Hard task making the cut with master Canning

AT THIS time of year, American football teams are tasting the white heat of intense pre-season training. Gridiron giants take part in a violent annual ballet as a hulking, heaving mass of athletic hardware crashes into each other in a frantic bid to forge a team ready for the NFL season.

Hard task making the cut with master Canning

Amongst this chaotic scene, however, one, particular, man is an island. While the team of coaches on the sideline watch these full-blooded practice sessions unfold on days when the season’s playbook is inked, there, invariably, wearing a brightly coloured cap, is the author of so much of it: the quarterback.

This orange hat, which crowns the QB, offers his enthusiastic and often bigger team-mates a very clear message: “Take it easy on this guy; he’s the franchise.”

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