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Celebrity Secret Pasts: A-Listers You Won’t Believe Were High School Football Stars

Mr. T

Lawrence Tureaud was known as “Touchdown T” long before becoming the iconic actor Mr. T? And it’s because of his football prowess at Chicago’s Dunbar Vocational High School, which won him a football scholarship to Prairie View A&M University. Unfortunately, though, he was expelled after one year.

He then went on to work as a bouncer for a decade, where his larger-than-life personality caught the attention of Sylvester Stallone. And that’s how he became Clubber Lang in “Rocky III.”

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