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Tom Herman was once fired from Subway after he was caught stuffing his mouth with pastrami

Related Topics: Pastrami, Stomach

We often hear stories of prominent coaches and athletes working jobs outside of sports as kids, but they normally don’t end quite as messy as Texas coach Tom Herman’s did.

While in high school, Herman actually worked at Subway as one of those “sandwich artists” or whatever the hell they call them these days. Apparently, he was a very hungry young man and would literally eat away at the inventory until he was tragically caught one day with a mouth full of pastrami.

"I used to love the pastrami," he says. "They had those big walk-in refrigerators.