BLOCKING AND CHOWING.(eating habits of Randy Thomas, and other New York Jets players)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 09-SEP-02

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If you are an offensive lineman, the Netherlands cafeteria, at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, where the New York Jets hold their training camp, has a couple of things going for it: the portions are unlimited, and the food doesn't cost anything. "Shit, if it's free it's for me, you know what I'm saying?" Randy Thomas said recently, dipping a piece of fried chicken into a puddle of blue-cheese dressing during his lunch break, between practices. Thomas, the Jets' starting right guard, has a fast metabolism, and he weighs three hundred pounds; his appetite can be expensive. "I'm known to eat, like, seventeen pieces of chicken," he says. "By the way I eat,...

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