Revenge of the Birds
When the Arizona Cardinals selected running back Jeremiyah Love of Notre Dame with the third overall pick in this year’s NFL draft, they envisioned their own future gold jacket back to the days of Eric Dickerson, Emmitt Smith, Gale Sayers, or Barry Sanders.
A running back that could carry the ball 25 times a game and with a better offensive line and capable receivers, could provide that spark for the run game.
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The Cardinals also knew that Love was a high-character guy. He has a giving soul. The franchise wasn’t going to wake up one morning and see his name in the paper or become the latest clip on TMZ. Love is a community guy who just happens to kill it during games. Both of Love’s parents, Jason and L’Tyona Love, are St. Louis police officers.
Love and his father have a pre-game ritual. His father grabs his son by the helmet and speaks affirming and encouraging words to him. It’s a shared moment with each other since the player was six years old.
And Love is a gym rat who loves to lift weights. He can run and has been under the guidance of a nutritionist since signing his rookie deal, just like every other rostered athlete.
What else does he do in his spare time? Well, he does have a long-time girlfriend, Aliece. Everyone knows that a relationship takes effort and time shared with one another. But Love doesn’t have any children to take up his time. Not yet.
What Love does have, though, is cartoons. Specifically: anime.
Come to find out, Love is an anime expert. He doesn’t watch anything else in life. This means no TV shows or movies, no reality shows, or the news.
Not only does Love enjoy the artwork and believe it is stunning, but he states that a lot of cartoons lack a message for others, but anime always delivers with good morals and teaching tools installed into the production.
Love explained to R.J. Ochoa of SB Nation:
“I think anime is great for kids. A lot of people grew up with shows like Pokémon and Digimon, and it really adds to their childhood experience. For me, anime played a big role growing up.”
Hand-drawn cartoons such as The Simpsons and SpongeBob SquarePants are becoming more and more an oddity. Studios are adapting more to computer-generated (CG) productions, which can be easier to produce and manipulate on a computer system.
Anime, short for “animation,” refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. It generally focuses less on movement and more on the details of settings. They also don’t adhere to most rules of cartoons, such as using four fingers or toes found in almost all other cartoon renderings. Noses are often omitted except for the occasional side view. Eyes typically add at least one white dot. Adding shadows and sunlight to articles of clothing is also a standard that most cartoons...
