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BE THE BALL

By A Nike 3005 Collegiate Football (as told to Eddie Matz)
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

109,626. That's how many people are here in State College, Pa., to see if Illinois can slow down Penn State's new Spread HD offense. The crowd—larger than the population of Erie or Berkeley or Green Bay—is sitting through this rainy, late-September night to watch 22 guys knock the snot out of one another. But no matter whose number is called in the Nittany Lions' grab-bag offense, all eyes will be on me, because everyone is here to watch football. And I am the football. Gulp. I ...

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