DSU's Thompson calls it a career in Arena Football

He hoped to play for one season, but hung around for 13. He had never touched the ball on offense in his life, but finished as one of the leading rushers in league history. And he made his mark off the field, too.

"Not bad for a guy from little old Delaware State," Leroy Thompson said. "I never expected things to work out the way they did, and I never expected to have the career that I had. And now I'm ready for new challenges."

Thompson, an All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference player for the Hornets in the early 1990s, recently retired after 13 seasons in the Arena Football League. He spent the first nine seasons with the Albany (later Indiana) Firebirds, one season with the New Orleans VooDoo and the last three with the Columbus Destroyers.

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