Former rugby league player Chris Nahi is guaranteed to go to heaven and could enter The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame before the full-time siren sounds.
Nahi has a direct line to the almighty and knows what it feels like to float through the clouds.
The Frownlow Medal is awarded to the player whose off-field demeanour epitomises the values of the modern-day footballer and draws attention to the status of footballers as role models to young Australians. It covers Australia’s four major football codes: the men’s and women’s National Rugby League (NRL), Australian Football League (AFL), the A-League (Football) and Rugby Union’s Super Rugby competition. NRL player Shaun Kenny-Dowall won the inaugural medal in 2015, while NRL star Ezra Mam is the most recent recipient.
The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame honours former players and players who received media attention in previous seasons, for similarly scandalous behaviour, and its inductees include Ben Cousins and Julian O’Neill.
Nahi played in the Super League competition for the now defunct Gold Coast Chargers but bowed out of rugby league due to drug use. In 2008, he tested positive for D-Amphetamine and D-Methamphetamine while playing in the grand final for Currumbin Eagles and was kicked out of Queensland Rugby League competitions.
He then became involved with more serious drugs.
A police raid uncovered more than 1000 ecstasy tablets at his property and the former New Zealand Maori rep fled and remained on the run for eight days before handing himself into police. He was charged with deprivation of liberty, the unlawful use of a motor vehicle, obstructing police, firearm and drug related offences. As a result, he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail for possessing a commercial quantity of ecstasy tablets in 2006 and convicted of the “deprivation of liberty” charge.
With that much ecstasy he definitely knows what it’s like to float through the skies above.
Then, in 2017, he was deported from Australia.
While in prison, the hard running forward turned to God and maintains a direct line to the almighty to this day. God led Nahi to a rehabilitation centre after prison, and prompted him to open the Victory House Recovery Program.
Can God help Nahi to be inducted into The Frownlow Medal Hall of Fame?
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The Frownlow Medal 