DB Nate 'War Daddy' Ebner (3x Super Bowl Champ, USA Rugby)

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Nate Ebner eyes return to Olympics on United States National Rugby Team

Nate Ebner has played in and won three Super Bowls, but the sports spectacle that most captivated him was disconnected from football and took place in another hemisphere.

As a member of the United States National Rugby Team, the Giants' veteran safety participated in the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

"You're on a different continent in a country where they don't even really speak your language," Ebner said last week. "We're in a two-hour opening ceremony where all these countries come through – obviously, the United States is one of the last ones as a 'U.' When the United States came out, the roar that I heard in that stadium gave me chills, like nothing I've heard before. When you're in a different hemisphere of the world and they're cheering for you like that, it shows you what you represent and it's a lot bigger than you. To be a part of Team USA is extremely special and being from this country and what it means to be an American, and those things really resonated with me in the opening ceremony."

Entire article: https://www.giants.com/news/nate-ebner-olympics-united-states-national-rugby-team-mike-friday

 

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Nate Ebner eyes return to Olympics on United States National Rugby Team

Nate Ebner has played in and won three Super Bowls, but the sports spectacle that most captivated him was disconnected from football and took place in another hemisphere.

As a member of the United States National Rugby Team, the Giants' veteran safety participated in the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games Rio 2016.

"You're on a different continent in a country where they don't even really speak your language," Ebner said last week. "We're in a two-hour opening ceremony where all these countries come through – obviously, the United States is one of the last ones as a 'U.' When the United States came out, the roar that I heard in that stadium gave me chills, like nothing I've heard before. When you're in a different hemisphere of the world and they're cheering for you like that, it shows you what you represent and it's a lot bigger than you. To be a part of Team USA is extremely special and being from this country and what it means to be an American, and those things really resonated with me in the opening ceremony."

Entire article: https://www.giants.com/news/nate-ebner-olympics-united-states-national-rugby-team-mike-friday

Ebner played well on special teams for the Giants

 

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Nate Ebner returns to rugby from NFL to compete for US Olympic sevens spot

Entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...by-us-olympic-sevens-new-york-giants-patriots

This article is similar to one above; but it contains an additional interesting "tidbit":

It will all add to a remarkable personal story which Ebner will tell in an autobiography due out in May, under the subtitle A Father’s Code and a Son’s Path. Jeff Ebner was murdered 13 years ago. Ebner has since worn a bracelet featuring his father’s motto, now his own book’s title: Finish Strong.

Speaking to the Guardian in 2016, as he first aimed to return to rugby, he said: “I think Dad would be proud of me and I’m proud he was my Dad.”

 

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“To be quite honest, it wasn’t really something I was thinking I wanted to do or would do, but through the offseasons of going back to Ohio State and training, Urban and I crossed paths quite a few times and eventually, at one point after the Olympics, having an All-Pro year and winning the Super Bowl, Urban was like, ‘You need to write a book,’” Ebner recalled. “And I kind of laughed at it, but it was cool that he thought that. And then the following year, 2017, I was having a pretty good year but ended up tearing my ACL in November against the Dolphins, and when I had that time to think about what I wanted to do in that timeframe as I was rehabbing, I thought ‘This would be a good time to write that book Urban was suggesting I do.’”
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Above all else, “Finish Strong” is about Ebner’s relationship with his father Jeff, who was Ebner’s idol and best friend until he was murdered during a robbery attempt at his auto salvage yard in 2008.

Jeff Ebner never got to see his son play football for the Buckeyes – the attack happened just one day after Nate told his father he was going to walk on at Ohio State and pursue an NFL career – but the lessons Nate learned from his father have inspired everything he’s accomplished since, and that’s the biggest thing he hopes readers will take away from the book.

“I hope parents read this book,” Ebner told Eleven Warriors. “I think I had the greatest leader of all-time in my dad, and a lot of that book speaks to that relationship. I think there’s a lot of great talk about how to build strong relationships and a strong foundation with your children just through the experiences I talk about. There’s no special recipe; it’s just spending time with your children and giving them all the love that you have.”

 

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This will be the 10th season in the NFL for the former Ohio State walk-on after he spent his first eight seasons with the New England Patriots where he won three Super Bowls and was a second-team All-Pro in 2016.

With Ebner's addition to the Gaints' roster, the Buckeyes now have 51 former players on active NFL rosters heading into the 2021 season – good for second among all teams, behind only Alabama's 53.

 

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I wish the Giants were playing the Pats this year so he could make every special teams tackle.