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  <intro>&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my second year in the NFL a 3 or 4.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m kind of upset with the way things went. I injured my PCL the second game of the season and never really recovered. I feel like I let so many people down, including myself. My main focus for next season is to be on the field as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;It was the second year in a row I was the youngest person on the team. Hopefully this year we&amp;rsquo;ll get someone younger. I was kind of scared when I first came into the league, but everybody on the Vikings welcomed me with open arms so it wasn&amp;rsquo;t too bad. I had some great veterans around me, like Troy Williamson, who played with me at South Carolina. Last year Robert Ferguson became like my big brother.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;So next season is going to be better, and I just want to blog here to let the fans know what&amp;rsquo;s going on, what I&amp;rsquo;m doing and what my teammates are doing to get to that next level.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ll spend the off-season working out with some other players in Davie, Florida, near Miami. I&amp;rsquo;ll also spend some time with my family and friends in Gaffney, South Carolina.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t have a lot of hobbies but I&amp;rsquo;m going to start doing a little fishing. I really didn&amp;rsquo;t like it when I tried it, I&amp;rsquo;m too impatient. But here in Florida everyone goes fishing, all these boats and people fishing off the piers.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;Hopefully it will grow on me.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;Sidney Rice is a wide receiver with the Minnesota Vikings. His blog for www.playerpress.com runs at &lt;a href="http://www.rice18.com/"&gt;www.sidneyrice18.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</intro>
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