They say that you don’t want a football team full of choir boys, and perhaps that’s true. But that doesn’t mean the occasional choir boy can’t get nasty once he gets between the white lines, and that seems to be a description that fits Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Vance McDonald, the Rice graduate who turns into the ‘Vanimal’ when he is on the field.
Despite his thoughtful, soft-spoken demeanor that you might hear in interviews, he’s not afraid to run somebody over and but a hurting on him in the spirit of furthering his team’s interests, something that he said comes to him “instinctually is how I like to look at it”.