Career
He lived in two children's shelters, spending most of his time at one in Westchester County, learning culinary arts and playing football. After high school, he started hitchhiking to California but ended up in New Mexico. He attended New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where he played football.
He was a Number.
1 draft pick for the Detroit Lions in the 1970s. He moved on to the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears, playing a total of eight years. He played seven seasons for the Detroit Lions, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Chicago Bears.
After retiring from football in the early 1980s, Williams started a real estate development company in New Mexico.
Then the savings and loan crisis wiped out about 90 percent of his holdings, he said. The restaurant has grown from eight employees to 20 today.
