Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy spent his offseason eating rats, piranhas
By Bryan Rose
About five or so miles from my home is a large building complete with just about every single workout machine ever created. It’s a fantastic place, a place where many NFL players spend their offseason training.
It’s apparently not a place Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy spent his Summer.
The former third round pick in the 2009 NFL Draft decided to partake in some outdoor training this offseason which included pit stops in South Africa where he swam with great white sharks, bushwhacked in Botswana and capped it off by eating rats and piranhas during a five day stay in Peru.
Per Detroit News:
"He’s out there, all right. That’s what some of his teammates tell him — good naturedly, of course — whether it’s his beard that has grown to biblical proportions since last October (“They’re just jealous they can’t grow one this beautiful,” Levy says) or his dry wit and fiercely independent thought. Or his travel itinerary.“Most of them think it’s crazy,” said Levy, a 2009 third-round pick out of Wisconsin who has been a four-year starter at outside linebacker. “They found out I went skydiving and they thought that was crazy. They thought the Amazon was nuts, eating frogs and rats and piranha and stuff like that.”Frogs? OK, fine. But … rats?“Yeah,” Levy said, “there’s a little jungle rodent we had to catch with a spear.”"
Hungry yet?