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    AMERICA'S GAME?
    By Steve Hanlon
    [email protected]

    nwitimes.com, IN
    Sept 29 2006

    International players are making an impact on Region football

    This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, September 29, 2006 12:45
    AM CDT

    Mark Hoffman arrived at Butler in 1968. The Andrean lineman was a
    walking poster for American football: big, strong and tough.

    He was fingering through a second-hand textbook at the Indianapolis
    school when he noticed a shocking name, Garo Yepremian. The Armenian
    was born in Cyprus, before a 15-year career in the NFL, plus three
    Super Bowls.

    "He'd been at Butler," said Hoffman, the head coach at Valparaiso.

    "Someone wrote an article about this kid kicking 50-yard field goals
    and he was gone."

    Yepremian was one of the first international players in the NFL,
    before his famous line "I keek a touchdown" was said on Johnny Carson.

    Today, the international player isn't such a comedy routine. This
    past summer there were a record 109 foreign-born players in NFL camps.

    "It's global now," said Hoffman, who's had several foreign-born
    players on his roster through the years.

    [rest of article omitted]

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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