Country music is full of amateur athletes who dreamed of playing in the NFL, MLB or NHL. Here are 11 who gave up a professional athlete's paycheck for the dream of making country music.
Darius Rucker has teamed up with Neal McCoy for a new version of the 1971 Charley Pride smash hit "Kiss an Angel Good Morning". The song is part of a tribute album to Charley Pride that McCoy is putting out called PRIDE: A Tribute to Country Charley Pride, due out September 24.