Fleming was the victim of an
identity theft scam in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arthur Lee Trotter posed as Fleming and was arrested in Texas in 1980 for selling phony stock in NFL teams. Caught, Trotter conceded to police that he was not Fleming: he said he was actually former
Baltimore Colts star
John Mackey. Fleming and receiver
Roy Jefferson (b.1943) are cousins less than two years apart and grew up together in Compton. They played football at Compton High School and college football at Utah. Both on offense, the two were on opposing teams in
Super Bowl VII, Fleming on the
Dolphins and Jefferson on the
Redskins. ==References==