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| x Bill Walsh |
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San Francisco 49ers | Head coach |
William Ernest "Bill" Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was an American head football coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense. Walsh went 102–63–1 with the 49ers,...
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| x Bert Bell |
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Philadelphia Eagles |
De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles, co-owner and coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and commissioner of the National Football League from 1946 until his death.
Bell grew up in a...
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| x Jim Thorpe |
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Canton Bulldogs |
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk) (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon...
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| x Curly Lambeau |
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Green Bay Packers |
Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was the founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team.
Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun formed the Packers in 1919 while Lambeau was...
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| x Sid Gillman |
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St. Louis Rams |
Sidney "Sid" Gillman (October 26, 1911 - January 3, 2003) was an American football coach and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide...
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| x Tom Landry |
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Dallas Cowboys | Head coach |
Thomas Wade "Tom" Landry (September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American football player and coach. He is legendary for his successes as the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL...
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| x Fritz Pollard |
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920....
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| x Jay Berwanger |
John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger (March 19, 1914 - June 26, 2002) was an American football halfback born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year, though, the award was renamed the Heisman...
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| x Jim Finks |
James Edward Finks (August 31, 1927 – May 8, 1994) was an American sports executive, primarily for American Professional Football.
Jim Finks was born in St. Louis, Missouri, attended high school in Salem, Illinois, and attended college at the...
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| x Mike Ditka |
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Chicago Bears |
Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania), also known as "Iron Mike", is a former American football NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years and New Orleans Saints...
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| x Bill Parcells |
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Dallas Cowboys | Head coach |
Bill Parcells (born Duane Charles Parcells August 22, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey) is the current Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He is also a former American football head...
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| New York Giants | Head coach | ||||
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| x Tom Flores | Seattle Seahawks | Head coach |
Thomas R. "Tom" Flores (born March 21, 1937 in Fresno, California) is a retired American collegiate and professional football quarterback and former professional coach. Flores and Mike Ditka are the only two people in the NFL history to win Super...
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| x Al Davis |
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Oakland Raiders | Head coach |
Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American football executive, who currently serves as the principal owner (titled as "president of the general partner" or "managing general partner," depending on the source) of...
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| x Hank Stram | New Orleans Saints | Head coach |
Henry Louis "Hank" Stram (January 3, 1923–July 4, 2005), was an American college and Professional Football coach. He is best known for his fifteen-year tenure with the American Football League's Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs and the Chiefs of the...
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| x Lamar Hunt |
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Lamar Hunt (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee of the first three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders...
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| x Amos Alonzo Stagg |
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Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily football, and an overall athletic pioneer. He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Playing at...
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| x Ralph C. Wilson Jr. |
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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. (October 17, 1918, in Columbus, Ohio) is the founder, owner and president of NFL's Buffalo Bills. He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League, the league that the NFL merged with in 1970. He is the oldest...
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| x Harry Jacunski |
Harry Anthony Jacunski (October 20, 1915 – February 20, 2003) was an National Football League player and college football coach for over 40 years.
Jacunski was an All-state center on the New Britain High School 1934 basketball team and played...
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| x Raymond Berry |
Raymond Emmett Berry (born February 27, 1933 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a former American football wide receiver. He played for the Baltimore Colts during their two NFL championship wins. He later had a career in coaching, highlighted by his trip...
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| x Lou Saban |
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Louis Henry Saban (October 13, 1921 – March 29, 2009) was an American football player and coach. Saban played for Indiana University in college and as a pro for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. Saban was the head coach of...
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| x Otto Graham | Washington Redskins |
Otto Everett Graham, Jr. (December 6, 1921 – December 17, 2003) was a professional American football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the All-America Football Conference and National Football League, as well as the...
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| x Weeb Ewbank |
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New York Jets |
Wilbur "Weeb" Ewbank (May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998) was an American professional football coach.
Ewbank was born in Richmond, Indiana, and lived there through high school. He then attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he played...
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| x Joe Gibbs |
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Washington Redskins |
Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940) is an American football coach, NASCAR Championship team owner, and two time NHRA Pro Stock team owner. He was the 20th and 26th head coach in the history of the Washington Redskins. Well known for his long...
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| x Paul Brown |
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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 football history, Brown is considered the "father of the modern...
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| x Walter A. Gordon |
Walter A. Gordon (1894–1976) was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach,...
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| x George Halas |
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Chicago Bears |
George Stanley Halas, Sr. (February 2, 1895 – October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a player, coach, inventor, jurist, producer, philanthropist, philatelist, owner and pioneer in professional American football and the...
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| x Don Shula |
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Donald Francis "Don" Shula (born January 4, 1930 in Grand River, Ohio) is a former professional American football coach for the National Football League.
He is best known as coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories,...
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| x Elmer Layden |
Elmer Francis Layden (May 4, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was Commissioner of the National Football League and head football coach at University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
Layden was born in Davenport, Iowa, where he attended Davenport High...
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| x Frank Howard |
Frank J. Howard (March 25, 1909 – January 26, 1996) was an American college football player and coach. He played college football for Alabama and was a teammate of legendary coach Bear Bryant. After a career-ending injury, Howard joined the staff at...
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| x Sammy Baugh |
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New York Jets |
Samuel Adrian 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...
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| x Chuck Noll | Pittsburgh Steelers |
Charles Henry Noll (born January 5, 1932) is a former professional American football player and coach. He served most notably as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League from 1969 to 1991. Noll has more Super Bowl...
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| x Ernie Nevers |
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Arizona Cardinals |
Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1903, Willow River, Minnesota - May 3, 1976, San Rafael, California) was an American professional athlete who played American football as a fullback for the Duluth Eskimos and the Chicago Cardinals of the National...
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| x Carl Storck |
Carl Storck (born January 22, 1887 - March 13, 1950) was a co-founder of the National Football League, as well as the founding owner of the Dayton Triangles. He was also the Triangles coach from 1922 until 1926. Storck served as the secretary...
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| x Harry Agganis |
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Aristotle George (Harry) Agganis (Αριστοτέλης Γεώργιος Αγγάνης) (April 20, 1929 – June 27, 1955), nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was an American athletic star in two sports. His family origins were from Longanikos near Sparta, Greece.
Born in Lynn,...
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| x Jack Del Rio |
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Jacksonville Jaguars |
Jack LeBron Del Rio (born April 4, 1963 in Castro Valley, California) is a former American football player and is the current head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Del Rio attended and played football for Hayward High School in Hayward, California...
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| x Mike Tice | Minnesota Vikings |
Michael Peter Tice (born February 2, 1959 in Bayshore, New York) is an American football National Football League coach, best known as the former head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. He is currently the Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends for the...
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| x Vernon Louis Parrington |
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Vernon Louis Parrington (1871–1929) was an American historian and football coach. He graduated from Harvard University in 1893 and in 1897 was hired as instructor of English and modern languages at the University of Oklahoma. During the following...
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| x Frank Leahy |
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Francis William Leahy (August 27, 1908–June 21, 1973) was an American collegiate football coach. He was born in O'Neill, Nebraska and died in Portland, Oregon.
Leahy was a tackle on Knute Rockne's last three teams, graduating from Notre Dame in 1931...
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| x Glenn Presnell |
Glenn Presnell (July 28, 1905 – September 13, 2004) was a football player. Born in Gilead, Nebraska and educated at University of Nebraska where he was an All American, Presnell played for the NFL's Portsmouth Spartans, who later became the Detroit...
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| x Steve Spurrier |
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Washington Redskins |
Stephen "Steve" Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945) is a former college and professional football player, and is the current head coach of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks football team. He was a two-time All-American quarterback, and was...
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| x George Seifert | Carolina Panthers |
George Seifert (born January 22, 1940, in San Francisco, California) is a former NFL head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers. Seifert joined the 49ers' coaching staff under Bill Walsh in 1980 as defensive backs coach and...
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| x Jack Pardee | Chicago Bears |
John Perry Pardee (born April 19, 1936(1936-04-19) in Exira, Iowa) is a former American football linebacker and the only head coach to join a team in the National Football League, NCAA Southwest Conference, United States Football League, World...
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| x Tony Dungy |
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
Anthony Kevin "Tony" Dungy (born October 6, 1955) is a former professional American football player and coach in the National Football League. Dungy was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001, and head coach of the Indianapolis...
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| x Scrappy Moore |
Andrew Cecil "Scrappy" Moore (1903 - May 31, 1971) was head football coach of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1934 until his retirement in 1967. He had the longest tenure and the most successful record of any coach at Chattanooga....
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| x Jon Gruden |
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Tennessee Volunteers football | Teaching assistant |
Jon David Gruden (born August 17, 1963 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Prior to taking over as coach of Tampa Bay, he was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for...
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| University of Pacific football | Wide receivers coach | ||||
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| x Joe Walton | New York Jets |
Joseph Frank Walton (born December 15, 1935 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania) is a noted coach in college and professional American football.
Walton was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1935, the son of former Washington Redskins guard Frank ...
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| x George Allen |
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St. Louis Rams |
George Herbert Allen (April 29, 1918 – December 31, 1990) was an American football coach in the National Football League and the United States Football League. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
Allen was born in Detroit,...
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| x Bill Cowher |
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Pittsburgh Steelers |
William Laird "Bill" Cowher (born May 8, 1957) is a former American football coach and player. Cowher resigned after 15 seasons as the Steelers' coach on January 5, 2007, just 11 months to the day after winning 2005–06's Super Bowl XL. He currently...
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| x Joe Morrison |
Joseph R. Morrison (August 21, 1937 – February 5, 1989) was an American football player in the National Football League for the New York Giants and a coach best known as the head coach at the University of South Carolina.
Morrison was born in Lima,...
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| x Tyrone Willingham |
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Lionel Tyrone Willingham, or Ty Willingham (born December 30, 1953 in Kinston, North Carolina) is the former head football coach at the University of Washington, Notre Dame, and Stanford.
A football/baseball player and 1977 graduate of Michigan...
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| x Marv Levy |
Marvin Daniel Levy (born August 3, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American and Canadian Football coach and front office executive.
He is a former professional football coach, in the CFL as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes (1973–1977),...
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| x Mike Bellotti |
Robert Michael "Mike" Bellotti (born December 21, 1950 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football coach who is now the athletic director of the University of Oregon. A native of California, he coached college football primarily in that...
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| x Art Shell | Oakland Raiders | Head coach |
Arthur "Art" Shell (born November 26, 1946) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player in the American Football League and the NFL, and a two-time former head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He holds the distinction of becoming...
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| x Mike Holmgren |
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Green Bay Packers |
Michael George Holmgren (born June 15, 1948 in San Francisco, California) is a professional football coach. He served as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 1998, the Seattle Seahawks from 1999 to 2008. Prior to his career in the...
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| x Sam Wyche | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
Samuel David Wyche (born January 5, 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American football player and head coach, who is best known as the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Perhaps best known for introducing the use of the No-huddle...
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| x Earnest Byner |
Earnest Alexander Byner (born September 15, 1962 in Milledgeville, Georgia) is a former American football running back in the National Football League and currently serves as running backs coach for the Tennessee Titans. He is the former running...
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| x Henry Ellard |
Henry Austin Ellard (born July 21, 1961) is a former American football wide receiver who played for the Los Angeles Rams (1983-1993), Washington Redskins (1994-1998), and the New England Patriots (1998). Ellard qualified for Olympic trials in 1992...
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| x Andy Reid |
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Philadelphia Eagles |
Andrew Walter "Andy" Reid (born March 19, 1958) is the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, a post he has held since 1999. Since 2001, he has also been the team's executive vice president of football operations. He led the Eagles to...
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| x Ray Rhodes | Philadelphia Eagles |
Raymond Earl Rhodes (born October 20, 1950 in Mexia, Texas) is the former American football head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers. He is the current assistant defensive backs coach of the Houston Texans. He earned five...
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| x Gregg Williams |
Gregg Williams (born July 15, 1958) is the defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints and the former head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Considered one of the most respected defensive minds in the game, Williams is known for running aggressive,...
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