1. Marvin Lawrence Fleming was born on January 2,1942 and is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for 12 seasons in the National Football League, seven with the Green Bay Packers and five with the Miami Dolphins.
10 Facts About Marv Fleming
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Marv Fleming was a member of five NFL championship teams.
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Marv Fleming played under hall of fame head coaches Vince Lombardi and Don Shula for five seasons each.
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Marv Fleming played college football at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City under head coach Ray Nagel.
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Marv Fleming was with the Dolphins for five seasons, then was traded to the Washington Redskins for running back Charley Harraway.
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Marv Fleming was in the Redskins' 1975 training camp under George Allen, but missed the final cut in September and retired.
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Marv Fleming was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Marv Fleming was the victim of an identity theft scam in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Arthur Lee Trotter posed as Marv Fleming and was arrested in Texas in 1980 for selling phony stock in NFL teams.
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Caught, Trotter conceded to police that he was not Marv Fleming: he said he was actually former Baltimore Colts star John Mackey.