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Kenny Easley

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Kenneth Mason Easley Jr. (born January 15, 1959) is a former American college and professional football player who was a strong safety in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons during the 1980s. [1]

89 relations: AF2, All-America, All-Pro, American football, Arena football, Arena Football League, Arizona Cardinals, Associated Press, Bruce Smith (defensive end), Buffalo Bills, Cadillac, Chesapeake, Virginia, Chicago Bulls, Chuck Knox, Collective agreement, College football, College Football Hall of Fame, Cortez Kennedy, Defensive tackle, Dick Anderson, Ed Beard (American football), Free agent, Gene Upshaw, General Motors, Hampton Roads Admirals, Heisman Trophy, High school football, HighBeam Research, History of the Houston Oilers, History of the San Diego Chargers, Ibuprofen, Interception, Jim Zorn, Junior varsity team, Kansas City Chiefs, Kelly Stouffer, Kidney disease, National Football League, National Football League 1980s All-Decade Team, National Football League Defensive Player of the Year Award, National Football League Players Association, Nephrotic syndrome, Norfolk Nighthawks, Norfolk, Virginia, Oscar F. Smith High School, Pac-12 Conference, Paul Allen, Paul Johns, Paul Moyer (American football), Picketing, ..., Pro Bowl, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Quarterback, Quarterback sack, Redshirt (college sports), Return specialist, Rush (gridiron football), Safety (gridiron football position), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Seahawks, Sports Illustrated, Steve DeLong, Super Bowl XLIX, Tackle (football move), Tampa Bay Buccaneers, The Virginian-Pilot, Touchdown, UCLA Bruins football, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington Medical Center, Vinny Testaverde, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, 1978 College Football All-America Team, 1979 College Football All-America Team, 1980 College Football All-America Team, 1981 NBA draft, 1981 NFL Draft, 1981 NFL season, 1982 All-Pro Team, 1983 Pro Bowl, 1985 All-Pro Team, 1986 Pro Bowl, 1986 Seattle Seahawks season, 1987 All-Pro Team, 1987 NFL Draft, 1987 NFL season, 1987–88 NFL playoffs, 1988 NFL season, 1988 Pro Bowl. Expand index (39 more) »

AF2

The AF2 (often styled as af2, and short for arenafootball2) was the Arena Football League's developmental league; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000.

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All-America

An All-America team is a hypothetical American sports team composed of outstanding amateur players.

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All-Pro

An All-Pro is an American football player in the National Football League (NFL) voted as one of the best players of their position during a given season.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Arena football

Arena football is a variety of indoor gridiron football played by the Arena Football League (AFL) and China Arena Football League (CAFL).

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Arena Football League

The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States.

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Arizona Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football franchise based in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bruce Smith (defensive end)

Bruce Bernard Smith (born June 18, 1963) is a former American football defensive end for the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.

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Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Cadillac

Cadillac, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of the U.S.-based General Motors (GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide.

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Chesapeake, Virginia

Chesapeake is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chuck Knox

Charles Robert Knox (April 27, 1932 – May 12, 2018) was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels.

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Collective agreement

A collective agreement, collective labour agreement (CLA) or collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a special type of commercial agreement, usually as one negotiated "collectively" between management (on behalf of the company) and trade unions (on behalf of employees).

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College football

College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities.

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College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football.

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Cortez Kennedy

Cortez Kennedy (August 23, 1968 May 23, 2017) was an American football defensive tackle who played his entire eleven-season career with the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL).

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Defensive tackle

A defensive tackle (DT) is typically the largest and strongest of the defensive players in American football.

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Dick Anderson

Richard Paul Anderson (born February 10, 1946) is a former American college and professional football player who was a safety for the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Ed Beard (American football)

Edward Leroy Beard (born December 9, 1939 in Chesapeake, Virginia) is a former professional American football player.

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Free agent

In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise; i.e., not under contract to any specific team.

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Gene Upshaw

Eugene Josiah Upshaw Jr. (August 15, 1945 – August 20, 2008), also known as "Uptown Gene" and “Highway 63”, was an American football player for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League (AFL) and later the National Football League (NFL).

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Hampton Roads Admirals

The Hampton Roads Admirals were an American professional ice hockey team in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL).

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Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman), is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.

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High school football

High school football is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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History of the Houston Oilers

The professional American football team now known as the Tennessee Titans previously played in Houston, Texas as the Houston Oilers from 1960 to 1996.

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History of the San Diego Chargers

The professional American football team now known as the Los Angeles Chargers previously played in San Diego, California as the San Diego Chargers from 1961 to 2017 before relocating back to Los Angeles where the team played their inaugural 1960 season.

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Ibuprofen

Ibuprofen is a medication in the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) class that is used for treating pain, fever, and inflammation.

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Interception

In ball-playing competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team but caught by a player of the opposing team, who thereby usually gains possession of the ball for their team.

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Jim Zorn

James Arthur Zorn (born May 10, 1953) is a former American football player and coach in the National Football League.

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Junior varsity team

Junior varsity (often called "JV") players are the members of a team who are not the main players in a competition (such as any football, basketball, or baseball game), usually at the high school and college levels in the United States.

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Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Kelly Stouffer

Kelly Wayne Stouffer, (born July 6, 1964), is a former American football quarterback in the NFL.

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Kidney disease

Kidney disease, or renal disease, also known as nephropathy, is damage to or disease of a kidney.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Football League 1980s All-Decade Team

The NFL 1980s All-Decade Team was chosen by voters of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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National Football League Defensive Player of the Year Award

Several organizations give out NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards that are listed in the NFL Record and Fact Book and Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League.

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National Football League Players Association

The National Football League Players Association, or NFLPA, is the labor organization representing the professional American football players in the National Football League (NFL).

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Nephrotic syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome is a collection of symptoms due to kidney damage.

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Norfolk Nighthawks

The Norfolk Nighthawks are a now-defunct charter member of the AF2.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Oscar F. Smith High School

Oscar Frommel Smith High School was originally built in South Norfolk, Virginia, to replace the aging South Norfolk High School in 1954.

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Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level.

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Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist.

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Paul Johns

Paul Victor Johns is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for four seasons for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League.

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Paul Moyer (American football)

Paul Stewart Moyer (born July 26, 1961 in Villa Park, California) is a former professional American football safety who played seven seasons for the Seattle Seahawks, from 1983 to 1989.

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Picketing

Picketing is a form of protest in which people (called picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place.

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Pro Bowl

The Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League (NFL).

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Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

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Quarterback sack

In American football and Canadian football, a sack occurs when the quarterback (or another offensive player acting as a passer) is tackled behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a forward pass, when the quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage in the "pocket" and his intent is unclear, or when a passer runs out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage due to defensive pressure.

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Redshirt (college sports)

Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation to lengthen his or her period of eligibility.

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Return specialist

A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of an American football or Canadian football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs.

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Rush (gridiron football)

Rushing is an action taken by the offense that means to advance the ball by running with it, as opposed to passing, or kicking.

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Safety (gridiron football position)

Safety, historically known as a safetyman, is a position in American and Canadian football played by a member of the defense.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Steve DeLong

Steven Cyril DeLong (July 3, 1943 – August 18, 2010) was an American football defensive lineman who played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL).

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Super Bowl XLIX

Super Bowl XLIX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2014 season.

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Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida.

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The Virginian-Pilot

The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Touchdown

A touchdown is a means of scoring in both American and Canadian football.

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UCLA Bruins football

The UCLA Bruins football program represents the University of California, Los Angeles, in college football as members of the Pac-12 Conference at the NCAA Division I FBS level.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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University of Washington Medical Center

The University of Washington Medical Center is a nationally renowned hospital located along the Montlake Cut and Portage Bay in the University District of Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Vinny Testaverde

Vincent Frank Testaverde Sr. (born November 13, 1963) is a former American football quarterback who played for 21 seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

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Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame honors athletes, coaches, administrators, journalists and other contributors to athletics.

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1978 College Football All-America Team

The 1978 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1978.

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1979 College Football All-America Team

The 1979 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1979.

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1980 College Football All-America Team

The 1980 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1980.

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1981 NBA draft

The 1981 NBA draft was the 35th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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1981 NFL Draft

The 1981 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players.

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1981 NFL season

The 1981 NFL season was the 62nd regular season of the National Football League.

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1982 All-Pro Team

The 1982 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League (NFL) players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, and Pro Football Weekly in 1982.

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1983 Pro Bowl

The 1983 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 33rd annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1982 season.

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1985 All-Pro Team

The 1985 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, and The Sporting News in 1985.

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1986 Pro Bowl

The 1986 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 36th annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1985 season.

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1986 Seattle Seahawks season

The 1986 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's 11th season with the National Football League.

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1987 All-Pro Team

The 1987 All-Pro Team is composed of the National Football League players that were named to the Associated Press, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Pro Football Writers Association, Pro Football Weekly and The Sporting News in 1987.

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1987 NFL Draft

The 1987 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players.

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1987 NFL season

The 1987 NFL season was the 68th regular season of the National Football League.

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1987–88 NFL playoffs

The National Football League playoffs for the 1987 season began on January 3, 1988.

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1988 NFL season

The 1988 NFL season was the 69th regular season of the National Football League.

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1988 Pro Bowl

The 1988 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 38th annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1987 season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Easley

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