Catching Up With Former ND Football Player Bob Golic

At halftime we saw what we thought was a familiar face -- familiar hair anyway. Turns out, Bob Golic was in South Bend for the Blue-Gold game but there'd be a chance you wouldn't recognize him.
Golic dropped a bunch of weight in the past two years -- roughly 140 pounds. He's pretty trim and if it wasn't for his recognizable face, you wouldn't have any clue this was the same guy who showed up as an honorary coach for the Blue-Gold game two years ago.
Once we realized it was him, we spent a few minutes finding out about where he's at and how he became so trim.

Irish Insights: What have you been up to?
Bob Golic: "I actually moved back to Cleveland and I'm doing a radio show, non-sports, just regular talk radio. I figured I'd finally use my ability and the education I got at Notre Dame to examine the problems of the world instead of just sports. It's just a matter of letting people call up and complain. Those damned Republicans. Those flaming Liberals."

II: What do you think of what's happened today?
BG: "I think it's terrific. It's one of the most exciting things of being here knowing that through the winter and everything's done, depending how your season ended this is always the feeling of 'OK, we're starting fresh.' It's always good to see how many fans come down to this, too."

II: You've lost a lot of weight since the last time we saw you.
BG: "Yeah, about 140 pounds."

II: How'd you do it?
BG: "I just started doing it. About two weeks ago my wife said stop losing weight and put 10 pounds back on. So I go 'Hey, with pleasure.' I dropped about 140 and I am probably, I'm below college weight. I'm right around high school weight now which had been amazing because I had just assumed my knees and joints that hurt was because I had played football and NFL football for so many years but once I lost the weight, all of a sudden my knees don't hurt so bad."

II: So you're able to run 20 miles now?
BG: "Yeah. My only regret is that I didn't do it 10 years ago."

II: Was it your wife that spurred you to do it?
BG: "You know, no. I think I just had gotten to the point where I didn't feel healthy. I had really convinced myself that I was just an old player and we all gain weight after we stop playing. I just didn't feel healthy, my youngest is 10 and you hit 50 and you start thinking, 'I've lost some friends already and other people are starting to watch. And I thought maybe it's time.' Once I started dropping, I started getting really excited about it and then all of a sudden it became a challenge. It's like 'Wow, I'm down to the weight I was when I played nose tackle for the Raiders, let's see if I can get down to the weight I was as nose tackle for the Browns. Oh, OK, let's see if I can get down to the weight I was as a Notre Dame wrestler, like 270. I got that. Now I'm trying to get down to the weight where I was a Notre Dame linebacker, like 255.' I got my weight to 240, my weight senior year in high school and now I'm at 245."

II: You have a whole bunch of new Golics coming in now. I'm guessing you're pretty stoked about that.
BG: "Yeah. Obviously my two nephews, Mike's kids, are coming in and I've got a daughter who is a junior in high school, a star volleyball player (Jenna Golic) and I told her 'You can be the first non-football playing Golic at Notre Dame.' Unfortunately the volleyball coach isn't here this weekend so we'll have to do that at another time."

II: Is she good enough to play here?
BG: "Yeah."

Thanks to Bob Golic for the time.
-By Michael Rothstein of The Journal Gazette

Comments

[lipthorn]

okay bob how did you do it you look great thank you

[Manchester United]

That's awesome. I'm so glad you started blogging and that I can call you my friend. Keep posting and I'll keep reading.