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The infamous rant that could've broken an ex-49ers star but ended up saving him

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For most people, the most public humiliation of their lives is an experience that they want to immediately forget and repress for the remainder of their time on Earth. Former 49ers tight end Vernon Davis is not most people.

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to those who know that Davis has been built different since before the social media apps that popularized the phrase were even around. The tight end broke positional weightlifting records at the University of Maryland as a true freshman, then broke all his own records two more times by the spring of 2005, ahead of his final season in College Park.