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Now a coach, Leon Johnson and parents reflect on football career


From his time as a Freedom High four-sport standout, to being drafted as a teenager by the San Francisco Giants, to playing a key part in some of UNC’s glory years on the gridiron and lining up for coach Bill Parcells with the New York Jets as part of an eight-year NFL career, made a lasting impression on everyone in Burke County who calls themselves a sports fan. (Morganton News Herald)

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