"It is Friday afternoon and this is a rare, offseason Steven Jackson sighting. He has just completed a fierce workout at the Central Institute for Human Performance, a sports medicine and sports training facility in Kirkwood, and after five consecutive years of trying to catch up with the man during the offseason (and failing every time), I have at long last landed my prey.

We play this game every offseason because I have heard stories about his fascinating vacations and legendary offseason workouts. I have been trying for years to catch up with him in the offseason, and this is the first time I have actually caught up with the Rams star running back before he showed up at training camp. It wasn't like he was avoiding me. He was just busy. Real busy.

Almost the moment every season ends, Jackson embarks on a series of excellent adventures that take him all over the globe. You can't catch up with him because Jackson is usually darting across the world on some new escapade that will broaden his horizons and enrich his life experience.

That stylish old dude in the Dos Equis commercial has nothing on Steven Jackson, who just might share that billing as the most interesting man in the world.

Over the past three years alone, he has been to about a dozen foreign countries, swam with blood-thirsty sharks, zip-lined through the tree tops of tropical rain forests against howler and Capuchin monkeys, sat in the stands in South Africa cheering at the World Cup, walked through the catacombs of the Roman Colosseum, co-produced award-nominated documentaries, studied the architecture of Europe's great cities and gotten an up-close-and-personal glance at Mona Lisa's smiling face."