Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gordon David King (born February 3, 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the New York Jets. He played college football at Stanford University and was drafted in the first round (tenth overall) of the 1978 NFL Draft. American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football.