Football players forced to pack on pounds

Imagine working so physically hard you can't keep on the pounds. Imagine stuffing your face until you can stomach it no longer. Imagine being called lanky and undersized, despite the overload of fuel you consistently dump into your body. For some University of Florida football players, this is no lesson in imagination. This is reality.

It seems a bit backwards in a day and age when overeating is taboo -- and terribly unhealthy -- but every Tuesday morning at 7:30 AM, several Florida players meet at a campus dining hall for The Breakfast Club. Their mission: Pack on the pounds. With their strength and conditioning coordinator and nutritionists looking on, these guys eat as much food as they can tolerate. They eat eggs, pancakes, anything to help them gain weight, says freshman Duke Lemmens who weighs in at 240 pounds but still has room to grow.

"We don't really like it but it's for our own good," says Lemmens. "It makes me not want to eat anymore."

Another player, 6-foot-5, 200-pound receiver David Nelson, says there's no lack of food on Tuesdays. Nelson and his teammates just eat, and eat, and eat."

"If you can't eat it, you still have to eat it, says Nelson."

I can't even imagine. How about you?