What Really Defines a Clutch NFL Player?

April 6, 2013   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

Your chest tightens. Your heart races. Your palms sweat. You're sitting down, but only barely; you're on the edge of your seat and the balls of your feet. You're holding your hands out in front of you, balled up tightly into fists.
As you watch with eyes wide open, your team's quarterback flicks his wrist. As the ball sails through the air, you can't breathe. Your heart stops. Time stops. The whole game—the whole season—has come down to this moment.
This is why we watch sports.
Whether you're alone at home on your couch or in the stadium with 60,000 of your closest friends, nobody makes a sound. Everything hangs in the balance, everyone's muscles go taut with adrenaline, and the air itself crackles with potential energy.
When the ball comes down safely in the receiver's hands and two feet land in the painted turf?
Explosion.
You jump through the ceiling, both fists to the sky, screaming and whooping and hollering out every watt of that electrif...

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