30 Facts About Ron Mix

Ronald Jack Mix was born on March 10,1938 and is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle.

Ron Mix is a member of the American Football League All-Time Team, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979.

Ron Mix was born in Los Angeles, California, grew up in its Boyle Heights neighborhood, and is Jewish.

Ron Mix was years ahead of the curve that soon saw lineman and other football players taking up that practice to become better athletes.

Ron Mix's lifts included a military press of 300 pounds, a clean and jerk of 325 pounds, and a bench press of 425 pounds, all of the lifts considered to be exceptionally strong for that era of play.

Ron Mix went to the University of San Diego Law School in the off-season and earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1971.

Ron Mix was nicknamed "The Intellectual Assassin" for his combination of intellectual excellence with his style of physical play.

Ron Mix attended the University of Southern California on a football scholarship.

Ron Mix was elected the National Jewish College Athlete of the Year.

Ron Mix was selected in the first round by two teams in 1960.

Ron Mix was drafted by the Boston Patriots in the first round of the American Football League draft, but the rights to Mix were traded to the Los Angeles Chargers, who felt they had a worthy chance at getting the local player to sign with them.

Ron Mix said he would've signed with Baltimore if they countered with a deal of $10,000 salary and $2,000 bonus.

The Colts, telling him the league would flop in a year, declined, and Ron Mix elected to sign with Los Angeles.

Ron Mix was called for a mere two holding penalties in ten years.

Ron Mix was the first white player in the 1965 AFL All-Star game in New Orleans to step forward and join his black teammates in a civil rights boycott.

Ron Mix made it clear that if the black players were not going to play, neither would he.

Ron Mix was elected to the AFL All-Star team for eight straight years as a Charger, was a nine-time All-AFL selection, is a member of the All-time All-AFL Team, and is one of only 20 men who played the entire 10 years of the AFL.

Ron Mix was the first Charger to have his number retired in 1969 after he announced he was quitting football after playing injured that season.

Ron Mix earned a JD degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1970.

Ron Mix told the Chargers he wanted to play again, but they had found a replacement in Gene Ferguson.

Ron Mix was the general manager of the WFL Portland Storm in 1974.

In 1969 Ron Mix was unanimously voted to the All-Time AFL Team by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and named to the Chargers Hall of Fame in 1978.

Ron Mix was voted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979.

Ron Mix was elected a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1980, inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990, inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, and inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California in 2010.

Ron Mix was the second player from the AFL to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Ron Mix practiced law in San Diego, California with a practice focused on representing retired professional athletes in claims for workers' compensation benefits.

In 2016, the IRS accused Ron Mix of filing a false tax return.

Federal prosecutors said that Ron Mix got referrals for clients from a non-lawyer, a former professional basketball player client of his named Kermit Washington and that Ron Mix made contributions to two charitable foundations run by Washington that supported a school and other causes in Africa.

Ron Mix pled guilty to one count of filing a false tax return.

The plea agreement specifically said that Ron Mix believed the charity was legitimate and did not know the funds were being diverted.