Tommie Belton Smiley, Jr. (February 18, 1944 – October 10, 2012) was a former
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player. Tom Smiley caught the first pass in
Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. The c ...
history, a 2-yard reception from quarterback
Dewey Warren
Dewey Warren (born May 7, 1945) is a former American football quarterback for the University of Tennessee football team and the American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals. Warren was nicknamed "The Swamp Rat" due to his early years growin ...
on September 6, 1968.
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1944 births
2012 deaths
Sportspeople from Port Arthur, Texas
Players of American football from Texas
American football running backs
Cincinnati Bengals players
Denver Broncos (AFL) players
Houston Oilers players
Lamar Cardinals football players
American Football League players
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