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The Truth About Bill Goldberg's Football Career

As USA Today Sports tell us, Goldberg didn't particularly enjoy wrestling when he was young. Football was his jam, and his high school game was so good that he received a scholarship to the University of Georgia, where he played as a starting lineman for their team, the Bulldogs. As his alma mater reports, Goldberg was so good at what he did that in 1987, he was inducted in the Junkyard Dog Club, which is an honor only top defensive players get. In fact, as of 2018, his 348 career tackles record is still the ninth best figure in the University of Georgia's history ... which, come to think of it, goes a long way toward explaining his signature wrestling maneuver, a devastating running tackle known as the Spear.  

In 1990, Goldberg headed for the L.A. Rams, as an 11th round pick of the year's NFL draft. Unfortunately, he didn't make the cut after training camp, but after a couple of WLAF years with the Sacramento Surge, he finally hit the NFL scene with the Atlanta Falcons, with whom he stayed from 1992 to 1994. The 1995 expansion draft moved him to Carolina Panthers, but unfortunately, he picked up an injury. When he was rehabilitating, wrestlers Sting and Lex Luger noticed him, and the rest is hard-hitting history.

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