Football Career
Adkisson attended Southern Methodist University, where he threw discus and played football. He played one season for the now defunct Dallas Texans of the NFL (not the AFL team which became the Kansas City Chiefs) and then tried the Canadian Football League (CFL).
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Famous quotes containing the words football and/or career:
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)