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This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazines Body Issue 2016. Subscribe today!?And for more from the 2016 Body Issue, check out espn.com/bodyissue,?and pick up a copy on newsstands starting July 8.In February, Von Miller led the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl victory against the Carolina Panthers. Where did he head next? To the set of the Body Issue, of course. Sometime between nabbing MVP honors and appearing on Dancing With the Stars, the defensive standout sat down with ESPNs Morty Ain to talk about training for the big game, overcoming asthma and being a nerd at heart.Our Super Bowl win was a team effort. Youve got to have a special esprit de corps to be able to get that done. Last year we felt like we had a chance, but this year the energy was just different. It was our second year with everybody -- T.J. [Ward], Aqib [Talib], DeMarcus [Ware] -- and we just jelled a lot more. We were able to create that consistency, and thats what enabled us to propel ourselves to the top.I went to the movies and had some mozzarella sticks. I try to eliminate all junk food, and it just tore me up the first week of the playoffs. You cant put unleaded regular in a Ferrari; youve got to put in that premium stuff.Ive had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord all the way down to the football field and have my nebulizer hooked up to that so I could take treatments in between offense and defense. I was in the fifth grade when she started doing that. I grew out of that when I got to the NFL, but sometimes I still have to take treatments before the game, and being in Denver with the altitude is definitely tough. I still keep my inhaler with me right now.When you turn on the film, you cant tell that I have asthma. Im at my best when people are depending on me. If its just on me and I dont have nothing to do, Im going to be lazy. On the football field, its every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.Oh man, tearing my ACL in 2013 was one of the toughest parts of my football career. I was coming off a six-game suspension too [for violating the leagues substance abuse policy], and there was a whole lot of doubt and uncertainty. For the most part, it was just me and my mom in Pensacola, Florida -- I couldnt drive, so she would take me to rehab, shed bring me back home, feed me. And it was just me and her everyday. It was at that moment where I was like, Im never going to be back here. Theres nothing worse than looking at an article and seeing: Von Miller tore his ACL, plus hes coming off suspension. And when he played this year he wasnt looking the same he did as the year before. Is he ever going to be able to be the same? Im 24 years old and people think my best years are past me! [laughs] It was definitely a tough, trying time.But the ACL injury was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It helped me create a work ethic and really understand consistency. When you tear your ACL, you cant take no days off. Not one day. You cant take off icing your knee after, or rehab, or anything -- youve got to be on top of that stuff to even become close to the type of player that you were before.Out of high school, I was like 202-205 pounds. My rookie season I was like 245, my second year I was 255. My third year I got up to like 272, and I tore my ACL. I dont know if my weight was part of the cause of that, but I got hurt, so I just tried to re-evaluate my situation. Right around 238-242 is my ideal range -- I can do everything that I need to do at 245 and lighter. I played in the Super Bowl at 236.I really dont look at myself as a defensive end or a linebacker or a cornerback or a safety. I dont try to limit myself to just rushing the passer or dropping back in coverage or being a run-stopper; I try to be great at football. I cant even put a name on what I do -- wide receiver, tight end, running back, whatever -- just put me in the game. I feel like thats the type of teammate that I want to be. I try to be an all-around defender.Even though Im a defensive player, I throw 100 balls every day and catch 100 balls. Im trying to go through the whole motion like Peyton Manning does. I try to be great at everything. I try to show them that I can run, I can pass, I try to get out there early and do all that stuff. I like to show the coaches that I can play offense and defense. But our offense, weve got a team full of killers over there ... but if they need me, Im ready to go!Nah, I cant kick.I think about it in the National Football League, why guys dont play two positions? I figure if J.J. Watt played quarterback -- if he was able to throw the ball like Ben Roethlisberger, which Ive seen him do -- and then if he were able to go over and play defense full time, youd have to pay J.J. Watt $220 million. [laughs] I think if guys were in the physical shape to be able to play more positions and be able to be elite in multiple positions, then that would elevate the sport of football. I think it would be that much better to have these guys who just dont come off the field, kind of like basketball. Thats why I try to stay in shape, I try to eat right, just in case the game takes that left turn and goes that way, Ill be ready to play whatever.I cant play basketball for s---. My ability to not play basketball is way more crazy than someones ability to play basketball. I can dribble, but thats just about it. Sometimes people call me out just to see me shoot the basketball and play around because they know how terrible I am.I wish I had hair, man. I wish I had hair going down my back! But, hey, you cant have it all; you know God is very fair.I cant just go to a gym by myself. I cant say Im going to do this and do that. I would do a couple reps and then just leave. I need to be pushed.Ive been a geek my whole life. I had glasses, I had a ducktail, my mom would dress me funny. I was smart, I was good at video games, I read books, I watched the Discovery Channel. I was good at sports, but I was a geek. When everybody said something, I always questioned -- Id question it and do research on what they were saying. I liked to know facts. As I grew older, thats what set me apart from everybody else.Growing up, I wanted to be like Lil Wayne. I still get picked on for my glasses. They helped me train my sense of humor. I created a sense of humor at a very early age, and thats what helped me get through all of that stuff. I would have gotten Lasik, but its bigger than me now -- little kids wearing glasses just because I do it. 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Nottinghamshire94 and 61 for 3 need 391 runs to beat Yorkshire282 and 263 for 4 (Ballance 101*) Scorecard Does tha think Ballance should have done it? Batted again? Aye Thus the opening exchanges of a conversation between two strangers in a Scarborough convenience store very early on the third day of this game. The decision by Gary Ballance not to enforce the follow-on was still creating interest. Scarborough is cricket town.And it is cricket town even when the sea swaps Wednesdays blue ruffle for this mornings turbid grey and the clifftop castle is cloaked in gothic mist. Even as the drizzle stopped in North Queen Street, the chat over kippers and coffee concerned follow-ons and refreshed bowlers, the substance of the discussion quite as informed as might be found in a members enclosure or press box. Maybe more so.And it is cricket town when folk are found queueing at nine oclock on a clammy morning with little chance of a prompt start. It seems almost an article of faith in Scarborough that you turn up for the cricket even when there is limited chance of any taking place. After all, you can always talk about the game even if you cant watch any.Perhaps faith is always repaid in this place. The 2,634 souls who arrived at North Marine Road eventually saw 35.2 overs of play and most of it will have pleased most of them. Yorkshire got things under way, albeit 40 minutes late, by scoring 63 runs off 12.2 overs. Some 35 of those runs were whacked by Tim Bresnan, whose batting style conjures images of an all-you-can-eat carvery with plates the size of centre circles.The Yorkshire all-rounders six over long-on off Samit Patel was probably the shot of the morning and Chris Reads bowlers would have been content to see the home side bat for longer since such indulgence would have delayed their own innings. But Ballance eventually declared soon after he had reached his second century in successive matches, leaving Nottinghamshire with five overs to bat before lunch.The visitors notional target was 452, a score Sir Donald Bradman once managed by himself; their real aim is to leave North Marine Road with five points for a draw, a task that has been made easier, first by Yorkshire opting to bat again and then by the home side extending their lead beyond the outer limits of sense.Were you surprised by Yorkshires tactics today Mick Newell was asked, soon after play had been abandoned in mid-afternoon. We were quite surprised they didnt enforce the follow-on, replied Newell, a man who rarely ties fancy bows on his words, so anything that happened this morning wasnt particularlyy surprising for us.ddddddddddddPerhaps Newells words were truer than he might acknowledge. Given Nottinghamshires batting frailties at the moment and the skill of Yorkshires seamers on this North Marine Road pitch, he was maybe not too shocked to see Steven Mullaney edge the ninth ball of the innings to third slip where Jack Leaning took a comfortable catch and joined the bowler, Jack Brooks, in restrained celebrations.But there was some satisfaction for Newell to take from the afternoon session and it came from the confident batting of Tom Moores, who was 41 not out when serious rain forced the players from the field. Lancashire and Durham supporters who watched the 19-year-old Moores bat and keep wicket when on loan at Southport last month knows that the lad has something more about him than mere talent. He is comfortable playing county cricket; it is a natural environment for him.Now the Yorkshire bowlers know it, too, and they will be after him on the final morning. Patterson discovered it when Moores drilled an off-drive past him and Tim Bresnan was made aware of it when the son of Nottinghamshires coaching consultant played his trademark cover drive.In other respects, the afternoon was miserable for Notts and more cheerful for Bresnan, who took two wickets in his first over. Jake Libby was the first of these when he edged a catch to Jake Lehmann at fourth slip and Michael Lumb collected what may have been an unfortunate pair when he was adjudged by Neil Mallender to have nicked his fifth ball to Hodd.All of this will have comforted Ballance, whose decision to bat again was backed by the Yorkshire dressing room. Nevertheless, as rain sliced 56 overs off Nottinghamshires second innings, an anxious White Rose squad may be hoping that what some see as an error will be justified by Fridays cricket. Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, says the First French Lord in Act IV Scene iii of Alls Well That Ends Well, and that title, too, may be quoted by Messrs Moxon and Gillespie if their side wins. .And there was at least a lighter aftermath to Yorkshires decision not to enforce the follow-on when an angry home supporter decided to make his opposition to the tactic known to the players. Sadly our outraged complainants sense of injustice was keener than his sense of direction. He stuck his head through the wrong dressing-room window and Nottinghamshires Mick Newell said he could not help him. Not even in cricket town. ' ' '