Here’s A Fun Little Story About That Time ‘The Rock’ Tried To Rip His Football Teammates’ Tongue Out

Vin Diesel apparently should count his lucky stars that all Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson did with him was call him a “candy ass.”

Because, based on a new story that “The Rock” told to Sports Illustrated about his days playing football, it could have been much, much worse…

Johnson’s frustration at not being an impact player boiled over one day after practice, when he was heckled by his friend and fellow linemate Kevin Patrick. “I was always running hot because I wasn’t getting the playing time that I thought I deserved,” says Johnson. “The truth of the matter is Warren Sapp was just a better player, but when you’re young, you can’t see that. Me and Kevin were in a coach’s office, and he was talking s—, as always, but this time I just lost it. It was like a movie fight—the desk got turned over, stuff was flying all over the place. We spilled out onto the weight room floor, still going at it. He wouldn’t stop talking, so I decided to pull his tongue out. I stuffed my big ol’ hand into his mouth, and I had a couple of fingers around his tongue, but it was so damn slippery! I was quite serious about pulling it out, but I couldn’t quite get a hold of it. Eventually I gave up, the fight ended, and two minutes later we were hugging each other. It was so dumb.

Just to clarify…

Does anyone here doubt that this guy

…could pull someone’s tongue out of their mouth with his bare hands? I didn’t think so.

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