Around the NFL: Offseason edition 2.0

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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

It's the sad side of football. Many of the athletes have very low intelligence, have a hard time reading / writing - all they've got is their athletic skills to get them out of poverty. Colleges slide them through because they want a national championship and don't care if the player is even literate. Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Dexter Manley who said that all the way through college he could barely read?

YOU are correct. I think it was after football that he actually learned to read.