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Sam Gordon’s show is only beginning, but the football part might end surprisingly soon

Yahoo! Sports

There’s the life of a Super Bowl MVP, and then there’s the life of Sam Gordon.

In the two weeks since her football highlight video hit the blogosphere, then the mainstream media, the nine-year-old sensation has appeared on Good Morning America, taken in a BYU game, flown to Chicago for a daytime talk show, tackled Marshall Faulk on the set of the NFL Network, and on Sunday afternoon she huddled up with the 49ers at practice.

Sam Gordon, 9, has become an overnight sensation. (Courtesy of Brent Gordon)Monday she’ll meet Steve Young and watch Monday Night Football. And in a couple weeks, “Sweet Feet” is hoping to catch a Giants game in New York and meet NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who phoned her dad this week to congratulate him.

Oh, and she’s also been invited to do some public speaking. At age 9.

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