CHEETAH WITH ATTITUDE
Hill’s fast, he’s a born competitor... ask his nan!
TYREEK HILL should have been packing his shades and swimming trunks for a trip to Tampa tonight.
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But Hill was quick to note that the Chiefs won the only meeting between the two this season, on the same field as next Sunday’s clash.
“Luckily for us, we had a chance to go down there and play them earlier in the year. That’s an advantage
for us, knowing the field, knowing the weather.”
That game, a 27-24 win for Kansas City, was Hill’s biggest performance of the season, catching 13 passes for
269 yards and three touchdowns.
He is also the selfare proclaimed fastest man in the NFL – nicknamed the Cheetah – but he reckons his prime asset is attitude not speed.
“When it comes to football, I love competing,” said Hill. “When I do something, I want to be the best. “That’s something my grandparents taught me – don’t be average at things. There is a fire in me, that’s all it is.
“The other night me and my grandma were playing a friendly volleyball game and it got competitive out of nowhere and she said to me, ‘Are you mad?’
“And I said, ‘No, it’s just the fire in me. You put that in me. I just want to win’.
“There’s just something about competing, I love it.”