Catholic Sports Radio
312 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsHelping listeners find the right balance and priority when it comes to their faith life versus their sports life, interviews are done with guests who are Catholics in sports - current or former athletes, coaches, officials, clergy, administrators, and more, from the pro, amateur, and scholastic ranks. Whether you're an athlete or a fan, youth or adult, Catholic or not, this show will deliver content that speaks to you and provides opportunities for ongoing reflection for your daily life.
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CSR 234 Tom Darabaris
July 24, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBHe is the Director of Development for Catholic Sports (not affiliated with this podcast), a national young adult sports ministry that is building community for young Catholics, while growing the Church through marriage and conversions. A cradle Catholic, he was the final cut from his high school basketball team, and fell into a party lifestyle. After falling away from the faith in college, he experienced a powerful conversion his junior year. The community of faith he encountered through ...
CSR 233 Jeremy Otto
July 17, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHe serves as the radio voice of Michigan State softball and #2 for volleyball, plus fill-in for the University of Toledo, as well as various championships for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. His past roles have included being the lead voice of the United Shore Professional Baseball League, DePaul University softball, and various other free-lance opportunities. During college he interned in the radio booth with Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, after which he landed the...
CSR 232 Chris Ice
July 10, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBHe holds the NAIA baseball career batting average record with a .480 career average while in college. He had played basketball and baseball for four years in high school before going on to play baseball at both Creighton University and St. Mary of the Plains College. After graduation, he was a graduate assistant at Ft. Hays State University and then a head assistant baseball coach at St. Mary of the Plains College. In addition to playing and coaching collegiate baseball he officiated high ...
CSR 231 Joe Mach
July 03, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBHe is the Assistant Head Coach of the football team at Detroit Catholic Central High School, where he has been on the staff since 2008. Along the way he coached in two State Championship games and, prior to his promotion this year to his current role, had been promoted to Defensive Coordinator in 2018. He was an Undergraduate Assistant Coach at The University of Michigan from 2003-2005, and as a student-athlete playing for Detroit Catholic Central, he was a member of back-to-back state cham...
CSR 230 Jared Zimmerer
June 26, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBHe has trained in bodybuilding, Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing, Jeet Kune Do, powerlifting, the Scottish Highland Games, and is currently going for hybrid athlete. He is the author of a book called, "Ten Commandments of Lifting Weights." On the faith side, he has a Master’s in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and earlier this year was named the Director of Extension Strategy at Benedictine College, which has been named one of the top Catholic colleges in the nation by First Thi...
CSR 229 Mike Evoy
June 19, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBHe was a three-sport athlete in high school before going on to Siena Heights University, where he was on the baseball roster for two years. He was a CYO Athletic Director and coached basketball at two Catholic schools. At a different Catholic high school, he was the Athletic Director, before moving on to Associate Director of the Detroit Catholic High School League. He has also served as Chairperson (Lead Driver) of No Sports on Sunday in the Archdiocese of Detroit and is a Certified Play ...
CSR 228 Dave Matheson
June 12, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHe spent almost four years as the Public Relations Manager for Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers. That followed stints as the University of Houston's Assistant Sports Information Director, the University of South Alabama's Assistant Sports Information Director, and the University of Georgia's Sports Information Assistant. He currently serves as an Official Scorer with Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, a role he also held with the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. He has u...
CSR 227 Hayden Dalton
June 05, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBHe is a pro basketball player competing in Israel in the Basketball Champions League for a team called Hapoel Holon B.C. He has also played for teams in Denmark, the Czech Republic, France, and Spain, after having played at both the University of Wyoming and Central Wyoming College. In his final season with the University of Wyoming he earned a number of honors and was profiled in the USA Today. After college he played for the Denver Nuggets’ NBA Summer League team. He had enjoyed a success...
CSR 226 Lenny Wilkens
May 29, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBHe is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach as well as for being an assistant coach with the 1992 Olympic “Dream Team.” He played in the NBA for four teams over 15 years and was a nine-time All-Star and would later be named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history. Before ending his playing career, he took on the role of player-coach with two different teams. As a full-time coach, he guided the Seattle Supersonics -- winning a championship in 1978...
CSR 225 Gene Zannetti
May 22, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBHe was a nationally ranked All-Ivy League wrestler at the University of Pennsylvania AND he was an assistant wrestling coach at Springfield College. He is a certified School Psychologist, Personal Trainer and Nutritionist, and, along with his brother he now runs Wrestling Mindset, to help wrestlers reach their full potential in wrestling, school and life. He has two master’s degrees, including one in Sports Psychology, and his master’s degree thesis has been published in the International Jo...
CSR 224 Erin Broestl
May 15, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBShe is a skier, participating in downhill, cross-country, and waterski as well as snowboarding. At the University of Michigan, she had competed in giant slalom, which followed her junior high and high school years when she ran the mile in track, half mile, and the 2-mile, for a combined total of six years in track, including lettering in track and field. Plus, she even did three years on the swim team in junior high. She is a mom of a large Catholic family yet still ice skates, swims, and ...
CSR 223 Bill Hanzlik
May 08, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBHe was an NBA first round draft pick, being chosen 20th overall by the Seattle Supersonics, playing two seasons with them and then eight with the Denver Nuggets. During that time, he earned an NBA All-Defensive Second Team honor and would go on to serve as an assistant coach with the Charlotte Hornets and the Atlanta Hawks before becoming the head coach of the Denver Nuggets. He had played his college basketball at Notre Dame, helping lead the Fighting Irish to the Final Four, and was selec...
CSR 222 Dr Kevin Cummings
May 01, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBBack in his days as a student-athlete, after having played for the well-known Rockhurst High School, he attended Missouri Western State University on a four-year football scholarship and would go on to be inducted into their Hall of Fame. He was also selected as the Missouri Western 25th Anniversary Scholar-Athlete Award by the university in 2001. Later in life he would serve as the Kansas City Chiefs Team Dentist for 23 years. Meanwhile, he was ordained as a Deacon in the Diocese of Kansa...
CSR 221 Samantha LaMar
April 24, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBShe was a late bloomer athletically, save for one sport that she competed in during her high school years. In her adult life she discovered bodybuilding and fell in love with the discipline of the sport and continues to this day to train like an athlete. She became a certified Personal Trainer and helps others not be intimidated by the weight room and think of themselves as athletes in training. However, the sport they are training is the race of life itself. The story that she tells at the ...
CSR 220 John Knuth
April 17, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBProviding some emotional testimony in the second half of this episode, he’d won eight consecutive state championships and nine overall as the volleyball coach at Marysville High School in Michigan where he had three consecutive undefeated seasons, registering 192 straight wins. He won 20 consecutive district and regional championships and over ten seasons had an amazing won-lost record of 584-9. In 2015 he was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame. ...
CSR 219 Abraham Lucas
April 10, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBHe was chosen one year ago this month in the third round of the National Football League Draft, 72nd overall by the Seattle Seahawks. He is an offensive tackle who appeared in all but one of Seattle's 17 games this past season and was named to the All-Rookie Team. He also played his college football there in the Pacific Northwest, having been a four-year starter at right tackle for Washington State, starting 42 consecutive games. He was the first Cougars offensive lineman in program history ...
CSR 218 Seth DeMoor
April 03, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBHe has been a professional mountain runner, winning the Pikes Peak Marathon in back-to-back years (2020 and 2021). He also competed for the United States at the World Mountain Running Championships in Argentina in 2019. And he continues to train for road marathons and ultra marathons, with the hopes of qualifying for the 2024 marathon Olympic Trials. Collegiately he had competed for the University of Colorado and helped contribute to National Championships in cross country. After graduating ...
CSR 217 Tim McCormick
March 27, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBHe was drafted in the first round, twelfth overall, by the Cleveland Cavaliers and went on to play ten seasons in the NBA, playing for Washington, Seattle, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Houston, Atlanta, and the New York Knicks. He had been on the NIT Champion University of Michigan basketball team and was named the NIT MVP. Earlier he had been a McDonalds All-American. In addition to being a longtime color analyst on ESPN, he has worked as a consultant with NBA players over the last two decades...
CSR 216 Ted Karras
March 20, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBHe is an offensive lineman who has played seven seasons in the NFL, most recently with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was a sixth-round pick by the New England Patriots in the 2016 National Football League Draft and spent five of his first six seasons with New England, including being on two Super Bowl-winning teams with the Patriots. In 2020 he appeared in all 16 games as a member of the Miami Dolphins. As a student-athlete he had started 43 games during a career at the University of Illinois, ...
CSR 215 Dr Kevin Vost
March 13, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBHe has competed in a variety of strength sports including Olympic weightlifting, bodybuilding, powerlifting, Highland Games Heavy Athletics, and team tug-of-war competitions. He worked as a weightlifting and fitness instructor in college and has written several articles for fitness magazines and four books on strength training. His most recent book from 2022 is "You Are That Temple! A Catholic Guide to Health and Holiness," and in total he has written twenty-seven books for Catholic publish...
CSR 214 Mark Duffner
March 06, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBHe has been a coach in the National Football League for 26 seasons, including serving as Senior Defensive Assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals for the last four seasons. Previously he was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for three seasons, which had been preceded by two years on the coaching staff of the Miami Dolphins, after having spent eight years with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He also worked with the Green Bay Packers and has come full circle as his NFL coaching career started with Cinci...
CSR 213 Alan Webb
February 27, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBHe is one of the greatest middle-distance runners in American history and currently serves as the Head Coach for Track & Field/Cross Country at Ave Maria University. He is a three-time United States champion in the 1500-meter run and represented the United States in the event in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Prior to his current role he made coaching stops at the University of Virginia, Portland State University, and the University of Arkansas Little Rock. Following his retirement fro...
CSR 212 Father Sean Loomis
February 20, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBHe is three months shy of the ten-year anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He is Parochial Administrator at Annunciation BVM Parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Back in his days as a student-athlete he attended Kutztown University on an athletic scholarship and, as a pole vaulter, won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship. In high school he had been an All-State pole vaulting champion when he graduated in 2003.
CSR 211 Joe Condit
February 13, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBHe is the founder of the largest Catholic-focused talent agency in the world. The clients he works with are men and women across numerous sports, with him having started the company back in 2006. He is also the founder of the National Catholic Men's Conference. Back in his days as a student athlete he played basketball at La Salle High School in the Greater Catholic League South, which ESPN has called the most competitive high school sports league in the country. Since his playing days he...
CSR 210 Dr Pat Castle
February 06, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBHe has raced in 25 marathons since 1990. Over a twenty-ONE-year span, he was the fastest person on every base he was stationed -- nine assignments -- based on the Air Force aerobic fitness test (1.5 miles), and in 2010 he was the Scott Air Force Base Athlete of the Year, chosen out of 3,500 airmen. From 2007-2009 at the U.S. Air Force Academy, he coached the cadet marathon team and competed. Previously at the Academy, as a cadet athlete, he coached the squadron boxing and cross-country teams...
CSR 209 Michael McGlinn
January 30, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBHaving received countless scholarship offers, he was an offensive lineman for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the first part of the 1990s and played in all four major bowl games in four consecutive years; the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl, and he is a part of the Catholic Athletes for Christ speakers bureau. Today, he gives concerts all over the world and also makes short films that explore much of the thematic content in his music in order to reveal an intimate look...
CSR 208 Darrel Chaney
January 23, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBHe was chosen in the second round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft by the Cincinnati Reds and went on to play eleven seasons, appearing in over 900 regular season games with the Reds and the Atlanta Braves combined. He played an additional 19 games in the playoffs, including going to three World Series, winning one. After his playing career in the big leagues, he was part of the broadcast team for Atlanta Braves games on both television and radio. Back in his days as a student-athl...
CSR 207 Zoltan Mesko
January 16, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBHe was selected in the fifth round of the National Football League Draft in 2010 and went on to a pro career with the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cincinnati Bengals, including playing in a Super Bowl. He had played his college football at the University of Michigan after having become one of the best high school football kickers in the nation, excelling both as a punter and placekicker. For his first season in the NFL, he set a rookie record for net punting yard average. O...
CSR 206 Casey Martin
January 09, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBHe has had a long and highly decorated career in professional rodeo, including numerous appearances in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and multiple top five finishes in the world standings. A longtime steer wrestler, he first joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in 2002 and over his career he has competed seemingly all across the country. He attended McNeese State University in Louisiana and back in his days as an amateur had qualified for College National Finals Rodeo in 200...
CSR 205 Eric Sutulovich
January 02, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHe spent 16 years as a coach in the National Football League, working as a special teams coach for the Houston Texans and the Atlanta Falcons, and, in between, as an offensive assistant coach with the Detroit Lions. His years in the NFL included going to Super Bowl LI in February 2017 with Atlanta. He also coached in the college ranks, at the University of Kansas, the University of Pittsburgh, and at his alma mater, Louisiana Tech University, which he had attended on a football scholarship. ...
CSR 204 Jeff Grabosky
December 26, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBHe completed a solo and unsupported 3,700-mile run across America in 2011. During the journey he ran while praying for intentions people sent him from all over the world. He became one of only a small handful of people to cross the country in this manner, finishing with one of the longest routes in history while averaging more than 30 miles a day over the four-month journey. His book, "Running with God Across America," was published in 2012 and details his prayerful journey. He also has a ch...
CSR 203 Brad Seng
December 19, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBHe competes year-round as a professional ironman triathlete. He is the head coach of the 18-time national champion University of Colorado Boulder triathlon team, and he is a USA Triathlon Level II Certified Coach AND a Certified Sports Nutritionist. He had spent his years as a student-athlete competing in soccer, including during college, and was even a swimmer in high school. In addition to his racing endeavors, he is a nationally recognized abstinence speaker and has spoken to thousands of...
CSR 202 Erin Honbarrier
December 12, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBShe played basketball in high school -- and later competed in many alumni basketball games there -- and was a decorated college soccer player. Attending Whittier College in California, she not only played soccer all four years but was team captain for two years, was multiple 1st Team All-Conference, and in her final year was both 2nd Team All-American AND Conference Player of the Year, with her team being the regular season champion. She also coached her daughter's soccer team for one year, ...
CSR 201 Dr Jimmy Walters
December 05, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBHe has been in various roles in sports throughout his life. In his childhood he played CYO basketball and Little League baseball. In high school he played intramural softball and has also played in softball leagues in his adult life. He also coached CYO basketball in the past and nowadays helps coach his daughter's baseball league. He also had a long history as a sportswriter for a newspaper in Queens and had been the Assistant Sports Editor for St. John's University. He is the author not on...
CSR 200 Gerry Cooney
November 28, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBHe was a pro heavyweight boxer from 1977 to 1990, following an amateur career in which he posted an amazing won-lost record of 55-3. As a pro, he was 28-3, with 24 of those victories coming by knockout. He rose to a number one ranking by the WBC and in Madison Square Garden in 1981 defeated former world heavyweight champion Ken Norton by a knockout just 54 seconds into the first round. According to the legendary George Foreman, he was one of the three hardest punchers Foreman had faced in hi...
CSR 199 Amy Seago
November 21, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBShe is in her 19th season at the helm of the track and field and cross-country programs at the College of Charleston, up in South Carolina. During her time there, athletes have captured 22 conference titles and have earned nine NCAA regional appearances. Prior to her current employer she served as the head women's cross-country coach and assistant men's and women's track and field coach at Washington & Lee for two years. She began her career as a graduate assistant at Pittsburg State in Kans...
CSR 198 Javier Aguirre
November 14, 2022 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBHe is co-organizer of Copa Católica, a soccer tournament for parishes that launched eight years ago and has seen more than 35 teams and over 500 participants. As a result of his involvement with that initiative he has organized and participated in other sports events, including as a referee. This year he started as a trainer for the under-15 team in his town in the Netherlands and he is also organizing amateur world cups. He and his co-organizer of Copa Católica have roots in participating i...
CSR 197 Sister Jean Schmidt
November 07, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBShe is a nun with the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), having been received into the order in 1938 and taking her final vows in 1945. She went on to teach at St. Charles Elementary School in North Hollywood, California, where she started a sports program, coaching women's basketball, softball, volleyball, track, ping-pong, and yo-yo. In 1994 she took on a role with the Loyola University Chicago men's and women's basketball teams and since 1996 has been the team chaplain f...
CSR 196 Patrick Pulis
October 31, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBHe was a longtime soccer player as a student-athlete, ranging from club teams to high school to rec leagues while attending college. As an adult he coached soccer as well. As he was discerning the priesthood, he became interested in running, eventually training to run a half-marathon. He wrote a book called, "Touched By A Flame: A True Story of One Man's Journey in the World of God," which includes his experience running and training. He also mentions another book during this interview, and ...
CSR 195 Keara Mooberry
October 24, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBShe has been a swimmer for probably more of her life than not, starting from a young age to club teams to high school to college and even participating today in US Masters Swimming. Plus, she also coached high school swimming, AND she is going to be a judge at CYO swim meets. Along the way, as a student-athlete, she also competed in cycling. She has also come to see the connection between swimming and her faith, which she talks about here. As a wife and a mother, she also has a side business...
CSR 194 Brett Meister
October 17, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBHe spent 23 years working for the Harlem Globetrotters, leading the team's Communications Department. During that time, he arranged two visits to the Vatican and accompanied the Globetrotters players to meet Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. Previously he had served as VP of Communications for the Continental Basketball Association, working as the league’s main spokesperson and liaison to the NBA and USA Basketball. His international experience also included work on the US Olympic Committe...
CSR 193 Pat Macken
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBHe is a Canadian tennis professional who has been in the industry for 43 years. He served as Director of Tennis at the prestigious Arbutus Club in Vancouver for 34 of those years. He has a Tennis Canada Coach 3 and Club Pro 2 certification and has trained all levels of players from red ball through provincial teams. As a competitor he has won nine National Senior titles and with his brother Tony was part of the top open doubles team in British Columbia for ten years. He has been selected to ...
CSR 192 Vic Ferrari
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBHe ran cross country track as a student-athlete, has coached flag football, and – now residing in Florida – continues to play competitive co-ed softball. He is a retired New York City Police Department detective who has written six books over the last six years, the latest of which just came out in the latter part of June and is titled, "Confessions of a Catholic High School Graduate." He also tells a fun story here about playing wiffleball in front of an eventual A-list celebrity.
CSR 191 Jordan Langdon
September 26, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBShe is a parent coach, motivational speaker, podcaster, and licensed counselor with Families of Character, which equips parents to lead their children with confidence and courage. As a student-athlete she played both basketball and volleyball, plus talks here about having even been on the men’s golf team, in addition to having ran track too. She also holds the all-important roles of being a wife and a mother (with children that play sports) and has thoughts about her experience at the gym an...
CSR 190 Matt Hoven
September 19, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBHe is a professor and Kule Chair at St. Joseph's College, a Catholic college at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Three months ago marked the release of a book he co-authored, called, "On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport," and three years ago he was the lead editor of a book titled, "Sport and Christianity: Practices for the Twenty-First Century." He even has another book that he is working on, which is talked about in this interview. As part of his higher education...
CSR 189 Ed Hastings
September 12, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBHe played college basketball at Villanova, including playing with the Wildcats for the national championship and being chosen by the Boston Celtics in the NBA Draft. He would go on to become an assistant coach for men's basketball at Villanova and nowadays is a professor in the Theology Religious Studies department there. At one point he was director of the Center for Sport, Spirituality, and Character Development at Neumann College, where he also served as the chaplain for the men's basketb...
CSR 188 George Rose
September 05, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBHe is the Executive Advisor of Pacific Rim Operations with the New York Yankees, which includes having served as a Japanese translator for the likes of Hideki Irabu, Masahiro Tanaka, and Hideki Matsui, among others. As a student-athlete he had competed in baseball, soccer, rugby, and track & field. He also serves as an advisor for Japan's Yomiuri Giants baseball team. He is a board member of "Catholic Men for Jesus Christ," a now 25-year old organization. He also has a radio show called, "Br...
CSR 187 Lance Mudd
August 29, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBFrom an early age, he wanted to be a cowboy. He loved working cattle with his dad and competing for ribbons and trophies in youth rodeos. In high school, he not only played football and other sports but won a national championship in the boy’s cutting horse contest. In college he competed in rodeo events for McNeese State University and, after college, as a steer wrestler at the professional level, and, he is still active in team roping today. Sports even carried over into his business, ente...
CSR 186 Joe McIlvaine
August 22, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHe spent parts of six decades in baseball, starting with the first of five seasons that he played as a pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. He went on to become a scout in the Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, and Milwaukee Brewers organizations, before becoming the scouting director for the New York Mets, who eventually promoted him to assistant general manager. He would then become the general manager of the San Diego Padres before returning to New York to take that same positio...
CSR 185 Sabby Piscitelli
August 15, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBHe played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, and Kansas City Chiefs after having been a second-round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft by Tampa Bay. He had played his college football at Oregon State, playing in 50 games for the Beavers in his four years there. Back in his high school days he not only was the Boca Raton News Defensive Player of the Year and team MVP, but he also lettered four years in baseball as an outfielder. Following his NFL career, he went on to pro wrestling, fir...