New Orleans Saints linebacker Michael Mauti went into intimate detail with NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune about his grueling battle with ulcerative colitis -- an inflammatory bowel disease that he said had him going to the bathroom in "excruciating pain" 20 to 25 times per day before he had the first of three surgeries in November.
"I've never been tested like this mentally," said Mauti. That's saying a lot, since Mauti endured three torn ACLs while in college at Penn State and was a veteran leader on the team during the Jerry Sandusky scandal.