Dedrick Dodge has two Super Bowl rings — not bad for a guy who was working at an Anheuser-Busch plant after his Florida State career.
So how did Dodge go from being passed over by every NFL team on draft day to blitzing Brett Favre on a fourth-and-6 with 32 seconds left in the 1998 Super Bowl?
His answer: the World League of American Football.
Thirty years ago, Dodge joined the London Monarchs in the inaugural season of the NFL-backed WLAF, which later became NFL Europe. The Monarchs went on to beat the Barcelona Dragons 21-0 in the first World Bowl — played before 61,108 fans at Wembley Stadium.