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Article: GROGAN HOPES FOR OLD GLORY AT 35, HE'S PATRIOTS' ELDER STATESMAN -- AND TOP QUARTERBACK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 5, 1988
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SMITHFIELD, R.I. - When Steve Grogan reported to his first
training camp in 1975, he remembered looking up to Julius Adams,
then a fourth-year defensive lineman with the Patriots, and saying
to himself, "Wow, this guy's an old player."
"It's funny," Grogan said yesterday, "but I know when some of
the younger guys look at me, they must say, 'Geez, this guy's been
around forever.' "
That first training camp was a far cry from this year's at
Bryant College. But Grogan, the Patriots' 35-year-old veteran
quarterback, remembered it as clearly as though it were yesterday.
"It was all so new to me, so I know how a lot of these guys
are feeling," he said. "You try to learn it all so fast, ...