Standing 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) and weighing 266 lb (121 kg), Gale decided to take up
boxing and
American football after his military discharge.
[26] He joined the Lima Thunder, a semi-professional football team in northwest Ohio, as an
offensive lineman, and would listen to Pantera before games.
[27] Gale, a lifelong fan of heavy metal, became obsessed with Pantera while he was in high school, and remained fixated on the band even after their 2003 breakup.
[28] Gale's former friend Dave Johnson told reporters that Gale had shown up at a mutual friend's house with Pantera lyrics that he had claimed were his own, and that Gale asserted that Pantera had stolen lyrics from him and were attempting to steal his identity.
[29] Many of Gale's friends began to distance themselves from him as his behavior became increasingly erratic; once, he told his former friend Mark Break that God was asking him to kill
Marilyn Manson.
[26] Others noted that he would talk and laugh to himself, would pretend to hold an imaginary dog, and that he would bother patrons at the tattoo parlor across the street from his apartment, staring at clients and engaging them in conversations about heavy metal music.
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