Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller takes the day off from practice on Day 4 of training camp on Aug. 3, 2015 at Dove Valley. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)
Von Miller, Denver Broncos linebacker.
Von Miller, Super Bowl 50 MVP.
Von Miller, nerd.
Miller in his Players’ Tribune piece released Thursday. In it, he shares memories and experiences as told by him and three friends — San Francisco 49ers’ Tony Jarod-Eddie, Miami Dolphins’ Damontre Moore and Broncos’ Cyrus Gray.
“You was a nerd, bruh. You were skinny. But you were also a geek,” Jarod-Eddie says in the piece. “You were into sci-fi and National Geographic. You were the total package.”
Miller responds: “I still watch NatGeo. I love NatGeo.”
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Miller writes:
Deion Sanders. Michael Irvin. Emmitt Smith. Leon Lett. Every day, I’d be throwing the ball around at recess pretending I was them.
There was just one problem, though. I was a nerd.
You think I’m joking. I’m not joking. I’m talking nerd.
These glasses are not a fashion statement. I’ve been blind without them since I was a kid. Now it’s cool.
The piece covers everything about him growing up a skinny kid, his bad vision to playing alongside his high school hero DeMarcus Ware.
