Rien Long

NFL player


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DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1981|8|7
Birthplace= Los Angeles, CA
College=Washington State
Position=Defensive tackle
DraftedYear=2003
DraftedRound=4/ Pick 126
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Awards=2002 Outland Trophy
years=2003-2007
teams=Tennessee Titans
NFL=396022

Rien Vartan Long (born August 7, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) was a American football defensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans in the NFL. He is one fourth Armenian descent and cherishes his heritage greatly. He has a tattoo of the seventh letter of the Armenian alphabet (Է) over the Armenian flag on his biceps. While playing for Washington State University in 2002, he won the Outland Trophy as that year's best college football interior lineman. He is the brother of Devan Long. Rien Long's trip to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in March 2006 to visit his roots, was the subject of a feature-length documentary, "The Long Journey from the NFL to Armenia" (www.globalistfilms.com).

Life-threatening car crash

Just before midnight on January 21, 2008, Long crashed his 2005 Ford Mustang into a rockwall while driving too fast on an I-40 on-ramp near downtown Nashville. Long was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he was in critical condition. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/titans/2008-01-22-long-crash_N.htm Former Titans DT Rien Long critical after 1-car crash - USATODAY.com ] ] On January 23, doctors upgraded Long's condition from critical to stable. [ [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRRwtRUWD2RIHSbs2GOcZ5HxpZJAD8UBQHM00] Dead link|date=March 2008]

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