Kim Wood left the NFL weight rooms more than a decade ago, but the headlines he has zealously culled from Roy Rogers to Roger Goodell have never left and the men he knew who “ran on their own gas,’ may never be more relevant.
Bengals founder Paul Brown tapped Wood as the NFL’s first full-time strength coach 40 years ago and charged him with keeping his locker room clean from steroids and other chemical enhancers seeping into the Astroturf of the 1960s and 1970s. Wood, a former University of Wisconsin running back who bench presses current events and made a fortune out of muscling weight training cleanly into the athletic mainstream, remains the conscience of the carbohydrate.