button_your_lip Wrote:
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> OK..my last on the subject..then Im gonna kick
> back and listen to the rest of
> Road to Escondido.
>
> Heres Jeff Siemon...you may be a tad too young,
> played for the Vikings. Nite Sweet....
>
> New York, N.Y. - Former Stanford great Jeff Siemon
> will be among 13 All-American players and two
> legendary coaches to be enshrined into the College
> Football Hall of Fame in 2007. Siemon played
> linebacker for Stanford from 1969-71, earning
> consensus All-American honors as a senior and
> First Team All-Pac-10 selections in each of his
> final two campaigns to help lead the Cardinal to
> Rose Bowl victories over previously unbeaten Ohio
> State and Michigan.
>
> Siemon also won the Silver Anniversary Dick Butkus
> Award as the nation's top linebacker and Pop
> Warner Award given to the top senior on the West
> Coast in 1971 when he recorded a team-high 112
> tackles and picked off a pair of passes. He also
> participated in the Hula Bowl following the
> season.
>
> Siemon earned was named First Team All-Pac-10 for
> the first of two times when he made 83 stops as a
> junior in 1970.
>
> He moved on to enjoy 11 seasons in the NFL with
> Minnesota after being drafted 10th overall in the
> first round of the 1972 NFL Draft by the Vikings.
> Siemon played in three Super Bowls and earned Pro
> Bowl status four times.
Thanks for the info. Enjoy Eric and J.J.