Saturday We Find Out If All the Work Was Worth It Doug Brown

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What followed was six days a week of scripted exercise under the supervision of trainers who, when spotting you on a lift, could often be heard exclaiming that they "will let you die under that weight" unless you finish your set as instructed. This type of training, which last six months and takes you into June, is the type where you bring two T-shirts with you to work every day: one to wear to the workout and the other one to change into once you render the first useless by sweating through it until it is little more than cotton dripping off your frame.

For no matter how many transgressions may have occurred in the regular season, or how many jubilant moments there were, it is all forgiven and forgotten in the playoffs where everyone steps onto the field as equals -- save for those clubs lucky enough to have secured home-field advantage. Coaches try to get their players to understand the finality of the post-season by telling them "this is why you lift all those weights all year long." It is the purest and most exciting notion in all of professional sports and it stands alone as the appeal of professional football. You either win or you go home and we find out in four days whether it was all worthwhile.

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Saturday We Find Out If All the Work Was Worth It Doug Brown

On the eve of a one-game season, it is important for every single player to reflect on the journey they took to get to this point, if for no other reason than to put the moment into perspective. The 2...

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