Alvis Forrest Gregg was an American professional football player and coach.
16 Facts About Forrest Gregg
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Forrest Gregg was a college football coach for the SMU Mustangs.
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Forrest Gregg was a key player in the Packers dynasty of head coach Vince Lombardi that won five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls.
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Forrest Gregg played mostly at right tackle, but filled in at guard.
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Forrest Gregg earned an "iron man" tag by playing in a then-league record 188 consecutive games in 16 seasons from 1956 until 1971.
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Forrest Gregg won All-NFL honors for eight straight years from 1960 through 1967 and nine Pro Bowl selections.
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Forrest Gregg closed his career with the Dallas Cowboys, as did his Packer teammate, cornerback Herb Adderley.
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Forrest Gregg wore the number 75 for 15 seasons in Green Bay, but that number belonged to Jethro Pugh in Dallas, so Forrest Gregg wore number 79 for his final season in 1971.
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When his longtime former teammate Bart Starr was fired after nine years as head coach of the Packers in December 1983, Forrest Gregg was allowed out of his Bengals' contract to take over in Green Bay.
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Forrest Gregg is one of only two coaches, the other being Marvin Lewis, to have left the Bengals with a winning record.
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Forrest Gregg resigned from the Packers in January 1988 and took a pay cut to take over at SMU, his alma mater.
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Forrest Gregg was brought in to revive the Mustang football program after it received the "death penalty" from the NCAA for massive violations of NCAA rules.
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Forrest Gregg knew that any new coach would be essentially rebuilding the program from scratch, but when acting president William Stalcup asked him to return, he felt he could not refuse.
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Forrest Gregg was taller and heavier than nearly the entire 70-man squad.
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Forrest Gregg was so disgusted that he refused to shake Houston coach Jack Pardee's hand after the game.
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When former Shreveport Pirates owner Bernard Glieberman bought a stake in the Ottawa Renegades in May 2005, Forrest Gregg was appointed Ottawa's vice president of football operations, a position he held through 2006.