William Komlo Signal calling is a skill that runs through the family. He played college football for the University of Maryland in the ‘50s, and two of his sons, Jeff at the University of Delaware and Drew at the University of Maryland before transferring to Catholic University, played college football. Jeff made it to the pros, playing for the Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The elder Komlo, 74, was recruited out of western Pennsylvania, played on the Maryland team that lost an Orange Bowl to Nebraska. A racehorse owner since the ‘60s, he learned bits and pieces about training while his horses were stabled next to those of legendary trainer Frank Whitely.

Komlo, like his son-in-law Mike, is also an insurance executive, partnered in an insurance firm with his son Drew and his other daughter, Wendy.

While his son and two of his children are partners in the insurance business, his daughter Debbie and he are partnered in the mornings. “She starts her day there,” Mike said of his wife. “She walks the horses, she hoses them down, and she gets to spend time with her dad.”