NFL Pro Bowl running back Michael Robinson of the Seattle Seahawks and his Excel 2 Excellence Foundation, Inc will host its 3^rd annual football camp on May 26, 2012. Robinsons’ foundation events will include a full day of community games and activities along with an on field football camp at Dorey Park, 7200 Dorey Park Dr, Richmond, VA 23231.

The football camp is free and limited to the first 500 boys and girls between the ages of 10-18. Camp check in is from 9AM – 10:00AM and the camp itself will be from 10:00AM – 3:00PM with lunch provided. 

In addition to fun activities with various other NFL players, campers will receive autographed items such as footballs, t-shirts, and photos.

Michael Robinson, born in Richmond, Virginia, was drafted in the 4th round (100th overall) by the 49ers in the 2006 NFL Draft. He played quarterback and wide receiver at Penn State University and led the team to a Big Ten Conference title and an Orange Bowl Championship title in 2005. He finished 5th in the Heisman voting that year.

Excel 2 Excellence Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization established to develop underprivileged youths with leadership, team work, and life skills.

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NFL Pro Bowl running back Michael Robinson of the Seattle Seahawks and his Excel 2 Excellence Foundation, Inc will host its 3^rd annual football camp on May 26, 2012. Robinsons’ foundation events will include a full day of community games and activities along with an on field football camp at Dorey Park, 7200 Dorey Park Dr, Richmond, VA 23231.

The football camp is free and limited to the first 500 boys and girls between the ages of 10-18.  Camp check in is from 9AM – 10:00AM and the camp itself will be from 10:00AM – 3:00PM with lunch provided. In addition to fun activities with various other NFL players, campers will receive autographed items such as footballs, t-shirts, and photos.

Michael Robinson, born in Richmond, Virginia, was drafted in the 4th round (100th overall) by the 49ers in the 2006 NFL Draft. He played quarterback and wide receiver at Penn State University and led the team to a Big Ten Conference title and an Orange Bowl Championship title in 2005. He finished 5th in the Heisman voting that year.

Excel 2 Excellence Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization established to develop underprivileged youths with leadership, team work, and life skills.

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STATE COLLEGE — Michael Robinson was tired. And nervous. And, obviously, very determined to be at the Bryce Jordan Center on a rainy Thursday afternoon in late January. 

Robinson, one of the most popular, most significant players in the last decade of Penn State football, made an admirable choice earlier in the week. 

His legendary college football coach, Joe Paterno, had passed away. He was in Hawaii at the Pro Bowl, having earned the invite after a terrific season as a Seattle Seahawks running back. 

And his mind was elsewhere. So after Pro Bowl practice Wednesday, the 28-year-old Robinson headed home. To State College. To pay his respects to JoePa. He traveled some 11 hours in the air, and arrived three hours before Paterno’s memorial service at soldout Bryce Jordan was to begin. 

He started his return trip to Hawaii later on Thursday. The Pro Bowl is Sunday. 

When it was time for Robinson, the former PSU QB-RB-WR, to speak, the man they call “M-Rob” hit the mark, like he did during his year of quarterbacking the Nittany Lions to an 11-1 season and a Big Ten title in 2005. 

M-Rob struggled to contain his emotions, saying early on, “This was so much easier when I did it in my head.’’ 

Many former players spoke Thursday. And there were hundreds in attendance. 

All of the speeches — Todd Blackledge, Jimmy Cefalo, Charlie Pittman and current Lion Michael Mauti — were interesting and different. 

But Robinson made sure everyone remembered “the sharks.” 

Paterno was fired by the university Board of Trustees on Nov. 9, an inglorious end to a memorable 46-year career. 

But let’s not forget JoePa was living on borrowed time prior to the 2005 season, following a five-year run in which the Lions finished a combined 26-34. Dismal numbers, and PSU had won just seven games in 2003 and 2004. 

PSU’s administration had seen enough after a 4-7 2004. Some prominent people visited with Paterno after the season, strongly suggesting that he retire. 

Paterno backed them off, saying, in so many words, “Give me another year.” 

One year. 

There was no way Paterno would have survived another sub-.500 season. 

Penn State responded with an 11-1 season in which it rallied to beat Northwestern on the road (34-29) in its Big Ten opener, hammered No. 18 Minnesota (44-14), subdued No. 6 Ohio State (17-10) in a Beaver Stadium thriller, wore down No. 14  Wisconsin 35-14 and then capped its season with a 26-23 overtime win over No. 22 Florida State in the Orange Bowl. 

Given the results of the previous years, it was a dream season for PSU and Paterno, one that extended his coaching career into the 2011 season. Without that season, the coach never gets to the magic 400-win mark. 

The talents on the PSU defense that season were impressive, beginning with linebacker Paul Posluszny and rush end Tamba Hali. But Paterno’s 2004 defense was pretty good, too. 

No, I think the difference between 2004 and 2005 was really one player — Robinson. 

Essentially a tailback playing quarterback, Robinson threw for 2,300 yards and 17 scores but supplemented those numbers with some amazing groundwork: 806 yards and 11 more TDs. 

Even in PSU’s defeat, a 27-25 loss to Michigan in Ann Arbor, Robinson was money, totaling 302 yards of offense and two TDs. His 3-yard run with 1:53 left put the Lions up 25-21. Paterno’s vaunted D couldn’t hold the lead. 

“He’s one of those guys that everybody has tremendous respect for,’’ Mauti said of M-Rob. 

“He’s one of those legendary figures. … He’s a great player and a great person.’’ 

I think Michael Robinson saved JoePa from a much earlier exit, and the bond between those two grew over the years. 

An emotional Robinson had to pause a couple of times during his speech. He touched on some key points. One of involved his lasting image of Paterno standing next to him after the Orange Bowl win, with Michael holding the O.B. trophy. 

“I know he was thinking to all those people, to all those sharks who wanted to get him out, ‘Look at me now,’¤’’ Robinson said. 

Robinson believed Paterno knew he was under major pressure to produce a winner in 2005 but never let it show. 

It took some time for the player and the coach to connect. Michael was a ballyhooed QB recruit coming out of Richmond, Va., but had to wait until his fifth year to run the PSU offense. He also played QB and WR. He displayed a trait many college players today lack: patience. 

Perhaps because he started to trust that Paterno would give him his chance. 

“When I met Joe, something was different about him,’’ Robinson said. 

“He didn’t lie to me. Not once.’’ 

Unlike other nameless Division I schools pursuing him, Robinson said Paterno did not offer him money or a free car. 

Robinson’s wait was worth it. And so was his decision to head east from Hawaii. 

“I wouldn’t be any other place in the world right now,’’ M-Rob said.

Former Penn State quarterback Michael Robinson, shown here with Phil Knight of Nike (front left), former PSU quarterback Todd Blackledge (right) and Jay Paterno (far right), spoke at Joe Paterno’s memorial service Thursday at Bryce Jordan Center. He flew 11 hours from Hawaii, where he is playing in the Pro Bowl Sunday as a member of the Seattle Seahawks.

Michael Robinson’s groundbreaking season just broke more new ground.

The Seahawks’ fullback was added to the NFC Pro Bowl squad Thursday after John Kuhn pulled out because of a knee injury he got in the Green Bay Packers playoff loss to the New York Giants on Sunday. Robinson was the first alternate behind Kuhn in voting by conference coaches and players, as well as fans.

The Pro Bowl will be played Jan. 29 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, where Robinson will join free safety Earl Thomas, who was voted the starter on the NFC squad. Robinson will join John L. Williams and Mack Strong as Seahawks fullbacks to play in the Pro Bowl.

And Robinson’s first Pro Bowl comes after his first season as a true lead-blocking fullback. Robinson, who was a quarterback at Penn State, had played fullback with the Seahawks in 2010 and also during his four-season stay with the San Francisco 49ers, but never to the extent he did this season in helping Marshawn Lynch become the Seahawks’ first 1,000-yarder rusher since 2005 and score in a club-record 11 consecutive games.

“It was good to see this offense grow. It was good to see this team grow,” Robinson said as the players were clearing out their lockers following the season-ending loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

“I think this team took a turn this year from last year. It went from the coaches pretty much directing us to this year we kind of took ownership of the team and it became our team. That’s what you like to see at this level.”

Robinson definitely was one of those leading the way in this favorable turn.

Prior to the season, he was voted a special teams co-captain. After the team struggled to a 2-6 start, Robinson helped shove the running game into a much more productive gear, as the Seahawks averaged 134.9 yards in the final nine games compared to 77.7 in the first seven.

Individually, Robinson scored the first receiving touchdown of his career, returned a blocked punt for a touchdown, finished tied for third with 10 coverage tackles on special teams and forced a fumble that set up a touchdown. But mostly, Robinson helped Lynch do his Beast Mode thing by throwing his 6-foot-1, 223-pound body into much larger linebackers – including the Ravens’ Ray Lewis, the 49ers’ Patrick Willis, the Redskins’ London Fletcher and the Bears’ Brian Urlacher.

“He doesn’t have this on his jersey for no reason,” Lynch said, pointing to the captain’s patch on Robinson’s jersey.

“(Being voted a first alternate) was only right for him. He’s a player that can do that. I just run behind him.”

Robinson’s handyman efforts did not go unnoticed – when it came time to vote of the Pro Bowl, obviously; but also by his teammates. Among the items Robinson was packing up on Jan. 2 was a tool belt that the other running backs had presented him.

“This is my tool belt,” Robinson said, unable to hold back a smile. “It signifies that I come to work and I can fix a lot of problems. That’s going to be in my locker forever now.”

Including his locker at the Pro Bowl.

The Pro Bowl will be played January 29 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, where Robinson will join free safety Earl Thomas, who was voted the starter on the NFC squad. He will join John L. Williams and Mack Strong as Seahawks fullbacks to play in the Pro Bowl.

Seattle Seahawks and running back Michael Robinson have agreed to terms.

Robinson contributed primarily on special teams last season, also carrying the ball 12 times for 77 yards and catching eight passes for 37 yards.

He spent the first four seasons of his career in San Francisco before signing with the Seahawks last year.

Fans come meet former Penn State and current NFL star Michael Robinson At 6pm in State College PA. at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park while the State College Spikes take on the  Brooklyn Cyclones 7/24/11.

Stadium Address: 112 Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: (814) 272-1711 or (877) 99-SPIKES

He interviewed the Knicks Amar’e Stoudemire recently and asked him about the lockout and got the usual “I hope it doesn’t come to that” type of response.

The interesting part comes when Robinson asks about staying in shape during the lockout, noting that NFL guys are concerned because they are not insured through the league anymore so they don’t want to get injured working out. Stoudemire admits that could be a concern. Watch for yourself.

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