“What an amazing person Lin-J was,” remembers Jay Gruden, who coached Shell with the Orlando Predators. “He was the type of player you couldn’t get mad at. He just always made you feel happy.”
Says a tearful Dan Pearson, the former media relations director of the Predators: “I hope Lin-J realized how much he meant to so many people.”
He played football at Edgewater High School and went on to become a Hall of Fame athlete at Jacksonville University and an All-Star in the Canadian Football League.