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MikeMaslowski
12-06-2009, 05:39 AM
I just got done watching the movie "The Blind Side". It's got me wondering about any of our players.

Any good stories that I've missed?


Have another beer on me! :thumb:

Maz
MoreLemonPledge
12-06-2009, 05:44 AM
Jamaal Charles has overcome mild retardation to become the man he is today.

Seriously, have you ever talked to him? I like the guy, but he should thank God every day for football.
crazycoffey
12-06-2009, 06:29 AM
hali
Slainte
12-06-2009, 07:11 AM
Joe Phillips
Warrior5
12-06-2009, 07:16 AM
hali

I second this.
rambleonthruthefog
12-06-2009, 07:59 AM
hali

tamba has quite a story. i believe he got to see his mother for the first time in over a decade a year or two ago.
DaFace
12-06-2009, 09:33 AM
tamba has quite a story. i believe he got to see his mother for the first time in over a decade a year or two ago.

Yep. If you dig up some of the articles about Tamba from the year he was drafted, you can hear about his past. I can't remember the details, but I believe he left his family at a very young age to come to the U.S. Much of his energy was devoted to getting his mom into the country when he was first drafted.
Stewie
12-06-2009, 09:40 AM
Jamaal Charles has overcome mild retardation to become the man he is today.

Seriously, have you ever talked to him? I like the guy, but he should thank God every day for football.

He's on Chiefs Insider right now being interview by Mitch Holtus. He seems pretty normal to me.
DaFace
12-06-2009, 09:43 AM
Here's one of the articles about Tamba.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=82586
Bwana
12-06-2009, 10:07 AM
hali

Exactly
RJ
12-06-2009, 10:15 AM
Mark Castle had been a backup since his days in pee-wee football. There are pictures of him holding a clipboard on the sidelines as far back as 3rd grade. His becoming a starter and signing a $63 million dollar contract is one of the most inspirational stories in NFL history. A Horatio Alger tale on steroids.
MikeMaslowski
12-06-2009, 11:40 AM
Mark Castle had been a backup since his days in pee-wee football. There are pictures of him holding a clipboard on the sidelines as far back as 3rd grade. His becoming a starter and signing a $63 million dollar contract is one of the most inspirational stories in NFL history. A Horatio Alger tale on steroids.

I believe the "Mark Castle" legacy will only be important when he does something....
ElGringo
12-06-2009, 11:44 AM
I remember watching a game and the announcers made the comment when Hali told his mom he was playing football, she thought it was soccer.
Marcellus
12-06-2009, 11:44 AM
We sat with Hali at the KO Luncheon. Before he came to the table a Chiefs representative came over and gave us some 50yr Anniversary pins and asked us to please not ask Tamba about Africa he does not like to talk about Africa.

He must have some issues dealing with that part of his youth.
-King-
12-06-2009, 11:48 AM
We sat with Hali at the KO Luncheon. Before he came to the table a Chiefs representative came over and gave us some 50yr Anniversary pins and asked us to please not ask Tamba about Africa he does not like to talk about Africa.

He must have some issues dealing with that part of his youth.

Wasn't he fleeing a war when he came here? That must be why he doesn't like to talk about it.
Pablo
12-06-2009, 11:56 AM
Tamba's story is pretty gatdamn good.
MikeMaslowski
12-06-2009, 11:59 AM
Tamba's story is pretty gatdamn good.

Can somebody post his story on here, as well as any other deserving player?
Pablo
12-06-2009, 12:01 PM
Can somebody post his story on here, as well as any other deserving player?DaFace did in post #9.
'Hamas' Jenkins
12-06-2009, 12:01 PM
Hali left Liberia when he was 10. His dad (who left several years earlier and was a teacher) got him and one of his other siblings (IIRC) out.

Liberia was in the midst of a civil war; child soldiers, death squads, just a general fucking mess.

I'm sure he saw many things that just cannot be unseen.
-King-
12-06-2009, 12:01 PM
Can somebody post his story on here, as well as any other deserving player?

Here's one of the articles about Tamba.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=82586

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stlchiefs
12-06-2009, 12:13 PM
Our kicker, Mr. Irrelevant.
MikeMaslowski
12-06-2009, 12:57 PM
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I'm not much of a link clicker.
Pablo
12-06-2009, 01:33 PM
I'm not much of a link clicker.Neither am I...I suppose.

:spock:
kcfanXIII
12-06-2009, 01:41 PM
Our kicker, Mr. Irrelevant.

as great as that story is, doesn't hold a candle to hali.
Wyndex
12-06-2009, 01:44 PM
dwayne bowe was born in miami, his mother and father had drug problems and he was raised by his grandparents. he was in and out of trouble growing up but after a night club incident in which he was severely beaten he decided to try football (his junior year in high school) rest is history
MikeMaslowski
12-07-2009, 02:23 PM
No more stories?
KCChiefsMan
12-07-2009, 02:30 PM
ya Tamba Hali has one hell of a story.
MikeMaslowski
12-07-2009, 02:37 PM
ya Tamba Hali has one hell of a story.


Really? Tell me........:shake:
CoMoChief
12-07-2009, 03:26 PM
The story of Len E11iot

How one kicker came to a city......tore their hearts out from their ass just by a poor performance in one single game.....and then fled town to the middle of nowhere, never to be seen or heard of again.


I mean that's an academy award winning script for a movie, folks.