He started for the Denver Broncos in 1968. The one attribute today s scramblers have on Marlon Briscoe is that they are bigger. He wrote the book on The Black Scrambling NFL Quarterback. But it was the racism that drove him deeper into the drug scene. There is a lot of truth to the aphorism, Idle time is the Devil s workshop.
Media only mentions racism as an after thought.
Instead of hiding behind their designer Klu Klux Klan robes and hoods, the cowards hid behind the telephone. The anonymous calls to the Steeler organization and to Coach Noll s home were unrelenting. The decision to remove Gilliam as the starter and replace him with Terry Bradshaw was evidently painful for Noll. During the press conferences you could see and hear how this experience had aged him right before our eyes. And did he love to throw.