He Cheated His Way to the Greatest NFL Combine Performance Ever! What Happened to Tony Mandarich?

The 1989 NFL campaign is known for one of the best classes at the top of the draft, as four of the first five picks would become NFL Hall of Famers Troy Aikman Barry Sanders Derrick Thomas and Deion Sanders is crazy because basically if you were picking a tie five, you were getting a future hall of famer and a guy who would be a staple of your franchise for years to come, but there is one notable aberration: the number two pick, see why the Cowboys, Lions, Cheese and Falcons landed future Hall of Famers, the Green Bay Packers at number two drafted Tony Mandarin and offensive tackle to Michigan State, but not just any offensive tackle, we're talking of the best offensive line prospect of all time, that was the title he started with. but now he is known as one of the biggest busts in the NFL draft and it's not just because he was selected with the second pick in the draft, but because he is literally surrounded by Hall of Fame players, all of whom were selected at his around they went to the Hall of Fame.

Fame like

what

are the odds? This is the story of how one man completely tricked the Green Bay Packers into selecting him from the group of Hall of Fame players they had available to him. Once you hear the story, you're not going to blame the Packers Man, it wasn't his fault, the system has some major holes and Tony Manzarek exploited them all, so this is the story of, quote, the top line prospect offense of all time, without further ado, you know

what

time it is, my nice way with The NFL Draft is just around the corner.

I think this would be a good time to remember the story of Tony Man during an old time prospect who had so much publicity that Sports Illustrated covered as an offensive lineman and was considered the best. offensive line prospect and was also called the incredible fool. I'm not going to lie, you trash bro, since I'm sure most of you have n

ever

heard of this man, you probably know where this story is going, but let's go back to the beginning. At first, Tony was born and raised in Oakville, Canada, but when his older brother received a football scholarship to Kent State, Tony moved to Kent, Ohio in grade 12, and ended up playing until his final season at the school.

Theodore Roosevelt High School, during which time a young defensive back coach noticed Tony and recruited him to Michigan State, who was this young defensive back coach. Well, it turned out he was Nick Saban, a guy who would go on to become arguably the

greatest

college football coach of all time. That's not very relevant. story, but it will come up again later in the video while I comment, so keep it in the back of your mind. Tony was a huge success at Michigan State, where he was the lineman of the year in 1987 and 1988. A physical marvel at six six and 330 pounds, but he was also the definition of a diva football player.

He wasn't just reserved for wide receivers at the time, this guy was so full of himself that they called him Mike Tyson to a boxer. He's fine, he dressed like he was in a rock band. He had a dog named Dr. Axl Rose was tattooed, you know the saying he was, he was true to that, he was also late for public appearances and often drunk or hungover he would miss team meetings, he was just a guy terrible in the locker room, as if you wanted it. that should have raised some red flags you're right and it did raise some flags but what would happen next made

ever

yone forget about his faults and once you hear this you probably won't blame yourself so Tony goes to the NFL and he measures at 66, 330 pounds and 11 percent body fat, okay, so he obviously looks more impressive than any NFL offensive lineman who's ever lived, okay, but let's look, but he has an often sublime team this year, so that we know he can play. but let's see how he really takes the handles and the hops on his bench press 225 pounds boom boom boom boom going up 39 times that's more times than Aaron Donald then and you guys really won't believe it's 66,330 pounds he ran a four, six, five in the 40-yard dash as an offensive lineman, bro, I wouldn't check and that's 40 times better than about ten slant position prospects at this year's

combine

, but they didn't even hit it even though he had a 30-inch vertical and 10 3 standing, long jump guy was explosive, he was big, he was strong, he looked apart and he had the college accolades, so at this point you understand how he could be recruited right there with people like her, Eggman and the Sanders and the senators again and all those cats open the draft started with Barry Sanders and prime time and Derrick Thomas still on the board the Packers select Tony Mann Derrick second overall What does Tony do?

Of course, he immediately hopes for more rest. He here he is. a quote from Tony during that time, but I like other players. I'm Tony Mandurah, damn it, and you have to understand that if you don't like it, that's just how I am and you've all had to learn how you feel about me. you know, pretty much, that's what he said, he ended up signing for about four and a half billion dollars and when he got there that first year, he was mostly just playing special teams, so it's nice all that height just to play on special teams, this was probably because Fue didn't know the office because he skipped the entire training camp and I'm pretty sure the Packers were trying to give this guy some humility because the whole time he was there he was saying who had a terrible attitude.

Terrible work ethic and as you can clearly see his ego was out of control during his first two seasons in the league. Tony is high and quickly diminished as he never produced on the field, but the hype wasn't the only thing that diminished. lost over the course of just a few seasons, Tony went from 330 pounds with 11 percent body fat to a modest 290 40 pounds in two seasons, obviously we're talking about an overweight player, maybe that's a good thing, but no , "We're talking about a need-to-be-big offensive lineman who was only 11 percent body fat, surprisingly, a guy who already has a bit of a known drinking problem and is suspected to have lost well over 40 pounds in two seasons. a problem, his power was gone, he won't be there anymore, even his hair started to go well.

Now the Packers tried to salvage some of Tony's career by moving to guard, but it didn't work and in 1992, just three years later. He was selected among all the members of the Hall of Fame Tony Mann Derrick was released by the Green Bay Packers after his release Tony retired to Michigan with his millions, where he sank into a haze of alcohol and drugs for a couple of years, Fortunately his family was able to leave. He cut him off and put him in a rehab program where he was finally able to recover, so what

happened

to Tony during his first stint in the NFL was that all the drugs he had started taking were more like the drugs he had quit. to take.

I'm sure many of you have figured this out by now, but Tony was in the Royce, man, he was in the Royce hard, he carried it all through college where the tests were seriously backlogged and because it was never called to a weak type of evidence, Tony was taking. a mix of various steroids used in racehorses, the steroids created a sort of perfect lineup, as the guy was obviously strong as hell and super athletic, but one of the main qualities you hear about the offensive lineman is evil and What person is more unpleasant than a 300+ pound man.

Taking steroids once during the Rose Bowl draft, Tony punched the other team's captain in the chest as hard as he could, didn't look the man in the face and tell him he was going to die today, the guy decided that. getting the sack wasn't worth it and of course Tony was surprisingly dominant throughout the game. During this time at Michigan State, he was tested a total of five times and Tony admitted to cheating on every test and constantly found ways to get around it. and he never tested positive once the Roys allowed him to gain his ridiculous physique, allowed him to dominate the competition, and greatly improved his

performance

at the

combine

, allowing him to put on one of the best workouts at the NFL Combine, telling you exactly what he was doing.

The whole time he was creating a show and making sure he would go to the NFL and get paid, however, he didn't put much thought into what he was going to do once he got there since NFL drug testing is much more streetwise. . once he got into the league he was afraid to keep drinking because he didn't want to get a positive test, so he got off the steroids and lost his aggression for his age, oh yeah, 40 pounds of muscle, that's just with the loss of his hair and Even his behavior during those years pointed directly to steroid use, but Tony actually fully admitted it years later.

Amazing, the way he will shoot time. I'm sorry, Rick. The phrase "I was wrong" was not in my vocabulary. Again, but I was wrong. I

cheated

. I lied. about steroid use, I was an idiot, I don't want to be like that anymore, he also described his way of thinking at the time, he wanted to create as much fuss as possible, many different reasons expose his influence in the negotiation, whatever and everything . He worked, except the artists weren't there when it was time to play football again. He was extremely shortsighted, but he paid, so once Tony quit the game, it wasn't long before he was out of the league.

Tony completely

cheated

the system and made millions. Because of that, he would later even write a book trying to earn even more bread from that guy. Now this is what bro. I saw this story and the craziest thing that struck me is that the man actually had NFL talent on his own. Do I know this right after being sober and out of the NFL for five years? He's fine, he sobered up. He was out of the league for five years. The Indianapolis Colts signed their man to the roster. At this moment he is 31 years old and has washed himself. through drug addiction, steroid addiction, alcohol abuse and again out of the league for a long time, despite all that, in 1997 he started 16 games for an NFL team, I now admit that the coaching staff wasn't very good, but the fact that after all that at the age of 31, he could go and start 16 guys for an NFL team.

Let me know he was talented enough the first time to have done it on his own. You have to give Tony credit and show him love for not only beating his addiction. but to fight their way back into the league and have a fairly successful stint with the Colts, not many people could withstand the brutal media coverage they endured and the ridicule from opposing players and fans, so the growth has to be acknowledged. and the strength it took to be able to deal with that from Tony's perspective. That being said, imagine if he had put in the effort and actually worked hard instead of cheating and looking for a shortcut, the guy who would become the

greatest

college coach of all time saw something in Tony Mandarin before he used steroids, the problem is that Tony never saw that thing in himself, he thought he had to pump himself up with ACH and steroids to be an NFL player and even though he did, he totally robbed the Packers of four and a half million dollars or how much they ended up paying him and they were robbed of a future hall of fame he also robbed himself he robbed himself of a long and fruitful career that he definitely could have had if he was still a starter at 31 today, despite running a photography business, Tony struggles mentally with the decisions he made back then, as his reputation will always be that of a liar and cheater, as people don't even recognize the small career he had with a coach at age 31.

The morning of the story is this work to develop the talent you have, maximize your real gifts, have faith in them, brother, we all know how this movie ends, so why not focus on the journey and the legacy we really leave back? be known as the rumor that was selected among five players in the Hall of Fame or do you want to be selected in the third round and have a 10-year career and probably earn more bread than you ended up earning in those two years you spent with the PAC if There has been a case today, we can remember Tony Bandura in a completely different way.

Inhale, who knows he could have become a hall of famer himself? It's possible, but instead he will always be remembered as one of the most important players in the draft. bust of all time I hope you enjoyed the video my name is Phil Morales next time