Remember Grey Ruegamer? He was a backup Guard with the Pats from 2000-2, and now he's with the Giants. What I remember most about him was he was a capable fill-in for Mike Compton and Joe Andruzzi on the Pats first championship team and played the role of the guy they cut and re-signed every time they needed to clear a roster spot, like Gene Mruczowski is today. I'm embarassed to admit that I didn't know Ruegamer bites lambs testicles off:

Castrating a lamb with your teeth is a pretty simple procedure, really. Grey Ruegamer knows. “You grab the forelegs and pin them to the ground, and then you grab the back legs and throw them on their back,” Ruegamer said. "And when the, uh, target area is exposed, away you go. It’s the way the Basques do it.” Ruegamer... became a practitioner when a family friend, who is Basque, asked for extra help on her working sheep and cattle ranch outside Las Vegas... “I was hesitant. But it is what it is. She needed help. There was beer. Good times. It was worth it.” As for the procedure itself, “you pull them out with your teeth, spit them in a bucket, next one. There was other work that had to get done, so we had to hurry with that and move onto the next thing. It’s just a little lamb. It’s not a big animal. I have pictures. The blood on your mustache is the worst part.”

I have to admit, I'm hesitant to post this just before the biggest game of the year. I'm sure a lot of the Pats players are in Glendale right now checking the Stool before they start implementing this week's game plan, and I'd hate to think what Ty Warren and Vince Wilfork think about facing a guy who's bitten of another living thing's testicles. I mean, we're not talking about biting into a dead lamb's nutsack... we've all done that... but chomping through the vas deferens of a live, kicking, wriggling animal who undoubtedly would prefer to hang onto the family jewels... that takes a special kind of toughness. To be perfectly honest, I'd let a guy like this play on my team any day. He's not only willing to do anything to help the team (except maybe run to True Value and pick up a pair of gardening shears), but he even throws in the Belichickian "it is what it is" which proves how well coached he is. I think the news of this getting out will drop the point spread by at least a field goal.