1. Lyle Martin Alzado was an American professional football player who was a defensive end of the National Football League, famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.
34 Facts About Lyle Alzado
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Lyle Alzado was a three-time All-Pro and two-time Pro Bowl selection during his career of 15 years.
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Lyle Alzado was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York to an Italian-Spanish father, Maurice, and a Jewish mother with a Russian family background, Martha Sokolow Lyle Alzado.
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Lyle Alzado went to play for Yankton College in South Dakota.
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Montana Tech's coaches were showing him films of their star running back Don Heater, but Jones was impressed with the unknown defensive lineman Lyle Alzado squaring off against Montana Tech's offense and passed back a favorable report to his team.
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Lyle Alzado went back to Yankton after his rookie season to get his college degree.
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In 1974, Alzado gained more notice as one publication named him All-AFC; with his 13 sacks and 80 tackles, he was recognized as one of the NFL's top defensive ends, along with Elvin Bethea, Jack Youngblood, L C Greenwood, Claude Humphrey, and Carl Eller.
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The 1975 season brought change, as Lyle Alzado moved to defensive tackle.
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Still the year was a big success for Lyle Alzado, who was voted consensus All-Pro and consensus All-AFC as well as winning the UPI AFC Defensive Player of the Year.
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Lyle Alzado led the Broncos in sacks with 8, while making 80 tackles.
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Lyle Alzado had 77 tackles and 9 sacks and recorded his first NFL safety.
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Lyle Alzado was 2nd team All-Pro and a consensus All-AFC pick.
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Lyle Alzado made the second-team All-AFC in 1979 playing defensive end.
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Lyle Alzado had 80 tackles that year as well as seven sacks.
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Lyle Alzado led the Browns in sacks with nine, and was All-Pro and All-AFC.
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Lyle Alzado recorded 7 sacks and 30 tackles while being voted All-AFC.
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Lyle Alzado started at right end opposite future Hall of Fame inductee Howie Long.
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Lyle Alzado had an outstanding 1984 season with 63 tackles and 6 sacks, but the next year his tackle and sack totals dipped to 31 and 3 following a mid-season injury.
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Lyle Alzado attempted a comeback in 1990, but injured a knee during training camp and was released.
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Lyle Alzado was an amateur boxer and, in 1979, fought an exhibition match against Muhammad Ali.
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Lyle Alzado was involved in "countless youth organizations", receiving the Byron "Whizzer" White award for community service in 1977.
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Lyle Alzado appeared in Stop the Madness, a 1985 anti-drug music video sponsored by the Reagan administration.
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Lyle Alzado pursued an acting career in both movies and television, appearing mostly in youth-oriented comedy and adventure roles.
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Lyle Alzado appeared in Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All as a notorious bodyguard and rifleman.
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Lyle Alzado played prison staff member Brawn in the 1990 film Club Fed and co-starred in the films Neon City and Oceans of Fire.
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On television, Lyle Alzado appeared in a number of mid-1980s commercials for Sports Illustrated with "Jack", who tries to help him perform the commercial correctly.
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Lyle Alzado played himself, wearing his Raiders uniform, in the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man" Lyle Alzado played himself in a 1988 episode of Small Wonder; he made a guest appearance on The Super Mario Bros.
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Lyle Alzado starred in the sitcom Learning the Ropes as a high school teacher whose secret alter ego is a professional wrestler known as "the Masked Maniac," alongside numerous NWA Wrestling stars.
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Lyle Alzado appeared in the series premiere of the short-lived 1991 sitcom Good Sports with Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, and in episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and MacGyver.
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Lyle Alzado was one of the first major US sports figures to admit to using anabolic steroids.
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Lyle Alzado recounted his steroid abuse in an article in Sports Illustrated,.
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Lyle Alzado died on May 14,1992, at age 43 after a battle with brain cancer.
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Lyle Alzado was buried at River View Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.
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Lyle Alzado was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.