Eugene bounced around the professional football world, starting with his hometown New Orleans Saints and finding his way to Canada and Germany. It wasn’t the Jets or Giants that brought him to the “Big Apple,” but rather a woman.
The ex-Grambling State quarterback stood just six feet tall in shoes, but weighed over 260 pounds, boasting a laser-accurate arm and a penchant for employing it. In 2005, Eugene broke the single-season record for passing touchdowns in Division I college football, before Hawaii’s Colt Brennan surpassed him a year later, albeit with more games but stronger competition.
But thankfully for aspiring gridiron stars across the five boroughs, he never went viral. Eugene bounced around the professional football world, starting with his hometown New Orleans Saints and finding his way to Canada on the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Germany on NFL Europe’s Berlin Thunder. It wasn’t the Jets or Giants that brought him to the “Big Apple,” but rather a woman—his daughter’s mother.
“Are you wearing the many hats that we wear?” he said. “Black coaches, we have to be uncle, we have to be brother, we have to be daddy. We have to be whatever we need to be to reach them. The white coach, are you doing the same thing? Are you stepping into that role to try to reach them like we do? I don’t think many of them are doing that.
“I’ve helped so many kids in the city, not just kids that go to school and play something—I’ve helped the number of kids that other schools get to college,” said Eugene. “Because [of] my HBCU roots, I’ve helped a lot of kids get to the HBCUs. Because somebody helped me when I was coming up, my father wasn’t around.
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