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Rosey Grier
12+ albums
american
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Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Cuthbert, Georgia), a star athlete at Roselle High School(NJ), is an American football player, actor, and Christian minister. One of twelve children, Grier was named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was governor of New York at the time and was elected president later that year. Grier was well known in the 1970s for his hobbies of needlepoint and macrame, practices not normally associated with "macho" sports figures. After attending Pennsylvania State University and playing in the defensive line of the football team there, Rosey Grier began his professional football career in 1955. He wore number 76 and was one of the National Football League defensive linemen with the New York Giants from 1955 to 1962 where he was named an All-Pro defensive tackle in 1957. Grier then moved to the Los Angeles Rams and played there from 1963 to 1966. He was part of the "Fearsome Foursome", along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Lamar Lundy, often considered one of the best defensive lines in football history, along with the Purple People Eaters of the Minnesota Vikings and the Steel Curtain of the Pittsburgh Steelers. A torn Achilles' tendon ended his football career in 1967. In 1997, he was inducted into the New Jersey Sports Hall of Fame. [edit]Post-NFL career Grier served as a bodyguard for his friend, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, but was guarding Ethel Kennedy, the Senator's
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Half Nelson
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Free To Be...You And Me
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Free To Be... You And Me
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Half Nelson (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Half Nelson OST
Half Nelson Soundtrack
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Free to Be You and Me
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Free To Be You And Me: 35th Anniversary
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Munich City Nights - Vol. 20
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Half Nelson Original Soundtrack
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