I caught a showing of the iconic college football documentary Necessary Roughness on TV this morning while I was getting ready for work. One of the most endearing characters in the poignant true story was Andre Krimm (above, right side). For those of you who have never seen this award-winning chronicle of loss and redemption in the ranks of college football, Andre Krimm was a former high school football star-turned graduate student/instructor in Celestial Mechanics and Astrophysics at Texas State University. After the NCAA gave the school's football program a swift death penalty due to numerous infractions, Krimm and 34-year-old quarterback Paul Blake (seen above with Krimm) employed their unused NCAA eligibilty to lead a team of misfits and castoffs (and a hot-ass kicker) to rebuild the program's status.
So I got to doing some research. It turns out that after receiving his Masters in Astrophysics from Texas State, Krimm enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, but shortly after he found Allah and changed his name to Neil deGrasse Tyson before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics. He has gone on to become one of the top astrophysicists in the country and a well-known television personality, hosting PBS's Nova, and appearing on numerous astronomy documentaries and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
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