ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- He saw the Cliffs of Moher and hung out in Dublin. His sport took him to France and Spain and all over Ireland, all before he even left for college.
This was Johnson Bademosi's life as a teenager, when the Detroit Lions defensive back was busy earning a scholarship to Stanford for football and becoming one of the top rugby players in the United States. It was rugby, not football, that allowed him to see the world before he turned 18.