Bob Kuechenberg

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Bob Kuechenberg
No. 67
Position:
1969
 / Round: 4 / Pick: 80
Career history
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:196
Games started:176
Fumble Recoveries:6
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

Robert John Kuechenberg (October 14, 1947 – January 12, 2019) was an American professional

Miami Dolphin's Honor Roll on December 15, 1995. He was the brother of the retired Chicago Bears linebacker Rudy Kuechenberg.[1]

College career

Kuechenberg attended college at the

defensive lines
. Before college Kuechenberg attended Hobart High School, located in Hobart, Indiana 10 minutes from Gary, and 30 minutes from Chicago. Kuechenberg played football for the Hobart Brickies in his high school years.

Professional career

Kuechenberg was drafted by the

1969 NFL Draft. He quit shortly after training camp started and played a season with the Chicago Owls in the Continental Football League. Kuechenberg signed with the Dolphins as a free agent in 1970. He became a starter that season as the Dolphins finished 10–4 and made the playoffs for the first time in club history. During the next regular season, 1971, Kuechenberg helped the Dolphins make it to the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Dallas Cowboys
24–3.

The next two seasons the Dolphins won the Super Bowl (going 17–0 in 1972) and his play was noticed by New York Post writer

Paul Zimmerman, who named Kuechenberg on his All-pro ballot. The following season, 1974, he was named All-AFC by Pro Football Weekly and was named to his first Pro Bowl. He was named 1st team All-Pro in 1975 and in 1978 and was named All-AFC
three times. He was Second-team All-Pro in 1977.

Kuechenberg was sometimes critical of his past teams. One such critique prompted then-current Miami All-Pro, Jason Taylor, to comment, "It's another chapter in the grumpy Kuechenberg story. It's Kuechenberg. He gets up every year and complains about something. If it ain't one thing, it's another. He needs a hug and a hobby. It's ridiculous."[2]

Kuechenberg was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986.

Sun-Sentinel "I want to be careful, because Mom said if you have nothing good to say about someone, then don't say anything. I don't have anything good to say about someone."[7] The Professional Football Researchers Association named Kuechenberg to the PRFA Hall of Very Good Class of 2013.[8]

He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b Hamnik, Al (20 August 2013). "NFL great Bob Kuechenberg makes his point with White House snub". nwitimes.com. Times Media Company. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  2. ^ Maske, Mark (November 2, 2006). "J. Taylor Sticks Up For Beleaguered Dolphins". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on May 23, 2011. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2011-08-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. MiamiHerald.com. Miami Herald Media. Archived from the original
    on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  5. ^ Darlington, Jim (20 August 2013). "President Obama honors 1972 Miami Dolphins at White House". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  6. ^ McIntyre, Brian (20 August 2013). "Three members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins to skip White House visit for political reasons". Sports.yahoo.com. Shutdown Corner. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  7. Tribune Company). Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  8. ^ "Professional Researchers Association Hall of Very Good Class of 2013". Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  9. ^ "The driving force behind Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)". Concussion Legacy Foundation. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
  10. ^ Ken Belson and Benjamin Mueller (June 20, 2023). "Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E. The largest study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to date found that the cumulative force of head hits absorbed by players in their careers is the best predictor of future brain disease". The New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2023.

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