Career
Lusteg played collegiate baseball for the University of Connecticut and played football professionally for 4 seasons. He retired in 1969. He came out of retirement in 1974 and played one season for the Portland Storm. Lusteg, who at the time was an unsuccessful actor, first played football for the New Bedford Sweepers of the Atlantic Coast Football League.
After the Bills lost kicker Pete Gogolak, Lusteg was one of nearly 100 people who applied to replace him.
Lusteg was one of the only players with kicking experience out of the group: his top two competitors were a German bricklayer and a one-armed cyclops. Using the nickname "Booth", Lusteg was able to pass as four years under his actual age for years, including adopting Boston College as his alma mater (he had not kicked or even played football in college, so he never ran into a challenge to his career).
Lusteg died on July 12, 2012 after suffering from lung cancer for three years.