August 7, 2013
When Darren Fells believed his basketball career had reached the end of the line, he merely sprinted up the seam.
The former UC Irvine basketball standout who earned second-team All-Big West Conference honors and led the conference in field-goal percentage as a senior in 2006-07, spent four years in professional basketball, playing for teams in Belgium, Finland, France, Mexico and most recently, last season, in Argentina.
But the 6-foot-7, 275-pounder, who was an All-CIF Southern Section tight end at Fullerton High and turned down football scholarship offers from then-Pac-10 schools to play hoops at UCI, said his dribble began to lose its drive.
So, answering critics who had chirped since he left football behind as a prep, and with the guidance of younger brother Daniel Fells, who is a tight end for the New England Patriots, Darren Fells elected to give football a try.
After months of training, he landed a tryout in March with the Seattle Seahawks, who were so impressed that they reportedly signed him to three-year contract at $495,000 per year.
Fells was released on May 8, then resigned by the Seahawks 12 days later and he is currently bidding to make the 53-man roster at the team’s training camp in Renton, Wash.
“I felt like with basketball, something was missing,” said Fells, who averaged 14.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and shot nearly 57% from the field as a senior to help lead the Anteaters to the title game of the conference tournament. “The enjoyment, or whatever, wasn’t there anymore. I talked to [Daniel] and he said, ‘Why don’t you give football a try?'”
Fells, reached by phone at the Seahawks’ facility, said he spent 10 months training with his brother and on his own, then spent two months in a more organized regimen at a training center in Carson to ready himself for a potential run at a football contract.
“Coming out of high school, pretty much everybody I knew told me I made a big mistake by taking a basketball scholarship over football,” Fells said. “I had always had a love for basketball, but as time went by, I questioned myself whether or not I wanted to keep playing [basketball]. Football was always a lingering thought in my mind.”
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Darren Fells was born on April 22nd, 1986 (time of birth unknown) in Fullerton, California according to http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/15773/darren-fells
April 22nd, 1986
4 + 22 +1+9+8+6 = 50 = his life lesson = Getting to the Super Bowl.
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April 22nd, 1986
April 22nd
4 + 22 +2+0+1+3 = 32 = his personal year (from April 22nd, 2013 to April 22nd, 2014) = Football. In it to win it.
32 year + 8 (August) = 40 = his personal month (from August 22nd, 2013 to September 21st, 2013) = Doing his part. Pitching in. Helping out.
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using the number/letter grid:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Where:
A = 1 J = 1 S = 1
B = 2 K = 2 T = 2
C = 3 L = 3 U = 3
D = 4 M = 4 V = 4
E = 5 N = 5 W = 5
F = 6 O = 6 X = 6
G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7
H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8
I = 9 R = 9
Darren Fells
419955 65331 51
his path of destiny = 51 = Formidable.
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