is a very talented NFL quarterback from NMSU that not many people know about. Having accomplished so much, I feel that people should. Bleacher Report’s Brendan Majev, ranked him the 91st greatest quarterback of all time. He was drafted 10th round by the St. Louis Cardinals. After playing with them and the Oilers, he ended his career with the Denver Broncos in 1975. Topics gone over in this essay include his early life, his college football career, his NFL career, his army career, and his education.
When Barnes entered junior high school, he became interested in dating and knew that the only way he could get attention from the girls was to play junior varsity football.
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Deion Sanders, also known as Prime Time, is probably one of the most successful athletes in the sports world. Not only did he start off young as a football star, but he also was able to become a pro baseball player as well. Ever since high school he's been a star: his goal was to become a famous, wealthy, and admired athlete. Playing both football and baseball, he was able to achieve this goal. Sanders is the only man to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series. He became an all star from a young age, playing basketball, football, baseball, and track. He was able to letter in all sports and took his skill and talent with him to Florida State University to further his career. Though he had all this success, Deion Sanders eventually ran into his own problems and drama creating much controversy, marriage and religious conflicts, and almost ending his career. But he was able to learn from these experiences and shape his future in a positive way.
Strengths The Pittsburgh Steelers have many strengths that separate them from their competitors in the National Football League. Strengths are what give drive to the fans, players, coaches, and other members of the organization to continue the success of the past as the organization moves into the future. Some of the main strengths of the Steelers’ organization are winning, stability, location, and the fan base. Many other strengths stem from these four core strengths, all of which help to validate such an established organization.
Joe Montana was born on June 11, 1956 in New Eagle, Pennsylvania in a small town called Monongahela (Wiener 15). When Joe was growing up, he began playing organized sports at the age of 6. He played basketball, baseball, and football. He was always better at baseball and basketball. He was more athletic than everyone else and usually won in any game he played (Wiener 16). Once Joe was in highschool he stared in every sport but football, he could dunk a basketball and hit the baseball very far, but he never really stood out in football (Wiener 17). Well, until his sophomore year of high school Joe finally got to play some, he went in only in situations where they were getting beat bad. A few games that year they would put joe in when they were down a lot and he drives
Jack William Nicklaus, born to Charlie and Helen Nicklaus on January 21, 1940 in Columbus, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and attended Upper Arlington High School. In high school he played basketball and his high school gave him All-Ohio honor, he even received some scholarships, one of which was to Ohio State, the school his dad went to, but his true love was for golf. His golf career started at age ten when, for his first time playing golf shot a 51 on nine holes. From then on he won many tournaments in Ohio, including the Ohio Open. At age seventeen he competed in his first U.S. Open and at eighteen he played in his first PGA tour event. He attended Ohio State University, not because of basketball, but because of golf. While at Ohio State he won the U.S. amateur tournament twice, and the NCAA championship. Also during his Ohio State stay he played in many majors and having not won any, he finished in the top ten every time except for one where he finished thirteenth, and we have to remember this is while he was stil...
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But with grace they let him have his choice on which high school to attend. Tebow came to national prominence by his junior year. He was known for his throwing and running ability and his intensity of competitiveness. Later that year, he injured his right leg during the first half of the game. He thought it was just cramping so he played the rest of the game including a twenty-nine yard rushing touchdown. It turns out it was a broken fibula and not cramping. After the game when they realized what the actual injury it was, he was held out of the rest of his junior
He wasn’t starting at running back because of Thurman Thomas, who would later go on to be a star in the NFL. Even though Barry was in this situation, he still continued to work as hard as he possibly could in both his school work and football career. He studied nonstop and was shocked by the high demands from a Division One school. In an interview with “Sporting News” after he had completed college, Barry said, “I remember my freshman year we didn’t have any days off. I couldn’t believe it, and it never got any better. They pretended [football] wasn’t the main thing you were there for, but you were doing to 50 or 60 hours a week. I fell behind in my schoolwork” (Mueller 1). When Barry wasn’t studying or doing school work, he was always trying to get better. Coming into college in the fall, he was very small, only about 5’8, 170-175 pounds. With all the lifting and other workouts, he was up to 200 pounds by Christmas Break. He was all legs. With all the hard work, Barry finally got playing time his sophomore year. He returned punts and kickoffs. In his first game doing this in the 1987 season, Barry returned a 100 yard kickoff for a touchdown. At the end of his sophomore season, he led the nation in kickoff and punt returns. Then his junior football season came around, and he finally made his start at tailback. Once again, Barry shocked everybody in just his first few starts being the first to rush for 300 yards in his first 4 games. By the end of the season, he had broken a total of 13 records including most touchdowns with 39, most yards with 2,628, and yards per game with 295.5. Barry’s hard work in the the past three years payed off as he won the Heisman Trophy his junior year in 1988. Interestingly, Barry had to recieve the award via satellite he was in Tokyo preparing for his next game against Texas Tech. He was only the eighth junior to ever win the
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