Tommy O'Connell

Tommy O'Connell

NFL player


DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1930|9|26
Birthplace= Chicago, IL
DateOfDeath=
Deathplace=
Position=Quarterback
College=Illinois
ProBowls=
DraftedYear=1952
DraftedRound=18
DraftedPick=212
Stats=Y
PFR=O'CoTo00
DatabaseFootball=OCONNTOM01
years=1953
1956-1957
1960-1961
teams=NFL Chicago Bears
NFL Cleveland Browns
AFL Buffalo Bills

Tommy O'Connell (born September 26, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) was a professional American football quarterback who played in five National Football League and two American Football League seasons from 1953-1957 and 1960-1961 for 3 different teams. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Class of 1953, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

He started for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship Game, 1957 while coming off a severely sprained ankle and a hairline fracture of the fibula. [Chuck Heaton, "Lions Crush Browns, 59-14", Cleveland Plain Dealer December 29, 1957, Plain Dealer Browns' History Database Accessed 11/29/2007, http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory/plaindealer/index.ssf?/browns/more/history/19571229BROWNS.html] He retired from football after the 1957 season to go into coaching, but was lured back to the playing field when the American Football League started play in 1960. He is the father of former professional ice hockey player and general manager Mike O'Connell.

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See also

* Other American Football League players


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