DeAngelo Williams and Gary Barnidge have made a pact. When both retire, theyll score a Winnebago and travel the country to catch all the pay-per-view WWE events the NFL calendar kept them from attending all these years.First to retire buys the Winnie, which puts the 33-year-old Williams, a Pittsburgh Steelers running back, at a slight disadvantage. Barnidge, a?Cleveland Browns tight end, is 31. Williams kids might tag along too.My daughters a big John Cena fan, Williams said.For a select few NFL players, professional wrestling is not occasional TV viewing, but a way of life.Williams, Barnidge and Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Vinny Curry are the leagues most visible converts, turning childhood memories into, well, more childhood memories.Wrestling brings out the giddy teen in guys like Barnidge, whos been hooked on the action ever since watching a family friend wrestle on a local circuit in north Florida.?Barnidge and Williams are former Carolina Panthers teammates who struck a friendship after Williams attended WrestleMania 28 without Barnidge. Theyve traveled to the subsequent four WrestleManias together and drive or fly to numerous other spots each year, such as Royal Rumble and SummerSlam.Barnidge always tries to take at least one Browns teammate to the Cleveland-area events. Sunday nights No Mercy event in Sacramento isnt close by, but that will be a no-brainer pay-per-view purchase at the Barnidge home after the Browns-Patriots game.People watch soap operas -- well, this is that, said Barnidge of the WWE. It has a storyline and action, yet its a physical sport. We know whos going to win, but it draws you in with the buildup and the tension.Williams is considered the most active WWE fan, but Curry has spent time with Williams and Barnidge on a few recent road trips. Next years WrestleMania in Orlando became a vacation for the threesome. Williams brought his family, and Barnidge -- known as Uncle Gary -- sometimes babysat when Williams and his wife step out.Our crew is pretty solid now, Williams said. Well be at Disney World the whole time, hanging out before the event. Tuesday and Wednesday you do the tourist stuff, then its all wrestling throughout the week. Its a family thing.A WWE spokesperson said the organization doesnt have an official relationship with the NFL, and the players dont get preferential treatment at the events. They buy tickets like everyone else. Curry said the players do get access to various WWE events and itineraries built around WrestleMania, which is like a mini-Super Bowl for that week.For Curry, wrestling is less about the perks and more about the attitude. Well before signing a five-year, $47.25 million contract extension with Philadelphia, Curry was a New Jersey kid who couldnt afford tickets to WWE events at nearby Asbury Park Convention Hall.So Curry got nostalgic, watching old clips of World Wrestling Federation action. Bam Bam Bigelow was a childhood hero through the television, Curry said.Hulk Hogan even reinforced Moms messages on occasion.As a kid, your parents try to get you to eat your vegetables. Well, Hulk Hogan could get me to eat my vegetables, Curry said. The body slams, the stories, the costumes, the face paint. I loved all that stuff.Many NFL players watch WWE casually, but only a few die-hards travel to the events. Former Browns Johnson Bademosi and Barkevious Mingo attended a few events with Barnidge and loved them, Barnidge said. Williams has taken several Steelers linemen to events on the Pittsburgh circuit.Barnidge said he most aligns with Undertaker -- calm and collected -- but when told Williams prefers the charismatic Enzo Amore, Barnidge switched his own answer to Big Cass, Amores partner.He talks a lot, but he backs up what he talks, Williams said of Amore. I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself. I dont talk until after its done, though.Barnidge wouldnt want to try wrestling post-football because he would get destroyed, he said. Just because football players slam bodies doesnt mean they could absorb clotheslines to the neck 100 nights a year. 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Middlesex 239 for 4 (Stirling 112, Morgan 103*) beat Kent 238 for 7 (Dickson 99, Stevens 61) by six wicketsScorecard Paul Stirling and Eoin Morgan both scored attractive hundreds as Middlesex eased to a comfortable six-wicket victory against Kent in the Royal London One-day Cup at Lords.Stirling hit 112 and Morgan 103 not out as Middlesex chased down Kents 50-over total of 238 for 7 with 5.1 overs to spare, but also central to the home sides success was the brilliant bowling of new-ball pair Steven Finn and Tim Murtagh.Finn, a fearsome prospect particularly in an intimidating opening spell, finished with 2 for 31 from his ten overs while Murtagh even bowled a maiden, his third, in the 46th over of Kents innings on his way to figures of 2 for 28.Irishmen Stirling and Morgan put on 214 in 39 overs for the third wicket after Ryan Higgins edged Matt Coless first ball to first slip in the second over and Middlesex were reduced to 16 for 2 when Nick Gubbins was caught behind off Mitch Claydon in the fifth over.When Stirling eventually fell, chipping Joe Denlys leg spin to short extra cover, only nine more runs were needed for victory. Morgan saw Middlesex home at 239 for 4, despite the further loss of George Bailey to Coles. Both Stirling and Morgan struck a six and 13 fours.Both teams came into this South Group tie with two wins from four matches but, for such an important game in the eight-fixture group stage, both also had to do without two players chosen in the England Lions squad for their Tri-Series against the Pakistan and Sri Lanka A teams.Kents total, though below-par, was almost entirely due to a fighting third-wicket stand of 135 in 26 overs between Sean Dickson, whose 99 from 126 balls was a career-best in what was only the 24-year-olds sixth List A appearance, and the veteran Darren Stevens, who scored 61 off 70 balls.Finn deserved more than just the scalp of Kent captain Sam Northeast in a blistering new ball spell of 6-2-13-1. Running in hard from the Pavilion End, he beat Dickson several times early on and almost had him caught at midwicket from a miscued clip off his pads.Northeast, on 2 and trying to work a fast, rising ball to leg, succeeded only in lobbing it back at Finn, who moved to hhis right and leapt high in his follow-through to take the return catch.ddddddddddddMurtagh was also a handful in his own impressive and probing opening spell of 8-2-26-1, and the seamer had Denly lbw for 4 in the third over of Kents innings. At 12 for 2, when Finn sent back Northeast, it looked as if Kent - with the England Lions pair of Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sam Billings missing from their top order - were in big trouble.It was a moot point, and one not lost on Kent supporters, whether Bell-Drummond and Billings, despite his magnificent 175 for the Lions against Pakistan A at Canterbury, would have learned more as prospective senior England batsmen had they instead been up against the fiery Finn and the wily Murtagh. Certainly, Kent could have done with Billings capacity for explosive run-making in a match central to both teams ambitions of earning quarter-final qualification.Middlesex followers, meanwhile, were wondering about the absence from their attack of Toby Roland-Jones, with the in-form fast bowler left out of the Lions team, led by Dawid Malan, chosen to face Pakistan A.Somehow, Dickson and Stevens managed to see off Finn and Murtagh and, against the change bowlers, they began to build their fine partnership. An extraordinary upper-cut six off a suffering James Fuller by Stevens, with a vertical bat, helped to change the momentum of the innings.Stevens also drove Ollie Rayners off spin straight for six while Dickson played some quality strokes including a classical off drive for four against left-arm seamer James Franklin and a reverse-slapped boundary against Rayner.When Stevens slog-swept Rayner straight into deep square legs hands in the 32nd over, the 40-year-old all-rounder slumped down on his bat in disappointment and Finns return, to bowl the 36th and 38th overs, brought Middlesex right back into the game.Dickson, having edged Finn through a vacant first slip to go to 99, chopped the next ball into his stumps and only Alex Blake, with 23, and Callum Jackson, who hit Fuller over long on for six in a 24-ball unbeaten 28, made much impression after that. ' ' '