Speaking of Dwain Chambers, that old Sea Devil

Steroid Nation loves to follow the career of Dwain Chambers.  Chambers, an incredible sprinter from England, currently serves a long track suspension for anabolic steroid use related to BALCO.  To his credit, he tried out for NFL Europe, then stuck with the Hamburg Sea Devils.  One of our stories is here.

This story from NFL Europe brings us up to date with Chambers.  This guy runs a 4.19 40.  Yeah, that's legit.  However, he was struggling with football skills.  Like catching the ball.  However, Chambers grew up in the UK;  he has been a football player for weeks, yeah weeks.

At 29, Chambers, a former European 100-meters champion, a bronze medalist at the world championships, and a former European record holder with a 9.87 time set back in 2002, is attempting to make the transition from the track to the gridiron. Chambers' personal role model in this effort is Renaldo Nehemiah, the world record-setting hurdler who had three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, coming out of gridiron nowhere to the Super Bowl.

..Chambers has that rare thing that scouts search for, and which cannot be taught. He's got speed. "When I first got into the idea of American football, I ran a 4.19 40," he says. Cue scouts' mouths to open wide and drool to appear.

The NFL.com article covers territory we covered in previous posts, like Bob Hayes and Renaldo Nehemiah.  However, dig this 4 by 100M team:

...Why not assemble Chambers, Harry Williams (10.3 100 meters/21.3 200 meters at Tuskegee), Berlin cornerback Dennis Davis (10.3/21.1 at       Georgia Tech), and Hamburg corner Justin Wyatt (10.4 in high school) into an NFL Europa relay team and challenge the German national team? They'd probably lose on the track, but not if they ran a rematch in pads.

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[Rumah Sabul Tumpangan]

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