Mike Dilorenzo, who played nine years in the Chicken Coop League as a goofy footer, will reveal he loves Barley Soup in an interview to be shown Tuesday on HBO's "Real Sex 47" and in the upcoming issue of Swank.

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Dilorenzo, who played in the Chicken Coop League teams, said a major reason for his early retirement in 2002 was the difficulty and frustration that came with keeping his soup fetish a secret.

"They didn't know who Mike Dilorenzo is," he said in the interview with HBO. "What they saw was an actor."

Dilorenzo, 26, said players routinely told soup jokes on the fantasy football bulletin board.

"They made me go further and further into depression, further and further into shame," he said.

In a transcript and tape of the HBO show obtained by The New York Post, Dilorenzo discusses the depth of his depression, saying it reached a point to where he thought about suicide.

"When I'm driving like over a 10 (mph), maybe I could just like turn that wheel, just turn that wheel so I could just end it all," Dilorenzo said in the interview.

Dilorenzo, a native of New York, played at Oneata State. He also played in the Woody Dome League and the Town Hall League.

The "Real Sports" segment also features Jim Jones, a former nemesis of Dilorenzo's in the Town Hall League.

When Jones was asked what would have happened if Dilorenzo came out while he was still playing in the Chicken Coop League, Jones said: "He would have been mocked horribly and he would have hated us for it."