Richmond McDavid Flowers, Jr. ) is a former American football player and track star. He played safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Tennessee and was drafted in the second round of the 1969 NFL Draft. Flowers participated in track and field primarily as a hurdler, specializing in the 110-meter high hurdles. After capturing the NCAA championship in the event in 1968, he was a leading contender to win the gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics before suffering a hamstring injury just prior to the Olympic trials. He set several records during his career. Flowers was the son of Richmond Flowers, Sr., an anti-segregationist who served a tumultuous term as Alabama's attorney general in the 1960s. 

June 13th, 1947 in Dothan (Age 77)