Julius Peppers overcame nerves to become a leader
Posted Sep 10, 2015
On his first day as a Green Bay Packer, in the very first team meeting, Julius Peppers sat two chairs away from Clay Matthews. He was the biggest man in the room, towering at 6-foot-7. His on-field resume was unparalleled. It didn’t matter. “I was nervous as heck,” Peppers remembers. He felt like a kid on the first day of school. He knew nobody. Every face was unfamiliar, every person a stranger.
(Fond du Lac Reporter)
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