First, let me know what you’ve been doing since your time in the NFL?
When I played I was working for Dow Chemical in the offseason. I went to the University of Virginia and got my degree in chemical engineering.
When I was released in September of ’86 due to injury, I just moved on and worked. I came from a working family – from Alabama – that’s what you did. I went to Ohio two weeks after I was released and worked for Dow.
Was the post-NFL transition difficult?
It was like anything else – you have transitions all through life. You do what you have to do – you just have to be responsible and live your life. I worked as a sales engineer for chemical companies then got involved in real estate when I went to Houston. I got a lot of experience at Dow – in accounting, production, research … it was good for me when I opened up my own business in real estate.
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