John Arnold Offerdahl was born on August 17,1964 and is an American former professional football player who spent his entire eight-year career as a linebacker for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.
26 Facts About John Offerdahl
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John Offerdahl played college football for the Western Michigan Broncos, before being selected by the Dolphins with the 52nd pick of the 1986 NFL draft.
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John Offerdahl was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, on August 17,1964, to Arnold and Irene Offerdahl.
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John Offerdahl's mother was a teacher, first of art and later of furniture refinishing.
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John Offerdahl has four older sisters, Mary, Ruth, Susan, and Sarah.
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The scholarship became a full scholarship after John Offerdahl impressed the coaching staff in early practices.
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John Offerdahl led the Mid-American Conference in tackles his sophomore, junior, and senior years, and was second in the conference his freshman year.
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John Offerdahl forced 17 fumbles during his time at WMU, recovering a school record of 8.
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John Offerdahl was named a third-team All American by the Associated Press in 1984, and second-team All American in 1985.
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John Offerdahl made the all-conference first-team in each of his last three years, and was the conference Defensive Player of the Year in his senior year.
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John Offerdahl was inducted into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame in 2013.
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John Offerdahl was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round in the 1986 NFL draft.
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John Offerdahl's Senior Bowl highlights included two stops at the goal line during the same drive, one of which was an acrobatic move that stopped Jackson in mid-air.
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John Offerdahl was taken to reinforce a struggling Dolphins defense, which held the 23rd-overall rank in the previous season.
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John Offerdahl was selected for the Pro Bowl and was named a second-team All-Pro by the Associated Press after recording 130 tackles, two sacks, and an interception in 15 games.
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John Offerdahl spent the first 81 days of the 1989 season, his fourth in the league, in a contract holdout.
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John Offerdahl was invited to a fifth consecutive Pro Bowl and was named a first-team All-Pro.
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John Offerdahl retired after the 1993 season, walking away from a contract worth up to $2.5 million for the year after struggling in a 1994 preseason game at only 31 years of age.
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In October 2013, John Offerdahl was added to the Dolphins' Ring of Honor, an honor roll permanently displayed inside of the team's stadium.
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John Offerdahl joined the 1972 undefeated team and 24 other players as a member of the Ring.
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In 1990, while still playing for the Dolphins, John Offerdahl opened a bagel store, John Offerdahl's Bagel Gourmet, in Weston, Florida.
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In 1995, John Offerdahl merged with three other bagel retailers to form Einstein Bros.
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John Offerdahl stayed with the company for just over a year as the Vice President of Operations for Florida, and was a member of the board until 1997.
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John Offerdahl received the Nat Moore Community Service Award, a Miami Dolphins-specific award for community engagement, in 1989,1990, and 1993.
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John Offerdahl is the chairperson of the National Christian Foundation of South Florida.
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Novack was later murdered; it is believed that one of those two men was the killer and that John Offerdahl's intervention foiled a first attempt at Novack's life.