Armegis O. Spearman is a former American football linebacker of the National Football League. Armegis grew up in Bruce, Mississippi and was a member of the Bruce High School Trojan Football Team, earning honors as a High School All-American. He played college football at the University of Mississippi where he was selected named to the Freshman All-SEC team in 1996. In both his junior and senior seasons, he earned All-SEC honors. After graduating with a B.A. in Business Administration, Spearman was invited to play in the Hula Bowl. However, he fell one vote short of being invited to the NFL Scouting Combine. Armegis Spearman says that his agent was contacted by several teams during the draft and was told continually that teams were considering drafting him, including the Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots in the third round. In the end, though, Spearman went undrafted. He received interest from 21 different teams. Spearman had been so impressed by his meetings with Cincinnati Bengals Linebacker coach Mark Duffner that he chose to sign with the Bengals on a two-year contract with a $10,000 signing bonus. [More at Wikipedia]

April 5th, 1978 in Oxford (Age 46)