University of Minnesota (UM) Golden Gophers Football Players Taken in 2010 NFL Draft - 2 Selected

The University of Minnesota (UM) Golden Gophers had two football players selected in the 2010 NFL Draft that was held in April at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. The two men from the football program at the school selected by National Football League franchises are:

• Eric Decker (wide receiver) - taken with the 87th overall pick in the 3rd round by the Denver Broncos


• Nathan Triplett (linebacker) - selected as the 167th players taken in the draft and going to the Minnesota Vikings with a fifth round pick

Eric Decker was a fan favorite at the wide receiver position for fans in the Minneapolis area during his college playing days. The 6'3" 217 pound player was originally born in 1987 in Cold Spring, Minnesota and in addition to excelling on the grid iron is also an outstanding baseball player.

Eric was chosen in the 39th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and as a result of not signing with the Brewers he was selected again in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft (this time by the Twins in the 27th round). Eric Decker has the unique honor of having been drafted by three different professional sports teams (Brewers, Twins, Broncos) in three consecutive years (2008,2009, and 2010).

After trading Brandon Marshall, their best wide receiver, to the Miami Dolphins the Denver Broncos are in need of a new receiving threat. Young Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels (age 34) hopes that Eric Decker and his first round quarterback selection, Tim Tebow, will prove to be a formidable offensive tandem for years to come in the mile high city.

Nathan Triplett is a 6'3" 250 linebacker originally from Maple Plain, Minnesota who plans on wearing number 58 for the Minnesota Vikings next year. Nathan is slated to join a franchise that has strung together a recent secession of winning seasons over the past few years.

Led by quarterback Brett Favre and star running back Adrian Peterson the Vikings came up one game short of advancing to the Super Bowl following the 2009 regular season and lost to eventual Super Bowl XLV champions the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship game. Vikings head coach Brad Childress hopes that the addition of young motivated talent like he sees in Nathan Triplett will be the boost that the program needs to get over the hump and take the next step by making it all the way to the Super Bowl.

Kim, who penned this piece, doesn't know if either of the two future NFL players drafted from the Golden Gophers will be taking comfortable University of Minnesota slippers with them to the training camps of their new teams. Kim hopes that as a memento of their college days that both Eric and Nathan pick up a pair of fuzzy Minnesota Golden Gophers slippers.

Fans of the Gophers interested in looking at U of M slippers for themselves are strongly urged to take a look at the two links in the previous paragraph.

Football Conditioning - The Single Best Exercise For Off-Season Football Conditioning!

With a game like football that requires more physical ability and overall resiliency than possibly any other sport you have got to have the best conditioning plan in place to withstand the season. I have included the single best exercise you can incorporate into your training program in order to achieve both top notch muscular endurance and superior cardiovascular fitness for football.

I would like to introduce to you the kettlebell swing. As you may know the kettlebell is quite possibly the single best strength and conditioning device around. I say this because of it's versatility and broad range of lifts that you can perform with it. However, for the purpose of this article I am going to explain a single base strength endurance lift that you can implement into your football exercise program to take your game to new heights. As I mentioned before the kettlebell swing is a strength endurance type lift that stimulates hundreds of your muscles at one time to help you obtain total body strength and endurance. The exercise is performed by you swinging the kettlebell back and forth from between your legs up to chest height. This is done by performing what is known as the hip snap. The hip snap is a similar movement that you would implement with any other big core lift such as standard hang cleans and power cleans. However, with the kettlebell it is more continuous. This hip snap is done by you fluently and consistently flexing and extending at both your hips and knees to create the necessary momentum to swing the iron bell back and forth in an arc like motion. This strength training and conditioning workout for football is second to nothing.

If you want to take your gridiron game to the next level then you have got to invest the time to learn about the iron kettlebell and how to swing it! Train hard my friend and remember to finish the drill!

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The Increasing Popularity of American Football

A couple decades back if you would happen to spark up a conversation with some random person who happened to be from another country about their favorite football team, most likely the first thought that would come to their mind would soccer for us Americans, also known as football around the world. Soccer is one of the world's most popular sports. No matter what distant land you may be in everyone loves and plays soccer, even countries like Iraq and Africa that seem to be constantly at war, with distant or neighboring countries or with poverty and starvation itself. But, in the past our American football has not been able to reach across these distant shores. Fortunately due to the ever increasing popularity of the sport more of our foreign friends around the world are beginning to take notice of the ever growing sport. Although the full contact sport is sometimes looked upon as brutal and barbaric from neighboring countries. The constant head to head action of the game is what can turn heads and catch the eye of said naysayers.

This is because football is like a living creature that is ever evolving into something that is faster and stronger more adapt, and slowly becoming a more efficient animal. By this I mean that with any game that deals with a lot of players all at once you are going to get many different players wall at once you are going to experience the many different emotions and attitudes of said players. This is because no matter how much you pay someone you can not change what kind of man "or woman"that person is. And after awhile of watching a game your own feelings somehow become wrapped up in the madness, the excitement, and the drama of the game. Before you know it you are wearing an NFL jersey and have thrown away your old sports bedding and replaced it with an NFL bedding set which you protect using duvet cover sets whenever company is around. That is why so many countries are beginning to support and recognize American football because of how it wraps you emotionally.

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