But as he spoke, he hammered away at the "improbable" theme that he hit on all weekend, because in his mind none of this was ever supposed to happen to a once-chubby kid who didn't dream of a life in football. He had just one year of high school football before moving on to tiny Texas Southern University, where his only goal was to make his father proud. Then, Strahan said, "the improbable happened again. I get drafted by the New York freakin' Giants" in the second round of the 1993 draft. And he was admittedly overwhelmed joining a locker room that was ruled at the time by the likes of Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms.