OT: Celebrity Football Players
Every few weeks I see one of those click bait articles that show celebrities that used to be athletes. Watching a talk show yesterday, Joel McHale was on and he was a walk-on TE at Washington. I did not know that. In an effort to not click on sites other than MGoBlog, who are other surprising college football players or athletes?
Jim Gaffigan-Purdue (He was #60 so maybe a 6'0" guard?)
Matthew Fox Columbia QB
John Goodman Southwest Missouri State
Tommy Lee Jones Harvard Guard
Nick Nolte Arizona State on scholarship (flunked out)
Ed O'Neill Ohio/Youngstown State and briefly for the Pittsburgh Steelers
There are a bunch of guys who everyone knows, Gerald Ford, Mark Harmon, John Wayne, Dean Cain, Bill Cosby, The Rock, etc.
But how many of them had the first 4-touchdown game as a fullback??
Dammit Peg
Burt Reynolds played at one of the Florida schools, think it was Florida St.
Terry Crews played at WMU before his pro career, and (presumably) before he was sexually assaulted by a hollywood exec (who the fuck sexually assaults Terry Crews and doesnt die?).
Ed once had 4 tds in one game.
Brian Bosworth.
Gilbert Gottfried was a kicker for Rutgers in the mid 70s and had a brief stint with the Jets.
This is the weirdest one.
Bill Goldberg played for UGA and for the Falcons. That's why he was a natural to get pushed by an Atlanta based wrestling promotion.
A ton of pro wrestlers played college football and a fair number played in the pros.
OJ Simpson
Hightower from Police Academy was a Spartan.
The Rock played at The U
This is by far the most correct answer.
I too was going to point this (what i thought was the most obvious one) out.
Uncle Rico
While not a celebrity in the usual sense, law school grads should remember the late Supreme Court Justice Byron (Whizzer) White. An All-American halfback for Colorado, White was runner-up for the 1937 Heisman Trophy, was drafted 4th overall in 1938 by Pittsburgh, and led the league in rushing in 1938 and 1940 (while playing for the Lions).
Alex Karras w the Lions punched the horse as Mongo the pawn in game of life, and then became Webster's dad.
Mel Farr learned how to fly while selling cars....
Sug Knight played at UNLV
Brian Dennehy (First Blood, Tommy Boy) played for Columbia
Kevin Nash - played basketball at Tennessee