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 | | Bruiser Brody was born Frank Donald Goodish on June 14, 1946 in a small town just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, though he would later move to New Mexico as a teenager. |
 | | In 1964, Goodish starred at linebacker for the Hawkeyes football team, but he then transferred to West Texas State University, a school where a myriad of future pro wrestlers would play college football, including the likes of Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk, Stan Hansen, Tully Blanchard, Ted DiBiase, and Tito Santana. |
 | | Once his football career ended, Goodish spent some time working as both a sportswriter and a bouncer before he decided to break into the pro wrestling industry in 1973. |
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