Posted on 08/07/2010 10:58:04 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Randle grew up dirt poor on a Texas cotton farm, the youngest of three boys raised by a single mother who struggled to make ends meet while working in the fields and as a maid. Amenities included an outhouse and one bed for the boys to share. There was no running water or furnace. And this was the 1970s.
Football, however, was a golden ticket out of poverty, first for Randle's oldest brother, Ervin, who played eight years for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
John Randle played for Division II Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M-Kingsville), but his relatively diminutive stature — 6 feet 1, 240 pounds — shooed away NFL scouts, and not a single team selected him through 12 rounds in 1990.
Undeterred, Randle signed with the Vikings as a free agent and rarely went unnoticed, forging a reputation as a tenacious worker who treated every snap as though it might be his last.
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He has the stuff of a winner. He uses it. He is a winner.
He is supposed to be a really decent guy off the field and a great father.
not sure, but loved watching him play- he was non-stop go.
was, did Randle die? He’s obviously not a member of the UCC homosex congregation of hussein’s with its get evenest communist liberation theology.
What?
He is in the news because of his potentially being inducted into the football HOF.
He goes in tonite with Jerry Rice and Emmett Smith.
Plus he can jumpstart your car!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSPx3vOIFA&feature=player_embedded
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