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Titolo: [NFL] Marshall Faulk officially announces retirement

Massimo potrà sicuramente rendere omaggio meglio di me ad un grandissimo 
runningback degli ultimi anni.
Prossima fermata Canton
      Marshall Faulk officially announces retirement
            NFL.com wire reports
      PHOENIX (March 26, 2007) -- Marshall Faulk 's decision was easy 
after spending last year working for the NFL Network: At 34, his body is 
more suited for a television studio than for the rigors of playing 
running back.
      After sitting out last season because of a knee injury, Faulk 
officially announced his retirement. He's ninth on the NFL's career 
rushing list, 33 yards behind Jim Brown, who at one time was the 
standard for the position.
      Faulk is fourth in combined yards from scrimmage with 19,154 yards 
and his 6,875 yards receiving are the most ever among running backs.
      "Just being around the game last year, I realized how much I love 
it," Faulk said. "But my health is everything. And I didn't want to 
return if I couldn't get through a full season. It all came together 
when a close friend asked me 'How many 34-year-old running backs are 
there?'"
      Faulk starred at San Diego State, where he rushed for 386 yards 
and seven touchdowns in his first game, and led the nation in rushing as 
a freshman.
      He was the second pick overall in the 1994 draft by Indianapolis 
and was offensive rookie of the year that season.
      He was traded by the Colts to St. Louis in 1999, where he became 
part of "The Greatest Show on Turf" with quarterback Kurt Warner and 
receivers Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt. The team won the Super Bowl after 
the 1999 season and was upset two years later by New England in a Super 
Bowl that many critics thought the Rams would have won had Faulk carried 
the ball more often.
      Faulk noted that he had an unusual role in the development of that 
team -- the injury during a 1999 exhibition game in San Diego to Trent 
Green that forced the Rams to go with Warner, an untested, undrafted 
free-agent backup at quarterback.
      "There's kind of an unwritten rule among veterans in those games 
that when the play is over, you stopped," Faulk said. "I was blocking on 
Rodney Harrison and we had some things going between us. But I kind of 
let up and he kept going and he hit Trent. So when Kurt was forced to 
play, I kind of felt responsible and really wanted to make up for it."
      He did.
      He was voted the league's Most Valuable Player and offensive 
player of the year that season and won the offensive honors the next two 
years also. In that 1999 season, he ran for 1,381 yards and a 5.5 
average and caught 87 passes for 1,048 yards.
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a freshman.
Non un caso che quella sia stata l'ultima volta che gli Aztecs sono
entrati nel ranking universitario. Un grandissimo.
Diego

 Diego
Diego, segui pure le sorti della locale squadra universitaria?
Dovrebbero insignirti della cittadinanza onoraria :-)

 Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt.
trio delle meraviglie...
Ciao
Lupo
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Diego, segui pure le sorti della locale squadra universitaria?
Più che altro a quei tempi, quando si vinceva qualche partita! ;-)
Diego