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Carl Eller (born January 25, 1942) is an American former professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 through 1979. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Dec 15, 2022 · Carl Eller was a Hall of Fame defensive end who spent 15 of his 16-year NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings. This is his story.
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In 1964, Carl Eller, a consensus All-American with the University of Minnesota, was a first-round draft pick of both the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings and the Buffalo Bills of the then-rival American Football League.
Aug 11, 2004 · Carl Eller, who played for the Minnesota Vikings from 1964 to 1979, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Sunday. "What can I do with this great honor?" he asked in his acceptence speech. "I can use it to help young African-American males to participate fully in this society.
Carl Eller is a former NFL football player. He was born on January 25, 1942.
Feb 2, 2018 · Eller, 76, was one of the famed Purple People Eaters, the defensive linemen who led the Vikings to four Super Bowls in the 1970s. Now he is an advocate for retired N.F.L. players.
Despite a sub-par team performance in his 1963 senior year, Eller was named to the all-conference team and was a near-unanimous All-America. Of the nine major All-America teams, he was a first team choice on eight of the squads. In the one-platoon era of his time, Eller played both ways.
With teammate Bobby Bell, Carl Eller helped give the Minnesota Golden Gophers one of the college football's best tackle combinations in the early 1960s. Like Bell, Eller came to Minnesota from North Carolina in an era when African-American players from the South came north due to the South's segregation policies.
Carl, who takes center stage in the Gold Jacket Spotlight this week, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004 not as an actor but as one of the premier defensive ends in the history of the National Football League.
