Brett Salisbury

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Brett Jon Salisbury (born October 11, 1968 in Dayton, Ohio) Certified Sports Nutritionist, Founder of Transform Diet LLC., Author of The Transform Diet and creator of Transform Whey Protein for Men & Women.

After spending his freshman year at Brigham Young University, his sophomore year at a junior college and his junior year at the University of Oregon, Salisbury starred during his senior season at Division II Wayne State College, where he became the only D-II player in college football history to receive a vote for the Heisman Trophy.

Salisbury played pro-football in the EFAF European League, and was the star quarterback, playing three seasons with the Helsinki Giants from 1994-1996 in Helsinki, Finland. He was one of the highest paid players to ever play in the EFAF European League.

After a long hiatus, Salisbury recently returned to the league and tore a hamstring while playing for the Prague Panthers in the Czech Republic. He signed a 3 year contract in February of 2006 with the Panthers, to act as both Quarterback and Offensive Coordinator, however the injury ended his playing career.

He is the brother of former ESPN NFL analyst, actor and former USC and NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury.

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[edit] Early life

Brett grew up in Escondido, California, located in San Diego County, where he attended Orange Glen High School.

He was the star pitcher and shortstop on the 1981 Escondido National Little League team that finished 5th in the world in Williamsport, PA. He batted over .600 and was considered by many at age 12 to be one of the greatest little league players of his generation, in the world, as he was chosen on the 1980s all-decade little league team.

What most people don't know is that Brett has played with a herniated disc since the age of 13, but has hidden the injury from both coaches and players.

Brett is credited with saving an elderly woman's life in his childhood. He continued to hear the horn of a car in the large canyon where he lived near Lake Wohlford Road in Escondido. "A few hours went by as I continued to play outside and hear the faint noise up above us a few hundred yards away. Eventually my father believed what I was saying, called the Sheriff and the elderly woman was eventually saved. It was a moment I will never forget as a young boy."

Brett was a Street & Smith High School All-American Defensive back after his junior year and was heavily recruited as a DB by many Division I colleges.

Salisbury was also an Adidas All-American High School Quarterback, considered a pro prospect in baseball as a shortstop and played on the varsity basketball team as a sophomore in high school.

[edit] College career

Salisbury signed his letter of intent to Brigham Young University as an All-American high school quarterback. In his freshman year at BYU he played against the United States Air Force Academy J.V team, and threw for 508 yds and 5 TD in the game. Salisbury served a mormon mission in 1988 to Toronto, Canada. After his mission, he was later let go from BYU for "not living the church standards", and lost his full scholarship.

Forced to leave Brigham Young, he set numerous records the next year at the Junior college level in 1990, at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and was the most highly recruited and decorated Quarterback in the nation, as well as being chosen California's Player-of-the-Year and the national passing champion.

After trips to University of Southern California, Arizona State, University of Oregon, University of Alabama, and Tulane University, and cancelling both the University of Miami and the University of Maryland. He decided to sign with the University of Oregon.

While at the University of Oregon, Salisbury was injured with a sports hernia and played only 5 games in the Pac-10 where his performance was at best, mediocre. He later transferred before ending his career at Wayne State College in Nebraska, where he finished 3rd in the Harlon Hill Award, Division II's version of the Heisman Trophy, and again became a unanimous All-American selection, breaking many school records, as well as being chosen Nebraska's Offensive Player-of-the-Year.

Following the 93 campaign, Salisbury received a Heisman Trophy vote from previous Heisman winner Gino Torretta, an honor no other division II player has ever received.

Salisbury's astonishing passer rating of 166.3 at Wayne State College is the second highest in division II in 1993.

The Wildcats had a high-powered offense, ranking first in NCAA Division II in total offense (581.5 yards per game), second in passing offense (379.9 ypg) and scoring offense (44.8 ppg).

Tennessee Titans current national coordinator of college scouting, C.O. Brocato called Salisbury "The best Division II Quarterback he had seen in years, a true diamond in the rough, and could be a late round NFL draft pick." Salisbury was never drafted in the NFL, but his rights were taken in the CFL by the Hamilton Tigercats. However, the biggest call would be from EFAF's Helsinki Giants, Harri Kaasinen, where Salisbury opted to play at the last minute in Europe saying "the perks are too good to pass up in Helsinki, and I would be a fool not to go."

Having had such great coaches as Lavell Edwards, Norm Chow, Tom Craft, and Keith Simons, he credits all of them for his football success.

The 1993 WSC football team was inducted into the WSC Athletics Hall of Fame on October 5, 2002.

[edit] Professional career

In 1994, immediately following college, and Salisbury's first season in Helsinki, he dated the countries most famous beauty queen, Miss Finland of 1991, Tanja Vienonen, who is now known as Tanja Karpela. After the 1995 season he left for Milan, Italy to pursue a modeling career. It was there, while working for the exclusive ModelPlan/Ricardo Guy model agency, he played a military officer, with a prominent speaking role in the CD ROM movie, The Blackfire. He is considered to be in the pack of the male model generation of Marcus Schenkenberg, Mark Vanderloo, and Alex Lundqvist.

Salisbury's breakout year would be 1996 starting in Helsinki, where he would become the MVP of league and would be a 1st Team All-Europe selection quarterback, as well as doing daily modeling gigs as a "special bookings model" with the agency Paparazzi Model Management and was named the country of Finland's sexiest male.

Following his third year in Finland, he decided to leave the league because of a rule change that would allow more Americans on the field which would have cut his football salary in half. He opted back to Los Angeles to live. To this day, Salisbury is still ridiculed for leaving Finland too soon, as he was becoming a national celebrity.

Brett's son, Elvis Salisbury, was born March 27th, 1999. An experience he calls "life changing."


With over 500 print and runway jobs under his belt, he was given the Elite title, Male Super Model in 2002 by model-max.com senior editor Jed Medina.

In November 2006, Brett's father Richard Salisbury was diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer. The cancer is very aggressive and is caused by exposure to asbestos. Richard died July 11, 2007.

Brett is a Certified Sports Nutritionist. Founder of Tranform Diet LLC. He is contracted for a book called The Transform Diet, Transforming the world, one body at a time,starting with you . He is also contracted for a protein powder line for both Men and Women also to be called, Transform. The powder for both Men and Women is rumored to be different that anything currently available today and is on the cutting edge. Both will be available in August of 2008.

He currently has a home in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville Georgia. The official company website to be hosted in july of 2008 is TransformDiet.com, but His official website is BodybyBrett.net.

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