Vikings sign Brock Lesnar

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2611014

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Brock Lesnar is hoping to become the next big thing for the Minnesota Vikings.

Better known to World Wrestling Entertainment fans as "The Next Big Thing," Lesnar signed a contract with the Vikings on Tuesday.

The former NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion from Minnesota wants to win a spot on the defensive line. At 6-foot-3 and 286 pounds, the 27-year-old Lesnar has not played football since his senior year of high school in South Dakota.

Lesnar tried out for the Vikings in June. He had another workout with them on Tuesday.

After that workout a month ago, Lesnar said, "This isn't a publicity stunt."

"This is the real deal," he said then. "It's something I want to do. I don't want to wake up when I'm 50 years old and say I should have tried."

Scott Studwell, the Vikings' director of college scouting, was willing to give Lesnar another look.

"He is a project with a capital P," Studwell said in June. "He's got physical tools, but he has a long way to go."

The Vikings also signed guard Tam Hopkins. They released safety Ben Nauman and defensive tackle Jeff Womble.



The guy hasn't played football in a LONG time, but he probably has all the physical prowess he needs. I think it will be interesting to see how he does.

That's crazy! :dg:
A guy I work with went to school with him in Minnesota... said he was a big dude back then too...

i dont think he is going to play. maybe specials, its a publicity stunt i think. no other team showed interest.

I am curious to see what he weighs in 2 years

you think he'll be bigger or smaller?

smaller....the NFL is a little more stringent on gear than the WWE

thats true, i know the guy works out like an animal, but just cause you are good at one sport doesnt mean you will be in another. i wish the guy luck and i hope he does great, but i doubt it.

I guess I'll see first hand.....seeing that I live in Minneapolis

sheesh :scratch: leave it to the Vikes to take a chance on Mr. L....guess any help we can get on the line is fine by me

what position is he trying for?

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what position is he trying for?

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Defensive Line

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Defensive Line

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it'll be interesting

hehe, any able bodied tuff guy we can get here...will help!

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hehe, any able bodied tuff guy we can get here...will help!

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thought you were from Colorado????

I talk to a couple Vikings players the other day, and they dont even know him that well. He just started practicing...but get this..They told me that he hasnt been working out with them..they say that he is big enough..so I bet he comes in alot smaller that we saw him in the WWE.

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I talk to a couple Vikings players the other day, and they dont even know him that well. He just started practicing...but get this..They told me that he hasnt been working out with them..they say that he is big enough..so I bet he comes in alot smaller that we saw him in the WWE.

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Ya once the roids are out of his system...;)

OG

Lesnar was actually arrested for HGH while he was training for the WWE in the Ohio Valley wrestling conference just before he went big-time. You can find a mug shot at thesmokingun.com . He ordered it through the mail and somehow the feds or local joes got it. Anyway, he got off somehow... sure Vince M. had a hand in it.

Hmm See I thought he was actually I good player back in school? guess that was bs

didnt he get cut already ?
like months ago?

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didnt he get cut already ?
like months ago?

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ya that happend mid-season. last i heard he was going to play in NFL Europe to develop and learn the game and actually get playing time.

I heard he was trying to get back into the WWE.

Last I heard NFL Europe

Experience is definitly necessary in the NFL, I dont even think bigshow would make it.