Burt Reynolds his spleen and injured his other knee in a bad car accident. These injuries hampered his abilities on the field, and after being beaten in coverage for the game-winning touchdown in a 7-0 loss to North Carolina State on October 12, 1957, he decided to give up football. Ending his college football career, Reynolds thought of becoming a police officer; however, his father suggested he finish college and become a parole officer. To keep up with his studies, he began taking classes at Palm Beach Junior College (PBJC) in neighboring Lake Park. In his first term at PBJC, he was
Burt Reynolds other two leads would be Barbra Streisand's husband and that tall, skinny guy who was in "The Dirty Dozen"." Tom Skerritt played the role and Reynolds instead went into "Skullduggery" (1970), shot in Jamaica. Reynolds joked that after making "those wonderful forgettable pictures... I suddenly realized I was as hot as Leo Gorcey." Reynolds starred in two TV films "Hunters Are for Killing" (1970) and "Run, Simon, Run" (1970). In "Hunters" his character was originally a Native American, but Reynolds requested this element be changed, feeling he had played it too many times already and it was not needed for