In The Field With The Farming Fords

SNELLVILLE, S.C. -- In the fall of 1981, a then-33-year-old DANNY FORD led the Clemson Tigers college football team to a perfect 12-0 season and the National Championship. He remains the youngest man ever to lead a program to the pinnacle of America's favorite sport. Flash forward 45 years. Ford is now 78 and farming land he acquired during his tenure at Clemson. This spring, he is lending his celebrity to his son DANNY LEE FORD II's bid to become South Carolina's next Commissioner Of Agriculture. At age 40, the younger Ford also is a farmer, now challenging a crowded field of candidates for a chance to shape the future of the Palmetto State's largest industry. The elder Ford has described his relationship with his son as "oil and water." Still, we caught up with father-and-son side by side on the campaign trail to talk farming -- and of course, a little football.