Thornton Steve Stonebreaker was a professional American football linebacker who played in the National Football League.
11 Facts About Steve Stonebreaker
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Steve Stonebreaker played college football for the Detroit Titans and was picked by the Minnesota Vikings in the 12th round of the 1961 NFL draft as a tight end.
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Steve Stonebreaker played one season at tight end before switching over to the defensive side of the ball as a linebacker for the rest of his career.
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Steve Stonebreaker played a total of seven seasons in the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore Colts, and the New Orleans Saints.
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Steve Stonebreaker was drafted by the Saints in the 1967 NFL Expansion Draft and was one of the original New Orleans Saints players.
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Steve Stonebreaker played a football player in the 1969 Charlton Heston movie Number One, which featured the New Orleans Saints.
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Steve Stonebreaker later opened a restaurant called Stonebreaker's at 2700 Edenborn Avenue in Metairie, a close suburb of New Orleans.
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Steve Stonebreaker's specialties were barbecue baby back pork ribs and crabcakes, which he learned to make when he played for the Baltimore Colts.
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Steve Stonebreaker committed suicide on March 28,1995, at the age of 56, by subjecting himself to carbon monoxide poisoning from a car exhaust.
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Steve Stonebreaker was with the Chicago Bears in 1991 and then the New Orleans Saints in 1994.
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Steve Stonebreaker won an NFL Europe championship with the Frankfurt Galaxy in World Bowl '95.