Former scaffolder turned punter Lou Hedley will make his NFL debut for the New Orleans Saints on Monday, but he’s already a cult hero in the making.
You can’t walk down a street in America these days without tripping over an Australian punter.
So for American audiences to be wowed by the story of former Perth scaffolder Lou Hedley says everything about the originality of a rookie punter labelled “the most interesting man in the NFL”.At the ripe old age of 30, Hedley will make his debut for the New Orleans Saints on Monday , punting against the Tennessee Titans at the Louisiana Superdome.
Having dropped out of school, Hedley became a scaffolder at 17 and as he worked on skyscrapers and mine sites for the next five years, developed a passion for tattoos. With good mate and now Fremantle defender Nathan Wilson, Hedley even became a co-owner of a tattoo shop in Bali.He is covered neck to toe in ink, and now delights US media by running through some of his more interesting tattoos, which includes one of aliens kidnapping a cow.
“We knew he had some tattoos but he just, straight away, showed himself to be humble, quiet and determined and that was a really good start,” Chapman said. Because Hedley had not finished school, he had to go to Junior College in San Francisco to get the grades to qualify for a major university. Hedley sold his share in the tattoo shop, moved into a share house with 12 other athletes and, after 18 months of impressive ‘JuCo’ form, major colleges were knocking on the door of the 193cm, 100kg artwork.
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