So I didn’t wanna go into professional sports right out of high school, ’cause I wanted to have the fun of playing in college sports, collegiate sports. But by then, when I messed my leg up playing football, I had a hard time. I did go back and did a little work with the Yankees then, but I knew I couldn’t really play professional baseball. So I switched everything over to the outdoors and zoology and enjoying the natural world. (clears throat) I had a cheetah on the farm in Georgia. Oh, wait a minute. Let me back up a little bit, because I remember I had that cheetah yeah, when Marlin Perkins was at the Lincoln Park Zoo and we started Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom in 1962. It went on the air early 63.
