He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, earning first-team All-American honors as a senior in 1984.
[1] Clark was selected by the Los Angeles Raiders in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL draft but chose to accept a $1 million contract offer from the USFL's Tampa Bay Bandits.
Spurrier and other Bandits insiders tried to get the contract voided, believing that owner John F. Bassett's judgment was impaired when he hammered out the deal.
Bassett was suffering from terminal brain cancer at the time, and Spurrier and others believed the unusually large contract was evidence that he was no longer of sound mind.
[3][4][5] Clark played in seven games with the Bandits during the USFL's final season, mostly as a nickel back and on special teams.
On August 4--the same day that the USFL suspended operations—federal judge Elizabeth Kovachevich placed a $159,980 lien on the franchise and ordered that the team's remaining assets, including everything from weight-lifting equipment to office furniture to uniforms to souvenirs and memorabilia from the team store, be confiscated to pay the debt.
This move effectively ended any chance of the Bandits returning to the field, though the league itself did not officially cease to exist until 1988.