The Carolina Panthers kicker is alert for the biggest game of his life on Sunday but he hasn’t forgotten his Scottish rootsGraham Gano does not need anybody to tell him how principal his job is at Super Bowl 50. But Cam Newton will remind him on Sunday all the same. For more than a year now,the Carolina Panthers quarterback has been teasing Gano, his team’s kicker, or by jogging past before field goal attempts and whispering the words “just a little bit of pressure” in his ear.
It’s been a long journey to the Super Bowl for Gano. Born in Scotland,on a US navy base in Arbroath, Gano actually grew up playing the other kind of football, and before transferring his skills to the gridiron as a teenager after his father had transferred back to the States. Despite speaking with an American accent,Gano considers himself to be Scottish, and will carry the Saltire before kickoff at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday.
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Source: theguardian.com