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Dorsey Levens
Dorsey Levens
Former Pro Bowl Running Back
Packers (1994-2001), Eagles (2002, ’04), Giants (’03)
No. 25

Age: 39
Height/weight: 6-1/230
Born: May 21, 1970, Syracuse, N.Y.
Resides: Atlanta, Ga.
College: Georgia Tech (transfer from Notre Dame)
Drafted: 1994, 5th round (149th overall) by Green Bay
NFL experience: 11 years (1994-2004)
Career NFL stats: 4,955 yards rushing on 1,243 carries (4.0 yards/carry), 53 TDs
Best season: 1997. 1,435 yards rushing on 329 carries (4.4 yards/carry), 53 receptions for 370 yards, 12 total TDs. Rushed for 90 yards in Super Bowl loss to Denver. Selected to NFL All-Pro team and Pro Bowl for NFC.
Best game: 33 carries, 190 yards rushing, 2 TDs vs. Dallas, Nov. 23, 1997
Family: Single, one daughter (Amaya, 6)

PERSONAL FILES
Wackiest training camp prank:
Up in Green Bay we weren’t allowed to haze the rookies; literally nothing went on. Just the rookies had to bring food on the plane when we went on the road. I was grateful for that when I was a rookie, but later on I would have liked to have given the rookies a hard time. The one year I was with the Giants, the whole “stand up in the dining hall and sing your team fight song” thing, that was pretty wacky to me, especially after coming from Green Bay. I’m glad I didn’t have to do it, I wouldn’t have had the courage.

Best defense I ever faced:
Tampa Bay had a pretty good defense for years, with Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks, all those guys.

Best player I ever played with:
Brett Favre.

Best/worst cities to play in:
Best: Green Bay is a football town, everything revolves around football.
Worst: Green Bay again. Socially, there’s nothing to do, no nightlife.

Closest friend in football:
Former Packers running back Travis Jervey.

Favorite foods:
Steak and fries.

Favorite movies:
“The Usual Suspects.” “The Sixth Sense.”

What’s in your iPod?
R&B and hip hop, mostly hip hop. I’m a big Jay-Z fan.

Favorite hangouts:
I keep it real low key, go to lounge bar-type areas, no clubs, no dancing. Just somewhere we can just hang out and chill, lay back and do the mature thing. When I was in the NFL, it was clubbing four or five nights a week. In the off-season, though, not in Green Bay. There’s nowhere to go clubbing there.

My hero is:
When I was a kid I looked up to Tony Dorsett. I think now I’m too old for heroes.
Our NFL schedule includes Green Bay Packers tickets and Pittsburgh Steelers schedule, plus we have MLB playoff tickets and Yankee Stadium seats.