From my friend Eric in Dez Moinz...

Just read a funny little article in Sporting News magazine where they interviewed Baltimore Raven's CB Samari Rolle. They asked him his most memorable rookie initiation. His response, "We bet a rookie last year $500.00 that he couldn't take getting tased. Marshall Yanda took it for 5 seconds, walked away, and all he had was redness. You've got to have guys like that on your team".

I had Yanda's cousin in class. We were moving to a new building and had to pack an anvil and its base into the back of a truck. The anvil wasn't that bad but the base took three big guys on the ground and two in the truck to load it. Yanda's cousin was there that day and said it was too bad Marshall wasn't available to help.

The next day Marshall was there and said calmly, "Oh, is this heavy?" He walked over and picked up the anvil with the base and lifted it up to the height of the back of the truck. He held it for awhile, and set it back down. Then calmly said, "Yep, that is kinda heavy."