In the second half on the Yale game, Sabetti was injured again when Eli guard Peter Maples fell on the ankle while trying to cut-block him.

So the season that had begun for Sabetti because of an injury ended for him the same way. And to add irony to injury, Maples and Sabetti had been teammates on the Newton South High School football team four years earlier.

Sabetti, however, was not discouraged by the less-than-perfect season.

Over the summer, the economics major lifted weights with former Mr. Universe Serge Nubret in Paris, where Sabetti was working for Citibank.

"Everyone told me that when I came back from France I'd be a skinny frog, so I had to make sure they were wrong," he said.

Sabetti suceeded as he bulked out to 220 pounds and became undoubtedly the number one Crimson linebacker.

While Sabetti originally had to make up for his lack of natural physical ability, he was always mentally strong.

"I have this craziness out on the field. I want to the the best so I get my mind in a state where I tell myself to do something and then I push myself to the limit to do it," he said.

"When I play football I'm competing against myself to try to get the most out of myself--for the same reason I like to do well in school, keep a job and see different types of people in addition to playing sports," he added.

Yet football is more than just a sport to Sabetti--it's a part of him.

"I've been playing football a long time, it's what I know. It's like brushing my teeth in the morning. I like contact sports--they're like a throwback to the Middle Ages when guys ran at each other with spears."

Whether Sabetti is a knight in King Arthur's court, a linebacker in Harvard Stadium or Iggy Pop with a bomb, he should be successful in his quest to "search and destroy."