religion birth_place article_title position birth_date college
lds safford , arizona fred mortensen
 quarterback 24 march 1954 arizona state
fred mortensen

fred mortensen -lrb- born march 24 , 1954 in safford , arizona -rrb- was a former college football player at arizona state university .
fred played three years in the united states football league , playing quarterback for the denver gold in 1983 and 1984 and the san antonio gunslingers in 1985 .
in the 1990s fred also served as a high school football coach for the tempe high school buffalo varsity football team where both his son todd and nathan attended .
fred quarterbacked tempe high school to the state finals in 1971 .
in the 1975 fiesta bowl , fred helped lead the sun devils to a 17-14 victory over nebraska .
today fred still lives in tempe where he acts as a faithful member , and former bishop , of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints , and runs a successful general contracting business .
