Don Beebe on his NFL career with the Buffalo Bills, Winning a Super Bowl with Green Bay, and the Leon Lett FUMBLE

In The Front Row with Mike Vaccaro

Beebe grew up in Kaneville, IL playing baseball, basketball and football. In fact, he didn't like football until his senior year in high school after a coach convinced him football would be his sport. After graduating high school in 1983, Beebe spent the next six years in and out of several colleges before getting his break at Chadron State in Nebraska. Invited to the 1989 NFL Scouting combine in Indianapolis, Beebe (along with Deion Sanders) set a record running the 40-yard dash in 4.25 (it was a record that stood for 17 years). His speed helped him get drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 1989 where he would play for Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy and alongside Hall of Fame players like Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, James Lofton and Andre Reed. Beebe was a member of four Super Bowl teams with the Bills and shares memories of those setbacks including Scott Norwood's potential game-winning field goal that missed wide right in Super Bowl XXV and his incredible play in Super Bowl XXVII that stopped Leon Lett from scoring a touchdown. Beebe was a member of the inaugural Carolina Panthers before moving on to Green Bay where he helped the Packers win Super Bowl XXXI playing with Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. After a 9 year career that started with a touchdown on his first reception, Beebe would retire and eventually make his way into coaching on the high school and college levels where he's the current head coach at Aurora University in Illinois. Beebe tells us about his coaching mentors Levy and Mike Holmgren, his big family in Illinois and the book he wrote in 2012, "Six Rings from Nowhere", that may one day become a movie or series. He also shares stories of his faith and his son, Chad, who followed his dad into the NFL.