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stillers4me
01-07-2012, 08:19 AM
You are sitting in your car before school, wiping the remaining sleep out of your eyes, when a 1957 Cadillac Hearse pulls into the space next to you.

You can't help but stare, as if the space shuttle has just touched down on the football field at Lake Highland Preparatory School. The new kid at the private school in Orlando has been a curiosity because of his immense size. Now, dressed in a black suit, a white shirt and a tie, he rolls down the window and calls out with a smile: "Hey, how you doing?"

Max Starks laughed in a quiet corner of the Steelers' locker room as he recounted the start of a friendship that lasts to this day -- and also revealed why his teammates at the University of Florida later nicknamed him the "Undertaker."

What is more relevant to Starks' story is how he has risen from a near-football-death experience to again become an anchor on the Steelers' offensive line..................


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