Herschel Walker is not a man who fits into the box of the “conventional.” He only eats one meal a day, sleeps about four hours a night (I call that a nap) and he is famous for doing 1,000 push ups and 1,500 sit ups every day. He runs a successful food services company, so it’s not like he’s ducking the IRS like many other current/former athletes. He’s 48. He is fighting this Saturday for Strikeforce, only his second pro bout, and earlier this week Walker said he may try to throw on pads and cleats and get back on the football field when he clears a half century. Maybe he can get Kurt Warner, Mark Schlereth, and Keyshawn Johnson, too?

Pour me a glass of prune juice before I choke you out ESPN:

“I’ve told everyone that at 50 I might try football again to show people I can do that,” Walker said on Monday during a conference call to promote his upcoming fight. “I want to be the George Foreman of football, come back and do that one more time.”

Walker, a former Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Bowl running back, has two destinations he says he would consider for a possible NFL comeback.

“The two teams I would come back to play for are Minnesota or Atlanta,” Walker said. “It would probably be Atlanta because that’s home for me.

“I’m a Georgia boy. That’s just home.”

Whatever, he’s not going to take any carries away from Michael Turner, or any meals (Turner’s kinda hefty boys and girls). Herschel is fighting Scott Carson (4-1-0) on Showtime this Saturday at 10pm ET in San Jose, Calif.

God, Strikeforce kills me. They can’t air their fights on basic cable like UFC, and they only went on CBS a couple times, where their top rated show is “Two and A Half Men.” Also, the top name in Strikeforce is near 50. On second thought, it’s
probably a good pairing between CBS and Strikeforce. Look for plenty of ads for adult diapers and metamucil around the ring this weekend.

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