Stafon Johnson, a 21-year old senior halfback out of University of Southern California just recovered from a mind-blowing injury. A few weeks after his game-winning touchdown run in an 18-15 victory over Ohio State at Columbus, he could’ve been facing a Malibu grave. On September 28 Johnson, the Trojans top rusher in 2008-09, was bench-pressing 275 pounds when the bar slipped from his hands, severing his larynx and displacing his vocal cord. A 7-hour operation saved his life (his voice still soft and raspy, will be corrected with further surgery). Stafon and another USC halfback, Joe McKnight will enter the April 2010 NFL draft. Johnson is currently ranked anywhere between the 13th-23rd best back available in the draft. “It’s been pedal to the metal the last few weeks said Johnson. “Now I need to show everyone I’m a football player, not a guy with a freak neck injury”.
Some thoughts on the Super Bowl: Similar to the 2010 BCS National Championship Game-In the final minutes of the game the Alabama Crimson Tide’s Mark Ingram scored 2 touchdowns to beat the Texas Longhorns 37-21; Tracy Porter picked of a Peyton Manning pass 74 yards to the end zone and Jeremy Shockey grabbed a 2-yard reception-Texas beat Nebraska on a jacked up field goal and didn’t deserve to get in; several horrible calls led the Saints to a 31-28 overtime victory, declared by the NFL-both winning coaches outcoached the other coach: Nick Saban over Mack Brown and Sean Payton over Jim Caldwell. Both had gutsy calls; Saban: a fake punt-pass and Payton: several fourth down decisions and an unnecessary onsides kick. Tracy Porter, alum of the Indiana Hoosiers, let Indiana down. I like the Hyundai Sonata and Lebron James-Dwight Howard commercials.
Y.A.S.L.S (You are so lucky Stafon)
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