Ted Hendricks, known as “The Mad Stork,” was a Hall of Fame linebacker with great height, speed, intelligence, and eccentricity. Six-foot-seven with big curly hair and a mustache, Hendricks was a dominant defensive player who, in 15 NFL seasons – playing mostly for the Colts and Raiders – made eight Pro Bowls, won four Super Bowls, and was incredibly durable, once playing in 215 straight regular season games. A true student of football, he also blocked a whopping 25 combined extra points and field goals. Born on November 1, 1947 in Guatemala and raised in Miami, Hendricks was a fluent Spanish speaker whom the Colts picked in the second round in 1969. A showman with a bizarre streak, Hendricks once rode a white horse onto the Raiders’ practice field. At an annual Renaissance fair in California, he’d buy colorful, outlandish masks, which he sometimes wore on the football sideline or while driving his car. “You’d get some very interesting looks from different people,” Hendricks explained. “[They] kind of like stare at you, and wonder what kind of human being’s behind that mask.”