Bruce Davis (offensive tackle)
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Position: | Tackle | ||||||
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Born: | Rutherfordton, North Carolina | June 21, 1956||||||
Height: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 287 lb (130 kg) | ||||||
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College: | UCLA | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1979 / round: 11 / pick: 294 | ||||||
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Bruce Davis (born June 21, 1956) is a former professional American football offensive tackle. He played in the National Football League for 11 seasons with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders and the Houston Oilers. He was a starter in Super Bowl XVIII for the Raiders.
Trivia
- Both Davis and Steve Grogan, another NFL player who played between 1975 and 1990 for the New England Patriots, share their names with two members of the infamous Manson Family, members of which murdered at least nine people in four separate incidents in 1969. Both men received life terms, with Grogan paroled in 1985 after cooperating with the law.
- Davis's son (also named Bruce) is a former All-American defensive end at UCLA, and a former player for the Oakland Raiders.
Categories:
- 1956 births
- Living people
- People from Rutherfordton, North Carolina
- American football offensive tackles
- UCLA Bruins football players
- Oakland Raiders players
- Los Angeles Raiders players
- Houston Oilers players
- Super Bowl champions
- Players of American football from North Carolina
- American football offensive lineman, 1950s birth stubs