Vinny Testaverde never really excelled at one particular skill set to help take his teams to the next level, but his longevity in the game has allowed him to become one of the most notable quarterbacks of all-time. With twenty-one seasons of pro-football under Testaverde's belt, his durability is a testament to his legacy as one of the greats to ever take a snap underneath center. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Vinny Testaverde played four years of college football at the University of Miami from 1983-1986. During his tenure with the Hurricanes, Testaverde became one of the institution's allt-ime leading touchdown passers with 48 and won the Heisman Trophy as a senior.
Vinny Testaverde was drafted 1st overall in the 1987 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he would play the first six seasons of his lengthy NFL career. He would also go on to play for several other NFL franchises including the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets (2x), Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, and Carolina Panthers before calling it quits in 2008. His best play as a starter came in his first season with the Jets in 1998 when he threw 29 touchdowns with a passer rating of 101.6. Unfortunately, most of the teams he played ended up with losing records. Testaverde's 123 losses is the most in NFL history by a starting quarterback, but upon his retirement he held top ten records for career passing yardage (46,233), career touchdown passes (275), and completions (3,787).
Celebrities are no strangers to changing their looks for a role. And in some instances, they have to get pretty extreme. From 500-calorie-a-day diets to drinking pints of ice cream, Actors and actresses know what it takes to change their bodies in preparation for a new film.
Charlize Theron is no stranger to gaining and losing weight for movie roles, as we remember her transformation in Monster. Charlize Theron gained close to 50 pounds for her role as Marlo in Tully. Theron said that “for the first time in my life I was eating so much processed foods and I drank way too much sugar. … I remember having to set my alarm in the middle of the night in order to just maintain the weight.”
You’re used Chris Hemsworth's hulk-like figure in Thor, but In the Heart of the Sea required a totally different diet. The movie required the cast members lose a ton of weight to make their stuck-at-sea plight more believable. Chris Hemsworth said there were days when all he ate was one boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.
Anne Hathaway wanted to get serious for her role in Les Misérables, as she was playing Fantine, a starving prostitute with tuberculosis. So Anne Hathaway went on a diet of “rabbit food” to drop 25 pounds. Hathaway explained her diet was essentially just starving herself, but she didn’t want to give details, as she doesn’t want to encourage anyone to copy her emaciated look. She did note that she “just had to stop eating for a total of 13 days shooting,” however. And at one point, her bones became so frail that she reportedly broke her arm.
Matthew McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers Club, a man with HIV/AIDS, was spot-on, earning him the title of best actor at the Oscars. But it also required a serious physical transformation. Matthew McConaughey said he lost 38 pounds for the role. During filming, he said he lost a lot of energy from eating so little — and he hit plenty of plateaus along the way. Finally, with a strict diet, he got down to 143 pounds. And while he did cardio to help with the weight loss, he said it was 90% what he was eating and portion size.
Hilary Swank had to put on 23 pounds of pure muscle for her role as a boxer in Million Dollar Baby. The process doesn’t sound easy, however. “I started working out five hours a day — I had to eat 210 grams of protein a day,” Swank said. She also mentioned that she had to consume 60 egg whites per day, and when that proved too difficult, she had to drink them. And to keep the muscle on, she would get up and drink protein shakes in the middle of the night.