Ed Brady
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| Position: | Linebacker Long snapper | ||||||||
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| Born: | June 17, 1962 Morris, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 238 lb (108 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Morris (Morris, Illinois) | ||||||||
| College: | Illinois | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1984 / round: 8 / pick: 215 | ||||||||
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Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former American football player.
Brady was raised in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris Community High School,[1] where he led the Morris Redskins football team to a state championship. Brady played for the University of Illinois and was a member of the 1983 team which lost to UCLA 45–9 in the Rose Bowl.[2]
Brady spent 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the eighth round of the 1984 NFL draft, and played for the Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As a member of the Bengals, he played in Super Bowl XXIII in 1989 in which Cincinnati lost to the San Francisco 49ers 20–16. Listed as an linebacker, Brady only played a handful of downs at that position. He played more than 180 career NFL games as a long snapper. He was the captain of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers special teams unit from 1992 to 1995. He retired in 1996 after failing to make the roster for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Following his playing career, Brady became a high school football coach in Irvine, California. He currently is coaching inside linebackers and special teams at Lakota East High School in Liberty Township, Ohio.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Bell, Taylor (July 16, 2010). Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois (1st ed.). University of Illinois Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-0252077319.
- ^ "1983: A 20th anniversary retrospective on the Illini's Rose Bowl". The News-Gazette. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ^ "Brady gives Morris a part of Super Bowl history". Morris Herald. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
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