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California
California (pronounced
i/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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Cleveland
Cleveland (
/ˈkliːvlənd/) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location on the lake shore, as well as being connected to numerous canals and railroad lines. Cleveland's economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and biomedical. Cleveland is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As of the 2010 Census, the city proper had a total population of 396,815 and was the 45th largest city in the United States, and the second largest city in Ohio. It is the center of Greater Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2011 ranked as the 28th largest in the United States with 2,068,283 people. Cleveland is part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2011 had a population of 2,871,084, and ranked as the country's 15th largest.
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Downing Stadium
Downing Stadium, previously known as Triborough Stadium and Randall's Island Stadium, was a 22,000-seat stadium in New York City. It was renamed Downing Stadium in 1955 after John J. Downing, a director at the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Built on Randall's Island in the East River as a WPA project, 15,000 attendees witnessed Jesse Owens compete at Randall's Island Stadium in the Olympic Trials on July 11, 1936, the opening night of the new facility. Downing Stadium also hosted the Women's Olympic Trials in 1964. It was the site of an international soccer friendly in which England defeated the USA 10-0 on May 27, 1964.
Triborough Stadium served as one of two home stadia of the football New York Yankees of the second AFL (along with Yankee Stadium) in 1936 and 1937; about four decades later, Downing Stadium became the home of the New York Stars of the WFL in 1974, and the New York Cosmos of the NASL in 1975 (for years after the Cosmos played there, the words "COSMOS SOCCER" remained on the stadium to be seen from the nearby highway viaduct on the Triborough Bridge).
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Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to 1971. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's National Football League (NFL) franchise. The stadium also served as the home football field for the University of Pittsburgh "Pitt" Panthers from 1909 to 1924. The stadium was named after British general John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War, and named the city in 1758.
The US$1 million ($25.9 million today) project was initiated by Pittsburgh Pirates' owner Barney Dreyfuss, with the goal of replacing his franchise's then-current home, Exposition Park. The stadium was made of concrete and steel (one of the first of its kind) in order to increase its lifespan. The Pirates opened Forbes Field on June 30, 1909 against Chicago Cubs, and would play the final game also against the Cubs on June 28, 1970. The field itself featured a large playing surface, with the batting cage placed in the deepest part of center field during games. Seating was altered multiple times throughout the stadium's life; at times fans were permitted to sit on the grass in the outfield during overflow crowds. The Pirates won three World Series while at Forbes Field and the other original tenant, the Pittsburgh Panthers football team had five undefeated seasons before moving in 1924.
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Fordham University
Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St. John's College, placed in the care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become an independent institution under a lay Board of Trustees, which describes the University as "in the Jesuit tradition."
Fordham is composed of four undergraduate colleges and six graduate schools. Enrollment at Fordham includes approximately 8,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students spread over three campuses in New York State: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and Westchester in West Harrison. In addition, the University operates a foreign center in London Fordham awards bachelor's (BA, BFA, and BS), master's, and doctoral degrees. It also offers a five-year BA/BS engineering program in cooperation with Columbia University and Case Western Reserve University and a BFA program in dance in partnership with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Gilmore Stadium
Gilmore Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium in Los Angeles, California. It was opened in May 1934 and demolished in 1952, when the land was used to build CBS Television City. The stadium held 18,000. It was located next to Gilmore Field. The stadium was located west of Curson Avenue, surrounded by Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax Avenue and Third Street.
The stadium was built by Earl Gilmore, son of Arthur F. Gilmore and president of A. F. Gilmore Oil, a California-based petroleum company which was developed after Arthur struck oil on the family property. [1] The area was rich in petroleum, which was the source of the "tar" in the nearby La Brea Tar Pits.
It was used for American football games at both the professional and collegiate level. The stadium was the home of the Los Angeles Bulldogs, the first professional football team in Los Angeles. The Bulldogs competed as an independent team before joining the second American Football League in 1937 and winning its championship with a perfect 8-0-0 record, the first professional football team to win its championship with an unblemished record. After the collapse of the league, the Bulldogs returned to being an independent team before joining the American Professional Football Association in 1939. The Bulldogs then became charter members of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1940 and played in Gilmore Stadium until 1948, when the team moved to Long Beach, California, for its (and the league's) final season.
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KLOU
KLOU (103.3 FM) is a radio station with an oldies format in St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in hits from the 1960s and 1970s.
The station began broadcasting on February 12, 1962 as KMOX-FM, by playing an easy listening/standards format. The focus then shifted to an adult contemporary style of music by the 1970s. In the summer of 1981, KMOX-FM began gradually evolving its format toward Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) and adding more and more current hits to its rotation; by August 1982, the transition was complete, and the station's call letters were changed to KHTR. KHTR, like sister stations WHTT in Boston and KKHR in Los Angeles, was modeled after programmer Mike Joseph's successful Hot Hits format, although unlike early Hot Hits stations, KHTR also played recurrent hits and oldies. KHTR was an almost immediate success, quickly becoming the #2 station in the demographic group 12 years old and over in the market, behind only sister KMOX-AM. (1)
The oldies arrived on November 4, 1988, when KHTR changed to its current call letters of KLOU, with the station playing hits from the 1950s, 1960s and early-mid 1970s. Gradually, the 50s hits would disappear from the station's playlist, and more hits from the later 1970s and 1980s soon followed. KLOU was the official radio station for the NFL's St. Louis Rams from 2000 until it was replaced by all-sports newcomer WXOS in 2009.
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KPVR
KPVR is a radio station in Bowling Green, Missouri and serves the western suburbs of St. Louis. KPVR airs a Contemporary Christian music format and is owned by Gateway Creative Broadcasting.
Coordinates: 39°15′47″N 91°04′08″W / 39.263°N 91.069°W / 39.263; -91.069
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KRZK
KRZK (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country format. Licensed to Branson, Missouri, USA, it serves the Springfield, Missouri, area. The station is currently owned by Komc-Krzk.
Coordinates: 36°43′52″N 93°10′01″W / 36.731°N 93.167°W / 36.731; -93.167
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London Olympians
The London Olympians is a British amateur American football team, based in Crystal Palace, London. They are the United Kingdom's most successful amateur American football club. The team currently plays in the Premiership of the BAFA Community Leagues
The Olympians were formed in 1984 as the Streatham Olympians and were founding members of the first ever national American Football league in Britain. The Olympians hold the record for the longest winning streak in senior kitted British American Football. The Olympians have five age-defined teams within their umbrella, including a youth level and the senior side.
Between 1995 and 2005, the Olympians were known as the London O's. This was a result of the previous owner retaining the rights to the Olympian name when he decided to withdraw from American football.
In 2009 the team returned to the BAFA league after a year in hiatus, playing in Division 2 East. They were promoted from Division 2 at the end of the 2010 season, defeating the Manchester Titans in the Division 2 Bowl game 35-13. They played and won all 15 of their games in 2010, conceding 60 points and scoring 553.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (
i/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".
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Missouri
Missouri (i/mɨˈzʊəri/) (nickname The Show Me State) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of America and has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of the Presidential elections of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the "western-most Eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city". Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were both in Missouri. The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.
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Ohio
Ohio (i/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th most extensive, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.
The name "Ohio" originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo’, meaning "great river". The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes".
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 18 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections.
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Shaw Stadium
Shaw Stadium is a high school stadium in East Cleveland, Ohio. In 1938, the NFL's Cleveland Rams played there and finished the season with a 4-7 record.
Currently, the Shaw High School Cardinals football team plays its home games there.
Coordinates: 41°32′27″N 81°34′59″W / 41.54083°N 81.58306°W / 41.54083; -81.58306
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WHCO
WHCO 1230 AM is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Sparta, Illinois, the station serves Southwest Illinois, and far South-East Suburban St. Louis. WHCO is currently owned by Hirsch Communication Engineering Corp.
WHCO began in 1955 as a Country Music station. WHCO held Top 40 and Adult Contemporary formats before switching to a News-Talk format in 1998 carrying local programming as well as nationally syndicated hosts such as G. Gordon Liddy, Larry King, and Jim Bohannon. In 2008 WHCO returned to the Country Music format.
Coordinates: 38°07′25″N 89°43′20″W / 38.12361°N 89.72222°W / 38.12361; -89.72222
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WINI
WINI 1420 AM is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format. Licensed to Murphysboro, Illinois, the station is currently owned by Southern Illinois Radio Group .
WINI carries a variety of local programming, as well as nationally syndicated shows such as Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura, John Gibson, Jim Bohannon, and Phil Hendrie.
Coordinates: 37°45′30″N 89°14′02″W / 37.75833°N 89.23389°W / 37.75833; -89.23389
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WSJD
WSJD (100.5 FM, "True Oldies 100.5") is a radio station serving the Evansville, Indiana area with an oldies format. It broadcasts on FM frequency 100.5 MHz and is under self ownership. Majority of the programming is featured from ABC Radio's "The True Oldies Channel" satellite feed. The station broadcasts Major League Baseball games as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.
Prior to 2008, it was airing a Hot AC format known as "Star 100.5"
Coordinates: 38°23′24″N 87°34′23″W / 38.390°N 87.573°W / 38.390; -87.573
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WTAD
WTAD 930 AM is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format. Licensed to Quincy, Illinois, the station is currently owned by STARadio.
WTAD carries a variety of local programming, as well as nationally syndicated shows such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Dave Ramsey, and Coast to Coast AM.
Coordinates: 39°53′31″N 91°25′25″W / 39.89194°N 91.42361°W / 39.89194; -91.42361
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Adam Timmerman
Adam Larry Timmerman (born August 14, 1971 in Cherokee, Iowa) is a former American football guard in the National Football League. He played for the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Rams between 1995 and 2006. He played college football at South Dakota State.
A Second-team All-Pro selection in 2001, Timmerman went to four Super Bowls in his career, winning Super Bowl XXXI with the Packers and Super Bowl XXXIV with the Rams.
Timmerman attended Washington High School in Cherokee, Iowa, and starred in football, basketball, and track. In football, he won All-Conference honors, and was an All-State Honorable Mention honoree. In track, he finished eighth in the state track meet on the 110 high hurdles as a senior. Adam Timmerman graduated from Washington High School in Cherokee, Iowa, in 1989.
Timmerman attended South Dakota State University. While there, he won two Division II All-America honors, was a two-time First-team Academic All-Conference pick, and as a senior, won the "Jim Langer Award", which is given to the nation's top Division II lineman.
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Al Saunders
Al Saunders (born February 1, 1947) an American football coach, currently employed by the Oakland Raiders.
Born in London, England, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1960, and is one of four foreign-born coaches in the NFL. In college played defensive back and wide receiver for the Spartans of San Jose State University (SJSU) from 1966–1968 where he was a three-year starter, team captain, and an Academic All-American. Saunders also joined Theta Chi fraternity while at SJSU.
In the 1970s, Al Saunders joined the coaching staff at USC and San Diego State University (SDSU), whose SDSU Aztecs were then under the control of Head Coach Don Coryell. Saunders would go with Coryell to NFL when Coryell became the head coach of the San Diego Chargers.
From 1983–1985, Saunders was the wide receivers coach for the Chargers. He became the assistant head coach for the 1986 season, and was tapped as the Chargers' head coach when Coryell resigned during the middle of the season. Saunders would eventually hold the head coaching position from 1986-1988.
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Albie Reisz
Albie Reisz was a professional American football player who played quarterback for three seasons for the Cleveland Rams/Los Angeles Rams.
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Aldo Donelli
Aldo "Buff" Teo Donelli (July 22, 1907 – August 9, 1994) was an American football and soccer player. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
In 1925, Donelli played for Morgan F.C., a western Pennsylvania soccer team. At some point, he moved to Cleveland Slavia, playing for them at least the winter of 1929-1930. In January and February 1934, he is listed with Curry Silver Tops and then Heidelberg SC from February to April 1936. He also played for Castle Shannon in March 1938.
Donelli was selected to the United States 1934 FIFA World Cup team. In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009). Three days later in the same stadium, Donelli scored the lone U.S. goal in its 7-1 first-round elimination loss to Italy. It would be the last one any American scored on Italian turf for another 58 years. He was inducted into U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1954.
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Amp Lee
Anthonia Wayne "Amp" Lee (born October 1, 1971) is an American football coach and former professional running back who played nine seasons in the National Football League. He is currently the running backs coach for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.
Lee was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 1992 NFL Draft. A 5'11", 200-lb. running back from Florida State University, Lee played in nine NFL seasons from 1992 to 2000. His best year as a professional came during the 1995 season as a member of the Minnesota Vikings when he caught 71 receptions. In 1997, Lee was named team MVP for the St. Louis Rams.
Lee caught Joe Montana's final touchdown pass for the 49ers in 1992.
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Andy McCollum
Andrew Jon McCollum (born June 2, 1970 in Akron, Ohio) is an American football center who is currently a Free Agent. He was signed by the Milwaukee Mustangs as a street free agent in 1994. He played college football at Toledo.
McCollum has also played for the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.
McCollum attended Revere High School in Richfield, Ohio.
McCollum was a center for the New Orleans Saints from 1994 to 1999.
In his first year with the Rams (1999), McCollum was a reserve offensive lineman of the winning team of Super Bowl XXXIV. McCollum took over from Mike Gruttadauria as the starting center for the St. Louis Rams in his second year with that team (2000), the first under first-time NFL head coach Mike Martz, their offensive coordinator of the previous year. Thanks to a strong offensive line of McCollum, guards Tom Nutten and Adam Timmerman, and tackles Orlando Pace and Ryan Tucker, the Rams won the NFC west division with a 10-6 won-lost record and 540 points scored (33.8 points per game, 1st in the NFL), but lost a wild card game of the 2000-01 NFL playoffs to the New Orleans Saints, despite Kurt Warner's 365 yards in the air, the offensive line allowing 2 sacks for 15 yards. The following year, the Rams' record was a powerful 14-2 and 503 points scored (31.4 points per game, 1st in the NFL), winning the west division title again. In the 2001-02 NFL playoffs with the same offensive line except for Rod Jones (offensive lineman) replacing Tucker at right tackle, St. Louis won the dividional round game against the Green Bay Packers and the NFC championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles with over 200 net passing yards in each game. However, the Rams lost Super Bowl XXXVI to the New England Patriots, despite 337 net passing yards. In 2002, Warner was injured for most of the year, replaced by Marc Bulger, less effective as the Rams missed the playoffs with a record of 7-9.
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Andy Robustelli
Andrew Richard "Andy" Robustelli (December 6, 1925 – May 31, 2011) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants. He played college football at Arnold College and was drafted in the nineteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. Robustelli was a seven-time First-team All-pro selection and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Robustelli was born on December 6, 1925 in Stamford, Connecticut, to Lucien Robustelli, an Italian-American and his wife Catherine Robustelli. He attended Stamford High School, where he excelled in football and baseball. At age 18, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS William C. Cole in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he attended Arnold College, in Milford, Connecticut, where he played both football and baseball. After college, he was drafted in the NFL by the Los Angeles Rams in the nineteenth round of the 1951 NFL Draft. In June, 1951, he was offered a tryout with the New York Giants baseball club. The Giants offered Robustelli a $400 contract to play with their minor league affiliate Knoxville Smokies.
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Art Lewis
Arthur Everett "Pappy" Lewis (February 9, 1911 – June 13, 1962) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a lineman at Ohio University from 1932 to 1935 and then in the National Football League with the New York Giants in 1936 and the Cleveland Rams from 1938 to 1939. Lewis also served as the interim head coach for the Rams for the last eight games of the 1938 season. He was the head football coach at Washington and Lee University from 1946 to 1948 and at West Virginia University from 1950 to 1959, compiling a career college football record of 69–55–2. At West Virginia, Lewis led the Mountaineers to five Southern Conference titles and an appearance in the 1954 Sugar Bowl.
Born February 18, 1911 in Pomeroy, Ohio, Lewis was a standout tackle at Middleport High School in Middleport, Ohio. At the age of 21, he enrolled at Ohio University, where he played tackle from 1932 to 1935 and earned All-American honors his senior year. He capped off his college football career appearing in the 1935 East-West Shrine Game. It was in college that he got his nickname "Pappy".
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Austin Davis
Austin Davis (born June 2, 1989) is the starting quarterback for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles college football team. A walk-on to the program, Davis redshirted the 2007 season and became the starter a year later. He ended the year with a combined total of 15 school records for both game and single-season marks and led the Golden Eagles to a bowl game victory in the 2008 New Orleans Bowl. He was selected to the Freshman All-Conference USA team and earned a Freshman All-American honorable mention by CollegeFootballNews.com for 2008.
Davis attended West Lauderdale High School where he became the most successful quarterback in the school's history. He was a four-year letterwinner, received all-area honors, was named best offensive back in the district and played in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star game.
Davis was born on June 2, 1989 in Ringgold, Georgia to Greg and Lori Davis. His cousin Jason Smith plays baseball for the Houston Astros organization and his brother, Bo, plays baseball for the San Diego Padres organization and helped lead the Southern Miss Golden Eagles to its first College World Series appearance. Davis attended West Lauderdale High School in Collinsville, Mississippi, where he was coached by Stan McCain. He would become the winningest quarterback in the school's history. As a senior, Davis threw for 1,100;yards passing with 15&;touchdowns, rushed for 600 yards with six touchdowns and recorded a 67 percent completion rating. He was a four-year letterwinner and was named team MVP. During his career, Davis received all-area honors, was named best offensive back in the district and played in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star game.He married longtime girlfriend Heather the weekend before the NFL draft.
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Austin Pettis
Austin Pettis (born May 7, 1988) is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 3rd round, 78th overall, in the 2011 NFL Draft.
Pettis attended Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, California. He had 72 receptions for 1,079 yards and 13 touchdowns as a senior. He was named First-team All-league and All-county and Third-team All-state and was also named to the All-Southern Section Team while helping team to state championship. As a sophomore he was named Second-team All-league as well as being named top sophomore on team. He lettered in football three times, basketball three times, and track and field twice.
Pettis finished his Boise State career as the school's all-time leader in both receptions (229) and touchdown catches (39). His 2,838 receiving yards rank second on the all-time list. He was a four-year starter in the Broncos' high-powered offense. Pettis set career highs with 71 receptions and 951 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior and earned First-team All-Western Athletic Conference honors for the second consecutive year.
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Ben Roethlisberger
Benjamin Todd "Ben" Roethlisberger (pronounced /ˈrɒθlɨsbɜrɡər/; born March 2, 1982), nicknamed Big Ben, is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Steelers in the first round (11th overall) in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Miami University.
Roethlisberger earned the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2004 and his first Pro Bowl selection in 2007. He became the youngest Super Bowl-winning quarterback in NFL history, helping lead the Steelers, in his second professional season, to a 21–10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL at the age of 23. Roethlisberger led the Steelers to a second Super Bowl title in four seasons as they defeated the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII, 27–23, after completing a game-winning touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes in the final 35 seconds.
Roethlisberger has been one of the most efficient passers in NFL history. He currently ranks 10th all-time in NFL passer rating (92.9), 5th in yards per attempt (8.06), and 11th in completion percentage (63.24%) among quarterbacks with a minimum of 1,500 career attempts. He has the fourth highest career winning percentage (.710) as a starter in the regular season among quarterbacks with a minimum of 100 starts.
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Benjamin Guidugli
Benjamin Guidugli (born October 22, 1987 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky) is an American football tight end who is currently a member of the St. Louis Rams. He was signed by the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football for the University of Cincinnati.
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Billy Devaney
William Joseph Peter Francis "Billy" Devaney (born March 7, 1955) is a professional American football executive. He was the general manager for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League from 2008 to 2011. He formerly was an assistant to the general manager with the Atlanta Falcons. He replaced the long time Rams president of football operations, Jay Zygmunt, at the end of the 2008 season.
Devaney began his career serving as the director of pro personnel under Bobby Beathard during his time with the San Diego Chargers from 1990 to 2000. He also worked a brief stint with the San Francisco 49ers for three seasons. Devaney then worked with the CBS pregame show for two years. In 2006 Devaney began working as an assistant to Rich McKay, president and former general manager of the Atlanta Falcons from 2006 to early 2008. In February 2008 the St. Louis Rams hired him as vice president of pro personnel to help conduct their 2008 draft. He was promoted to general manager of the Rams on December 24, 2008. He made his first major hire as the Rams' general manager on January 17, 2009, when the Rams announced that Steve Spagnuolo would be its new head coach. Since the hiring he had revamped the entire front office of the Rams. He was fired at the end of the 2011 season after a 10-38 record as GM.
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Bob Emerick
Bob Emerick was an American football player who spent two years in the National Football League.
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Bob Snyder
Bob Snyder (February 6, 1913 – January 4, 2001) was a football player and coach who spent more than three decades in the sport, including his most prominent position as head coach of the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams.
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Snyder played three years of football at Ohio University, seeing action on both sides of the ball. During that trio of seasons that began in 1933, Snyder was off the field for just four minutes, winning small college All-America honors as a senior.
He moved on to the fledgling American Football League in 1936, where he played for the Pittsburgh Americans before shifting to the NFL the following year with the Cleveland Rams. Playing quarterback (as well as serving as the team's placekicker) for two seasons, Snyder finished the 1938 NFL season with 631 yards passing, while also showing excellent speed and mobility.
On February 13, 1939, Snyder was traded to the Chicago Bears and used at running back. After contributing throughout the campaign, he suffered a deep personal tragedy when his two-week-old son, Robert Calvin, died on November 30.
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Bob Waterfield
Robert Stanton "Bob" Waterfield (July 26, 1920 – March 25, 1983) was an American football player, a hall of fame quarterback in the National Football League.
Born in Elmira, New York, Waterfield grew up in southern California in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. He attended Van Nuys High School, in Van Nuys and went on to play college football for UCLA. He led the Bruins to the Pacific Coast Conference football championship in 1942 and a berth in the 1943 Rose Bowl against the University of Georgia. The game was scoreless into the fourth quarter until Waterfield's punt was blocked for a safety. Georgia added a touchdown to post a 9-0 win.
Waterfield entered the U.S. Army in 1943 and while in the service he was selected with the 42nd overall pick of the 1944 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams. He was discharged from the military due to a knee injury and returned college and played for UCLA in 1944.
His rookie year in professional football was in 1945 and he started immediately. Waterfield was taken in quickly by fans, becoming the first ever rookie to win the league’s Most Valuable Player and unanimous All-NFL choice. He ended the season with a win in the NFL Championship game, where he threw touchdown passes of 37 and 44 yards as the Rams beat the Washington Redskins 15-14. After the season, he signed a three-year contract for $20,000 per year, which made him the highest-paid player in pro football.
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Bradley Fletcher
Bradley Fletcher (born June 25, 1986) is an American football cornerback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He played college football at Iowa.
At Liberty High School, in Youngstown, Ohio, Fletcher was First-team All-Conference, All-District, and All-State as a senior. when he had 74 tackles, 43 solo tackles, two interceptions and six pass break-ups on defense and on offense, as a running back, rushed 143 times for 815 yards 12 touchdowns as a senior. As a junior he was named First-team All-Conference and honorable mention All-State. He recorded 207 tackles, 81 solo tackles, 13 pass break-ups and four interceptions in prep career along with had 17 receptions for 314 yards. Fletcher was also an All-State basketball player.
As a senior at Iowa in 2008 Fletcher recorded 60 tackles, including 42 solo stops and 18 assists and led team with 10 pass break-ups while intercepting three passes. Fletcher reshirted as a freshman in 2004 and saw action as a backup in 2005, recording one tackle in the ten games he played. He was again a backup in 2006 playing in 13 games with 4 starts. he had 38 tackes (24 solo) and forced a fumble. As a junior in 2007 he played the same role as 2006, a backup cornerback. In 2007 he played in 11 games, starting four, recording 52 tackles (30 solo) and intercepted two passes, forced a fumble and recovered one as well while breaking up three passes.
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Brandon Gibson
Brandon Lewis Gibson (born August 13, 1987) is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football and college basketball at Washington State.
Gibson grew up in Puyallup, Washington and graduated from Governor John R. Rogers High School in 2005.
Gibson finished his college career at Washington State as the school's all-time leading receiver with 2,756 yards and 182 receptions along with 17 touchdowns. He also played for the Washington State basketball team during the 2005-06 season, but decided to focus his attention on football.
In 2007, as a junior, Gibson started 11 games and was named to Phil Steele's Third-Team All-America. Also he was voted First-team All-Pac-10 honors. He set the WSU single-season record for receiving yards in a season with 1,180 on 67 receptions. He also led the team with nine touchdowns, a tie for third most touchdowns in a single season by a WSU Cougar. In 2006 he played in 12 games with no starts. He led the Cougars with 731 yards and was second on the squad in both receptions (49) and touchdowns (four). As a freshman he earned a varsity letter after playing in 10 of the Cougars' 11 games during his debut season. Gibson ended the season with 9 catches for 172 yards (19.2 yard average) and 2 touchdowns.
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Brian Quick
Brian Rumeal Quick (born June 5, 1989) is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams. He played college football at Appalachian State. He is considered the seventh best wide receiver prospect for the 2012 NFL Draft.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Quick attended Ridge View High School, where he was a basketball standout until switching to football only in his senior year. He was unrated as a football prospect by Rivals.com.
At the 2012 NFL Draft, Quick was selected in the second round, 33rd overall by the St. Louis Rams. He is the highest draft pick ever from Appalachian State.
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Brian Schottenheimer
Brian Schottenheimer (born October 16, 1973) is an American football coach. He is the current offensive coordinator of the St.Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). Before becoming an offensive coordinator, he was the quarterback coach for the San Diego Chargers. His father, Marty Schottenheimer, is formerly the head coach of the San Diego Chargers and his uncle, Kurt Schottenheimer, was the defensive backs coach for the Green Bay Packers until the 2009 season.
Schottenheimer was born in Denver, Colorado. He prepped at Blue Valley High School in Stilwell, Kansas, where he quarterbacked his team to the Kansas Class 5A state football championship as a senior in 1991, while earning first-team all-state and honorable mention All-American honors. He threw for 2,586 yards and 26 touchdowns in his career.
Schottenheimer first attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where he was a member of the Kansas Jayhawks football team for a single season in 1992. He transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, sat out a year as required by NCAA transfer rules, and then played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1994 to 1996. Schottenheimer served as backup to starting quarterback Danny Wuerffel, and was a member of the Gators' 1996 Bowl Alliance national championship team. During his college playing career, he completed twenty-five of thirty-eight passes (65.8%) for 290 yards and two touchdowns, and also ran for a touchdown.
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Brit Miller
Brit William Miller (born September 15, 1986) is an American football fullback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Illinois.
Miller has also played for the San Francisco 49ers.
Miller played college football at Illinois playing at linebacker.
Miller was signed as undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers in 2009 after he went undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft but was waived later.
Miller was signed by the San Francisco 49ers and was switched to fullback with the 49ers He was promoted to the active roster on December 1, 2009. He was waived on September 3, 2010, during final cuts.
Miller was signed to the St. Louis Rams' practice squad on September 15, 2010.
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Brody Eldridge
Brody Eldridge is an American football Tight End for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma. He played high school football at Prairie View High School in La Cygne, Kansas.
Eldridge attended Prairie View High School in La Cygne, Kansas where he played a number of different positions including tight end, linebacker and defensive end. During his junior year he totaled 130 tackles and eight sacks and also played tight end where he recorded 35 receptions and four touchdowns. For this he garnered All-State Kansas honours. During his senior season, Eldridge broke his ankle in the second game and did not play the rest of the season. Despite this, he was rated the No. 43 strongside defensive end in country by Rivals.com and No. 16 player in the Midlands by Scout.com. He was eventually recruited by the University of Oklahoma.
Eldridge redshirted the 2005 season but as a Freshman in 2006 he converted to tight end and did most of his work in three-tight end sets or as a blocking back. He was characterized by coaches as one of the top blockers on the team and had three receptions on the season, including a long of 10 yards against Oregon State.
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Bryan Mattison
Bryan Mattison (born May 15, 1984 in Mishawaka, Indiana) is an American football guard for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Iowa.
He has also been a member of the Baltimore Ravens. Mattison is the son of current University of Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Mattison.
While at Penn High School, Mattison was named one of the top 50 players in the State of Indiana by the Indiana Football Coaches Association and was also an Associated Press first team all-state selection. As a senior, he collected 70 tackles, seven sacks and 16 tackles for loss en route to leading his team to a Class 5-A sectional championship. He was a two-year starter and also led his rugby union team to a state championship. He played in the 2003 U.S. Army All-American Bowl alongside fellow Iowa Hawkeye Drew Tate.
After redshirting in 2003, Mattison played in all 12 games for the Hawkeyes in 2004. In limited playing time, he collected five tackles, one tackle for loss and one pass breakup.
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Bud Cooper
William Gordon Cooper (April 14, 1913 - August 11, 1998) played college football at Penn State. After college in 1936 he became a fullback in the National Football League for the Cleveland Rams, who the played in the second American Football League. When the Rams moved into the NFL in 1937, and Cooper went with them. Even though the NFL confederation gave the membership to the same team owner, this NFL franchise officially became a detach entity because only four players of the team joined the NFL that was newly launched. No personnel of the team joined the NFL league. The four players were Mike Sebastian, Stan Pincura, Harry Mattos and Bud Cooper.
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Cameron Spikes
Cameron Spikes (born November 6, 1976 in Madisonville, Texas) is a former American football guard of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M.
At Texas A&M Spikes was a starting tackle in 1997 and moved to guard in 1998
The Rams drafted Spikes in the 5th round of the 1999 NFL Draft, the 145th overall pick. he played in 19 games for the Rams from 1999-2001.
Spikes played 12 games with five starts in 2002.
In 2003 Spikes won a starting job on the Arizona Cardinals, playing in and starting 16 games in 2003 and playing in 16 games (with 9 starts) in 2004.
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Carl Brumbaugh
Carl Lowry Brumbaugh (September 22, 1906 – October 24, 1969) was an American college and professional football player who was a quarterback and halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons in the 1930s. Brumbaugh played college football for Ohio State University and the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Rams and Brooklyn Dodgers of the NFL.
Brumbaugh was born in West Milton, Ohio in 1906, and attended West Milton High School.
After graduating from high school, he attended Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and then the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and the Florida Gators football team, respectively. He played for the Gators in 1927 and 1928, and Brumbaugh, Rainey Cawthon, Clyde Crabtree and Royce Goodbread were members of the 1928 Gators' "Phantom Four" backfield that helped the team set a new national record of 336 points scored in a season. The Gators finished the 1928 season 8–1, losing only to the Tennessee Volunteers by a single point, 13–12. Brumbaugh was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."
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Carl Hairston
Carl Blake Hairston (born December 15, 1952 in Martinsville, Virginia) is a former professional American football player and is currently the defensive line coach for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. Hairston has played in one Super Bowl and coached in another during his 30 seasons in the National Football League. Among his 15 years in the league since the end of his playing career, the daunting Hairston has spent 11 seasons as a defensive line coach. He joined the Green Bay Packers from Kansas City, where he spent seven years (1995–1996 and 2001–2005), after sandwiching a four-year term as St. Louis Rams defensive line coach (1997–2000) between his two stints with the Chiefs.
Originally a seventh-round selection (191st overall) by Vermeil's Eagles in 1976, Hairston preceded Reggie White on the Eagles' line (1976–1983), then spent six years in Cleveland (1984–1989) and one final campaign with the Cardinals (1990). In 224 games (184 starts), he posted 94 sacks among 1,141 tackles. He started for the Eagles at defensive end in Super Bowl XV against the Oakland Raiders, one of his 15 postseason contests played.
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Carroll Rosenbloom
Carroll Rosenbloom (March 5, 1907 – April 2, 1979) was an American entrepreneur and former owner of two professional football teams, the Baltimore Colts and the Los Angeles Rams.
During his stewardship of both franchises, Rosenbloom amassed the best ownership winning percentage in league history (.660), a total regular season record of 226 wins, 116 losses and 8 ties and 3 NFL championships.
Rosenbloom has been described as the NFL’s first modern owner and the first players’ owner. Rosenbloom was part of the NFL inner circle that negotiated the League’s network TV contracts with NBC and CBS and the NFL/AFL merger, both which contributed to professional football becoming both profitable and the most watched spectator sport in the United States.
Rosenbloom was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 5, 1907 to Anna and Solomon Rosenbloom. He was the eighth of nine children, raised in a Jewish family. His father, an immigrant from Russian Poland, started a successful work-clothing manufacturing company.
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Chad Lewis
Chad Wayne Lewis (born October 5, 1971) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams.
Lewis grew up in Orem, Utah and played football at Orem High School. During High School Chad worked at Riverside Country Club. On March 30, 1986, Chad earned Boy Scouts of America's highest rank the Eagle Scout Award. Before attending college, Lewis served as an LDS missionary for two years in Taichung, Taiwan where he learned to speak Mandarin.
After walking on at Brigham Young University, Lewis finished his collegiate career with 111 receptions for 1,376 yards, and ten touchdowns. As a junior, he was an All-WAC first-team choice, and a UPI All-American honorable mention.
Lewis signed as an undrafted free agent for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1997. After playing 2½ seasons with the Eagles he was signed by the St. Louis Rams for only one season. Lewis won a Super Bowl title with the Rams in 1999 (Super Bowl XXXIV over the Tennessee Titans). Lewis was re-signed by the Eagles and caught the game clinching touchdown pass in the 2005 NFC Championship game. However, during this reception, Lewis suffered a serious foot injury that kept him out of the Super Bowl XXXIX loss to the New England Patriots.
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Charlie Clemons
Charlie Fitzgerald Clemons (born July 4, 1972 in Griffin, Georgia) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was signed by the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent in 1997. He played college football at Georgia.
Clemons also played for the New Orleans Saints and Houston Texans. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV. He is the uncle of Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Clemons.
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Charlie Toogood
Charles Wayne "Charlie" Toogood (July 16, 1927 – February 22, 1997) was a professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. After playing college football at Nebraska, Toogood was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 3rd round (35th overall) of the 1951 NFL Draft. He played seven seasons for the Rams (1951–1956) and the Chicago Cardinals (1957).
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Chase Reynolds
Chase Reynolds (born October 22, 1987 in Drummond, Montana) is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as a undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Montana.
Reynolds was one of the most prolific running backs in the state of Montana for his years spent at Drummond High School. During his four years at Drummond, he set a Montana prep record with 5,261 career rushing yards, and scoring 114 touchdowns in his 44-game career. He also averaged 10.1 yards per carry throughout his high school career. He was a four-time All-State selection, three-time MVP of the team, and a four year letterer. His football team won three straight Class “C” championships, going a perfect 35-0 under Jim Oberweiser.
Aside from his football stardom, Reynolds also was a four year letterer in basketball, and track. He was also an all-conference pick in basketball, and a three time pick in track.
Reynolds committed to play for Bobby Hauck and his Montana Grizzlies in 2006 being red shirted for his freshmen season.
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Chip Rosenbloom
Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom, the son of Carroll Rosenbloom and Georgia Frontiere, is part owner of the St. Louis Rams alongside his sister Lucia Rodriguez, which they inherited from their mother. He is a producer and writer of several films.
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Chris Givens
Chris Givens (born December 6, 1989) is an American football wide receiver with the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. Givens played college football at Wake Forest University from 2009 to 2011. He totaled 629 receiving yards as a redshirt freshman in 2009 and 514 as a redshirt sophomore in 2010. In July 2011, he was placed on the watchlist for the Fred Biletnikoff Award. After catching six passes for 101 yards in Wake Forest's October 2011 win over Florida State, Givens was named the Offensive Receiver of the Week by the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second consecutive week. In the first seven games of the 2011 season, Givens had 46 receptions for 866 yards and eight touchdowns. As of October 23, 2011, Givens' 886 receiving yards during the 2011 season ranked fifth among NCAA Division I FBS players.
He attended Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas, where he was regarded as a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, and was a teammate of Patrick Witt.
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Chris Long
Christopher Howard Long (born March 28, 1985) is an American football defensive end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Rams second overall in the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia.
Long was born in Santa Monica, California. He attended St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia. As a senior in 2003 he was in on 91 tackles, 23 tackles for a loss, and 15 sacks helping his team to an undefeated record and the state private-school championship. “He was a big gangly kid who had yet to grow into his body,” said John Blake, the St. Anne’s-Belfield coach. “But he jumped in with both feet. When he played tackle, he would drive kids 10 or 15 yards down the field, like he was steering a car.”
Long had the rare distinction of having his jersey retired at St. Anne's-Belfield School. He was given a 4-star ranking for college recruiting from Rivals.com, a service that rated him the sixth-best defensive end in the prep ranks. He played in the 2004 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
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Chuck Cecil
Charles Douglas "Chuck" Cecil (born November 8, 1964), is the defensive secondary coach of the NFL's St. Louis Rams. He is also a former NFL Pro Bowl safety.
Cecil was born in Red Bluff, California. He grew up in Hanford, CA. He graduated from Helix High School in La Mesa, California where he was a standout player on a defense which set a school record for fewest points allowed per game and won a state title. At 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) and 150 lb (68 kg) (at the time), Cecil was considered too small to be a collegiate star and thus was not offered a scholarship out of high school. As Jym Davis' protege he thrived in the safety position while Jim and Foster Ridpath continued to lead Bobcat Country to countless wins and beautiful highlight films.
He attended the University of Arizona where he walked-on for the Arizona Wildcats football team. He proved the recruiters wrong by eventually earning consensus All-America and Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year honors after his nine-interception senior season. When Cecil left Arizona, he held the Pac-10 record for career interceptions, with 21 (Lamont Thompson later broke the mark with 24), and set the Wildcats' school single-game record (and tied the Pac-10 record) with four interceptions against Stanford in 1987.
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Chuck Cherundolo
Charles James "Chuck" Cherundolo, Jr. (born August 8, 1916) is a former American football player and coach. He played center and linebacker for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Cleveland Rams, Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
Cherundolo played college football at Penn State, where he was a voted a team captain in 1936. He was named All-America at Penn State. He went on to play ten seasons in the NFL.
He he was hired by the Steelers as an assistant coach upon the end of his playing career. He coached with the Steelers through 1961. He coached a total of 22 years in the NFL with four teams.
Cherundolo was selected to two NFL All-Star Teams during his playing career. He was named second-team All-NFL in three seasons.
In 2007, as part of the team's 75th anniversary commemoration, the Steelers named him as the center on their Legends team. The team represents the best players in the franchise's history through 1970.
Cherundolo married Margaret Whitehead; the couple had two children, Patricia and John. Both his son and grandson played football at the Division I level. As of May 2011, he is the fifth-oldest living professional football player.
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Chuck Knox
Charles Robert "Chuck" Knox (born April 27, 1932) is a former American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He is best remembered as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams, the Seattle Seahawks, the Buffalo Bills, and the Los Angeles Rams, serving two separate stints with the latter team over more than two decades.
Knox was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Whenever Knox felt something was common sense, he would say it was "eighth-grade Sewickley."
The son of a steel worker who had emigrated from Ireland and a Scottish-born mother, Knox developed into a 190-pound tackle at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, playing on both sides of the ball and serving as co-captain of the 1953 unit, the first undefeated team in school history. Also competing in track, Knox graduated in 1954.
Knox then served as an assistant at Juniata that fall. He stayed in the Keystone State the following year as an assistant coach at Tyrone High School, then began the first of three years as head coach at Ellwood City High School in 1956. During his first year at Ellwood, Knox had just 18 players, but by his final year, 85 players were on the squad.
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Clark Shaughnessy
Clark Daniel Shaughnessy (March 6, 1892 – May 15, 1970) was an American football coach and innovator. He is sometimes called the "father of the T formation", although that system had previously been used as early as the 1880s. Shaughnessy did, however, modernize the obsolescent T formation to make it once again relevant in the sport. He employed his innovations most famously on offense, but on the defensive side of the ball as well, and he earned a reputation as a ceaseless experimenter.
Shaughnessy held head coaching positions at Tulane University, Loyola University New Orleans, the University of Chicago, Stanford University, the University of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Hawaii, and in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams. Shaughnessy also served in advisory capacities with the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins.
He reached the height of his success in 1940, in his first season at Stanford, where he led the Indians to an undefeated season that culminated with a Rose Bowl victory. That year, he also helped prepare the Chicago Bears for the 1940 NFL Championship Game, in which they routed Washington, 73–0. Shaughnessy's successes showcased the effectiveness of the T formation and encouraged its widespread adoption. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Shaughnessy also coached college basketball at Tulane University. He played college football at the University of Minnesota.
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Clifton Crosby
Clifton Marcel Crosby (born September 17, 1974 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is a former professional American football player who played defensive back for four seasons for the St. Louis Rams and the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League.
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Clyde Simmons
Clyde Simmons, Jr. (born August 4, 1964 in Lane, South Carolina) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1986–1993), Arizona Cardinals (1994–1995), Jacksonville Jaguars (1996–1997), Cincinnati Bengals (1998), and the Chicago Bears (1999–2000). He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 1991 and 1992. He led the NFL with 19 sacks in 1992 and finished his career 11th all time on the NFL sack list, with 121.5.
Simmons returned an interception for a touchdown against Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills in the 1996 NFL Playoffs.
He graduated from Western Carolina University. He played in the 1983 National Championship game.
Simmons worked for a mortgage company and spent some time as a probation officer. In 2010, he accepted an offer from Rex Ryan as a fellowship coach with the New York Jets.
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Cortland Finnegan
Cortland Temujin Finnegan (born February 2, 1984) is an American football cornerback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football for Samford University.
Finnegan attended Milton High School in Milton, Florida, where he starred as safety and tailback, earning second-team All-State as a senior in 2001. He caught 22 passes for 403 yards, and also averaged 3.4 yards per rush and scored 3 touchdowns rushing. On defense, he recorded 65 tackles.
During his sophomore year, Finnegan was named first-team All-OVC, third-team All-OVC as returner, third-team All-American by Sports Network and earned Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors, while starting every game. Finnegan totaled team and career-high 108 tackles, three tackles for loss, career-high three interceptions, eight passes defensed and two fumble recoveries, and he also returned 21 kickoffs for 577 yards (27.5 avg.) and one touchdown.
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Cory Harkey
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Craig Dahl
Craig Dahl (born June 17, 1985 in Mankato, Minnesota) is an American football safety for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at North Dakota State.
Dahl earned a Super Bowl ring with the Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
Dahl was a First-team All-state, All-conference and All-city for Mankato East High School. He ran for 3,398 yards and passed for 1,769 yards as a quarterback over his final two years and scored 57 touchdowns. He quarterbacked the team to a runner up finish at the state tournament his junior year. He slso competed in basketball and track & field (as a High jumper and long jumper). He holds many football records for the high school as well as many track records. (see below)
He Holds the following records in track at Mankato East High School. 38.84 in 300 Hurdles Long Jump Triple Jump
As a sophomore he finished 10th at the state meet in Long Jump
As a Junior he hurdled/jumped at the state meet finishing with the following times and places. 4th in the 110 hurdles running 14.85 3rd in Long Jump with a jump of 22-07.25
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Damon Wetzel
Damon "Buzz" Wetzel (November 7, 1910 – October 1985) was a fullback for the Chicago Bears and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was also the first head coach of the Cleveland Rams when they played in the American Football League.
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Dan Dierdorf
Daniel Lee "Dan" Dierdorf (born June 29, 1949) is a former American football player and current television sportscaster. He played 13 NFL seasons and has worked for ABC and CBS as a color analyst since retiring from football.
Born in Canton, Ohio, Dierdorf played football at Glenwood High School in Canton (now GlenOak High School), then the University of Michigan before being drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the 1971 NFL Draft.
At Michigan, Dan was a consensus All-American in 1970 and assisted the team to a 25–6 record in his 3 years as a starter. The Wolverines were Big Ten Champions in 1969. Dierdorf made all-conference in 1969 and 1970. He was chosen for the East-West Shrine Game and Hula Bowl and for the 1971 College All-Star Game. In 2000, Dierdorf was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. While in college, Dierdorf became a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Dierdorf began his career as a guard and left tackle before settling in as a starter at right tackle in 1974. In 1982 he moved to center and was the starter in that season and became a back-up in his final year, 1983.
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Dan Towler
"Deacon" Dan Towler (March 6, 1928 in Donora, Pennsylvania – August 1, 2001 in Pasadena, California) was a National Football League running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1950 through 1955. He was the NFL leading rusher in 1952. He graduated from Washington & Jefferson College.
After retiring from football, Towler was named pastor of the Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church in Pasadena, California; he was also a chaplain at California State University at Los Angeles and president of the Los Angeles County Board of Education.
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Danario Alexander
Danario Alexander (born August 7, 1988 in Marlin, Texas) is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. While considered by some to be a prime wide receiver prospect for the 2010 NFL Draft, Alexander was not drafted. On August 22, 2010, St. Louis Rams signed Alexander and he was promoted to the active roster on October 11.
Alexander earned honorable mention All-State and First-Team All-District honors as a senior wide receiver for Marlin High School in 2005 after catching 49 passes for 850 yards and 9 TDs. He was named Second-Team Super Cen-Tex in 2005, as well He was an honorable mention All-District pick as a junior in 2004. Alexander was as excellent all-around athlete who was a First-team All-District performer in baseball and was also the district champion in the long jump (best of 23'10") and triple jump (best of 45'10") in 2005.
As a true freshman in 2006, Alexander played in all 13 games and finished with 15 receptions for 251 yards and a touchdown. As a sophomore in 2007 he missed three games due to an injury to his left wrist. He finished the season starting two of 10 games, recording 37 receptions for 417 yards and two touchdowns. As a junior in 2008 he played 10 of 13 games starting one and finished with 26 receptions for 329 yards and five touchdowns. As a senior, he started all 13 games (including the 2009 Texas Bowl), and finished with 113 receptions for an NCAA best 1,781 yards and 14 touchdowns, averaging 15.8 yards per reception and 137 yards per game. He was named a 2009 Sports Illustrated first team All American.
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Danny Amendola
Daniel Amendola (born November 2, 1985) is an American football wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Texas Tech.
Amendola has also been a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Amendola attended The Woodlands High School in The Woodlands, Texas, under coach Weldon Willig. He completed his high school career by leading his team to its first ever Texas State championship game. Although they lost to North Shore High School, Amendola finished his senior season with 1,045 receiving yards, 129 rushing yards, and 8 touchdowns.
Amendola finished his college career at Texas Tech with 204 receptions for 2,246 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also returned 116 punts for 1,283 yards and one TD, an 11.06 yards per return average ranking Amendola third all-time in school history in punt returns and yardage, behind only Wes Welker and Tyrone Thurman. Amendola's best year was his senior year, in which he was overshadowed by teammate Michael Crabtree, but still recorded 109 catches for 1,245 yards and 6 TDs.
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Darell Scott
Darell Scott (born March 15, 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American football defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at Clemson.
Scott was a three-year starter at Ridge View High School in Columbia, South Carolina where he had 242 career tackles, 31 tackles for loss, seven sacks, 35 quarterback pressures, four caused fumbles, six recovered fumbles, and one defensive touchdown. He was named team defensive MVP after his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons. As a senior he had 101 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, and a 90-percent grade as a lineman on offense. Scott had 70 tackles, five tackles for loss, three caused fumbles, and three recovered fumbles as a junior and had 71 tackles and 13 tackles for loss as a sophomore. After his senior year he was a Shrine Bowl selection
Scott started his final 38 games, appearing in 50 contests while participating in a total of 1,501 plays recording 161 tackles (103 solo) with nine sacks, 18.5 stops for losses and 36 quarterback pressures and had one interception, two pass deflections, two fumble recoveries and a forced fumble.
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Darian Stewart
Darian Stewart (born August 4, 1988 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American football safety for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Rams as an undrafted free agent after the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina.
He played high school football at Lee High School in Huntsville, Alabama.Stwart was a three-star prospect according to Rivals.com and was rated as the No. 35 safety in America and was on the Rivals.com Alabama top 25 2006 list. Stewart was selected as the Huntsville Times Super All-Metro Most Valuable Player as a senior and was named finalist for the 5A Back of the Year Award. He also was all-city and all-metro honoree in 2004 and 2005.
Stewart enrolled at South Carolina in 2006 and immediately saw action in 12 out of 13 games, both on defense and on special teams. He was a 2009 East-West Shrine Invite. In 2008 he played in 13 games with 13 starts and made 64 tackes (46 solo) and none for losses, and had 2 sacks and 8 pass breakups and forced two fumbles while recovering two. He earned the Joe Morrison Award as the Defensive Player of the Spring. In 2007 he played in 12 games wit h10 starts. He made 68 tackles (56 solo) and three were for losses. He intercepted 2 passes and broke up 7 and recovered 2 fumbles and forced 2 fumbles. In 2006 his numbers were as follows: 2006: 12 GP; 0 GS; 5 Sol-7 TT; Saw action in 12 of 13 games as a true freshman, both on defense and on special teams.
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Daryl Richardson
Daryl Richardson is an American football Running back for the St. Louis Rams. He was selected in the seventh round, 252nd overall, by the Rams in the 2012 NFL Draft. He played college football at Abilene Christian.
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Dave Checketts
David W. Checketts (born 1956) is an American businessman, founder and chairman SCP Worldwide, sits on the board of JetBlue Airways, and is the owner of the soccer club Real Salt Lake.
Checketts attended the University of Utah and later earned a master's degree in business administration from Brigham Young University. After graduation, he joined the Boston-based consulting firm of Bain & Company. At 28, he became president and general manager of the Utah Jazz, making him the youngest chief executive in National Basketball Association history. He then spent a year as the general manager of NBA International, where he worked to increase the league's presence around the world.
He became president of the New York Knicks in March 1991, and in his four seasons as president, the team made it to the Eastern Conference Finals three times and went to the NBA Finals in 1994. The team set records for attendance, television ratings and revenue under his watch but the club failed to win the NBA Finals.
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Dave McGinnis
Dave McGinnis is the assistant head coach of the St. Louis Rams. He formerly was the senior assistant coach of the Tennessee Titans in 2011, but joined the team as a linebackers coach in 2004. He was also the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2000 through 2003.
McGinnis graduated from Snyder High School, Snyder Texas. McGinnis was a three-year starter as a defensive back at Texas Christian University, where he graduated in 1973 with a degree in business management. Prior to joining the NFL ranks, McGinnis spent 13 years in college football, including at his alma mater Texas Christian University (1973–74, '82), Missouri (1975–77), Indiana State (1978, '80-81) and Kansas State (1983–85).
McGinnis has coached in the NFL beginning in 1986. From 1986 to 1995, he was the linebackers coach for the Chicago Bears, and spent 1996-2000 as defensive coordinator of Arizona before being hired to replace Vince Tobin. From 2000-2003, McGinnis compiled a 17-40 record with the team. However, he had a record of 14-12 in games decided by eight or less points. The reason for his lack of success as a head coach has been attributed to the lack of talent on his team, as his successor Dennis Green failed to win more than six games in any season despite previously earning acclaim as head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Dave Niehaus
David Arnold Niehaus (February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010) was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in 1977 until his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, the National Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Niehaus with the Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. Among fans nationwide and his peers, Niehaus was considered to be one of the finest sportscasters in history.[citation needed]
Niehaus graduated from Indiana University in 1957, entered the military, and began his broadcasting career with Armed Forces Radio. He became a partner of Dick Enberg on the broadcast team of the California Angels in 1969. Niehaus also broadcast the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and UCLA Bruins football and basketball during this period.
In 1977, Danny Kaye, part-owner of the expansion Seattle Mariners, recruited Niehaus to become the franchise's radio voice. Despite working for a franchise who from its first year in 1977 until 1991 was without a winning season, his talent was recognizable, and Niehaus was considered one of the few attractions for Mariner fans.[citation needed] Even in the period before the team's memorable 1995 season, the Mariners were regularly one of the leading major-league teams in terms of the percentage of radios in use.[citation needed]
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Deacon Jones
David D. "Deacon" Jones (born December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.
Jones specialized in quarterback sacks, a term attributed to him. Nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense", Jones is considered one of the greatest defensive players ever. The Los Angeles Times called Jones "Most Valuable Ram of All Time," and former Rams head coach George Allen called him the "Greatest Defensive End of Modern Football".
Jones was born in Eatonville, Florida and lived in a four bedroom house with his family of ten. Jones attended Hungerford High School, where he played football, baseball, and basketball. During high school, Jones developed a lump in his thigh and learned that it was a tumor; he had surgery to remove it.
Jones' college football career consisted of a year at South Carolina State University in 1957, followed by a year of inactivity in 1958 and a final season at Mississippi Vocational College (since renamed Mississippi Valley State University) in 1960.
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DeAngelo Peterson
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Derrick Harris
Sidney Derrick Harris is a former professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers.
Harris had two receiving touchdowns for the 1998 St. Louis Rams; he had twelve of his career thirteen NFL catches in 1998. His other and final NFL touchdown came when he returned a blocked punt at New England on October 14, 2001, giving San Diego a 26-16 lead. (New England came back, tying the game in the final minute and then winning in overtime. The game-winning 46 yard field goal was the first of three overtime game winners for Adam Vinatieri during the 2001 regular season and playoffs. With the win, New England climbed to 2-3, barely avoiding a 1-4 start. The game marked the first come from behind win in Tom Brady's career, but the blocked punt, and his reaction to it, resulted in punter Lee Johnson's release following the game. Just four games earlier, Johnson had become the all-time leader in punting yardage, a feat made possible by some inferior Cincinnati Bengals and New England Patriots offenses over the course of Johnson's career.) Harris played in all 16 games with the 2001 Chargers, but would not play in the NFL again after 2001.
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Devin Bush
Devin Bush (born July 3, 1973) is a retired American football safety in the NFL. In college, he played for the Florida State Seminoles and was a member of the 1993 National Championship team. His defensive coordinator at Florida State, Mickey Andrews, later stated Bush "was the most complete player he had ever coached". Between 1995 and 2002, he played at both safety spots in his career for the Atlanta Falcons, St. Louis Rams and Cleveland Browns. He was drafted in the 1st round of the 1995 NFL Draft by the Falcons. He appeared in two Super Bowls: the Falcons' loss to the Denver Broncos in 1999, and the St. Louis Rams' win over the Tennessee Titans in 2000. He has seven career interceptions, two were returned for touchdowns. He now works as a high school football coach at Charles W. Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, FL.
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Dexter McCleon
Dexter Keith McCleon (born October 9, 1973 in Meridian, Mississippi) is an American football safety who currently is a free agent of the National Football League. He also played for the St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs in his ten-year career that started in 1997. In addition to free-agency in the NFL, McCleon also is a volunteer assistant football coach at Meridian High School in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi.
McCleon was an All-American quarterback at Meridian High School in Meridian, Mississippi and was also a star baseball player there and got drafted in the 13th-round by the Minnesota Twins in the 1993 Major League Baseball Draft but decided to play college football in Clemson University as a cornerback.
At Clemson, McCleon was a First-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference as a senior and got drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the 1997 NFL Draft.
McCleon played with the Rams for six seasons, helping them reach Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000 in which McCleon had seven tackles.
McCleon signed with the Chiefs as a free agent in 2003 and started for two seasons. In 2005, McCleon played in eleven games as a nickleback, making twenty-one tackles and two interceptions. On March 10, 2006 the Chiefs cut McCleon in a salary cap cut move.
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Dick Bass
Richard Lee Bass (March 15, 1937 – February 1, 2006) was an American football running back who played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1960 to 1969.
Born in Georgetown, Mississippi, he played for Vallejo high school in the old North Bay League after his family moved to Vallejo, California. He went on to star at College of the Pacific, where Time Magazine called him a "One-Man Show" in 1958, after he ran for 700 yards in six games to become the season's leading NCAA ground gainer, while passing for the Tigers as well. He was a 1958 All American and was a Charter Member of the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame in 1983.
Is a member of the Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C. National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.
After being taken by the Rams as the second pick in the 1959 NFL draft, he was named to the Pro Bowl three times, in 1962, 1963, and 1966. He rushed for 1,000 yards in a season 2 times (1962 and 1966). He finished his career with 5,417 yards rushing. He died at age 68 in Norwalk, California. Following his retirement, he worked as a color analyst on Rams radio broadcasts from 1977 to 1986.
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Dick Daugherty
Richard Lee Daugherty (born March 31, 1929 in Moundsville, West Virginia, died March 10, 2009 in Tucson, Arizona) was an offensive lineman and linebacker who played six seasons in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams.
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Dick Enberg
Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (born January 9, 1935) is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on Fox Sports San Diego, following a long career calling various sports nationally for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN. Enberg is well known for his signature catchphrase ("Oh, my!") that he uses after exciting and outstanding athletic plays. He also announced or hosted the Rose Bowl Parade for many years, sometimes with the help of family members.
Enberg was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Following high school in nearby Armada, he played college baseball and earned a bachelor's degree in 1957 at Central Michigan University. Enberg then went on to ? school at Indiana University, where he earned master's and doctorate degrees in health sciences. While at Indiana, Enberg voiced the first radio broadcast of the Little 500, the bicycle racing event popularized in the film Breaking Away. He was also the play-by-play announcer for Indiana Hoosiers football and basketball games, and in 1961 called his first NCAA basketball tournament event, the championship game between Cincinnati and Ohio State. From 1961 to 1965 he was an assistant professor and baseball coach at Cal State Northridge, then known as "San Fernando Valley State College."
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Dick Hoerner
Lester Junior "Dick" Hoerner (July 25, 1922 – December 11, 2010) was an American football player. He played fullback for the University of Iowa in 1942 and 1946 and for the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1951. He helped lead the Rams to three consecutive National Football League championship games from 1949 to 1951, played for the 1951 Los Angeles Rams team that won the 1951 NFL Championship Game, and was selected to play in the inaugural 1951 Pro Bowl. He was the Rams' all-time leading rusher at the end of his playing career with the team. He concluded his professional football career as a member of the Dallas Texans in 1952.
A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Hoerner was a state track champion while attending Dubuque High School. He also led Dubuque to Mississippi Valley Conference championships in 1939 and 1940 and was twice selected as an All-Iowa player. He enrolled at the University of Iowa in 1941 and played for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team as a sophomore in 1942. He ran 88 yards for a touchdown against Fritz Crisler's 1942 Michigan Wolverines. In May 1943, Hoerner was inducted into the U.S. Army. After missing three years due to war-time service, including service overseas in the field artillery, Hoerner returned to the Iowa Hawkeyes football team in 1946.
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Dick Vermeil
Richard Albert "Dick" Vermeil (pronounced /vərˈmiːl/; born October 30, 1936) is a former American head coach for the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles (1976–1982), St. Louis Rams (1997–1999) and Kansas City Chiefs (2001–2005). He is in the Sid Gillman coaching tree and has coached at every level; Vermeil owns the distinction of being named “Coach of the Year” on four levels: High School, Junior College, NCAA Division I and Professional Football.
In all three of his stops as an NFL head coach, Vermeil has taken every team—Philadelphia, St. Louis and Kansas City, each of which had a losing record before he arrived—and brought them to the playoffs by his third season at the helm.
Vermeil graduated in 1959 with an M.A. from San Jose State University, where he was the backup quarterback. After serving as assistant coach for San Jose’s Del Mar High School football team for one season and for Hillsdale High School in nearby San Mateo, he then went to Foothill College with coach Bill Walker. During the 1964-1965 school year he was weightlifting coach at College of San Mateo with his brother as an assistant. The following year he was at Diablo Valley College as a football coach. In 1965-1966, he coached Stanford University's freshman football team. Vermeil was hired as the NFL's first ever Special Teams coach by George Allen's Los Angeles Rams in 1969. Except for 1970, when he was an assistant coach with UCLA, he would remain with the Rams until 1974 when he was named as head coach by UCLA. Vermeil compiled a 15–5–3 record in two seasons (1974–1975) as head coach at UCLA, including a 9–2–1 record in 1975 when Vermeil led the Bruins to their first conference championship in 10 years, and a win in the Rose Bowl over an undefeated and number 1 ranked Ohio State team.
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Dick Zoll
Richard Archibald Zoll was a professional football player in the National Football League for the Cleveland Rams and Green Bay Packers from 1937 to 1939 as a guard and tackle. He played at the collegiate level at Indiana University-Bloomington. He was also the brother of original Packers Martin and Carl Zoll.
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Don Drysdale
Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale (July 23, 1936 – July 3, 1993) was a Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was one of the dominant starting pitchers of the 1960s, and became a radio and television broadcaster following his playing career. The Disney character Herbie has the number 53 since that was Drysdale's number.
Drysdale was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California and attended Van Nuys High School, where one of his classmates was actor Robert Redford. While there have been assertions that Redford also played on the high school baseball team with Drysdale, and Drysdale covered for Redford by backing these up, classmates recall that Redford never actually played baseball.
Pitching for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, he teamed with Sandy Koufax during the late 1950s and early-middle 1960s to form one of the most dominating pitching duos in history. The hurler (nicknamed "Big D" by fans) used brushback pitches and a sidearm fastball to intimidate batters, similar to his fierce fellow Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. His 154 hit batsmen remains a modern National League record.
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Dré Bly
Donald André "Dré" Bly (born May 22, 1977) is a former American college and professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college football for the University of North Carolina (UNC), and earned All-American honors twice. Bly was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and spent four seasons with the Rams, earning a Super Bowl ring with them from Super Bowl XXXIV. He was selected to two Pro Bowls during his four-year tenure with the Detroit Lions, and also played for the Denver Broncos and San Francisco 49ers.
Bly was born in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, where he was an all-state high school football player as well as a decorated baseball player for Western Branch Bruins.
Bly attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he played for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team. In his redshirt freshman season at UNC, he led the nation with 11 interceptions. He received all-American honors, and is only one of five players in NCAA history to achieve this honor as a freshman (Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker, Bjorn Merten, and Marshall Faulk being the others). Bly was the only football player in UNC and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) history to receive consensus first-team All-America honors twice in his college career. In his sophomore year, he was one of three finalists for the Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Year Award. Bly set the ACC record for career interceptions (20), which was later broken by Alphonso Smith of Wake Forest (21).
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Ed Goddard
Edwin Vinson Goddard (October 28, 1914 - July 20, 1992) was an American football player. Goddard played college football at the quarterback and halfback positions for Washington State University. Goddard also served as a punter for Washington State. He was named a first-team All-American quarterback three straight years from 1934–1937 and was a consensus All-American quarterback in 1935 and 1936. He was the second player selected in the 1937 NFL Draft and played two years of professional football for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1937) and Cleveland Rams (1937–1938).
Goddard was known as the "Escondido Express," as he grew up in Escondido, California. He reportedly received the nickname from a Los Angeles Times reporter who saw him running and passing against USC, helping Washington State win against USC for the first time in three years.
During World War II, Goddard served in the military. He and his wife, Ellen Goddard, had two children. Goddard died at his home in July 1992 at age 77.
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Eddie Doucette
Eddie Doucette is the president of Doucette Promotions Inc. He is a former television and radio sportscaster.
Doucette was the original radio play-by-play voice of the Milwaukee Bucks, where he broadcast games for 16 years. During his career he also called games for various other NBA teams (including the Indiana Pacers, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers) and Major League Baseball teams (including the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers), and has done various other sports including NFL football, college football, college basketball, PGA Tour golf, boxing and track and field events.
Along with Jon McGlocklin, Doucette co-founded the MACC Fund in 1976 after his two-year old son, Brett, was diagnosed with cancer. Today, he serves as the fund's honorary vice-president.
He is a graduate of Michigan State University. He resides in Poway, California with his wife Karen. They have two grown sons: Brett and Cory.
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Elbie Schultz
Eberle H. Schultz (December 23, 1917 – May 20, 2002) was an football player in the National Football League from 1940 to 1947. Over the course of his career, Schultz played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Rams and the Los Angeles Rams. He won the 1945 NFL Championship with the Cleveland Rams.
He also played for the merged Steelers teams during 1943 and 1944, to make up for the manning shortages brought on by World War II. In 1943 he played for the "Steagles", which comprised players from the Steelers and Eagles. And then in 1944, he played for "Card-Pitt", which comprised players from the Steelers and the Chicago Cardinals.
He played the positions of guard and tackle through the course of his career.
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Elroy Hirsch
Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (June 17, 1923 – January 28, 2004) was an American football running back and receiver for the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Rockets, nicknamed for his unusual running style.
Hirsch was born in Wausau, Wisconsin. He developed his running style running cross legged over four square cement sidewalk blocks in his home town.[citation needed] Hirsch played for legendary coach Win Brockmeyer during his time at Wausau High School.
Hirsch played his first college season with the University of Wisconsin Badgers in 1942. His nickname was permanently affixed to him by Chicago Daily News sportswriter Francis Powers who, upon witnessing him play for the Badgers against the Great Lakes Naval Station in 1942, wrote "His crazy legs were gyrating in six different directions, all at the same time; he looked like a demented duck."
His commitment to the United States Navy V-12 program in United States Marine Corps required him to transfer to the University of Michigan. He played two intercollegiate football seasons for the Michigan Wolverines where during the 1943-44 year he earned the distinction of being the only athlete at the school to letter in four sports (football, basketball, track and baseball) in a single year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
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Eric Dickerson
Eric Demetric Dickerson (born September 2, 1960) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Dickerson played college football for Southern Methodist University, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. During his NFL career, he rushed for over 13,000 yards.
Dickerson committed to Texas A&M before reconsidering and decided amongst Oklahoma, Southern California and SMU before his grandmother talked him into staying in the state of Texas to attend Southern Methodist University because she liked SMU coach Ron Meyer. Dickerson was the subject of recruiting controversy when he started driving a new Pontiac Trans-Am during his senior year. At the time he said his grandmother from Mexico bought it for him.
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Ernie Conwell
Ernest Harold Conwell (born August 17, 1972) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at Washington.
Conwell also played for the New Orleans Saints. He currently works for the NFL Players Association.
Conwell graduated from Kentwood High School in Kent, Washington in 1991. While there he lettered in football, basketball and track and field.
His Senior year at Washington he finished with 24 catches for 343 yards and 2 TD. The years before he played behind TE Mark Bruener.
Conwell was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the second round of the 1996 NFL Draft and played for them until 2002. He played for the New Orleans Saints from 2003 until he was released on February 28, 2007.
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Ernie Zampese
Ernie Zampese (March 12, 1936) is a former American football player and coach. Playing for Santa Barbara High School, he was selected as the CIS Player of the Year in 1953 and went on to play at the halfback position for the USC Trojans in 1955 and 1956. Between 1962 and 1975, he was a college football coach at Allan Hancock Junior College (1962–1965), Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (1966) and San Diego State University (1967–1975). Between 1976 and 1999, he served as an assistant coach, scout, assistant head coach and offensive coordinator for various NFL teams. He gained his greatest acclaim as the assistant head coach and offensive coordinator of the San Diego Chargers during the Air Coryell years.
Despite his small size (5 feet, 8 inches and 155 pounds), Zampese played tailback for Santa Barbara High School from 1951 to 1953. As a senior in 1953, Zampese rushed for 869 yards (9.3 yards per carry) and 19 touchdowns. He also passed for 1008 yards and 14 passing touchdowns. In December 1953, he was selected by the Helms Athletic Foundation's football board as the CIF Player of the Year. The Los Angeles Times called him "Little Ernie Zampese, a durable workhorse who did everything well for the Santa Barbara High Dons." Zampese later recalled his days playing for the Dons as follows:
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Eugene Sims
Eugene Sims (born March 16, 1986) is an American football player, who currently plays as a defensive end for the St. Louis Rams.
Sims enjoyed a standout prep career at Mize High School in Mississippi competing in football as well as track & field.
Sims began his college career at Jones County Junior College in Mississippi where he recorded 51 tackles, five QB sacks three tackled for losses and one forced fumble as a sophomore. He was rewarded at season's end with an appearance in the MACJC All-Star game. Sims moved to the defensive line in 2006 after being a nine-game starter for the Bobcats at strong safety in 2005.
Sims transferred to West Texas A&M where he was recognized as Lone Star Conference Co-Defensive Lineman of the Year in 2008. Sims was the Buffs' starting defensive end in all 13 games and registered 56 tackles (18 solo, 36 assisted) and 13 tackles for losses and 10 sacks and eight hurries and two passes broken up.
As a senior in 2009 Sims was the Buffs' leading tackler among down linemen, recording 56 total tackles (19 solo, 37 assists). He also had a team-high 13.5 tackles for losses, as well as 7.0 sacks, five pass breakups, five quarterback hurries, four blocked kicks, three forced fumbles and one safety. Sims was named Lone Star Conference Defensive Lineman of the Year for a second consecutive season, as well as being a First-team All-LSC South Division selection. Sims also garnered AFCA small college All-America recognition in addition to being named AP Third-team Little All-America.
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Forrest Burmeister
Forrest Burmeister was an American football player who spent two years in the National Football League.
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Frank Gansz
Frank Gansz (November 22, 1938 – April 27, 2009) was an American football coach whose career spanned nearly 40 years. He died in Dallas on April 27, 2009, from complications following knee replacement surgery.
At the college level, Gansz served as an assistant at Colgate, Oklahoma State, SMU, Army, UCLA, Air Force and Navy, his alma mater (1960).
In January 1986, Gansz was named assistant head coach and special teams coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He took over as head coach of the Chiefs in January 1987 after John Mackovic was fired. In his first year, a strike-shortened season, he finished 4-11. The following year, he went 4-11-1. In January 1989, Gansz was fired and replaced by Marty Schottenheimer.
Once called "the best special teams coach ever" by former NFL head coach Dick Vermeil, Gansz twice earned special teams coach of the year honors, including 1999 when helped the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl victory.
A native of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Gansz retired as an NFL coach in 2001 after coaching in the league for 24 seasons, including stops in San Francisco, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Jacksonville. After retirement, he lived in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Barbara, though he continued to speak at colleges and clinics around the country.
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Fred Dryer
John Frederick "Fred" Dryer (born July 6, 1946 in Hawthorne, California) is an American actor and former football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). Dryer played 13 years in the NFL, playing 176 games, starting 166, and recording 104 career sacks with the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams. Dryer is the only NFL player to score two safeties in one game.
Following his retirement from football, Dryer had a successful career as a film and television actor, notably starring in the series Hunter. His height (6'6" or 1.98 m) and physique was useful for his action roles.
The son of Charles F. Dryer and Genevieve Nell Clark, Dryer began his football career at Lawndale High School in Lawndale, California, and then attended El Camino Junior College before transferring to San Diego State University (SDSU).
Dryer was inducted to the El Camino C.C. Athletic Hall Of Fame in 1988, as a charter member and was the Athlete of the Year for his 1966 performance on the football field. Dryer was also a 1966 Junior College All-American
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Fred Gehrke
Fred Gehrke (April 24, 1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah – February 9, 2002 in Palm Springs, California) was a National Football League running back for the Cleveland-Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Cardinals. from 1940 through 1950. He is best remembered for designing the Los Angeles Rams logo in 1948, which was the first painted on the helmets of an NFL team. He later became the General Manager of the Denver Broncos from 1977 through 1981.
Gehrke was born and raised in Salt Lake City. As a youth, Fred snuck into Utah Utes football games. He there developed a love for the sport. He attended South High School where he participated in swimming, track and field, and football. he graduated from high school in 1935 and then attended the University of Utah, where he majored in art.
During his time at Utah, he started at running back on offense and left cornerback on defense. He also returned punts and kickoffs.
Fred entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie. He landed a try-out with the Cleveland Rams in 1940. He was awarded a spot on team after he returned a kickoff for a touchdown in a pre-season exhibition game. His first contract with Cleveland paid him $135.00 per game. However he did not play in many games that season because Parker Hall, the NFL’s MVP in 1939, was the Rams' starting running back and his success kept Gehrke on the bench.
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Georgia Frontiere
Georgia Frontiere (November 21, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was the majority owner and chairman of the St. Louis Rams football team and the most prominent female owner in a league historically dominated by males.
During her nearly three decades in charge (1979–2008), the Rams made the playoffs 14 seasons, played in 25 postseason games, won 13 postseason games, reached the Super Bowl three times and won the championship game once in 2000. Her commitment to the team earned her the nickname “Madame Ram."
Also a philanthropist, Frontiere created the St. Louis Rams Foundation, sat on the board of the local United Way chapter, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the American Foundation for AIDS Research and made numerous charitable contributions both to the arts and to other organizations in St. Louis and elsewhere.
Frontiere was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Lucia Pamela Irwin, Miss St. Louis of 1926, KMOX radio’s ‘gal about town’, and the leader of America’s first all-girl orchestra (Lucia Pamela and her band of musical pirates), and Reginald Irwin, an insurance salesman and businessman.
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Gil Bouley
Gil Bouley was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for six seasons for the Cleveland Rams/Los Angeles Rams. Bouley died in 2006.
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Gil Stratton
Gil Stratton Jr. (June 2, 1922-October 11, 2008) was an actor and sportscaster who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He most recently resided in Toluca Lake, California, until his death from congestive heart failure.
Gil Stratton Jr. was born June 2, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended Poly Prep in Brooklyn. He later attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., where he graduated with a bachelor's degree, and starred as goalie of the SLU hockey team.
He first became interested in acting as a teenager. He debuted on Broadway at the age of 19 as Bud Hooper in the George Abbott musical Best Foot Forward. The musical ran from October 1, 1941 to July 4, 1942.
As a result of Stratton's appearance in Best Foot Forward, MGM hired him as a contract player. His first job for MGM was in the film Girl Crazy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, singing "Embraceable You" in a duet with Garland.
After completing Girl Crazy, he had a short film hiatus due to having enlisted in the Army Air Forces upon the US entry to World War II. He later noted that he ended up spending much of his service umpiring baseball. During this time he began umpiring for the Pacific Coast League (PCL). While umpiring in the PCL he began using the line, "time to call 'em as I see 'em."
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Grant Wistrom
Grant Alden Wistrom (born July 3, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. Wistrom played college football for the University of Nebraska and was a two-time All-American. He was drafted in the first round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL.
Wistrom was born in Joplin, Missouri. He began his football career in Webb City, Missouri, where he played for the Webb City High School football team, the Cardinals, as a defensive end and tight end. As a defensive end, he compiled 122 tackles, eight sacks, six fumble recoveries, nine forced fumbles and a blocked punt; as a tight end, he caught 30 passes for 527 yards and five touchdowns and rushed 11 times for 115 yards and three touchdowns. Wistrom led his team to two Class 4A state championships. He was chosen as a first-team high school All-America selection by Super Prep, Blue Chip and USA Today, and earned Top 100 Honors from Scholastic Coach magazine. Wistrom also played basketball and competed in track and field.
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Greg Salas
Greg Salas (born August 25, 1988) is an American football wide receiver with the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He played college football for University of Hawaii Warriors football team.
While at Hawaii, Salas amassed 285 receptions, 4,345 receiving yards and 26 touchdowns and is the school’s career leader in receiving yards. In 2006 Salas redshirted and the following season, 2007, he played in eight games at wideout and posted three catches for 35 yards and one touchdown. During the 2008 season, Salas started all 14 games at wideout and caught 57 passes for a team-high 831 yards and scored three touchdowns, averaging 14.6 yards per catch.
In 2009 Salas moved to slot receiver in the Hawaii offense and finished third in the country in receiving yards with 1,590. He also caught 106 passes and 8 touchdowns. For his efforts he was First-team All-WAC
In 2010 he broke Hawaii single-season records with 119 receptions and 1,889 yards in 2010. His 1,675 were the most of any receiver during the NCAA regular season and 10 yards more than 2nd place Justin Blackmon. He was selected Third-team All-America (AP) and also selected to Phil Steele’s Second-team All-America and SI.com’s honorable mention All-America. He was a semi-finalist for the Fred Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation’s top receiver and was First-team All-WAC for the second consecutive season.
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Gregg Williams
Gregg Williams (born July 15, 1958) is an American football coach, and former head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Williams is known for running aggressive, attacking 4-3 schemes that put heavy pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
On March 21, 2012, Williams was suspended from the NFL indefinitely as a result of his (admitted) involvement in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, under which bounties were paid for causing injuries that would take targeted players on opponent teams out of games.
Gregg Williams was a head coach for the Class 5 Belton High School Pirate football team in Belton, Missouri. He attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University) in Kirksville, Missouri. Williams was an assistant coach for the University of Houston under former Redskins head coach, Jack Pardee.
In 1990 Williams became the Special Teams coach of the Houston Oilers under then defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan. From 1994-1996, Williams was the linebackers coach for the Oilers. From 1997-2000, Williams was promoted to Defensive Coordinator of the now Tennessee Titans after the Oilers moved out of Houston. As the Defensive Coordinator, the Titans led the league in total defense and only gave up 191 points, the third fewest in the NFL since the league adopted the 16-game schedule in 1978. The defense also helped lead the Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV where they lost to the St. Louis Rams.
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Hamp Pool
Hampton John "Hamp" Pool (March 11, 1915 – May 26, 2000) was a football player, coach and scout who was part of two National Football League championship teams during his playing career and served as head coach for three professional teams.
Pool graduated from Paso Robles High School in California in 1933, and played for the University of California, Berkeley's freshman football team that Fall. After entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for one year, he returned to resume his career at Stanford University, playing both wide receiver and defensive end, and also performing for the school's track team.
In the 1940 NFL Draft, he was a seventh round draft pick of the Chicago Bears and played four seasons with the Windy City team. During that stretch, he played at both fullback and wide receiver, catching 35 passes for 840 yards and scoring 11 touchdowns. His efforts helped the team to NFL titles in both 1940 and 1941, with Pool scoring one of the Bears' nine touchdowns in the 73-0 thrashing of the Washington Redskins in the 1940 title tilt. In 1942, the Bears were undefeated during the regular season, but were upset, 14-6, by those same Redskins in the NFL Championship game.
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Harland Svare
Harland James Svare (born November 25, 1930) is a former American football linebacker who played for eight seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Giants from 1953 to 1960 in the National Football League. He was the Rams head coach from midway the 1962 season through 1965, and the San Diego Chargers head coach from 1971 through 1973.
In a November 1972 game, Chargers owner Eugene V. Klein awarded Svare a five-year coaching contract, an unpopular decision; however, Svare voluntarily left after the following season.
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Harry Mattos
Harry Mattos (April 7, 1911 - February 5, 1992), nicknamed "The Horse" or "The Toe", was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers and the Cleveland Rams. He played college football at the St. Mary's College of California. In 1934, Mattos threw for two touchdown passes in a 14-9 win over Fordham University.
After graduating from St. Mary’s in 1935, Mattos signed with the Hollywood Braves of the American Legion Football League, a league of area Los Angeles teams. With the Braves, Mattos was used mainly as a passer, throwing for two touchdowns in three games before a broken leg ended his season.
Mattos started the next year in the NFL, with the Green Bay Packers. However the Packers, with an already solid backfield, dropped him early in the season. As a result Mattos signed with the Cleveland Rams, who were still members of the second American Football League, a competing major league. The Rams used Mattos as a running back and as a wide receiver and as a kicker, to leading the league in scoring. Mattos kicking ability earned him the nickname “The Toe.” He also caught two touchdown catches that season. Mattos helped the Rams battle the Boston Shamrocks for first place in the league, however the Rams had to settle for a second place finish. However Mattos earned the respect of the media. A Boston sportswriter, used a different nickname each time he mentioned Mattos. One such nickname was Harry “Nothing” Mattos.
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Harvey Dahl
Harvey Dahl (born June 24, 1981) is an American football guard for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Nevada-Reno.
Dahl has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Rhein Fire and Atlanta Falcons.
Dahl was an all-state selection at Churchill County High School; he was named all-league and All-Northern Nevada. Dahl also was a three-time zone wrestling champion and state champion at 215 lbs. in 1999. His #59 number was retired by Churchill County in January 2009.
Dahl attended the University of Nevada where he earned First Team ALL-WAC accolades in Junior and senior seasons ith the Wolf Pack. He was named to Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award watch lists in July 2004 prior to the start of the 2004 campaign at Nevada. At the end of 2004 season he was invited to play in the 2005 East-West Shrine Game.
Dahl signed with Dallas on April 28 after he went undrafted in the 2005 NFL Draft. He was waived on June 3.
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Harvey Jones
Harvey Mabry Jones (April 15, 1921 – December 13, 1998) was an American football halfback and defensive back in the National Football League for the Cleveland Rams and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Baylor University.
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Herb Rich
Richard Herbert Rich (October 7, 1928, in Newark, New Jersey – March 28, 2008) was an American football safety in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts, Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants.
Rich was Jewish. He played college football at Vanderbilt University, as well as basketball and baseball.
Rich was drafted in the sixth round of the 1950 NFL Draft. In his rookie season he averaged 23 yards on 12 punt returns, an NFL record. He was twice an All-Pro defensive back.
After his football career ended, Rich was an attorney in Nashville.
Rich died at 79 years of age in 2008.
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Hugo Bezdek
Hugo Francis Bezdek (April 1, 1884 – September 19, 1952) was a Czech-American sports figure who played American football and was a coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He was the head football coach at the University of Oregon (1906, 1913–1917), the University of Arkansas (1908–1912), Penn State University (1918–1929), and Delaware Valley College (1949). Bezdek also coached the Mare Island Marines in the 1918 Rose Bowl and the Cleveland Rams of the NFL in 1937 and part of the 1938 season. In addition, Bezdek coached basketball at Oregon (1906–1907, 1913–1917) and Penn State (1919), coached baseball at Arkansas (1909–1913), Oregon (1914–1917) and Penn State (1920–1930), and served at the manager of Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates (1917–1919). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954.
After playing as a fullback at the University of Chicago, Bezdek began his football coaching career at the University of Oregon in 1906, but left after a year to become head coach at the University of Arkansas. Arkansas athletic teams carried the name of Cardinals until the close of 1909 season. Coach Bezdek referred to his team as "a wild band of Razorbacks" at a post-season rally following an unbeaten season. This nickname has been applied to Arkansas teams since that time. After five years at Arkansas, he returned to Oregon for six seasons.
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Isaac Bruce
Isaac Isidore Bruce (born November 10, 1972) is a retired American football wide receiver. He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Memphis.
An All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowl selection, Bruce has amassed 15,208 receiving yards in his career (third all-time). He played the first 14 years with the Rams and won a Super Bowl ring with the team in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Bruce was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He attended Dillard High in Fort Lauderdale. As a senior, he caught 39 passes for 644 yards (16.5 yards per rec. avg.), was an All-County selection, and led his team to the 1989 Florida State 4-A Championship.
Bruce went to West Los Angeles College, then to Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of Memphis in 1992, where he finished his college football career with 113 receptions for 1,586 yards (14.0 yards per rec. avg.) and 15 touchdowns. He earned a degree in physical education.
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Isaiah Pead
Isaiah D'Vaughn Pead (born December 14, 1989) is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He played college football at Cincinnati. He is considered one of the top running back prospects for the 2012 NFL Draft.
Pead attended the University of Cincinnati from 2008 to 2011. He finished his career with 3,288 rushing yards on 545 carries with 27 touchdowns.
As a senior in 2011, Pead was the MVP of the 2012 Senior Bowl.
At the 2012 NFL Draft, Pead was selected in round 2, pick 50 by the St. Louis Rams.
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Jack Jacobs
"Indian" Jack Jacobs (August 7, 1919 – January 12, 1974) was an American and Canadian football player in the National Football League and Western Interprovincial Football Union. He was a charter member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
Jacobs was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, and played high school football at Muskogee High School. He was popularly known as "Indian Jack" because he was a Creek man, at a time when the use of such terminology was not seen as offensive.
Jacobs played college football at the University of Oklahoma. Considered a phenomenal all-round player and starting quarterback, Jack averaged 47.84 yards per kick in 1940 (which remains an OU record) with a career average of 42.10. He holds the record for passing percentage in a game completing 8 out of 8 passes (1.000)(OU v. Kansas 1941). Jacobs accumulated the most offense yardage in 1940/1941 (junior & senior years). As a defensive back, Jacobs is tied with seven other players for the record number of interceptions in a game (3)(1941 OU v. Marquette).
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Jack Youngblood
Herbert Jackson Youngblood, III (born January 26, 1950) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Before playing professionally, Youngblood played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. He is considered among the best players Florida ever produced—a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and one of only five Florida Gators to be named to the Gator Football Ring of Honor.
After retiring as a player in 1985, Youngblood worked in the Rams' front office until 1991. He also worked in the front office of the Sacramento Surge of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1992 to 1993, and the administration of the CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners from 1993 to 1994. He was a vice-president, then president, of the Orlando Predators from 1995 until 1999. From 1999 through 2002, he served as the NFL's liaison for the Arena Football League.
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Jack Zilly
John Lynus "Jack" Zilly (November 11, 1921 – December 18, 2009) was a professional American football player who played end for six seasons for the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Zilly played right end for Notre Dame on their national championship team in 1943. During World War II, he served two years in the Navy, fighting in the Pacific. After the war, he returned to Notre Dame to help guide that team to another national championship in 1946. While Zilly was a sixth round draft pick for the San Francisco 49ers of the All-America Football Conference, he did not play for that team. Instead as a fourth round draft pick for the then-Cleveland Rams in 1945, he would then go on to play six seasons in the NFL for the L. A. Rams and the 1952 Eagles. While in California, Zilly also appeared in five movies, the best-known being Twelve O'Clock High.
When his playing career ended, Zilly coached at Montana State, Rhode Island, Notre Dame, for the Eagles, and in the Canadian Football League. On January 8, 1978, Zilly coached the American team to a 22–7 victory over Canada in the first-ever Can-Am Bowl, at Tampa Stadium. His 1978 team consisted of future University of Southern Florida head coach Jim Leavitt and future Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Washington Redskins general manager, Bruce Allen.
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Jackie Slater
Jackie Ray Slater (born May 27, 1954, in Jackson, Mississippi) is a retired NFL offensive tackle who played his entire 20-year career with the Rams organization, playing 19 seasons for the Rams in Los Angeles (1976–1994) and one season for the Rams in St. Louis in 1995.
Slater attended Jackson State University same as Walter Payton, Vernon Perry and Actress De De Tillman. Slater was a letterman in football and was selected to the Southwestern Athletic Conference All-Star Game three times, and as a senior, he was a First-team All–Black America selection, and was named an All-American selection by the Pittsburgh Courier. After his senior season, he was invited to participate in the College All-Star Game.
Slater played in 259 games from 1976 to 1995, a then-record for offensive lineman (broken by Bruce Matthews in the 1999 season). He was the first player to play 20 seasons for one team, and former Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green is the only other one to accomplish the feat. Much like Ed "Too Tall" Jones was with the Dallas Cowboys, Slater was unique in "bridging gaps" with different eras in the franchise. Slater was teammates with Merlin Olsen and Jack Youngblood earlier in his career and Jerome Bettis and Isaac Bruce at the end of his career, although Bettis would be traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers (where he had more success) right after Slater retired.
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Jackie Smith
Jackie Larue Smith (born February 23, 1940 in Columbia, Mississippi) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League. He played tight end for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys from 1963 to 1978. He has career marks of 480 receptions, 7,918 yards, and 40 touchdowns. He attended Northwestern Louisiana State University, now Northwestern State University.
An outstanding football and track competitor at Northwest Louisiana, Smith joined the Cardinals in 1963. Smith was a talented receiver, a punishing blocker, a fierce competitor and an excellent runner after he caught the ball. He even handled the Cardinals' punting chores his first three seasons.
Smith became the Cardinals' starting tight end during his 1963 rookie season and remained a fixture at that spot the rest of his tenure in St. Louis. He gained 212 yards on nine receptions against the Pittsburgh Steelers that year.
The team's offensive co-captain, Smith had a string of 45 straight games from 1967 to 1970 with at least one reception. He played in 121 straight games, starting with his first NFL contest until a knee injury sidelined him in his ninth season in 1971.
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Jacob McQuaide
Jacob McQuaide (born December 7, 1987 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American football long snapper for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football for Ohio State University.
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James Hodgins
James Hodgins (born April 30, 1977 in San Jose, CA) is a free agent fullback with National Football League experience.
Hodgins attended Oak Grove High School in San Jose, California and lettered in football, basketball, and track.
He was nicknamed "Meat" by John Madden in Super Bowl XXXVI.
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James Laurinaitis
James Richard Laurinaitis (born December 3, 1986) is an American football linebacker for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). Laurinaitis was a three-year starting middle linebacker at Ohio State University, and was a three-time consensus All-American. He was selected by the St. Louis Rams with the 35th overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft. He is the son of former professional wrestler Joe Laurinaitis, better known as Animal, one half of the tag team The Road Warriors. He is also the nephew of John Laurinaitis, who is the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations for WWE and currently is the on-screen General Manager of both Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown.
Laurinaitis was touted in the NHL as a second or third round pick, but teams didn't draft him because it was thought that he was more likely to pursue a football career. While he was a successful hockey player, having been named a team captain as a senior, football was arguably his best sport. He was named Defensive Mr. Football in Minnesota in 2004. That season, he helped lead Wayzata High School to the state championship game in Class 5A with 193 tackles, including 28 for loss and five sacks. He signed with the Buckeyes, becoming Ohio State's first scholarship football player from Minnesota since NFL coach Sid Gillman in 1930-33.[citation needed]
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Janoris Jenkins
Janoris Jenkins (born October 29, 1988) is an American football cornerback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He attended North Alabama and previously attended the University of Florida, but was dismissed from the team due to misconduct.
Jenkins attended Pahokee High School, where he was recognized as a first-team Class 2B all-state selection and a Parade magazine All-American as a senior in 2008. Rated a four-star recruit by Rivals.com,[citation needed] Jenkins was listed as the sixth-best cornerback prospect in the nation.[citation needed]
Jenkins became just the second true freshman in school history to start at cornerback on opening day. He was named to College Football News and Sporting News′ Freshman All-American team.
Jenkins played his senior season at the University of North Alabama after signing an athletic grant-in-aid with the Lions. Jenkins played under North Alabama's head coach Terry Bowden.
Jenkins was selected by the St. Louis Rams with the 39th overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft.
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Jeff Fisher
Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is currently the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and was previously the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, and has a career record of 147-126 as a head coach.
A native of Southern California, Fisher starred as a high school All-America wide receiver at Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
Fisher later went on to star at USC, under coach John Robinson. During his collegiate career (1977–80), he played alongside such defensive stars as Ronnie Lott, Dennis Smith, and Joey Browner. Fisher's USC teammates also included star offensive lineman Bruce Matthews, whom he would coach years later with the Oilers and Titans. Fisher and the Trojans won a national championship during the 1978 season, and in 1980 he was honored as a Pac-10 All-Academic selection.
Fisher was drafted in the 7th round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. He appeared in 49 games as a defensive back and return specialist in his five seasons with the Bears.
He earned a Super Bowl ring after Chicago’s 1985 Super Bowl season, despite spending the year on injured reserve with an ankle injury that prematurely ended his playing career. In 1983, Fisher had suffered a broken leg on a punt return when he was tackled by then-Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Bill Cowher, the future head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coincidentally the two became rivals as head coaches beginning in the AFC Central in 1995; Fisher's Oilers/Titans squads came out with an 11-7 record against Cowher's Steelers.
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Jeff Wilkins
For the American basketball player, see Jeff Wilkins (basketball).
Jeffrey Allen Wilkins (born April 19, 1972 in Youngstown, Ohio) nicknamed "Money" is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles and St Louis Rams. He played college football at Youngstown State University. Wilkins is currently tied for second place all time in most consecutive PATs without a miss at 371.
He played for Austintown Fitch High School in the Austintown, Ohio suburb of Youngstown.
At Youngstown State University, Wilkins made a school record 66 field goals, with a long of 54 (another school record). He was also an outstanding punter, averaging 38 yards per punt. Wilkins was also a member of both the 1991 and 1993 Division I-AA National Championship teams with the Penguins, the first two of four national championships the school won in the 1990s with future Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel. Wilkins was inducted in the YSU Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Jeff Zgonina
Jeffrey Marc "Jeff" Zgonina (born May 24, 1970) is a retired American football defensive tackle. He played college football at Purdue University and was a seventh round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1993 NFL Draft.
Zgonina attended Carmel High School in Mundelein, Illinois and was a letterman in football, basketball, hockey, and track & field. In football, he won All-East Suburban Catholic Conference honors, All-Area honors, All-County honors, and All-State honors.
Zgonina attended Purdue University from 1989–1992, starting his entire career. He twice led the Boilermakers in sacks and tackles for loss, he led the team in total tackles one season. He had a fumble return of 67 yards, a record for Purdue defensive linemen. He currently holds Purdue records for 'tackles for loss' for a single game (7.0), a season (28.0) and a career (72.0). He is currently #6 in total tackles (382) and solo tackles (266); and #3 in sacks (29.0). His senior season was outstanding as he had 28 tackles for loss and 13 sacks; was selected as a 1st Team All-Big Ten and the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Following his senior year, he participated in the 1993 East-West Shrine Game, Hula Bowl and Japan Bowl.
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Jermelle Cudjo
Jermelle Cudjo is an American football player, who currently plays as a defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams.
Cudjo was a standout at Lawton MacArthur High School (Oklahoma). He was a Two-time Lawton Constitution All-Area pick and an All-State selection as a senior.
At the University of Central Oklahoma Cudjo was a three time All-Conference selection (twice First-team, once Second-team). He finished with 198 tackles (38.5 for losses) and 12 sacks.
As a freshman (2005) at the University of Central Oklahoma, Cudjo redshirted. In 2006 as a redshirt freshman he made 33 tackles with four for loss in 11 games played. He blocked a total of six kicks on the season while adding half of a sack and two fumble recoveries (one for a touchdown). In 2007, as a sophomore, Cudjo made 47 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, and had 3.5 sacks and was named First-team All-Lone Star North. In 2008, during his junior year, he broke through with 60 tackles, 15.5 for loss with 4.5 sacks and was named First-team All-Lone Star North. He followed that up with 58 tackles with 12.5 for loss and 3.5 sacks as a senior in 2009 and was voted as a Second-team All-Lone Star North.
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Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram "The Bus" Bettis (born February 16, 1972) is a retired American football halfback who played for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs ever because of his footwork and power, and is currently sixth on the National Football League's all-time rushing list. He retired in 2006 after a Super Bowl victory at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, his city of birth.
Bettis was born February 16, 1972, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the youngest of three children of Gladys Elizabeth (née Bougard) and Johnnie E. Bettis. Bettis did not start playing football until high school, as his primary passion as a youth had been bowling. He attended Mackenzie High School in Detroit, where he was a standout running back and linebacker. As a senior, he was rated the top player in the state by the Detroit Free Press, and was the Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year award winner.[citation needed]
At the University of Notre Dame, Bettis finished his career with 337 rushing attempts for 1912 yards (5.7 yards per rushing attempt avg.), and made 32 receptions for 429 yards (13.4 yards per reception). In his last game as a junior, a 28-3 win by Notre Dame over Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl, he rushed 20 times for 75 yards.
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Jerome Murphy
Jerome Murphy (born January 13, 1987) is an American football cornerback. He played college football at South Florida. He was drafted as the first pick in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams.
Murphy attended Elizabeth High School. He played defensive back and wide receiver. As a senior he had 89 tackles and eight interceptions on defense and 582 receiving yards with seven touchdowns on offense.
Murphy attended the University of South Florida from 2005 to 2009. As a senior he was a first team all-Big East selection by Phil Steele. During his career he started 25 of 51 games, recording 178 tackles, eight interceptions, and two forced fumbles.
Murphy was drafted in the third round of the 2010 draft by the St. Louis Rams. He was placed on injured reserve on August 31, 2011.
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Jim Everett
James Samuel Everett III (born January 3, 1963 in Emporia, Kansas) is a retired professional American football quarterback who played for twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Everett attended Purdue University and was selected in the first round of the 1986 NFL Draft. He was selected as the third pick in the first round by the Houston Oilers, and was the first quarterback taken that year. Unable to work out a contract agreement with Everett, the Oilers traded his rights to the Los Angeles Rams, with whom Everett played from 1986 to 1993. He then played with the New Orleans Saints from 1994 to 1996 and ended his career with a stint with the San Diego Chargers in 1997.
Everett was recruited out of Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico to play either safety or quarterback for Purdue University. He was soon slotted into the quarterback role where he narrowly missed out on being a four-year starter at Purdue, as a game day decision before his first game as a freshman led to Scott Campbell getting the nod over Everett. Campbell held off Everett for three years, one of which Everett was able to redshirt to gain an extra year of eligibility. Upon Campbell's graduation to a seven-year career in the NFL, Everett took over the reins of the pass-oriented Boilermaker offense.
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Jim Hanifan
James Martin Michael "Jim" Hanifan (born September 21, 1933 in Compton, California) is a longtime American football coach and former head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons. He compiled a career record of 39-53-1.[citation needed]
Hanifan played college football at the University of California, where he was an All-American and led the nation in receiving in 1954. He played professionally for one season with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.[citation needed]
From 1959 to 1965, he coached at the high school(Charter Oak High School) and junior college level, he developed a reputation as an outstanding teacher and an offensive line guru.[citation needed]
He was an assistant coach at Utah from 1966–1969, California from 1970–1971, and San Diego State in 1972. During this time Hanifan joined the NFL in 1973, serving as offensive line coach for the St. Louis Cardinals until 1978. He was recognized as the NFL's Assistant Coach of the Year in 1977. After one year with the San Diego Chargers, Hanifan returned to the Cardinals and was their head coach from 1980-1985.[citation needed]
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Jim Haslett
James Donald "Jim" Haslett (born December 9, 1955) is an American football coach and former linebacker. He is currently the defensive coordinator of the Washington Redskins. Previously, he served as the head coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League, and the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams in the National Football League.
Haslett attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and was selected in the second round of the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. He was a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills until 1985, and played with the New York Jets in 1987. He was named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year for 1979. In a 2005 article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Haslett admitted to using steroids while playing for the Buffalo Bills. Haslett went on record saying that "everybody tried it" to gain a competitive advantage against opposing teams.
Haslett's first coaching position was as an assistant coach at the University at Buffalo. He is the second assistant coach of the Buffalo Bulls to move and become a head coach in the NFL. The first was Buddy Ryan.
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Joe Bowden
Joe Tarrod Bowden III (born February 25, 1970 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American football linebacker who played nine seasons in the National Football League. He started for the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Bowden attended North Mesquite High School in Mesquite, Texas. He then attended the University of Oklahoma, gaining All-American honors as a senior.
Bowden was drafted in the fifth round of the 1992 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers. He played five seasons with the Oilers, then made the move with the franchise to Tennessee in 1997. He played three years with Tennessee, starting at outside linebacker for the Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV. He concluded his playing career with the Dallas Cowboys in 2000.
Bowden is currently at the University of Central Oklahoma as the secondary coach.
In 1998, Bowden married Malika (Welch) and they have two daughters, Sydney and Cheyenne. He has one son, Jaylon who plays football as well.
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Joe Germaine
Joseph Berton Germaine (born November 16, 1975 in Denver, Colorado) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent of the Arena Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.
Germaine earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV. He has also been a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers and Utah Blaze.
Germaine attended Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. He became a starter midway through his junior year and set school records with 3,782 passing yards, a 59% completion percentage, and 39 touchdown passes. As a senior, he connected on 123 of 209 passes for 2,081 yards and 23 touchdowns. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies as a high school baseball prospect.
Germaine was recruited by Northern Arizona University out of high school, but NAU was wary of his intention to serve a two-year Mormon mission, and thus did not offer him a scholarship. After concluding his service as a missionary for his church, Germaine played one season (1995) at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona before transferring to Ohio State. In 1996 and 1997, he was the backup to quarterback Stanley Jackson, but saw significant playing time as the two shared QB duties. Germaine’s most memorable moment in his years as a backup came at the 1997 Rose Bowl. He led the Buckeyes on a 65-yard drive in 12 plays in the final 1:40 for the winning touchdown, a five-yard pass to David Boston with 19 seconds left. Germaine passed for 131 yards in the game and was named the game’s MVP.
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Joe Namath
Joseph William "Joe" Namath (/ˈneɪmɨθ/; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962–1964, and professional football in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. Namath was an American Football League icon and played for that league's New York Jets for most of his professional career but finished his career with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985.
Namath retired after playing in 143 career games (including play off games) with 68 wins, 71 losses and 4 ties, in his 132 career starts he was 64-64-4, and he was 4-7 coming off the bench in relief. In his career he threw 173 touchdowns, 220 interceptions, and completed 1,886 passes for 27,663 yards. During his thirteen years in the AFL and NFL he played for three division champions (the 1968 and 1969 AFL East Champion Jets and the 1977 NFC West Champion Rams), earned one league championship (1968 AFL Championship), and one Super Bowl victory (Super Bowl III).
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Joe Stydahar
Joseph "Jumbo Joe" Lee Stydahar (born Joseph Lee Stajduhar on March 17, 1912; died March 23, 1977) was an American football offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears from 1936 to 1942 and 1945 to 1946 and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was born and raised about 70 miles (110 km) east of Pittsburgh in the small mining community of Kaylor, Pennsylvania in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Stydahar attended West Virginia University, and was the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams during the 1950 and 1951 seasons, and the Chicago Cardinals during 1953 and 1954. Stydahar died on March 23, 1977.
At West Virginia, Stydahar won various All-Eastern honors and after his senior year, he was invited to participate in the College All-Star game and the East-West All-Star game.
He was a two sport star at West Virginia, playing both football and basketball. Stydahar was a three year letterman in basketball and once held the single game scoring record of 24 points against West Virginia Wesleyan in 1933.
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Joe Vitt
Joe Vitt (born August 23, 1954) is the asst. head coach and linebackers coach of the New Orleans Saints. He is currently the interim head coach for the 2012 season.
Vitt was a three-year letterman (1974–75, 1977) as a linebacker at Towson State University despite being an undersized 5'10" and smallish 190 pounds. He graduated in 1978.
He entered the National Football League (NFL) as the strength/quality control coach for the Baltimore Colts from 1979 through 1981.
Vitt was the Seattle Seahawks' strength coach when Chuck Knox came to be head coach in 1983. He quickly promoted Vitt to defensive backs coach. Vitt moved with Knox to the Los Angeles Rams, where he worked, along with Mike Martz, on his staff from 1992 to 1994.
Vitt has also been an assistant for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. He served under former St. Louis Rams coach Dick Vermeil for the Kansas City Chiefs for three years until Martz brought him to St. Louis as the assistant head coach and linebackers coach; it marked Vitt's eighth time in the National Football League, and the second with the franchise. During the 2005 NFL season, Vitt served as the interim Head Coach of the Rams while Martz was out due to a bacterial heart infection. He coached the team from Week 5 until the end of the regular season; soon afterward, Martz was fired. Vitt had a record of 4-7, and was replaced by Scott Linehan in the off-season. Fans and media alike enjoyed Vitt's "Jersey Joe" persona. Vitt had "Vittisms" like "I can't sing or dance so I coach football" and "no excuses play like a champion," which have made him a cult icon in some hardcore Rams fan circles.
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John Bettridge
John Bettridge (March 19, 1910 – December 1975) was an American football player who spent one year in the National Football League.
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John Fassel
John Fassel (born January 10, 1974) is a special teams coordinator for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League.
He is the son of coach Jim Fassel.
On January 31st, 2012 it was announced that he would be the Special Teams Coach of the St. Louis Rams.
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John Hekker
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John Matsko
John Matsko (born February 2, 1951 in Cleveland) is a former collegiate football player and collegiate and professional coach, currently serving as the offensive line coach for the National Football League Carolina Panthers.
Matsko was hired on January 31, 2008 by the Baltimore Ravens to work under offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and head coach John Harbaugh. He was fired in January 2011. The next day, he was hired by the Carolina Panthers to work under head coach Ron Rivera and offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski. Prior to being hired in Baltimore, Matsko held the same position for the Kansas City Chiefs during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Prior to that, Matsko coached professionally for the Cardinals, Saints, N.Y. Giants, and Rams.
Matsko coached at the college football level at Kent State, Miami (Ohio), North Carolina, Navy, Arizona and USC.
Matsko played at Kent State University.
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Johnny Drake
John W. "Zero" Drake (March 27, 1916 – March 26, 1973) was an American football player. He was the first round pick (10th overall) by the Cleveland Rams, their first ever draft pick, in the 1937 NFL Draft.
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Josh Gordy
Josh Gordy (born February 9, 1987 in Warthen, Georgia) is an American football cornerback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. Gordy has previously been a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars & Green Bay Packers.
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Josh Hull
Joshua Lynn Hull (born May 21, 1987) is an American football linebacker for the St. Louis Rams. In college, Hull played linebacker for Penn State Nittany Lions.
Hull grew up in Millheim, Pennsylvania, approximately 25 miles east of State College, Pennsylvania. He attended Penns Valley High School, where he played football under coach Martin Tobias. He was a three-year starter, serving as team captain and defensive captain as a senior. Hull was selected first-team all-conference on defense after his senior season and was a team captain in the 2006 Lezzer Lumber Classic. He was also a three-year letterman on the baseball team, earning first-team all-conference accolades as an outfielder.
A former walk-on, Hull became a starter in 2008 when pre-season All-American Sean Lee suffered a season-ending knee injury in spring practice. Hull was the starter for all 13 games that season, finishing as the second leading tackler behind NaVorro Bowman with 66 tackles, one quarterback sack, and one interception. He had a game-high nine tackles in the 2009 Rose Bowl.
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Josh McDaniels
Josh McDaniels (born April 21, 1976) is an American football coach, currently serving as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the New England Patriots. He is in his second stint as offensive coordinator in New England, having begun his career there in 2001 as a personnel assistant, eventually serving as offensive coordinator from 2006–2008.
In 2009, McDaniels was hired as the head coach of the Denver Broncos. At the time of his hiring, 33 year-old McDaniels was the youngest head coach in the NFL, although less than a week later the Tampa Bay Buccaneers named the even-younger Raheem Morris as their head coach. McDaniels was fired by Denver after a 3–9 start in 2010. He spent the 2011 season as offensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams, but was released by the Rams for the 2011–12 NFL playoffs to serve as an offensive assistant for the Patriots in their run to Super Bowl XLVI.
Josh McDaniels is the son of Thom McDaniels (the 1997 USA Today High School Coach of the Year and often described as a "legend" of Ohio high school football). Attending his father's practices during his youth has been credited with inspiring McDaniels to enter coaching.
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Jules Alfonse
Julius Alfonse (born October 12, 1911 in Cumberland, Wisconsin) was an American football fullback/halfback in the National Football League. He was a 2nd round selection (20th overall pick) by the Cleveland Rams out of Minnesota in the 1937 NFL Draft.
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Justin Cole
Justin Alexander Cole (born November 22, 1987) is an American football linebacker for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He played college football at San Jose State where in 49 games recovered five fumbles and force another four.
Cole attended Chino Hills High School, where he was credited with 36 tackles and four quarterback sacks and was named his team’s "Most Improved Player" as a senior. He received first-team All-Sierra League and second-team All-Inland Empire honors in 2004.
Regarded as a two-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was not listed among the top prospects of his class.
After redshirting his initial year at San Jose State, Cole recorded 32 tackles, including 9.5 tackles for loss, and 4.0 quarterback sacks in his freshman year. He earned freshman All-America recognition from the Sporting News. Cole added 36 tackles in his sophomore season.
In his junior year, Cole doubled his career tackle total with 68 stops, and also had 5.0 sacks (sixth in the WAC). He came up with his first career interception, a 62-yard interception return for a touchdown and his single game career best of 12 tackles (1 solo, 11 assisted) against Boise State. He earned a Second Team All-WAC selection, which he also received in his senior year.
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Justin Watson
Justin Watson (born January 7, 1975 in Bronx, New York) is a former professional American football player who played running back for three seasons for the St. Louis Rams.
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Keith Lyle
Keith Allen Lyle (born April 17, 1972 in Washington D.C.) is a former American football safety in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the third round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at Virginia.
Lyle also played for the Washington Redskins and San Diego Chargers.
In high school, he played quarterback and safety for George C. Marshall High School, in Falls Church, Virginia.
From 1995 to 1998, Lyle intercepted 23 passes, the most in the NFL during that period. During the 1996 NFL season, Lyle, along with Tyrone Braxton of the Denver Broncos, led the NFL in interceptions with nine. Throughout his career with the Rams, Lyle also served as the team's holder.
Keith's father Garry Lyle played for the Chicago Bears from 1968 to 1974.
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Kellen Clemens
Kellen Clemens (born June 6, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Jets in the second round (49th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Oregon.
He has also been a member of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans.
Clemens played high school football for the Burns Hilanders and led them to the Oregon state 3A championship game in 1999. In his high school career he threw for a state-record 8,646 yards (610-of-1,112) and 102 TD. He also received USA Today All-American honors and Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year while in high school, where he completed 218 of 395 passes for 3,464 yards (3,167 m) and 37 TD with 325 rushing yards and 15 TD in his senior season. He was coached by Terry Graham using the run and shoot offense.
Clemens played college football at the University of Oregon. He assumed the role of starting QB in all 13 games in 2003 and responded by throwing for more TD passes and yards than any sophomore in school history, surpassing Dan Fouts--who had 16 TDs and 2390 yards, in 1970. He posted three rushing TD, three passing TD and a career-best 437 passing yards in a road victory over Washington State as a junior. As a senior during the 2005 season he broke his ankle while playing against Arizona. Despite missing remaining three games of the season, he finished 2005 with 2,406 passing yards, 19 TDs, 4 interceptions, and a 152.87 passer efficiency rating. He finished his Oregon career with 7,555 passing yards.
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Kendall Langford
Kendall Arkel Langford (born January 27, 1986) is an American football defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Hampton.
Langford attended and played high school football at Petersburg (Va.) High School. He was earned First-Team All-District honors as a junior in 2002, as well as First-Team All-District, Second-Team All-Metro and Second-Team All-Region honors as a senior.
Langford then attended and played college football at Hampton University, where he was a four-year letterman from 2004 to 2007. He was also recruited by Virginia, Virginia Tech, Morgan State as well as other Division I-AA schools.
In 12 games (three starts) for the Pirates as a freshman in 2004, Langford earned Freshman all-American honors after recording 44 tackles (15 solo), 11.5 tackles for a loss, 4.5 sacks, seven quarterback pressures, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. In a game against South Carolina State, he recovered a fumble and returned it 30 yards for a touchdown.
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Kevin Greene
Kevin Darwin Greene (born July 31, 1962) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League for 15 years and who retired after the 1999 NFL season. Greene is currently the outside linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers.
Greene was a two-year starter and honorable mention All-conference selection as a senior at Granite City South High (IL.). He also played basketball and was a high jumper for the track team. He is in The Granite City Sports Hall of Fame in Granite City, IL.
Greene played college football as a walk-on at Auburn University, and in 1984 won the Zeke Smith Award as Defensive Player of the Year. He had 69 career tackles as an outside linebacker and 11 sacks his senior year where he led the Southeastern Conference. He was selected by the Birmingham Stallions in the 1985 United States Football League Territorial Draft and later selected by the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League in the fifth round (113th overall) of the NFL Draft the same year. He earned a degree in Criminal Justice at Auburn. He completed ROTC while at Auburn and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Alabama Army National Guard and during the off season, he graduated from the RC-1-86 Armor Officer Basic Course, Fort Knox, KY.
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Kurt Warner
Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner (born June 22, 1971) is a former American football player. He played quarterback for three National Football League (NFL) teams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing college football at Northern Iowa. Warner would go on to be considered one of the best undrafted players of all time, following a 12-year career regarded as one of the greatest stories in NFL history.
Warner first attained stardom while playing for the St. Louis Rams from 1998–2003, where he won two NFL MVP awards in 1999 and 2001 as well as the Super Bowl MVP award in Super Bowl XXXIV. He led the 2008 Arizona Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII (the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl berth), and owns the three highest single-game passing yardage totals in Super Bowl history. Warner currently holds the seventh-highest career passer rating of all-time (93.7), and the third-highest career completion percentage in NFL history with 65.5%.
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Lamar Lundy
Lamar J. Lundy, Jr. (April 17, 1935 – February 24, 2007) was an American defensive end with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League for 13 seasons, from 1957 to 1969. Along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Rosey Grier, Lundy was a member of the Fearsome Foursome, often considered one of the best defensive lines in NFL history. All four also did some acting; Lundy portrayed the boulder-hurling cyclops in the unaired pilot of Lost in Space (this pilot was later made into episode 4 of the series, entitled "There Were Giants in the Earth").
Lundy was born in Richmond, Indiana, and attended Purdue University, where he was the first black student to receive a football scholarship, and where he was named MVP of both the football and basketball teams in his senior year. The 6'7" Lundy was drafted by both the NFL and the NBA, but he opted for a career in football. Early in his professional career, Lundy (#85) was occasionally used as an offensive receiver, catching 35 passes for 584 yards and 6 touchdowns. He scored an additional 3 touchdowns on interception returns (coincidentally, on the only 3 interceptions of his NFL career). When he retired as a player, Lundy became an assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers, but was forced by illness to cease coaching.
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Lance Kendricks
Lance Kendricks (born January 30, 1988) is an American football tight end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). Kendricks played college football for the University of Wisconsin, and was recognized as an All-American. The Rams selected him in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft.
Kendricks was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School in Milwaukee, and played for the Rufus King Generals high school football team. In football, he was a two-time all-city selection, the Generals' most valuable player as a junior and senior, and the team captain as a senior. He caught 42 passes for 640 yards as a senior, and totaled 102 receptions for 1,905 yards during his high school career. He was also a member of the Generals basketball and track and field teams, and was a four-time AAU triple jump champion. At the high school track and field state championships, he finished third in the triple jump as a sophomore and second as a junior.
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Larry Brink
Lawrence Raymond Brink (born September 12, 1923) is a former American football defensive lineman who played seven seasons in the National Football League.
Brink was born in Milaca, Minnesota on September 12, 1923, to Garrett and Anna (Ruis) Brink. He attended Foley High School in Foley, Minnesota. After military service in World War II, Brink went to Northern Illinois University, where he played college football for the Huskies from 1945 to 1947. He played with three other future NFL players on the 1946 team that won the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship, with an 8–2–0 record. The team went on to the Turkey Bowl, losing to Evanston in the Huskies' first post-season game. He graduated in 1948 with a B.S. in education. In 1978, Brink was one of the charter inductees of the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Lawrence McCutcheon
Lawrence McCutcheon (born June 2, 1950, in Plainview, Texas) is a former American football running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1972–1980, the Denver Broncos & Seattle Seahawks in 1980 and finished his playing career in 1981 with the Buffalo Bills, reuniting with his former Rams coach Chuck Knox.
McCutcheon was selected in the third Round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the Rams out of Colorado State University. He appeared in 89 games for the Rams, appearing in seven playoff games including Super Bowl XIV. In 1975 McCutcheon established a Postseason record by rushing for 202 yards on 37 carries in the playoff game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
McCutcheon led the Rams in rushing for 5 consecutive seasons from 1973–1977 and was named to the Pro Bowl each year. During his tenure with the Rams, McCutcheon gained a total of 6,186 yards on 1,425 carries. In addition to his 5 consecutive Pro Bowl appearances, McCutcheon was named Second-team All-Pro in 1974, All-NFC in 1977 & Second-team All-NFC in 1973, 1975 & 1976.
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Lawrence Phillips
Lawrence Lamond Phillips (born May 12, 1975) is a former professional American football and Canadian football running back. Phillips's trouble with the law and inability to produce in the NFL have led many critics to label him as a bust.
Phillips was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but by his teen years had made his way to Southern California, spending most of them in a foster home. He attended West Covina High School in West Covina, California for his freshman and sophomore years. He was a varsity starter both on offense, running back and defense, outside linebacker as a sophomore. He attended Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Park, California for his junior and senior years, winning back-to-back CIF Championships. His sterling numbers attracted the attention of the University of Nebraska.
In 1993, his freshman year at Nebraska, Phillips gradually worked his way up the depth chart. He came off the bench to rush for 137 yards and a touchdown in the Huskers' 14-13 win at Pac-10 champion UCLA. In the second half of the 1994 Orange Bowl against Florida State, Phillips again came off the bench and sparked the Huskers' ground game, carrying 13 times for 64 of the Huskers 183 rushing yards against a formidable Seminole defense. All but one of Phillips's carries came in the fourth quarter, and he also scored on a 12-yard touchdown run. The game established him as the primary running back in the Nebraska offense.
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Leon McLaughlin
Leon McLaughlin (born May 30, 1925 in San Diego, California) was an offensive lineman who played five seasons in the NFL.
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Leonard Little
Leonard Antonio Little (born October 19, 1974 in Asheville, North Carolina) is a former American football defensive end. He was originally drafted by the Rams in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.
Little attended Asheville High School in Asheville, North Carolina, where he played both linebacker and wide receiver. At AHS, he was a three-year starter. For his senior year, Little was named a Super Prep, Blue Chip, Prep Football Report as well as a First-team All-American. In November, 2005, his high school retired his #30 jersey.
Little played three seasons at University of Tennessee, where he started every game at middle linebacker during his senior season, leading the team in tackles (87) and sacks (8.5). He was First-team All-America and First-team All-Southeastern Conference in his senior season. He appeared in the first seven games of his junior season at defensive end, tallying 33 tackles, 8.5 sacks, and five tackles for losses, also blocking one field goal and forcing four fumbles. As a sophomore, he started every game at left defensive end and recorded 62 tackles and a career-high eleven sacks. He played one season for Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, Kansas. Little graduated from Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in psychology.
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Les Lear
Leslie Lear (born on August 22, 1918 in Grafton, North Dakota; died January 5, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) was a National Football League and Canadian Football League player and coach as well as an owner and trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.
He grew up in Manitoba, Canada, where he played guard at the University of Manitoba. Lear started his professional football career with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League and helped the team to two Grey Cup victories. In 1944, he signed with the Cleveland Rams of the NFL becoming the first Canadian-trained player to play in the NFL. He would play a total of 4 seasons in the NFL. After his stint in the NFL, Lear returned to Canada where he coached the Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders to an undefeated season in 1948. [1]
Following his retirement from football, Les Lear became involved in Thoroughbred horse racing both as a horse trainer and an owner.
Lear was elected into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1974. He died of kidney failure on January 5, 1979.
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Les Richter
Leslie Alan Richter (October 26, 1930 – June 12, 2010) was a Los Angeles Rams National Football League football player, former head of operations for NASCAR and president of the Riverside International Raceway. He played in 8 Pro Bowls as a linebacker. Richter was born in Fresno, California. He was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
After graduating from the University of California in 1952, where he played guard and linebacker, he served in the U.S. Army for two years. He was a first-round draft choice of the NFL's New York Yanks, the 2nd pick overall, in the 1952 NFL Draft. The Yanks folded before the 1952 season, and the Dallas Texans (NFL) assumed the rights to Richter. They traded him to the Los Angeles Rams for eleven players, the 2nd largest deal ever made for a single player. The largest was in 1953, when Cleveland and Baltimore made a 15-player trade. One of the Browns traveling to Baltimore was defensive back Don Shula. (1)
During his 9 years with the Rams, Richter intercepted 16 passes and scored 193 points which included 1 touchdown, 106 extra points, and 29 field goals. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982. On August 25, 2010 he was nominated as a senior candidate for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2011 along with former Washington Redskins linebacker Chris Hanburger
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Les Snead
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Lionel Barnes
Lionel I. Barnes, (born in Panama City, Florida) is the publisher of 50Fifty Magazine Inc., owner of Lionel I. Barnes Studios and Lionel I. Barnes Properties. He has worked with some of the biggest names and talents in the music, television and film industries. He produced a neo-soul album for Saved By The Bell star Lark Voorhies. He founded 50Fifty Magazine in 2008, and 50Fifty TV in 2009. Lionel Barnes has launched the careers of many urban models.
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London Fletcher
London Levi Fletcher-Baker (born May 19, 1975) is an American football inside linebacker for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted in 1998, he was signed by the St. Louis Rams as a rookie free agent, where he spent four seasons. In 2002, he was signed to the Buffalo Bills roster, where he stayed for five seasons.
He is also well known for never missing a game in his career, playing in 224 consecutive games over 14 seasons.
Fletcher attended St. Joeseph High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and won varsity letters in football and basketball. He played on two state championship basketball teams.[citation needed]
While attending John Carroll University (Blue Streaks), Fletcher played both basketball and football. As a senior, he had 202 tackles (a school-record) and was named the Division III National Linebacker of the Year. Fletcher also attended St. Francis University of Pennsylvania prior to transferring to John Carroll University. He was on the Men's Basketball Team at St. Francis.
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Lorenzo Styles
Lorenzo Styles (born January 31, 1974 in Sharon, Pennsylvania) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for six seasons for the Atlanta Falcons and St. Louis Rams, and is the current Head Coach of the Marion Blue Racers.
As a prep star at Farrell High School in Farrell, Pennsylvania from 1990 and 1991, he was inducted into the Mercer County Hall of Fame. He also attended Independence High School in Columbus, Ohio
Heavely recruited by Ohio State University in which he received a full ride and played for Coach John Cooper for 3 seasons before he decided to take his talents to the NFL early.
He was drafted in the 3rd round by the Atlanta Falcons in the 3rd round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He ended up playing for 2 seasons as linebacker and on special teams.
Traded in 1996 he went on to play for the St. Louis Rams, he went on to play for 4 seasons as a linebacker and special teams player. He helped the Rams win Super Bowl XXXIV.
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Lynn Stiles
Lynn Stiles (born c. 1941) is a former American football player, coach, and executive in the United States. He served as the head football coach at the San Jose State University from 1976 to 1978, compiling a record of 18–16. Stiles was later an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers of the NFL. From 1992 to 2006, he served in the front office for the Kansas City Chiefs as vice president of player personnel.
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Mario Haggan
Mario Marcell Haggan (born March 3, 1980) is an American football linebacker for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Mississippi State.
Haggan has also played for the Denver Broncos.
Haggan grew up in a poverty-stricken area of Mississippi. He attended Clarksdale High School, where he played football and was named an All-American. He was named first-team all-state by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger and played in the Mississippi/Alabama All-Star Game. He led his team to the state Class 4A championship in 1997. As a senior, he recorded 158 tackles with three fumble recoveries. He earned Honorable Mention All-American honors by USA Today.
Haggan played college football at Mississippi State. Haggan started at linebacker in 1999, a season that saw Mississippi State start 8-0 and earn one of the highest national rankings in school history.
Haggan was drafted in the 7th round of the 2003 draft by the Buffalo Bills.
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Mark Barber
Mark Barber was an American football player who spent one year in the National Football League.
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Mark Sanchez
Mark Travis John Sanchez (born November 11, 1986) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft as the fifth overall selection by the Jets and the second quarterback taken overall. He played college football at the University of Southern California (USC).
Sanchez grew up in a well-disciplined and athletic family. In the eighth grade, he began to play football and learn the intricacies of the quarterback position, training with his father, Nick. A well-regarded prospect, Sanchez committed to Southern California following his successful high school career in which he led his team to a championship title during his final season. At USC, Sanchez was relegated as the backup quarterback during his first three years though he rose to prominence due to his brief appearances on the field in 2007 due to injuries suffered by starting quarterback John David Booty. Sanchez also became popular within the community due to his Mexican-American heritage. Named the starter in 2008, Sanchez led USC to a 12–1 record and won the Rose Bowl against Penn State for which Sanchez was awarded the Most Valuable Player award for his performance on offense.
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Marshall Faulk
Marshall William Faulk (born February 26, 1973) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. He played college football for San Diego State University, and was a three-time All-American. He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts as the second overall pick in the 1994 NFL Draft, and he also played professionally for the NFL's St. Louis Rams. Faulk is one of only three NFL players (Marcus Allen and Tiki Barber being the others) to reach at least 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards; he is the only one to amass 12,000 yards rushing and 6,000 yards receiving. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
He is currently a pro football analyst for NFL Total Access, Thursday Night Football, and NFL GameDay Morning on the NFL Network.
Faulk was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended George Washington Carver High School in Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where he played for the Carver Rams high school football team.
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Matt Ryan
Matthew Thomas "Matt" Ryan (born May 17, 1985), nicknamed "Matty Ice," is the starting American football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League. He was drafted in the first round as the third overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft after playing college football at Boston College.
He was Boston College's starter from 2005 to 2007, leading them to three bowl victories and a 25-7 record in 32 starts. He threw for 200 or more yards 15 times and is fifth all-time in school history in passing yards and in pass completions. He earned MVP honors at the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl.
In 2007, Ryan led his team to an ACC Atlantic Division championship and was named ACC Player of the Year. During his rookie year, Ryan started all 16 games for the Falcons and led them to the playoffs with an 11-5 season record. He has also earned honors as the 2008 NFL AP Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Ryan comes from an Irish Catholic family on both sides, and is the third of Bernice and Michael Ryan's four children. Ryan's uncle, John Loughery, played quarterback at Boston College from 1979-82. Ryan launched a website during his senior year at BC called Mattyice.com (a nickname derived from the beer Natty Ice), where fans and media have 24-hour access to video highlights, updated biographical information, statistics and other information about Ryan. He also created an activity named "Folleyball" for NFL Play 60 at NFL Rush.com. Ryan is also an avid golfer and has participated in such tournaments as the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, including Augusta National Golf Club. Ryan also is part of the Falcons online reading program “Read with a Falcon”.
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Matt Willig
Matthew Joseph "Matt" Willig (born January 21, 1969) is an American actor and former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He stands 6 feet, 8 inches (203 cm).
He was portraying the character, Special Agent Simon Cade, in season eight of NCIS (TV series) until the first episode of season nine which was aired on September 20, 2011. In 2009 he had a supporting role as a brutish caveman tormenting Jack Black and Michael Cera in the motion picture, Year One. He appeared as a gang member named Little Chino on the Showtime series, Dexter (2007). He has appeared as a bodyguard named Yuri on the NBC series Chuck, and also has appeared in an episode of My Name is Earl entitled "Bullies". Matt has acted in numerous national commercial campaigns, including a Capital One spot with David Spade, a Bud Light spot, and as an action hero in a Halls commercial. He also appeared in a season 7 episode of Malcolm In the Middle, as Crash, a recovering alcoholic, and had a small role in the 1993 Hong Kong action movie, Full Contact. He appeared in a minor role in iCarly as a truckdriver named the "Sledghammer". He made another guest appearance on The Suite Life on Deck as a genie in season 2 episode 22. On Sonny with a Chance in the "Sonny Get Your Goat" episode, he appeared as 'Limo', the mode of transportation to Tawni's motel room in a foreign country, and appeared in the new Disney XD show Pair of Kings. Willig also had a supporting role in the second episode of Terriers. He also appears in the upcoming film, The Sibling. The most recent appearance as of November 15, 2011, he was on the CBS soap opera, "The Young and the Restless", as Billy Abbott's bodyguard, "Tank".
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Matthew Conrath
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Matthew Daniels
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Matthew Mulligan
Matthew Ben Mulligan (born January 18, 1985) is an American football tight end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Maine.
Mulligan has also been a member of the Tennessee Titans and New York Jets.
Mulligan lived in Enfield, Maine and attended high school at Penobscot Valley High School in Howland, Maine.
Mulligan was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He was released from the Dolphins on August 30 during final cuts. However, the Dolphins re-signed him to the practice squad the following day. Mulligan remained on the practice squad until his release on November 5.
Mulligan was signed to the practice squad of the Tennessee Titans on November 19, 2008. Following the season, he was re-signed to a future contract on January 12. The Titans waived him on September 4.
Mulligan was claimed off waivers by the New York Jets on September 6, 2009. He was waived on September 23. He was re-signed to the practice squad on September 24. He was promoted to the active roster on December 2.
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Merlin Olsen
Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15, 1940 – March 11, 2010) was an American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor. He played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was elected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons, a current record shared with Bruce Matthews. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. As an actor he portrayed the farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. After leaving that series, he starred in his own NBC drama, Father Murphy, playing the title role of a foster dad posing as a traveling priest.
Born to Lynn Jay and Merle Barrus Olsen in Logan, Utah, the second of nine siblings and the first-born son, Merlin Olsen had three brothers and five sisters: Colleen, Clark, Lorraine, Gwen, Phil, Winona, Ramona, and Orrin.
Olsen attended Utah State University where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was a three-year letterman in football as a defensive tackle. He graduated from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at USU with a bachelor's degree in Finance in 1962 and a master's degree in Economics in 1971. He later received an honorary doctorate degree in business from the Huntsman School. In football, as a senior, he was a consensus All-American selection (making the vast majority of All-America teams) and was the winner of the Outland Trophy. After Olsen's junior year of 1960 he was also named All-American by the Football Writers Association of America and Newspaper Enterprise Association. He was also All-Conference in both 1960 and 1961. Olsen and Utah State were in the 1960 Sun Bowl, losing to New Mexico State, 20–13. Led by Olsen, the Aggie defense held the New Mexico State Aggies to just 44 rushing yards on 32 carries.
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Michael Brockers
Michael Seth Brockers (born December 21, 1990) is an American football defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at LSU. He is considered, by many, to be the best defensive tackle prospect in the 2012 NFL Draft. He was drafted in the 1st round, 14th overall, by the St. Louis Rams in 2012.
Brockers attended Chavez High School in Houston, Texas.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, he was rated as the No.10 strongside defensive end prospect in the nation. He accepted a scholarship offer from LSU over other offers from Texas A&M and Texas Tech.
Brockers attended Louisiana State University from 2009 to 2011. After redshirting his initial year at LSU, Brockers saw action in all 13 games of the 2010 season, as backing up Lazarius Levingston at left defensive tackle. He made his first career start against Alabama and picked up four tackles in the win over the Crimson Tide. As a sophomore in 2011, he started all 13 games and was third on the team with 9.5 tackles for a loss. He earned a second team All-SEC selection by the Associated Press.
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Michael Hoomanawanui
Michael Patrick Hoomanawanui (pronounced /ˌhoʊʔoʊməˌnɑːwɑːˈnuːiː/ HOH’-oh-mə-NAH-wah-NOO-ee; born July 4, 1988) is an American football tight end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He attended the University of Illinois. He also attended Central Catholic High school in Bloomington, Illinois.
Hoomanawanui was a Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times First-team All-State selection and a First-team All-Cornbelt Conference selection after making 50 receptions for 843 yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior. Also, he led team with 139 tackles and eight sacks on defense. Hoomanawanui also lettered in basketball during freshman, sophomore and junior years.
In the 2009 season Hoomanawanui played in eight games, starting five. He ended the season with 10 receptions for 114 yards. As a junior, in 2008, he earned honorable mention All-Big Ten honors by both the media and coaches after playing in all 12 games and eight starts at tight end. He ended the season with 25 catches for 312 yards and two touchdowns. In 2007 he played in 11 games, starting five at tight end. As a freshman he played in 10 games, starting three at tight end.
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Mike Gruttadauria
Michael Jason Gruttadauria (born December 6, 1972 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former center (American football) who played eight seasons in the National Football League with the St. Louis Rams and the Arizona Cardinals.
Michael was an undrafted free agent to the Dallas Cowboys in 1995. He was able to land a practice squad spot, but was released with the entire practice squad when the Cowboys signed Deon Sanders. In 1996 Gruttadauria became the starting center of the St. Louis Rams. Though Gruttadauria entered each year with the Rams as the starter, injuries and knee surgeries limited his starts. He was injured himself through most of the 1998 season but returned strong in 1999, starting all 16 games for the Super Bowl-winning team. He then signed a lucrative contract as a free agent for the Arizona Cardinals in 2000, but, because of injuries, played only half the year in 2000 and 2002, his final year, though he played 15 games in 2001.
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Mike Martz
Michael Martz (born May 13, 1951) is a former NFL head coach and offensive coordinator.
Martz is best known as the offensive coordinator behind the St. Louis Rams high-powered 1999 team that won the Super Bowl. As a head coach in the NFL Martz was 56-36 in 5⅓ seasons as the St. Louis Rams head coach. He won two division titles, had four playoff berths including a NFC championship and a trip to Super Bowl XXXVI.
Martz played tight end at San Diego Mesa College, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fresno State University and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972. The following year his coaching career began at Bullard High School in Fresno, California. From 1974 to 1991, he was an assistant coach at seven colleges and universities, including two stints as offensive coordinator at Arizona State University.
In 1999, Martz was hired as the offensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams by Dick Vermeil, who went on to win Super Bowl XXXIV that season. During the season, Martz's number one ranked offense scored 526 points, the fourth highest in NFL history. Regarding Martz's impact on the season, Vermeil stated, "I can't think, in my history of coaching, of any assistant who came into an NFL franchise and made the immediate impact that Mike Martz did."
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Mike Scarry
Michael Joseph "Mo" Scarry (born February 1, 1920) is a former American football player and coach in the United States.
Scarry was the head college football coach for the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets located in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He held that position for 3 seasons, from 1963 until 1965. His coaching record at Waynesburg was 17 wins, 8 losses and 1 tie.As of the conclusion of the 2010 season, this ranks him #12 at Waynesburg in total wins and #5 at the school in winning percentage (.673).
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Mike Sebastian
Michael John "Lefty" Sebastian (June 7, 1910 - June 28, 1989) was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Pirates, (later renamed the Steelers) and the Cleveland Rams. Nicknamed the Rose of Sharon, he also played for the Rams while they were still members of the second American Football League as well as the AFL's Rochester Tigers. Prior to his professional career, Mike played college football at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he played under coach Jock Sutherland, who had declared Mike the best passer whom he had seen in "many days."
Mike was born in Luxor, Pennsylvania, a coal mining "patch town", located near Greensburg. He attended Sharon High School in Sharon, Pennsylvania where he played football and track, earning All-State honors in both sports. In 1928 Sebastian earned national attention when he scored ten touchdowns contributing to 63 points in just one game.
Mike earned a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where he again starred in both sports and earned a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh where he played as a fullback and earned All-American recognition in 1932 and 1933. While at Pitt, Sebastian helped the Panthers to a shared National Championship in 1931.
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Mike Waufle
Mike Waufle (born (1954-06-27)June 27, 1954) is an American football coach. He currently serves as defensive line coach under head coach Jeff Fisher for the St. Louis Rams. Waufle has also served as defensive line coach for the Oakland Raiders from 1998–2003, 2010-2011. Waufle has coached at the college and pro level, and also as both offensive and defensive assistant throughout his career. Waufle was also a member of the 2007 New York Giants, who won Super Bowl XLII. He was the Giants' Defensive Line coach from 2004-2009 before joining the Raiders in 2010. And now the St. Louis Rams under new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
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Milan Lazetich
Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich (August 27, 1921 – July 9, 1969) was an American football player in the 1940s. He played college football for the University of Montana and University of Michigan. He was a first-team All-Big Ten tackle and second-team All-American in 1944 for the Michigan Wolverines. He later played professional football for the Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Rams. He played on the 1945 NFL Championship team as a rookie and was an All-Pro guard/linebacker for the Rams in 1948 and 1949.
Lazetich was born in 1921 in Anaconda, Montana. He was the son of Peter Lazetich, a pioneer Serbian rancher. He grew up on his father's cattle ranch a few miles from Anaconda. Lazetich attended Anaconda High School where he played football and was selected as an all-state tackle three straight years in 1938, 1939 and 1940. He also played basketball and was a member of the track team. Two of his brothers were also all-state football players at Anaconda High School.
Lazetich played one year of college football at the University of Montana. In a spring game in April 1942, Lazetich returned a kickoff 90 yards. He joined the U.S. Navy during World War II but received a medical discharge. After being discharged from the Navy, Lazetich served as a deputy sheriff in Deer Lodge County, Montana. He also worked as a cowpuncher and rodeo rider.
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Norb Hecker
Norbert Earl Hecker (May 26, 1927 – March 14, 2004) was an American football player and coach who was part of eight National Football League championship teams, but may be best remembered as the first head coach of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
Born and raised in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Hecker served in the U.S. Army during World War II, then returned home to attend nearby Baldwin-Wallace College. In his years at the school, he showed himself to be an outstanding athlete by competing in four sports, most notably in football, where he won small college All-American honors in 1950 at wide receiver. After having seen time as a reserve during the previous two years, Hecker caught 34 passes for 646 yards as a senior, including 13 catches in a single game.
NorbHecker lived in Olmsted Falls Ohio, and his family still lives there this very day. Hecker was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the sixth round of the 1951 NFL Draft, and during his first season with the team, played on both sides of the ball, missing only one game after suffering a fractured cheekbone. On defense, he returned one turnover for a touchdown that season, but his most important contribution came in the NFL title game on December 23, when his game-saving tackle helped the Rams defeat the Cleveland Browns, 24-17.
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Norm Van Brocklin
Norman Mack "Norm" Van Brocklin (March 15, 1926 – May 2, 1983), nicknamed "The Dutchman", was an American football player and coach. He was also a first rate punter in college and in the NFL. Van Brocklin was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Van Brocklin was born in Parade, Dewey County, South Dakota to Mack and Ethel Van Brocklin and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. He played high school football at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California.
Van Brocklin served in the United States Navy from 1943 through 1945.
Van Brocklin led the Oregon Ducks to a 16-5 record as a starter, including tying with Cal for the 1948 title of the Pacific Coast Conference, forerunner of the Pac-10. Oregon did not go to the Rose Bowl, however, because Cal was voted by the other schools to represent the PCC in the game. Among the Cal voters was the University of Washington, which elevated the intensity of the Oregon-Washington rivalry. Oregon received an invitation to play SMU in the 1949 Cotton Bowl Classic, which they accepted. It was the first time that a Pacific Coast team played in a major bowl game other than the Rose Bowl. SMU won 20–13. That season, Van Brocklin was honored with an All-America selection and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Coincidentally, the Heisman Trophy winner that year was SMU running back Doak Walker. Both Walker and Van Brocklin got Outstanding Player recognition for their performance in the Cotton Bowl Classic.
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Ollie Matson
Ollie Genoa Matson II (May 1, 1930 – February 19, 2011) was an American Olympic medal winning sprinter and professional American football running back who played in the National Football League, in 1952 and from 1954 to 1966. He graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco in 1948.
Matson attended the City College of San Francisco prior to transferring to the University of San Francisco. While in school, Matson became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. In 1951, Matson's senior year at USF, he led the nation in rushing yardage and touchdowns en route to leading the Dons to an undefeated season. He was selected as an All-American and finished ninth in Heisman Trophy balloting that year.
Despite its 9-0 record, the 1951 San Francisco team was not invited to a bowl game. It was later reported that the Orange, Sugar and Gator Bowls - all in the American South - did not consider inviting any teams that had black players, and the USF refused to play without its two African-American teammates.
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Ookie Miller
Charles Lewis "Ookie" Miller (November 11, 1909-August 7, 2002) is a former professional American football player. Miller played seven years in the National Football League, mainly for the Chicago Bears. He was an offensive lineman.
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Orlando Pace
Orlando Lamar Pace (born November 4, 1975) is a former American college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University, and was twice recognized as an All-American. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams first overall in the 1997 NFL Draft, and he played professionally for the Rams for twelve years. Pace started all 16 regular season games eight times in his pro career, and blocked for three straight NFL MVPs (Kurt Warner in 1999, 2001; and Marshall Faulk in 2000). He was the cornerstone of a Rams offensive line that blocked for an offense that compiled more gross yards than any other team during his 12 years in St. Louis (50,770 in 12 seasons), finished second in completion percentage (61.8 percent) and fifth in touchdown passes (289) over that time. Under Pace's protection, the Rams' passing offense compiled more than 3,000 yards in all 12 of his NFL seasons, seven different quarterbacks eclipsed the 3,000-yard mark in a season, including three times surpassing the 4,000-yard mark, and also blocked for seven 1,000-yard rushers. Pace started 154 consecutive games.
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Pat Shurmur
Pat Shurmur (born April 14, 1965) is currently the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
Shurmur was a four-year letterman in football at Michigan State University. He played guard and linebacker his freshman season, and started at center the next three seasons. He earned All-Big 10 Conference honors in 1987, his junior year. He was co-captain when the Spartans defeated the USC Trojans in the Rose Bowl in his senior year.
Shurmur’s résumé includes 23 years of coaching experience, including 12 in the NFL. In those 12 seasons, he has been a part of seven playoff teams, winning five division crowns and appearing in the Super Bowl.
Shurmur began working for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999. On January 21, 2009, Shurmur was hired by Steve Spagnuolo to be the offensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams.
He helped the Rams improve to a 7-9 record following a 1-15 season in 2009, the second-biggest turnaround in the league in 2010. He guided St. Louis’ offense to improvements in nearly every category including total yards, time of possession and third-down percentage, while they also scored 114 more points than the previous year. In addition, the Rams committed just 21 turnovers in 2010, tied for the ninth-lowest total in the NFL.
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Pat West
Pat West (February 21, 1923 - August 7, 1996) is a former fullback in the National Football League. He was drafted in the twenty-eighth round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams and would play with the team for three seasons and part of another, including during the franchise's move to Los Angeles, California, before playing the last part of his career with the Green Bay Packers.
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Paul Boudreau
Paul Boudreau (born December 30, 1949) is the current Offensive Line Coach for the NFL's St. Louis Rams. He previously served as the offensive line coach for eight different NFL teams, one CFL team, and four NCAA (college) teams. He has been coaching in the NFL ranks for 26 years and will once again return to the St. Louis Rams where he coached from 2006-2007.
Raised in Arlington, MA, Boudreau played offensive line at Arlington High School. Boudreau then attended Bordentown Military Institute (BMI) in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1967-1969, where he played offensive guard and defensive tackle. He received All-Prep honors from the Newark Star Ledger for the 1968 season. Paul Boudreau was widely recruited, but returned to his home state of Massachusetts and played for the Boston College Eagles under coach Joe Yukica.
After graduation in 1973, Boudreau began his coaching career at Oxford High School in Oxford, MA. He next moved to his alma mater, coaching the offensive line for the Boston College Eagles from 1974-1977. Stops at the University of Maine (1977–79), Dartmouth College (1979–81), and the United States Naval Academy (1982) preceded his appointment to the Edmonton Eskimos staff in 1983.
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Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was a coach in American football and a major figure in the development of the National Football League. A seminal figure in the game's history, Brown is considered the "father of the modern offense", and one of the greatest football coaches of all time, achieving success at every major level—high school, college, and professional—and introducing numerous innovative coaching methods still in use today. He is also credited with founding both the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals franchises, with the former named after him and the latter naming their stadium in his honor.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Brown's family moved to Walshingham when he was nine. His father, Lester, a dispatcher for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, was described as "very meticulous, serious-minded and highly-disciplined," all of which characterized Brown's later approach to coaching. Brown graduated from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio in 1925, having played varsity quarterback in the wake of Harry Stuhldreher (one of Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen).
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Paul Justin
Paul Donald Justin (born May 19, 1968) is a retired National Football League quarterback.
Justin, a graduate and football standout at Arizona State University, played with three different teams in his NFL career: the Indianapolis Colts (1995–1997), the Cincinnati Bengals (1998), and the St. Louis Rams (1999–2001). Prior to his time in the NFL, Justin was the starting quarterback for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League in 1993 and the Frankfurt Galaxy in 1995.
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Paul Olden
Paul Olden is the current public address announcer for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. He has been the announcer since the Yankees moved to their new ballpark in 2009, replacing Jim Hall, who replaced Bob Sheppard, who had been the Yankees announcer since 1951.
Previously, Olden has been a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Yankees, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Eagles, UCLA Bruins, Los Angeles Rams, New York Jets and New Jersey Nets. He was also the PA announcer for 12 consecutive Super Bowls from 1994 to 2005.
Olden was the target of Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda's infamous and profanity laden "Dave Kingman tirade" in 1976, in which Lasorda ranted at Olden (who worked at Los Angeles radio station KLAC at the time) when he asked him about Kingman having hit three home runs against the Dodgers that day.
Olden attended Dorsey High School and Los Angeles City College.
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Pete Rozelle
Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (/rɵˈzɛl/; March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. Rozelle is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.
Rozelle was born in South Gate, California and grew up in neighboring Lynwood, California during the Great Depression. He graduated from Compton High School in 1944, lettering in baseball and basketball. He was drafted into the Navy in 1944 and served 18 months in the Pacific on an oil tanker. Rozelle began his career at the University of San Francisco, working as a student publicist for the school's football team. He had already worked in public relations for the Los Angeles Rams front office and while in the athletic office at USF he marketed the Don's National Invitation Tournament championship basketball season of 1949 into a national media event. He graduated from USF in 1950.
He held a series of public relations jobs in Southern California, marketing the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia for a Los Angeles based company. He joined the Los Angeles Rams as its public relations specialist. By 1957, Rozelle was offered the GM job with the Rams. He turned a disorganized, unprofitable team, lost in the growing LA market, into a business success.
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Peter Giunta
Peter Giunta ( /ˈdʒuːntə/; born (1956-08-11)August 11, 1956) is an American football coach . He currently serves as defensive backs coach to defensive coordinator Perry Fewell and head coach Tom Coughlin for the New York Giants. Giunta has also served as defensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams from 1998–2000, succeeding the retiring Bud Carson. Giunta has coached at the high school, college and pro level, and also as both offensive and defensive assistant throughout his career. He played cornerback and running back under Robert Lyons at Northeastern University from 1974-1977.
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Quinn Ojinnaka
Quinn Ojinnaka (born April 23, 1984) is an American football offensive lineman for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse.
He has also been a member of the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts.
Ojinnaka attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, where he earned All-Prince George County offensive lineman honors as a senior, when his team had an 11-0 season that included the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship.
Ojinnaka attended Syracuse University, where he played in 44 games with 23 starts in four years.
In 2005, Ojinnaka started all 12 games as a junior. He was part of an offensive line that blocked for the first Syracuse duo to each run for 800 yards (Damien Rhodes and Walter Reyes) since 1979. The team allowed only 19 sacks, the second-fewest in the Big East Conference. In 2006, Ojinnaka played in the 2006 Las Vegas All-American Classic for the East squad after starting all 11 games as a senior.
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Quintin Mikell
Quintin Perry Mikell (born September 16, 1980) is an American football safety for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Boise State.
Mikell played high school football for the Willamette Wolverines in Eugene, Oregon. He also played basketball and ran track.
Mikell played college football at Boise State and finished his career ranked second on the school’s all-time tackles list (401).
After being undrafted in the 2003 NFL Draft, Mikell signed with the Philadelphia Eagles.
He has posted a team-leading 108 special teams tackles since joining the Eagles, including a career-high 35 in 2006. As such, Mikell has been voted by his teammates as the Eagles special teams MVP in 2005 and 2006.
On defense, Mikell replaced the injured Sean Considine as the starting strong safety in 2007 and remained in that role thru 2010.
On November 28, 2004, Mikell notched his first career interception, outjumping tight end Jeremy Shockey in the end zone for a pass thrown by quarterback Eli Manning late in the first half vs. the New York Giants. The play helped the Eagles preserve a 7-6 lead at halftime, and Philadelphia went on win, 27-6, to clinch their fourth consecutive NFC East title.
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Ralph Ruthstrom
Ralph David Ruthstrom (July 12, 1921 – March 1962) was an American football running back and defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, the Cleveland Rams, and the Los Angeles Rams. Ruthstrom also played in the All-America Football Conference for the Baltimore Colts. He attended Sam Houston State University and Southern Methodist University.
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Ray Agnew
Raymond Mitchell Agnew, Jr. (born December 9, 1967) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots with the 10th pick of the 1st round of the 1990 NFL Draft. Agnew played for the Patriots for five years before going to the New York Giants. After spending three years with the Giants he went to the St. Louis Rams where he played for three years. He is currently a scout for the Rams.
Agnew was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he attended Carver High School. During his senior year, he was voted the defensive most valuable player after recording 70 tackles and 10 sacks in only seven games. Agnew then played college football and majored in history at North Carolina State University.
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Ray Malavasi
Ray Malavasi (November 8, 1930 – December 15, 1987) was an football coach who served as head coach of two National Football League teams: the Denver Broncos and the Los Angeles Rams.
A native of Passaic, New Jersey, Malavasi entered the U.S. Military Academy, starting at offensive guard for the Black Knight football team. Under head coach Earl Blaik and line coach Vince Lombardi, Malavasi played two years, with Blaik rating him as the greatest line prospect during his tenure at the Academy. That potential disappeared when Malavasi was one of 90 cadets who left in the wake of a cheating scandal in August 1951.
Malavasi left to attend Mississippi State University, earning a degree in engineering while serving as an assistant under head coach Murray Warmath in 1952 and also receiving an Army ROTC commission. In 1953, he tried out and was released by the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, then served as line coach with the Fort Belvoir army unit for two years beginning in 1954.
Upon his release in 1956, Malavasi accepted an assistant's role with the University of Minnesota, spending two seasons with the Golden Gophers until taking a similar position with Memphis State University in 1958. Three years in Tennessee led to a single year with the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons in 1961, followed by his first professional position the following year: personnel director of the American Football League's Denver Broncos.
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Ray Monaco
Raymond William Monaco (February 10, 1918 – December 7, 2002) was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Rams. He attended Holy Cross.
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Ray Richards
Raymond W. Richards (July 16, 1906 – September 18, 1974) was an American football player and coach on both the collegiate and professional levels, including head coach for the National Football League's Chicago Cardinals.
Richards was an All-American lineman at the University of Nebraska from 1927–1929, then joined the NFL's Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1930. During his playing days, he became known for a notorious move that has since been outlawed: the "lift", in which Richards used his elbow to hit the opposing center as he snapped the ball. Moves such as that helped him in his off-season pursuit of wrestling, an endeavor that saw him travel across the country competing in matches.
Richards played two seasons with the Yellow Jackets until the team disbanded in 1931, then he shifted to Chicago, where he played another two seasons with George Halas's Bears. In 1934, he moved on to play a season with the Detroit Lions, who had just moved from their previous home in Portsmouth, Ohio. After a final season with the Bears the next year, Richards headed west to serve as a player-coach for two seasons with the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the fledgling American Football League, helping the team finish undefeated during his second year.
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Ray Sherman
Ray Sherman (November 27, 1951) is a American football coach and former player. He is currently the wide receivers coach for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL).
Sherman played college football at Fresno State as a wide receiver and defensive back. In 1974, he took a job as graduate assistant for San Jose State. After leaving San Jose State following that season, Sherman remained a coach at the college level through 1987, working for five additional schools; this includes two stints at California.
The Houston Oilers gave Sherman his first NFL coaching job in 1988, when he was hired as a running backs coach. After one more year in Houston, during which he was a wide receivers coach, he took an assistant head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons in 1990. Sherman then went to the San Francisco 49ers the next season, staying there through 1993; he coached running backs in 1991 and wide receivers the following two seasons. The Minnesota Vikings hired Sherman as quarterbacks coach in 1995, and he spent three seasons with the team. In 1998 and 1999, Sherman served as offensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Vikings, respectively. He was the wide receivers coach of the Green Bay Packers from 2000 to 2004, and held the same position with the Tennessee Titans in 2005 and 2006. The Dallas Cowboys hired him as wide receivers coach in 2007.
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Red Hickey
Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey (February 14, 1917 — March 30, 2006) was an American football player and coach who played for two teams and served as head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, where he was most famous for creating the shotgun formation in 1960.
A native of Clarksville, Arkansas, he attended the University of Arkansas, competing as a member of the football and basketball teams, where he won All-Conference accolades in both sports. In 1941, he was a forward on the Razorback team that reached the Final Four teams, even though the tournament format was different from today and didn't end in a four team final.
That fall, Hickey advanced to play in the NFL with both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Rams, then missed the next three years while serving as a U.S. Navy gunnery officer during World War II. Upon his return, he was part of the 1945 Rams championship squad, then shifted with the team to Los Angeles to play from 1946 to 1948. During his first season back, he also married his high school sweetheart, Cecelia Surina.
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Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1994 and at the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2009, compiling a career college football record of 128–154–4. Brooks was also the head coach of the NFL's St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 1996, tallying mark of 13–19. Brooks' 1994 Ducks won the Pacific-10 title and played in the 1995 Rose Bowl. For his efforts that season, he won a number of national coaching awards.
Brooks attended Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he majored in physical education and played defensive back for the football team under head coach Tommy Prothro. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 and completed his master's degree in education at Oregon State the next year. He was also a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Oregon State.
His coaching career started at Oregon State as an assistant freshman coach while working on his master's degree. After receiving his master's degree, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he accepted an assistant coaching job at Norte Del Rio High School. He soon returned to his alma mater to serve as defensive line coach for the Beavers from 1965 through 1969 under new head coach Dee Andros.
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Rich Coady
Richard Joseph Coady, IV (born January 26, 1976 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American football safety who played in the National Football League. His father Richard Coady played in the NFL for the Chicago Bears.
Coady attended J. J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas and was a student and a letterman in football and basketball. In football, as a senior, he was named his team's Most Valuable Player and was an All-District selection and an All-Metroplex selection.
Coady attended Texas A&M University, where he was a three-year starter for the Aggies. Originally came to Texas A&M as a non-scholarship athlete and worked his way into the starting lineup, starting 39 games in a row and becoming an integral part of the Aggies' 1998 Big 12 Conference championship team. Led the A&M secondary in tackles for three straight seasons and had eight career interceptions.
As a senior Coady was First-team All-Big 12 and made 86 tackles (57 solo) and had three interceptions. The year before he made 93 tackles (64 solo) and made two interceptions. In 1996, as a sophomore, he had 64 tackles (42) solo and three interceptions. As a freshman Coady was a reserve safety and made 23 tackles (12 solo).
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Rick Tuten
Richard Lamar Tuten (born January 5, 1965 in Perry, Florida) is a former American football punter in the National Football League who played the majority of his career with the Seattle Seahawks. He punted the ball 108 times in 1992, tied for fourth-most in a season in NFL history. In 1992, he punted for 4,760 yards with an average of 44.1 yards per punt. In 1994, the year he went to his first and only Pro Bowl, he punted the ball 91 times for 3,905 yards, an average of 42.9 yards per punt and also scored a 2-pt. conversion, the only scored points of his career. Tuten also received a ring as a member of the St. Louis Rams' Super Bowl XXXIV championship team. However, he did not play in the game itself due to injury.
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Ricky Proehl
Richard Scott Proehl (born March 7, 1968 in Bronx, New York) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. Proehl played 17 seasons with the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears, St. Louis Rams, Carolina Panthers, and Indianapolis Colts. He played in four Super Bowls and won two: Super Bowl XXXIV with the Rams and Super Bowl XLI with the Colts.
Proehl is currently an offensive coaching consultant for the Carolina Panthers.
Proehl attended Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where he starred in both football and baseball. During his senior season in football, he caught 42 passes for 900+ yards and 13 touchdowns. For his efforts that year, he was named a New York All-Metro selection, the Somerset County Player of the Year, and an All-State pick.
Proehl played college football at Wake Forest University, where he was a four-year letterman in football. He holds the school record for receiving yards (2,949 yards), and touchdowns (25), as well as ranking in the top five in receptions and receiving average. He ended his college years playing in the Blue-Gray Football Classic and the East-West All-Star Game.
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Riley Matheson
Riley Matheson (December 12, 1914 - June, 1987) was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for ten seasons for the Cleveland Rams, the Detroit Lions, the Los Angeles Rams, and the San Francisco 49ers.
Matheson also played two final seasons with the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders, being named an All star both seasons.
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Rob Boras
Rob Boras is the tight ends coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He has also coached for the Chicago Bears and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Boras started his coaching career at DePauw University as the offensive line coach. He then moved on to the University of Texas where he served in various positions over four years. After further stints at Benedictine University and UNLV, Boras became the tight ends coach for the Chicago Bears on February 11, 2004. Boras was relieved of his duties with the Chicago Bears in January 2010 along with five other offensive coaches.
On February 1, 2010, Boras was hired by the Jacksonville Jaguars to succeed newly-hired Chicago Bears' offensive line coach Mike Tice as tight ends coach.
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Robert Holcombe
Robert Wayne Holcombe (born December 11, 1975) is a free agent fullback who has played for the St. Louis Rams and Tennessee Titans of the National Football League.
Holcombe was drafted in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. He started at fullback for the 1999 Super Bowl Championship team. He played four seasons for the Rams alongside of NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner and NFL MVP Marshall Faulk.
Holcombe went to the Tennessee Titans after the 2001 season. He played both halfback and fullback for three seasons in the backfield with NFL MVP Steve McNair and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George.
After the 2004 season the Titans released Holcombe along with Derrick Mason, Samari Rolle, and the departure of Steve McNair. The Chiefs quickly signed him but he was placed on IR (injured reserve) after suffering a preseason knee injury before the 2005 season begun.
The University of Illinois All-time leading rusher...rewrote Illinois record book...ended career 9th on the all-time Big Ten rushing list and 3rd in career attempts...set 8 Illinois rushing records, becoming 1st UI back to top the 1000 yd. mark in 3 consecutive seasons...started 33 consecutive games...1997- Team’s leading receiver with 35 catches for 277 yd's...leading scorer with 38 points...topped the 1000 yard mark with a school record...two-time finalist for the Doak Walker Award...two-time honorable mention All-Big Ten selection...three time recipient of the UI Offensive Player of the Year award...two-time Illinois MVP...academic All-Big Ten selection with a cum of 3.0...1996- Rushed for school record of 315 yd's. on 43 carries, 5th best single-game total in Big Ten history... Listed among Tom Lemming’s 28 All-American high school RB's as a Sr. ...rated Arizona’s top prospect and one of the top four in the West...1st team all-state tailback as a senior...led team to 1992 state title...graduated from Mesa High School.
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Robert Irsay
Robert Irsay (March 5, 1923–January 14, 1997), was an American professional football team owner. He owned the National Football League's Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts franchise, and the former Los Angeles Rams, albeit briefly.
In 1972 the Chicago-born Irsay purchased the Rams franchise for a reported $19 million with the intent to trade it to Carroll Rosenbloom for his Baltimore Colts franchise. The person credited with brokering the franchise swap was Jacksonville, Florida, attorney Hugh Culverhouse, who bought the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers from the financially-ailing Thomas McCloskey about two years earlier.
In a controversial decision Irsay moved the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, Indiana, in the early morning hours of March 28, 1984, to become the Indianapolis Colts. Though this brought him scorn from Baltimore Colts fans for decades, many of these feelings began to cool once Baltimore gained a new franchise, the Baltimore Ravens, especially after their Superbowl win in 2000. After Irsay's death in Indianapolis on January 14, 1997, the Colts were inherited by his son, Jim, who serves as CEO. Bill Polian handled the day-to-day operations of the team as vice-chairman until his dismissal after the 2011 season.
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Rodger Saffold
Rodger Saffold III (born June 6, 1988) is an American football offensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams in the second round, 33rd overall in the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana.
Saffold attended Bedford High School in Bedford, Ohio where he played offensive tackle and defensive end. He was a 2005 first team All-Lake Erie League, all-district and honorable mention all-state selection at the same high school that produced former Wisconsin and NFL wide receivers Chris Chambers and Lee Evans. He recorded 18 tackles as a senior. Considered only a two star recruit by Rivals.com, Saffold picked Indiana over Illinois, Kansas and Ohio.
He never left the starting lineup after sliding in at left tackle midway through his true freshman campaign. He started 41 games and appeared in 42 in his career. He was selected second team All-Big Ten by the conference coaches and named honorable mention by the league's media, and earned second team All-Big Ten recognition from Phil Steele's magazine.
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Rodney McLeod
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Roger Eason
Charles Roger Eason, Jr. (July 31, 1918 – April 28, 1998) was a guard in the National Football League.
Eason was born on July 31, 1918 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Eason was drafted in the third round of the 1942 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams and played four seasons with the team, including when the team made the move to Los Angeles, California. During his final season, he played with the Green Bay Packers.
He played at the collegiate level at the University of Oklahoma.
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Roger Harding
Roger Harding is a former center in the National Football League.
Harding was born Roger Paul Harding on June 11, 1923 in Oakland, California.
Harding was drafted in the fifth round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams and played with the team for two seasons, including during the franchise's move to Los Angeles, California. He would spend the following two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions before splitting the 1949 NFL season between the New York Bulldogs and the Green Bay Packers.
He played at the collegiate level at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Roger Wehrli
Roger Wehrli (born November 26, 1947) is a former National Football League cornerback who played his entire 14-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1969 until 1982. He was a seven-time Pro Bowler after playing college football at the University of Missouri, where he was a consensus All-American and a first-round draft choice by the Cardinals in 1969. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
Wehrli was born in New Point, Missouri. His parents were teachers and his father was a school district superintent. They enrolled Roger in school at the age of 5. As a result, he started his freshman year of high school at the age of 13. Missouri Hall Of Fame Coach Richard Flanagan's (HS Coach @ KC) said of that Wehrli was the best player he ever coached--that when he got the ball he could move like no other and could anticipate the other players move before he did. In 1965, Dan Devine recruited Wehrli from King City, Missouri, where he lettered in football, basketball, and track for the Wildcats, as well as help the school win the state title in track in 1965.
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Rokevious Watkins
Rokevious P. Watkins (born February 24, 1989) is an American football Guard for the St. Louis Rams.
Watkins attended Creekside High School in Fairburn, Georgia, where he was teammates with Eric Berry and Terrance Parks.
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Roland Williams
Roland Lamar Williams (born April 27, 1975), is a retired American football tight end from the Syracuse. An 8-year NFL veteran, Roland has enjoyed great success on the field and off. Roland was selected in the 1998 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. A multi-year starter, Roland went on to win Super Bowl XXXIV in the thrilling Rams victory over the Tennessee Titans. Following his Super Bowl victory, Roland played three years for the Oakland Raiders, where he won the American Football Conference Championship. In 2003, Roland played one season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In unique fashion, Roland returned to play another season with the Oakland Raiders and then the subsequent season with the St. Louis Rams before a career ending knee injury sidelined him in 2006. Known throughout his career as a premier blocking tight end in the NFL, it's Roland’s persona that has labeled him as one of the most positive and energetic athletes in professional sports.
In 1999, Roland founded Youth Lifeline America, a charitable organization that partners with athletes, entertainers and executives to harness the powerful influence of sports and entertainment to provide free educational training to at-risk youth across the nation. Roland has received many awards for his charitable efforts including the prestigious NFL Unsung Hero Award, 2-time Oakland Raiders Man of the Year Award, the Press Radio Club Pro Athlete of the Year Award and multi-year finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. In 2008, he coached a studious high school student aiming to become a football player on the MTV show "Made." He is currently a studio analyst for College Football on Versus.
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Roman Gabriel
Roman Ildonzo Gabriel, Jr. (born August 5, 1940 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is a former American football player. The son of a Filipino immigrant, he was the first Asian-American to start as an NFL quarterback and is considered by many to have been one of the best players at that position during the late 1960s and early 70s.
Gabriel attended and played high school football at New Hanover High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He went on to star for the North Carolina State football team, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles.
A two-time All-American and two-time ACC Player of the Year (1960–61), Gabriel starred at quarterback for North Carolina State University in the early 1960s and finished his career holding virtually every Wolfpack passing record. An academic All-American, Gabriel saw his jersey retired and presented to him by North Carolina governor Terry Sanford on Jan. 20, 1962, at half-time of an NC State-Maryland basketball game in Reynolds Coliseum. As captain of his team, Gabriel set 22 school and nine conference football records. He threw for 2,961 yards and 19 touchdowns.
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Rosey Grier
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932 in Cuthbert, Georgia) is an American actor, singer, Christian minister, and former professional American football player. He was a notable college football player for The Pennsylvania State University who earned a retrospective place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athletes. As a professional player, Grier was a member of the New York Giants, and the original Fearsome Foursome of the Los Angeles Rams and played in the Pro Bowl twice.
After Grier's professional sports career he worked as a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign and was guarding the senator's wife, Ethel Kennedy, during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Although unable to prevent that killing, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.
Grier's other activities have been colorful and varied. He hosted his own Los Angeles television show and made approximately 70 guest appearances on various shows during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Rudy Mucha
Rudolph "Rudy" Mucha (July 22, 1918 – September 7, 1982) was an American football guard for the Cleveland Rams and the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was also a consensus All-American collegiate center for the University of Washington in 1940.
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( /ˈlɪmbɔː/; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and political commentator. Since he was 16 Limbaugh has worked a series of disc jockey jobs. His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls. In 1988 Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York, New York. He currently lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, from where he broadcasts the The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States.
In the 1990s Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) made The New York Times Best Seller list. Limbaugh frequently criticizes, in his books and on his show, what he regards as liberal policies and politicians, as well as what he perceives as a pervasive liberal bias in major U.S. media.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (née Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.
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Ryan McKee
Ryan McKee (born November 4, 1986 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas) is an American football offensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Southern Mississippi.
McKee attended Daphne High School, Alabama, and was a two-year letter winner there. He finished senior season without allowing a sack all year and was voted All-district and All-county. The year before, as a junior, helped the team to a 14-1 record and a berth in the state championship game.
McKee started three consecutive seasons at right tackle for Southern Mississippi and graduated in December, 2008, with a degree in business administration.
In 2008 McKee was a Second-team All-Conference USA offensive tackle. He helped the team run for over 2,000 yards in three straight seasons and was credited with more than 80 knockdowns in 2008. In 2007 he started in all 13 games at right tackle in 2007 and did not allow a sack all season, while tallying two pancake blocks and a team-best 61 knockdowns. He helped Southern Miss set the season record for total offense (4,727) as the Golden Eagles had a 1,000 rusher and 2,000 yards rushing for the second-straight season. In 2006 he helped pave the way for Southern Miss' first 1,000-yard rusher since 2002 and had 58 knockdowns during the campaign, five pancakes and allowed just four sacks. In 2005 he played in three games and finished the year with three knockdowns and one pancake and did not allow a sack.
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Ryan Tucker
Ryan Tucker (born June 12, 1975 in Midland, Texas) is a retired offensive tackle who played for the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas Christian.
Tucker is the older brother of former NFL offensive lineman Rex Tucker and Kyle Tucker.
Tucker attended Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas.
Tucker played college football for Texas Christian University. He was twice awarded All-SWC honors for the 1995 and 1996 seasons. In March 1998, Tucker pleaded no contest to aggravated assault in connection with his role in the beating of TCU student Bryan Boyd on May 11, 1996, and was given a 180 day suspended sentence, placed on probation for five years and fined $5,000.00. As a result of the attack, Boyd suffered paralysis, memory loss and permanent brain damage.
He was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round (121st overall) in the 1997 NFL Draft. In his rookie season he played in seven games and made his NFL debut at the Green Bay Packers on November 2. The 1998 season was masked by a neck injury that made him inactive for nine games. In 1999 he played in all 16 regular season games and three post season games including Super Bowl XXXIV. He scored his first NFL touchdown at the Detroit Lions on November 7. In 2000 he started in all 16 games for the first time in his career. He helped the Rams offense to 7,075 total yards for the season which is an NFL record. The 2001 season saw him play in 16 games with 15 starts, he was again part of a rampant offense and he also played in Super Bowl XXXVI.
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Sam Bradford
Samuel Jacob Bradford (born November 8, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, after playing college football for the University of Oklahoma. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore to win a Heisman Trophy. He also holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes by a freshman quarterback, with 36.
In his first season in the NFL, Bradford set the record for most completions by a rookie in NFL history, which helped earn him the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
Bradford was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City, where he starred in football, basketball and golf. As a senior quarterback for his high school football team in 2006, he threw for 2,029 yards and 17 touchdowns in 12 games. His senior year in basketball, he averaged a double-double.
Bradford was a three-star recruit not that highly ranked among the high school class of 2006, with his highest ranking being No. 12 among only pro-style quarterbacks by recruiting source Rivals.com, behind Pat Devlin, Juice Williams, Josh Freeman, and being overshadowed by the likes of five-star recruits Mitch Mustain, Matthew Stafford and Tim Tebow.
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Sam Busich
Samuel Busich (November 17, 1913 – February 1, 1991) was an American football end in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins, the Cleveland Rams, and the Detroit Lions. He played college football at Ohio State University.
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Sammy Baugh
Samuel Adrian "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh (March 17, 1914 – December 17, 2008) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the Horned Frogs at Texas Christian University, where he was a two-time All-American. He then played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins from 1937 to 1952. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the 17-member charter class of 1963.
Baugh was born on a farm near Temple, Texas, the second son of James, a worker on the Santa Fe Railroad, and Lucy Baugh. His parents later divorced and his mother raised the three children. When he was 16, the family then moved to Sweetwater, Texas, and he attended Sweetwater High School. As the quarterback of his high school football team (Sweetwater Mustangs), he would practice for hours throwing a football through a swinging automobile tire, often on the run. But apparently, Baugh would practice punting more than throwing.
Baugh, however, really wanted to become a professional baseball player and almost received a scholarship to play at Washington State University. About a month before he started at Washington State, however, Baugh hurt his knee while sliding into second base during a game, and the scholarship fell through.
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Scott Linehan
Scott Thomas Linehan (born September 17, 1963) is an American football coach, currently the offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. He was previously the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins and the Minnesota Vikings. Prior to becoming an NFL coach in 2002, he was a collegiate assistant coach for thirteen seasons.
Linehan was born and raised in Sunnyside, Washington, now a city of 16,000 in the lower Yakima Valley of eastern Washington. About three hours southeast of Seattle, Sunnyside bills itself as the "Asparagus Capital of the Northwest." He was a three-year starter at quarterback at Sunnyside High School, where his father was principal. Linehan graduated in 1982 and accepted a scholarship to play college football at the University of Idaho in Moscow, two hundred miles (320 km) to the east. He was a member of Dennis Erickson's first recruiting class as a collegiate head coach.
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Scott Wells
Scott Darvin Wells (born January 17, 1981) is an American football center for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.
Wells's father is in the ministry of the Churches of Christ, and Wells began playing football in Crowley, Texas, before the family moved to a congregation in Pennsylvania, where Wells spent his freshman and sophomore years at Brookville Area High School; he finished his high school career at Brentwood Academy in Tennessee. Wells played offensive guard, defensive end, and nose tackle. He was a PrepStar and CNN/Sports Illustrated All America selection along with earning the Division II Class A 'Mr. Football' in 1998.
Wells played college football at the University of Tennessee. While playing at Tennessee during 2000–2003, he was a four-year letter winner.
Wells was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round, pick 251, of the 2004 NFL Draft.
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Shahid Khan
Shahid Khan (born c. 1950) is a Pakistani-born American businessman. He is the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) and owner of automobile parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate Corp. in Urbana, Illinois.
Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to the United States when he was 16 to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He said he spent his first night in a $2/night room at the Champaign YMCA and that his first job in the United States was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour. He joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the school. He graduated from the UIUC School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with a BSc in 1971.
Khan worked at the automobile manufacturing company Flex-N-Gate while attending the University of Illinois. When he graduated he was hired as the engineering director for the company. In 1978, he started Bumper Works, which made car bumpers for customizing pickup trucks and body shop repairs. The transaction involved a $50,000 loan from the Small Business Loan Corporation and $16,000 in his savings.
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Sid Gillman
Sidney "Sid" Gillman (October 26, 1911 – January 3, 2003) was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in making football into the modern game that it is today.
Gillman played football as an end at Ohio State University from 1931 to 1933. He played professionally for one season in 1936 with the Cleveland Rams of the 1936 American Football League. After serving as an assistant coach at Ohio State from 1938 to 1940, Gillman was the head football coach at Miami University from 1944 to 1947 and at the University of Cincinnati from 1949 to 1954, compiling a career college football record of 81–19–2. He then moved to the ranks of coaching Professional Football, where he headed the NFL's Los Angeles Rams (1955–1959), the American Football League's Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers (1960–1969), and the NFL's Chargers (1971), and Houston Oilers (1973–1974), amassing a career record of 123–104–7 in the National Football League and the American Football League. Gillman's 1963 San Diego Chargers won the AFL Championship. Gillman was inducted as a coach into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989 --- the sole coach in the history of American football to have earned both honors.
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Stan Kroenke
Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke (pronounced /ˈkrɒŋki/; born July 29, 1947 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American business entrepreneur. He is named after St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famers Enos "Country" Slaughter and Stan "The Man" Musial. His wife, Ann Walton Kroenke, is the daughter of Wal-Mart cofounder Bud Walton. Kroenke is also the owner of Kroenke Sports Enterprises, which includes the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League and St. Louis Rams of the NFL (the Colorado sports properties are in the name of Josh Kroenke, one of his children, to satisfy NFL ownership restrictions that forbid a team owner from owning teams in other markets). He is also the majority shareholder of English football club Arsenal. He currently lives in Columbia, Missouri. Kroenke was estimated to be worth $US 3.2 billion by Forbes in 2011.
Kroenke obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Missouri. He founded the Kroenke Group in 1983, a real estate development firm that has constructed numerous shopping centers and apartment buildings. Since his marriage to Walton, he has been in the special position to develop many of the plazas near Wal-Mart stores. He is also the chairman of THF Realty, an independent real estate development company that specializes in suburban development. He founded this corporation in St. Louis in 1991.
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Stan Pincura
Stan Pincura (May 2, 1913 - February, 1979) was an American football back in the National Football League for the Cleveland Rams. He played college football at the Ohio State University. Pincura was born in Lorain, Ohio. After high school, Pincura attended Ohio State. Pincura made his professional debut in the second American Football League in 1936 with the Cleveland Rams.
For the 1937 season the Rams moved into the NFL, and Pincura went with them. Even though the NFL confederation gave the membership to the same team owner, this NFL franchise officially became a detach entity because only four players of the team joined the NFL that was newly launched. No personnel of the team joined the NFL league. The four players were Mike Sebastian, Harry Mattos, Bud Cooper and Stan Pincura. Stan played for the Cleveland Rams for his entire 2 year career.
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Stan West
Stanley Bryon West (September 22, 1926 – January 19, 2005) was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, the New York Giants, and the Chicago Cardinals. He played collegiate ball at the University of Oklahoma under head coach Bud Wilkinson, who was quoted as saying that, "Stan West is one of the most talented players I have ever coached, exhibiting more raw talent than any other player on the team only to be matched by his toughness and dedication."
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Steve Physioc
Steve Physioc (born December 28, 1954 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American sportscaster who has called play-by-play for various baseball, basketball, and football teams.
Physioc graduated from Kansas State University in 1977, and began his announcing career as Sports Director for KHAS radio in Hastings, Nebraska, covering local high school and Hastings College athletics. After that he went on to become the radio voice of Kansas State Wildcats football and basketball (1979-1982). Mitch Holthus took over after he left K-State. Physioc was also a Sports Anchor on WIBW-TV in Topeka during the late 1970s and early '80s.
Physioc began his major league play-by-play announcing career in 1983, broadcasting Cincinnati Bengals football and Cincinnati Reds baseball games, a position he held until 1987 while sports anchor at WLWT.
He then served as the San Francisco Giants announcer for KTVU-TV from 1987-1988, followed by work for ESPN (1989-1995), announcing Major League Baseball, college basketball, baseball and Big Ten football.
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Steve Pritko
Stephen Pritko (born December 21, 1920) is a former American football end in the National Football League who played eight seasons. He was born in Northampton, Pennsylvania.
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Steve Savard
Steve Savard is an Emmy Award winning American sports anchor and "Voice of the St. Louis Rams". He is the lead sportscaster at KMOV in St. Louis, Missouri. Savard, a St. Louis native, attended Parkway North High School and Northwest Missouri State University where he graduated in 1986 with degrees in English and journalism. Steve has won six Emmy Awards, including best sportscaster.
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Steve Spagnuolo
Stephen Christopher Spagnuolo (pronounced [spaˈɲɲɔ.lo]; born December 21, 1959) is the current defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints. He was previously the head coach of the St. Louis Rams from January 2009 to January 2012. He was also defensive coordinator of the New York Giants from January 2007 to January 2009, and also served for eight years under defensive coordinator Jim Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Born in the Whitinsville section of Northbridge, MA, Spagnuolo moved to Grafton as a youth. After graduating from Grafton (MA) High School, Spagnuolo played wide receiver at Springfield College. He assisted the University of Massachusetts football team while pursuing his graduate degree.
Spagnuolo began his NFL coaching career in the Philadelphia Eagles organization in 1999, serving as linebackers and defensive backs coach. He remained there for eight years, learning Jim Johnson's defensive philosophy. It was under Johnson that Spagnuolo cultivated his trademark look, goatee and buzz cut.
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Steven Jackson
Steven Rashad Jackson (born July 22, 1983) is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Rams 24th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State University.
Jackson was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and was a running back for Eldorado High School. He was named the Sunrise Regional MVP and rushed for 6,396 yards and 81 touchdowns for the Sundevils. Jackson's Eldorado squad lost in the state final his senior year to Chris Carr (most recently of the Baltimore Ravens) and his perennial powerhouse McQueen High School (Reno, Nevada).
Jackson's subsequent success has been credited with prompting college football programs to take more interest in players in the Las Vegas area. This success also led to Jackson's induction into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
Jackson ended his Oregon State career after three seasons. In 36 games, he carried 743 times for 3,625 yards for a 4.9-yard average and 39 touchdowns while adding 680 yards and 6 touchdowns on 66 catches and 240 yards with a touchdown on 7 kickoff returns. His 4,545 all-purpose yards rank second in school history, while he ranks third on the school’s all-time scoring list with 276 points. As a junior he ranked tenth in the nation in rushing, ninth in all-purpose yardage, and fourth in scoring; he carried the ball 350 times for 1,545 yards and 19 touchdowns, adding 44 receptions for 470 yards and 3 touchdowns. His 2,015 all-purpose yards set a school record. As a sophomore Jackson led the Pac-10 Conference in rushing and finished the season eighth nationally with 1,690 yards, an average of 130 yards per game.
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Taje Allen
Taje LaQuane Allen (born November 6, 1973 in Fairburn, Georgia) is a former professional American football player who played cornerback for six seasons for the St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League.
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Ted Livingston
Ted Livingston is a former professional American football player who played offensive lineman for four seasons for the Cleveland Rams.
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Tex Schramm
Texas Earnest "Tex" Schramm, Jr. (June 2, 1920 - July 15, 2003) was the original president and general manager of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys franchise. Schramm became the head of the Cowboys when the former expansion team started operations in 1960.
Despite his name, Schramm was not born in Texas, but in San Gabriel, California. Texas was his father's name and where his parents met. Schramm attended Alhambra High School and went to the University of Texas, graduating in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. At UT he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, as was his father. Schramm interrupted his education to serve as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.
Before joining the Cowboys, Schramm was part of the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1956. During his tenure, he hired Pete Rozelle as the Rams' public relations director; Rozelle later became one of the most important commissioners in the history of the NFL. They remained close friends after Rozelle became NFL commissioner and Schramm became general manager of the Cowboys (each holding their position for 29 years).
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Todd Lyght
Todd William Lyght (born February 9, 1969 in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands), is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1st round (5th overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft. A 6'0", 191-lb. cornerback from the University of Notre Dame and Flint Powers Catholic High School, Lyght played in 12 NFL seasons from 1991 to 2002. His best year as a pro came during the 1999 season for the Super Bowl champion Rams, when he intercepted 6 passes for 112 yards and 1 touchdown and was named All-Pro and voted to the Pro Bowl.
Lyght attended Luke Powers Catholic High in Flint, Mi. and lettered twice as wide receiver and defensive back and served as team captain senior when he caught 38 passes for 877 yards with nine touchdowns and intercepted 19 passes. He also lettered three times in track and field. Terrell Owens said that Lyght was one of the four best corners he ever faced. The other names on the list included Deion Sanders, Aeneas Williams, and Charles Woodson.
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Tom Brandstater
Thomas "Tom" Brandstater (born October 21, 1984 in Turlock, California) is an American football quarterback in the National Football League as a member of the St. Louis Rams. He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft.
He has also been a member of the Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys.
Tom Brandstater was born and raised in Turlock, California, a town in Stanislaus County. He is the first son and second child of William and Sharen Brandstater and has three siblings. He began playing football at the age of eight with the Turlock Vikings Youth Football program, a youth football program, where he lists Mike Hibden and Mike Huber as his most influential youth coaches. Several other WAC teammates and opponents, notably Colin Kaepernick of the Nevada Wolf Pack, and fellow Fresno State Bulldog Anthony Harding also played for the youth football program. He was the starting quarterback from the age of eight, but also played other positions.
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Tom Dahms
Tom Dahms (born April 19, 1927 in San Diego, California) is a former professional American football player who played tackle for seven seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals, and San Francisco 49ers.
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Tom Fears
Thomas Jesse Fears (December 3, 1922 – January 4, 2000) was a Mexican-American football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League, playing nine seasons from 1948 to 1956. He was later an NFL assistant coach and head coach of the New Orleans Saints, and is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Fears was the son of an American mining engineer who had married a Mexican woman, and moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of six. There, he began to display his ample work ethic by unloading flowers for 25 cents an hour, and later serving as an usher at football games for double that amount.
Fears first played football at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, then advanced to compete for Santa Clara University. He spent one year at the latter school before he was drafted for World War II and spent the next three years in military service. After his father became a Japanese prisoner of war, Fears sought to become a fighter pilot to fight Japan. He became a pilot, but was instead shipped to Colorado Springs to play football for a service team.
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Tom Keane
Thomas Lawrence Keane (September 7, 1926 - June 19, 2001) was an American football cornerback.
Keane played football and graduated from Linsly Military Institute in Wheeling, West Virginia (now known as the Linsly School) in 1944. During his high school career he was an All-OVAC selection in football and basketball in 1943 and 1944. He was also All-City in basketball.
He then went to play football at Ohio State University where he lettered as a freshman. After freshman year, he joined the United States Navy where he served for 20 months. After the navy he enrolled at West Virginia University, where he lettered in football in 1946 and 1947.
Keane was a third round selection and 18th overall pick in the 1948 NFL Draft. He was selected by the Los Angeles Rams. He played four years with the Rams, where he won the 1951 NFL title. He left the Rams to go play a year for the Dallas Texans. Followed by two years with the Baltimore Colts and finally ending his career with the Chicago Cardinals in 1955. During his career he was selected All-Pro twice and played in the 1953 Pro Bowl.
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Tom Mack
Thomas Lee Mack (born on November 1, 1943) is a former left guard for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, spending all 13-years with them from 1966 to 1978. Mack was the son of a professional baseball player (Cleveland Indians' second baseman, Ray Mack, aka Raymond James Mack [born Raymond James Mlckovsky])
Mack was the number 1 pick of the Rams in the 1966 NFL Draft, second overall, from the University of Michigan, one of only two rookies not cut in George Allen’s tough veteran-dominated squad.
During his rookie campaign when starter Don Chuy was injured during the 5th game of the season, Mack moved into the lineup. He was back as the starter for 3 games after that, lost out to Ted Karras briefly, only to reclaim the position and start for the next 12 years. Mack never missed a game through injury in his entire career, appearing in 184 consecutive contests, a streak topped only by Merlin Olsen and Jack Youngblood. He played next to center Ken Iman from 1966 to 1974 and left tackle Charley Cowan from 1966 to 1975. During Mack's career with the Rams, they compiled an impressive record, with winning seasons 12 out of the 13. During this span, the Rams enjoyed a .720 winning percentage with a won-lost-tie record of 129-48-7, winning their division (and reaching the playoffs) 8 times (1967,1969,1973 to 1978) and reaching 4 NFC championship games.
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Tom Nütten
Tom Nütten (pronounced [ˈnʏtən]; born June 8, 1971 in Toledo, Ohio) is a former American football guard who played eight seasons in the National Football League with the St. Louis Rams. He was raised in Oelde, Germany and played high school football in Magog, Quebec and at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec. He played college football at Bishop's University, also in Lennoxville, and at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. He is married with two boys and lives in Florida.
Nütten works as color commentator for German ARD during NFL telecasts.
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Tommy Colella
Thomas Anthony Colella (July 3, 1918 – May 15, 1992) was a professional American football defensive back in the National Football League.
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Tommy Kalmanir
Tommy Kalmanir (March 30, 1926 – October 12, 2004) was an American football player.
Born in Jerome, Pennsylvania, Kalmanir grew up in Jamestown, Pennsylvania. He played college football at the University of Nevada as a Running Back and Return Specialist. At Nevada Tommy set numerous records and was a member of two bowl teams in 1947 and 1948, often considered the greatest teams in Nevada football history. He was selected in the NFL draft in 1949 and played with the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Colts. He was a member of the Rams' 1951 NFL Championship Team. While with the Rams he appeared as a guest on the television game show What's My Line?.
After retiring as a player he coached in the CFL as well as for the Oakland Raiders, before becoming a businessman in the San Francisco Bay Area. He retired to Fresno, California.
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Tommy Prothro
James Thompson "Tommy" Prothro, Jr. (July 20, 1920 – May 14, 1995) was an American football coach. He was the head coach at Oregon State University from 1955 to 1964 and UCLA from 1965 to 1970, compiling a career college football record of 104–55–5 (.634). Prothro moved to the professional ranks in the NFL in 1971 as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams for two seasons and the San Diego Chargers from 1974 to 1978, tallying a career mark of 35–51–2 (.409). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1991. A Southerner from Memphis, Tennessee, he spent most of his coaching career on the West Coast.
Prothro, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, was the son of major league baseball player and manager Doc Prothro, who played for three teams between 1920 and 1926, then managed the Philadelphia Phillies from 1939 to 1941 before buying a minor league team in Memphis called the Chicks. His uncle, Clifton Cates, was commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1948 to 1952.
The younger Prothro found his niche in football, starting out as a quarterback for Wallace Wade's Duke Blue Devils. In 1941, Prothro's versatility on the field helped him win the Jacobs award as the best blocker in the Southern Conference as the Blue Devils reached the 1942 Rose Bowl. During his time at the school, Prothro also competed in baseball and lacrosse, and graduated from the school in 1942 with a degree in political science.
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Tony Horne
Antonio Tremaine Horne (born March 21, 1976) is a former professional football player in the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted as a walk on, he played the 1998, 1999, and 2000 seasons with the St. Louis Rams, where he was primarily used as a wide receiver and kickoff returner. In 1998, he finished sixth in the NFL with 1306 yards on kick returns, adding 892 yards in 1999, and 1379 in 11 games in 2000, when he again finished sixth in the league. Horne works as a strength and speed coach at D1 Sports Training in Greenville. He attended Richmond Senior High in Rockingham, North Carolina, where he was a quarterback and a wide receiver in college at the Clemson University. In 2000 he signed on as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs before suffering a knee injury during that preseason that ended his pro career.
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Torry Holt
Torrance "Torry" Jabar Holt (born June 5, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He was named to the Pro Bowl seven times and retired with the 10th most receiving yards in NFL history, including a record six consecutive seasons with 1,300 yards. He played college football at North Carolina State University, and earned All-American honors. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and spent the next ten years with the Rams and is remembered as one of the members of the "Greatest Show on Turf." He currently works as an analyst for the NFL Network.
Holt was born in Gibsonville, North Carolina. He was Prep Football Report All-America selection, adding all-state honors at Eastern Guilford High School in Gibsonville. While there he caught 129 passes during his career, gaining 2,573 yards and scoring 42 touchdowns including 56 receptions for 983 yards and 17 touchdowns as senior. He also returned three punts and three kickoffs for touchdowns during his career. Additionally, Holt was a standout defensive back who posted 62 tackles and four interceptions as senior. He was named one of the Top 25 players in the state by the Charlotte Observer. After High School Holt attended Hargrave Military Academy in 1994. There he caught 21 passes for 524 yards and six touchdowns. Torry also made an appearance with at the time St. Louis Rams teammate Marshall Faulk in Nelly's Air Force Ones Music Video.
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Trent Green
Trent Jason Green (born July 9, 1970) is a retired professional American football quarterback. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the eighth round of the 1993 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana University.
Green played for the BC Lions, Washington Redskins, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams and was selected to two Pro Bowls with the Chiefs.
He is currently a color commentator for NFL on Fox, as well as an analyst on NFL Network's signature show, NFL Total Access.
Green grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Green played college football for the Indiana University Hoosiers. In 1991 Indiana played in the Copper Bowl and dominated a highly-regarded Baylor team 24-0. Led by Green, it was one of the most impressive performances by any team during the 1991 bowl season. Indiana finished the 1993 season with an 8-4 record, with two of its three regular season losses by seven points or less. The team went on to play in the 1993 Independence Bowl. During Green's four year career he threw for 5,400 yards with 23 touchdowns and 32 interceptions. He graduated with a degree in business.
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Trevor Laws
Trevor David Laws (born June 14, 1985) is an American football defensive tackle for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played for the Eagles for four seasons from 2008 to 2011.
Laws played high school football and wrestled at Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota. In football, Laws played fullback, linebacker, and defensive lineman. In wrestling, he led his team to three consecutive state championships in his sophomore, junior, and senior years. During his junior year, he had a wrestling record of 49-0, and was considered the best heavyweight wrestler in the nation. He was a three-time All-American in wrestling.
At Notre Dame, Laws was a roommate of future Eagles teammate Victor Abiamiri. In 2007, Laws led the Fighting Irish with 4.0 sacks and 112 tackles, both career highs. He had the most tackles by a defensive lineman in the major college ranks in 2007.
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Vince Ferragamo
Vince Anthony Ferragamo (born April 24, 1954) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the National Football League and Canadian Football League.
Born in Torrance, California, Ferragamo was heavily recruited as an All-American high school quarterback from Phineas Banning High School in Wilmington, where he was the L.A. City Schools MVP. Ferragamo accepted a football scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley. Buried on the quarterback depth chart behind Cal teammate Steve Bartkowski, Ferragamo transferred to top-ranked Nebraska in 1974. As a Cornhusker, he lettered in 1975 and 1976; during his senior season he was All-Big 8 and All-American, and also an Academic All-American. Ferragamo capped off his college career by leading the Huskers to a victory over Texas Tech in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in the Houston Astrodome.
He played for the Los Angeles Rams (1977–1980 and 1982–1984), Buffalo Bills (1985) and Green Bay Packers (1985–1986). After leading the 9-7 Rams to road victories over the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1979 NFL Playoffs, Ferragamo started for the Rams in Super Bowl XIV, in which the Rams led after three quarters of play before falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19.
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Vince Young
Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983), nicknamed "VY", is an American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He played college football at The University of Texas. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the third overall draft pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Titans. In his rookie season, Young was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and earned a roster spot on the AFC Pro Bowl team. In 2009, Young earned his second Pro Bowl Selection and was named Sporting News NFL Comeback Player of the Year. He played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011.
As a junior in college, Young finished second behind Reggie Bush in the voting for the Heisman Trophy (though Bush later vacated the award). He won the Davey O'Brien Award which is given annually to the best collegiate quarterback in the nation. Following the Heisman voting, Young led his team to a BCS National Championship against the defending BCS national champion, University of Southern California, in the 2006 Rose Bowl. The game was called one of the most-anticipated games in the history of college football. Texas retired Young's jersey on August 30, 2008.
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Vitamin Smith
Verda T. "Vitamin" Smith (born October 30, 1923 in Sweetwater, Texas, died February 14, 2000 in Los Angeles, California) was a National Football League running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1949 through 1953.
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Wendell Tyler
Wendell Avery Tyler (born May 20, 1955) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the 3rd round of the 1977 NFL Draft. A 5'10", 198 lbs. running back from UCLA, Tyler played in 10 NFL seasons from 1977 to 1986 for the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers.
In 1979, he helped lead the Rams to Super Bowl XIV, where they were defeated 31-19 by the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 1984, he rushed for a 49er team record 1,262 yards during the regular season, and also caught 28 passes for 230 yards, was selected to the Pro Bowl, and played in Super Bowl XIX in which the 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins 38-16. Tyler was the first player ever to lead two different teams in rushing in two different Super Bowls.
Tyler played running back at UCLA from 1973–1976 and is fifth in career rushing yards for the Bruins, with 3,240 yards. 1976 All-Conference and 3rd team All American, Tyler was on the 1975 UCLA team that won the Pacific-8 Conference and defeated number one ranked Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.
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Wilbert Montgomery
Wilbert Montgomery (born September 16, 1954 in Greenville, Mississippi) is a former American football player in the National Football League for nine years with the Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions. He is currently the running backs coach for the Baltimore Ravens.
An outstanding athlete at Abilene Christian University, Montgomery was a four-year starter at running back and set the all-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics record for touchdowns with 76. Montgomery broke the record for touchdowns by a freshman with 37 and helped lead the Wildcats to the NAIA Division I National Championship in 1973.
Montgomery was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the sixth round of the 1977 NFL Draft. Wearing number 31, Montgomery played eight seasons with Philadelphia, shattering almost all of the Eagles' rushing records and leading the club in rushing six times. Montgomery, who concluded his NFL career with the Detroit Lions in 1985, holds seven Philadelphia rushing records, including career attempts (1,465), rushing yards (6,538), attempts in a season (338 in 1979), rushing yards in a season (1,512 in 1979), career 100-yard rushing games (26), 100-yard rushing games in a season (8 in 1981), and touchdowns in a game (4). In 1979, Montgomery led the NFL with 2,012 all-purpose yards (rushing, receiving, returns). Over his NFL career, he accumulated 6,789 yards rushing, 2,502 receiving, 814 kickoff return yards, 57 touchdowns (45 rushing, 12 receiving, 1 kickoff return), and two Pro Bowl invitations (1978–79).
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Woodley Lewis
Woodley Carl Lewis Jr. (June 14, 1925 – December 29, 2000) was an American football end, wide receiver and defensive back in the National Football League. He played eleven seasons for the Los Angeles Rams,the Chicago Cardinals, and the Dallas Cowboys. Lewis played college football for the University of Oregon and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1950 NFL Draft.
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Woody Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine "Woody" Strode (July 25, 1914 – December 31, 1994) was a decathlete and football star who went on to become a pioneering African American film actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor for his role in Spartacus in 1960. He served in the US Army during World War II.
Strode was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended college at UCLA, where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. His world-class decathlon capabilities were spearheaded by a 50 ft (15 m) plus shot put (when the world record was 57 ft (17 m)) and a 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) high jump (the world record at time was 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)). Strode posed for a nude portrait, part of Hubert Stowitts's acclaimed exhibition of athletic portraits shown at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (although the inclusion of black and Jewish athletes caused the Nazis to close the exhibit).
Strode, Kenny Washington and Jackie Robinson starred on the 1939 UCLA Bruins football team, in which they made up three of the four backfield players. Along with Ray Bartlett, there were four African-Americans playing for the Bruins, when only a few dozen at all played on other college football teams. They played eventual conference and national champion USC to a 0–0 tie with the 1940 Rose Bowl on the line. It was the first UCLA–USC rivalry football game with national implications.
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2012 St. Louis Rams Highlights
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- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
***Rights to highlight clips goes exclusively to the National Football League as well as FOX and CBS. Rights to music goes to Nas, Columbia, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Elektra, Gorillaz, Parlophone, Masta Ace, and M3 Macmil Music*** The Storyline: The 2012 St. Louis Rams finished the season strong under new head coach, Jeff Fisher. With a 7-8-1 record and one of the youngest teams in the roster, they've managed to play competitive football all season long and significantly improved to become a proven threat within a new and improved NFC West after a poor 2011 campaign. Despite Sam Bradford playing under his 3rd offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer, he managed to improve and now looks to be a part of our future blueprint. Songs are ordered as follows: Nas is like - Nas They Reminisce Over You (TROY) - Pete Rock & CL Smooth Dirty Harry - Gorillaz Da Grind - Masta Ace Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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***Rights to highlight clips goes exclusively to the National Football League as well as FOX and CBS. Rights to music goes to Nas, Columbia, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Elektra, Gorillaz, Parlophone, Masta Ace, and M3 Macmil Music*** The Storyline: The 2012 St. Louis Rams finished the season strong under new head coach, Jeff Fisher. With a 7-8-1 record and one of the youngest teams in the roster, they've managed to play competitive football all season long and significantly improved to become a proven threat within a new and improved NFC West after a poor 2011 campaign. Despite Sam Bradford playing under his 3rd offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer, he managed to improve and now looks to be a part of our future blueprint. Songs are ordered as follows: Nas is like - Nas They Reminisce Over You (TROY) - Pete Rock & CL Smooth Dirty Harry - Gorillaz Da Grind - Masta Ace Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
2011 St. Louis Rams Highlights
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- Duration: 14:34
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
***Rights to highlight clips goes exclusively to the National Football League as well as Fox, CBS, and ESPN. Rights to music goes to A Day to Remember, Victory Records, Muse, and A&E; Records*** The Storyline: The 2011 St. Louis Rams face a abysmal season with a 2-14 record, dealing with severe injuries on the roster and questionable coaching decisions. With head coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney fired, the Rams will set sail through uncertain tides this upcoming season. Despite the many adversities the Rams faced this season, the DeSpags regime has built an excellent foundation for this team, particularly on defense, and I would like to thank them for their services. Songs are ordered as follows: The Downfall of Us All - A Day to Remember NJ Legion Iced Tea - A Day to Remember Have Faith in Me - A Day to Remember Assassin - Muse Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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***Rights to highlight clips goes exclusively to the National Football League as well as Fox, CBS, and ESPN. Rights to music goes to A Day to Remember, Victory Records, Muse, and A&E; Records*** The Storyline: The 2011 St. Louis Rams face a abysmal season with a 2-14 record, dealing with severe injuries on the roster and questionable coaching decisions. With head coach Steve Spagnuolo and general manager Billy Devaney fired, the Rams will set sail through uncertain tides this upcoming season. Despite the many adversities the Rams faced this season, the DeSpags regime has built an excellent foundation for this team, particularly on defense, and I would like to thank them for their services. Songs are ordered as follows: The Downfall of Us All - A Day to Remember NJ Legion Iced Tea - A Day to Remember Have Faith in Me - A Day to Remember Assassin - Muse Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
- published: 07 Jan 2012
- views: 42763
- author: yrba1
2012 ST. Louis Rams Highlights
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- Duration: 5:42
- Updated: 13 Feb 2013
ST. Louis Rams Highlights 2012. plan on making another, just a quick video I made. Enjoy!
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ST. Louis Rams Highlights 2012. plan on making another, just a quick video I made. Enjoy!
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 4534
- author: Ramsfanx991
1999 St Louis Rams
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- Duration: 9:07
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
A tribute to the Super Bowl XXXIV Champion St. Louis Rams
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A tribute to the Super Bowl XXXIV Champion St. Louis Rams
- published: 03 Jun 2011
- views: 33578
- author: meltingkrayons
2003 St.Louis Rams GateWay to the Best (Part 1)
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- Duration: 9:03
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
2003 St.Louis Rams Gate Way to the Best
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2012 ST. Louis Rams
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
ST. Louis Rams 2012 Teaser. Time to turn things around and start fresh
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ST. Louis Rams 2012 Teaser. Time to turn things around and start fresh
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 3332
- author: Ramsfanx991
St. Louis Rams - Will Sam Bradford Turn A Corner? & Risky Draft Picks (Rams Offseason Talk)
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- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Please hit that like button and let me know what you think about the St. Louis Rams in 2012. I do plan on getting around to all 32 teams and so please keep leaving feedback on the videos :D The St. Louis Rams received a lot of picks from the Redskins in exchange for the #2 pick. They took some risks in the first three rounds of the draft. Will they pay off? And will Sam Bradford follow the pattern of Matt Stafford? Tags St. Louis Rams St STL NFL Football "Rams Football" "Rams News" "St Louis Rams" "St. Louis Rams" "NFL Offseason" Offseason Draft Picks Janoris Jenkins Brian Quick Sam Bradford "Sam Bradford" Michael Brockers Trumaine Johnson Cortland Finnegan MrHurriicane "MrHurriican Football" Madden NFL 12 13 2012 "Madden 12" "Madden 12 Gameplay" "Madden Gameplay" "Madden NFL" Madden12 highlights touchdown interception amazing
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Please hit that like button and let me know what you think about the St. Louis Rams in 2012. I do plan on getting around to all 32 teams and so please keep leaving feedback on the videos :D The St. Louis Rams received a lot of picks from the Redskins in exchange for the #2 pick. They took some risks in the first three rounds of the draft. Will they pay off? And will Sam Bradford follow the pattern of Matt Stafford? Tags St. Louis Rams St STL NFL Football "Rams Football" "Rams News" "St Louis Rams" "St. Louis Rams" "NFL Offseason" Offseason Draft Picks Janoris Jenkins Brian Quick Sam Bradford "Sam Bradford" Michael Brockers Trumaine Johnson Cortland Finnegan MrHurriicane "MrHurriican Football" Madden NFL 12 13 2012 "Madden 12" "Madden 12 Gameplay" "Madden Gameplay" "Madden NFL" Madden12 highlights touchdown interception amazing
- published: 28 Jun 2012
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- author: MrHurriicane
2013 NFL Draft Team Needs | St. Louis Rams
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- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
The St. Louis Rams may not be in the playoffs, but their first season under new head coach Jeff Fisher has to be considered a success. Subscribe for more exclusive sports coverage: goo.gl After winning only two games in 2011, the Rams are back to being competitive and able to play with the best teams in the league, as evidenced in their Week 13 win over the 49ers (along with taking them to a tie game a few weeks earlier...) and big Week 4 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Now comes the hard part: Building on this success and taking the next step, which in the Rams' case would mean becoming a more consistent team on both sides of the ball. Matt Miller and I rounded up a bunch of football fans, gave them hats and B/R swag, then headed over to Highland Park here in New York City and tried to figure out where the Rams have the most pressing needs heading into the 2013 NFL draft. Let us know in the comments below where you agree or disagree with our assessments and what other needs we might have missed. Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com
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The St. Louis Rams may not be in the playoffs, but their first season under new head coach Jeff Fisher has to be considered a success. Subscribe for more exclusive sports coverage: goo.gl After winning only two games in 2011, the Rams are back to being competitive and able to play with the best teams in the league, as evidenced in their Week 13 win over the 49ers (along with taking them to a tie game a few weeks earlier...) and big Week 4 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Now comes the hard part: Building on this success and taking the next step, which in the Rams' case would mean becoming a more consistent team on both sides of the ball. Matt Miller and I rounded up a bunch of football fans, gave them hats and B/R swag, then headed over to Highland Park here in New York City and tried to figure out where the Rams have the most pressing needs heading into the 2013 NFL draft. Let us know in the comments below where you agree or disagree with our assessments and what other needs we might have missed. Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 2285
- author: BleacherReport
NFL's St Louis Rams visit Arsenal
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- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 26 Jan 2013
During their trip across the pond, the St Louis Rams stopped by the Arsenal practice fields and exchanged some helpful pointers about American football with fellow Arsenal footballers. Theo Walcott, Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen and Olivier Giroud were given some kicking lessons by St Louis kicker Greg Zuerlin, which makes you wonder....how would Arsenal player's skills translate to the NFL? How about the other way around? Love Football is your premier destination for world football highlights, news, and behind the scenes access. For football coverage from Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, MLS, Brazilian Serie A, and dozens of other leagues and competitions, please subscribe. Subscribe- www.youtube.com LoveFootball - www.youtube.com Facebook - www.facebook.com Twitter - ja.twitter.com
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During their trip across the pond, the St Louis Rams stopped by the Arsenal practice fields and exchanged some helpful pointers about American football with fellow Arsenal footballers. Theo Walcott, Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen and Olivier Giroud were given some kicking lessons by St Louis kicker Greg Zuerlin, which makes you wonder....how would Arsenal player's skills translate to the NFL? How about the other way around? Love Football is your premier destination for world football highlights, news, and behind the scenes access. For football coverage from Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, MLS, Brazilian Serie A, and dozens of other leagues and competitions, please subscribe. Subscribe- www.youtube.com LoveFootball - www.youtube.com Facebook - www.facebook.com Twitter - ja.twitter.com
- published: 27 Nov 2012
- views: 2147
- author: lovefootballworld
Rams vs 49ers 2012: St. Louis Claws Back into NFC Playoff Picture with 16-13 Overtime Win
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- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
The St. Louis Rams continue their upward climb back to respectability with a huge 16-13 overtime win in Week 13 over the San Francisco 49ers. Timely defense, just enough offense, and solid special teams play proved to be just enough for Jeff Fisher's Rams to beat San Francisco in the two teams' second overtime game of the season. Joe MacAtee of Turf Show Times recaps the big win and looks ahead to the final quarter of the year for the surging Rams. Subscribe! Photo Credits: Scott Rovak-US PRESSWIRE
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The St. Louis Rams continue their upward climb back to respectability with a huge 16-13 overtime win in Week 13 over the San Francisco 49ers. Timely defense, just enough offense, and solid special teams play proved to be just enough for Jeff Fisher's Rams to beat San Francisco in the two teams' second overtime game of the season. Joe MacAtee of Turf Show Times recaps the big win and looks ahead to the final quarter of the year for the surging Rams. Subscribe! Photo Credits: Scott Rovak-US PRESSWIRE
- published: 03 Dec 2012
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- author: sbnturfshowtimes
St. Louis Rams Rookie Darryl Richardson Long Run
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Long run by the Rams new 7th round pick.
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Long run by the Rams new 7th round pick.
- published: 17 Sep 2012
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- author: FatLibertarianInOkc
St. Louis Rams 2012 NFL Preview: Tough Road Tests Early and Often For Jeff Fisher's Squad
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- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
It's the dawn of a new era in St. Louis, as veteran head coach Jeff Fisher returns from his one-year hiatus to take over a young Rams team coming off a disappointing and mistake-filled 2011 season. Ryan Van Bibber of Turf Show Times breaks down three particularly interesting and critical road games for the Rams if they're to bounce back and contend in the NFC West. Producers: Michael Bean and Mark Grassia Editors: Mark Grassia, Mike Imhoff, Phil Pasternak Check out our NFL playlist for more preview and training camp videos. www.youtube.com Read more about the Rams at www.turfshowtimes.com , check out our NFL channel for more preseason and preview coverage, and subscribe here for more team preview videos and other great content. Photo Credits: Joe Robbins/Getty Images Denny Medley-US PRESSWIRE Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Leon Halip/Getty Images
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It's the dawn of a new era in St. Louis, as veteran head coach Jeff Fisher returns from his one-year hiatus to take over a young Rams team coming off a disappointing and mistake-filled 2011 season. Ryan Van Bibber of Turf Show Times breaks down three particularly interesting and critical road games for the Rams if they're to bounce back and contend in the NFC West. Producers: Michael Bean and Mark Grassia Editors: Mark Grassia, Mike Imhoff, Phil Pasternak Check out our NFL playlist for more preview and training camp videos. www.youtube.com Read more about the Rams at www.turfshowtimes.com , check out our NFL channel for more preseason and preview coverage, and subscribe here for more team preview videos and other great content. Photo Credits: Joe Robbins/Getty Images Denny Medley-US PRESSWIRE Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Leon Halip/Getty Images
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2794
- author: SB Nation
Madden 13 Full Game: St. Louis Rams Playbook | Madden 13 Online Ranked Match Gameplay
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- Duration: 60:56
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
Subscribe For More Madden 13 Vids: goo.gl Madden 13 Full Game - St. Louis Rams Playbook - Madden 13 Online Ranked Match Gameplay. Madden 13 Gameplay by iMAV3RIQ. Struggling in Madden? Check out: MaddenMastermind.com Our Latest eBooK Pearl Harbor Offensive Scheme maddenmastermind.com Dream Scheme Quarter Defense maddenmastermind.com Join Our Inner Circle maddenmastermind.com 1 on 1 Coaching maddenmastermind.com Get your Madden Master and #G1GB Apparel At: MastermindShop.com Check out our Forums (Partner Site) MaddenStudents.com SHOUT OUTS Check out my man RealEase: Twitter.com Check out Kilo on the MaddenStudents Channel Youtube.com Main Channel: Youtube.com Lets Play Channel: Youtube.com Follow Us On Twitter: Twitter.com Like Us On Facebook: Facebook.com Madden 13 Full Game - St. Louis Rams Playbook - Madden 13 Online Ranked Match Gameplay. Madden 13 Gameplay by iMAV3RIQ. Madden, Madden 13, Madden 13 Tips, Madden 13 Scheme, Madden 13 Online, Madden 13 Online Ranked Match Gameplay, Madden 13 Gameplay, Madden 13 St. Louis Rams, Madden 13 Rams Playbook, Madden 13 eBook, Madden 13 Tips And Tricks, Madden 13 Tips & Tricks
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- published: 01 Dec 2012
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2013 NFL Draft: St. Louis Rams Draft Needs
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- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Subscribe to my channel for daily sports talk videos www.youtube.com Discussing the 2013 NFL Draft needs for the St Louis Rams who have the #16 and #22 picks in the first round and also have 1 pick each in rounds 2-7. Twitter: @snewsanalysis
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Subscribe to my channel for daily sports talk videos www.youtube.com Discussing the 2013 NFL Draft needs for the St Louis Rams who have the #16 and #22 picks in the first round and also have 1 pick each in rounds 2-7. Twitter: @snewsanalysis
- published: 17 Feb 2013
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Investment firm hired to help keep St. Louis Rams at the Dome
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There's a development in the push to keep the Rams in the Edward Jones Dome and the NFL in St. Louis.
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There's a development in the push to keep the Rams in the Edward Jones Dome and the NFL in St. Louis.
- published: 15 Feb 2013
- author: Teknodunya Yazılım
Madden 13 All Madden St. Louis Rams Franchise Y1,G1 | Rams at Lions
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Madden 13 All Madden St. Louis Rams CCM Y1,G2 | Rams vs Redskins
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- published: 16 Nov 2012
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Rams vs Bills 2012: St. Louis Wins Third Straight, Bolsters Playoff Chances with 15-12 Win
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- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
The St. Louis Rams continue to march closer towards a possible playoff berth after defeating the Buffalo Bills on the road, 12-7, in Week 14 to improve to 6-6-1. Sam Bradford led a late touchdown drive, and the Rams defense hung tough against a dynamic Bills offense to eek out the ugly, but critical Week 14 win. Joe McAtee of Turf Show Times recaps the action. Subscribe!
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The St. Louis Rams continue to march closer towards a possible playoff berth after defeating the Buffalo Bills on the road, 12-7, in Week 14 to improve to 6-6-1. Sam Bradford led a late touchdown drive, and the Rams defense hung tough against a dynamic Bills offense to eek out the ugly, but critical Week 14 win. Joe McAtee of Turf Show Times recaps the action. Subscribe!
- published: 10 Dec 2012
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- author: sbnturfshowtimes
NFL Preseason Video Series: St. Louis Rams 2012 Training Camp Battles
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
The Rams are one of well over a dozen team training camp previews SB Nation will roll out throughout what's always one of the most exciting weeks of the year for hardcore NFL fans. Ryan Van Bibber, the founding editor of SB Nation's Rams' blog (www.turfshowtimes.com) and a veteran contributor at SB Nation's NFL hub, weighs in on this year's camp battles for the Rams. Coming off their lackluster 2011 season, it's safe to say that 2012 is an important season for St. Louis, who, of course, is welcoming in one of the winningest regular season coaches in NFL history, Jeff Fisher. Check out Turf Show Times' YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/sbnturfshowtimes, subscribe to SB Nation here, as well as at SBN NFL (www.youtube.com/sbnnfl) Producers: Michael Bean and Mark Grassia Editors: Phil Pasternak and Mark Grassia Post-Production Supervision: Mark Grassia Photo Credits: Football Field - www.shutterstock.com
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The Rams are one of well over a dozen team training camp previews SB Nation will roll out throughout what's always one of the most exciting weeks of the year for hardcore NFL fans. Ryan Van Bibber, the founding editor of SB Nation's Rams' blog (www.turfshowtimes.com) and a veteran contributor at SB Nation's NFL hub, weighs in on this year's camp battles for the Rams. Coming off their lackluster 2011 season, it's safe to say that 2012 is an important season for St. Louis, who, of course, is welcoming in one of the winningest regular season coaches in NFL history, Jeff Fisher. Check out Turf Show Times' YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/sbnturfshowtimes, subscribe to SB Nation here, as well as at SBN NFL (www.youtube.com/sbnnfl) Producers: Michael Bean and Mark Grassia Editors: Phil Pasternak and Mark Grassia Post-Production Supervision: Mark Grassia Photo Credits: Football Field - www.shutterstock.com
- published: 26 Jul 2012
- views: 6327
- author: SB Nation
Rams vs. Seahawks 2012: St. Louis Delivers Timely Plays in All Three Phases For 19-13 Divisional Win
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Rams rookie kicker Greg Zuerlein kicked four field goals - including a franchise-record 60-yarder - as St. Louis took down Seattle, 19-13. Russell Wilson threw three interceptions, the most crucial coming with seconds left to seal the game, as the Seahawks fall to 2-2 on the season.
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Rams rookie kicker Greg Zuerlein kicked four field goals - including a franchise-record 60-yarder - as St. Louis took down Seattle, 19-13. Russell Wilson threw three interceptions, the most crucial coming with seconds left to seal the game, as the Seahawks fall to 2-2 on the season.
- published: 01 Oct 2012
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NFL Football Picks 2012 Week 8: New England Patriots vs St Louis Rams IN LONDON Predictions and Odds
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- Duration: 6:42
- Updated: 29 Jan 2013
Article: Patriots vs. Rams: NFL Picks: www.sbrforum.com The New England Patriots face the St Louis Rams in the NFL football game being held in London, England at Wembley Stadium for Week 8 of 2012 NFL. SBRForum.com's Peter Loshak previews the game and discusses the betting lines with guest professional NFL football handicapper Stephen Oh from Accuscore.com What do you think? Leave your comments below and SUBSCRIBE to our channel to receive the latest videos. To see our detailed and up-to-date sportsbook ratings and overviews, go to: www.sportsbookreview.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter:bit.ly Tumblr: bit.ly
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Article: Patriots vs. Rams: NFL Picks: www.sbrforum.com The New England Patriots face the St Louis Rams in the NFL football game being held in London, England at Wembley Stadium for Week 8 of 2012 NFL. SBRForum.com's Peter Loshak previews the game and discusses the betting lines with guest professional NFL football handicapper Stephen Oh from Accuscore.com What do you think? Leave your comments below and SUBSCRIBE to our channel to receive the latest videos. To see our detailed and up-to-date sportsbook ratings and overviews, go to: www.sportsbookreview.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter:bit.ly Tumblr: bit.ly
- published: 26 Oct 2012
- views: 6841
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Super Bowl 36 (XXXVI) - St. Louis Rams vs New England Patriots - Full Game - Part 1/2
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- Duration: 81:20
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Super Bowl 36 which took place in the New Orleans Superdome on February 3, 2002. (Spoilers Below) * * * * * * Despite being massive 8-to-1 and 14-pt underdogs to the powerful Rams, the New England Patriots pulled off the cinderella upset to win their first of three Super Bowls in 4 years. Tom Brady, a backup QB until earlier in the season, won his first Super Bowl MVP award.
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Super Bowl 36 which took place in the New Orleans Superdome on February 3, 2002. (Spoilers Below) * * * * * * Despite being massive 8-to-1 and 14-pt underdogs to the powerful Rams, the New England Patriots pulled off the cinderella upset to win their first of three Super Bowls in 4 years. Tom Brady, a backup QB until earlier in the season, won his first Super Bowl MVP award.
- published: 27 Dec 2012
- views: 13197
- author: Robert Park
Super Bowl 36 (XXXVI) - St. Louis Rams vs New England Patriots - Full Game - Part 2/2
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- Duration: 86:40
- Updated: 16 Feb 2013
Super Bowl 36 which took place in the New Orleans Superdome on February 3, 2002. (Spoilers Below) * * * * * * Despite being massive 8-to-1 and 16-pt underdogs to the powerful Rams, the New England Patriots pulled off the cinderella upset to win their first of three Super Bowls in 4 years. Tom Brady, a backup QB until earlier in the season, won his first Super Bowl MVP award.
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Super Bowl 36 which took place in the New Orleans Superdome on February 3, 2002. (Spoilers Below) * * * * * * Despite being massive 8-to-1 and 16-pt underdogs to the powerful Rams, the New England Patriots pulled off the cinderella upset to win their first of three Super Bowls in 4 years. Tom Brady, a backup QB until earlier in the season, won his first Super Bowl MVP award.
- published: 27 Dec 2012
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The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams have won three NFL Championships (two pre-merger, and one Super Bowl), and are the only NFL team to win championships in three different cities (Cleveland, Los Angeles, and St. Louis).
The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity since only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.[1]
The team then became known as the Los Angeles Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1946, opting not to compete with Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980–94), keeping the Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.
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Cleveland Rams (1936–1945)[link]
The Cleveland Rams were founded by attorney Homer Marshman in 1936. Their name, the Rams, comes from the nickname of Fordham University. "Rams" was selected to honor the hard work of the football players that came out of that university. They were part of the newly formed American Football League and finished the 1936 regular season in second place with a 5–2–2 record, trailing only the 8–3 record of league champion Boston Shamrocks.
The following year the Rams joined the National Football League on February 13, 1937, and were assigned to the Western division to replace the St. Louis Gunners, who had left the league after a three-game stint in the 1934 season. From the beginning, they were a team marked by frequent moves, playing in three stadiums over several losing seasons.
In June 1941, the Rams were bought by Dan Reeves and Fred Levy, Jr.; Reeves, the principal owner, was an heir to his family's grocery-chain business; when the company was purchased by A&P, he used some of his inheritance to buy the team. In April 1943, Reeves bought out Levy (who later rejoined Reeves in the ownership of the Rams).[2] The franchise suspended operations and sat out the 1943 season because of a shortage of players during World War II and resumed playing in 1944.[3] The team finally achieved success in 1945, which proved to be their last season in Ohio. Quarterback Bob Waterfield, a rookie from UCLA, passed, ran, and place-kicked his way to the league's Most Valuable Player award and helped the Rams achieve a 9–1 record and winning their first NFL Championship, a 15–14 home field victory over the Washington Redskins on December 16. The victory was provided by a safety; Redskins great Sammy Baugh's pass caromed off the goal post and bounded through his own end zone. The next year rules were changed that made this a mere incomplete pass.[4]
Los Angeles Rams (1946–1994)[link]
Los Angeles Rams: Los Angeles Era (1946-1979)[link]
1946-1948: Starting over in Los Angeles[link]
On January 11, 1946, Reeves pressured the NFL to allow his team to relocate to Los Angeles and its 92,000 seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1946,[citation needed] despite the fact that the closest NFL city was over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) away in Chicago. At the time, the NFL did not allow African-Americans to play in the league. The commissioners of the Los Angeles Coliseum stipulated as part of the agreement that the team be integrated, and the team signed UCLA players Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, who became the first two Black men to play in the NFL, post World War II.[5]
The Rams were the second NFL team to represent Los Angeles but the first to actually play there; the Los Angeles Buccaneers, a traveling team stocked with Southern California natives, played in 1926. The Rams played their first pre-season game against the Washington Redskins in front of a crowd of 95,000 fans. The team finished their first season in LA with a 6-4-1 record, second place behind the Chicago Bears. At the end of the season Walsh was fired as head coach.
The Coliseum, built in 1922 and used in the 1932 Summer Olympics, was the home of the Rams for more than thirty years. In 1948, halfback Fred Gehrke painted horns on the Rams' helmets, making the first modern helmet emblem in pro football.[6] The next year, the Rams merged with fellow Coliseum tenants, the Los Angeles Dons.
1949-1955: Three-end formation[link]
Between 1949 and 1955, the Rams played in the NFL championship game four times, winning once (in 1951). During this period, they had the best offense in the NFL, led by quarterbacks Bob Waterfield and Norm Van Brocklin (from 1951). Wide receiver Elroy Hirsch, teamed with fellow Hall-of-Famer Tom Fears, helped create the style of Rams football as one of the first big play receivers. During the 1951 Championship season, Hirsch posted 1,495 receiving yards with 17 touchdowns. The popularity of this wide-open offense enabled the Los Angeles Rams to become the first pro football team to have all its games televised (in 1950). [7]
1956-1962: Tanking out[link]
The Rams posted losing records in all but two seasons between 1956 and 1966. In those two seasons, the club finished with a 6 and 6 record in 1957 followed by an 8 and 4 mark and a strong second place showing the next year. Led by business executive Pete Rozelle and his use of television, the Rams remained a business success despite the team's poor record. In a 1957 game against the San Francisco 49ers, the Rams set a record for attendance for a regular season NFL game with 102,368.[citation needed] The Rams drew over 100,000 fans twice the following year.
1963-1969: The Fearsome Foursome[link]
The 1960s were defined by the Rams great defensive line of Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, and Lamar Lundy, dubbed the "Fearsome Foursome". This group was put together by then head coach Harland Svare. It was this group of players who restored the on-field luster of the franchise in 1967 when the Rams reached (but lost) the conference championship under legendary coach George Allen. That 1967 squad would become the first NFL team to surpass one million spectators in a season, a feat the Rams would repeat the following year. In each of those two years, the L.A. Rams drew roughly double the number of fans that could be accommodated by their current stadium for a full season.
George Allen led the Rams from 1966 to 1970 and introduced many innovations. These included hiring a young Dick Vermeil as one of the first special teams coaches. Though Allen would enjoy five straight winning seasons and win two divisional titles in his time with the Rams he never won a playoff game with the team, losing in 1967 to Green Bay 28-7 and in 1969 23-20 to Minnesota. Allen would leave after the 1970 season to take the head coaching job for the Washington Redskins.
1970-1972: Changes[link]
Quarterback Roman Gabriel played eleven seasons for the Rams dating from 1962 to 1972. From 1967 to 1971, Gabriel led the Rams to either a first- or second-place finish in their division every year. He was voted the MVP of the entire NFL in 1969, for a season in which he threw for 2,549 yards and 24 TDs while leading the Rams to the playoffs. During the 1970 season, Gabriel combined with his primary receiver Jack Snow for 51 receptions totaling 859 yards. This would prove to be the best season of their eight seasons as teammates.
In 1972 Chicago industrialist Robert Irsay purchased the Rams for $19 million and then traded the franchise to Carroll Rosenbloom for his Baltimore Colts and cash. The Rams remained solid contenders in the 1970s, winning seven straight NFC West championships between 1973 and 1979. Though they clearly were the class of the NFC in the 1970s along with the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings, they lost the first 4 conference championship games they played in that decade, losing twice each to Minnesota (1974, 1976) and Dallas (1975, 1978).
1973-1979: NFC West Champs[link]
The Rams' coach for this run was Chuck Knox, who led the team through the 1977 season. The Chuck Knox-coached Rams featured an unremarkable offense carried into the playoffs annually by an elite defensive unit. The defining player of the 1970s L.A. Rams was Jack Youngblood. Youngblood was called the 'Perfect Defensive End' by fellow Hall-of-Famer Merlin Olsen. His toughness was legendary, notably playing on a broken leg during the Rams' run to the 1980 Super Bowl. His blue-collar ethic stood in opposition to the perception that the Rams were a soft "Hollywood" team. However, several Rams players from this period took advantage of their proximity to Hollywood and crossed over into acting after their playing careers ended. Most notable of these was Fred Dryer, who starred in the TV series Hunter from 1984 to 1991.
Ironically, it was the Rams' weakest divisional winner (an aging 1979 team that achieved only a 9-7 record) that would achieve the team's greatest success in that period. Led by third-year quarterback Vince Ferragamo, the Rams shocked the heavily favored and two-time defending NFC champion Dallas Cowboys 21-19 in the Divisional Playoffs, then shut out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-0 in the conference championship game to win the NFC and reach their first Super Bowl. Along with Ferragamo, key players for the Rams were halfback Wendell Tyler, offensive lineman Jackie Slater, and Pro Bowl defenders Jack Youngblood and Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds.
The Rams' opponent in their first Super Bowl was the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers. The game would be a virtual home game for the Rams as it was played in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl. Although some oddsmakers set the Rams as a 10½ point underdog, the Rams played Pittsburgh very tough, leading at halftime 13-10 and at the end of the 3rd quarter 19-17. In the end, however, the Steelers finally asserted themselves, scoring two touchdowns in the 4th quarter and completely shutting down the Rams offense to win their 4th Super Bowl, 31-19.
Los Angeles Rams: Anaheim Era (1980-1994)[link]
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1979-1981: Starting over in Anaheim[link]
Prior to the 1979 Super Bowl season, owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in an accident and his widow, Georgia Frontiere, inherited 70% ownership of the team. Frontiere then fired stepson Steve Rosenbloom and assumed total control of the Rams' operations. As had been planned prior to Rosenbloom's death, the Rams moved from their longtime home at the Coliseum to Anaheim Stadium in nearby Orange County in 1980. The reason for the move was twofold; first, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was exceedingly difficult to sell out with a capacity of 100,000 and former Rams' executive Pete Rozelle had since become NFL commissioner, creating a 'black-out rule' preventing any unsold-out game from being broadcast in its local market. Second, the move was following the population pattern in Southern California, which was causing rapid growth of affluent suburbs in greater Orange County. Anaheim Stadium was originally built in 1965 to be the home of the California Angels. To accommodate the Rams' move, the ballpark was reconfigured with luxury suites and enclosed to accommodate crowds of about 65,000 for football.
In 1982, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was occupied by the erstwhile Oakland Raiders. The combined effect of these two moves was to divide the Rams' traditional fanbase in two. This was coupled with the early 1980s being rebuilding years for the club, while the Raiders were winners of Super Bowl XVIII in 1983. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Lakers won championships in 1980 and 1982 en route to winning five titles in that decade, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 1981 and 1988, and even the Los Angeles Kings made a deep run in the playoffs in 1982.
1983-1991: Robinson takes over the Rams[link]
The hiring of coach John Robinson in 1983 provided a needed boost for pro football in Orange County. The former USC coach led the Rams to the playoffs six times in his nine seasons. They made the NFC Championship Game in 1985, where they would lose to the eventual Champion Chicago Bears. The most notable player for the Rams during that period was running back Eric Dickerson, who was drafted in 1983 out of SMU and won Rookie of the Year. In 1984, Dickerson rushed for 2,105 yards, setting a new NFL record, which still stands to this day. Dickerson would end his five hugely successful years for the Rams in 1987 by being traded to the Indianapolis Colts for a number of players and draft picks after a bitter contract dispute, shortly after the players' strike that year ended. Dickerson would remain as the Rams' career rushing leader with 7,245 yards until the 2010 season.
Despite the Dickerson trade, the Rams remained contenders due to the arrival of the innovative offensive leadership of Ernie Zampese. Zampese employed the intricate timing routes he had used to turn the San Diego Chargers into a state-of-the-art offense. Under Zampese, the Rams rose steadily from 28th-rated offense in 1986 to 3rd in 1990. In the late 1980s the Rams featured a gifted young QB in Jim Everett, a solid rushing attack, and a fleet of talented WRs. After an 11-5 record during the 1989 regular season, it was a team that seemed destined for greater things, until a 30-3 crushing defeat at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers in the 1989 NFC Championship game.
1990-1994: Georgia's Endgame for the LA Rams[link]
The Rams never recovered from the humiliation. The first half of the 1990s featured losing records, no playoff appearances for the Rams and waning fan interest. The return of Chuck Knox as head coach, after Knox's successful stints as head coach of the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks, would not boost the Rams' fortunes. His run-oriented offense marked the end of the Zampese tenure in 1993. Georgia Frontiere's strategy was to hire Knox whose offensive philosophy of "Ground Chuck" had long since become ineffective; especially in light of the fact that John Shaw, the team's general manager, continued to waste draft picks on substandard talent. The offensive scheme was unsteady and unspectacular. This porous offense continued to alienate fans. One bright spot for the offense during this time would be running back Jerome Bettis, though he would later be traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers after he became expendable when the team drafted Lawrence Phillips; this would ultimately become one of the most lopsided trades in NFL history, strongly favoring the Steelers.
In the years preceding the relocation, management traded Jim Everett and released Kevin Greene, an all-pro defensive linebacker. This furthered the chasm between success and the Rams organization. The losing seasons increased. At this point, Georgia Frontiere blamed poor front office decisions on their stadium situation. Neither Orange County, nor the city of Los Angeles was prepared to build a publicly financed stadium for the team in light of the fact that there were at least 3 perfectly suitable stadiums at the time.
Georgia Frontiere attempted to relocate the Rams to Baltimore, Maryland. That deal was eventually nixed. Mrs. Frontiere then sought to relocate the team to the city of St. Louis. NFL owners initially voted to oppose the move. Owners of the Buffalo Bills, New York Jets and Giants, the Washington Redskins, the Arizona Cardinals and the Minnesota Vikings opposed the move and argued that Mrs. Frontiere, who pleaded poverty as a basis for relocation, had "horribly mismanaged" the team. Nevertheless, she threatened legal action and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue acquiesced to Frontiere's demands.
The team eventually bolted for St. Louis. As part of the agreement, the city agreed to build a publicly financed stadium and guaranteed that the stadium would be in the top 25% of all stadiums in the National Football League. Georgia Frontiere waived the clause after the 10 year threshold, as the city implemented a later plan to improve the stadium.
Nevertheless, the move left many in the Los Angeles area and many of those indifferent to the situation to be embittered toward the NFL. That sentiment was best expressed by Fred Dryer, who at the time said "I hate these people [the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere] for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California." Steve Rosenbloom, formerly the general manager of the team during Carroll Rosenbloom's tenure, opined that teams come and go, but for a team to leave Los Angeles (the second largest market in the country) for St. Louis (approximately the eighteenth largest market in the country) was simply irresponsible and foolish. With the Raiders moving back to Oakland a few months later, the NFL would quickly be devoid of football in Los Angeles. The league has yet to return.
St. Louis Rams (1995–present)[link]
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1995–1999: Starting over in St. Louis[link]
The 1995 and 1996 seasons the Rams were under the direction of head coach Rich Brooks. Their most prolific player from their first two seasons was the fan-favorite Isaac Bruce. Then in 1997, Dick Vermeil was hired as the head coach. In 1997, the Rams traded up in the draft to select future All-Pro offensive tackle Orlando Pace. The Rams were very well known for their high powered offense in 1999. Prior to the season, the Rams traded a second and a fourth round draft pick for future league MVP, Marshall Faulk. The season started with Trent Green injuring his leg in preseason that would sideline him for the entire season. Vermeil told the public that the Rams would "Rally around Kurt Warner, and play good football." Kurt Warner, who had played QB for the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League just a few years prior, synced up with Marshall Faulk and Isaac Bruce to lead the Rams to one of the most historic Super Bowl offenses in history, posting 526 points for the season. This was the beginning of what would later become known around the league as "The Greatest Show On Turf."
1999–2005: Greatest Show on Turf[link]
Following the Rams win in Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans, Dick Vermeil retired and Vermeil's Offensive Coordinator Mike Martz was hired. He managed to take the Rams to Super Bowl XXXVI, losing to the New England Patriots. Mike Martz helped the Rams establish a pass-first identity that would post an NFL record amount of points forged over the course of 3 seasons (1999–2001). However, in the first round in the 2004 draft, the Rams chose Oregon State running back Steven Jackson as the 24th pick of the draft. Jackson has been one of the Rams' most successful running backs since the Rams' arrival in St. Louis.
Martz was criticized by many as careless with game management. He often feuded with several players as well as team president and general manager, Jay Zygmunt. However, most of his players respected him and went on record saying they enjoyed him as a coach. In 2005, Mike Martz was ill and hospitalized for several games, allowing assistant head coach Joe Vitt to coach the remainder of the season, although Martz was cleared later in the season, team president John Shaw would not allow him to come back to coach the team.
2006–2008: Struggles[link]
After the Rams fired Martz, former Minnesota offensive coordinator Scott Linehan took control of an 8–8 team in 2006. In 2007, Linehan led the Rams to 3–13. Following the 2007 season, Georgia Frontiere died January 18, 2008 after a 28-year ownership commencing in 1979.[8] Ownership of the team passed to her son Dale "Chip" Rosenbloom and daughter Lucia Rodriguez.[9] Chip Rosenbloom was named the new Rams majority owner.[10] Linehan was already faced with scrutiny from several players in the locker room, including Torry Holt and Steven Jackson. Linehan was then fired on September 29, 2008, after the team started the season 0–4. Jim Haslett, Defensive Coordinator under Linehan, was interim head coach for the rest of the 2008 season.
John Shaw then resigned as president, and personnel chief Billy Devaney was promoted to general manager on December 24, 2008, after the resignation of former president of football operations and general manager Jay Zygmunt on December 22.[11]
2009–Present: The Rebuilding Era[link]
On January 17, 2009 Steve Spagnuolo was named the new head coach of the franchise. In his previous post as Defensive Coordinator with the New York Giants, Spagnuolo masterminded a defensive scheme that shut down the potent offense of the previously undefeated and untied New England Patriots, the odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl that year. In one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history, the New York Giants defeated the Patriots 17-14. In spite of his success as Defensive Coordinator with the New York Giants, Spagnuolo's first season as Head Coach of the Rams was terribly disappointing as the team won only once in 16 attempts.
On May 31, 2009, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the majority owners Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez officially offered their majority share of Rams for sale. They retained the services of Goldman Sachs, a prominent investment banking firm, to help facilitate the sale of the Rams by evaluating bids and soliciting potential buyers.[12] The sale price was unknown, but at the time Forbes magazine's most recent estimate listed the Rams' value at $929 million.[13] One of the early contenders for the team was a group led by Dave Checketts and Rush Limbaugh; however, opposition to Limbaugh's potential ownership led to the group's dissolution.[14] In February 2010 it was reported that Shahid Khan, a businessman from Urbana, Illinois, had signed an agreement to acquire the 60% ownership interest of Rosenbloom and Rodriguez, subject to approval by NFL owners.[15] However, a month later, on the final day to do so, then-minority owner Stan Kroenke invoke his right of first refusal to buy the 60 percent of the team that he did not already own. (Khan would instead acquire the Jacksonville Jaguars.)
Pursuant to NFL rules, owners are prohibited from owning other sports teams in markets where there is already an NFL team. At the time of purchase, Kroenke (d/b/a Kroenke Sports Enterprises), owned the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche, the Colorado Rapids, and the Pepsi Center (home to the Nuggets and the Avalanche). Kroenke, a real estate and sports mogul as well as married to a Wal-Mart heir, also owned Altitude Sports and Entertainment.[16] These interests violated the NFL's cross-ownership rule.
Nevertheless, on August 25, 2010, NFL owners unanimously approved Stan Kroenke as the owner of the franchise contingent upon his eventual divestment of his Colorado sports interests. Kroenke complied with the rule when he transferred ownership of the Nuggets, Avalanche, the Pepsi Center, and the Altitude to his son Josh Kroenke.
The Rams received the first pick in the 2010 NFL Draft after finishing the 2009 season with a 1-15 record. The team used the pick to select quarterback Sam Bradford from the University of Oklahoma. The Rams finished the 2010 season second in the NFC West with a record of 7-9. Bradford started all 16 games for the Rams after earning the starting QB position during the preseason. On October 24, 2010, running back Steven Jackson passed Eric Dickerson as the franchise's career rushing leader.
On January 18, 2011 the Rams hired Josh McDaniels, former head coach of the Denver Broncos. Coincidentally, McDaniels was the Offensive Coordinator of the New England Patriots team that went undefeated and untied until it faced the stout defense led by Steve Spagnuolo of the New York Giants. McDaniels replaced Pat Shurmur as Offensive Coordinator.
On February 4, 2011, Rookie quarterback Sam Bradford was named the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year. Sam Bradford received 44 of the 50 possible from the nationwide panel of media members. Bradford finished the 2010 season off with a 60% completion percentage, 18 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions. The last three quarterbacks to win this award were Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers (2004), Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans (2006), and Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons (2008).
On January 2, 2012, one day after the Rams finished 2-14, head coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney were fired. [17] McDaniels also left the team and returned to New England[18] to become offensive coordinator for the 2012 season.[19]
On January 13, 2012, Jeff Fisher officially announced his choice of the St. Louis Rams over the Miami Dolphins to be the team for his new head coaching era. Three days later Gregg Williams, the defensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints from 2009-2011, joined the new Rams coaching staff as the defensive coordinator. Prior to beginning his work with the Rams, however, Williams was banned indefinitely from the NFL after his stewardship of an under-the-table bounty program became known.
On January 20, 2012, it was announced that the Rams would play one home game a season at Wembley Stadium, London, for the next 3 seasons. The first game is scheduled to be against the New England Patriots on October 28, 2012.[20]
On January 23, 2012, it was officially announced that Brian Schottenheimer would fill the position as offensive coordinator and will be the third offensive coordinator that Sam Bradford has had going into his third season. Bringing in Schottenheimer also means a stronger run focus in offensive play calls. During his 3 years in New York he helped improve Mark Sanchez as a quarterback[citation needed] and helped lead the New York Jets to back-to-back AFC Championship Games.
Season-by-season records[link]
Main article: List of St. Louis Rams seasons
Logo and uniforms[link]
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St Louis Rams uniform combinations
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Los Angeles Rams uniform: 1950-1956
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Los Angeles Rams uniform: 1957-1961
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Los Angeles Rams uniform: 1962-1963. The white jerseys were adorned with "UCLA loops"
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Los Angeles Rams uniform: 1964-1972
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Los Angeles/St Louis Rams uniform: 1973-1999. The sock stripes were removed when the team moved to St. Louis in 1995.
The Rams were the first professional American football team to have a logo on their helmets. Ever since halfback Fred Gehrke, who worked as a commercial artist in off-seasons, painted ram horns on the team's leather helmets in 1948, the logo has been the club's trademark.
When the team debuted in 1937, the Rams' colors were red and black, featuring red helmets, black uniforms with red shoulders and sleeves, tan pants, and red socks with black and white stripes. One year later they would switch their team colors to gold and royal blue, with gold helmets, white pants, royal blue uniforms with gold numbers and gold shoulders, white pants with a royal stripe, and solid royal blue socks. By the mid-1940s the Rams had adopted gold jerseys (with navy blue serif numerals, navy blue shoulders, gold helmets, white pants with a gold-navy-gold stripe, and gold socks with two navy stripes). The uniforms were unchanged as the team moved to Los Angeles. The helmets were changed to navy in 1947. When Gehrke introduced the horns, they were painted yellow-gold on navy blue helmets. In 1949 the team adopted plastic helmets, and the Rams' horns were rendered by the Riddell company of Des Plaines, Illinois, which baked a painted design into the helmet at its factory. Also in 1949 the serif jersey numerals gave way to more standard block numbers. Wider, bolder horns joined at the helmet center front and curving around the earhole appeared in 1950; this design was somewhat tapered in 1954–1955. Also in 1950 a blue-gold-blue tri-stripe appeared on the pants and "Northwestern University-style" royal blue stripes were added to jersey sleeves. A white border was added to the blue jersey numerals in 1953. So-called "TV numbers" were added on jersey sleeves in 1956. In accordance with a 1957 NFL rule dictating that the home team wear dark, primary-colored jerseys and the road team light shirts, the Rams hurriedly readied for the regular season new royal-blue home jerseys with golden striping and golden front and back numerals with a white border. The white border was removed in 1958. The Rams continued to wear their golden jerseys for 1957 road games, but the following year adopted a white jersey with blue numerals and stripes. In 1962–63 the team's road white jersey featured a UCLA-style blue-gold-blue crescent shoulder tri-stripe.
In 1964, concurrent with a major remodeling of the team's Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum home, the colors were changed to a simpler blue and white. The new helmet horns were white, wider, and separated at the helmet center front. The blue jersey had white numerals with two white sleeve stripes. The white jersey featured blue numerals and a wide blue crescent shoulder stripe. A 1964 league rule allowed teams to wear white jerseys for home games and the Rams were among several teams to do so (the Dallas Cowboys, who introduced their blue-white-silverblue uniform that season, have worn white at home ever since), as owner Dan Reeves felt it would be more enjoyable for fans to see the various colors of the rest of the league as opposed to always having the Rams in blue and the visiting team in white. [21] The pants were white with a thick blue stripe. In 1970, in keeping with the standards of the fully merged NFL and AFL, names appeared on the jersey backs for the first time. The sleeve "TV numbers," quite large compared to those of other teams, were made smaller in 1965. From 1964 to early 1972 the Rams wore white jerseys for every home league game and exhibition, at one point not wearing their blue jerseys at all from 1967 to 1971;[22] it was a tradition that continued under coaches Harland Svare, George Allen, and Tommy Prothro. But new owner Carroll Rosenbloom did not particularly like the Rams' uniforms, so in pursuit of a new look the team wore its seldom-used blue jerseys for most home games in 1972. During that season Rosenbloom's Rams also announced an intention to revive the old blue-and gold colors for 1973, and asked fans to send in design ideas.
The colors returned to yellow-gold and blue in 1973. The new uniform design consisted of yellow- gold pants and curling rams horns on the sleeves – yellow gold horns curving from the shoulders to the arms on the blue jerseys, which featured golden numerals (a white border around the numerals, similar to the 1957 style, appeared for two exhibitions and was then removed). Players' names were in contrasting white. The white jersey had similarly shaped blue horns, blue numerals and names. The white jerseys also had yellow gold sleeves. The gold pants included a blue-white-blue tri-stripe, which was gradually widened through the 1970s and early 1980s. The blue socks initially featured two thin golden stripes, but these were rarely visible. From 1973 to 1976 the Rams were the only team to wear white cleats on the road and royal blue cleats at home. The new golden helmet horns were of identical shape, but for the first time the horn was not factory-painted but instead a decal applied to the helmet. The decal was cut in sections and affixed to accommodate spaces for face-mask and chin-strap attachments, and so the horn curved farther around the ear hole. Jersey numerals were made thicker and blunter in 1975. The Rams primarily wore blue at home with this combination, but after 1977 would wear white on occasion at home, notably for games against the Dallas Cowboys (who usually do not wear their blue jerseys due to a superstition that the Cowboys' blue jerseys are jinxed) and selected AFC teams. The team wore its white jerseys for most of its 1978 home dates, including its post-season games with the Minnesota Vikings and Cowboys - though the latter is the only postseason game Dallas has ever won while outfitted in their blue jerseys. Standard gray face masks became dark blue in 1981. The Rams wore white jerseys exclusively in the 1982 and 1993 seasons, as well as other selected occasions throughout their 15 seasons in Anaheim.
The team's colors were changed from yellow gold and blue to New Century Gold (old gold) and Millennium (navy) blue in 2000 following the Super Bowl win. A new logo of a ram's head was added to the sleeves and gold stripes were added to the sides of the jerseys. The new gold pants no longer featured any stripes. Blue pants and White pants with a small gold stripe (an extension off the jersey stripe that ended in a point) were also an option with the Rams only electing to wear the white set in a pre-season game in San Diego in 2001. The helmet design essentially remains the same as it was in 1948, except for updates to the coloring, navy blue field with gold horns. The 2000 rams'-horn design features a slightly wider separation at the helmet's center. Both home and away jerseys had a gold stripe that ran down each side, but that only lasted for the 2000 and 2001 seasons.
In 2003, the Rams wore blue pants with their white jerseys for a pair of early-season games, but after losses to the New York Giants and Seattle Seahawks, the Rams reverted to gold pants with their white jerseys. In 2005, the Rams wore the blue pants again at home against Arizona and on the road against Dallas. In 2007, the Rams wore all possible combinations of their uniforms. They wore the Blue Tops and Gold Pants at home against Carolina, San Francisco, Cleveland, Seattle, and on the road against Dallas. They wore the Blue Tops and Blue Pants at home against Arizona, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh on Marshall Faulk night. They wore the Blue Tops and White Pants on the road in Tampa Bay and at home against Green Bay. They wore White Tops and Gold Pants at New Orleans and San Francisco. They wore White Tops and White Pants at Seattle and Arizona. And they wore White Tops and Blue Pants at Baltimore and Cincinnati. In 2008, the Rams went away with the gold pants. The gold pants were used for only one regular season game at Seattle. The blue jerseys with white pants and white jerseys with blue pants combination were used most of the time. For the 2009 season, the Rams elected to wear the white pants with both jerseys for the majority of the time except the games against the Vikings and Texans (see below) where they wore the throwback jerseys from the 1999 season, week 2 in Washington when they wore gold pants with the blue jersey, and week 12 against Seattle when the wore blue pants with the blue jersey.
Since moving to St. Louis, the Rams have always worn blue at home. Like most other teams playing in a dome, the Rams do not need to wear white to gain an advantage with the heat despite the team's midwestern geographic location. The Rams wore their white jerseys and blue pants in St. Louis against the Dallas Cowboys, on October 19, 2008, forcing the Cowboys to wear their "unlucky" blue uniforms, and won the game 34-14.[23]
The NFL approved the use of throwback uniforms for the club during the 2009 season to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 1999 Super Bowl Championship Team. The Rams wore the throwback uniforms for two home games in 2009 - October 11 against the Minnesota Vikings and December 20 against the Houston Texans. The Rams wore their 1999 throwbacks again on October 31, 2010, when they beat the Carolina Panthers 20-10. In 1994, the team's last season in Southern California, the Rams wore jerseys and pants replicating those of their 1951 championship season for their September games with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.[24]
Players of note[link]
See also: List of St. Louis Rams players
Current roster[link]
Pro Football Hall of Famers[link]
Former Rams in the Pro Football Hall of Fame include Joe Namath (12), Ollie Matson (33), Andy Robustelli (81), Dick "Night Train" Lane (also 81), coach Earl "Dutch" Clark, and general manager Tex Schramm. GM and later NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and coach Sid Gillman are also members of the Hall of Fame, but were elected on the basis of their performances with other teams or (in the case of Rozelle) NFL administration.
| Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams Hall of Famers | ||||
| No. | Player | Class | Position(s) | Years Played |
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| -- | George Allen | 2002 | Coach | 1966–1970 |
| 76 | Bob Brown | 2004 | OT | 1969–1970 |
| 29 | Eric Dickerson | 1999 | RB | 1983–1987 |
| 28 | Marshall Faulk | 2011 | RB | 1999-2006 |
| 55 | Tom Fears | 1970 | End | 1948–1956 |
| 40 | Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch | 1968 | RB, WR | 1949–1957 |
| 75 | Deacon Jones | 1980 | DE | 1961–1971 |
| 65 | Tom Mack | 1999 | G | 1966–1978 |
| 74 | Merlin Olsen | 1982 | DT | 1962–1976 |
| -- | Dan Reeves | 1967 | Owner | 1941–1971 |
| 67, 48 | Les Richter | 2011 | LB, K | 1954–1962 |
| 78 | Jackie Slater | 2001 | OT | 1976–1995 |
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin | 1971 | QB, P | 1949–1957 |
| 7 | Bob Waterfield | 1965 | QB, DB, K, P | 1945–1952 |
| 85 | Jack Youngblood | 2001 | DE | 1971–1984 |
St. Louis Football Ring Of Fame[link]
Former Rams are included in the Ring Of Fame in the Edward Jones Dome. All players included are Hall of Famers, but there have been a few exceptions for team executives and coaches.
| FORMER RAMS | ||||
| No. | Player | Years Played | Year Inducted | |
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| 7 | Bob Waterfield | 1945-1952 | 1999 | |
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin | 1949-1957 | 1999 | |
| 28 | Marshall Faulk | 1999-2006 | 2011 | |
| 29 | Eric Dickerson | 1983-1987 | 1999 | |
| 40 | Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch | 1949-1957 | 1999 | |
| 48 | Les Richter | 1954-1962 | 2011 | |
| 55 | Tom Fears | 1948-1956 | 1999 | |
| 65 | Tom Mack | 1966-1978 | 1999 | |
| 74 | Merlin Olsen | 1962-1976 | 1999 | |
| 75 | David Deacon Jones | 1961-1971 | 1999 | |
| 78 | Jackie Slater | 1976-1995 | 2001 | |
| 84* | Jack Snow | 1964-1975, Broadcaster | 2006 | |
| 85 | Jack Youngblood | 1971-1984 | 2001 | |
| *Jack Snow is NOT a Hall of Famer, but is honored due to his death in 2006 | ||||
| COACHES AND EXECUTIVES | ||||
| Name | Years | Year Inducted | ||
| Head Coach | Dick Vermeil | 1997-1999 | 2008 | |
| Owner | Dan Reeves | 1941-1971 | 2008 | |
| Owner | Carroll Rosenbloom | 1972-1979 | 2008 | |
| Owner | Georgia Frontiere | 1979-2007 | 2008 | |
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Retired numbers[link]
Numbers that have been retired by the Rams.
- 7 Bob Waterfield
- 28 Marshall Faulk
- 29 Eric Dickerson
- 74 Merlin Olsen
- 75 Deacon Jones
- 78 Jackie Slater
- 80 Isaac Bruce
- 85 Jack Youngblood
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Awards[link]
Main article: St. Louis Rams awards
Coaches of note[link]
Head coaches[link]
Main article: List of St. Louis Rams head coaches
Current staff[link]
Front Office
Head Coaches
Offensive Coaches
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Defensive Coaches
Special Teams Coaches
Strength and Conditioning
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Radio and television[link]
The Rams were the first NFL team to televise their home games; in a sponsorship arrangement with Admiral television, all home games of the 1950 NFL season were shown locally. The Rams also televised games in the early 1950s. The 1951 NFL Championship Game was the first championship game televised coast-to-coast (via the DuMont Network). During the team's years in Los Angeles all games were broadcast on KMPC radio (710 AM); play-by-play announcers were Bob Kelley (who accompanied the team from Cleveland and worked until his death in 1965), Dick Enberg (1966–77), Al Wisk (1978–79), Bob Starr (1980–89, 1993), Eddie Doucette (1990), Paul Olden (1991–92), and Steve Physioc (1994). Analysts included Gil Stratton, Steve Bailey, Dave Niehaus (1968–72), Don Drysdale (1973–76), Dick Bass (1977–86), Jack Youngblood (1987–91), Jack Snow (1992–94), and Deacon Jones (1994).
The Rams' flagship radio station is 101.1 FM WXOS, a sports station in St. Louis with ESPN Radio Affiliation. Steve Savard, is the play-by-play man with D'Marco Farr in the color spot and Brian Stull reporting from the field. From 2000 to 2008 KLOU FM 103.3 was the Rams' flagship station with Savard as the play-by-play announcer. Until October 2005, Jack Snow had been the color analyst since 1993, dating back to the team's days in the Los Angeles area. Snow left the booth after suffering an illness and died in January 2006. Former Rams offensive line coach Jim Hanifan joined KLOU as the color analyst the year after Jack Snow's departure. Before the Rams moved to KLOU, from 1995 to 1999 the Rams games were broadcast on KSD 93.7 FM. On Television, games are either broadcast on Fox, CBS, ESPN, or NFL Network. Preseason games not shown on a national broadcast network are seen on KTVI, FOX 2 St. Louis, and are also seen in Los Angeles on KCOP, "MyNetworkTV Channel 13."
Radio Affiliates[link]
Missouri[link]
| City | Call Sign | Frenquency |
|---|---|---|
| St. Louis | WXOS-FM | 101.1 FM |
| Osage Beach | KMYK-FM | 93.5 FM |
| Columbia | KTGR-AM | 1580 AM |
| Columbia | KTGR-FM | 100.5 FM |
| Sullivan | KTUI-AM | 1560 AM |
| Branson | KRZK-FM | 106.3 FM |
| Houston | KBTC-AM | 1250 AM |
| Sikeston | KRHW-AM | 1520 AM |
| Sikeston | KRHW-FM | 98.9 FM |
| Jackson | KJXX-AM | 1170 AM |
| Bonne Terre | KDBB-FM | 104.3 FM |
| Bowling Green | KPVR-FM | 94.1 FM |
Illinois[link]
| City | Call Sign | Frenquency |
|---|---|---|
| Carbondale | WXLT-FM | 103.5 FM |
| Rushville | WKXQ-FM | 92.5 FM |
| Salem | WJBD-AM | 1350 AM |
| Mount Vernon | WMIX-AM | 940 AM |
| Sparta | WHCO-AM | 1230 AM |
| Murphysboro | WINI-AM | 1420 AM |
| Macon | WZUS-FM | 100.9 FM |
| Quincy | WTAD-AM | 930 AM |
| Lynnville | WEAI-FM | 107.1 FM |
Indiana[link]
| City | Call Sign | Frenquency |
|---|---|---|
| Evansville | WSJD-FM | 100.5 FM |
See also[link]
| Achievements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Denver Broncos 1998 and 1999 |
Super Bowl Champions St. Louis Rams 2000 |
Succeeded by Baltimore Ravens 2001 |
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- ^ http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d825d6483/article/patriots-officially-announce-mcdaniels-hiring-as-assistant
- ^ http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/7435550/new-england-patriots-rehire-josh-mcdaniels-offensive-coordinator-source-says
- ^ http://www.stlouisrams.com/news-and-events/article-1/Rams-to-Play-Patriots-in-London/b6f63268-f6dc-4721-a1cc-79a4efd1fc9c
- ^ http://www.uniwatchblog.com/2011/05/17/fantastic-interview-with-former-rams-equipment-manager-todd-hewitt/
- ^ http://www.uniwatchblog.com/research-projects/white-at-home-in-the-nfl/
- ^ "Romo-less Cowboys lose to Rams". Yahoo!. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap;_ylt=AlJvXNYhDdh5s_ox4qzy3WJDubYF?gid=20081019014&prov=ap.
- ^ Rams will wear 1999 'throwbacks' in '09
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| City of St. Louis | |||
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| Nickname(s): Rome of the West, STL, Gateway to the West,[1] Mound City[2][3] | |||
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| Coordinates: 38°37′38″N 90°11′52″W / 38.62722°N 90.19778°W / 38.62722; -90.19778Coordinates: 38°37′38″N 90°11′52″W / 38.62722°N 90.19778°W / 38.62722; -90.19778 | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| State | Missouri | ||
| County | Independent city | ||
| Metro | Greater St. Louis | ||
| Founded | 1764 | ||
| Incorporated | 1822 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Mayor–council government | ||
| • Mayor | Francis G. Slay (D) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Independent City | 66.2 sq mi (171.3 km2) | ||
| • Land | 61.9 sq mi (160.4 km2) | ||
| • Water | 4.2 sq mi (11.0 km2) | ||
| Elevation[4] | 466 ft (142 m) | ||
| Population (2010)[5] | |||
| • Independent City | 318,069 | ||
| • Rank | 58th | ||
| • Density | 4,823/sq mi (1,864/km2) | ||
| • Metro | 3,001,233 (18th) | ||
| Demonym | St. Louisan | ||
| Time zone | CST (UTC−6) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC−5) | ||
| Area code(s) | 314, 636 | ||
| Website | http://stlouis-mo.gov/ | ||
St. Louis /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/ (French: Saint-Louis or St-Louis, [sɛ̃ lwi] (
listen)) is an independent city[6] on the eastern border of Missouri, United States, and is the second-largest city in the state. With a population of 318,069 in July 2011,[5] it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population of 2,812,896 is the 18th-largest in the country. The Greater St. Louis combined statistical area's (CSA) population of 2,878,255 is the 16th-largest CSA in the country, the fourth-largest in the Midwest. The Greater St. Louis area is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri.
The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and after the Louisiana Purchase, it became a major port on the Mississippi River. Its population expanded after the American Civil War, and it became the fourth-largest city in the United States in the late 19th century. It seceded from St. Louis County in March 1877, allowing it to become an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Olympic Games. The city's population peaked in 1950, then began a long decline that reversed only at the beginning of the 21st century.
The economy of St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. The region is home to several major corporations: Express Scripts, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Graybar Electric, Scottrade, Sigma-Aldrich, Anheuser-Busch, Edward Jones Investments, Emerson Electric, Energizer, and Monsanto. St. Louis is home to three professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful Major League Baseball clubs; the hockey St. Louis Blues, and the football St. Louis Rams. The city is commonly identified with the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis.
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History[link]
Main article: History of St. Louis, Missouri
The area that would become St. Louis was a center of Native American Mississippian culture, which built numerous temple and residential earthwork mounds in the region, giving the city its nickname, the "Mound City". European exploration of the area began in 1673, when French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette traveled through the Mississippi River valley. Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France, and the earliest settlements in the area were built in Illinois during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, and Fort de Chartres. Migrants from the eastern French villages founded Ste. Genevieve, Missouri across the Mississippi River from Kaskaskia, and in early 1764, Pierre Laclède and his stepson Auguste Chouteau founded the city of St. Louis.[7]
From 1764 to 1803 European control of the area west of the Mississippi to the northernmost part of the Missouri River basin, called Louisiana, was assumed by the Spanish as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. In 1765, St. Louis was made the capital of French Upper Louisiana, and after 1767, control of the region was given to the Spanish. In 1780, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native Americans, during the American Revolutionary War.[8] St. Louis was transferred back to France in 1800, then sold to the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase, and the city became the territorial capital. Shortly after the purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition left St. Louis in May 1804, reaching the Pacific Ocean in summer 1805, and returning on September 23, 1806. Both Lewis and Clark lived in St. Louis after the expedition. Many other explorers, settlers, and trappers (such as Ashley's Hundred) would later take a similar route to the West. The city elected its first municipal legislators (called trustees) in 1808.
Steamboats first arrived in St. Louis in 1818, improving connections with New Orleans and eastern markets. Missouri became a state in 1821, at which point the capital moved from St. Louis. However, St. Louis was incorporated as a city in 1822, and continued to see growth due to its port connections. Immigrants from Ireland and Germany arrived in St. Louis in significant numbers starting in the 1840s, and the population of St. Louis grew from less than 20,000 in 1840, to 77,860 in 1850, to more than 160,000 by 1860.
During the American Civil War, St. Louis was the site of significant divisions, although no combat took place in the city after the 1861 Camp Jackson Affair. The war hurt St. Louis economically, due to the blockade of river traffic to the South, although the St. Louis Arsenal constructed ironclads for the Union. St. Louis profited via trade with the West after the war, and in 1874, the city completed the Eads Bridge, the first bridge over the Mississippi River in the area. On August 22, 1876, the city of St. Louis voted to secede from St. Louis County and become an independent city, and industrial production continued to increase during the late 19th century. The city also produced a number of notable people in the fields of literature, including Tennessee Williams and T.S. Eliot, and major corporations such as the Anheuser-Busch brewery and Ralston-Purina company were established. St. Louis also was home to Desloge Consolidated Lead Company and several brass era automobile companies, including the Success Automobile Manufacturing Company;[9] St. Louis also is the site of the Wainwright Building, an early skyscraper built in 1892.
In 1904, the city hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Summer Olympics, becoming the first non-European city to host the Olympics.[10] Proceeds from the fair provided the city with the St. Louis Art Museum and the Missouri History Museum.
Discrimination in housing and employment were common in St. Louis, and starting in the 1910s, many property deeds included racial or religious restrictive covenants. During World War II, the NAACP campaigned to integrate war factories, and restrictive covenants were prohibited in 1948 by the Shelley v. Kraemer U.S. Supreme Court decision, which originated as a lawsuit in St. Louis. However, de jure educational segregation continued into the 1950s, and de facto segregation continued into the 1970s, leading to a court challenge and interdistrict desegregation agreement.[11]
St. Louis, like many Midwestern cities, expanded in the early 20th century due to the formation of many industrial companies and due to wartime housing shortages. It reached its peak population of 856,796 at the 1950 census.[12] Suburbanization from the 1950s through the 1990s dramatically reduced the city's population, and although small increases in population were seen in the early 2000s, the city of St. Louis lost population from 2000 to 2010. Several urban renewal projects commenced in the 1950s, and the city achieved notoriety for its housing projects, particularly Pruitt-Igoe. Since the 1980s, revitalization efforts have focused on downtown St. Louis, and gentrification has taken place in the Washington Avenue Historic District.[13] Because of the upturn in urban revitalization, St. Louis received the World Leadership Award for urban renewal in 2006.[14]
Geography[link]
Main article: Geography of St. Louis, Missouri
Topography[link]
According to the United States Census Bureau, St. Louis has a total area of 66.2 square miles (171.3 km²), of which 61.9 square miles (160.4 km²) is land and 4.2 square miles (11.0 km² or 6.39%) is water. The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet above the western banks of the Mississippi River, in the Midwestern United States just south of the Missouri-Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features low hills and broad, shallow valleys. Both the Mississippi River and the Missouri River have cut large valleys with wide flood plains.
Limestone and dolomite of the Mississippian epoch underlie the area, and parts of the city are karst in nature. This is particularly true of the area south of downtown, which has numerous sinkholes and caves. Most of the caves in the city have been sealed, but many springs are visible along the riverfront. Coal, brick clay, and millerite ore were once mined in the city, and the predominant surface rock, the St. Louis Limestone, is used as dimension stone and rubble for construction.
Near the southern boundary of the City of St. Louis (separating it from St. Louis County) is the River des Peres, virtually the only river or stream within the city limits that is not entirely underground.[15] Most of River des Peres was confined to a channel or put underground in the 1920s and early 1930s. The lower section of the river was the site of some of the worst flooding of the Great Flood of 1993.
The city's eastern border is the Mississippi River, which also separates Missouri from Illinois. The Missouri River forms the northern border of St. Louis County, except for a few areas where the river has changed its course. The Meramec River forms most of its southern border.
Climate[link]
St. Louis lies in the transitional zone between the humid continental climate type and the humid subtropical climate type (Köppen Dfa and Cfa, respectively), with neither large mountains nor large bodies of water to moderate its temperature. It is subject to both cold Arctic air and hot, humid tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. The city has four distinct seasons. Spring is the wettest season and produces severe weather ranging from tornadoes to winter storms. Summers are hot and humid, and temperatures of 90 °F (32 °C) or higher occur between 35 and 40 days a year, while days of 100 °F (38 °C) or higher occur usually no more than five days per year.[16] Fall is mild with lower humidity and can produce intermittent bouts of heavy rainfall with the first snow flurries usually forming in early or mid November. Winters can be cold and snowy with temperatures frequently below freezing. Winter storm systems, such as Alberta Clippers and Panhandle hooks, can bring days of heavy freezing rain, ice pellets, and snowfall.
The average annual temperature recorded at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, is 57.0 °F (14 °C), and average precipitation is 41.0 inches (1,040 mm). The normal high temperature in July is 89.1 °F (32 °C), and the normal low temperature in January is 23.7 °F (−5 °C), although this varies from year to year. Both 100 °F (37.8 °C) and 0 °F (−17.8 °C) temperatures can be seen on an average 2 or 3 days per year. The official record low is −22 °F (−30 °C) on January 5, 1884, although there were unofficial readings of −23 °F (−31 °C) on January 29, 1873 and −25 °F (−32 °C) on January 1, 1864; and the record high is 115 °F (46 °C) on July 14, 1954.[17]
Winter (December through February) is the driest season, with an average 7.5 inches (191 mm) of precipitation. The average seasonal snowfall is 17.7 inches (45 cm). Spring (March through May), is typically the wettest season, with 11.7 inches (297 mm) of precipitation. Dry spells lasting one to two weeks are common during the growing seasons.
St. Louis experiences thunderstorms 48 days a year on average.[18] Especially in the spring, these storms can often be severe, with high winds, large hail and tornadoes. Lying within the hotbed of Tornado Alley, St. Louis reigns as one of the most frequently tornadic metropolitan areas, and has an extensive history of particularly damaging tornadoes.
Some late autumns feature the warm weather known as Indian summer; some years see roses in bloom as late as early December.
| Climate data for St. Louis, Missouri (St. Louis International Airport) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 77 (25) |
85 (29) |
92 (33) |
93 (34) |
98 (37) |
105 (41) |
115 (46) |
110 (43) |
104 (40) |
94 (34) |
86 (30) |
76 (24) |
115 (46) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 39.9 (4.4) |
45.0 (7.2) |
55.9 (13.3) |
67.4 (19.7) |
76.3 (24.6) |
85.1 (29.5) |
89.1 (31.7) |
87.9 (31.1) |
80.2 (26.8) |
68.5 (20.3) |
55.5 (13.1) |
42.5 (5.8) |
66.1 (18.9) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 23.7 (−6) |
27.6 (−3.1) |
36.6 (2.6) |
47.2 (8.4) |
57.2 (14.0) |
66.8 (19.3) |
71.0 (21.7) |
69.4 (20.8) |
60.6 (15.9) |
49.0 (9.4) |
38.1 (3.4) |
26.9 (−3.4) |
47.8 (8.8) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −22 (−30) |
−18 (−27.8) |
−5 (−20.6) |
20 (−6.7) |
31 (−0.6) |
43 (6) |
51 (11) |
47 (8) |
32 (0) |
21 (−6.1) |
1 (−17.2) |
−16 (−26.7) |
−22 (−30) |
| Precipitation inches (mm) | 2.40 (61) |
2.24 (56.9) |
3.32 (84.3) |
3.69 (93.7) |
4.72 (119.9) |
4.28 (108.7) |
4.11 (104.4) |
2.99 (75.9) |
3.13 (79.5) |
3.33 (84.6) |
3.91 (99.3) |
2.84 (72.1) |
40.96 (1,040.4) |
| Snowfall inches (cm) | 5.6 (14.2) |
4.3 (10.9) |
2.3 (5.8) |
0.4 (1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.7 (1.8) |
4.4 (11.2) |
17.7 (45) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 9.4 | 8.2 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 11.3 | 9.6 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 10.1 | 9.4 | 112.9 |
| Avg. snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 5.2 | 3.4 | 2.3 | .4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .9 | 3.5 | 15.7 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 161.2 | 161.0 | 198.4 | 222.0 | 266.6 | 291.0 | 310.0 | 269.7 | 237.0 | 207.7 | 141.0 | 130.2 | 2,595.8 |
| Source: Average Temperature, Precipitation, and Snowfall
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Flora and fauna[link]
Before the founding of the city, the area was prairie and open forest maintained by burning by Native Americans. Trees are mainly oak, maple, and hickory, similar to the forests of the nearby Ozarks; common understory trees include Eastern Redbud, Serviceberry, and Flowering Dogwood. Riparian areas are forested with mainly American sycamore. Most of the residential area of the city is planted with large native shade trees. The largest native forest area is found in Forest Park. In Autumn, the changing color of the trees is notable. Most species here are typical of the Eastern Woodland, although numerous decorative non-native species are found; the most notable invasive species is Japanese honeysuckle, which is actively removed from some parks.
Large mammals found in the city include urbanized coyotes and usually a White-tailed deer. Eastern Gray Squirrel, Cottontail rabbit, and other rodents are abundant, as well as the nocturnal Virginia Opossum. Large bird species are abundant in parks and include Canada goose, Mallard duck, as well as shorebirds, including the Great Egret and Great Blue Heron. Gulls are common along the Mississippi River; these species typically follow barge traffic. Winter populations of Bald Eagles are found by the Mississippi River around the Chain of Rocks Bridge. The city is on the Mississippi Flyway, used by migrating birds, and has a large variety of small bird species, common to the eastern US. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow, an introduced species, is limited in North America to the counties surrounding St. Louis. Tower Grove Park is a well-known birdwatching area in the city.
Frogs are commonly found in the springtime, especially after extensive wet periods. Common species include the American toad and species of chorus frogs commonly called spring peepers that are found in nearly every pond. Some years have outbreaks of cicadas or ladybugs. Mosquitos and houseflies are common insect nuisances; because of this, windows are nearly universally fitted with screens, and screened-in porches are common in homes of the area. Invasive populations of honeybees have sharply declined in recent years, and numerous native species of pollinator insects have recovered to fill their ecological niche.
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1810 | 1,600 | — |
| 1820 | — | |
| 1830 | 4,977 | — |
| 1840 | 16,469 | +230.9% |
| 1850 | 77,860 | +372.8% |
| 1860 | 160,773 | +106.5% |
| 1870 | 310,864 | +93.4% |
| 1880 | 350,518 | +12.8% |
| 1890 | 451,770 | +28.9% |
| 1900 | 575,238 | +27.3% |
| 1910 | 687,029 | +19.4% |
| 1920 | 772,897 | +12.5% |
| 1930 | 821,960 | +6.3% |
| 1940 | 816,048 | −0.7% |
| 1950 | 856,796 | +5.0% |
| 1960 | 750,026 | −12.5% |
| 1970 | 622,236 | −17.0% |
| 1980 | 452,801 | −27.2% |
| 1990 | 396,685 | −12.4% |
| 2000 | 348,189 | −12.2% |
| 2010 | 319,294 | −8.3% |
| 2011 estimate | 318,069 | −0.4% |
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According to the 2010 United States Census, in the city of St. Louis, there were 319,294 people living in 142,057 households, of which 67,488 households were families. The population density was 5,158.2 people per square mile (1,990.6/km²). The age distribution of the city showed approximately 24% of the population was 19 or younger, 9% were 20 to 24, 31% were 25 to 44, 25% were 45 to 64, and 11% were 65 or older. The median age was approximately 34 years. The racial makeup of the city of St. Louis was approximately 49.2% African-American, 43.9% Caucasian (42.2% Non-Hispanic Caucasian), 2.9% Asian, 0.3% Native American/Alaska Native, and 2.4% reporting two or more races. 3.5% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.[36]
19% of the city's housing units were vacant, and slightly less than half of these were vacant structures not for sale or rent. In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $29,156, and the median income for a family was $32,585. Males had a median income of $31,106 versus $26,987 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,108.
St. Louis experienced slow growth from its founding in the 1760s through the American Civil War, and after the war it grew quickly with industrialization, reaching its peak population in 1950. In 1950, the Census Bureau reported St. Louis' population as 82% Caucasian and 17.9% Black.[37] It experienced a population shift to the suburbs in the 20th century; first because of increased demand for new housing following World War II, and later white flight from older neighborhoods to newer ones.[38]
In 2010, the city of St. Louis was awarded for being one of the most generous large cities in the United States for online monetary donations and has also been recognized for having an extremely high volunteer rate in comparison to other major U.S cities.[39]
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| Year | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 |
| Population | 160,773 | 310,864 | 350,518 | 451,770 | 575,238 | 687,029 | 772,897 | 821,960 | 816,048 | 856,796 | 750,026 | 622,236 | 452,801 | 396,685 | 348,189 | 319,294 |
| U.S. Rank[40][41] | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 34 | 51 | 58 |
Economy[link]
Main article: Economy of St. Louis, Missouri
According to the 2007 Economic Census, manufacturing in the city conducted nearly $11 billion in business, followed by the healthcare and social service industry with $3.5 billion, professional or technical services with $3.1 billion, and the retail trade with $2.5 billion. The sector employing the largest number of workers in the city was the healthcare sector with 34,000 workers, followed by administrative and support jobs with 24,000 workers, manufacturing with 21,000 workers, and food service with 20,000 workers.[42]
The rivers of St. Louis play a large role in moving goods, especially bulk commodities such as grain, coal, salt, and certain chemicals and petroleum products. The Port of St. Louis in 2004 was the third-largest inland port by tonnage in the country, and the 21st-largest of any sort.[43]
Major companies and institutions[link]
As of 2011, the St. Louis area is home to nine Fortune 500 companies, including Express Scripts, Emerson Electric, Monsanto, Reinsurance Group of America, Ameren, Charter Communications, Peabody Energy, Graybar Electric, and Centene.[44] Other notable corporations from the area include Cassidy Turley, Edward Jones Investments, ATT Communications, Scottrade, Wells Fargo Advisors (formerly A.G. Edwards), Energizer Holdings, Furniture Brands International, Post Holdings, Inc., United Van Lines and Mayflower Transit, Ralcorp, Hardee's, and Enterprise Holdings (parent company of several car rental companies). Significant healthcare and biotechnology institutions with operations in St. Louis include Pfizer, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the Solae Company, Sigma-Aldrich, and Multidata Systems International.
Although it was purchased by Belgium-based InBev, Anheuser-Busch continues its presence in the city, as does Mallinckrodt Incorporated in spite of its purchase by Tyco International. The May Department Stores Company (which owned Famous-Barr and Marshall Field's stores) was purchased by Federated Department Stores, but Federated maintained its regional headquarters in the area. General Motors continues to produce railroad cars in the St. Louis area, although Chrysler closed its production facility in the region, which was located in Fenton, Missouri. Despite its purchase by Nestle, Ralston Purina remained headquartered in St. Louis as a wholly owned subsidiary.[45] St. Louis is also home to Boeing Defense, Space & Security (formerly McDonnell-Douglas).[46] In addition, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in downtown is one of two federal reserve banks in Missouri.[47]
Culture[link]
Main article: Culture of St. Louis, Missouri
With its French past and numerous Catholic immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, St. Louis is a center of Roman Catholicism in the United States. St. Louis also boasts the largest Ethical Culture Society in the United States. Several places of worship in the city also are noteworthy, such as the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, home of the world's largest mosaic installation.[48]
Many cultural attractions are located in the Greater St. Louis area, such as the Gateway Arch and the Delmar Loop. The city is also defined by music and the performing arts, especially its association with blues, jazz, and ragtime. St. Louis is home to the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and until 2010, it was also home to one of the oldest classical music FM radio stations west of the Mississippi River.[49]
Unique city and regional cuisine includes toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, Provel cheese, the slinger, the Gerber sandwich, the St. Paul sandwich, and St. Louis style pizza.
Sports[link]
Main article: Sports in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is home to professional Major League Baseball, National Football League, and National Hockey League teams, notable collegiate-level soccer teams, and has hosted several collegiate sports tournaments.
| Club | Sport | League | Venue |
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| St. Louis Cardinals | Baseball | Major League Baseball | Busch Stadium |
| St. Louis Rams | American football | National Football League | Edward Jones Dome |
| St. Louis Blues | Ice hockey | National Hockey League | Scottrade Center |
Professional sports[link]
The St. Louis Cardinals, one of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball, have accumulated 11 World Series titles, with the most recent being in 2011, and two minor league baseball teams play in the area, the Gateway Grizzlies and the River City Rascals. The St. Louis Rams, an American football NFL team, play at the Edward Jones Dome and have won one Super Bowl championship. The St. Louis Blues, a franchise of the National Hockey League, play at the Scottrade Center, and the region hosts NHRA drag racing and NASCAR events at the Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois.
Amateur sports[link]
At the collegiate level, St. Louis has hosted the Final Four of both the women's and men's college basketball NCAA Division I championship tournaments, and the Frozen Four collegiate ice hockey tournament. Although the area does not support a National Basketball Association team, it hosts an American Basketball Association team called the St. Louis Phoenix. St. Louis University has won 10 NCAA Men's Soccer Championships, and the city has hosted the College Cup several times. In addition to collegiate soccer, St. Louisans have played for the United States men's national soccer team, and 20 St. Louisans have been elected into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. St. Louis also is the origin of the sport of corkball, a type of baseball in which there is no base running.
Parks[link]
Main article: Parks in St. Louis, Missouri
For parks in the region, see Parks in Greater St. Louis.
The city operates more than 100 parks, with amenities that include sports facilities, playgrounds, concert areas, picnic areas, and lakes. Forest Park, located on the western edge of city, is the largest park in the city, although it is not the largest park in the region. Another significant park in the city is the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a National Memorial located on the riverfront in downtown St. Louis. The centerpiece of the park is the 630 feet (192 m) tall Gateway Arch, designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen and completed on October 28, 1965. Also part of the park is the Old Courthouse, where the first two trials of Dred Scott v. Sandford were held in 1847 and 1850.
Other notable parks in the city include the Missouri Botanical Garden, Tower Grove Park, and Citygarden. The Missouri Botanical Garden, a private garden and botanical research facility, includes the Climatron, a greenhouse built as a geodesic dome. Immediately south of the Missouri Botanical Garden is Tower Grove Park, a gift to the City by Henry Shaw. Citygarden is an urban sculpture park located in downtown St. Louis, with art from Fernand Léger, Aristide Maillol, Julian Opie, Tom Otterness, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Mark di Suvero.[50][51] The park is also divided into three sections, each of which represent a different theme: river bluffs; flood plains; and urban gardens. The park also has a restaurant – The Terrace View.[52] Another downtown sculpture park is the Serra Sculpture Park, with the 1982 Richard Serra sculpture Twain.[53]
Government[link]
The city of St. Louis has a mayor-council government with legislative authority vested in the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis and with executive authority in the Mayor of St. Louis and six other separately elected officials.[54] The Board of Aldermen is made up of 28 members (one elected from each of the city's wards) plus a board president who is elected city-wide.[55] As of 2008, 257,442 registered voters lived in the city.[56]
Local and regional government[link]
Municipal elections in St. Louis city are held in odd numbered years, with the primary elections in March and the general election in April. The mayor is elected in odd numbered years following the United States Presidential Election, as are the aldermen representing odd-numbered wards. The President of the Board of Aldermen and the aldermen from even-numbered wards are elected in the off-years. The Democratic Party has dominated St. Louis city politics for decades. The city has not had a Republican mayor since 1949 and the last time a Republican was elected to another city-wide office was in the 1970s. As of 2006, 27 of the city's 28 Aldermen are Democrats.
Although St. Louis City and County separated in 1876, some mechanisms have been put in place for joint funding management and funding of regional assets. The St. Louis Zoo-Museum district collects property taxes from residents of both St. Louis City and County and the funds are used to support cultural institutions including the St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis Art Museum and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Similarly, the Metropolitan Sewer District provides sanitary and storm sewer service to the city and much of St. Louis County. The Bi-State Development Agency (now known as Metro) runs the region's MetroLink light rail system and bus system.
State and federal government[link]
The city of St. Louis is represented by eleven districts in the Missouri House of Representatives: the 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 63rd, 65th, 67th and 108th are entirely within the city limits, while the 64th and 66th include part of the city and part of St. Louis County.[57] Two Missouri State Senate districts, the 4th and 5th, are entirely within the city, while the 1st Senate district includes part of the city and part of St. Louis County.[57]
The City of St. Louis is split roughly in half north to south by Missouri's 1st and 3rd U.S. Congressional districts. The 1st is represented by Lacy Clay and the 3rd by Russ Carnahan. Both are members of the Democratic Party; a Republican has not represented a significant portion of St. Louis in the U.S. House since 1949. Each district also includes a significant portion of St. Louis County. Both the city and county lost population in the 2010 Census which contributed to Missouri losing a Congressional seat effective 2013. Initial redistricting maps indicate that the 3rd district would be absorbed into the 1st district placing Carnahan and Clay in the same district and giving St. Louis only one representative in Congress.[58]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri are based in the Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse in downtown St. Louis. St. Louis is also home to a Federal Reserve System branch, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) also maintains major facilities in the St. Louis area.[59]
Crime[link]
Main article: Crime in St. Louis, Missouri
Since the mid 1990s, St. Louis index crime rates have declined, although homicide rates in the city of St. Louis have remained higher than the United States national average. St. Louis also frequently is ranked among the "most dangerous" in the country by CQ Press, although these rankings are controversial and do not reflect the crime rate of Greater St. Louis.[60][61]
Education[link]
Main article: Education in St. Louis, Missouri
For education in the region, see Education in Greater St. Louis.
The St. Louis Public Schools serves the city of St. Louis with 77 schools, and it is run by a state appointed board.[62] With more than 25,000 students, the district is the largest in Greater St. Louis. The city of St. Louis has several private high schools, both secular and religiously affiliated, including numerous Catholic and Lutheran schools.
According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the city of St. Louis is home to two national research universities: Washington University in St. Louis and Saint Louis University.
Media[link]
Greater St. Louis commands the 21st largest media market in the United States, a position it has held with little variation for more than ten years.[63] All of the major U.S. television networks have affiliates in St. Louis, including KTVI 2 (Fox), KMOV 4 (CBS), KSDK 5 (NBC), KETC 9 (PBS), KPLR-TV 11 (CW), KDNL 30 (ABC), WRBU 46 (MNTV), and WPXS 51 Daystar Television Network. Among the most popular radio stations in the St. Louis area are KMOX (AM sports and talk), KLOU (FM oldies), WIL-FM (FM country), WARH (FM adult hits), and KSLZ (FM top 40 mainstream).[64] St. Louis also supports public radio with KWMU, an NPR affiliate, and community radio with KDHX. All-sports stations, such as KFNS 590 AM "The Fan", WXOS "101.1 ESPN", and KSLG are also popular in St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the region's major daily newspaper. Other newspapers in the region include the Suburban Journals, serving parts of St. Louis County, while the primary alternative newspaper is the Riverfront Times. Three weeklies serve the African-American community: the St. Louis Argus, the St. Louis American, and the St. Louis Sentinel. St. Louis Magazine, a local monthly magazine, covers topics such as local history, cuisine, and lifestyles, while the weekly St. Louis Business Journal provides coverage of regional business news. St. Louis is also home to the nation's last remaining metropolitan journalism review, the Gateway Journalism Review, based at Webster University in the suburb of Webster Groves.[65] Furthermore, St. Louis is served by an online newspaper, the St. Louis Beacon, which operates in partnership and shares facilities with KETC 9 TV.[66]
Infrastructure[link]
Transportation[link]
Main article: Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri
For transportation in the region, see Transportation in Greater St. Louis.
The city of St. Louis is served by four interstates and several U.S. highways and state roadways. Although there are no airports within the city limits, the city owns and operates Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, located in northwest St. Louis County. Freight rail and passenger rail service operate in the city on tracks owned by BNSF Railway, with passenger service provided by Amtrak and served at the Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center in downtown St. Louis. Rapid transit and commuter rail service in the city is provided by MetroLink, while bus service is provided by MetroBus, both of which are owned and operated by the Bi-State Development Agency. St. Louis also maintains a port authority for river shipping, and taxicabs are regulated within the city.
Healthcare[link]
St. Louis is a center of medicine and biotechnology. The Washington University School of Medicine is affiliated with the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the fifth largest in the world. The School of Medicine is also affiliated with St. Louis Children's Hospital, one of the country's top pediatric hospitals. Both hospitals are owned by BJC HealthCare. The School of Medicine ranks in the top five nationally. Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital operate the Siteman Cancer Center. The school's Genome Sequencing Center played a major role in the Human Genome Project. Saint Louis University Medical School is affiliated with Tenet's Saint Louis University Hospital and SSM Health Care's Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. It also has a cancer center, vaccine research center and a bioethics institute. Several different organizations operate hospitals in the area, including BJC HealthCare, SSM Health Care, Tenet and St. John's Mercy Healthcare, with operates St. John's Mercy Medical Center.
Architecture and neighborhoods[link]
Further information: Architecture of St. Louis, Missouri, List of tallest buildings in St. Louis, Landmarks of St. Louis, Missouri, and Neighborhoods of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis possesses several significant examples of 19th century architecture, such as the early stone construction Emmanuel DeHodiamont House, the Greek Revival style Chatillon-DeMenil House in the Soulard neighborhood, the Victorian era Campbell House, and the Wainwright Building, an early Louis Sullivan skyscraper. The city is divided into 79 government-designated neighborhoods.[67] The neighborhood divisions have no legal standing, although some neighborhood associations administer grants or hold veto power over historic-district development.
Sister cities[link]
St. Louis has fifteen sister cities.[68]
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See also[link]
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis
- Caves of St. Louis
- Great Flood of 1993
- Heat wave of 2006 derecho series
- LaClede Town
- List of Mayors of St. Louis
- History of the Jews in St. Louis, Missouri
- National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis (city, A–L), Missouri
- National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis (city, M-Z), Missouri
- St. Louis in the Civil War
- St. Louis smog episode (1939)
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Samuel Jacob Bradford (born November 8, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, after playing college football for the University of Oklahoma. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore to win a Heisman Trophy. He also holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes by a freshman quarterback, with 36.
In his first season in the NFL, Bradford set the record for most completions by a rookie in NFL history, which helped earn him the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year award.
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Early years[link]
Bradford was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[1] He attended Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City, where he starred in football, basketball and golf. As a senior quarterback for his high school football team in 2006, he threw for 2,029 yards and 17 touchdowns in 12 games.[2] His senior year in basketball, he averaged a double-double.[3]
Bradford was a three-star recruit not that highly ranked among the high school class of 2006,[4] with his highest ranking being No. 12 among only pro-style quarterbacks by recruiting source Rivals.com, behind Pat Devlin, Juice Williams, Josh Freeman, and being overshadowed by the likes of five-star recruits Mitch Mustain, Matthew Stafford and Tim Tebow.[2][5]
College career[link]
Bradford received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Oklahoma, where he played for coach Bob Stoops' Oklahoma Sooners football team from 2007 to 2009.
Freshman season[link]
In 2006, Oklahoma's starting quarterback Rhett Bomar, then a sophomore, was dismissed from the team for violating NCAA rules. Paul Thompson, a senior quarterback-turned-wide receiver, converted back to quarterback and led the 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team to win the Big 12 Championship Game. His departure left a void at the quarterback position at Oklahoma. Six players on the roster tried out for the starting position during the following off-season, including three walk-on quarterbacks,[6] true freshman Keith Nichol (a Rivals.com 4-star recruit and 6th-ranked dual-threat quarterback in the 2007 recruiting class, who later transferred to Michigan State University), junior Joey Halzle (the only one with game experience), and Bradford, a redshirt freshman. On August 21, 2007, Bradford won the starting quarterback role for the 2007 team.[7]
In his first game for the Sooners, against the University of North Texas, Bradford completed 21 of 23 attempts for 363 yards and three touchdowns in a little over two quarters, breaking the school record for passing yards in a half, held by his quarterback coach Josh Heupel, with 350.[8] The very next game, Bradford broke Heisman Trophy winner Jason White's school record for most consecutive pass completions with 22 (18 came in the first half and four at the start of the second).[9]
In the second week of the 2007 season, Bradford was named the national offensive player of the week by the Walter Camp Foundation[10] after tying the school record for most touchdown passes in a game with five.[11] Having thrown 25 touchdowns through his first nine games, Bradford was on pace to break the NCAA freshman record of 29 touchdowns set by David Neill in 1998 and tied by Colt McCoy in 2006.
In the November 17, 2007 game against Texas Tech, Bradford suffered a concussion of unknown severity. He was removed from the game and replaced by back-up quarterback Joey Halzle. The Sooners lost the game, 27–34.[12] Bradford was able to play in the Bedlam game against Oklahoma State on November 24.[13][14]
During the November 24, 2007 game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Bradford broke the NCAA freshman record of 29 touchdowns by passing his 30th touchdown to Joe Jon Finley during the second quarter.[15] At the Missouri Tigers game, Bradford threw for 209 yards and 0 interceptions. He was 18–26 and threw for two touchdowns.
The Sooners won the Big 12 Championship after defeating Missouri for the second time in a season. The Sooners played the West Virginia Mountaineers in the Fiesta Bowl on January 2, 2008 and lost 48–28. It was Bradford's first BCS bowl game as a starter.
Sophomore season[link]
See also: 2008 Oklahoma Sooners football team
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In week 8 of the following season against Kansas, Bradford surpassed quarterback coach Josh Heupel's school record for passing yards in a single game with 468 yards. Bradford led the Sooners to their third straight Big 12 Championship and defeated Missouri 62–21. In the process, the Sooners broke Hawaii's 2006 record for the most points in a single season with 702 points. Also, the Sooners were the first team in NCAA history who had scored 60 or more points in five straight games. Oklahoma finished the 2008 regular season with a 12–1 record, ranking #2 in the AP Poll and #1 in the BCS Standings. The Sooners earned a trip to play Florida at the 2009 BCS National Championship Game.
After the regular season, Bradford captured the Davey O'Brien Award[16] and the Heisman Trophy.[17][18] He is the second sophomore, after 2007 winner Tim Tebow of the University of Florida, to receive the Heisman; he also became the fifth University of Oklahoma player, as well as the first person of Native American descent to capture the trophy.[19] Bradford received 1,726 total points while the other finalists, Colt McCoy, of the University of Texas, and Tim Tebow, received 1,604 and 1,575, respectively. Tebow, however, collected more first-place votes, 309, while Bradford got 300. Bradford got the most points thanks to the help of his 315 second-place votes. A total of 926 voters participated in the balloting.[20]
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| Sam Bradford | 300 | 315 | 196 | 1,726 |
| Colt McCoy | 266 | 288 | 230 | 1,604 |
| Tim Tebow | 309 | 207 | 234 | 1,575 |
When combined with Blake Griffin's Naismith Award, Oklahoma became the first school to have a winner in both top basketball and football individual awards in the same year. Bradford was also voted the Associated Press College Football Player of the Year. Bradford received 27 votes, again beating McCoy (17 votes) and Tim Tebow (16 votes).[22] Bradford is the third Oklahoma Sooner to win the award, joining Josh Heupel (2000) and Jason White (2003). Heupel and White were also quarterbacks, with Heupel being the current quarterbacks coach for Oklahoma.
Bradford faced Florida, led by Tebow, in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game.[23] He threw 26-of-41 passes for 256 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions. Florida ended up beating Oklahoma 24–14.[24]
Junior season[link]
See also: 2009 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Bradford announced that he would forgo the 2009 NFL Draft to return to Oklahoma for his junior season.[25] In the Sooners' first game of the season (against Brigham Young), Bradford suffered a 3rd degree AC joint sprain one play after becoming Oklahoma's all-time passing leader. Playing without Bradford for the second half of the game, Oklahoma went on to lose 13–14. Bradford was originally scheduled to return in about three to six weeks,[26] but head coach Bob Stoops initially refused to either confirm or deny that timetable.[27] After missing three weeks, Bradford returned to the field during the Baylor game, and completed 27-of-49 passes for 389 yards and one touchdown, leading the Sooners to a 33–7 victory.[28] Bradford re-injured his right shoulder on October 17, 2009 in the Red River Rivalry against Texas on the second drive of the game. It was later announced that he would undergo season-ending shoulder surgery and enter the 2010 NFL Draft.[29]
Awards and honors[link]
- 2007 Sporting News Freshman of the Year[30]
- 2007 Second-team All-American by Sporting News[30]
- 2007 Honorable mention All-American by Pro Football Weekly[31] College Football News,[32] and Sports Illustrated[33]
- 2007 All-Big 12 honorable mention by the league's coaches[34]
- 2007 All-Big 12 Academic Team[35]
- 2008 Second-team Academic All-American by ESPN The Magazine[36]
- 2008 All-Big 12 Academic Team[37]
- 2008 Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year as named by the league's coaches, who also selected him to the All-Big 12 first team[38]
- 2008 First-team All-American by CBS Sports,[39] Rivals.com,[40] ESPN,[41] Associated Press[42] and Sporting News[43]
- 2008 Davey O'Brien Award winner[16]
- 2008 Heisman Trophy winner[44]
- 2008 Associated Press College Football Player of the Year[45]
- 2008 Sammy Baugh Trophy
- 2008 co-Sporting News Player of the Year[46]
- 2008 Harley Award [47]
- 2008 Touchdown Club of Columbus Quarterback of the Year[48]
- 2010 NFL Draft First overall pick
- 2010 Carroll Rosenbloom Memorial Award (St. Louis Rams' rookie of the year award)
Statistics[link]
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||
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| Season | Team | GP | Rating | Att | Comp | Pct | Yds | TD | Int | Att | Yds | TD |
| 2007 | Oklahoma Sooners | 14 | 176.52 | 341 | 237 | 69.5 | 3,121 | 36 | 8 | 31 | 7 | 0 |
| 2008 | Oklahoma Sooners | 14 | 180.86 | 483 | 328 | 67.9 | 4,721 | 50 | 8 | 42 | 47 | 5 |
| 2009 | Oklahoma Sooners | 3 | 133.9 | 69 | 39 | 58.7 | 562 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −5 | 0 |
Source:[49]
Professional career[link]
2010 NFL Draft[link]
Although he likely would have been one of the first quarterbacks taken in the 2009 NFL Draft, Bradford decided to return to Oklahoma for his junior season in January 2009.[50] Shortly after the 2009 draft, he was projected as the No. 1 prospect for the 2010 NFL Draft.[51] On October 25, 2009, Bradford announced he would forgo his final year at Oklahoma and enter the draft.[52] Commonly considered one of the top prospects available, Bradford was projected as high as the No. 1 overall pick for most of the preseason and the early part of the regular season.[53][54][55]
Due to his shoulder injury, Bradford did not throw at the 2010 NFL Combine, however he was measured and participated in interviews and medical examinations. He was measured at 6–4¼ and 236 pounds, about 15 pounds above his college playing weight.[56] Bradford scored 36 out of 50 on the Wonderlic test, well above the average of 28.5 for the 30 NFL quarterbacks slated to start in 2010.[57]
On March 19, Bradford met with St. Louis Rams general manager Billy Devaney and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur in Pensacola, Florida, where he has been training and rehabbing since undergoing surgery on his throwing shoulder.[58]
| Ht | Wt | Arm length | Hand size | 40-yd dash | 10-yd split | 20-yd split | 20-ss | 3-cone | Vert | Broad | BP | Wonderlic | |||||||
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| 6 ft 4¼ in | 236 lb | 34⅜ in | 9½ in | 4.90 s | 36 | ||||||||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine[59] | |||||||||||||||||||
St. Louis Rams[link]
On April 22, 2010, Bradford was selected by the St. Louis Rams as the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft.[60] It was the first time the Rams selected a quarterback in the first round of a draft since the selection of Bill Munson in the 1964 NFL Draft. Bradford is the first No. 1 pick out of Oklahoma since Billy Sims was selected top overall by the Detroit Lions in the 1980 NFL Draft. Bradford chose the #8 in honor to Troy Aikman who also attended OU before transferring to UCLA.[61]
On July 30, 2010, Bradford signed a six-year, $78 million deal, which has $50 million of guarantees and has a maximum value of $86 million making it the largest contract ever for an NFL rookie.[62][63]
In the preseason opener against the Minnesota Vikings on August 14, Bradford went 6-of-13 for 57 yards and was also sacked 3 times in a Rams loss.[64] After another unimpressive showing against the Browns in his second game, Bradford bounced back in a big way against the Patriots in the third game of the preseason. He got his first start in place of the injured A. J. Feeley, throwing two first half touchdowns and helping lead the Rams to a 36–35 victory.
He competed for the starting quarterback position with Feeley and on September 4, Bradford was named the starting quarterback for the 2010 season opener.[65]
On September 12, 2010, in his first regular season game as the starting quarterback for the Rams, Bradford completed 32/55 passes for 253 yards, 1 touchdown and 3 interceptions.The Arizona Cardinals won 17–13. His first NFL touchdown came on a 1-yard pass to Laurent Robinson. Two weeks later, he then achieved his first victory as an NFL starter when the Rams defeated the Washington Redskins in an upset by a score of 30–16, which snapped a 13-game overall home losing streak. The next week, he passed for 289 yards and two TDs in leading the Rams over the Seahawks, 20-3. This was their first win in a division game since November 2007.
In week 8 against the Carolina Panthers, Bradford connected on 25 of 32 passes, two of them for touchdowns. In his first eight games he scored eleven TDs, which tied an NFL record—held by Dan Marino (1983), Peyton Manning (1998), and Ben Roethlisberger (2004)—for over that span by a rookie since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970.[66] Bradford went 3-2 as a starter in October, passing for 1019 yards and 7 TDs against 3 INTs. He was named the NFL's offensive rookie of the month.
During October and November, he established a record for most consecutive passes without an interception for a rookie (169), which ended with an interception by William Moore in a home game against the Atlanta Falcons on November 21.[67] On November 28, 2010, against the Denver Broncos, Bradford became the first rookie in NFL history to pass for at least 300 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions during a road victory.[68] He capped November by becoming the first rookie QB to win two consecutive Offensive Rookie of the Month awards.
On December 26, Bradford surpassed Peyton Manning's record for most completed passes by an NFL rookie quarterback (326). Bradford finished the season with 354 completions out of 590 attempts, surpassing Manning's record of 575 for most attempts by an NFL rookie quarterback. Bradford became just the third rookie quarterback to start all 16 regular season games and pass over 3000 passing yards, joining Peyton Manning and Matt Ryan.[69][70]
Bradford regressed in the eyes of many football pundits during his second season as he only threw six touchdown passes in 10 starts, winning only one game. He was sacked 36 times in these ten starts. He missed six games due to the lingering effects of a high ankle sprain.[citation needed]
Statistics[link]
Regular season[link]
| Year | Team | G | GS | Passing | Rushing | Sacked | Fumbles | ||||||||||||
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| Att | Comp | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | Int | Rtg | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Sack | YdsL | Fum | FumL | ||||
| 2010 | STL | 16 | 16 | 590 | 354 | 60.0 | 3512 | 6.0 | 18 | 15 | 76.5 | 27 | 63 | 2.3 | 1 | 34 | 244 | 7 | 2 |
| 2011 | STL | 10 | 10 | 357 | 191 | 53.5 | 2164 | 6.1 | 6 | 6 | 70.5 | 18 | 26 | 1.4 | 0 | 36 | 248 | 10 | 7 |
| Total | 26 | 26 | 947 | 545 | 57.6 | 5676 | 6.0 | 24 | 21 | 74.2 | 45 | 89 | 2.0 | 1 | 70 | 492 | 17 | 9 | |
Personal[link]
Bradford is 1/16th Cherokee and listed as an official citizen on the Cherokee Nation tribe's rolls.[71][72] Bradford is the first person of identified Cherokee descent to start at quarterback for a Division I university since Sonny Sixkiller, a full-blooded Cherokee, who played for the University of Washington during the 1970–1972 seasons.[73] Bradford also holds the distinction of being the first Native American to win the Heisman Trophy.[74]
His father, Kent Bradford, was an offensive lineman for the Sooners from 1977 to 1978.[75]
Bradford is also an avid ice hockey fan. At one point Bradford compared his love for hockey to his love for football. According to a January 6, 2009 report, his favorite team is the Vancouver Canucks.[76] Bradford is a scratch golfer and was a star basketball player in high school.[77]
Bradford is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as he has been since high school. He also reads the story of David and Goliath before every game, and was featured on the cover of STV (a Christian athletic magazine).[78] Bradford also appeared in a short film of testimonials from celebrity videos called, I Am Second, sharing his faith about Jesus Christ and winning the Heisman Trophy.[79]
In 2009, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett declared January 13 as "Sam Bradford Day" in Oklahoma City.[80]
NFL records[link]
- most consecutive passes without an interception by a rookie quarterback (169)
- most attempts by a rookie quarterback (590)
- most completions by a rookie quarterback (354)
See also[link]
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| Short description | All-American college football player, professional football player, quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner |
| Date of birth | November 9, 1987 |
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| Date of birth | (1958-02-25) February 25, 1958 (age 54) |
| Place of birth | Culver City, California |
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| Position(s) | Head Coach Cornerback |
| College | USC |
| NFL Draft | 1981 / Round 7 / Pick 177 |
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| Career record | 142-120-0 (Regular season) 5-6 (Postseason) 147-126-0 (Overall) |
| Championships won | 1999 AFC Championship |
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Jeffrey Michael "Jeff" Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is currently the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and was previously the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, and has a career record of 147-126 as a head coach.
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Early life[link]
A native of Southern California, Fisher starred as a high school All-America wide receiver at Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
Playing career[link]
Fisher later went on to star at USC, under coach John Robinson. During his collegiate career (1977–80), he played alongside such defensive stars as Ronnie Lott, Dennis Smith, and Joey Browner. Fisher's USC teammates also included star offensive lineman Bruce Matthews, whom he would coach years later with the Oilers and Titans. Fisher and the Trojans won a national championship during the 1978 season, and in 1980 he was honored as a Pac-10 All-Academic selection.
Fisher was drafted in the 7th round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. He appeared in 49 games as a defensive back and return specialist in his five seasons with the Bears.
He earned a Super Bowl ring after Chicago’s 1985 Super Bowl season, despite spending the year on injured reserve with an ankle injury that prematurely ended his playing career. In 1983, Fisher had suffered a broken leg on a punt return[1] when he was tackled by then-Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Bill Cowher, the future head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Coincidentally the two became rivals as head coaches beginning in the AFC Central in 1995; Fisher's Oilers/Titans squads came out with an 11-7 record against Cowher's Steelers.
Early coaching career[link]
Realizing his playing career was over, and not content to be idle, Fisher still wanted to be involved with professional football. In 1985, the Bears put him on injured reserve, so during this time he became a defensive assistant to Buddy Ryan, the Bears' legendary defensive coordinator. After the '85 Bears won Super Bowl XX, Ryan left Chicago to become the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and Fisher went with him. He joined the Eagles as a defensive backs coach and in 1988 was promoted to defensive coordinator at the age of 30, becoming the youngest one in the league at that point. Fisher found great success despite his youth, and the 1989 Eagles defense led the NFL in interceptions (30) and sacks (62). The 1990 squad led the league in rushing defense and finished second in sacks.
In 1991, Fisher headed west to be reunited with his college coach John Robinson, serving as the Los Angeles Rams’ defensive coordinator for one season. The next two seasons, he served as the defensive backs coach for the San Francisco 49ers. These years as an assistant to George Seifert placed Fisher in the Bill Walsh coaching tree. On February 9, 1994, Fisher again became a defensive coordinator, this time for the Houston Oilers under Jack Pardee. Fisher succeeded his one-time mentor Ryan, who left the post to become the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
Head Coach[link]
On November 14, 1994, Pardee was fired, and Fisher was promoted to replace him for the last six games of the season. The Oilers retained Fisher as head coach, and the Oilers drafted quarterback Steve McNair in the 1995 NFL Draft. The new coach did not disappoint, leading the team to a 7–9 record in 1995, tied for second place in the division. The following year the Oilers added Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George, and they achieved an 8–8 record. However, an inability to get a new stadium deal in Houston caused owner Bud Adams to relocate the team to Tennessee for the 1997 season.
In the team's first two seasons in Tennessee the Oilers compiled a record of 16-16. In 1998, the team's home games moved from Memphis to Nashville.
In the 1999 season, which saw the renaming of the team to the Tennessee Titans, the Titans finished with a 13–3 regular season record, going all the way to Super Bowl XXXIV, in part due to the Music City Miracle. There the team fell to the St. Louis Rams, 23–16; wideout Kevin Dyson was tackled one yard short of the end zone with no time remaining, in what became known as "The Tackle". Tennessee achieved the same record the next year, but were defeated in the AFC playoffs by the Baltimore Ravens who would go on to win Super Bowl XXXV.
The 2001 season was a disappointing one for the Titans, as they could only muster a 7–9 showing. The beginning of the next season proved to be even worse, with the franchise starting off with a 1–4 record. Following one home loss, owner Bud Adams made the comment to reporters that perhaps the Titans "were getting outcoached." This provided a spark the team needed, and they finished the season with a 11–5 record and made it to the AFC Championship Game.
The 2003 season saw more success, with yet another trip to the playoffs and McNair winning the League MVP award. Again, they lost to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots, but the team's progress did not go unnoticed. The 2004 season, however, was plagued by injuries from the start, and Fisher's worst record as head coach (4–12) was the result. Following the season, many veteran players (such as Samari Rolle and Derrick Mason) were cut in an effort to comply with the strict salary cap. The relative youth of the team resulted in a disappointing 2005 season as well. Before the 2005 season, Fisher hired Norm Chow out of USC to be his offensive coordinator.
In 2006, the Titans finished a better-than-expected 8–8. Quarterback Steve McNair was traded to the Baltimore Ravens and Vince Young was drafted, but began the season as backup to Billy Volek and Kerry Collins. The season began slowly at 0-3 before Volek was replaced by Kerry Collins and, later, Young. The team ultimately started 2-7, but following a 27-26 loss to the Baltimore Ravens and McNair, the Titans erupted to win six straight games under Young, including a 24-point rally to beat the Giants. With this promising record the Titans exercised their right to extend his contract by a year, keeping him as the head coach through the 2007 NFL season season.
In 2007, he led the Titans to a 10-6 record and made the AFC playoffs as the 6th seed, but lost in the opening round to the San Diego Chargers.
In 2008, Fisher led the Titans to a 10-0 undefeated streak only to be upset by Brett Favre and the New York Jets midway through the 2008 season. The Titans finished 13-3 and secured the number 1 seed in the AFC, yet lost in the second round of the 2008 NFL Playoffs to the Baltimore Ravens.
In 2009 the Titans lost in overtime to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season's opening game. The loss began a six-game slide that reached its nadir in a 59-0 slaughter by the New England Patriots. Collins, at the public recommendation of Titans owner Bud Adams, was benched and replaced by Young; the Titans responded by winning eight of their next ten games, highlighted by a dramatic comeback victory over the Arizona Cardinals, a season-ending comeback against the Seattle Seahawks, and a hard-fought overtime win over the Miami Dolphins. Highlighting this season was the play of running back Chris Johnson; in his second year of professional football (he'd been drafted 24th in the 2008 NFL Draft) Johnson broke Marshall Faulk's record of total yards from scrimmage with 2,509, becoming the sixth back in NFL history to rush over 2000 yards.
On January 27, 2011, it was formally announced that Fisher and the Titans had mutually-agreed to part ways following a buy-out of one remaining season on Fisher's contract.[2] At more than 16 full seasons, Fisher had been the longest-tenured NFL head coach with one team among active head coaches.[3][4]
Competition committee[link]
Fisher is Co-Chair of the NFL competition committee along with Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay.
Head coaching record[link]
| Team | Year | Regular Season | Post Season | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Lost | Ties | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| HOU | 1994 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 | 4th in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| HOU | 1995 | 7 | 9 | 0 | .438 | 3rd in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| HOU | 1996 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 4th in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 1997 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 3rd in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 1998 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 2nd in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 1999 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .813 | 2nd in AFC Central | 3 | 1 | .750 | Lost to St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV. |
| TEN | 2000 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .813 | 1st in AFC Central | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost to Baltimore Ravens in AFC Divisional Game. |
| TEN | 2001 | 7 | 9 | 0 | .438 | 4th in AFC Central | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 2002 | 11 | 5 | 0 | .688 | 1st in AFC South | 1 | 1 | .500 | Lost to Oakland Raiders in AFC Championship Game. |
| TEN | 2003 | 12 | 4 | 0 | .750 | 2nd in AFC South | 1 | 1 | .500 | Lost to New England Patriots in AFC Divisional Game. |
| TEN | 2004 | 5 | 11 | 0 | .313 | 3rd in AFC South | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 2005 | 4 | 12 | 0 | .250 | 3rd in AFC South | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 2006 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 2nd in AFC South | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 2007 | 10 | 6 | 0 | .625 | 3rd in AFC South | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost to San Diego Chargers in AFC Wild-Card Game. |
| TEN | 2008 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .813 | 1st in AFC South | 0 | 1 | .000 | Lost to Baltimore Ravens in AFC Divisional Game. |
| TEN | 2009 | 8 | 8 | 0 | .500 | 3rd in AFC South | - | - | - | - |
| TEN | 2010 | 6 | 10 | 0 | .375 | 4th in AFC South | - | - | - | - |
| TEN Total | 142 | 120 | 0 | .542 | 5 | 6 | .455 | |||
| STL | 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | NFC West | - | - | - | - |
| STL Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | .000 | |||
| Total[5] | 142 | 120 | 0 | .542 | 5 | 6 | .455 | |||
Coaching tree[link]
NFL head coaches under whom Jeff Fisher has served:
- Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears (1985)
- Buddy Ryan, Philadelphia Eagles (1986–1990)
- John Robinson, Los Angeles Rams (1991)
- George Seifert, San Francisco 49ers (1992–1993)
- Jack Pardee, Houston Oilers (1994)
Assistant coaches under Jeff Fisher who have become NFL head coaches:
- Gregg Williams, Buffalo Bills (2001–2003)
- Jim Schwartz, Detroit Lions (2009–present)
- Mike Munchak, Tennessee Titans (2011–present)
Personal[link]
Fisher has three children.[6] One son, Brandon, played linebacker for the University of Montana. In May of 2011, the Detroit Lions added Brandon as an assistant to the Lion's defensive coaching staff.[7] Another son, Trent, is currently a defensive back for Auburn University.
References[link]
- ^ "Video". CNN. October 7, 1996. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008844/index.htm.
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110128/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_titans_fisher
- ^ ESPN - Cowher set to quit as Steelers' coach after 15 seasons - NFL
- ^ Wyatt, Jim (January 27, 2011). "Titans part ways with head coach Jeff Fisher". USA Today. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/01/titans-part-ways-with-head-coach-jeff-fisher/1. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ^ Jeff Fisher Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks - Pro-Football-Reference.com
- ^ Tennessee Titans: Jeff Fisher
- ^ [1]
External links[link]
- Jeff Fisher Profile at USC Legends
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Wade Phillips |
Philadelphia Eagles Defensive Coordinator 1988–1990 |
Succeeded by Bud Carson |
| Preceded by Fritz Shurmur |
Los Angeles Rams Defensive Coordinator 1991 |
Succeeded by George Dyer |
| Preceded by Buddy Ryan |
Houston Oilers Defensive Coordinator 1994 |
Succeeded by Steve Sidwell |
| Preceded by Jack Pardee |
Houston Oilers/Tennessee Oilers/Tennessee Titans Head Coach 1994-2011 |
Succeeded by Mike Munchak |
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| Current head coaches of the National Football League | |||
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| American Football Conference | |||
| AFC East
Chan Gailey (Buffalo Bills) |
AFC North
John Harbaugh (Baltimore Ravens) |
AFC South
Gary Kubiak (Houston Texans) |
AFC West
John Fox (Denver Broncos) |
| National Football Conference | |||
| NFC East
Jason Garrett (Dallas Cowboys) |
NFC North
Lovie Smith (Chicago Bears) |
NFC South
Mike Smith (Atlanta Falcons) |
NFC West
Ken Whisenhunt (Arizona Cardinals) |
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| Name | Fisher, Jeff |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American football player and coach |
| Date of birth | February 25, 1958 |
| Place of birth | Culver City, California |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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