Former Georgia LB Thomas Davis, now a star player for the Carolina Panthers, took the field in Super Bowl 50 despite breaking his arm in the NFC Championship Game two weeks earlier.
According to The Charlotte Observer, Davis, now 33 years old, is focusing on getting his body right before the start of his 12th NFL season:
“Being a person that’s been in this league as long as I’ve been, you understand how important making sure your body’s in the best shape it can be going into training camp. So I make sure I find time regardless if I’m here in Charlotte or if I’m out of town traveling or if I’m just spending time relaxing with my kids – I make sure I stay on top of my training because I know how important it is to my body.”
When the season starts, Davis and the Panthers will face a tough task. In the last 23 years, the team that lost the Super Bowl hasn’t made it back to the big game the following season:
“[O]ne thing about our football team is we’re not getting caught up in that. We’re focused on the task at hand. We’re not getting complacent, thinking that we’re entitled that, ‘Hey, just because we made it last year that we’re going to make it back.’ We understand that we have to start over. There’s going to be a completely new team regardless of how many guys we brought back. We’re going to start over. We’re going to start fresh. And I think to a man that everyone has bought in to what coach Rivera coaches us and teaches us. We’ll be ready to go.”
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