Skills of the South
Skills of the South Joseph DiPietro Typically, I prefer writing inspiring stories connecting sports moments to everyday life. I will get to a bigger point toward the end, but first I must brag about my fellow Southerners for a minute. Call us what you want- rednecks, dumb, deplorable, whatever. In the words of Globo Gym’s White Goodman, we’re better than you, and we know it. If you watched the NFL conference championships this weekend, you likely paid attention to the quarterbacks because some of the best to ever do it were on display. While some of the QB play impressed, specifically in the AFC matchup, it was actually the skill players that stole my attention. Most of you know I am all about the trenches. I spend most of any football game watching the offensive lines and the defensive fronts duke it out, because that is where the game is won. Overall, the most impressive units on both fields were the front-7’s of the two conference champions. However, as I followed th