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Player X: Team chemistry overrated

By Player X
ESPN The Magazine

Sunday, October 25, 2009

This column appears in the Nov. 2 issue of ESPN The Magazine. A lot of oxygen is wasted talking about team chemistry. How do you get it? Keep it? Lose it? How badly do you need it? Hell if I know. Players don't really think about it. How much do you and your co-workers worry about office chemistry? What I can tell you is a football team has its issues, its cliques, its share of eye-rolling at the boss. And fistfights. It's a lot like your job, except for that last part. Most of the time, an ...

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