Arian Foster leaves the NFL as an outsider, and his own man

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Arian Foster's self-awareness may have caused him to retire from the NFL earlier than most, but it also made him one of a kind.

The most surprising facet of Arian Foster's career is not that he retired at 30, or that he chose to do it in the middle of the NFL season. The most surprising facet of Arian Foster's career was that he chose to play football in the first place.

Here was a man apart. He would sit and watch the profanity-laced diatribes from his coaches while wondering how it was possible to care that much about a silly game. He would go to mandated Sunday church services with the Tennessee football team and wonder not only why, but why he and his mostly African-American teammates were always taken to a white church, with its dirge-like singing and cast of characters that looked and acted like one big SEC booster club.

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Date Posted: Tue, 25 Oct 2016, 01:00 pm

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