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Steven Cooper: A Football Legend Worth Reckoning With

By Margaret Olson


Americans are very passionate about their favorite sport: Football. This sport has a traverse history dating back a hundred years. Its history started off on a wrong foot. In the early days, the game was mostly popular with the folks who were shunned and looked down upon in the community. People like ex-prisoners, gang bangers and the conmen in the society. With time the attitude of the masses changed, and they started taking a keen interest in the sport. Today, this game is sacred. It has turned ordinary men like Steven Cooper into outright immortals. Here is an article talking about the outstanding sportsman and what he has achieved thus far.

Cooper was born in the summer of nineteen seventy-nine. Courtesy of a scholarship, he was able to attend the University of Maine. At the University, he was motivated and encouraged to play football for the college team by his family members. His star started shining brightly while he was still in his early formative years.

It was during his tenure as a linebacker for the University team when he won the player of the year award. That was in addition to the numerous other auspicious accolades in his career. He has also been the recipient of the American Football Coaches Association and Sports Network All-American Award.

Ideally, he did not expect to make such a splashing impact on the sports arena. If anything, he regularly confesses in the interviews he attends that he would have been content with working a regular nine-to-five job. Were it not for the lucky break be caught and he got to join the University. To this very day, the big linebacker cannot believe his great luck in life.

Steve is an excellent linebacker. His reputation and accomplishments speak volumes in themselves. He has achieved what, so few have dared come close to attaining. The most prolific encounter was when he rose up against all the odds and overturned the tides of a particular game. The game was against the Black Bears. Despite losing in the end, the sportsman was awarded the title of the man of the match for his gallant efforts.

Over the course of his illustrious career in college, this were his statistics. The player had three hundred and seventy-four tackles, fifty-seven tackles for loss, seven successful intercepts and twenty-five sacks. That is an impressive record even for a seasoned professional in the NFL.

During his career in the national league, he has also done some pretty amazing feats. For instance, the records show he has a track-record detailing the following statistics. Mr. Cooper has over five hundred tackles and eight intercepts. He has played an inspirational and an integral role in helping his current team, the San Diego Chargers to improve drastically in the national rankings.

There was a time when he was faced with drug possession allegations. He was found driving in a car which had a lot of steroids. These medicines are illegal. The arresting officer searched their speeding car and found steroids. Steve walked off easy when he admitted in front of a federal judge that he had no intentions of using the banned substances.




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