In 1965, he was able to play football with the Wheeling Ironmen and Norfolk Neptunes of the Continental Football League due to his exceptional physical ability.
He signed on with the Atlantic Coast Football League’s Jersey City Jets and Waterbury Orbits the next season. John Amos joined.
The American Football League’s Kansas City Chiefs in 1967 as a free agent. “You’re not a football player, you’re a man who is trying to play football,” coach Hank Stram said in criticism of him.
