Pat Toomay
| Pat Toomay | |
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Position (s): Defensive End |
Jersey numbers: 67, 65, 66 |
| born on May 17, 1948 in Pomona , California | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1970 - 1979 | |
| NFL Draft : 1970 / Round: 7 / Pick: 153 | |
| College : Vanderbilt University | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 142 |
| as a starter | 83 |
| Touchdown | 2 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Patrick Jay "Pat" Toomay (* 17th May 1948 in Pomona , California ) is a former American American football poker players. He played the defensive end position in the National Football League (NFL) with the Dallas Cowboys , Buffalo Bills , Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders .
youth
Toomay was born in California, the son of a United States Air Force general . He has three siblings and attended in Alexandria the high school . At school he was active as a football player, but also played baseball and basketball . He was elected to the Virginia state selection in all three sports . Because of his athletic achievements, he was inducted into his school's hall of fame in 2012 .
Player career
College career
After graduating from high school in 1966, Pat Toomay graduated from Vanderbilt University . For the Vanderbilt Commodores he first played basketball and together with Bob Asher football . During his studies, he decided to only play football and was retrained from quarterback to a defensive end. In his senior year in college , he took part in a selection game.
Professional career
Pat Toomay was selected in the 1970 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys supervised by Tom Landry in the seventh round in 153rd place. The Cowboys used Toomay alongside Bob Lilly and Jethro Pugh on the defensive line .
In 1970, Toomay's side won the NFC Championship with a 17:10 win over the San Francisco 49ers . His team failed in Super Bowl V at the Baltimore Colts , which were looked after by Don McCafferty , with 16:13.
A year later, Pat Toomay won eleven of 14 games with the Cowboys in the regular season and thus moved back into the play-offs . After a 14-3 win over the San Francisco 49ers , his team, led by quarterback Roger Staubach, managed a 24-3 win in Super Bowl VI against the Miami Dolphins, trained by Don Shula .
Pat Toomay moved to the 1975 season to the Buffalo Bills coached by Lou Saban and moved after only one game year to the newly founded Tampa Bay Buccaneers , which he also left after only one game year. This time he joined the Oakland Raiders , who were overseen by John Madden . In his first year of play in Oakland he was able to move into the AFC Championship Game with his team . There, however, his team failed after a 20:17 defeat at the Denver Broncos . After two more seasons with the Raiders, Pat Toomay ended his career.
Off the field
Patrick Toomay was already active as a writer during his playing career. Be published in 1984 novel On Any Given Sunday was in 1999 by Oliver Stone filmed . He himself played an assistant coach in the film . His trainer was played by YA Tittle .
Works
- The crunch: An irreverent trip through the NFL, from rookie year to a world championship to the player's strike , 1975, ISBN 978-0393087260
- On Any Given Sunday , 1984, ISBN 978-0917657115
Web links
- Interview with Pat Toomay, part 1
- Interview with Pat Toomay, part 2
- Short biography
- Short biography II
- biography
- Pat Toomay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
source
- Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual statistics of the Dallas Cowboys 1970
- ↑ Statistics NFC final 1970
- ↑ Statistics Super Bowl V
- ↑ Annual statistics of the Dallas Cowboys 1971
- ↑ Statistics NFC final 1971
- ↑ Statistics Super Bowl VI
- ↑ Annual Statistics of the Oakland Raiders 1977
- ↑ Statistics AFC final 1977
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Toomay, Pat |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toomay, Patrick Jay (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pomona , California |