Background
Sammy Green was born in Bradenton, Florida in 1954.
Sammy Green was born in Bradenton, Florida in 1954.
He attended Fort Meade High School in Fort Meade, Florida, where he played high school football for the Fort Meade Miners.
He played college football for the University of Florida, and received All-American honors. A second-round pick in the 1976 NFL Draft, Green played professionally for the Seattle Seahawks and the Houston Oilers of the NFL.
Green accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Doug Dickey"s Florida Gators football team from 1972 to 1975. He was a team captain, a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) selection, and a consensus first-team All-American in 1975.
Green was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2003.
In one of a series of articles published by The Gainesville Sun in 2006, the newspaper"s sports editors ranked him as the Number. 51 all-time greatest Gator among the top 100 players from the first century of the Florida football team
The Seattle Seahawks selected Green in the second round (twenty-ninth pick overall) in the 1976 NFL Draft, and he played for the Seahawks for four seasons from 1976 to 1979. He had three interceptions during his time with the Seahawks, including one that he returned ninety-one yards for a touchdown in 1979, the longest in Seahawks history.
Green played his final NFL season for the Houston Oilers in 1980.
He played in sixty-two NFL games in his five-season career, starting in forty-four of them. Green completed his master"s degree at Iowa State University, and as of 2010, is working to complete a doctorate. He teaches English, humanities and composition at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
While a student at Florida, Green was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Theta Sigma Chapter).