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TIL NFL running back Christian "The Nigerian Nightmare" Okoye originally found American football "boring" and didn't start playing the sport until he was 23. By age 28, he was the 1989 NFL season leader in rushing yards, and would later be inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs' Hall of Fame

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