With their second-round pick in the 1962 AFL draft, the Oakland Raiders selected a running back and kicker out of the University of Washington named George Fleming. Fleming signed a $15,000 contract (with a $3,500 bonus) with the Raiders, but played only a single season in the AFL despite being productive in the Oakland backfield and on special teams. He sat out the 1962 season due to a salary dispute, and then moved north to play a few seasons in the Canadian Football League.
Once he left football for good, Fleming returned to the Seattle area and embarked upon a career in politics. He was elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1968, and became the first African-American to be elected to the Washington State Senate just two years later.
In 2007, Dan Raley wrote a piece called, Where Are They Now? George Fleming, UW football legend, for the Seattle P.I.
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Mr. Fleming made 15.000 played for the love of the game and the unity of the team,then, became a senator. Today’s players, make more than I do in 60 lifetimes and carry guns! wow, what a difference!
I never learned which year the Flemings family fled Texas for LA, but know it was near the time Brady Keys family did, as their playing days at ELAC were a year apart. Big Ben Davidson and Fleming were teammates both at ELAC and Washington.
In Winnipeg George played for Bud Grant and with Canadian Ian Monteith,imports Dick Thornton, Art Perkins and Leo Lewis.
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