'Your Brother Needs You': The Bond That Lifted A Rising NFL Star
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The Carolina Panthers are hoping to make some noise in the NFC South this season, and one key component to their success is their dynamic young defensive end, Brian Burns. As it turns out, Burns’s development has been fueled in part by his older brother, Stanley McClover, who endured a difficult stretch after his own NFL career ended. Today, The Athletic’s Joe Person has the story of how McClover helped his brother make it to the NFL, and found new purpose for himself along the way.
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| 0:45.0 | The Caroline of Panthers are hoping to make some noise in the NFC South this season. |
| 0:57.0 | And one key factor if they're going to make big strides is their impressive young defense event, Brian Byrne. |
| 1:04.0 | About the 32 first out pressure coming from Byrne's and he gets to staffer. Five sex over the year for Brian Byrne's one of the fastest in the league to the corner back. |
| 1:16.0 | And it turns out a key person in Brian Byrne's development has been his much older brother, Stanley McClover, |
| 1:23.0 | who had a short-lived NFL career and ended up in a pretty dark place. |
| 1:29.0 | Today, the Athletics Joe person has the story of how McClover helped his baby bro make it to the NFL |
| 1:36.0 | and found new purpose for himself in the process. |
| 1:40.0 | He saw and Brian the career that he was unable to have. |
| 1:44.0 | He wanted him to achieve the heights that he was not able to. |
| 1:48.0 | So as this went on it just gave Stanley meaning again. |
| 1:53.0 | Plus, how the family's legendary dance parties might have also played a role in Brian's NFL success. |
| 2:01.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. |
| 2:04.0 | It's Monday, August 16th, and this is The League. |
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