Joe Bleymaier This is Me

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1. 1. Sports - The Idaho Statesman - Always Idaho

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   Published on: 10/26/2005   Last Visited: 10/26/2005

   Bleymaier seriously injured in Delaware football game
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   University of Delaware football player Joe Bleymaier, a former standout at Bishop Kelly High in Boise, is hospitalized in Newark, Del., after shattering his spleen and breaking two ribs in a game over the weekend.
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   Bleymaier, a senior receiver, was moved out of the Intensive Care Unit at Christiana Hospital on Tuesday, said his father, Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier.

2. 2. www.delawareonline.com : The News Journal : SPORTS : He shakes defenders, but can't shake nickname

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   Published on: 9/12/2004   Last Visited: 9/12/2004

   Bleymaier tagged with handle 'Joe Dirt'
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   Joe Bleymaier, the University of Delaware's junior wide receiver, is "Joe Dirt" to his coaches and teammates.
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   "I think that's why it stuck," said Bleymaier, who caught 19 passes for 275 yards and three touchdowns last season. "This kid came out from Idaho with some scraggly hair and just blocked people."
   
   Bossard has another favorite word for Bleymaier: "Valuable."
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   Bleymaier was state 2A player of the year as a junior wide receiver at Boise's Bishop Kelly High in 1999.
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   "Everyone out West wants to go to the Pac-10," Bleymaier said. "It was a perfect situation for me, because I knew the coach and he'd been recruiting me to Boise State. But with all the pressure and intensity of a I-A program that size, if you're not playing right away or in the mix, it's just a lot of stuff to go through without the possibility of getting on the field."
   
   Bleymaier decided to transfer to a I-AA school so he wouldn't have to sit out a year. He closely examined all the Big Sky Conference schools, then ended up far from home at Delaware, where he walked on.
   
   "I wanted to go where I had a shot to play," said Bleymaier, who quickly earned a scholarship.

3. 3. www.delawareonline.com ¦ The News Journal ¦ College football all over television

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   Published on: 9/1/2005   Last Visited: 9/2/2005

   I'd say 'Absolutely,' " said Gene Bleymaier, athletic director at Boise State and father of University of Delaware senior wide receiver Joe Bleymaier.
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   We've seen [the benefits] from increased merchandise and novelty sales," said Bleymaier.