Roman Reigns was recently interviewed by the Edmonton Sun. Reigns was a former player for the Edmonton Eskimos and talks about his brief time there. He also discussed when wrestling became on option. You can check out highlights below:
On his attempt to make it in the NFL
“I tried to find that NFL team … you’re always searching, you’re looking for that team, that team that’s going to change your life. For me, WWE was my team. It just took me a while to find that and to realize it, but they’ve always been there since the day I was born.”
When he began to think about a career in wrestling
“I was starting to have those thoughts of, ‘OK, if something magical doesn’t happen up here, something really great that’s going to build a foundation either up here, or able to propel me back down south to the NFL, then I don’t know if I want to invest anymore energy into football,’ because I had played it for so long,” Reigns said. “I had played it since seven years old, essentially.”
On holding the WWE Title
“I think once you’ve had the title, that’s all you really think about,” he said. “It’s weird to say, I’m a two-time champion — hopefully three-time after Dallas — there is huge enjoyment to have that title on your shoulder, to travel the whole world to defend it every single night in a different town, all over the country, all over the world.
“To be able to have that responsibility, there’s nothing like it.”
