What is the most insane way you’ve ever seen anyone get pumped up for a game?
It’s funny. Being around AJ, as intense as he is, he probably rubbed off on me a little bit just to relax and have fun. I’ll never forget before the Minnesota game my senior year, I look over, and he’s taking a nap in his locker, and I’m thinking, this is good stuff here—this is when you know you’re ready to play. What is the single most pivotal event of your life? When I was in seventh grade, that was when I first was allowed to play football. I was a good athlete, but I wasn’t very tough, and I wasn’t really that big, and I wasn’t very good. I was decent, but I got my butt beat a little bit when we played against eighth graders. I wasn’t a very mature seventh grader. After that season, I thought, “This isn’t ever going to happen anymore.” Once basketball season was over, I started lifting weights a lot to get bigger. So the next year, when I was in eighth grade, I was a lot bigger, a lot better. I was probably the best player on the team. How did high school pan out? I broke my leg m
