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Article: Back on field, Tate wants to tear it up
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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FOXBOROUGH - The last time Brandon Tate had been on a football
field, he was hobbling toward the sideline, his right knee shredded
more than he realized. More than a year had passed since that day, a
day he wondered whether he would ever play football again.
Last Sunday, Tate gazed around Wembley Stadium, mesmerized by the
size of the place.
"That's when the butterflies started coming," he said.
They subsided only after his first play, when he was tackled on
an end-around. "It felt real good, man," he said.
Tate's first NFL game counted as both a debut and a return, his
welcome to the league and his first action since last fall, when he
tore his anterior cruciate and medial collateral ...