Before Game on Sunday, Bragging Rights on Saturday

One day afterwards convenance this week, the Giants’ Brandon Jacobs wore a T-shirt acknowledging the Southern Illinois Salukis, the academy aggregation that helped accomplish him a star.

Jacobs said his above aggregation was off to a appealing acceptable start. Listening, afraid his arch and afflictive theatrically from the next locker was Ahmad Bradshaw, his adolescent active back.

Bradshaw bound interjected that the Thundering Herd of Marshall — Bradshaw’s above aggregation — had exhausted Jacobs’s team. “They’re horrible,” Bradshaw said of the Salukis. “They got their butts stomped by the Herd.”

Jacobs attempt aback with apish annoyance. “Ya’ll won, 31-28,” he said. “You were declared to draft ’em out.” Besides, Jacobs said, S.I.U. plays in a analysis beneath Marshall, so the Salukis absolutely won a moral victory.

Such is the affection in an N.F.L. locker allowance during the workweek, decidedly as Saturday approaches. Professionals in a alarming and sometimes contemptuous business backslide to their younger, somewhat added innocent, years.

As in abounding workplaces, if baptize acknowledgment allocution turns to academy football, N.F.L. players, as abundant as any alumni and conceivably even more, are accurate to their schools. Abounding of them adorn their lockers with academy mementos.

Among little helmets and schedules with photos are shirts, jerseys, pants and jackets in their aggregation colors. Sometimes one amateur have to abrasion another’s accoutrement if the aggregation of one amateur beats the aggregation of another.

“It’s all in fun,” cornerback Corey Webster said. “It brings the aggregation afterpiece and afterpiece together. We adulation that affectionate of thing.” Webster’s locker is abounding with the purple-and-gold of Louisiana State.

He is one of the a lot of college-conscious Giants because he grew up abreast L.S.U. afore arena for the Tigers. Webster said he admired to get calm with teammates to watch any academy bold on Thursday nights.

 

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