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Dockery played cornerback for the championship-winning 1969 New York Jets. But during his NFL career, Dockery says his Ivy League background created more problems than opportunities...
...People look at you as if you are somewhat of a misfit," Dockery says. "The places that I went, my Harvard degree was not an asset. It gave me an identity, but it was not necessarily something that was going to help me along with my career...
After the NFL, Dockery became a sports broadcaster at a New York TV station in 1976. During the course of a career that took him to CBS, NBC and then back to CBS, he covered college and professional football as well as the Tour de France and the Olympics. The basics of the profession came to him quickly, Dockery says, thanks to his academic background...
...looking for was an education," he says. " I didn't necessarily need that education to shape my career. I just needed it to shape me as an individual...
...Frank said his academic credentials ceased being relevant to his political career after this first victory...