Inspecta Deck was born in a small town located in southwestern Wisconsin, in which the only notable buildings were the cheese factory and the bar. Growing up Deck spent his summers growing corn, bailing hay, and biking around with the other kids his age. As Deck got into high school, he began playing football, linebacker on defense and fullback on offence. Deck often remembers his coach saying, “you’ve got hands like feet, but I’ll be damned if you don’t live for hitting people”. Deck loved football, but also spent his high school years wrestling and running track.
While enjoying sports, work on the farm was always the priority. While he learned all about hard work and diligence, Inspecta Deck knew that if he was as focused on sports as he was on the farm, then there was nothing that he couldn’t achieve.
As Deck’s junior year of high school came to a close, he knew that he had to make some major choices about what he was going to do with his life. As he was weighing his options, there was one choice that he always seemed to come back to, doing whatever it took to play for his home state’s team, the Wisconsin Badgers. Deck knew he could make his dream come true because Alex Erickson was playing for the Bengals in the NFL and was from the next town over. If Alex could make it to the big show, then any small town farm boy has just as good a shot if they worked hard and did whatever it took.
To start his path to Wisconsin, Deck didn’t have an easy path. Deck was not rated or ranked by any of the major college ranking systems. He certainly didn’t receive any Division I scholarship offers. Even though he desperately wanted to play for the Wisconsin Badgers, Deck was told he could tryout after the 2015 season started. Since the obvious path to Madison was clearly not an option he began to look towards other programs like Central Michigan. Deck thought that if he worked hard and stayed focused that he could follow in the footsteps of defensive player J.J. Watt.
In July 2015, Deck was invited to the WFCA Large School All-Star Game. Hoping to get a last minute offer from a Division 1 school Deck agreed to play and let his play speak for itself. Deck played up to his normal quality of play, for the game he played full back and outside linebacker. During the game he recorded 9 tackles, two pass-breakups and an interception. As luck would have it this caught the eye of Dave Aranda, who was in attendance to watch his nephew play. When he learned that Deck was looking to walk on to other programs Aranda got in contact with new coach Paul Chryst to discuss Deck. In the end Deck was offered a preferred walk on position in the program! As part of Chryst’s first class of recruits Deck was ecstatic that he had earned an opportunity to play for the team and to prove that a small town kid could play as well as any recruit in the country.
Jim Leonhard, Mark Tauscher, J.J. Watt all of these great players not only played for the Wisconsin Badgers, but walked on with no scholarship. Hoping to join such a distinguished group Inspecta Deck worked on keeping a spot on the team. Even though Deck ended up not playing at all his freshman year, he was content just learning all he could from such a great defensive coordinator. Deck remembered that he was there to play football, not play school, and knew that he would have to out work those who had scholarships in order to see any playing time. During his sophomore year Inspecta Deck earned reps with the second string players, taking the next step towards playing in real games.
At the start of his Junior year the unthinkable happened Garret Dooley went down with a season ending injury. Wisconsin’s philosophy of next man up served Deck well, and he stepped into significant playing time for the badgers, on their way to a 13–1 record, and an orange bowl victory.
Going into his senior year Inspecta Deck was anxious and put a lot of pressure on himself, since this year was the culmination of a lifetime of hard, dedicated work. The season ended up being an incredibly bitter pill, with a 8-5 record and a pinstripe bowl victory. The Wisconsin badgers were pushed around all season by teams that played much more physically than the oft injured badgers could.
Following a disappointing senior season Deck was at a cross roads in life, drawing little attention from NFL teams Deck looked elsewhere. Much to his surprise the Tijuana Luchadores front office reached out and indicated that they were in the market for a new starting outside linebacker, and that if Deck was interested there could possibly be a home in Tijuana for him. Other teams got in touch with Inspecta Deck, much to his surprise, and come draft night Deck watched with bated breath. Upon hearing his name called and being selected by the Luchadores in the 4th round and the 13th over all pick he was floored, he finally had made it, he was a professional football player.
As training camp kicks off Inspecta Deck is looking forward to learning Spanish and meeting his fellow rookies, Kyle Idlewyld, Randy Vuxta, Victor Moreno, Barnabas Cole, Miles Royal, George Bjornsson, and Darby Allin. Deck is also looking forward to making the Pythons, Buccaneers, Grey Ducks pay for not drafting him higher. Upon his arrival to spring training he was surprised to see another Wisconsin native on the team, Mason Blaylock! It turns out that Mason was a Madison native, who had gone to school at UW-Whitewater and helped scout Inspecta Deck for the Luchadores.
While enjoying sports, work on the farm was always the priority. While he learned all about hard work and diligence, Inspecta Deck knew that if he was as focused on sports as he was on the farm, then there was nothing that he couldn’t achieve.
As Deck’s junior year of high school came to a close, he knew that he had to make some major choices about what he was going to do with his life. As he was weighing his options, there was one choice that he always seemed to come back to, doing whatever it took to play for his home state’s team, the Wisconsin Badgers. Deck knew he could make his dream come true because Alex Erickson was playing for the Bengals in the NFL and was from the next town over. If Alex could make it to the big show, then any small town farm boy has just as good a shot if they worked hard and did whatever it took.
To start his path to Wisconsin, Deck didn’t have an easy path. Deck was not rated or ranked by any of the major college ranking systems. He certainly didn’t receive any Division I scholarship offers. Even though he desperately wanted to play for the Wisconsin Badgers, Deck was told he could tryout after the 2015 season started. Since the obvious path to Madison was clearly not an option he began to look towards other programs like Central Michigan. Deck thought that if he worked hard and stayed focused that he could follow in the footsteps of defensive player J.J. Watt.
In July 2015, Deck was invited to the WFCA Large School All-Star Game. Hoping to get a last minute offer from a Division 1 school Deck agreed to play and let his play speak for itself. Deck played up to his normal quality of play, for the game he played full back and outside linebacker. During the game he recorded 9 tackles, two pass-breakups and an interception. As luck would have it this caught the eye of Dave Aranda, who was in attendance to watch his nephew play. When he learned that Deck was looking to walk on to other programs Aranda got in contact with new coach Paul Chryst to discuss Deck. In the end Deck was offered a preferred walk on position in the program! As part of Chryst’s first class of recruits Deck was ecstatic that he had earned an opportunity to play for the team and to prove that a small town kid could play as well as any recruit in the country.
Jim Leonhard, Mark Tauscher, J.J. Watt all of these great players not only played for the Wisconsin Badgers, but walked on with no scholarship. Hoping to join such a distinguished group Inspecta Deck worked on keeping a spot on the team. Even though Deck ended up not playing at all his freshman year, he was content just learning all he could from such a great defensive coordinator. Deck remembered that he was there to play football, not play school, and knew that he would have to out work those who had scholarships in order to see any playing time. During his sophomore year Inspecta Deck earned reps with the second string players, taking the next step towards playing in real games.
At the start of his Junior year the unthinkable happened Garret Dooley went down with a season ending injury. Wisconsin’s philosophy of next man up served Deck well, and he stepped into significant playing time for the badgers, on their way to a 13–1 record, and an orange bowl victory.
Going into his senior year Inspecta Deck was anxious and put a lot of pressure on himself, since this year was the culmination of a lifetime of hard, dedicated work. The season ended up being an incredibly bitter pill, with a 8-5 record and a pinstripe bowl victory. The Wisconsin badgers were pushed around all season by teams that played much more physically than the oft injured badgers could.
Following a disappointing senior season Deck was at a cross roads in life, drawing little attention from NFL teams Deck looked elsewhere. Much to his surprise the Tijuana Luchadores front office reached out and indicated that they were in the market for a new starting outside linebacker, and that if Deck was interested there could possibly be a home in Tijuana for him. Other teams got in touch with Inspecta Deck, much to his surprise, and come draft night Deck watched with bated breath. Upon hearing his name called and being selected by the Luchadores in the 4th round and the 13th over all pick he was floored, he finally had made it, he was a professional football player.
As training camp kicks off Inspecta Deck is looking forward to learning Spanish and meeting his fellow rookies, Kyle Idlewyld, Randy Vuxta, Victor Moreno, Barnabas Cole, Miles Royal, George Bjornsson, and Darby Allin. Deck is also looking forward to making the Pythons, Buccaneers, Grey Ducks pay for not drafting him higher. Upon his arrival to spring training he was surprised to see another Wisconsin native on the team, Mason Blaylock! It turns out that Mason was a Madison native, who had gone to school at UW-Whitewater and helped scout Inspecta Deck for the Luchadores.