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No. 1 pick relives high school days

By Sam Alipour
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Monday, October 12, 2009

Click here to read the 2005 RISE Magazine feature on Matthew Stafford. For most of us, the hit TV show "Friday Night Lights" is escapist entertainment, a fantasy world featuring top-flight football and unimaginable pressure acted out by impossibly attractive actors. Matthew Stafford isn't like most of us. When the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NFL Draft tunes into the drama series about high-stakes Texas high school football, he's checking for accuracy. The former Georgia Bulldog and current Detroit ...

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