The Most Feared Player in NFL History_ ___Highlights___ (HD)

People can portray me any way they want because I don't give a damn. I am what I am. And until those people touch me close enough, they'll never know what I am. If they want to see me in this interview or in a newspaper article and say, What's the matter with this guy? Let them say it. But don't you analyze me and don't you tell me what I am until you get close enough to understand what I am. Then you can make an analysis of me. But don't you dare do it until then. It was easy to get the wrong impression of Lyle Alzado. For 15 seasons, with the Denver Broncos, the Cleveland Browns, and the Los Angeles Raiders, he was a human volcano, always primed to erupt. He plays football with the beserk fury of a trapped water buffalo. He sees himself surrounded by evil. He howls at injustice. He's not a defensive end. He's an archangel. Mad, crazy. Talk about street fighters, that's how he would describe himself. When he walked in between those white lines, you were praying. Alzado comes in, head slap. That'll get you a penalty right there if the official sees it. He was all about the rage. Go Sanco! He's giving him everything he has. He's clubbing, face mashing, grabbing anything. That's why I play a violent game. And anybody who tells me that they go out there to have fun playing football, they're a liar. Because this game isn't fun. This game is a war. His teammates rarely saw. Achieved the destruction of a training machine. The way you see somebody who's really angry, and that anger goes to the point where it's out of control. He's not able to control that anger. Don't be beating on the guy's head. You can't hurt him. You're not gonna hurt the guy. I have been. He was relentless. He was all out on every play. He never quit. He was always after the quarterback. I grew up in Brooklyn. Being in jail and getting into street fights, I don't particularly think there's a person on this earth that can kick my ass. And I'm out there to prove just that. What about that fight you had with that guy? He was holding me. I told him to keep his hands off me. He didn't keep his hands off, so I punched him. You punched him? Yeah. You're about to fight Muhammad Ali. Are you rocking or are you just crazy? He's probably the greatest heavyweight that ever lived. And if you think I'm gonna go in the ring, you get embarrassed. I'm not gonna have that happen. And I'm not bragging or saying that I'm gonna beat him. But I'm gonna hold my own. How do the Broncos feel about one of their most valuable properties in the ring with a heavyweight champion? This will be bigger than all his games put together. Japan told him, send a crew in. You're gonna have a world-wide whooping. As the fight went on, and I was doing well, because Ali was letting him do well. It was insane. Here is the heavyweight champion of the world, and Lyle's in there trying to fight. Nobody says it's a serious fight. It's an exhibition, but those are serious punches being thrown. It picked the tempo up considerably here in the early seconds of round two. The cameras were on and the lights were bright. He was gonna knock him out. We can now say that he's the first man to sack Joe Namath and smack Muhammad Ali. In 1983, when Return of the Jedi ruled the box office, Darth Vader led his second team to the promised land. But entering Super Bowl XVIII, the biggest news story wasn't Al Zato's return to prominence. It was 3-mile Lyle's threat to decapitate Joe Theismann. Joe Theismann and I were in the superstars together. He's a great athlete, and if I get a chance in the game to tear his head off, I'll do that. Last Sunday, the Los Angeles Coliseum looked more like the Roman Coliseum. You guys came out early. You had two penalties and a couple of fights. All in the first three minutes. Is that part of it? It's not any different than what we usually do. He had great threats. He was a great threatener. You know, I'll kill you out in the parking lot in front of your family. You know, that kind of thing. I'll kill you and everything you love. I'll beat you so bad, your family won't speak to you. Talking about how he was gonna tear people's necks off and spit down their throats. I couldn't believe they didn't throw, you know, throw Alzado out. When Alzado threw the helmet. God bless, I was back there almost, you know, missed me by about a foot. What are you throwing a flag for? Bad enough to take it off his head, but then to throw it at him after he's uncovered. That seems a bit malicious. What about Chris Ward? I don't like Chris Ward. He's a big mouth, he's a hot dog, he runs his mouth. And if I had a chance to have him swallow his helmet, I'd have done it. Lyle Alzado had always relished playing the villain. But in the final act of his football life, Darth Vader chose to do something heroic. This is Lyle Alzado today, over 60 pounds lighter and struggling just to walk. Looking at myself now, I'm half the man I was. You know, the big, massive guy that I was, it was all, I hate to admit this, but it was all phony. How long were you on steroids? Most of my pro career, you know, I played 16 years. And it got me where I wanted, but it also got me very sick.