* Clifton is now the left tackle for the Green Bay Packers, and Ofenheusle, a star left tackle for the University of Tennessee, was drafted in 2003 by the New York Jets.
* Not his real name.
* From Playa Fly, “Crownin’ Me”: “Nigga’s ask me…/ If I ever reach the top will I / forget about them…/ So I ask nigga’s if I don’t reach the top, will yall forget / about me….”
* The data for defensive end pay, because it includes the salaries of both ends, underestimates what was paid to the ends, like Chris Doleman, coming off the blind side, who tended to be paid a lot more than their counterparts on the other side. For salary data, the author would like to thank the front office of the San Francisco 49ers and the NFLPA.
* He called only after I’d found Bobby Spivey’s name and pestered him to use his status as legal guardian to learn what he could about Michael’s early childhood.
* Exodus 6:12: “But Moses said to the Lord, ‘If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?’”
* In the end, the Freak accepted a football scholarship to Ole Miss, in part, he said, because he wanted to play with Michael Oher.
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