Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley
The first African-American mayor of Los Angeles, California, an office which he held from 1973 to 1993. He had the longest tenure of any mayor in the city's history before the city passed established term limits in 1990.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 December 1917
CityCalvert, TX
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The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.
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He's a very versatile guy. We use him all over the place. He wears a lot of different hats for us in that secondary.
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He has a real knack for coming up with balls. He's picked off some passes and he's excellent at reading quarterbacks. A lot of that is instinctive, but he's gotten better over time. He's a kid back there that surprises you with some of the breaks he gets on the ball.
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I think everybody believed in what we were doing and where we were headed, ... We still felt we had a pretty good future at Penn State. It's a very hard place to leave.
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keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.
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When you travel, people don't realize that you can only carry so many guys. He gives us an extra guy at a lot of different spots. He could go in and even play corner if we got in a real jam. He understands the schemes and everything we're doing so that's a real plus for us.