For the past few years, there’s been a lot of deserved press surrounding the very good at football and very good human Saquon Barkley. But what if Barkley had had an accident years before, and wasn’t able to become the physical specimen that ESPN the magazine documented last year?
Only the weird and talented Anthony Zettel would have been able to pull that off - one year after upending a tree stump in his off time the previous season.
Zettel was a part of the Penn State football team in one of the most tumultuous times in its history, spanning the Paterno, O’Brien, and Franklin years - and laying the foundation of the Nittany Lions’ return to prominence.