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JERSEY CITY, N. Paul George USA Jersey .J. - The captain was a few minutes late, though no one seemed to mind. Russell Wilson is usually
worth the wait, and no more than on this day, his final one speaking about the
game before he actually plays The Game. Peyton Manning is supposed to be the
star of this Super Bowl, but a minor league second baseman who refused to listen
to those who said he was too small to play quarterback in the NFL may have
something to say about that. Proving people wrong is almost as fun for Wilson as
winning football games, and hes done both with great regularity since being
drafted with the 75th overall pick two years ago by the Seattle Seahawks. "For
all the kids that have been told, no, that they cant do it, or all the kids that
will be told no," Wilson said. "Thats one of the reasons that I left playing
baseball, to be honest with you. I had this urge to play the game of football,
because so many people — I shouldnt say so many, a handful of people — said I
couldnt do it. Richard Sherman will be the player most remembered from the win
that got Seattle here. But if not for a gutsy play on an equally gutsy call, the
Seahawks would not be in position to win their first Super Bowl title. Wilson
found Jermaine Kearse in the end zone for the touchdown on a fourth down against
San Francisco in the NFC championship game, giving the Seahawks the lead for the
first time. It was the kind of play a veteran star like Manning might make when
it counts most. The kind of play Wilson prepared for meticulously every day for
the past two years. The kind of play that can win a Super Bowl. "I dont think
Ive seen too many people have the knack to want be great. He wants to be a great
quarterback," receiver Percy Harvin said. "He just doesnt want to be average or
All-Pro. He wants to be talked about as a great quarterback and I dont think hes
going to stop until he does." By now, Wilsons story is fairly well known. The
son of the late Harrison Wilson III — a star athlete at Dartmouth who became a
lawyer after briefly thinking of trying out for the NFL in 1977 — he lost a job
as starting quarterback at North Carolina State while playing second base in the
Colorado Rockies organization. Wilson would give up baseball to star as a
graduate student at Wisconsin, leading the Badgers to the Big 10 title and a
spot in the Rose Bowl. But he was undersized at 5-foot-11 and languished in the
NFL draft before Pete Carroll and the Seahawks took a chance on him for what was
expected to be a backup quarterback position. Instead, Carroll called him to the
basketball court at the teams complex prior to his rookie season, where Wilson
watched him shoot jumpers. "I go outside and he said, You want to shoot? "
Wilson said. "Then he said, We want you to know youre going to be the starting
quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, hopefully for a long time. "That put a
huge smile on my face. I immediately thought of my mom and dad and all the
things theyve done for me and all the discipline they gave me." That discipline
is evident in the way Wilson approaches his job as both the quarterback and
leader of his team. Like all quarterbacks he watches film, but Wilson is
constantly studying situations and is relentless about fixing mistakes. "He
makes everyone around him almost a perfectionist because we pick up off that and
the habits that he has," said receiver Ricardo Lockette. "He is always the first
one there in the morning and the last one to leave." Those habits helped propel
the Seahawks to an 11-5 record last season behind their rookie QB. They beat the
Washington Redskins in the first round of the playoffs, then lost a shootout to
Atlanta that had Wilson down in the dumps — if only for a moment. By the time he
was in the tunnel going back to the locker room he had already begun thinking
what he had to do in the off-season to get the Seahawks over the hump this year.
"I want to change the game and theres a difference between being good and being
great and changing the game," Wilson said. "Guys like Peyton Manning change the
game in terms of the way he thinks and in terms of the way he processes things.
Tom Brady is the same way, hes so clutch that people fear him. One day I want to
evolve to that." Wilson can take a big step in that direction should he join an
elite group of quarterbacks (Brady, Kurt Warner and Ben Roethlisberger) who have
won a Super Bowl in just their second year. Hes certainly not overwhelmed by the
moment, and seems to embrace the challenge, even when it comes to answering the
same questions over and over during the pregame buildup. A great believer in
visualization, he already sees himself on the field at the Meadowlands, is
already trying to figure out how to feel when the national anthem is sung and
the stadium erupts in flashes for the kickoff. "Then it will be, OK, Im ready to
go," Wilson said. If he is, there may be more than one quarterback star in this
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opportunities en route to a 4-1 defeat in American Hockey League action on
Saturday.CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bobcats centre Al Jefferson says hell play in Game 3
Saturday night against the Miami Heat. Jefferson participated in Saturday
mornings shoot around and says his injured left foot feels "about the same" as
it did before Game 2 Wednesday night. Jefferson says "Once I come out of the
game and go back in, it may take a few seconds to get it warmed back
up.&qquot; Miami leads the series 2-0. Charles Barkley Team USA Jersey. Bobcats coach Steve Clifford reiterated that team physicians say Jefferson cant injure
the foot any worse if he continues to play. But he says if Jefferson experiences
too much discomfort hell take him out of the game. Clifford says he received
texts from other NBA coaches after Jeffersons gutsy performance on a bad foot in
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