| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdf:type | |
| rdfs:label | |
| rdfs:comment | - A premier guard, he was versatile enough to fill in at virtually any offensive line position. Sweeney was named to All-Star teams and Pro Bowls for nine consecutive years at offensive guard, beginning with the 1964 AFL All-Star Team, and in 1970 was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team. Sweeney spent 11 seasons as an offensive guard with the Chargers, then played two seasons with the Washington Redskins. He briefly served as a drug counselor at a San Diego hospital and appeared with Nancy Reagan in a promo for her "Just Say No" campaign.
|
| dcterms:subject | |
| dbkwik:americanfootballdatabase/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Birth Date | |
| AFLDraftedRound | |
| Name | |
| NFL | |
| pfr | |
| NFLDraftedRound | |
| Date of Death | |
| Birth Place | |
| NFLDraftedYear | |
| ProBowls | - AFL All-Star 1964, 1965,1966, 1967, 1968, 1969NFL Pro Bowl 1970, 1971, 1972
|
| Jersey | |
| College | |
| death date | |
| DatabaseFootball | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Years | |
| Position | |
| Honors | - * AFL All-Time 2nd Team
* San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame
* San Diego Chargers 50th Anniversary Team
|
| Teams | - AFL San Diego ChargersNFL San Diego ChargersNFL Washington Redskins
|
| Date of Birth | |
| Short Description | |
| AFLDraftedYear | |
| abstract | - A premier guard, he was versatile enough to fill in at virtually any offensive line position. Sweeney was named to All-Star teams and Pro Bowls for nine consecutive years at offensive guard, beginning with the 1964 AFL All-Star Team, and in 1970 was selected to the All-Time All-AFL second team. Sweeney spent 11 seasons as an offensive guard with the Chargers, then played two seasons with the Washington Redskins. Sweeney, who stood 6'4" and weighed 256 pounds, was such an intimidating presence on the field that Merlin Olsen famously remarked he'd "rather sell used cars" than play against Sweeney each game. Sweeney was among several Chargers fined by the league in 1974 for drug use. A fierce critic of the NFL, he blamed the league for his prolonged problems with drugs and alcohol. To the end of his life he retained this bitterness. "If a guy breaks his back in the N.F.L., they’ll pay him. That didn’t happen to me. Instead, these guys broke my mind." He briefly served as a drug counselor at a San Diego hospital and appeared with Nancy Reagan in a promo for her "Just Say No" campaign. Sweeney died of pancreatic cancer on 2 February 2013.
|
