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Ryan Finley is a quirky dude—not in a bad way, but in that driven-athlete kind of way. This profile about Finley from USA Today’s Paul Myerberg is full of all kinds of fun facts about the NC State quarterback, who is going to have a huge senior season. I definitely enjoyed this bit:
Finley wears sunglasses in bed designed to filter out the blue light from cellphones and create more melatonin, providing a deeper and cleaner sleep.
I mean I was kidding in the headline, as I do, but I could use a pair of these shades, I think. Also, I found this hysterical:
He’s a voracious reader, even briefly starting a book club — the group of players and coaches read Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” — in the midst of last fall.
I cannot even imagine trying to start a book club on a college football team in the middle of the season and actually getting some dudes to buy into it, even though they’re all extremely busy with school and the football thing—but I suppose if you’re the starting quarterback, you’ve earned special privileges. Those privileges being that your teammates will politely go along with your book club before scuttling it on account of who has the time and everyone’s tired.
Anyway, go read the article if you haven’t. It’s great.