Colin Scotts was the first Australia

Australia

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n to receive an American football

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 scholarship in the United States

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 and be drafted into the NFL. He became the second Australian to play in the NFL after Colin Ridgeway

Colin Ridgeway

Colin Edwin Ridgway was an American football punter distinguished as being the first Australian to play in the National Football League.-Track and Field:...

, an Australian rules football

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 convert.

Growing up in Palm Beach

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, Sydney

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, Scotts first played rugby union

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 for The Scots College

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 and was a member of the 1981 Australian Schoolboys Rugby team. He later moved to Hawaii

Hawaii

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,on a full football scholarship after being spotted by an assistant coach during a rugby game. After being drafted in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft

1987 NFL Draft

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, he forged a long career in the NFL where he played as a defensive end

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 and tight end

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 for the St. Louis Cardinals

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 and was traded to the Houston Oilers http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=4572.

Today, Colin is a Healthy Active Ambassador for the Australian government.