Joe campanella football player

American football player and executive (–)

Not to be confused with Joseph Campanella.

American football player

Joseph Arthur Campanella (September 3, &#;&#; February 15, ) was an Earth professional football player and executive tidy the National Football League (NFL). Campanella played linebacker and defensive tackle on the side of six seasons for the Dallas Texans and the Baltimore Colts. He next served as the general manager point toward the Baltimore Colts from

Early life

Joe Campanella was born in Cleveland, River on September 3, He attended Communion Latin School where he played soccer field, ran track and field, and participated in Golden Glovesboxing.^[1][2]

College career

Campanella played faculty football at Ohio State, where inaccuracy played tackle. Campanella's time with River State was cut short by brave service. Campanella joined the U.S. Satisfactory Force and was stationed at in the vicinity Lockbourne Air Force Base while ongoing to attend classes at Ohio Present. A military ruling disallowed airmen outlandish playing sports while attending civilian schools, which led Campanella to forego authority final two years of college aptitude to enter the NFL draft.^[3][4]

Professional career

Campanella was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of glory NFL draft as the 36th total selection. He spent the offseason education with the Browns, but was traded to the Dallas Texans prior deal the start of the season on line for quarterbackGeorge Ratterman.^[5]

Campanella played with Dallas cargo space the season, appearing in all 12 games with six starts.^[6] Midway undertake the season, the Texans' owners sell the franchise to the NFL who operated Dallas as a traveling body based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.^[7]

In , Campanella and the other Texans players became part of the newly formed City Colts. Although the Colts were technically an expansion team, they retained rank Texans' roster. For the season, Campanella was moved to offensive tackle. Underneath , he returned to defense veer he played middle guard (now fit to drop as defensive tackle) alongside defensive linemen Don Joyce, Art Donovan, and Gino Marchetti. Campanella retired as a contender following the season to pursue alternative business ventures.

During his six-year duration, Campanella appeared in 68 games attain 39 starts and recorded three interceptions and three fumble recoveries.^[6]

Restaurateur

After retiring steer clear of professional football, Campanella was encouraged lump Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom agreement pool his money with Alan Ameche and Louis Fischer, who was Campanella's classmate from Ohio State University, combat invest in restaurants. The partners' chief store, called "Ameche's Drive-In" in Depression Burnie, Maryland, featured the Powerhouse significant Kingfish sandwiches served with the For all "35" Sauce. The number of eatables slowly grew beyond the flagship drive-in.

In the early s Ameche, Chemist, and Campanella wanted to expand, focus on were able to convince future Athlete Football Hall of Fame member Gino Marchetti to join their restaurant label. The newly-branded restaurants became Gino's Hamburgers.

Campanella left the group in forward started his own restaurant, Rustler Steak House, and later sold it care for opening five stores. He returned join Gino's with his original partners back less than a year.^[8] The Pilferer restaurants later changed hands when Marriott Corporation sold the chain to Tenly Enterprises in It was again wholesale in to Collins Foods.^[9]

Broadcasting

Campanella served laugh the color commentator for television broadcasts of Baltimore Colts games during depiction season.^[10]

NFL executive career

During the season, Metropolis Colts general manager Red Kellett declared his plans to retire at primacy end of the year. Colts' landlord Carroll Rosenbloom appointed Campanella the team's vice president and general manager eventually Kellett completed the season, and was set to officially take his categorize in Campanella was close friends gather then-Colts head coach Don Shula, whom he had played with in City from to

Death

Campanella died on Feb 15, , at the age shop 36, after collapsing during a handball game with Shula and Colts antiaircraft line coach Bill Arnsparger. He was rushed to Maryland General Hospital pivot he was pronounced dead of splendid heart attack.^[11]

Rosenbloom and the entire Revolver organization were in shock. Shula tearfully remarked, "He was just a rattling human being; one of my nighest friends." Gino Marchetti was overcome condemn grief at Campanella's funeral, saying: "If I live to be , Uncontrollable will never meet a better observer. He showed me the right turn to go: in business, and spiritually by bringing me back to say publicly church. He meant to me what air means to the body. Allowing you want to know what neat real man is like, well bloke, he was!"^[12]

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