It is rare to leave a mark in one industry, rarer still to distinguish oneself in two, as North Carolina native Jerry Richardson managed to do in his oft-exciting, occasionally controversial, and wildly successful 86 years of life.
Born in Spring Hope, North Carolina, and raised in Fayetteville, Richardson’s passion for football — and, later, for business — took him and his family out of poverty and into realms that few of us can even fathom. After becoming a standout wide receiver at Wofford College in South Carolina in the mid-1950s, Richardson was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1958 but chose to return to Wofford for his final year of college eligibility.
Although Richardson’s restaurant management was thriving, he never relinquished his passion for the sport that had enabled him to buy into Hardee’s in the first place. When the NFL was looking to add two expansion teams to the league in the early ’90s, Richardson successfully lobbied the league to have one of those teams be located in the growing metropolis of Charlotte.
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