Frank Reich has spent a fair share of time around athletic prodigies, going back to when he was himself a three-sport star at Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pa. He has coached and played against gifted men, and he has learned to appreciate the small, oft-unseen things they do to make themselves great and the lengths to which an opponent might go to prevent them from manifesting that greatness.
Take, for instance, Sam Bowie. Before the Portland Trail Blazers decided to draft him instead of Michael Jordan in 1984, before he began his star-crossed and injury-riddled NBA career, Bowie was a demigod at Lebanon High School, Cedar Crest's neighborhood rival.