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84 ....................................... MEET MR.
BRIGHTSIDE
86 .................................... BETWEEN A
PILL AND
A HARD PLACE

THIS IS HOW

THE STRENGTH MYTH

CRUMBLES

Two famous tough guys showed
us the right way to talk about weakness
and walk away with strength.

BY OLIVER LEE BATEMAN AND BEN COURT

NDREW LUCK IS a tough guy.
Just rewind the DVR to game
nine of the 2015 season. His
A underdog Colts were leading
the unbeaten Denver Broncos. In the
fourth quarter, Luck initiated a QB
scramble, and two behemoth Bronco
defenders pummeled him with the kinds
of hits that make you simultaneously
love and hate football. Luck went on to
fi nish that game, which the Colts won
27–24, but he suff ered a lacerated kidney
and missed the next seven. Matt
Hasselbeck, Luck’s backup at the time
and currently an NFL analyst at ESPN,
Volker Möhrke/Getty Images to Andrew, ‘The game is won. I’ll fi nish it
remembers that fourth quarter. “I said

out. It’s just a couple of kneel-downs.’
And he’s like, ‘No! I’m not coming off the
fi eld.’ ” Hasselbeck describes Luck as
“old-school tough.”

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