Maa tanuvasa biography definition
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It's hard to imagine how many rungs Mililani native Maa Tanuvasa has had to climb on the National Football League ladder.
An eighth-round draft pick out of Hawaii in 1993, he was released by the Los Angeles Rams in their 1994 training camp.
He managed to stay in the NFL as a practice squad defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and then the Denver Broncos for two seasons.
Denver finally put him on the active roster in late 1995, but he didn't become a regular starter on the Broncos' defensive line until the first Sunday of November 1997.
Since that time, Tanuvasa has become a millionaire and the Broncos have made it to two Super Bowls.
He has one victory ring for last year's win over Green Bay, and Denver is favored to beat NFC champion Atlanta in Super Bowl XXXIII.
The young man who held on to the NFL career by his fingernails a few years ago is now a cool, composed veteran of Super Sunday.
"I'm not as caught up with the hype as I was the first time," said Tan