Gene Upshaw Sad death, Interesting lifestyle, NFL Career and Net worth 2024
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Gene Upshaw lifestyle, Career and Net worth 2024.
Eugene Thurman Upshaw Jr nicknamed "Uptown Gene" and "Highway 63", was an American professional football guard who played for the Oakland Raiders of the American Football League (AFL) and later the National Football League (NFL). He later served as the executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Upshaw was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and is also the only player in NFL history to reach the Super Bowl with the same team in three different decades. Before we continue kindly hit that like button and remember to subscribe to get more content on NFL legends.
Gene Upshaw Early life.
Upshaw was born in Robstown, Texas, and graduated from Robstown High School.He played college football at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville), where he was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. In 1967 at age 22, Upshaw married Jimmye Lee Hill-Upshaw (née Hill).Together they had one son, Eugene Upshaw III, and later divorced.
Football career.
After playing football in college at a number of offensive line positions, he settled at left offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders in the American Football League and the National Football League for 15 years. During that time, he played in three Super Bowls; in the 1967, 1976, and 1980 seasons, making him the first player to reach the game in three different decades (Jerry Rice and Bill Romanowski would later accomplish the feat in 2002, while Tom Brady later accomplished the feat in 2020). He also played in three AFL Championship Games, seven American Football Conference title games, one AFL All-Star game, and six NFL Pro Bowls. He was selected by The Sporting News to the 1969 AFL All League team.
He was part of a particularly strong offensive line during the 1976 season, with interior linemates Dave Dalby at center and George Buehler at right guard. In the 1976 AFC championship game of the 1976-77 NFL playoffs, the Raiders beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, rushing for 157 yards and passing for 88 yards. The Raiders then beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI, rushing for a whopping 266 yards and passing for 180 yards, as Upshaw overwhelmed the opposing defensive tackle, Alan Page, a Hall-of-Famer. In the 1980 AFC championship game of the 1980-81 NFL playoffs, the Raiders beat the San Diego Chargers, rushing for 138 yards and passing for 261 yards. The Raiders then beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XV, rushing for 117 yards and passing for 261 yards again, as Upshaw, Dalby, and right guard Mickey Marvin outmatched Eagle nose tackle Charlie Johnson and inside linebackers Bill Bergey and Frank LeMaster.
In 1999, he was ranked No. 62 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players.
He was the older brother of Marvin Upshaw, who was a defensive lineman with the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Cardinals.
Over the course of his sixteen seasons in the NFL, Upshaw witnessed-and, in many cases, participated in-many iconic NFL games and plays. These include the Heidi Game, the Immaculate Reception, The Sea of Hands Game, Ghost to the Post, the Holy Roller Game, and Red Right 88. He also reached three Super Bowls in three different decades (1967, 1976, and 1980); in total, Upshaw played in 24 playoff games with the Raiders.
NFLPA Career.
Upshaw was an active member of the bargaining committee for the National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA) throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. He led the NFLPA in its unsuccessful strike in 1987 and through years of antitrust litigation against the league, including a brief period in which the NFLPA became a professional association rather than a union, that ended with the union's acceptance of a salary cap in return for free agency and an enhanced share of league revenues for the union's members. Until his death, he was the executive director of the association.
In an infamous 1987 incident during labor negotiations between the NFL and the NFLPA, Dallas Cowboys president and general manager Tex Schramm told Upshaw, "Gene, here's what you have to understand: we're the ranchers and you're the cattle, and we can always get more cattle." 
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Don't forget to mention in the Steelers champion game both Franco and Rocky Bleier where injured and didn't play.
You forget the raiders, beat you Franco and ROCKY in week one and if the steelers didn't intentionally freeze the field in the 1975 afc championship game, the raiders would easily beat the 75 steelers if that field wasn't frozen. The steelers could of had Jim Brown in 1976 and the RAIDERS WOULD STILL KICK THE CRAP OUT OF THEM.
Why does that have to be mentioned?
Really!!!
You repeat facts
I mentioned the first ones in the introduction the the rest came in the body
That doesn’t look like Gene in the cover pic. Who is it?
Really!!!! it is him