In case you didn't know, Ryan Fitzpatrick is the Quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. He's a good quarterback, but that's not why I admire him. I admire him for a choice he made all the way back when he was in high school.
He was recruited to play football at big schools, schools on the level of Alabama or USC. Seems pretty typical for a star high school quarterback, right? The thing is, Fitzpatrick was and still is a genius. He had a 4.0 GPA and scored just off perfect on his SAT. He had a big decision to make: play football and chase his dream, or get the education he could earn and make use of. HE decided on both, passing up scholarships, NFL opportunities, and parties at bigger football schools to go to Harvard and play football there.
This is a decision I've struggled with myself, but on a much smaller scale. I could probably play division 3 soccer, but I made the decision that my education is more important. The odds of myself becoming a professional soccer player are pretty slim, so I figure that the education will be much more important to my future. Fitzapatrick decided the same thing.
This didn't mean that he didn't work hard to make it to the NFL. He did, and he succeeded. That's why I admire him. He picked his education over 4 years of football, and got everything he could out of it. He spent 4 years playing college football, and made it to the NFL. Plus he has a Harvard degree as backup.
Not bad.
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