Does anybody remember that Buc RB?

Wonsley

[gharen]

That's it. Thanks, Java. That guy was a hell of a RB. I remember thinking we had a future PB RB. I didn't remember him being that big though.

[Groovatron]

Good memory, Java. I use to see Nathan working out in the gym I went to back in the day. He was a good guy.

[JavaBuc]

Nathan Wansley I believe was his name.  He was a rocket and really exciting for a couple of games.   Check www.bucpower.com, I bet Paul has some details on it.

[gharen]

He was a little guy that came on strong towards the end of the great Wilder years. It must have been mid-80's. He had a couple 100 yard games and then hurt his neck and never could make it back. I want to say he had brothers in the NFL also. Does anybody remember what his name was? And if so, what's he doing now?

[Garv]

Thought it might have been Alvin Mitchell out of Venice but it was Nathan Wonsley. Good one!
That kid had it going for a very short period of time before getting hurt. Shows how short a carreer in the NFL can be!

[calicojack]

This is Nathan Wansley at the 2005 Masters National Championship for  body building.  I was shocked when I ran across this!

[JavaBuc]

His body looks alot like mine in that picture.   

I remember being completely disappointed when he got hurt on that kick return.   I had high hopes for him.

[gharen]

We may have had a lousy team back then but they were pretty good guys. To this day they are some of my favorite all time players. I had forgotten about a lot of them until I was talking to my older brother about how we used to go to all the games and how fun they were. We used to go a lot of times just to see the other team.  I used to love the Bears games with McMahon, Payton and Ditka and I'll never forget the upset over the Bills with Smith and Kelly 10-7! We should start a post talking about some of our favorite players and games in Bucs history pre uniform change!

[Garv]

This is Nathan Wansley at the 2005 Masters National Championship for  body building. I was shocked when I ran across this!

Are guy was WONSLEY. Is that the same guy? LOL Hard to believe. Damn.

[calicojack]

Are guy was WONSLEY. Is that the same guy? LOL Hard to believe. Damn.

I thought the same thing, but it was Wansley.  I was googling to find out how his neck injury turned out.  That's him.

[gharen]

No that might not be him.  We did have a Tim Wansley, but the guy were talking about was Nathan Wonsley. I looked the spelling up on the site Java gave me.

[calicojack]

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/mielke26.htm

I've seen it spelled both ways, Wonsley seems right... but that's him about 3/4 the way down the page.

[DanTurksGhost]

The correct spelling is with an "o".

Edited to add this picture of him from two months ago:

he was  honored on field during the Dungy era....he's got a vertical scar on the back of his neck that ran about 4" above his collar line and lord only knows how far below