He received a call from the Rams 10 days ago, prior to the final day of the draft.
“I had a small chance of being drafted,” he said. “After the draft, I got offers from the Rams and the Bengals. The Rams seemed to be my best opportunity to make the roster.”
Schwieger verbally agreed to a free-agent deal with the Rams last Saturday and officially signed with the team last Tuesday. Following graduation, he will head back to St. Louis.To see what Schwieger is up against in his bid to become the first Dartmouth player since Casey Cramer '04 to make it to the NFL, check out the St. Louis Post-Dispatch list of 23 free agents signed by the Rams.
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Roar Lions 2012 blogger Jake Novak has listed the six games he would broadcast if he were the programming director for the NBC network that will be carrying Ivy League football in the fall and just six games were carried. Dartmouth is one of three teams that does not appear on his list.The question hanging out there (or maybe I missed the answer) is whether the schedule will be set before the start of the season, or whether decisions will be made on a week-to-week basis. To be sure, Dartmouth's chances of getting on the tube would improve with a quick start and injection into the Ivy League race.
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While friends and relatives from metropolitan areas might disagree, we don't really feel like we live in the wilderness here, just 7-plus miles from the Dartmouth campus. That said, you can go miles behind our house, up and over Moose Mountain, before you hit another road. And if you were to try to circle our "block" my guess is you'd have to travel well over 20 miles to do it.But it did feel a little like the wilderness last night. Now, we've had bears in our garage when I forgot to put the door down and moose strolling through the woods out front, and we often fall asleep to a chorus of passing coyotes, but last night was a strange one.
We're still not sure what it was but there was some kind of violent-sounding disagreement (?) going on in the darkness after we hit the sack and it went on for a long time. (No, it wasn't neighbors. They aren't that close ;-) It was clearly two different kinds of animals loudly screaming and screeching at each other and it was unlike anything we ever heard before. We opened the window for a bit to try to identify whatever it was to no avail. I suppose one of the combatants might have been a Fisher (I've spotted them in the past) but I could find no evidence this morning of a fight. All I know is if I were in a tent in the woods and heard the harrowing screams we heard last night I wouldn't have slept a wink. Next time I'm going to keep a recorder handy like this person did.
