John Didion

John Lawrence Didion (born October 24, 1947 in Woodland, California) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints from 1969 to 1974. He played college football at Oregon State University and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1969 NFL Draft.

From 1998 to 2010, Didion was the sheriff of Pacific County, Washington.

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or didion:

    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 21:4.

    The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)