You are right about Johnny Mills. We used to throw the football around some in back of my family business when he called on us weekly for a few years. He could also sling it pretty well, and he was probably close to 50 years old then. He told me that he played some qb in high school at Elizabethton.This is a fun question. I sat on the bench as a freshman and watched Steve Spurier and Lonnie Lowe play basketball. We beat them with three seconds on the clock when Wayne Phillips hit one from the deep corner for a walk off win.
Played against Johnny Mills in summer pickup at TA Dugger jr High, if he got a finger on he caught it, not blazing fast but Velcro hands
Ran track against John Ripitoe, Science Hill