Bob Long:  

So many years have passed, our high school years are but a very small part of who we have become. While at Grant, I received many athletic scholarship offers from a variety of schools but decided to attend and play football at Valley College in the fall of 1964. After the fall semester at Valley College, I accepted a full athletic scholarship to the University of Houston from the spring of 1965 through June of 1969. I left Houston and tried my hand at professional football in Canada and the NFL. I had what I call " a cup of coffee" with the New York Giants during the 1969 and 1970 seasons. In 1971, I married and moved back to Houston to finish my BS. Ed. in 1972. I began teaching and coaching and while doing so earned an MA. Ed. in 1975. We left Houston in 1976 and moved back to Southern California and settled in Placentia. I found teaching and coaching jobs in Fullerton, Brea, and Pamona from 1976 through 1978. Our first of two children, Erin, was born in July of 1977. I left teaching and coaching and moved to Northern California in 1978 beginning a career in sales as an independent sales rep. We had our second child, Alysan, in 1...Expand for more