A look at former Buc QB Bob Hewko's life after leaving college After I graduated, I signed with Tampa Bay in 1983. The coach was John McKay. McKay was great and I loved working with him but after going through Coach Shanahan’s system, our offense scheme was like taking a step ten years back. It was almost like a high school offense. I’d hand the ball off to James Wilder and that was it. But McKay himself was great. I liked him. I bounced around for four years. Sports Illustrated once wrote an article about my making 14 stops in four years. I can remember the big ones, Dallas and the New York Jets. Dallas brought me in because they were supposed to trade Danny White and I was going to be the backup to Hogeboom and Steve Pelluer. I was there about six months. But the trade never went through and I was gone. In between Dallas and New York, there were weekends in Los Angeles, weekends in Cleveland, weekends everywhere. In 1987, I left football. My first job was working for Caesar’s Marketing World, the parent company for Caesar’s Palace and all their properties. I got the job by accident. Every year my brother and I would go home for the holidays and we’d go down to New Jersey for a couple of days to the shore. A friend of mine was working at Caesar's in Atlantic City. He told me Caesar's was looking to open an office in the southeast. 'Would you be interested?' I didn't even know what the job entailed. But I knew I wasn't going to play football any more, so I said, 'Yes, why not?' So the next day I met with the vice- president for about ten minutes. I knew nothing about the business, but for some reason he liked me. He had the president of Caesar's fly down to Florida. The next day he asked me, 'What's it gonna take for you to live comfortably in Florida?' This was my first job so I didn't know what to tell him. Half a million? A hundred thousand? I didn't know I called Cris Collinsworth, and Cris was laughing. I ended up saying a number, and he accepted it. I was based in Tampa and ran the state of Florida for them. I worked on a lot of their major events in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. I worked on a lot of their major events, their fights. and a lot of their entertainment at Caesar's Palace. I had a ball. I had that job until Scott Brantley and I started our radio show in Tampa in 1989. Brantley had the show and asked me to join him. We did a morning talk show from 6 to 9 for about three years. Then we switched to the afternoon drive time for a couple of years. It was sports comedy. It wasn't supposed to be that, but that's what it ended up being. Then a friend of mine, one of the owners of Hooters, asked me what I thought of Arena Football. The Tampa Bay Storm was doing really well. He said, 'What do you think about getting a team in Miami?' I said, 'That would be great.' A week later we bought the rights to the Sacramento franchise, and I became the general manager of the Miami arena football team. Don Strock was our first coach, and the next year I hired Jimmy Dunn. When our main owner decided to sell the team, I had to fire Jimmy and bring in a coach for peanuts. After the third year we sold it. Looking back, selling the team wasn't a great move, because an Arena franchise is now worth $10 million. I now have an entertainment company. I work a lot doing sports events out in Las Vegas with the Harrah's properties, and the Atlantis and the Bahamas. I do a lot with Jim Kelly and a company called Pro Access, which represents Barry Bonds and Barry Sanders. I want to stay involved in sports. I always told Mike Mularkey that if he ever became head coach, he would hire me as his quarterback coach. The way he's coaching the Steelers, that might happen pretty quick. Would I want to leave Miami Beach to go to Pittsburgh? I probably would. You never know. This article comes from the book "Gators" by Peter Golenbeck.