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In 2013, as part of an ongoing series, then-Missouri offensive lineman Max Copeland shared what’s brewing in “Copeland’s Cranium.” His views on life made us laugh and made us think. And in the spirit of Homecoming, we caught up with the man who recently starred in an independent horror film. Here’s what Copeland had to say: By MAX COPELAND, as told to JACOB BOGAGE

y earliest memory? I remember can zone out. When you’re out of your When you’re out of your comfort zone, every sense is sharp I was 2 years old being carried comfort zone, every sense is sharp and and everything you taste, you really taste. Every moment Mby a construction worker down everything you taste, you really taste. becomes a really crazy sensory experience because you’re the street, and I just remember Every moment becomes a really crazy that. I remember him feeling weird and sensory experience because you’re so so out of your comfort zone and everything is unfamiliar.” smelling weird. out of your comfort zone and everything MAX COPELAND, former Missouri offensive lineman There were three things I liked in life is unfamiliar. It’s hard to do that, but up to that point: eating toothpaste, eat- everything I remember in my life so I consider myself a bit of a transient, cooking and she pointed to the pan and ing dog food and setting things on fire. far has been so incredibly vivid. There a bit of a rebel. I think I had this ten- said, ‘Max, don’t touch that. That’s hot.’ I snuck out of my crib, walked down- hasn’t been a fog of time that I just dency when I was younger that whatev- And I just looked at her and I put my stairs, opened the door and walked out don’t really remember. er I was told I was supposed to do or hand straight down in the pan and just of my house. I was sucking on a tube of I’m traveling from muse to muse for supposed to think or feel, I just did the burned the flesh right off my hand. toothpaste, and I was trying to play with that reason. I’m a bit of a rolling stone. opposite, because that meant there She told me not to, so I’m gonna do matches about a block away. A con- Football was a huge expression of who was a boundary, and if I could go past it. That’s led me to a lot of conclusions struction worker saw me and brought I was and what I believed. But at the the boundary not a lot of people had that there’s no way I could have come me home. But that last part, just being same time, I think just with how I am, been there. I took pride in breaking the to had I not forced my own path. It’s carried, that’s all I remember. The rest sometimes you get too comfortable with rules because I knew I was going to really safe to go where people tell you has been explained to me since then. how the brush fits in the hand. You get places other people hadn’t been. to go because, in a way, you’re giving I think the most vivid things, where I too complacent with the color palette The famous story in my family is how up power to them. You’re giving them really remember how stuff smells and you’ve been using. So maybe I want to my mom was holding me in responsibility over where you go. I how stuff felt and how it tasted and ditch the canvas and move to a harp. the kitchen maintain that freedom and safety what the grass smelled like and what I’ve always seen the path I take to be and she are mutually exclusive and I’ll the air smelled like, where I recognized a bunch of different weird stops. I don’t was take freedom over safety there were things going on that I didn’t want to spend too much time in one any day. really know the whole story. place. I’ve said it for a long time, but Supervising editor is I knew there were extra factors at play as soon as you feel like you belong, it’s Mark Selig: mark that I didn’t know about, that I don’t get time to disappear. I feel like I can make [email protected]. to know. So I just can accept there’s good on that promise I made about edu, 882-5729. a couple things that I can control and my life. Before I die, I’m gonna have that’s about it. You gotta let whatever made a bunch of really cool stops to File photo by factors you can’t control be resolved a bunch of really weird places. KEVIN COOK by whoever’s in charge of resolving That’s how I started acting. I was Missourian them. That’s probably the most spiritual living in New York and I had just feeling that I get; those were the weird, got done with working out so I kind of mystic moments. You have to kinda looked like a crazy person. submit to the fact that you don’t always Someone approached me off know everything. the street and asked me if I I think that’s kinda my struggle, my wanted to be in a movie. He cross to bear. But that struggle is a asked, ‘Do you act?’ and I worthy cause, because that’s also a big just kind of BS-ed my way component of wellness, right? Being through it. able to accept the things you can con- That was probably the trol and submitting to things you can’t. best acting practice — act- That keeps you moving. ing like I knew how to act. When you’re in your comfort zone, And so all of a sudden I’m you start taking short cuts mentally, on set and I’m pretending and I think that’s why traditions and like I have a bunch of meth- routines, people like them, because ods for how I get into char- you can start taking shortcuts and you acter. PAGE 6 — FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9-10, 2015 COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN

THE IMPOSSIBLEIMPOSSIBLE QUIZ FLORIDA EDITION The Tigers are set to celebrate their Homecoming game against their first ranked opponent of the season — the No. 11 . See how much you know about the and one of America’s most populous states. By MICHAEL MANDELL

Where did the school’s Prior to the Tigers joining The winner of the rivalry game ‘Gators’ nickname the SEC, the Missouri between Florida and Georgia 1 originate? 4 and Florida football receives which trophy? Alachua County is home teams only met in which 8 Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy to the largest alligator bowl game? Chief Suwanee’s Spear population in the U.S. Cotton Bowl Okefenokee Oar A merchant sold school Gator Bowl Paddlewheel Trophy pennants with pictures of Orange Bowl alligators on them Sugar Bowl Which of these is NOT an A former university official Florida state symbol? president offered to wrestle an alligator if the football The perfectly round Lake Agatized coral 9 Horse conch team defeated rival Florida Kingsley near Gainesville State in 1905 was created as the tortoise Zebra longwing A regiment from Gainesville, 5 result of what? Florida, was said to have A hurricane that transferred “fought like Gators” In 2014, the University water into an empty basin during World War I A meteor that struck over of Florida was named the 50,000 years ago nation’s best large university A national A sinkhole that formed 10 for which of the following? magazine gave the during the Pleistocene era Greek life city of Gainesville Glaciation in the region Students with handicaps 2 during the last ice age Off-campus parties which of the following titles in 2008? Vegans In which sport has Answers Photos by GARY MCCULLOUGH/The Associated Press and JOHN RAOUX/The Associated Press “America’s Meanest Place to the Homeless” Florida NOT won a “Best Place to Raise a national championship? 1. B— Although the merchant began championships — 33 more than selling the pennants in 1908, it wasn’t Missouri — men’s cross country isn’t Family in Florida” 6 Men’s cross country until 1911 that Florida officially one of them. “Best Place to Start a Band Men’s outdoor track and field adopted the nickname for its athletic 7. C — The Gran Telescopio Canarias, in the United States” Women’s indoor track and teams. which is over 34 feet in diameter, “College Town with the field 2. C— Blender magazine gave sits atop a volcano in ’s Canary Worst Traffic” Women’s swimming and Gainesville the ranking because of the Islands. It began scientific use in 2009 diving city’s impressive live music venues and will remain the world’s largest and large student body. until the European Extremely Large Spring fed Lake DeFuniak 3. B— The lake, which is located in Telescope — yes, that’s a real name in northern Florida is In 2000, the University Florida’s panhandle, is one of two — is completed in 2024. known for which of the of Florida began a naturally round, spring-fed lakes in the 8. C— Although the schools first 3 world. The other is located near Zürich, played in either 1904 (according following? partnership with Spain Switzerland. to Georgia) or 1915 (according to An island on the lake has 7 and that sought Florida), the Okefenokee Oar was first 4. D— The Tigers beat QB Steve the world’s largest Willow to create which of the Spurrier and the Gators 20-18 on Jan. introduced in 2009. It was carved from 1, 1966, to win their third bowl game a 1,000-year old tree that once sat in tree following? a swamp along the border between It’s the only such naturally under legendary coach . Solar-powered elevators the two states. round lake in North America 5. C — The lake is now one of The world’s largest the most popular inland vacation 9. C — Although agatized coral (state It’s the only lake in the stone), the horse conch (state shell) manatee preserve destinations in northern Florida, and a world with a limestone and zebra longwing (state butterfly) The world’s largest recent engineering study for Florida’s basin Clay County suggests that it’s also the are all real, the sun tortoise is not. telescope The world-record largemouth oldest lake in the state. 10. D — People for the Ethical The world’s strongest bass was caught there in 6. A — Although the University of Treatment of Animals (PETA) gave prosthetic limb Florida has won 35 team NCAA Florida the distinction over Ohio’s Kent 1988 State University in 2014. COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9-10, 2015 — PAGE 7

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On Oct. 11, 1986, with his right foot bare and the wind at his back, Tom Whelihan kicked a ball and rewrote the Missouri football record books.

It was 60 degrees, and the Tigers trailed visiting Colorado 14-3 with the first half nearing completion. Missouri was on the Buffaloes’ 45-yard line, and coach asked the sure-footed Whelihan if he was ready to kick a field goal. With the goal posts 10 yards into the end zone and the holder seven yards behind the line of scrimmage, the kick would have to travel more than 62 yards. Whelihan, who was one of the best kick- ers in the country at the time, told his coach he had the leg to make it from there. Holder Jeff Henningsen was dazed as he trotted onto the field with the special teams unit. He’d suffered a concussion on the previous play, but in 1986, you shook it off. Still, the wooziness made such a long field goal attempt seem like a hallucination. “Are we faking this?” Henningsen asked. “Shut up and hold the damn ball,” Wheli- han replied. Hold the ball Henningsen did, and Wheli- han’s kick soared through the air and cleared the crossbar in Memorial Stadium’s north end zone. Whelihan, tailwind or not, had made the longest field goal in Missouri history. PAINTING OVER A MEMENTO IN COLORS The National Climatic Data Center indi- cates there was a wind of about 10 mph blowing toward the north end zone that day. Whelihan and Henningsen vehemently deny that. Memories are powerful and fickle. If Whelihan says there wasn’t any wind that day, that’s the story he can tell. Memories, also, are often jogged by per- sonal objects. Which makes what you’re about to read so odd. The 49-year-old Whelihan, who lives in Columbia and is now an elementary school physical education teacher, has two sons. The younger one, 12-year-old Brady, Photo by BISWARUP GANGULY/Wikimedia Commons PAGE 10 — FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9-10, 2015 COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN loves the Kansas Jayhawks. So much so, in fact, that THE MAN WITHOUT A SHOE Whelihan took his old Missouri football helmet — yes, Confusion regarding football equipment is nothing the one he wore when he kicked his 62-yarder — and new to the Whelihan family. repainted it with the Jayhawks’ “KU” logo a few years In the Southwest, where Whelihan grew up, the ago. only two seasons were “hot” and “hotter.” The sum- “If he likes the Jayhawks, who I am I to say that mer sun could melt the sides off of rubber cleats. he can’t like the Jayhawks?” Whelihan said. “It just So Whelihan, a former soccer player from the Dallas doesn’t bother me. That’s the team that makes him suburb of Carrollton, Texas, kicked a football without happy, even though he knows how big of a Mizzou buff footwear. I am and what I did.” “It was just the thing down there at the time,” Wheli- In addition to painting over his old helmet, Whelihan han said of barefoot kicking. “That was what was also built Brady a Kansas-themed tree house in his popular. You had Tony Franklin, who kicked for (Texas) backyard. The two worked on it during the summer A&M and then played for the (Philadelphia) Eagles, and of 2012, months before the Tigers played their first there were a bunch of other guys who did it, too.” football game. Nothing separated the leather football from the skin To some Missouri fans, that Border War disloyalty on Whelihan’s right, kicking foot — no brace, no sock, might sound blasphemous. But Whelihan says there’s no bandage. For him, kicking without a shoe was com- reason — beyond avoiding an extra expense to a parable to a baseball pitcher feeling the seams while teacher’s salary — to why he painted over his old hel- throwing a fastball. met instead of buying a new one. A better reference, perhaps, would be comparing it “That was part of my life then, but it’s not my life to a wide receiver not wearing gloves. Doing so would anymore,” he said. allow a player catching a pass to get a more natural Brady, whom Whelihan took to Lawrence, Kansas, to feel on the football, and Whelihan had the same MICHAEL MANDELL/Missourian watch the final Big 12 men’s basketball game between reasoning for kicking barefooted. Striking the football Former Missouri kicker Tom Whelihan holds a the Tigers and Jayhawks in 2012, said the helmet decorative Missouri football helmet at his home in without a shoe allowed him to get a better feel for the northern Columbia. Whelihan took his real playing is one of his prized possessions. He keeps it by his sweet spot, which is located about two inches below helmet, front, and painted it over with Kansas colors nightstand and wakes up looking at it every morning. the widest part of the ball. for his son. To his right is both the turf hashmark “That’s my favorite,” Brady said. “I show it to every- “It’s all psychological,” Whelihan said. “If I feel I can from which he kicked his record 62-yard field goal in body, but they get confused when I say it was my get quicker to the ball and get a better feel for it when 1986 and a piece of the goal post from that game. dad’s helmet.” I’m barefooted, that’s what I was going to do.

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Only six Football Bowl Subdivision players have made ield goals of 62 The last true freshman yards or longer in games since the start of the 1986 season. starting quarterback

Finding someone who can make that kick is hard enough, but there are also consequences is now a sports lawyer if the attempt fails. Off a miss, the opposing team could get the ball in great field position By AARON REISS been issues … I wouldn’t have Odle said has a strong sense or it could attempt to return the kick for a Bill Odle missed a turn. Like known for the fact Corby actual- of leadership and inspiring con- — as Auburn famously did against really, really missed a turn. ly had the experience of playing fidence. Alabama on a 57-yard kick to win a 2013 game The lawyer who focuses on the game, knowing what hap- “All of the things that have now known as “Kick Six.” issues in amateur and inter- pens, the stresses on the body, made him a great QB make him Seemingly more bad than good can come of a collegiate athletics what’s medically a really good lawyer,” Odle said. field goal try from that deep. So coaches don’t was headed from accurate, what’s Jones said he has a more often send their kickers out for 62-yarders, as Kansas City to Fay- physiologically hap- complete view of college ath- Widenhofer did with Whelihan. Only six Football etteville to meet pening,” Odle said. letics than he did during his Bowl Subdivision players have made field goals with administrators “Things like that. playing days, though he had of 62 yards or longer in games since the start at Arkansas. It was Insights about “enough to be dangerous back of the 1986 season. part of a “regulato- issues that become then,” because his dad was a Whelihan knows there are more kickers with ry review” for one relevant facts in Missouri assistant coach. What the ability to make field goals from that dis- of his clients, the litigation, he’s got he didn’t understand as a play- tance. He believes Missouri’s current kicker, NCAA. The drive to firsthand knowledge er, he said, was the complexity Andrew Baggett, is one of them. Fayetteville is one about.” of the NCAA’s structure. “I mean, he made that 70-yarder in practice he’d done many This wasn’t the He acknowledged the per- one time,” said Whelihan, who also hosts a times before. CORBY JONES job Jones envi- ceived irony of a former college weekly radio show in which he discusses Mis- Except this time sioned while at MU. He knew he athlete working for the NCAA’s souri football. “He definitely has that type of dis- Corby Jones was with him. wanted to work in sports, but interest, but he said “I can hon- tance, but there’s reasons why almost nobody Jones had recently become a law wasn’t something he was estly say I believe in what I do.” does it in a game even though there are some colleague of his, working with passionate about. At least he He said he knows the plight of that do. Again, it’s all about the right condi- him on legal matters in intercol- didn’t think it was. the student-athlete, what’s real tions.” legiate athletics. The two were He had money for more and what’s not. Finding the right conditions to kick field goals so engrossed in a conversation school, though. As a player, he Still, he gets letters to join the was something Missouri had to do frequently that Odle didn’t realize he’d was a National Football Foun- much-publicized class action during Whelihan’s playing days. The Tigers of missed a direction (or a few) dation National Scholar Athlete. lawsuit spearheaded by former the 1980s were defined by sputtering offenses, until Jones asked, “Are we sup- The award came with $18,000 UCLA basketball star Ed O’Ban- and, unlike Gary Pinkel’s recent teams, losing posed to go through Oklaho- to spend on graduate studies, non. That legal battle, against seasons. ma?” “Whenever we crossed the 50, Woody looked he said. Bob Bailey, the father the video game company EA No, they weren’t. But that’s at me and told me to start warming up,” Wheli- of one of Jones’ former school- Sports, is over compensation han said. how interested Odle was in the mates at Hickman, told him law for the profits made off stu- The year before his record-breaker, Whelihan conversation with Jones. school was the right call. dent-athletes’ likenesses. set the Missouri mark for the longest field goal “We made it to Fayetteville,” “He’s smart. He’s incredibly “That’s the weird dynamic,” when he kicked a 54-yarder against Oklahoma Odle said. “But I had to drive hard working. He’s obviously Jones said of his current work. State. Sixty-two was on another level. It was the like a bat out of hell.” very competitive,” Bailey, Assis- When Jones and Odle took longest in Big Eight history, and nearly 12 years That wrong turn is Odle’s favor- tant Dean Emeritus at the MU up that “regulatory review” proj- passed before someone in the conference broke ite story to tell about Jones, School of Law, said. “I knew ect that had them traveling to it: Kansas State’s kicked a a former Missouri quarterback that he’d have the characteris- Arkansas and other schools 65-yard field goal in 1998. By then, the Big who’s recently become a trivia tics that’d make him a success- throughout the country, the Eight had expanded to become the Big 12. question to Tiger football fans ful law student. number of people Jones knew Whelihan’s old punting records (45-yard aver- — now that Drew Lock is the “And he was.” amazed Odle. There seemed age distance for a single season and 41.3-yard first true freshman to start at Jones graduated from the MU to always be someone at every average for a career) no longer stand, but that’s QB for the team since Jones, a School of Law in 2004. He school. OK with him. Hickman High School graduate, worked at a couple firms — and Odle and Jones became fast The field goal record, though, he wants did in 1995. as a analyst for friends — as hard as that untouched. Jones now works at the law Fox Sports Networks — before might’ve been for Odle to imag- “I don’t care if every other record I’ve set firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon. beginning to work with Odle at ine at one point. gets broken, but I’ll be pissed if somebody ever Odle said Jones’ perspective Spencer Fane in spring 2013. “I hated him,” Odle joked. “I’m beats 62,” he said. “I want that one to stand as a former college athlete is The two moved to their current a Kansas Jayhawk.” forever.” valuable. firm in May 2014. Supervising editor is Mark Selig: Supervising editor is Mark Selig: markselig@mail. “All of the things that I Odle felt ready to make the [email protected], 882-

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Despite his mother’s wishes, freshman Missouri wide receiver Cam Hilton refused to quit playing football. By AARON REISS

Aimee Simon knew her lie “That was scary.” ing the quarterback would only hold up for so Eventually, she relented and training Scherer put long. let Hilton play football with Hilton through. Her son, Cam Hilton, now the Mathews-Dickey Boys’ Hilton grew up a freshman wide receiver for and Girls’ Club in St. Louis. around sports. Missouri, kept nagging his When Hilton turned 9, his His mom coached mom about playing football. It mother made him stop for in local basketball was his biggest interest since a couple of years. Some TV leagues, and his aunt his toddler years. So by age segments about the sports’ and grandfather refereed. The 7, he begged his mother to dangers had spooked her. boy was always in gyms — find him a team. But again, Hilton kept push- except when he was watching She lied and said there ing. And his mother accepted football on TV. He rooted for were no football teams for she wouldn’t be able to stop the St. Louis Rams and Mis- kids his age. But Hilton didn’t her son from playing football. souri. quit. He was that obsessed In middle school, Hilton Now he plays for the Tigers. with the sport as a boy. began playing for a team “Since he has been able to “Find me a team, find me coached by Joseph Scherer, crawl and walk, football is his a team,” the mother remem- the father of Missouri line- life,” Simon said. “Seriously.” bered her son saying. backer Michael Scherer. Supervising editor is “I just didn’t want my baby “That was a huge impact on Mark Selig: markselig@mail. playing football,” Simon said. his life,” Simon said, recall- missouri.edu, 882-5729. Courtesy of HILTON FAMILY Courtesy of HILTON

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He last saw NFL action TEAMS in Dec. 2014 against San Diego. He won a Super Bowl as a backup with the New Orle- While Kansas City 2 12 17 1 9 7 21 ans Saints in 2010. and St. Louis hold 6 10 2. the gold for the 4 14 most #MizzouMade 23 QUARTERBACK | LEFT MU: 2011 22 Gabbert is a backup quarterback with the players in the NFL, 11 San Francisco 49ers. He last saw NFL Missouri alumni can 19 action in Nov. 2014 against Denver. He was be found on teams 18 a first round NFL Draft choice of the Jack- from coast to coast. 15 sonville Jaguars in 2011. FREE AGENTS: 3 3. MARCUS MURPHY 8 20 13 TAILBACK/KICK RETURNER | LEFT MU: 2015 Murphy was a seventh-round NFL Draft BRENDAN WRAY/Missourian choice of the in 2015. He made the team as a kick returner. He is one of four players this season to have a 9. 14. KONY EALY agent in March. He was originally a seventh kick return touchdown. WIDE RECEIVER | LEFT MU: 2009 DEFENSIVE END | LEFT MU: 2014 round NFL Draft pick of the San Diego Char- 4. Maclin is a starting wide receiver with the Ealy is a starting defensive end with the gers in 2011. Kansas City Chiefs, which signed him to a , which made him a sec- TIGHT END | LEFT MU: 2009 19. ond round draft choice in the 2014 NFL Coffman is a tight end with the Tennessee 5-year, $55 million deal as a free agent in Draft. He had five tackles in the Panthers’ LINEBACKER | LEFT MU: 2010 Titans, where he has four catches for 42 2015. He was a first round NFL Draft selec- tion of the in 2009. last game against Tampa Bay. Weatherspoon is a starting linebacker with yards this season. He was a 2009 third- the , which signed him as round NFL Draft choice of the Cincinnati 10. BUD SASSER 15. ZIGGY HOOD a free agent in March. He was originally a Bengals. first round NFL Draft pick of the Atlanta Fal- WIDE RECEIVER | LEFT MU: 2015 DEFENSIVE TACKLE | LEFT MU: 2009 cons in 2010. 5. JUSTIN BRITT Sasser is the external football affairs coordi- Hood is a defensive tackle with the Jack- sonville Jaguars. He is currently on the OFFENSIVE LINEMAN | LEFT MU: 2014 nator for the St. Louis Rams, which drafted 20. ZAVIAR GOODEN him in the sixth round 2015 NFL Draft. He injured reserve list. He was drafted by the Britt is the starting left guard for the Seattle LINEBACKER | LEFT MU: 2013 was released by the team in June after doc- in the first round of the Seahawks, which drafted him in the second Gooden is a free agent linebacker who tors found a dangerous pre-existing heart 2009 NFL Draft. round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He went to a was released by the in Super Bowl with Seattle in 2015. The Sea- condition. The team signed him to its front 16. September. He was a third round NFL Draft office in August. hawks lost to New England. DEFENSIVE TACKLE | LEFT MU: 2013 selection of the Titans in 2013. 6. MITCH MORSE 11. Richardson is a starting defensive tackle with the New York Jets, which drafted him 21. E.J. GAINES DEFENSIVE END | LEFT MU: 2015 OFFENSIVE LINEMAN | LEFT MU: 2014 in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft. CORNERBACK | LEFT MU: 2014 Golden is a backup linebacker with the Morse is the starting center for the Kansas He won rookie of the year honors that year. Gaines is a cornerback with the St. Louis Arizona Cardinals, which drafted him in the City Chiefs, which drafted him in the second He has two career rushing for Rams, which drafted him in the sixth round round of the 2015 NFL Draft. second round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He his use in goal line offensive situations. He of the NFL Draft in 2014. He is currently recorded his first career sack Oct. 4 against returns from a four-game suspension this on the injured reserve list and out for the 7. TIM BARNES the St. Louis Rams. week after being punished for violating the season with a foot injury. He had two inter- OFFENSIVE LINEMAN | LEFT MU: 2011 NFL’s substance abuse policy. ceptions in his rookie season. Barnes is the starting center for the St. 12. SHANE RAY Louis Rams, which signed him as a free DEFENSIVE END | LEFT MU: 2015 17. ALDON SMITH 22. WILLIAM MOORE agent in 2011. He entered the league as an Ray is a backup linebacker with the Den- DEFENSIVE END | LEFT MU: 2011 SAFETY | LEFT MU: 2009 undrafted free agent with Baltimore. ver Broncos, which drafted him in the first Smith is a backup linebacker with the Oak- Moore is a starting safety with the Atlanta round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He recorded land Raiders, which signed him as a free Falcons, which selected him in the second 8. BRAD SMITH his first career sack Oct. 4 against the Min- agent in September after he was released round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He went to WIDE RECEIVER | LEFT MU: 2006 nesota Vikings. by San Francisco because of a DUI arrest, the 2012 after recording four inter- Smith is a free agent wide receiver who last his fifth arrest since 2011. He was original- ceptions and 59 tackles. saw NFL action with the Philadelphia Eagles 13. JACQUIES SMITH ly a first round draft choice of San Francis- in Dec. 2014. He is the only NFL player to DEFENSIVE END | LEFT MU: 2012 co in 2011. 23. BEAU BRINKLEY score a touchdown via kick return, punt Smith is a starting defensive end with the LONG SNAPPER | LEFT MU: 2012 block, pass reception, rush and pass. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He led the team in 18. ANDREW GACHKAR Brinkley is the starting long snapper with sacks in 2014. He has four sacks in 2015. LINEBACKER | LEFT MU: 2011 the Tennessee Titans, which signed him as He originally signed with the Gachkar is a starting linebacker with the an undrafted free agent in 2012. He has as an undrafted free agent in 2012. , which signed him as a free played in 48 NFL games. COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9-10, 2015 — PAGE 15 Former quarterback inds comfort in Canada By AARON REISS and signed a contract with the Detroit souri, running back Henry Josey, plays He’s since returned to being a backup James Franklin likes his new nickname Lions. Detroit cut him in August 2014, for Toronto. A game against each other in the Eskimos’ past four games and more than his old one. though. Soon, the quarterback realized in Edmonton wasn’t something the two hasn’t played. No complaints, though. He Toss out “Frank the Tank,” the mon- his dreams of the NFL might never mate- envisioned when they suited up together said he didn’t expect to play this season. iker Missouri fans used for the former rialize. He gave himself until July 2015 to in Columbia. He needed time to learn the differences quarterback who helped orchestrate the find another football team. “That’s probably the last thing we between American and Canadian foot- Tigers’ 2014 Cotton Bowl-winning sea- That’s when the CFL season were thinking,” Josey said. ball, as Josey, who has 16 carries for 30 son. It’s “Franklin the Turtle” now. was scheduled to begin. Michael Sam, another yards this season, said he’s done. Sound familiar? You must be into He hopped around CFL prominent Tiger from A few differences: Canadian teams Canadian children’s books. Or the tele- tryouts in Nebraska, the 2014 team, also get three downs, not four. The Canadian vision series that became popular in Louisiana and Texas. played in the CFL this field is 10 yards longer, roughly 12 yards America. Eventually, he land- year, but played just wider and has end zones twice the size “I’m not the fastest guy,” the foot- ed with Edmonton. 12 snaps in one of American ones. Because of the bigger ball-slinging Franklin said over the phone After Edmonton’s game before quitting field, Canadian teams have 12 players last week after an Edmonton Eskimos’ starting quarter- the Montreal Alou- on the field at once, as opposed to the practice. “I’m slow like a turtle. But the back went down ettes and returning 11 in America.

Photo by JACOB HAMILTON/Missourian shell, it’s hard like a tank. I’ll take that.” with an injury early to Columbia to attend “Like there’s 15 people out there, In his rookie season in the Canadian in the season, Franklin graduate school. man,” Josey joked. Football League, Franklin has gone from moved from the practice Franklin and Josey, There are, of course, cultural differ- member, to change-of- squad to the active ros- meanwhile, both said ences, too. What Americans call sweet pace quarterback, to starter, to backup. ter. He began playing parts of they’ve enjoyed their venture up potatoes, Canadians call yams, and vice He’s shifted roles faster than a turtle can games, beginning in the Eskimos’ sec- north. Neither said they feel as though versa. Franklin said he and his wife had make it across the U.S.-Canada border. ond contest of the season. the NFL is a must for them. “the hardest time figuring that out.” Still, to feel the embrace of a team and He made his first start Week 10, The Eskimos won one of Franklin’s two Josey said he avoided the issue. fanbase is a welcome change for Frank- against the Toronto Argonauts. The Eski- starts. He completed 42 of 66 passes “I just get french fries.” lin. He went undrafted by NFL teams mos won 38-15. What made it better? for 440 yards and a touchdown. “The Supervising editor is Mark Selig: mark after finishing his career at Missouri One of Franklin’s best friends from Mis- Turtle” also ran for a score. [email protected], 882-5729.

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