As most of the Rams and Patriots played offensive football as if shackled by ankle bracelets, Julian Edelman continued to build a postseason résumé that most Hall of Famers would envy.
ATLANTA – The Gophers football team began the 2006 season with a trip to Kent, Ohio. On Aug. 31, the Gophers played Kent State, and freshman Eric Decker, who would become a star receiver in the NFL, made his first college catch.
Another future NFL star made an uncelebrated debut on that warm Thursday night. This one, an undersized high school quarterback from Woodside High in northern California, had failed to attract big-school scholarships and had played a season at the College of San Mateo.