Gibran Hamdan
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| Date of birth | February 8, 1981 |
| Place of birth | San Diego, CA |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| College | Indiana |
| NFL Draft | 2003 / Round 7/ Pick 232 |
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| 2003 2006-present |
Washington Redskins Seattle Seahawks |
Gibran Hamdan (born February 8, 1981 in San Diego, California) is an NFL Quarterback. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. He is a regular in NFL Europe and for the past few seasons has been the starter for the league's Amsterdam Admirals, yet for the past two seasons he has been injured before they reached the World Bowl. On December 5 the Seattle Seahawks announced that Hamdan had been cut.
[edit] High School Years
Growing up in North Potomac, Maryland, Hamdan attended Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. He is of Palestinian descent.
His mother was a 16-year-old from Pakistan when she married his father, a Palestine-born nuclear engineer who attended Illinois but met her on a business trip. Hamdan was born in San Diego, but his family moved to Kuwait when he was 3, and Hamdan learned to play baseball from Japanese immigrants.
The family -- which includes his younger brother, Bush -- was on vacation back in San Diego when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991, destroying the family home and possessions. The Hamdans stayed in the U.S., and his mother took a job cutting hair until the family eventually settled in Potomac, Md.
Hamdan's parents still live in the Washington, D.C., area, and his father works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His brother is a sophomore backup quarterback at Boise State, and Hamdan is still trying to find an NFL home after playing football and baseball at Indiana.
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