Mark Cotney
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American football player (born 1952)
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American football player
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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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| Born: | (1952年06月26日) June 26, 1952 (age 72) Altus, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 204 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Altus | ||||||||
| College: | Cameron | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1975 / round: 7 / pick: 171 | ||||||||
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John Mark Cotney (born June 26, 1952), is an American former professional football player who was a safety for 10 seasons with the Houston Oilers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1975 to 1984. He played college football for the Cameron Aggies. Selected by the Buccaneers in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft, he was a member of the original winless 1976 team and the 1979 team that played in the 1979 NFC Championship game. He retired in 1986 on advice from his doctors, after suffering two cracked vertebrae in his neck while tackling Gerald Riggs in a 1985 preseason game.[1] He continues to live in the Tampa area.
References
[edit ]- ^ Zier, Patrick. "Another Original Buccaneer is Gone". The Ledger. 9 Jan 1986
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- 1952 births
- Living people
- People from Altus, Oklahoma
- Sportspeople from Jackson County, Oklahoma
- American football safeties
- Houston Oilers players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaches
- Cameron Aggies football players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive back, 1950s birth stubs