Kenny Gamble (American football)  Kenneth Patrick Gamble (born March 8, 1965) is a former American football running back who played for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League from 1988–1990. He was an All-American running back for Colgate University and won the first-ever Walter Payton Award as the best player in Division I-AA in 1987. Gamble was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. He attended Cushing Academy, a college preparatory school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts.