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Sideline Chatter: Just say he took to the bottle young

Steve Young: Super Bowl champion ... Hall of Famer ... designated driver ...

According to Young's just just-published autobiography, "QB: My Life Behind the Spiral," his high-school chums were well aware that he was a devout Mormon. In fact, at the very first party he attended, a teammate took him to the fridge and showed him a bottle of milk, saying, "That's for you, Young."

"I laughed. So did they," Young wrote. "It became standard procedure for them to have milk on hand at every party I attended. They never pressured me to drink. When my buddies held a beer-guzzling contest, I guzzled milk. It's the one contest I always lost. Apparently, it's a lot easier to guzzle beer than milk."

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