Despite a disorder, Eagles guard Brooks is prepared for his biggest game
MINNEAPOLIS - He's going to vomit. He just knows it.
On Super Bowl Sunday, Brandon Brooks, the Philadelphia Eagles' Pro Bowl guard, is going to run to the toilet.
"Before every game, I throw up," he said.
He will then step on the U.S. Bank Stadium field and feel a pressure, a rising in his chest, a tension enveloping every corner of his 6-foot-5, 346-pound frame. The return of the fear.
What if he misses a block? What if he allows a sack? What if he makes a mistake that costs the Eagles?
"I can't stop thinking about letting my team down, letting the world down, the microscope being on me," he said.
There was a time this fear caused him to vomit all day and
