While most Estonians have no clue about what is going on in the world of American football - when the season begins, who is playing, and what the game is about anyway - then one particular Estonian, Margus Hunt, is looking forward to the month of April to (hopefully) sign a contract with an NFL team (i.e. in the highest level of professional American football).
As unbelievable as it may seem, just a few years ago Margus Hunt didn't know much about American football either. In 2007 Hunt moved to Dallas to continue his rather successful discus-thrower career (two WJC gold medals in 2006) with a new trainer Dave Wollmann.
Besides his trainings, Hunt went to college in the USA, majoring in sports management at the Southern Methodist University. In 2009 he joined the MSU football team and two years later he decided to replace the discus with the American football.
At the end of 2012 Margus Hunt was elected the most valuable player of the Hawaii Bowl - only three years after he had started playing American football! What a great success story; we will surely be hearing about him.
Read the interview with Margus Hunt in EPL (in Estonian).
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