Trent Corney’s Training Camp Journal
June 5, 2016
We were doing the TSN headshots yesterday. In college we had this neck machine that I always worked on, not necessarily because I wanted to have a strong neck, but because I wanted to look like a football player and have that ‘linebacker neck.’
Here’s how I would describe ‘linebacker neck’: it’s about the ratio of the jaw to the neck and you want the neck to be coming out past the jawline. Guys with a thinner jawline, it will make their necks look bigger. But you want a good ratio of the jaw to the neck so that you’ve got the chiseled Brad Pitt jaw along with the Brian Urlacher neck where it’s kind of intimidating to people.
Women like the chiseled jaw. The neck is for the intimidation factor.
I have over a 20-inch neck and when I went for graduation, I couldn’t even do up the buttons at the top. The shirt was made for really, really big people but I couldn’t get that top button.
I used to have the biggest neck – like an Urlacher neck – but I haven’t been doing that much neck work lately. So, for the TSN headshot I had to get a bit of a pump up going for the neck so I could look like a football player.
Some of the guys were having a lot of fun with the TSN shoot yesterday, but for me I just went in and got my shot and tried to look like a respectable football player and not some weasel.
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Defensive end Trent Corney was the Bombers first pick, 9th overall, in the 2016 CFL Draft. A product of Brockville, Ont., he played his college ball at the University of Virginia.
Bluebombers.com will chronicle Corney’s daily battles through training camp, from the highs on the field to the transition from the college to the pro game.
