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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sleeper" data-source="post: 574230" data-attributes="member: 10240"><p>My grandfather read everything he could find.  We would bring him stacks of books when we visited my grandparents in Texarkana, Texas for 2 weeks for Christmas.  Within a week he would have read them all and gone to the bookstore or re-reading some other book he read before.  He didn't ignore us, but it was clear reading was an addiction of his.  I was born in Texas, my grandfather was born in Ireland.  He couldn't care less about American football but he cared about people.  Volumes upon volumes of biographies and auto-biographies he had hoarded.  I developed the habit of reading from my grandfather.  He had boxes of books under beds, in the attic, out in the garage.  One morning when I was about 8 or 9, I looked under the bed at my grandparents house and after rummaging through 2 or 3 boxes I found Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer.  I was an Oiler fan, having been born and raised in Houston but after reading Instant Replay I became an avid Packers fan.  Never having stepped foot any farther north than Oklahoma at that time in my life the town of Green Bay vaguely came into focus.  Kramer didn't go into great detail of the town but I got it.  And what I really understood was how football was meant to be played.  Execution.  Execution and discipline.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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