Sunday, January 31, 2016

Kemp Time

Jeff Kemp is on the left.
At the Friends of Dartmouth Football Golf Outing last spring for some reason I volunteered to shoot  photos of each group on the tee. If nothing else, it gave me a chance to meet some old friends as well as speak with Jeff Kemp '81, who played 10 years in the NFL with the Rams, 49ers, Seahawks and Eagles.

Although the college game has changed radically with the Nintendo passing numbers being put up, the 2,385 career passing yards Kemp had in two years had him third on the Dartmouth chart when he graduated in 1981. He also was a fine runner for Joe Yukica's Big Green.

On the Sunday before the Iowa caucus it feels like the perfect time to share something from Kemp, a man of strong faith as well the son of former NFL quarterback and onetime vice presidential nominee.

As the author of a newish book called Facing the Blitz Kemp handed me me this promotional card:


He does a regular video blog for Facing the Blitz. Here's one of his entries: