The Full Monty: Why Detroit Lions RB David Montgomery runs so damn hard

Allen Park, Michigan-Escaped lawyers, who are in secretism, are covered with tattoos and wounds. A cross behind one ear. There is a picture of the teeth and lips smiling between the thumb and the index finger, and it is engraved with "Why Serious, for Example?" Bruits and scars on both knees. While David Montgomery is treating his left knee wound, his giant tattoos are naturally gathered in his calf.

A joker picture that spreads throughout the ankle is like threatening the bestseller of the leisure.

Under the mug, a vintage comic with a joker and "bash!"

For example, Gotham City's enemy is engraved on his skin forever.

"I embody his essence," says Montgomery. "I don't think he's a bad guy. He's a misunderstood person."

He is more passionate about this theme than anyone. As Montgomeri has revealed, Arthur Frek's first hoped was to accept it. But he was different. He was ridiculed. And when he became a "bad guy", Frek finally felt he was marked. And he accepted this role. He became a joker. 5. 069 yards, 44 times touchdown, earning millions of dollars, and as a professional player who became prominent in the Super Bowl team, I feel that Mongomedi has been severely misunderstood.

"I'm wondering if people look at me and really understand who I am.

"And that doesn't mean who I am."

The public is looking at a walking lawyer who has left the Detroit Lions team to break Los Angeles Rams at the first round. With one wander, one dash, and one high step, they break through the tackle of the defenseless arm and flow 21 meters from the right post. And 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 lawyers, 9 meters to the left. In a 3: 1 scene, carry a mountain of corpse to the side of the goal. And of course, end the game with the winning ball.

In the end zone, Montgomeri bent, losing his helmet, and Ford Field was enthusiastic.

Two weeks later, the world saw the V8 engine running 122 yards in Detroit's 20-13 victory in Glendale, Arizona.

More scars, more bruises, more pain.

There is no position in the football world that emphasizes originality as much as South America. As a result, we have become Barry, Serman, Bus, Sweetness, and Bo in the garden and basements. He danced, turned around, lifted his knees, was stuck, boiled (or five) the gestor's testicles, and hit his body on the wall. The precedent that the ball can basically happen if the ball is in a running back basket has not changed by sports plantation. It's still the pure art of sports.

It seems like a manga that the corpse accumulates one after another in Montgomeri. His legs are not limited to that. He is everything that Dan Campbell can do in the lawyer's lab, and he is not a person who runs with a ball. No, this is impossible. It should be a bottomless job.

This is why he pulled Guo Ryu to Michigan. To admit more.

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Just touching this theme will peel off one onion.

"For me, this is a guarantee that I will not disappoint my teammates." I can't be disappointed. When I got the ball-they trust me-especially decisive. In the moment and extra time, the team in this position trusts me and can make a personal contribution, and they feel uncomfortable. I haven't understood this yet.

The second time touches this topic, he removes the layer again. He points to the soccer world and tells him he wasn't that person.

"Don't claim that they make mistakes, they argue that they are right. Everyone said I wasn't that good."

He, from Cincinnati, Ohio, became a football player at Iowa State University. Now the animal spirit of Detroit Lions. It symbolizes everything that the general manager and head coach preach. And Scotty Mongomery (no family) is a repetition that David is repeated at Allen Park while accepting the lyrics "Grit" in the sports world and being used. Emphasize that it is the essence of four characters. The coach begins to say that certain people are "special". They have something that cannot be measured in a 4 0-hour or 15 minute video.

He calls him the best hard worker for the team. Lions knew that they were buying reliable players. But I didn't know it would be so extreme.

And the coach says that the 2 7-yea r-old player is the founder and a brother who can fully draw himself into a family.

"I like responsibility," says Scotti Mongomery, a head coach assistant. "This is basically something that people overlook on looks. He is persistently trained and wants to take the ball at the end of the game.

"The family will prepare." All 100 %. He's a precaution ... he was carried almost all. They do all of them for their families. If so, he is preparing for the building, but he is now preparing for his family.

Here, there is everything he got when he was a child. It is not a coincidence that David Long Jr., who has a warehouse with a heart that does not allow him to be delayed, is a family from the same city. Both are solidified on the same street as 1-chome. Montgomeri became witnesses as his friend sighed at his last. Montgomeri witnessed a friend to take a breath. The half burner is in Katsuka to kill. He doesn't know his hometown. When the NFL video camera brings the eyes of Montgomeri two seconds before the ball, the most feared expression you are looking for is already looking here. Details are not presented on the platter of Azur bus and silver. However, in fragmentary ... apart ...

For the first time in public, David Montgomery does not know about his home injury.

"Every day, he speaks, replace with your life."

He had been diagnosed with leukemia for his life. He is alive.

My sister Kiki collapsed in February this year in a car accident. She is Izura's mother. Now the bottom from the neck is paralyzed.

"The family we pray together can be together.

The load is heavy. It's much harder than 45 pounds (about 1. 5 kg) on ​​racks for squats, and the number of bodies jumping on this mountain is to grab it. All of these scars covering his limbs will heal all. My sister's position has not improved, and this is the hardest. What is his only answer? Keep working on your feet. Riviu arrests. More and stronger. Pay as much as possible behind, overcome the pain and grin.

No one suggests.

Hardened

Everything was pretty good. Montgomeri did not think about anything when the invoice was unpaid and the whole family had to do an improvised and easy daily work.

No hot water? In order to wash, I was drawing on the highway with any gallon water. No heating in winter? His family opened the oven door and turned the plug temperature handle. No light? When the electricity was turned off, the Montgomeri family lit a candle throughout the house with a match.

From home to house, from home to house. They lived in places where they had the opportunity to exist.

"It's a typical shit," Montgomeri says.

His mother worked for tw o-person dialysis assistant nurse. His fathe r-i n-law also worked as an alternative. Both were fired many times. All payments were a few to live. There were a total of four boys, three children and one eldest daughter. In principle, they did not meet their mother until 11:00 at night.

Daily life created Montgomery.

In fact, like other people he saw.

"I erased many people." I saw the destruction. I saw the destruction. "

Before the bottomless breath, the brightest and most trauma events, he will not decide to extend these factors. In high school, he was a Montgomery at the time, and watched the football game together with another friend. All three looked at Michael-Meyears in the first movie Halloween. They ate popcorn. They enjoyed fear. And who has the ability to leave this stringed instrument? It's magnificent. At one point, a real disabled person appeared in this living room. The nephew was wearing a ventilator to cure asthma, but the nevrizer ended without any warning.

He lost his understanding. They called 9-1-1.

It was quite late when the ambulance rushed. The doctor could not revive the boy.

"I understand that the air and lives are coming out of his body," Montgomeri says.

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On the street outside the house, he saw more rough pictures. I thought intuitively. Thankfully, he was not targeted. In high school, like a childhood fever, it became a normal quarter back of the Mount Healthy Football Team. On November 16, 2013, he arranged the tac k-down once in the Central Breakthrough, defeated the David Long Woods team in the second league quarterfinals in Ohio. did. This match was the cornerstone of the rivalry of the heart. In one of the crashes, he caught long in front of the window and hit the lawn. (Montgomeri never forget it).

The euphoria was short-lived. The next morning, Nov. 17, Montgomery received devastating news: Vince Ternas, whom he called a "hero in the neighborhood," had been killed during a home invasion. The 19-year-old was on a full scholarship to the University of Akron and had just returned home to attend a playoff game.

Ternaz was more than just his brother Jared's best friend; he was a mentor and a role model for many in the neighborhood, especially David. An entire community was devastated. Early Sunday morning in Springfield Township, armed men broke down the front and back doors of a house, chanting "Special Forces! Give us the drugs! Give us the money!" and gathered the family in the same room to rob them.

Police say Ternash and his girlfriend were in a bedroom downstairs. He tried to lead her to safety through a door to the basement, but was shot in the head and died.

Initially, police suggested that the alleged victim might be Vince Sr. The Ternash girls identified 21-year-old Damon Kirkendall as the killer, but Judge Melba Marsh (in dramatic terms) declared him innocent and left the courtroom amid sobs from the Ternash family. There was no jury. Marsh cited a lack of DNA evidence and forensic testing as the reasons. Local news reports said even Kirkendall's defense team was surprised by the verdict.

For a long time, Montgomery did not mention "death." "Death surrounded me so sternly," he adds coldly.

The incident shook him.

"I'm so grateful for the loss of my life, because I know he was a good man, a good human being, a good person," Montgomery says. "He came home for the weekend and lost his life. I have so much respect for him, but I also appreciate the fact that Vince did everything possible to be the best version of himself. My job is to honor his name in every way possible."

First, Montgomery had to find a college. He claims, without exaggeration, that D-I schools have nothing in common with him.

The names of educational institutions that have withdrawn their proposals, such as the Army, Miami (Ohio), and Buffalo Institute. Toledo Institute camped at Kolelen High School, 14 miles away from Cynch, but Southwest Ohio's Rockets-Recruiter, Brian Gasser, basically Mongomy "killed." He recalls how he created a senior vs. Linbekers training on e-o n-one show. He did not count this and had a Gasser MT coach and hardware affairs. The healthy Albi crouched. He read that this quota was basically a special person and knew that the crown was not piercing him. In fact, everything is MT. Health was happy to throw all of his business to sing the praise of young people. Montgomery was the best talent in this camp-including nearby, but did not have a toled free scholarship. At that time, the head coach Matt Campbell led to a young man, saying that he was a catastrophic player and basically it would always come out. "Believe this."

Montgomeri was very angry with believing. According to his view, the D-I coach has surprisingly claimed him.

In the fall of the same year, he pointed out that he was hired as an appropriate head coach of the Iowa team on the ESPN channel.

The feature in high school was a rudimentary impressive: 2. 707 yards (average 10, 1) and 41 td on the ground alone.

The new Iowa staff began to assemble the configuration as they got used to the brand new space. Lu Aini's executed coach, Gasser and Campbell, knew they had already had a catastrophic Bucks of the new year's active brand of NFL players Ken Nangva and Big 12 Michael-Warren's active brands in the future. When one of the scholarships was still vacant, they connected the film with Montgomery for two minutes, and Jieni was basically a promising player to go to Okyo Stititite in Michigan. Gasser told him that everything was absolutely opposed. Montgomery is only interested in the second division of Notre Dame in Sawkrida, Ohio, and the FCS secondary education institution in South Carolina. If you need Ayovet Stat, they will receive it. "

Aeni and Montgomeri worked. There was a running lawyer in Iowa.

It was exciting to see the records of secondary education institutions, but they highly appreciated this young man who took the regular school to the first project. This is a pretty basic thing, in fact, in mind that they were trying to raise their personal programs from the Big 12-Desert.

"They needed a challenging thing like the abolished" Iowa Step "and Montgomery talk. When I arrived there, I didn't even know that this was my job. I graduated.

He has paused to modify it, and is actually just for quality. A fresh memoir emerges.

"It hurt my life. It's not easy. I endure everything steadily and don't make excuses for myself.

I lost my half-brother in Kututka. Maceo was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 15 years indefinitely. According to court documents, this happened as a result of a dispute over drugs. Filto later said that his conviction was fabricated under duress, but his case was dismissed. When I met Montgomery for the first time in 2019, he read Filto with hope. He said that he actually believed his brother was innocent and that his family was actually making every effort to find a new defense lawyer to sue the class again. David had no doubt that they would win. Five years after the Filto issue, the tone would change a lot. His brother is still in Kututka, but they don't talk anymore. In fact, the brother says that he prays for his brother, does him a favor and leaves everything as it is.

The heavy shit "prepares him, but it also suppresses him".

Montgomery was going to enter the institute and devote himself to his studies.