President-elect Donald Trump has named a close ally as his ambassador to the Bahamas: former NFL legend and Georgia senatorial candidate Herschel Walker.
“Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump said in a Tuesday night statement.
“A successful businessman, philanthropist, former Heisman Trophy winner, and NFL great, Herschel has been a tireless advocate for youth sports,” he added.
“During my First Term, he served as Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.”
Walker has been associated with Trump since the earliest days of his professional playing career — and his political career has run through Trump’s team, as well.
After winning the Heisman Trophy and national championship as a junior at the University of Georgia, the star running back opted to sign professionally with the premier franchise in the rival United States Football League — which, unlike the NFL at the time, signed players who had not played four years in college — the New Jersey Generals, in 1983.
In 1984, the team was sold to Donald Trump, who added other stars to the Generals —