There’s a banner that New Orleans Saints center Max Unger is carrying, invisible to most but distinctly noticeable to a proud few, an indicator that he is the latest in a line of brothers, the most recent to uphold a tradition of excellence that began in the early 1980s and extends to the present.
See, Hawaii isn’t known as a football breeding ground, not like Florida, Louisiana, Texas or California.
Except this: to call Honolulu a “cradle of centers” might not be a stretch.
If you were a kid with size and girth and lived in Hawaii – Unger fit each category – then it was natural to want to play center.