How I learned to stop worrying and love LaVar
By Jed Williams | April 20, 2000He had me at hello. Okay, maybe not that quickly, but certainly at goodbye. Just minutes after discovering via cell phone that the Washington Redskins were investing a mighty chunk of their future in him, wildly-athletic, often hyperactive Penn State linebacker LaVar Arrington stepped behind a Madison Square Garden podium and faced the media for the first time as a professional. As Arrington proudly sauntered to the front of the room, I stood close enough to the man to take his pulse.