- Booker Reese
NFL player
Name=Booker Reese
DateOfBirth=Birth date and age|1959|9|20|mf=y
Birthplace=Jacksonville, Florida
DateofDeath=
Position=DE
College=Bethune-Cookman
DraftedYear=1982
DraftedRound=2 / Pick 32
DatabaseFootball=REESEBOO01
PFR=
ProBowls=
years=1982-1984
1984-1985
teams=Tampa Bay Buccaneers Los Angeles Rams Booker Reese (born
September 20 ,1959 inJacksonville, Florida ) is a formerAmerican Football defensive end who played four seasons for theTampa Bay Buccaneers and theLos Angeles Rams from 1982 to 1985 in theNational Football League . Reese is considered as the biggest bust in Buccanners history. ref|bustReese played
college football inBethune-Cookman College and was drafted in the second round of the1982 NFL Draft by the Buccaneers. The Bucanneers traded a future first round pick in the1983 NFL Draft to get him. Reese best season in the NFL came in 1983 in which he played all 16 games that season, making one sack and twointerception s. Resse only lasted two seasons with the Bucs before getting traded to the Rams for a 12th round draft pick in 1984 and played eleven more games with the Rams before retiring because of drug problems.Reese was convicted for
cocaine possession in 1999 and is currently behind bars atOkaloosa Correctional Institution in Florida.References
# [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/news/2001/02/12/sayitaintso_buccaneers/ Say it ain't so Buccaneers] Retrieved March 18, 2006
External links
* [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=REESEBOO01]
* [http://www.bucpower.com/feature-reese.html A recent story about Reese]
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