Eddie George

The question for my report is, What impact has Eddie George had on sports. Eddie George played a big role in the world of football. He and Steve McNair led the Tennessee Titans to the Superbowl, but they lost. Eddie George was 8, just another young kid on the neighborhood playground who fantasized about winning the Heisman Trophy, when his mother, Donna, began to get his life in the order she wants him to grow up in. "Eddie would never stop," said Donna's mother, Jean McCarthy, whose yard in suburban Abington Township, served as one of her grandson's playgrounds. "His friends would be saying, come on, Eddie, we gotta rest, we gotta rest, but Eddie would say, no, no, we gotta play, we gotta play. "He was always running," Jean McCarthy said. "No surprise to me he turned out to be a running back."(7)

As Eddie was growing up, he put team goals before his. He wanted to play football, he wanted to go to college by playing football, he wanted to win the Heisman Trophy, and he wanted to play in the pros. His mother Donna said, " to fulfill those goals, you have to build up your character." She was the "architect" in the family. Eddie, 22, and his sister Leslie, 25, who works for an insurance company in suburban Philadelph

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And you know what? George hears all the criticism. It has been George, who has kept the offense chugging along while quarterback Steve McNair has slowly matured. (5)

However, "the single- parent" is misleading for despite the circumstances, Eddie and his sister were reared in a structured, loving and religious environment, not only by their mother, but by her parents Fred and Jean. His respect for his schoolwork was starting to diminish because of peer pressure.

Eddie attended Catholic grade schools for six years and like most other boys that age, he loved sports. Then, when he was fourteen, she let him fly on his own to Penn State's football camp in central Pennsylvania. Because when he pushed his team during the Superbowl, other players might have been thinking of how they can push their team during the next season. When Donna's brother Derek came to visit them, he stopped by his old school. A few days later, Eddie's teacher told Donna the real reason he wanted to go to summer school. The day his mother took him to the airport to go up to Penn State, she gave him some money to get his hair cut before they left.

The 6-foot-3, 240-pound George is among the strongest and most durable backs in the league, a punishing runner who has averaged more than 300 carries a season every year he's been in the league. "I got on the phone to Fork Union and told them to send me an application. Eddie said it was what all the other guys were doing, getting initials cut in their hair.

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