Booker Reese, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetBooker Reese
American football player
Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1959
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Booker Reese
- Booker Reese (born September 20, 1959) is a former American football defensive end who played four seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Los Angeles Rams from 1982 to 1985 in the National Football League.
- Reese is considered to be the biggest draft bust in Buccaneers history.Reese played college football in Bethune-Cookman College and was drafted in the second round of the 1982 NFL Draft by the Buccaneers.
- The Buccaneers intended to draft him in the first round, but a broken communication resulted in their mistakenly drafting Sean Farrell.
- They were so convinced of his talent that they traded a future first round pick in the 1983 NFL Draft to get him, despite advance knowledge that 1983 would be a particularly strong draft class.
- Although highly talented, Reese had trouble making the mental adjustment to professional football.
- Frustration over his inability to excel, along with his unpreparedness for the NFL lifestyle, led to problems with alcohol and cocaine.
- Reese's best season in the NFL came in 1983.
- He played in all 16 games that season, scoring one sack and two interceptions.
- Reese only lasted two seasons with the Bucs before being traded to the Rams for a 12th round draft pick in 1984.
- He played eleven games with the Rams, who then sent him to rehab and released him.
- He signed with the San Francisco 49ers in 1985, but was released before the season after again failing a drug test.
- Ironically, the man that the Buccaneers drafted initially due to the communication error, Sean Farrell, would go on to have a productive NFL career that lasted a decade. Reese served two two-year sentences at Okaloosa Correctional Institution for cocaine possession and parole violation: one from 2002 to 2004, and another from 2005 to 2007.
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