Selection Son Day
Published 4/26/2008 by Adam Kilgore at Wash Post NFL
NEW YORK -- When his son was born, Howie Long told his Oakland Raiders teammates that he would never play football. Howie knew the toll the sport took on his body. When Chris Long arrived at Virginia on a football scholarship as a defensive end despite his father's early misgivings, he initially...
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