INDIANAPOLIS -- Nobody loves Chipotle more than Matt Hasselbeck loves Chipotle.
Or, should we say, loved Chipotle.
Hasselbeck played eight games for the Indianapolis Colts in 2015, taking over for an injured Andrew Luck. Before his first game for the team on Oct. 4, he, as he says, "ate bad chicken" at an Indianapolis Chipotle.
"I'm throwing up right before my postgame press conference," Hasselbeck said. "I had this crazy headache. I felt like someone drugged me or something."
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On his drive home, he stopped at Luck's house downtown.
"His mom's like, taking care of me," Hasselbeck said. "I think I can make it all the way home. I can't."
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Hasselbeck called his brother, telling him where he is in case something happened to him.
"I thought I got a concussion in the game, and I'm thinking 'I didn't get hit. The offensive line played great,'" Hasselbeck remembered.
He didn't have simple food poisoning, it was a bacterial infection.
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He took the infection into a game that Thursday.
"That was an uncomfortable time, too," Hasselbeck said.
He was admitted to the hospital for a night after they did some blood work.
"I think because I look like such an old man, I'm in one of those gowns, I'm 40 years old, and I'm like 'Oh, I've got practice at 6:30 in the morning,'" he said. "They looked at me like, 'Do you coach or something?'"
Hasselbeck and the Colts beat the Texans on that Thursday night game.
He later saw Chipotle's CEO on a morning talk show, talking about how the company's health problems weren't a big deal.
"I was willing to forgive you," he said. "But then I see you on there like that? And you have no idea what I went through? Forget it, man."
Now, when people tell him they're going to Chipotle, he warns them with a story.
