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Given Choice Between Law School and Cleveland Browns, Ohio State Grad Bids Goodbye to Football
Posted May 16, 2012 2:52 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Given the choice between a football career and the law, an Ohio State University graduate has nixed a chance to try out for the Cleveland Browns.
Former linebacker Andrew Sweat tweeted that he didn't want to take a chance of suffering a severe concussion in the National Football League, the New York Daily News reports. He had already had several in college play.
Above the Law urged him to…
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