Fwd: [Celtics' Stuff ] Ainge living up to the family name

[JB <jimmetz@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks to js33 of Celticsstuff:
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> From: "John" <js33@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Sep 15, 2003  3:24:24  PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: [Celtics' Stuff ] Ainge living up to the family name
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> I found this on NFL.com
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> Ainge living up to the family name
> Uncle Danny was a two-sport pro
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> By Matt Glade, NFLHS.com
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> Not that the rest of us would know a thing about it, but it must be
> difficult at times to be the namesake of a world-known former
> professional athlete.
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> Name-recognition can and does put a truckload of pressure and
> expectations on young athletes, who strive to get out of the shadow,
> and make names for themselves.
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> Glencoe quarterback Erik Ainge seems to be doing quite nicely. The
> senior is considered by many to be one of the elite quarterbacks in
> the nation.
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> Combining all the skills necessary to lead a team  size (6-6, 200
> pounds), stats (2,554 yards passing in 2002) and smarts (3.96 GPA) 
> Ainge is making plenty of people forget about his namesake (Danny
> Ainge, remember him? Boston Celtics?).
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> Like his uncle, Erik is a mult-sport standout, starring in baseball
> and basketball, as well. His bloodlines run deep.
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> Eriks grandfather, Don Ainge, was a star athlete at Eugene High (now
> South Eugene), graduated in 1954 and received a football/basketball
> scholarship to Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.
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> Eriks father, Doug Ainge, was also a three-sport athlete at South
> Eugene before moving on to play basketball at BYU and Linfield. Dougs
> now an assistant basketball coach at Linfield.
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> Then there was Danny, a three-sport prep standout who starred at BYU
> in basketball and baseball. Danny played baseball professionally for
> three seasons for the Toronto Blue Jays, and then hit it big
> professionally in the NBA.
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> And if not for Danny, Erik might never have played football.
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> The sport wasnt even on the menu for the lanky young man until Danny
> asked to have Erik evaluated by renowned sports psychologist Jonathan
> P. Niednagel, dubbed the Brain Doctor.
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> Niednagel had developed a system of predicting success and failure for
> athletes through brain typing.
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> After watching videotape of Erik participating in sports drills, and
> watching a taped interview of the young man, the Brain Doctor
> brain-typed Erik ESTP (Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking = Perceiving),
> the ideal brain type for a QB.
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> The type is also shared by former NFL greats Joe Montana, Johnny
> Unitas, Joe Namath, Brett Favre and several other superstar QBs of the
> past and present.
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