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Jared Lorenzen article from this month's ESPN Magazine.

Riggies : 8/21/2014 11:33 pm
He's obviously been the butt of a lot of jokes, but this was a good read that gets into his life and long-time problems with food.
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steve in ky : 8/21/2014 11:53 pm : link
That was a nice read. He certainly (and understandably) cherishes that Super Bowl victory with the Giants.

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But he was there on the sideline for Super Bowl XLII when the Giants beat the 18-0 Patriots in the David Tyree game. Lorenzen still has a bag of confetti from the field. He still has his bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue in its special case -- Michael Strahan gave one to everybody on the team. Lorenzen has never taken the bottle all the way out of the case.
I'm with Steve  
montanagiant : 8/22/2014 12:22 am : link
That was really a great read
Great read about a prety interesting football journey.  
j_rud : 8/22/2014 12:24 am : link
Gotta wonder how good he could've been if he could've kept his weight in the 240 range. His arm was incredible.
That article...  
Gary from The East End : Admin : 8/22/2014 12:43 am : link
...makes me want to go downstairs and get on the treadmill right now.

Wonder if he could have gotten baryatric surgery.
Nice article  
walm0 : 8/22/2014 7:12 am : link
It's a shame he couldn't control his weight!
Sad to see him done.  
Big Blue Blogger : 8/22/2014 7:33 am : link
I guess it's surprising he was able to play as long as he did without getting his weight under control. His compulsions have already cost him a lucrative career. The real battle is just beginning, and his heart doesn't seem to be in fighting those demons.

His story isn't so different from Will Hill's, really. Obviously, junk food isn't illegal in any of the fifty states. On the other hand, obesity is probably our #1 public health problem. Pot might not be in the top 100.

I hope Lorenzen doesn't wind up like Yul Brynner: a cautionary, posthumous poster boy for a lethal addiction.
Other than by all accounts Lorenzen  
steve in ky : 8/22/2014 8:06 am : link
is a high character guy and Hill apparently isn't. I really don't see them as similar as you do.
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BrettNYG10 : 8/22/2014 8:45 am : link
The article's nauseating in its defeatism and lazy fat logic.
Agreed, Brett.  
GiantFilthy : 8/22/2014 8:48 am : link
Fat logic is a serious obstacle this country will have to hurdle (though most are too fat to jump).

Disgusting.
Even if you buy the idea that Hill is a complete scumbag...  
Big Blue Blogger : 8/22/2014 9:11 am : link
...and Lorenzen is a choirboy, they have in common that they flunked one test: endowed with the athletic talent and career opportunity to provide for their families and generations of descendants, they both succumbed to an addiction incompatible (for different reasons) with that opportunity.

Whether you call it a test of character or will or something else, it seems to be a common thread, even with the obvious differences.
RE: Sad to see him done.  
jcn56 : 8/22/2014 9:39 am : link
In comment 11818762 Big Blue Blogger said:
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I guess it's surprising he was able to play as long as he did without getting his weight under control. His compulsions have already cost him a lucrative career. The real battle is just beginning, and his heart doesn't seem to be in fighting those demons.

His story isn't so different from Will Hill's, really. Obviously, junk food isn't illegal in any of the fifty states. On the other hand, obesity is probably our #1 public health problem. Pot might not be in the top 100.

I hope Lorenzen doesn't wind up like Yul Brynner: a cautionary, posthumous poster boy for a lethal addiction.


Obviously at the core they have the same problem, addiction, but the perception of Hill is different for reasons other than weed vs. food. Hill's arrest for failure to make child support payments and the news running stories about he neglect of the apartment he had rented and his inability to pay back rent and damages sure as hell didn't help. Then there's the fan frustration over that addiction; Lorenzen was a nice joke as a 3rd string QB, whereas Hill was a guy we could use (and needed) on the field.
jcn56: At 250 lbs, he could have been a lot more than a 3rd string QB.  
Big Blue Blogger : 8/22/2014 10:37 am : link
At 300+ he was an undraftable joke.

Hill is more frustrating because his off-field compulsions don't affect his performance on the field as directly, so we get to see him performing at peak effectiveness - when he's not suspended. We know how good he can be, because he actually is that good. With Lorenzen, there's no way to know how good he might have been. The talent was certainly there, but no team ever put its fate in his hands. That's partly because the QB position is just too crucial, and partly because his weight was a direct impediment to performance.
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