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...Once I couldn't be a leader on the field anymore, I felt pretty useless. I felt like a 270-lb. cheerleader," Callahan says. "When you're playing it seems that playing is the most important thing in the world. You get the feeling that the team can't go on without you. Seeing everybody go on without you is a little bit humbling...
...injury required surgery, leaving a prominent scar on Callahan's back. To this day, Callahan has trouble even jogging. It meant the end of playing days for an athlete who was a standout not only on the gridiron but also on the basketball court as a member of the Harvard Classics...
...curtailment of Callahan's athletic career was particularly rough for someone who had been an Honorable Mention All-Ivy the year before and who had been contacted last summer by a number of professional scouts about a career in the NFL. A prospectus of the 1991 NFL draft pinned Callahan as the 36th-best offensive tackle in the country-- even with the injury...
...tough to look at that and think what might have been," Callahan says...
...that football is no longer an option, Callahan has begun to pursue other paths. After graduation, he will travel westward to Los Angeles, where he will begin work in a law firm. Callahan hopes to eventually go to law school at U.C.L.A...