Why Everette Brown "gives it everything"
Per David Scott of the Charlotte Observer, Carolina Panthers rookie Everette Brown learned a valuable lesson from his father about giving your all after Everette and his brother Tobias gave a "poor effort" in an elementary school soccer game.
“If you can't go out there and push yourselves on the soccer field, you don't deserve McDonald's today,” he said. “If you're going to lay back like that, you can spend your Saturdays at home cutting the grass and working in the yard.”One of the reasons Brown slipped to the second round was his (lack of) size (6-1, 256 pounds). But his father reminded him of the valuable lesson he taught him when Everette was in elementary school.
“Y'all ain't tired,” he said. “So get out there and run!”
“Everette,” Odell Brown said to his son last week, “they said Dwight Freeney was too small. Now he's one of the highest paid defensive players in the league. That shows you that all you have to do is go out there and compete. Play every down.”In his three years at Florida State, Brown recorded 23 sacks, which ranks him fifth all-time at the school.
