Broken Childhood and Controlled Rage Fuel Jonathan Allen, the Unstoppable Force

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In high school, they used to call Jonathan Allen "the Hulk." It wasn't the most original nickname for a big, hulking, muscular football player who was mild-mannered off the field. But this name carried a dangerous and unknown reality with it.

Allen really did go into a rage. He really did turn green. Well, close anyway. His own high school teammates were afraid to talk to him on game days. Allen, now Alabama's All-American defensive lineman and maybe the best college football player in the country, coolly says that he likes to get worked up for games and play angry because that's what he saw Ray Lewis do on TV. So it's a planned emotion.

Oh, but this rage was real. And…