Gridiron Tackles New Zealand

While hunting in New Zealand, Mike Pawlawski met with the All Blacks rugby team, but he had no desire to get out onto the pitch with the world champions.

“Hell no,” the former pro quarterback said. “My playing days are over. My body knows better.”

“Anyway, you can’t throw those things overhand -- there’s no laces on them.”

Pawlawski decided to maintain his health for arduous bow hunts in the mountains. He took an Awapara ram, a fallow deer and red stag with a bow, while he set up his guest, Washington State football coach Mike Leach, with Alpine Hunting outfitters on rifle hunts...