His birth name was Tamerlane Fizel Kennedy Jr., but his mother called him "Little (Abraham) Lincoln", referring to their shared birthday (February 12).
[3] Kennedy attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where he played for the Huskies under head coach Don James.
As a senior, he was a consensus first-team All-American in 1992, and started in his third consecutive Rose Bowl; a year earlier, the Huskies went undefeated and shared the national championship (with Miami).
[6][7] He started at left guard throughout his rookie season in 1993, but lost the job the following year to veteran free agent Dave Richards, out of UCLA.
In November 1999, during a Monday night game against the Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium,[8] Kennedy went after a fan who hit him in the face with a snowball.
In 2013, he joined the Oakland Raiders radio broadcast team at Compass Media Networks; he was promoted to color commentator in 2018, partnered with play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger.
In his record-setting effort, he consumed 11 of the restaurant's signature link sausages on French rolls and a large Coca-Cola within one hour.