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11-30-2006, 05:23 PM
This year is the rarest of exceptions. People who do not follow the N.F.L. as a rule were giddy at the prospect of procuring tickets for the Jets’ game this weekend at Green Bay. The reason was threefold: Mike Nugent and Nick Mangold of the Jets and A. J. Hawk of the Packers grew up in Centerville.
Nugent, a second-year kicker, is coming off a four-field-goal performance against the Houston Texans that included a career-best 54-yarder. Mangold, a rookie, has started all 11 games at center while accruing only two penalties. Hawk, a rookie linebacker, was credited with 15 tackles, 10 of them unassisted, in the Packers’ loss at Seattle on Monday night...[
Link to complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/sports/football/01ohio.html?ex=1165554000&en=a7cd94f63fcf55a5&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY
Nugent, a second-year kicker, is coming off a four-field-goal performance against the Houston Texans that included a career-best 54-yarder. Mangold, a rookie, has started all 11 games at center while accruing only two penalties. Hawk, a rookie linebacker, was credited with 15 tackles, 10 of them unassisted, in the Packers’ loss at Seattle on Monday night...[
Link to complete article: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/sports/football/01ohio.html?ex=1165554000&en=a7cd94f63fcf55a5&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY