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Originally Posted by cdcox
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amos
In 1967, Amos signed a free agent contract with the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. Coach Hank Stram told him, "you're not a football player, you're a man who is trying to play football." Amos approached Stram with a poem he wrote about a mythical creature that passes the door of all players who are cut from a team. He read it to the team and received a standing ovation from all the players and coaches. Amos said Stram pushed him in the direction of writing after he was released from training camp. He returned to the Continental League, where he played that year with the Victoria Steelers.
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There is a video on YouTube, from VLADTV, where he tells this story himself. It's much better than wiki entry.
In the video he says that he was cut from the Chiefs twice, and signed as a free agent with the Broncos, and was cut the next day.
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