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...