Clinton Portis
Clinton Portis
Clinton Earl Portisis a former American football running back who played in the National Football Leaguefor nine seasons. He played college football for the University of Miami. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft. Portis was best known for being the starting running back for the Washington Redskins for seven seasons, in which he gained an average of 81.2 yards rushing per game, for which a select panel of celebrities included...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth1 September 1981
CityLaurel, MS
ball bread opens rolling running time
Running the ball is what we do well. It's our bread and butter. It's always been the coach's way to win. Any time we can get the ball rolling on the ground, it opens up a lot of things for us.
play giving balls
I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.
ball deep either grind pick
You pick your poison. You either give up the deep ball to Santana and (Chris) Cooley or let me grind it out.
ball builds execute game goal last line open paid passing run short stuck third three weeks
Third down had been killing us for the last three weeks and to come out and execute and not get in the shotgun, and to actually run the ball when we got to on third and short and to come out and execute, it just builds confidence, and it's going to open up our passing game. We come out on third and short and we haven't been converting, but in this game, we stuck with the run all game long and it paid off: Once we got down to the goal line we stuck it in again.
cleaning found guys locker needed none packing ready talked win
We talked about packing up. We needed to go out and find a way to win or we were going to be cleaning out our lockers. I wasn't ready to clean my locker out. I don't think none of the other guys were, either. We found a way to win.
game gives hit running
We went deep. We went short. We hit on medium-range passes. We got our running game going. Jake gives us another dimension.
almost
I used to do gymnastics. I almost made it to the Olympics, back in '98, I think,
came team turn wrote
At 5-6, everyone wrote us off. We started off hot, everyone jumped on the bandwagon. We turn around, we're 5-6, everyone jumped off the bandwagon. As a team we came together.
dallas dress everybody forward hopefully looking people played pressure reason week win
Week in and week out, everybody was looking forward to it, and hopefully getting a win this week by being myself, that'll take the pressure off. We don't want people to think the skit has been the reason we're successful. I didn't dress up before the Dallas game, and we played spectacular.
began came disguise dissect fans finally forward game gotten help looking people plan playing scene since trying turned
I was trying to find a way to get into the end zone. So I came out in disguise trying to dissect a game plan to get me to the end zone. It had been so long since I had gotten in there before I finally got in, and I actually did it playing around (with costumes). And then the fans and people started looking forward to it. The fans began to help me, and now it's turned into this national-known scene that we have now.
becomes becoming drive humor last leave lost might run weeks
Well, ... I might as well keep a sense of humor because if I leave it up to you all, you're going to run me into the ground, drive me crazy. The last two weeks we haven't won, so now it's becoming a problem. When you're winning, it really don't matter, but when you're not winning, it becomes a problem. We've lost our last two games, and I've got to find a way to get in the end zone.
appreciate change eddie enjoying grow playing rod role thrust
I think having this change come upon me probably made me grow up and appreciate things more, ... It made me become a better man, become a leader, it sped up the process. Out there, my playing always (did the talking). Off the field, I was always in my own world. Being here, not having the (players like) Shannon Sharpe, Eddie McCaffrey or Rod Smith, it thrust me into that role and I'm enjoying it.
leadership losing season
Having that one losing season made me take on more of a leadership role,
guts win
Guts and power. You want to win the game, don't you?