Dean Albert Wink (born September 25, 1944) is an American politician and former football player who played parts of three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1966 to 1968.
[1] Wink signed as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1966 and made the team as a taxi squad player.
[4] After retiring from football, Wink returned to Yankton College, then moved to Arizona, where he became a rancher, before working for a Texas cattle company.
Wink and his wife Joan, whom he had married in 1966, returned to South Dakota in 1988.
Ten years later, Joan retired from the faculty of California State University.