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Allen Iverson Once Had Designs on Playing Quarterback for Notre Dame

If not for the infamous bowling alley brawl that earned him a felony conviction of maiming by mob when he was 17, Allen Iverson’s life could have taken a starkly different path.

In a long feature on Iverson by Bleacher Report on Thursday, writer Chris Palmer notes how before the bowling alley altercation, Iverson had designs on going to Notre Dame. To play football. More specifically, to play quarterback.

Until the bowling alley incident—a brawl that eventually led to Iverson, a 17-year-old, being convicted as an adult of maiming by mob—turned his life upside down, he says he would have gone to Notre Dame to play quarterback, return kicks and win the Heisman Trophy.