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B4 SPORTS East Oregonian Saturday, January 12, 2019 Brady ready for cold weather, LA Chargers on Sunday By MIKE SHALIN Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — His coach downplays it. Tom Brady does not. Brady knows the cold- weather New England Patri- ots should have an advan- tage when they host the warm-weather Los Angeles Chargers in Sunday’s AFC divisional-round game. Hours before, Bill Beli- chick said, “We’re play- ing the Chargers. We’re not playing the weather — what- ever it is, it is. We’re going to be on the same fi eld” when asked about having no advantage. His quarter- back made it clear this team is quite comfortable in the expected chilly conditions. New England will appar- ently dodge the snowstorm that’s making its way to the East Coast, but it will be cold. It’s the kind of cold the Patriots, who are seek- ing their eighth straight trip to the AFC title game and a sixth Super Bowl title in the Brady era, know all too well. “I just think the ability to practice in it,” Brady told his regular Friday media ses- sion. “Like today, it’s very similar to what we’re going to get on Sunday, so just knowing how many lay- ers you have to put on, and kind of how you’re going to AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File In this Dec. 31, 2017, fi le photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady keeps limber on the sideline in the cold weather during the fi rst half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets in Foxborough, Mass. feel when you have the nice, warm, heated benches out there like we will on Sunday. “It’s cold and that’s just this part of this time of year. But it’s good to be playing when it’s cold out, it’s good to be playing this time of year in Foxborough.” Thursday provided the home team with much of what this area has to offer in early January. “The weather changed a little bit yesterday,” Brady said. “It snowed at the start, then got sunny, then got cloudy, then got windy, then got sunny and it was just a bunch of different things. Just to practice in it, we’re prepared for it, and hope- fully we can use some of the things that we’ve learned to our advantage.” Brady has reached the AFC title game 12 times in 16 seasons as a starter. He will play in his record 38th postseason game and comes in 27-10. He’s 41 years old and hasn’t had the greatest season of his stellar career, but still gets, well, chills about playing in the cold. “It’s a good time of year,” he said. “I think everyone’s excited to be out there. It’s just a great environment of football.” Brady and counterpart Philip Rivers (37) combine to be the oldest pair of quar- terbacks to face each other in a postseason game, break- ing the mark Brady had with Peyton Manning. “That’s pretty cool,” Brady said of the age record. “It’s just fun to be around; I’m out there today practic- ing and it’s whatever degrees out: 10 degrees, 15 degrees with the real feel. And I’m sitting here just playing with my friends, throwing the football around. So it’s just a great blessing to be able to do it, do it here for this team, which I have loved to do. Philip’s been on the same team — it means a lot. “We all work hard to get to this point. These things aren’t guaranteed, very tough to get to this point in the season. Every team four months ago thought they’d be playing in these games. The reality is that’s not the way the NFL is. We’re very fortunate and we have to go out and try and take advan- tage of it.” Brady is 7-0 head to head with Rivers. The only time Rivers has beaten New England was in 2008 when Brady was injured and Matt Cassel was at QB. But Rivers has had a ter- rifi c season, and the Char- gers (13-4) won at Balti- more in the wild-card round. LA is 8-1 on the road, while New England is 8-0 at home this season. “He’s a great player,” NFL PLAYOFFS Los Angeles New England Chargers Patriots (12-4) (11-5) Sunday, 10:05 a.m. at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass., TV: CBS Brady said. “They’ve had a lot of great teams in San Diego over the years, led by him. He’s a great passer, tough, very accurate. He’s a great leader. So when I think of that team it’s just he’s an emotional leader and he always gets those guys going. They always have a good offense ... it’s a good team, obviously they’re good in all three phases, they’ve won a lot of games this year, gone on the road a bunch, so they’re very men- tally tough. It’s going to take our best to win.” Led by Rivers, Brady notes the Chargers’ ability to come back in games, some- thing that has been a Brady trademark over the years. “They were down 14 to KC with four minutes left, down a bunch to the Steel- ers,” Brady said. “You just can’t count them out.” NFL launches social justice initiative, stressing education By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK — The NFL is launching a social justice platform, with an empha- sis on education, economic development and commu- nity and police relations. The platform is called Inspire Change and includes the funding of grass-roots organizations, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Operation HOPE. It also will establish a digital learning curriculum for African-American his- tory in 175 underserved high schools. The league announced the initiative Friday in con- nection with its 32 teams and the Players Coalition, a group of players that works for social justice. Inspire Change is the lat- est step for the league and the players after they estab- lished a working relation- ship in October 2017 follow- ing player demonstrations for social justice during the national anthem — a topic that drew attention from the White House. “This launch involves new grants, new Afri- can-American history edu- cation programs in schools, grants with organizations we have not worked with before and who are doing the work on the ground, and PSAs on broadcasts beginning with this weekend’s playoff games,” says Anna Isaacson, the NFL’s senior vice presi- dent of social responsibility. “You have to really take the time to understand the topic, you can’t just dive in. We really took the time to meet with and talk to advo- cates and community lead- ers and to decide the most important aspects to focus on under the broad social justice umbrella.” The league’s fi nancial commitment in 2018 was $8.5 million, plus an addi- tional $2 million for NFL Foundation grants for clubs, former players and active players. For the 2019 fi s- cal year, that will increase to $12 million overall. But those fi gures don’t include the funds raised collabora- tively by clubs and play- ers as part of the social jus- tice matching funds program each club has established. Former player and play- ers association president Troy Vincent, now the league’s pro football opera- tions chief, emphasizes how much work has been done and continues to be done by the players. This week, he was told by Players Coali- tion co-founder Anquan Bol- din that the NFL is still “on point” with its initiatives. Vincent, who grew up outside Philadelphia, didn’t understand the complexities of the incarceration rate and the bail system. He notes how opening of communi- cation between the league offi ce and teams and com- munities has helped steer the social justice movement. “What we learned is that every community knew the grass roots organizations in their respective neighbor- hoods that were doing the work, the daily hands-on work,” Vincent said. “Work- ing with the larger organi- zations gave us a national view.” Two of those larger groups, BBBSA and Oper- ation HOPE, will receive grants. Operation HOPE will use the funds to support its nationwide work within underserved communities to equip young people and adults with fi nancial tools and education. For Big Brothers Big Sis- ters, it’s all about mentoring, and many players already serve in such a capacity. 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