‘”It’s funny, man,” Polian said. “The guys from the Bills days I still talk to, like Pete Metzelaars, the tight end, and Steve Tasker, one of the greatest team players in the history of the league, when I got to know these guys, I was literally a 14-, 15-year-old kid. “The scouts come in now, and it’s funny to them that at one point in my life they were beating on me and throwing me in towel bins and they come to Notre Dame and I’m running around.”‘