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Despite a disorder, Eagles guard Brooks is prepared for his biggest game

MINNEAPOLIS - He's going to vomit. He just knows it.

On Super Bowl Sunday, Brandon Brooks, the Philadelphia Eagles' Pro Bowl guard, is going to run to the toilet.

"Before every game, I throw up," he said.

He will then step on the U.S. Bank Stadium field and feel a pressure, a rising in his chest, a tension enveloping every corner of his 6-foot-5, 346-pound frame. The return of the fear.

What if he misses a block? What if he allows a sack? What if he makes a mistake that costs the Eagles?

"I can't stop thinking about letting my team down, letting the world down, the microscope being on me," he said.

There was a time this fear caused him to vomit all day and

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