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Anthony Lynn on his offseason experience in Tanzania
Chargers coach Anthony Lynn spent some of his offseason in Tanzania, where he helped open a school in a rural part of the country. Lynn talks about what he learned from his experience in Africa, and some of the lessons he hopes to bring back to Los Angeles. Also, four lingering offseason...
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THE ITALIAN FOOTBALL PLAYER
"Two years ago, in the fall of 2017, we did a project at The MMQB called Football In America. Our staff visited eight cities across the country, watching football at all levels, from youth up through the NFL. In Philadelphia, one of our stops was a city park to watch a women’s tackle football team, the Philadelphia Phantomz, practice. One of the players we met on that chilly Saturday morning was a tight end/linebacker named Nausicaa Dell’Orto. She was from Italy, and she was working as an intern at NFL Films. She also told us that she’d started a women’s tackle football team, six years earlier, in her native Milan. I wanted to share her story, as she is one of the many women around the NFL who have worked hard to carve out roles in football that did not previously exist."
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"The Milan men’s club, though, didn’t believe that women could play their sport, and they refused to support the women with facilities or equipment. So, the women trained on potato fields. For uniforms, they used a box of orange Miami Hurricanes practice jerseys that one of Milan’s junior football coaches had brought back to Italy with him after visiting summer practices at The U in the late 1980s."
