Interesting Nick Folk Tidbit

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(from the DMN blog:)

The remarkable calmness rookie kicker Nick Folk displayed on Monday night runs in his family.

Folk comes from a long line of doctors. He said his grandfather, Dr. Quentin R. Stiles, invented heart bypass surgery. His grandmother, mother, two uncles and an aunt are also doctors.

"They have to be perfect in everything they do all the time or someone can die," said Folk, who was swarmed by reporters today. "In my situation, if you miss one, you live. Someone might be hurtin', but you'll live."

Folk planned to join the medical profession, but he switched his major from pre-med to marketing as a sophomore at Arizona.

"I'm not going to lie," Folk said. "I failed Calc II, so that kind of steered me away from it."

Folk can laugh about his academic failures, because the kid has aced all his NFL tests so far.

[CMJ]

Very interesting. Sort of reminds me of the story they just had on 60 Minutes this week with the man who invented breathing machines.