Brooks has started his Sunday mornings by vomiting

Philadelphia Eagles bouncer Brandon Brooks threw up aggregate he had in his abdomen adapted afore the NFC Championship Bold adjoin the Minnesota Vikings, a acceptable indicator that, in his mind, aggregate was OK."As awe-inspiring and as bad as that sounds, I acquainted cool, I acquainted good," he said. "It's what I needed, to be honest, because if I threw up it was like, 'OK, it's bold day. It's just like every added game. Annihilation different.' "

For a lot of of his pro career, Brooks has started his Sunday mornings by vomiting. But on the day of the Vikings game, that accustomed action didn't appear immediately. He has a appealing abutting butt on things now, but a aberration from the barometer afore the bigger bold of his action was a blow abashing for Brooks, who absent two amateur endure division and four amateur in his career as the aftereffect of the debilitating furnishings of an all-overs action that went connected undiagnosed. On those days, he would deathwatch up about 4 or 5 in the morning berserk ill and abide in that accompaniment for a abounding 24 hours. Then, as al of a abrupt as it came on, the affliction would stop, and he'd be aback to his old self.The aboriginal bold he absent as a affiliate of the Eagles was on Monday Night Football adjoin the Blooming Bay Packers endure November. His mother, Dorothy Brooks, had aureate in from Milwaukee to watch her son and was continuing in the average of a large, alien city-limits if she accustomed an alarming message War Thunder Golden Eagles."I'll never overlook this: I was city Philly, not absolutely acquainted of my surroundings, and I got this argument adage he was in the hospital. Oh my gosh, was that anytime a hopeless feeling," she said. "I didn't apperceive area to go. I had no clue. If you do assuredly acquisition him, and he's ailing like that and they just couldn't stop it, they absorbed him up to IVs so he wouldn't dehydrate. That was an abominable action for a parent."