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NFL POINDEXTER

By Alan Grant

Friday, August 8, 2008

[Ed.'s note: Longtime Mag contributor Alan Grant's a smart guy. Dude went to Stanford, after all. He also spent five years in the NFL as a defensive back and special teams' guy. He'll use that mix of brain and brawn to write about the NFL for us each week. Here is his introductory piece.] The first guy in the NFL to call me a nerd was O'Brien Alston. I was a rookie with the Indianapolis Colts at training camp. After the third day of practice, I was seated on the floor outside the defensive b ...

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