"Probably a large, fatty pork," says Lutui, leaning back and laughing so hard that shook her belly.
In the native Tonga Lutui family, playing rugby instead of football, live in a monarchy instead of a democracy and see Monday instead of Sunday's Super Bowl.
It - Tonga Tampa with stops in Arizona and California Lutui became a guard with the massive girth and a matching sense of humor who plays a mark resolutely Tonga football Cardinals.
"" I will say this about Polynesian children in general: they love football, "said Pat Ruel, coach Lutui position in Southern California."Because in their culture, there has always been this Warrior mentality. Not so much that intensity of him. "But almost a playful Warrior mentality."
Lutui, playful Guerrero the Cardinals, described as a small island - Tonga Kingdom is actually an archipelago of 171 Islands, 48 of them inhabited, as a country on the international date, the first to receive the new day, as a place full of humble and passionate people foremost family lovers.
Lutui is their elderly as copyright and considered that her parents the King and Queen of the home. Asked if that made a Prince, laughed again, and joked that Prince Baby Huey may fit better.
"People are less fortunate there," he said. "Live out of the land and his family and his love for God.
Lutui family emigrated from Tonga to Mesa, Arizona. when it was months old. Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints at the table, where his parents go on Sunday to pray for his "great child," says Lutui local.
Due to their religious obligations, the family could not travel to Tampa for Super Bowl. But that has not prevented Lutui sharing stories of Tonga with reporters and their teammates.
"Deuce is proud of its roots, and there is no secret that," his teammate said Reggie Wells.
Perhaps Lutui could not be here, or you had not gone the Giants U.S.C. Ruel, realized Lutui weighed more than 385 pounds and spoke the personal trainer of recovered it. Instead, Ruel stated Lutui he needs to lose at least 40 pounds and then moved to him of tackle to protect themselves.
Lutui met with a nutritionist and spent extra time in the room of weight and sure it enough weight melted away. In the middle of his senior season, Lutui was projected as a fourth or fifth-round draft pick. In the end, scouts projected that it would be taken in the first two rounds.
It was almost like he was released, said Ruel. "These 40 pounds him became a new man." It could function as a deer. "Had never seen a big man so moved."
Cardinals selected him in the second round in 2006 and is Lutui, not its most celebrated his teammate U.S.C., quarterback Matt Leinart, who will begin the Cardinals in the Super Bowl.
This was not surprised Ruel. Viewed Lutui as talent first round, a player with a "special make-up," said the kind of man that smile have a defensive tackle Oregon would make him his "Samoa slave".
The type of guard laughed when carried the defenders of the sudden changes in him, which he sang struggle in practice, who never showed a trace of anger. Months after the Cardinals drafted him, Lutui called during Ruel once per week to thank him.
"I lost the boy when he left and never really left of missing", said Ruel. "I never around of a boy enjoys football as much as do you."
A veteran fan of Cardinals, Lutui still has the ticket stub from the first game that attended, in 1990, when he sat in the stands of metals at Sun Devil Stadium. Said that you a time joined his fellow fans of Cardinals, in using soda cans in Deion Sanders, an opposite cornerback.
Tonga to the table, from Los Angeles and back to Phoenix, Lutui never lost his laugh.
By virtue of the Cardinals, offensive line coach Russ Grimm Lutui helped turn one of the worst offensive lines in football in a more consistent unit. And now, a native of Tonga become fan of Cardinals, is the largest of all game play for the team he roots for.
"Super Bowl and Arizona Cardinals are in the same sentence," he said. "You would think that do not go together, but, hey, is ' Ripley Believe It or not!'" We are here. "Here to stay".
Someone asked Lutui would Tonga gentleman you if the Cardinals won.
"What worries me, since it is a King," said Ruel.
«More articles in sports» version of this article appeared on 30 January 2009, printed page B12 New York Edition.
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