Mr. T told Soccer AM that he failed trials with the Green Bay Packers because he wasn't tough enough!
A-Team star is glad he was rejected by Packers
Mr. T shocked the
Soccer AM audience when he revealed he failed to become an NFL player because he wasn't tough enough!
The hardest man from the '80s is back on our screens after a number of years away from the limelight, and he was in superb form when he took his place on the orange sofa.
Mr. T, real name Laurence Tureaud, first came to our attention as boxer Clubber Lang in Rocky III, before starring as B. A. Baracus in the brilliant American action series, The A-Team.
However, he revealed how his life may have taken a different path if the Green Bay Packers hadn't told him he wasn't tough enough.
"When I was in college I tried out for the pros but they turned me down because I wasn't tough enough," he said.
"I was a running back. The toughest position is the linebacker, but I was a pretty boy who wanted score a touchdown and throw the ball into the stand and all that stuff."
Despite having his dreams crushed back then, Mr T admitted that in hindsight it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him.
He said: "I'm so glad that they turned me down now, because I see all those guys all beat up and what not, and all I have to do is just pretend. You know like get on a plane and say, 'I ain't flyin' fool!'
"On the A-Team I had stunt guys that I'd beat up and throw and what not, you know it was easy stuff. In football they ain't got no stunt men! I'm so glad they turned me down, thank you guys for turning me down."
Toughest Bouncer
Mr. T got his big break in 1980 when he was spotted by Sylvester Stallone while taking part in the TV show, America's Toughest Bouncer.
Stallone, who had already made Rocky I and Rocky II, decided Mr.T would be the perfect man to play the role of Clubber Lang in Rocky III, and the former A-Team star said his belief in God helped him become America's Toughest Bouncer.
"I was America's Toughest Bouncer," he said. "I won it two years in a row humbly. I didn't win it because I was the toughest, baddest or the roughest. I won because I wanted to give the money to my church.
"So my cause was greater than anybody else's cause and I felt that my God was with me. So I won the contest and gave the money to my church and the next thing I know Sylvester Stallone was at home watching the programme and he goes, 'wow, that guys different, and he can talk'... that was me!"
