Gary Gulman

He says he has no idea how he would have paid for college without a football scholarship.

He works out all summer, and by the time he gets to training camp, he was bigger than ever.

260 pounds.

His speed and strength?

One of the best on the team.

But it's clear right away.

I just felt so small.

I mean, these guys really were supermen.

Their aggressiveness, their strength, it wasn't the same sport.

And it was quite clear early on to the other players that I wasn't like them.

I didn't talk like them.

Oh, is that true?

Yeah.

And I could be pushed around and I could be bullied.

There were guys who were going to go on to the NFL.

There was one player who played for the Vikings, and I remember one time I was lollygagging on a play, and he hit me and bizzed me, and he said to me afterwards, and his nickname on the team was The Maniac.

which you really have to do something impressive to get a nickname like that amongst these lunatics.

He said to me, he said, you can't just stand there like that.

I could have killed you in the nicest way possible.

He said that he had let up even though he had hit me harder than I had ever been hit in my life.