Great Story, As Nate Boyer Offered Contract By Seattle

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  1. NBHorn7

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  2. Dionysus

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  3. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Nate is the Man!:hookem: :texasflag: :usflag:
     
  4. HornSwoggler

    HornSwoggler Horn Fan

    Love to see people rewarded for hard work and dedication as well as being a good role model. :hookem:
     
  5. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    :hookem: He'll do well in the league. Great read about dedication and determination. I wish we had more similar stories about sports figures.
     
  6. Godz40acres

    Godz40acres Happy Feller

    "You fall in love through the process with guys and give people opportunities for different reasons all through the draft," Seattle general manager John Schneider said. "Through a good friend of mine I've become aware of who this guy is at his core and what he represents and what he's done every single year at Texas and three tours and coming out of high school, he's just a phenomenal person. And he's a competitor, and he's tough and he represents a lot of really, really cool things that quite frankly I think will be good for all of us to be around."
    [Full ESPN article here]
     
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  7. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    Not to sound like a douche, but the NFL doesn't reward players for any of that. They only care if he can deliver and clearly they think he can.

    I care that a great hard working talented role model made it. Good for Nate and a bonus for the NFL!!
     
  8. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    l Horn 4 Life, post: 1388623, member: 21770"]Not to sound like a douche, but the NFL doesn't reward players for any of that. They only care if he can deliver and clearly they think he can.

    I care that a great hard working talented role model made it. Good for Nate and a bonus for the NFL!![/QUOTE]
    Actually, I think that's exactly what they are rewarding him for. Seattle signed their long snapper to a new 4yr deal just after the Superboawl. Boyer is being brought in much like Russell Wilson was for the Rangers. Ultimately he's a very positive influence to have in training camp but the chances of making the roster are remote. I wish him the best though.
     
  9. shaggy refuge

    shaggy refuge 500+ Posts

    If he doesn't make Seattle(I hope he does not), someone will pick him up! He's more than a long snapper. He's a football player.
     
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  10. gahornphan

    gahornphan 500+ Posts

    He was just on "Fox and Friends."
     
  11. snek

    snek 500+ Posts

    He was on The Rich Eisen show. I think it was yesterday.
     
  12. Godz40acres

    Godz40acres Happy Feller

    Here's another one published in STARS and Stripes. Some things you've read before, but overall very good stuff dealing with his arrival at the Seahawks. This first part should make you want to read more...

    Green Berets thrive on anonymity, on secrecy.

    This weekend is absolutely not that.

    Nate Boyer, 34-year-old veteran of three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, walked up to the podium just beyond the Seattle Seahawks’ lush practice field. He squinted into the sun, into the cameras trained on him, into the reporters five rows deep wanting to talk to him.

    “I wasn’t expecting this,” he said on his first day in the NFL as a Seahawk.

    The former Staff Sgt. Boyer was standing beside one of the NFL’s most modern and opulent team headquarters, on the shores of Lake Washington. It was a perfect Northwest spring day.

    It was also a world — another lifetime, really — away from deserts and tanks and patrols, former workplaces such as Najaf, Iraq, and the Kapisa Province of Afghanistan.

    “It’s an amazing place. I had no idea!” the most unlikely undrafted free agent long snapper in NFL history gushed during this Seahawks’ rookie minicamp that runs through Sunday. “It’s unbelievable.

    “To be able to say I am officially an NFL player — for as long as it lasts — is amazing. It is hard to describe.”​
     

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