You Spend More Time With Navarro Bowman Than With Your Extended Family

by grahamfiller10 on Jul 16, 2009 2:56 PM CDT in Penn State Comment 1 comment

The other day I wrote:

4) CFB is has so many moving parts, perfect for sustaining football lust in the offseason. Your starting middle linebacker isn't just a static player - He has academics to watch, weight lifting (is he a workout warrior?), Spring Practice progress, statistics, game tape from YouTube, and reports of his on campus activity....

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Navarro Bowman. After a couple huge games in 2008 showed Bowman to be another great Penn State LB, his presence became ubiquitous in the blogosphere. He was named All Big 10 First Team in November of '08. After PSU's loss to USC, things quieted until March, when we at TRE started looking at what this stud OLB should be doing in the offseason. Apparently Bowman was using some of his free time to smoke MJ and not fulfill the terms of his probation for a past crime, leading to an April hearing and another year of probation. This quickly led to one of the best photoshop jobs ever done and some weeping and gnashing of teeth amongst the PSU faithful. Recently, better news broke that Navarro has been named to the the Preseason All American 2nd Team.

Is Bowman that good to deserve so much of our attention? Does it matter?

In a sport where 11 people playing together cohesively at one time is the ultimate goal, it seems we impart super stardom on singular players a bit too easily. Or maybe it's just a product of the instant quick news cycle and the offseason doldrums.

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I think he is THAT good personally.

I mean in the shit show for PSU that was the rose bowl he had 5.5 TFL, a Rose Bowl record, he also missed the first 3 games for the aforementioned trouble and ended with 108 tackles.

Just like everywhere else, a talented player will inherently garner more attention for good/bad actions or for just being talented, especially if it is the offseason when we are starved for cfb news. Bowman is kind of intriguing because he has done bad things but also lost the two most important male figures (Dad and HS coach) in his life last season, the latter the night before the Rose. Its the kind of thing where people want to see him succeed and others want to see him fail, so either way people are watching.

I just hope as a PSU fan that he has his head on straight now. I mean he self reported the probation spark-up and I guess Joe has confidence in him. We shall see, he is certainly on the thinnest ice, but I expect him to blow people away this year.

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by Roland86 on Jul 16, 2009 7:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs