Rick Carlson:  

Well, I have to do the math to remember just how old I am now. Probably has something to do with waking up in my late thirties with a full head of white hair. Pretty startling as my mother confessed she'd been coloring hers for twenty years. Since KHS years I spent my four years at the Univ. of Maryland playing football and playing. It would seem that it was my intent to do as little as possible academically with regret. After making it to the next to the last cuts with the Dallas Cowboys in 1969, I married and spent the next two years in football with the Las Vegas Cowboys and Roanoke Buckskins. Made a little money but even more importantly got to see a lot of this country. Money issues led me to the next four years as a police officer with the Montgomery County Maryland Dept of Police. That was when divorce #1 occurred. Still haven't figured out why two people headed in opposite directions could figure on a marriage working. It must have been part of my live and learn period. I did go back to school on my dime and com...Expand for more