Duke Fergerson was born on April 21,1954 and is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills.
21 Facts About Duke Fergerson
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Duke Fergerson played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs and was selected in the third round of the 1976 NFL draft.
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Duke Fergerson was even more successful as a football player, but dyslexia prevented him from earning a student-athlete scholarship.
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Duke Fergerson chose Washington State University to play college football and majored in Political Science with a minor in US History.
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Duke Fergerson was selected to participate in the Senior Bowl, where he scored two touchdowns for the North squad.
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Duke Fergerson was selected in the third round of the 1976 NFL draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
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Duke Fergerson started 8 games in 1977, but his career with the Seattle Seahawks was spent playing mostly on special teams.
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Duke Fergerson scored 2 preseason touchdowns in his first season.
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Duke Fergerson then moved on to work for Professional Asset Securities, whose primary line of business was to advise and manage excess liquidity for banks, foodservices companies, trusts and pension funds.
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When Duke Fergerson first began, he was assigned a district that had been strongly Democratic for many years, but in which Kennedy was only polling at 18 percent, the lowest ever for a Kennedy in Massachusetts.
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Duke Fergerson was tasked with raising Kennedy's visibility by organizing rallies, leaflet drops, outreach to the many black churches in the area and fundraisers, including a highly successful Dizzy Gillespie concert.
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Duke Fergerson then entered Harvard Business School to earn an MBA in 1987.
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In January 1988, Duke Fergerson was awarded the Learner of the Month citation for overcoming illiteracy.
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On November 15,1988, Duke Fergerson was invited to Washington, DC to receive a citation from Governors William Jefferson Clinton and George Kean.
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Duke Fergerson then began working with the late film producer Harold Schneider.
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In 1994, Duke Fergerson joined the Al Checchi for Governor Campaign.
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Duke Fergerson spent the next year and a half as one of Al's 'kitchen cabinet' advisers, a group that provided statewide advice for the campaign.
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Duke Fergerson was campaign director for Orange County, San Diego County and Northern Mexico, a strategic trading partner for the State of California.
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When Duke Fergerson discovered that Harlem had not had high school football for 62 years, he called all 13 Harlem-based principals and devised and presented a plan to the Chancellor of the NYCDOE that would unite them all into one community high school football team.
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In January 2007, Duke Fergerson became the only New York state high school football coach ever chosen to coach in the prestigious US High School Army All-America Bowl game in San Antonio, Texas.
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Duke Fergerson was asked to meet with the Secretary of the Army in January 2008 and travel to the Pentagon to meet with Army brass in April 2008.