[1] Reese played college football for the Bethune–Cookman Wildcats and was selected in the second round of the 1982 NFL draft by the Buccaneers.
This ill-advised transaction was consummated in spite of what was by then practically common knowledge that 1983 would be a particularly strong draft class.
Frustration over his inability to excel, along with his unpreparedness for the NFL lifestyle, led to problems with alcohol and cocaine.
[3] Ironically, the man that the Buccaneers drafted initially due to the communication error, Sean Farrell, would go on to have a productive NFL career that lasted a decade.
Reese served two two-year sentences at Okaloosa Correctional Institution for cocaine possession and parole violation: one from 2002 to 2004, and another from 2005 to 2007.