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Bill grew up in Vernon, Connecticut. He was born on April 2nd, 1966. AS a child he played baseball and basketball and hunted. He started playing football at age ten. |
| As a kid he read a Sports Illustrated article on the famous running back Herschel Walker that talked about how he got in shape to play football. It said he went to the track coach and asked how he could do this ad he said to do pushups and sit ups and run fifty yard sprints while your watching TV. and do that during commercials. That night Bill ran six, fifty yard sprints, twenty pushups and thirty five sit-ups. |
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In high school he played football baseball and basketball. Although he excelled at football he was a natural athlete and was named the baseball team's captain. During his junior year his football coach came to him and told him that to get into major colleges he would need outstanding grades. That year he finished with straight A's. |
| Bill got scholarship offers to Notre Dame and Boston College. He said later this one of his hardest decisions of his life. He didn't want to go too far away from home so he chose to go to Boston College which was only 3 hours from his home in Vernon. |
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In College Bill never pulled pranks and got wasted every night like some of his teammates did. He replaced alcohol with milk. In his freshman year even though he gave 110%in practice he didn't play. He decided he didn't like that so he did something about it. |
| In the off season he trained like a mad-man. During that season the coaches saw how hard he tried and his dedication to the game so they inserted him on the kickoff team and during the first game he outran everyone but he was running so fast he ran right past the man he was suppose to hit. Later that season he started at linebacker against Penn State and has 11 tackles and started his legacy. |
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At Boston College he broke the all time tackle record with 488 solo tackles. The NFL invited him to the combine in Indianapolis to see how good he really is. He was selected in the third round by the San Francisco 49ers. They were coming off two super bowl wins in '81 and '84 so bill was pleased to be playing with someone as successful as them. |
| Bill won his first super bowl his rookie season with the 49ers. But instead of celebrating in the locker room after the game all pro safety Ronnie Lott started chanting "REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT' and that's when Bill knew he was into something good. |
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Bill won two more super bowls with the 49ers until he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles where he played for two seasons. Then he was traded to the Denver Broncos where he won his fourth super bowl ring. |
| After six seasons with the Broncos he was traded yet again to the Oakland Raiders. In Oakland he said he fit here the best. In this picture shows him "at his peak with the raiders" but he was admittedly on the steroid that is rampaging the sports world today, BALCO. |
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