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NFL NETWORK’S A FOOTBALL LIFE TO FEATURE PITT STAR LARRY FITZGERALD
11/8/2017 4:17:00 PM | Football
NFL Network's Emmy-nominated series A Football Life continues Friday, November 10 at 9 p.m., with a profile of former Pitt star Larry Fitzgerald, now a 10-time Pro Bowl wide receiver with the Arizona Cardinals.
The one-hour show produced by NFL Films features sit-down interviews with Fitzgerald, current teammates Carson Palmer and David Johnson, former teammates Kurt Warner and Adrian Wilson, Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter, Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians and more.
Former Pitt head coach Walt Harris and quarterback Rod Rutherford are also interviewed.
Each episode of A Football Life – as well as all NFL Network programming – is streamed live on smartphones through NFL Mobile from Verizon, and via Watch NFL Network on tablet (NFL Mobile, Watch NFL Network and NFL on Windows 10 apps), PC (NFL.com/watch), Xbox One and Xbox 360 (NFL on Xbox app) and other connected TV devices (NFL app on Apple TV, PlayStation 4, Android TV and Amazon Fire TV).
In life and on the football field, Larry Fitzgerald has accomplished nearly everything. Fitzgerald has been selected to 10 Pro Bowls, and with more than 1,100 receptions he ranks third on the NFL's all-time list. Yet the one thing on his list he hasn't checked off is holding the Lombardi Trophy. Larry Fitzgerald: A Football Life examines Fitzgerald's impact on and off the field during his 14-year NFL career and his remarkable football life.
Among the topics discussed in Larry Fitzgerald: A Football Life are:
The one-hour show produced by NFL Films features sit-down interviews with Fitzgerald, current teammates Carson Palmer and David Johnson, former teammates Kurt Warner and Adrian Wilson, Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter, Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians and more.
Former Pitt head coach Walt Harris and quarterback Rod Rutherford are also interviewed.
Each episode of A Football Life – as well as all NFL Network programming – is streamed live on smartphones through NFL Mobile from Verizon, and via Watch NFL Network on tablet (NFL Mobile, Watch NFL Network and NFL on Windows 10 apps), PC (NFL.com/watch), Xbox One and Xbox 360 (NFL on Xbox app) and other connected TV devices (NFL app on Apple TV, PlayStation 4, Android TV and Amazon Fire TV).
In life and on the football field, Larry Fitzgerald has accomplished nearly everything. Fitzgerald has been selected to 10 Pro Bowls, and with more than 1,100 receptions he ranks third on the NFL's all-time list. Yet the one thing on his list he hasn't checked off is holding the Lombardi Trophy. Larry Fitzgerald: A Football Life examines Fitzgerald's impact on and off the field during his 14-year NFL career and his remarkable football life.
Among the topics discussed in Larry Fitzgerald: A Football Life are:
- Larry's struggle with his grades and his time at Valley Forge Military Academy that fueled his motivation to make it to college and the NFL
- His time serving as a ball boy for the Minnesota Vikings as a teenager and learning from the likes of Randy Moss and Hall of Famer Cris Carter
- How he coped with the death of his mother while he was a student at the University of Pittsburgh and how he honors her today
- His love of traveling and visiting 96 countries
- His incredible playoff run leading to Super Bowl XLIII
- Reinventing himself as a slot receiver after Bruce Arians became the Cardinals head coach
- How his philanthropic work earned him the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year Award following the 2016 season
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