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Luger attended high school and played football in Orchard Park, New York.

He then attended Pennsylvania State University on a football scholarship, but transferred to the University of Miami after his freshman year.

A talented soccer player and lifelong fan of English soccer team Manchester United, Luger considered changing sports for some time but eventually decided his skills would be better suited to football.

After sitting out the 1978 season, he started the 1979 season as a defensive tackle until his scholarship was terminated.

He was joined at Miami by Jim Kelly, Jim Burt, Mitch Guittar, and Fred Marion among others.

Upon leaving Miami, he played professional football for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

He then signed with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League, but never played in a game and thus is not listed on their all-time roster, though he did spend the entire 1982 season on the team's injured reserve list with a groin problem incurred during training camp.

He returned to the Packers training camp in 1983, but he was released before the regular season began.

In 1984, Luger finished his football career playing in the United States Football League for the Memphis Showboats.

He also played for the Jacksonville Bulls and the Tampa Bay Bandits in the USFL, where he was a teammate with future WCW rival Ron Simmons.