![]() ![]() In a matter if a split second, everything changed for young Popkey. While they were both hormonally distracted for an instant Cliff’s buddy ran his industrial lawn mower over Cliff’s foot. The two were cutting the grass around a car sized boulder when a couple girls in string bikinis came their way. Less than two weeks after graduation, Cliff and a classmate were mowing the lawn at the Dearborn Country Club as part of the landscaping crew when everything changed. ![]() Grant wrote in the preface of his memoirs, “Man proposes and God disposes.” With all the options in the world before him, a football scholarship was the top choice of a strong boy on the edge of manhood. Athletic and bright, Popkey belonged to the football, debate and drama teams. His Father Robert was a machinist for the auto industry and his Mother Shirley worked even harder caring for a very full house.Īn aspiring draftsman for the Ford Motor Company, Cliff graduated from Edsel Ford High School in Dearborn, Michigan in 1973. He arrived as the fourth of his parents seven children. “It doesn’t matter if you fail little or fail big, they are both failure! So go all out and fail big, because who ever heard of someone wanting to succeed in a little way!” – American Action Adventure Author Chris KeysĬlifford Robert Popkey was born in Garden City Michigan on March 19, 1955. ![]()
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