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Saturday, February 19, 2022
Fred Dryer—The Frank Sinatra of the NFL


When Fred Dryer became established as an actor he demanded some changes be made in his hit series "Hunter" because he was not pleased with a couple of aspects. Among other things he refused to say the line "It works for me". It was a tagline that the character 'Rick Hunter' said every show, that is until Dryer said, "enough" and it ended. He made sure the character wore jeans, not suit pants because in Dryer's view that was the nature of the character he was playing.

Dryer did acting his way. That was a theme throughout Dryer's football career.

At Lawndale High School in Los Angeles, he was a star athlete, who actually preferred baseball to football, and was recruited by USC and other major schools, but for varying reasons, he began his collegiate career at El Camino Community College where he was voted a Junior College All-American in 1966.

Dryer chose to finish college at San Diego State, under famed head coach Don Coryell, and there he started on a team that won two national championships (1967-68) and again Dryer was an All-American— this time a Little All-America team in his senior season since at the time the school was 1-AA.