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the road to the nfl is well travelled, but littered with pitfalls and broken dreams. typically, thatjourney begins age five or six and encompasses high school and college, before a select few reached the promised land. efe obada s route wasn t like many who ve gone before, but then again, his story is farfrom typical. hisjourney to america s biggest show began age 20. far from the glitz and glamour in south london. one of my friends, josh hastings, played american football for the warriors and he saw my size. we were similar built. we went to college together. and at the time, he was, he was very skinny. he s very modern. and when i saw him again, you know, he had some size on him. and he told me that he was playing american football and i would be a good fit. so i went down and i thought nothing of it. like, honestly, it was the first time seeing helmets and pads and all these things. it was very strange. like i never saw. i ve never seen anything like that in south london.
Ioo%, yes. how does life in the usa compare to life in england? it s totally different, you know, because life in the uk, it was different because i was younger. i went through the traditional school system and working, normaljob. and then in the nfl, i m some nfl player, i m an nfl player, you know, i m a star! so, yeah, it s definitely different. how do you feel whenever you come back home? i feel grounded. i feel humbled. the nfl is such this. it s this all consuming thing, you know, and it s this. we re all in this echo chamber of football then, these large amounts of wages and, you know, and salaries and, you know, and just having, being around the best of the best of everything. and then you come back home and it sjust, you know, you get to see just the disparity and, you know, and it s just different. it s just different. do you still head back to your old haunts or do you try to avoid that? oh, no, no, istill do. yeah, listen, i ll go back.
Normaljob. and then in the nfl, i m some nfl player, i m an nfl player, you know, i m a star! so, yeah, it s definitely different. how do you feel whenever you come back home? i feel grounded. i feel humbled. the nfl is such this. it s this all consuming thing, you know, and it s this. we re all in this echo chamber of football then, these large amounts of wages and, you know, and salaries and, you know, and just having, being around the best of the best of everything. and then you come back home and it sjust, you know, you get to see just the disparity and, you know, and it s just different. it s just different. do you still head back to your old haunts or do you try to avoid that? oh, no, no, istill do. yeah, listen, i ll go back. i ll go back around. yeah. especially i do some work with the big kids foundation and they re based in south london. they re doing a lot of stuff
Still home for you? london is definitely still home for me. 100%, yes. how does life in the usa compare to life in england? it s totally different, you know, because life in the uk, it was different because i was younger. i went through the traditional school system and working, normaljob. and then in the nfl, i m some nfl player, i m an nfl player, you know, i m a star! so, yeah, it s definitely different. how do you feel whenever you come back home? i feel grounded. i feel humbled. the nfl is such this. it s this all consuming thing, you know, and it s this. we re all in this echo chamber of football then, these large amounts of wages and, you know, and salaries and, you know, and just having, being around the best of the best of everything. and then you come back home and it sjust, you know, you get to see just the disparity and, you know, and it s just different. it s just different. do you still head back to your old haunts or do you try to avoid that? oh, no, no, istill do.