Wade Watts, was an African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist from Oklahoma, he has been cited as a mentor by which former congressman, an American politician from Oklahoma who was a college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League?
Wade Watts Wade Watts (23 September 1919 – 13 December 1998) was an African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist from Oklahoma. He served as the state president of the Oklahoma chapter of the NAACP for sixteen years, challenging the Ku Klux Klan through Christian love doctrine. He worked with Thurgood Marshall and developed a friendship with Martin Luther King during the American civil rights movement, and has been cited as a mentor by the current leader of the NAACP in Oklahoma, Miller Newman, and his nephew, former congressman, J. C. Watts.
Wade Wilson (American football) Charles Wade Wilson (born February 1, 1959) is an American football coach and former quarterback who played for the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders in a seventeen-year career from 1981 to 1998 in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently the quarterbacks coach for the Dallas Cowboys, a position he has held since 2007. He played college football for Texas A&M University-Commerce (formerly East Texas State), where he was an NAIA All-American Quarterback and led the Lions to the NAIA national semifinals during the 1980 season.