Professional Football Player. Born Wayne Harrison Walker, he played the positions of linebacker and placekicker for the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1972. He played football collegiately at the University of Idaho, where as a senior, he was a team captain and was selected by the United Press as a second-team center on the All-Pacific Coast team. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1958 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions and played for them for the next fifteen seasons. He immediately made an impact on the team, returning an interception and fumble for touchdowns in his rookie season. He played in 200 games for the Detroit Lions during his fifteen year career, a franchise record that stood until 2004, when it was surpassed by kicker Jason Hanson. He was mainly a linebacker, but also served as a placekicker for several seasons. He also scored 345 points, which ranked third in Lions history at the time of his retirement (currently ninth). As a placekicker, he converted 53 of 131 field goal attempts for a 40.5% success rate, the lowest field goal percentage in NFL history. On extra points, he converted 172 of 175 attempts for a 98.3% success rate. He was a three time Pro Bowl selection (1963, 1964, 1965) and a three time All Pro selection (1964, 1965, 1966). After retiring in 1972, he went into broadcasting, first as a part-time sports anchor at WJBK-TV Channel 2 in Detroit and then as a sports director at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, California. He was also a sports commentator for the San Francisco 49ers' radio broadcasts for over twenty years and a commentator on Oakland Athletics baseball broadcasts from 1976 to 1980 and 1985. He was also a color commentator on regional NFL games for several years on CBS. He retired from broadcasting in 1999 and settled in his hometown of Boise, Idaho. He was selected to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Lions 75th Anniversary team in 2008. He passed away from complications related to Parkinson's disease.