- May
- 6
We seem to be getting some good mileage and strong comments about that Danny Ware blog I mentioned a few entries back. Here’s another one for any of you link-happy Georgia fans.
By the way, if Ware indeed becomes the third back in what was the Earth, Wind, and Fire backfield, he doesn’t want the departed Derrick Ward’s “Wind” designation. He wants to be known as “Water.”
“H2O is one of the most important resources known to man,” Ware wrote. “I transform whenever my environment changes. When it’s hot, I’m in my liquid form and can move through any boundary. When it’s cold I freeze and turn to ice. And once I get rolling, nothing can stop me.”
He writes a good game, this Ware. Guess we’ll all see what kind of running back he can be come training camp. If it’s okay with you, I’ll withhold judgement until then.
EP
Posted by Ernie Palladino on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 at 10:14 am | 
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- May
- 4
You might have read about the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility collapsing under heavy winds Saturday, injuring three people severely. What you might not have realized is that one of them, special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, was a coach with the Giants during the Dan Reeves era.
DeCamillis was just learning the special teams trade when Reeves, his father-in-law, gave him the job of special teams coach in 1993. In 1996, the year Reeves was fired, his unit led the NFL with 32 punts downed inside the 20.
DeCamillis, 43, followed Reeves to Atlanta after that, and stayed there until 2006. A stay at the Jaguars followed, and was just hired this year in Dallas.
DeCamillis suffered a fractured cervical vertebrae, and was scheduled for stabilization surgery today. He is expected to recover full mobility.
Richard Behm, a 33-year-old scout, was more severely injured, as a fractured cervical vertebrae severed his spinal cord. He is paralyzed below the waist.
UPDATE 9:15 p.m.: Cowboys just moved an update indicating DeCamillis’ surgery went well and he’s in stable condition.
EP
Posted by Ernie Palladino on Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 3:58 pm |
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- May
- 4
Not much happening on the Giants front as they prepare for the weekend’s rookie minicamp. But I wanted to call your attention to a wonderful little story in The Post about Lt. Col. Greg Gadsen, the serviceman who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq and subsequently became the motivational impetus behind the Giants’ 2007 Super Bowl run.
The last time I saw Gadsen, who Tom Coughlin made an honorary co-captain, was the day after the Super Bowl, in the hotel as the Giants boarded the buses home from Phoenix. He was in a wheelchair then, but upbeat and optimistic as usual. A few weeks later, he was learning how to use prosthetic legs at Walter Reed. Now, he’s one of the world’s first amputees to be outfitted with computerized legs that are as close to the real thing as one can get.
You know what would be nice? If Gadsen showed up at Giants camp this summer and walked into the huddle on his own power, without a cane.
EP
Posted by Ernie Palladino on Monday, May 4th, 2009 at 11:02 am |
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- May
- 1
A backup running back like Danny Ware starts his own website. Either that, or he thinks he’s going to be a starter in the very, very near future.
Anyway, doesn’t look like a bad place to stop and visit. Pretty slick if you ask me. What do you think?
EP
Posted by Ernie Palladino on Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 2:10 pm |
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