[The Giants] are playing well at the right time.
I can remember my first Super Bowl, Reeves said. My idol was Johnny Unitas, I look on the other end of the field and there’s No. 19 with a horseshoe on his helmet.
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Reeves also likes what Bradshaw brings to the Giants when the Bluefield, Va., native wraps his hands around the ball. He’s an awesome runner, he said. He’s one of the big reasons the Giants are where they are. He got healthy, [running back Brandon] Jacobs got healthy.
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Check out the sports section all week long as the staff covers Graham graduate Ahmad Bradshaw’s second trip to the Super Bowl with the New York Giants.
Then his chiseled-from-limestone ce cracked into a smile.
Bottom line, Reeves knows talent. He likes what polarizing quarterback Tim Tebow brings to his former team (Football is all about winning, he said. And he’s done a great job of giving those guys a chance when he’s on the field.) and knows what the quarterback has to improve on – his two-minute-situation passing (When everybody in the stadium knows who has to throw it, he said).
In Super Bowl V, Reeves’ was warming up before the game coaching school Reeves' mind, wit samurai-sword sharpwhen his nerves went up a couple of notches – he was going to play against the quarterback he emulated.
It’s exciting, he said of coaching and playing on the NFL’s biggest stage. It’s unbelievable.
Walking with the kind of gait one only gcoaching schoolets from years of playing football, Dan Reeves stopped every few steps to shake a hand, pat a back and pose for a picture – his low-drone Southern drawl asking well-wishers their names, followed by a How are you this evening?
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The NFL dream for three Southwest Virginia players has been a reality six of the past seven Super Bowls. Sunday will mark the second for Bradshaw, a Graham graduate, and comes a year after Honaker’s Heath Miller played in his third as a tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Thomas Jones began the current streak as a running back for the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
Playing in a Super Bowl, Reeves said, was what he dreamt about during his days as a high school quarterback in Georgia, signal caller at University of South Carolina and member of the Dallas Cowboys.
If he’s like me, Reeves said, he’s probably thankful to be there. He’s probably looking back and reflecting on something he dreamed about as a kid.
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Hopefully, he said, watching people take their seats for a dinner at King College that would end with the coaching veteran speaking, I’ll be entertaining.
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If there are two things Reeves knows it’s, in order, football and entertaining a crowd by spinning yarns on his football playing days (prep star from Georgia, South Carolina quarterback, Dallas Cowboy all-purpose back) and Super Bowl trips with the Cowboys, Broncos and Falcons.
Unitas, to the surprise of nobody, would end up in the NFL Hall of Fame. John Elway, who Reeves coached during his 12-year stint in charge of the Broncos, would end up in Canton, Ohio, as well.
Reeves knows, or is at least willing to take an educated guess, what is going through Ahmad Bradshaw’s head as the kickoff countdown for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis whittles its way down to zero.
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Don’t let the walk, or the 68 years of age, fool you — Reeves’ mind, and wit, are still samurai-sword sharp.
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