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People who are 6'2" and weigh 240 pounds (or more) are just fooling themselves if they say they aren't obese. It is true that you can be obese and still be in tremendous physical shape (as is the case with most of these football players), but unchecked, the day of reckoning will eventually come. It WILL catch up to you.

I was obese most of my life and when I was in my 20s, I was running circles around most skinnier people and even lording it over them, bragging that I could eat as much as I wanted and still be in better shape then them.

Then when I hit my mid-30s, it all started to fall apart. I found myself huffing and puffing just walking up the stairs and I'd break a sweat just walking around the block. Fortunately I got my act together and brought my weight back to normal through rigorous and relentless diet and exercise.

When I see all these massive 300-lb linebackers in the NFL, I see a major obesity problem. I don't care how fast they can do the 40-yard dash. These boys are going to have big problems in a few more years.

That's crap. 6-2 240 isn't obese, especially for a pro athlete. BMI is a joke. I'm 35, 5-10 220. I've never been fat. I always score at least a 290 on the Army Physical Fitness Test (out of 300). It's all about exercising. Don't stop doing it, ever.

6'2" @ 240 might be fit, depending on muscle mass and size of frame. I was doing olympic-length (1 mile swim, 26 mile bike, 6K run) at 240, and I was neither thin nor muscled in the upper body. If I had dumped 12 pounds around the middle and put on 12 pounds of upper body muscle, I would have been considered "ripped".

Of course, the only problem with this is that I stopped the training regimine, put on 30-35 pounds, and this was a factor in my heart attack. (Not the only factor, by far.) But I'm just saying that depending on the body, 6'2" @ 240 may not be a bad place. Just be careful where you go from there!

(And with that, I'm off to go running, to dump off more weight....)