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Joseph Robert Theismann was born to parents Joseph and Olga in New Brunswick, NJ on September 9, 1949. Theismann has a mixed European heritage. His father Joseph is Austrian while his mother Olga is Hungarian. The elder Joseph Theismann ran an Esso gas station seven days a week. He also helped run his brother’s liquor store. On the other hand, Olga...
Joe Theismann attended the University of Notre Dame from 1968 to 1970. He majored in sociology and eventually graduated with a B average. Ironically, Theismann is a slow reader who detests reading, per Kennedy. Theismann suited up for Ara Parseghian’s Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three seasons. As soon as Theismann set foot on South ...
The Miami Dolphins selected Joe Theismann as the 99th overall selection of the 1971 NFL Draft. Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Minnesota Twins drafted Theismann in the 39th round that year. By the time Theismann was about to enter the pro football ranks, he was 21 years old and weighed 177 pounds. He told Sports Illustratednine years later many teams...
Joe Theismann has two sons, Joey and Patrick, and a daughter, Amy, with his first wife Shari. They divorced in 1985. He is currently married to his third wife, Robin Smith. When Theismann abruptly retired from the National Football League in 1985, he embarked on a sports broadcasting career that lasted nearly three decades. Theismann became a footb...
Nov 18, 2015 · The win improved Washington to 6-5, and the team surged under Schroeder to a 10-6 record but missed the playoffs. 5. Coming out uneven:Both bones in Theismann's lower right leg -- the tibia and ...
May 27, 2020 · Theismann’s career-ending injury WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18: Quarterback Joe Theismann #7 of the Washington Redskins is helped by teammate Mark May #73 and others after being injured when sacked by linebacker Lawrence Taylor #56 of the New York Giants during a Monday Night Football game at RFK Stadium on November 18, 1985 in Washington, DC.
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Nov 18, 2016 · Thirty-one years after Joe Theismann suffered a career-ending leg injury, Lawrence Taylor, the man who delivered the blow, recalls the hit -- and the aftermath.
Sep 29, 2015 · If you lived in Washington in the '80s and were old enough to stay up for Monday Night Football, you remember it—the night Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann broke his leg. It was November 18, 1985. The Redskins were competing in the toughest division in football, and the New York Giants were in town for a matchup that had playoff implications.
A very similar injury occurred exactly 33 years later to another Redskins quarterback, Alex Smith, on November 18, 2018, in a game against the Houston Texans when cornerback Kareem Jackson and defensive end J. J. Watt sacked Smith, a game that Theismann himself was attending.
Nov 14, 2015 · Washington Redskins QB Joe Theismann lies on the ground after his right leg was broken after a hit from Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, 56, on Monday Night Football on Nov. 18, 1985. By...
