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1. I was one of the most visible players in the old AFL and early AFC of the late 1960s and early 70s, breaking Joe Namath's jaw, menacing quarterbacks, and just scaring the daylights out of everyone with my big handlebar mustache. Who am I?
2. "Never was a man so aptly named", they said about me. You'd think they'd want to talk about the 724 yards I piled up in six seasons playing for the Colts, the Lions, the Redskins, and the Saints during the 1960s. But all people want to remember me for is the time I locked myself in my room at training camp and refused to come out. Or how I drank my own urine. Or how I'd kick the ball at the sky and say, "how'd you like that one, God?" Or how I'd be dancing to the radio during the pregame prayer? Or how I once asked Johnny Unitas to watch my half-eaten cheeseburger during a game? Who was I, before I died in a motorcycle accident?
3. I took my name from a Rudolph Valentino movie. Once, as a Pittsburgh Steeler player-coach, I was in Los Angeles while the team was playing in Pittsburgh. When a publishing company paid me to write what they expected to be a book about football, I gave them a book about the economic theories of Thomas Robert Malthus. But my playing career, particularly with the Green Bay Packers in the 1930s, was good enough to make me a charter member of the Hall of Fame. Who am I?
4. Do you like glass? I sure did! Eating lightbulbs and beer mugs, lighting myself on fire, that kind of stuff, just helped me pass the time. I was a pretty good linebacker for a while in the 1970s for the Eagles and Chargers and Oilers, but I think I scared my own teammates, who had to live with me every day, more than I ever scared the opposition. Who am I?
5. They called me "Fats" because I was so big. They called me "Arrowhead" because I shaved my hair into the shape of an arrow. They didn't know what to call me when I fired a rifle at a police helicopter. Steelers fans called me a valuable part of their Steel Curtain defense in the 1970s. What would you call me?
6. Life was short for me - I died at 38. But man, while it lasted, it was one big party. I once said that I'd had enough parties for 20 people's lifetimes. When my Raiders team was in the Super Bowl toward the end of my career, I told the media that I'd set a good example and make sure the players obeyed the rules and followed curfew - and then stayed out partying on Bourbon Street until 4:00 AM on the day of the game. The Houston Oilers made me the top pick in the 1973 draft, and I helped the Raiders win two Super Bowls. Who am I?
7. I called my Hall of Fame coach "a plastic man - actually, no man at all." My first two years in the NFL were brilliant, as I led my team in rushing and they made the Super Bowl, but I wasn't impressed. In one of the few times I spoke to the press, I wondered "if the Super Bowl is really the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?" No one had a good answer! Who am I?
8. "Fatso" is what they called me, so I called my autobiography that. Makes sense, right? I liked to call myself a "light eater" because "as soon as it's light, I start to eat." I was the first member of the Baltimore Colts in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. If they had a Hall of Fame for banquet speakers and talk show guests, I'd have been in that too, because I made a lot of money and won a lot of new friends telling stories from the NFL of the 1950s. Hand me a bucket of chicken and a milkshake, then tell me: Who am I?
9. My NFL career started in the 1970s. It's a good thing that I was a Super Bowl MVP and Hall of Fame running back. Otherwise, people might remember me more for things like shaving my hair into a mohawk, missing an entire season because I felt like it, getting drunk at a congressional dinner and embarrassing a Supreme Court justice - the list could go on and on. Who am I?
10. Wearing my helmet during interviews, appearing in a wedding dress on a magazine cover, leaving my team high and dry by abruptly announcing my retirement just before training camp in 2004 - just another day at the office for me. What running back am I?
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