Background
Newton was born in Orlando, Florida in 1963.
Newton was born in Orlando, Florida in 1963.
He attended Jones High School in Orlando, and played for the Jones Tigers high school football team
Newton played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL.
Newton accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Charley Pell and coach Galen Hall"s Florida Gators football teams from 1981 to 1984. As a senior in 1984, Newton was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) selection and a second-team All-American. The Minnesota Vikings selected Newton in the sixth round (164th pick overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft, and he played for the Vikings for five seasons from 1985 to 1989.
He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1990 and 1991, and the Kansas City Chiefs in 1992 and 1993.
In his eight-season NFL career, Newton played in a total of 108 regular season games, and started forty-seven of them. He is the younger brother of Nate Newton, who also played in the NFL.
