Former Major League Baseball pitcher Randy Johnson captures the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals during the first half of an NFL football game in Glendale,

Arizona, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011. Johnson talks about visiting troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and taking pictures of lions and leopards in Africa

He seemed to be content in his post-baseball life.

After 22 years of pitching, mostly for the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks,

Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Randy Johnson announced his retirement at the conclusion of the 2009 season.

The 6'10" superstar is renowned for once inadvertently killing a bird with a fastball and was later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

However, a recent image of Johnson went viral for entirely other reasons; it showed him taking pictures for a living at an NFL game

 The initial tweet that stated Johnson was now a paid professional photographer who covered NFL games garnered more than 75,000 likes in less than four hours.

ESPN retweeted the tweet to its own account, and Reddit users were going crazy over the picture.