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Article: Arizona Back Downplays Return to St. Louis
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BOB BAUM, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
09-26-2003
Dateline: TEMPE, Ariz.
James Hodgins used to block for Marshall Faulk. Now he's doing it for Emmitt Smith. Not bad work, if you can get it.
"Wherever I go, I've got a Hall of Famer with me," the Arizona Cardinals fullback said on Thursday.
Hodgins will return on Sunday to St. Louis, where he spent his first four NFL seasons before being released for salary cap reasons last year.
"I'm really trying to downplay it and keep it at bay," he said. "I want to keep my emotions in check. I'm going to go in there and try to treat it as a regular game, and then afterward see all the guys and do all that stuff."
He knows, though, that it's not a regular game.
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