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ANZACS Abroad: We Spoke To Kiwi NFL Player Paul Lasike

"As I do reflect back on it, I think to myself 'how did I make it out alive?' For some people, it's a killer."

They say the odds of a high school gridiron player—there are around a million of them—going on to play college football in the United States are around 6.5 percent. Of the group, it is said that only 1.5 per cent make the NFL.

Suffice to say, the odds of making it to American Football's Big Dance are absolutely tiny.

What odds, then, would you place on a Kiwi rugby player, who only starts playing American football in his early 20s, making the NFL cut? Impossible, right? Virtually, yes. But, then again, you may not have heard of Paul Lasike.

On September 11 last year, Lasike—who played college football for Brigham Young University in Utah - made his debut for the Chicago Bears against the Houston Texans, becoming just the third ever New Zealander to crack the NFL.

Read the full interview on VICE SPORTS.