News4JAX sat down with Jacksonville native and former UF and Atlanta Falcons football player Harmon Wages in his old hometown to discuss his book about his remarkable life.
Hamon Wages played football in Jacksonville and went on to play for teams at the University of Florida and with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.He was also a Florida Gator alongside legend Steve Spurrier and he went on to become a record-setting Atlanta Falcon.Now, Jacksonville’s own Harmon Wages, 77, is also a published author.Wages and I have known each other for 46 years. We met when we were both covering the 1977 Florida-Georgia game.
Fully retired, Wages now lives in South Carolina. You can tell from his shirt he is still a Falcons fan. He last played for the team in 1973, his only team for his five NFL seasons. Part of his happiness comes from a photo he shared that shows the people who are special to him now: Travis, Carli, Eli, Tyler and Chase.“His mother, the bio mother, told Travis on her deathbed that who he thought was his daddy was not. It was me,” Wages said. “So Travis called me up, told me the situation, and he and I have become friends along with his three boys.”
Wages, who was the bench-warming backup quarterback behind Spurrier, said the kick almost didn’t happen. “Gatorade, Dr. Cade, they were going to market it in Northeast Florida, that’s Jax., so they needed somebody from Northeast Florida. There I was,” he said. “That’s the only reason I got it, because I wasn’t playing, was because I was behind Spurrier, so they wanted somebody who people in Northeast Florida would recognize, and people would recognize me from Lee High School and from some publicity I’d gotten so boom, that’s what happened. Right place, right time. Thank you, Lord.
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