Dhani Jones has always been one of the most colorful athletes to ever come out of the University of Michigan, but now he has become one of the most interesting to follow on his travels around the world.
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Dhani Jones pops into a cab and then out again, while doing his best to hold what should be a simple 15-minute phone conversation.
Like most aspects of his on-the-go existence as an NFL linebacker/off-season world traveler/poet/bow-tie entrepreneur, there are challenges. His cell phone keeps dropping a signal. When Jones returns in mid-sentence, he's paying the cabbie, off to do who knows what in who knows where.
This is Jones' life: Rarely sedentary, always anxious to try the next thing on the ultimate sportsman's bucket list.
As host of his own Travel Channel reality show, "Dhani Tackles The Globe" (Mondays, 11 p.m.), he gets plenty of chances.
Jones, entering his 10th NFL season and fourth with the Cincinnati Bengals, has never been one to shy away from challenges. It's part of the niche of a reality series in which he has experienced life as dragon boat racer in Singapore, a bull fighter and Lucha libre combatant in Mexico City, a water polo player in Croatia and a rookie Jamaican cricketer.
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