John Joseph Shinners was an American football offensive lineman in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Colts, and Cincinnati Bengals.
12 Facts About John Shinners
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John Shinners was selected in the first round of the 1969 AFL-NFL Common Draft by the New Orleans Saints, where he spent three seasons.
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John Shinners played only two games in his rookie year, then nine in 1970, and finally in 1971 he saw action in all 14 Saints games.
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John Shinners was the second Xavier product to play for the Saints alongside former Musketeers teammate Danny Abramowicz.
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John Shinners was again a full-time starter in 1976, starting all 13 games he played.
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John Shinners was with the Bengals through his final season as a pro, 1977.
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John Shinners played 97 games during his nine-year NFL career.
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John Shinners was the last Xavier player active in the NFL; Abramowicz retired after playing for the San Francisco 49ers for most of 1973 and all of 1974.
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John Shinners followed in the footsteps of his father, a former minor league baseball player who founded the Hartford Times-Press in 1933.
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John Shinners eventually became president of Shinners Publications before selling the company in 1997.
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John Shinners worked as a business consultant and did work with a local radio station.
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John Shinners died in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 2,2022, at the age of 75.