Is there a way to get the video of that on YouTube? I would really love to see it!
Is there a way to get the video of that on YouTube? I would really love to see it!
That's our boy! This is the second time I've heard him do it, and it was just as sweet as the first.Originally Posted by DeadRed
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you missed a heart stopper Friday night, my friend. Young Barousse has really become a leader.Originally Posted by DeadRed
No doubt "Peanut" made it clear that he attended THE University of Louisiana.
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Not bad for a boy from Texas.
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can someone tell me what "swaggin" means?Originally Posted by CDeb
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I will attend Friday prior to my trip the Duck camp. I hope we call pull it off.Originally Posted by Zeebart21
ST. CHARLES -- Standing among racks of winter coats Tuesday, 14-year-old Wyfred Phillips of Chicago glanced down at his empty shopping cart and contemplated what he should purchase with his $100 Meijer gift card.
Probably some video games. Maybe a few shirts.
But what Wyfred really cared about was what aisle Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman was trailing down.
On Tuesday, Tillman teamed up with Meijer in St. Charles and offered about 11 members of the Chicago and Elgin branches of The Boys and Girls Club $100 gift cards to buy school supplies, clothing, shoes and anything else they needed.
"It's kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing," Wyfred said, looking down at his empty shopping cart.
"I'm really enjoying it, even though I didn't get anything yet."
While Meijer financed the shopping spree, Tillman served as the youths' personal shopper.
For about an hour and a half, Tillman snaked through the store's aisles with the youths, sorting through shoe boxes and piles of pants, searching for the right size and the perfect style.
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CHRISTINE S. MOYER
If you are a member on Scout here is a good story on Charles Tillman
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=345&p=2...2%26c%3d595024
I'm not I was wondering if someone could go get it?
The Bears may have lost to the Patriots 17-13 on Sunday, but it certainly wasn't the secondary's fault. Charles Tillman in particular shined in Foxborough, intercepting two passes and recording seven tackles in a game that was a defensive struggle from start to finish. Tillman is the Bear Report Stud of the Week.
He remembers being in the basement of his grandparents' South Side home when he first stopped to study a football game on TV. The young boy his family already had nicknamed ''Peanut'' because his head was shaped like one watched wide-eyed as the quarterback threw the ball, the receiver caught it and the defensive back delivered a blow.
It was around the time of his fifth birthday. He remembers that much. That cements the date as late in 1985 or early in 1986. Unless his memory has failed him -- and he doesn't think it has -- his love for the game germinated while watching the 1985 Bears.
''I'm not for sure, but I do believe it was the Bears I saw for the first time playing football,'' he said. ''It looked like so much fun. I wanted to do that. From that point on, that's what I wanted to do.''
Now here he is all these years later, preparing for an NFC divisional playoff game Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks at Soldier Field. He can expect to play a pivotal role in the first leg of a journey the Bears hope ends with their first Super Bowl since their starting left cornerback was in kindergarten at Horace Mann Elementary on South Chappel Avenue.
''It's very ironic,'' said Tillman's father, Donald. ''We couldn't believe it. It was too much. I've always been a Bears fan because I'm from Chicago. Who would have ever thought he would've gotten drafted by the Bears?''
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NEIL HAYES
Sun-Times
Gary Bartel has coached six players who made it to the Super Bowl. But last Monday was the first time he'd ever gotten a phone call like he got from Charles Tillman.
"It was one day after they beat the Saints," Bartel said, "and he called and said he's got us tickets to the game. I was kind of shocked."
The former UL defensive coordinator, and the man that recruited Tillman to the Cajuns out of Copperas Cove High School in Texas, may have been shocked. But he wasn't surprised.
"I'm still his coach," said Bartel, now the head coach and athletic coordinator at Grand Prairie, Texas, High. "I still chew his butt and stay on him. When we go out to eat, even though he's a millionaire, I'm still gonna pay because I'm the coach."
More and more people are starting to see the Chicago Bears cornerback as more than a rapidly improving cover cornerback, seeing what Ragin' Cajun head coach Rickey Bustle saw the first time he met Tillman in person.
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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com
Bartel and Tillman 2002
MIAMI — A nomadic existence was nothing new for Charles Tillman.
As the son of an Army sergeant, he’d already been in 11 schools by the time he reached high school.
It was a life he didn’t mind, moving from one city to the next, making new friends, adapting to a different school’s curriculum.
“If I was in a particular school for too long,” Tillman said, “it was kind of like, ‘I’m ready to move. Let’s go somewhere else.’”
One day, though, he’d finally had enough.
When his dad, Donald Tillman, approached him about switching high schools and going to Dallas, the future Bears’ cornerback put his foot down.
“I pleaded with my dad,” said Tillman, who was attending Copperas Cove in Texas, about three hours from Dallas. “He wanted to move after he got out of the military. I pleaded with him. I was like, ‘I’m tired of moving. After I graduate, I don’t care where we move. Just wait until after I get this scholarship.’
“He waited. It was a good choice.”
Not always a corner
Bears fans know Tillman only as a talented player who is normally hawking some of the best receivers in the NFL.
It wasn’t always that way, though. . . .
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By John Dietz
Daily Herald Sports Writer
Charles Tillman was a ball catcher in high school?
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