As Eddie was growing up, he put team goals before his. He wanted to play football, he wanted to go to college by playing football, he wanted to win the Heisman Trophy, and he wanted to play in the pros. His mother Donna said, " to fulfill those goals, you have to build up your character." She was the "architect" in the family. Eddie, 22, and his sister Leslie, 25, who works for an insurance company in suburban Philadelph

Eddie was also the number one draft pick of the Houston Oilers, who are know known as the Tennessee Titans. A potential life saving occasion for his mother occurred when he signed with the team. As you know, Donna is a TWA flight attendant, and she was scheduled to work on the ill- fated flight 800 from New York to Paris on July 17th. But Eddie's agent, Lamont Smith, persuaded her to change her schedule so she could fly into San Antonio on July 19th to watch her son sign his contract. (3)

This season, George's critics have been silenced, mostly. He has upped his yards-per-carry almost a full yard in the second half. Four of his five 100-yarders came in the final eight games. He is as fresh as he's ever been at this point of the season. So when he walks out on the Adelphia Colisuem field this weekend for the Titans' first playoff game since 1993, with the chants of 67,000 Tennessee fans ringing in his ears, Eddie George will be expected to do what he has done for this franchise for the past four years. Carry them as far as he can.

He had one string, from late last season into the early part of this one, where he went 12 straight games without gaining 100 yards. In his first three seasons, only five of his 18 100-yard games came in the second half of the season. And you know what? George hears all the criticism. He even agrees with much of it. "I haven't had that big year yet, but I've been consistent," says George, his voice trailing off. "I'm not going to sit up here and say I don't strive for that. It can happen in due time. But, right now, it's like 'Why should I be mentioned along those lines?'"

ia, grew up in a single parent household, after their mother separated in 1980 from their largely absentee father, also named Eddie. They were later divorced, and Donna said that Eddie's relationship with his father remains distant. (5)

In conclusion, I think Eddie George has had a major impact on sports. Because when he pushed his team during the Superbowl, other players might have been thinking of how they can push their team during the next season.

It's the kind of thing most parents would smile about later in private. One year later what Donna saw happening wasn't funny at all. Eddie was a sophomore at Abington High School that year and a hotshot- jock in the making. He got out of every club he was in. the only thing he wanted to do was play football. His respect for his schoolwork was starting to diminish because of peer pressure. He went from getting all A's and B's in junior high to C's, D's, E's, F's and I's. When Donna's brother Derek came to visit them, he stopped by his old school. While he was there, he peered into Eddie's room and saw him acting up. Derek told Donna that Eddie was not behaving in class and mentioned to her that he should go to Fork Union Military Academy.

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