Full Text of HR0111 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate
Sean Considine of | 4 | | the Baltimore Ravens on his Super Bowl championship; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Sean Considine is originally from Byron; he | 6 | | graduated from Byron High School and currently
lives there with | 7 | | his wife and 4 children; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Sean Considine played high school football at | 9 | | Byron High School; he received several honors
during his high | 10 | | school football career including being named first team | 11 | | all-conference selection
as a sophomore, junior, and senior; he | 12 | | was named to Illinois Coaches Association all-State team as a
| 13 | | junior and senior and was named first team all-State as a | 14 | | senior by the Chicago Sun-Times and special
mention by the | 15 | | Chicago Tribune; he assisted his team in winning the State | 16 | | title in 1999 and he holds
the school records for career | 17 | | rushing yards, touchdowns in a season, and touchdowns in a | 18 | | career; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Sean Considine went on to play football at the | 20 | | University of Iowa, where he
received the academic all-Big Ten | 21 | | honor 3 years in a row and earned the Hustle Team Award
for | 22 | | special teams 2 years in a row; in 2003, he won the Coaches |
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| 1 | | Appreciation Award for
defense, the Hustle Team Award for | 2 | | defense, and was one of 3 juniors to be selected to team
| 3 | | Leadership Council, and was selected to the Leadership Council | 4 | | again his senior year; during his junior year he tied for fifth | 5 | | in the
Big Ten Conference in the number of recovered fumbles; | 6 | | and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Sean Considine was drafted as a 4th round pick in | 8 | | the 2005 NFL Draft by the
Philadelphia Eagles; he played with | 9 | | the Eagles from 2005-2008, where he posted a career high
14 | 10 | | tackles in one game against Washington in 2006; he went on to | 11 | | play with the Jacksonville
Jaguars from 2009-2010, then in | 12 | | 2011, he played with the Carolina Panthers and Arizona
| 13 | | Cardinals; in 2012 he played with the Baltimore Ravens; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Playing with the Baltimore Ravens, Sean Considine | 15 | | finished fourth on the team with 7 special
teams tackles; he | 16 | | led the team with 2 solo special teams tackles in the game | 17 | | against Washington;
he has a career total of 100 special teams | 18 | | stops; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Sean Considine was a member of the Baltimore | 20 | | Ravens team that played in and won Super Bowl
XLVII, where he | 21 | | made a key block in the opening of the third quarter allowing a | 22 | | touchdown by a
fellow teammate which became the longest kickoff | 23 | | return in Super Bowl history; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | we congratulate Sean Considine
for his Super Bowl championship | 4 | | and wish him all the best in his future endeavors; and be it | 5 | | further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to Sean Considine as a symbol
of our recognition of | 8 | | his great achievement.
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