Why President Gerald Ford Decided Not to Play Football for the Lions or the Packers

Iulian Moșneagu

In America, there's no limit to what you can accomplish; if you can dream it, you can achieve it. This was certainly true for Leslie Lynch King Jr. Of course, by the time he started his freshman year at Michigan in 1931, he had changed his name to Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. in honor of his adopted father. When he graduated from college, he faced a choice that might have been decided very differently today: to join the NFL or try for law school. Despite the image of a clumsy oaf that Chevy Chase