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01-06-2007, 08:52 PM
...Ohio State's All-America linebacker is the first true sophomore to win the Nagurski Award, but even those achievements don't completely explain the echo. For that we have to bring in his father, Joe Laurinaitis, better known as "The Animal" of pro wrestling fame, the surviving half of his sport's most fabled tag team, the Road Warriors/Legion of Doom.
If this game has a backstory worth telling, it's how a father who would have given up anything to become a great football player wound up with a son who did. It begins the day Joe Laurinaitis met his wife, Julie, in a weight room.
"She was some sort of power lifter, she asked my dad for a spot, and that's how they met. Of course, my teammates loved hearing that story, they think it's hilarious," Laurinaitis said. "Even now, whenever they see me I'm in the weight room, they say, 'You need a spot,' and I'm like, 'No, I'm fine.' Then they say, 'Can I marry you?' and I say, 'No, that's not how it went...'"
Complete article: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/16400490.htm
If this game has a backstory worth telling, it's how a father who would have given up anything to become a great football player wound up with a son who did. It begins the day Joe Laurinaitis met his wife, Julie, in a weight room.
"She was some sort of power lifter, she asked my dad for a spot, and that's how they met. Of course, my teammates loved hearing that story, they think it's hilarious," Laurinaitis said. "Even now, whenever they see me I'm in the weight room, they say, 'You need a spot,' and I'm like, 'No, I'm fine.' Then they say, 'Can I marry you?' and I say, 'No, that's not how it went...'"
Complete article: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/16400490.htm