July 08, 2006
Esera Tuaolo, Author/Former NFL Player
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On Philadelphia: I remember coming over here with various teams and your fans were very, uh, colorful. When you're the opposing team walking into an environment like that, it's not a pretty sight. When I was here it was at the old stadium, and the turf was horrible, horrific. The worst field I've ever played on. It was like playing on concrete. They would tell us to keep our helmets on just in case someone would throw something at us. I met Randall Cunningham because he played with the Vikings, and I knew Reggie White throughout my whole career. I live in Minnesota. I love places with history, and there's a lot of history here. It's incredible—all these cobblestones and old buildings. We don't have this in Minnesota. Philly's so diverse, right? You guys have a Chinatown, a Germantown, an Italian section and stuff like that. We don't have that in Minnesota."
Esera Tuaolo's book Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL is in stores now.
Posted by jfusco on July 8, 2006 09:24 AM
