Louis sets his sights on golden pay day

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

JORDAN Mailata is one of a kind, the only rugby player to make it big in American football, in his case all the way to the Super Bowl. Everything about Mailata is not so much big as gigantic. For a start there is an awful lot of him at 6ft 8ins and more than 25 stone, a bulk which he shifts around the ball park like a cat on the proverbial hot tin roof.
And then there’s his salary, every bit as hefty as the man himself. An ‘offensive tackle’, he is halfway through a four-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles worth $64,000,000 dollars, $16,000,...

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