Death Clutch by Brock Lesnar; Paul Heyman

Author:Brock Lesnar; Paul Heyman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Autobiography, Sports
ISBN: 9780062023124
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART III

THE SWORD AT MY THROAT

MY BRIEF NFL EXPERIENCE

After getting out of WWE in the spring of 2004, I started chasing after a career in the NFL. But it didn’t matter what sport I was going after. I was escaping the WWE lifestyle. The NFL made sense to me. It was legitimate competition, and I wanted to compete.

I went shopping for a football agent, and the first person I called was a guy by the name of Mike Morris, who was a longtime long-snapper for the Minnesota Vikings. Back when I was wrestling for the Gophers, I met Mike through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I was invited out to his MILO gym to lift some weights. That gym got a lot of notoriety, because Mike would talk about it all the time on KFAN radio in Minneapolis. In case you’re wondering, MILO stands for “Mike’s Insane Lifting Order.”

Mike Morris and I hit it off pretty good because we were both guys who just loved to crank up the music in the gym and do squats until we were bleeding out of our noses. My weight-training routine at the University of Minnesota was my own program, and I started training with Mike in between my junior and senior year. I looked up to Mike because he was successful, had a good family, nice kids, nice wife, a very decent life.

The MILO Gym was in Mike’s basement. His whole basement was a gym. Since I knew Mike, he knew he could be honest with me. In that first phone call, he couldn’t believe I was getting out of WWE. “You must be nuts!” he said. “You want to walk away from a sure thing, guaranteed millions of dollars for ten years, so you can go after something that has maybe a five percent chance for you to make the transition? You haven’t played football since high school!”

I appreciated his honesty.

I told Mike I was serious. I had jumped off the train and I was done with WWE. I wanted to pursue this goal, and I was going to give it my all. Mike accepted everything I told him, and told me he would be 100 percent behind me. He proved that to be a truthful statement because he introduced me to John Wolf, who used to represent a few NBA players and a few NFL players, but was now kind of out of the mix. He referred me to Ed Hitchcock.

Ed was a Minnesota boy, a University of Minnesota grad, and a sports agent. I liked him, so we went to work right away. Ed put this game plan together. “You gotta get in football shape,” he told me, “so we need to get you down to Arizona as soon as possible. There’s a facility down there called Athlete’s Performance, where all of the top NFL players, and top athletes from all over the world, go.”

I took Ed’s advice and headed south. When I got down there, one of the first guys I met was a midwestern boy named Luke Richesson.

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