robert bruce bob adams born august 15 1946 in stockton california is a former professional american football tight end in the national football league and an official within the church of scientology he attended el camino high school during the 1960s and was encouraged by a coach at the college of san mateo to play football he played for a single season at the college during 1966 while participating in other sports at the school including trackandfield and basketball a former coach of the college of san mateo doug scovil recruited adams to the college of the pacific where he received a full scholarship to play football there by 1968 he was captain of the teams offense at the schoolhe was not drafted by the national football league and was signed as a free agent with the pittsburgh steelers where he played under coach chuck noll in 1973 while a member of the pittsburgh steelers adams became a scientologist he said applying scientology methodology helped his performance playing football after seven years with the national football league adams finished his procareer as a member of the atlanta falcons he subsequently took up other professions including owning a fitness center in redwood city california being a consultant for high tech companies and working as a teacherin 2004 adams served within the scientology organization as senior vice president of its association for better living and education able a nonprofit founded by scientology members in 1988 to supervise the secular programs narconon criminon the way to happiness and applied scholastics by 2006 he had become a media executive and vice president of the church of scientology and worked out of the organizations facilities in hollywood california he represented the church of scientology at the 2006 conference of the religion newswriters association in utah adams held the position of vice president of public affairs for the church of scientology international in 2009 and was a reverend within the organization he traveled to melbourne australia in december 2009 for the world religions conference he continued to serve as vice president of the church of scientology international in 2010 and was one of four officials listed as spokespersons for the church