re: Favorite Asian football player from each SEC team

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Yup, Peter Kim was as Asian as they come.

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I've never even heard of this guy before, but now I can't stop reading about him.

Here's an article about him back in 2006

The Hawaii-Alabama Connection

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“He was a great man,” Kim says. “I played in the last game he ever coached (the Liberty Bowl in December 1982). The tradition of Alabama football is so strong. We had practice field visits from (then former) President Ford and phone calls from (then current) President Reagan.”

Kim went on to become an all-star kicker at Alabama and then played briefly in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

More than two decades later, Kim is an extremely successful Honolulu businessman. He was recently listed as one of the country’s top young millionaires, and says he “runs 25 restaurants with our products in 46 stores.”

He’s also very much in touch with his ‘Bama roots.

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