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{{short description|American professional football player and actor (1949–1992)}}

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|DateOfDeath=[[May 14]], [[1992]]

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* [[Denver Broncos]] ([[1971 NFL season|1971]]–[[1978 NFL season|1978]])

* [[Cleveland Browns]] ([[1979 NFL season|1979]]–[[1981 NFL season|1981]])

* [[Los Angeles Raiders]] ([[1982 NFL season|1982]]–[[1985 NFL season|1985]])

* Los Angeles Raiders ({{nfly|1990}})*

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* [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl champion]] ([[Super Bowl XVIII|XVIII]])

* [[National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Award|NFL Comeback Player of the Year]] (1982)

* 2× First-team [[All-Pro]] ([[1977 All-Pro Team|1977]], [[1980 All-Pro Team|1980]])

* Second-team All-Pro ([[1978 All-Pro Team|1978]])

* 2× [[Pro Bowl]] ([[1978 Pro Bowl|1977]], [[1979 Pro Bowl|1978]])

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'''Lyle Martin Alzado''' (April 3, 1949 – May 14, 1992) was an American professional [[American football|football]] player who was a [[defensive end]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL), famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.<ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6UVUbuU_6gC&pg=PA26 |title=Kardiac kids: the story of the 1981 Cleveland Browns |publisher=Kent State University Press |year=2003 |isbn=9780873387613 |access-date=January 13, 2011}}</ref>

Alzado played for the [[Denver Broncos]], the [[Cleveland Browns]], and finally the [[Los Angeles Raiders]] with whom he won a championship in [[Super Bowl XVIII]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/briefs_jewish_sports_hall_of_fame_picks_honorees_israeli_consulate_welcomes/ |title= Jewish Sports Hall of Fame picks honorees |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=December 27, 2007 |access-date=January 13, 2011}}</ref> He was a three-time [[All-Pro]] and two-time [[Pro Bowl]] selection during his career of 15 years.

'''Lyle Alzado''' ([[April 3]], [[1949]] – [[May 14]], [[1992]]) was a [[American football|football]] player.

==Early life==

He played defensive line for the [[Oakland Raiders|Los Angeles Raiders]], [[Cleveland Browns]], and [[Denver Broncos]] during the [[1970s]] and early 1980s. He was noted as a colorful and popular figure with each team.

Alzado was born in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] to an Italian-Spanish father, Maurice, and a [[Jew]]ish mother with a [[Russians|Russian]] family background, Martha Sokolow Alzado. He followed Judaism.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDyEVDIA3aIC&q=%22Lyle+Alzado%22+%22jewish%22&pg=PA93 |title=The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports ... - Peter S. Horvitz - Google Books |date= April 2007|isbn=9781561719075 |access-date=2020-01-20|last1=Horvitz |first1=Peter S. |publisher=SP Books }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mandel |first=Authorken |url=https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Jews-in-Super-Bowl-history |title=Jews in Super Bowl history - The Jerusalem Post |publisher=Jpost.com |date=2012-02-04 |access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eiGZHVqzUSEC&dq=%22lyle+alzado%22+jewish+mother&pg=PA140 77: Denver, The Broncos, and a Coming of Age - Terry Frei - Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://people.com/archive/raiders-terror-lyle-alzado-never-walks-away-from-a-fight-on-or-off-the-football-field-vol-22-no-11/ Raiders Terror Lyle Alzado Never Walks Away from a Fight—On or Off the Football Field | PEOPLE.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name="google2909">[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=74ofAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5dIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2909,6287635&dq=alzado+lawrence-high&hl=en "Lyle Alzado Hits Only on Sunday"], Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal, October 15, 1978</ref> When he was 10, the family moved to [[Cedarhurst, New York|Cedarhurst]], [[Long Island]]. His father, whom Alzado later described as "a drinker and street fighter," left the family during Alzado's sophomore year at [[Lawrence High School (New York)|Lawrence High School]].<ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado">{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Alzado_Lyle.html |title=ESPN Classic bio of Alzado |publisher=Espn|access-date=January 13, 2011}}</ref> He played high school football for three years.<ref name="google2909"/>

==College career==

He is probably most remembered today for being one of the first major U.S. sports figures to admit to abuse of [[anabolic steroid|steroids]]. In the last years of his life, as he battled against the [[brain cancer]] that eventually caused his [[death]] at the age of 43, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led to his final illness.

After he did not receive a college scholarship offer, Alzado played for [[Kilgore College]], a community college in [[Kilgore, Texas]]. Two years after joining he was asked to leave the team; he later said it was for befriending a black teammate.<ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado"/> He went to play for [[Yankton College]] in [[South Dakota]].<ref name="google1"/><ref name="google2909"/><ref name="google3">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fqqq4LG0KVsC&pg=PA76 |title=Tom Flores's Tales from the Raiders Sidelines |year=2003 |isbn=9781582615998 |access-date=January 13, 2011|last1=Flores |first1=Tom |last2=Fulks |first2=Matt |publisher=Sports Pub.}}</ref> Though playing in relative obscurity in the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics|NAIA]], Alzado nonetheless gained notice by the NFL when [[Denver Broncos]]' coach and scout [[Stan Jones (American football)|Stan Jones]] having been taken off the road by automobile trouble, decided to pass the time at nearby [[Montana Tech]], one of Yankton's opponents.<ref name="google2909"/><ref name=heater>{{cite news|newspaper=The Wichita Eagle|via=newspapers.com|accessdate=2022-08-24|title=Broncos' Lyle Alzado: No laughingstock is he|page=3B|date=March 28, 1978|author=MacKay, Bill|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108259361/the-wichita-eagle/}}</ref> Montana Tech's coaches were showing him films of their star [[running back]] [[Don Heater]], but Jones was impressed with the unknown defensive lineman Alzado squaring off against Montana Tech's offense and passed back a favorable report to his team.<ref name=heater/><ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado"/> The Broncos ultimately drafted Alzado in the fourth round of the 1971 draft.<ref name="google2909"/><ref name=heater/> Alzado went back to Yankton after his rookie season to get his college degree. He received a B.A. in physical education with an emphasis in secondary education. During his college years, Alzado participated in amateur boxing making it to the semi-finals of the 1969 Midwest Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament, held in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]].

==EarlyNFL lifecareer==

He was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]] to an [[Italy|Italian]]-[[Spain|Spanish]] father and a [[Jew|Jewish]] mother. When he was 10 the family moved to [[Cedarhurst, New York|Cedarhurst]], on [[Long Island]], and his father left when he was in high school. He played high school football, but was not a standout.

==Football=Denver careerBroncos===

When the Broncos' starting right [[defensive end]] [[Rich Jackson|Rich "Tombstone" Jackson]] was injured in 1971, Alzado took over the job and went on to make various All-rookie teams for his contributions of 60 tackles and 8 sacks. The following year, Alzado began to get national attention as he racked up 10½ sacks to go with his 91 tackles. In 1973, Alzado posted excellent numbers as the Broncos had a winning record for the first time in team history with a 7–5–2 mark.

He played college football for [[Kilgore Junior College]] for two years, and then [[Yankton College]] in [[South Dakota]], where he was noticed by a [[Denver Broncos]] coach watching film. The Broncos drafted him in the fourth round, in 1971.

In 1974, Alzado gained more notice as one publication named him All-AFC; with his 13 sacks and 80 tackles (eight for a loss), he was recognized as one of the NFL's top defensive ends, along with [[Elvin Bethea]], [[Jack Youngblood]], [[L. C. Greenwood]], [[Claude Humphrey]], and [[Carl Eller]]. Bethea, Youngblood, Humphrey, and Eller are enshrined in the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]. The [[Denver Broncos]] posted their second consecutive winning season, going 7–6–1.

He was a star with the Broncos for several seasons, leading the team in sacks five times and making the Pro Bowl in 1977 and 1978. In 1979 he had a contract dispute, and the Broncos traded him to the [[Cleveland Browns]].

The 1975 season brought change, as Alzado moved to defensive tackle. He responded with 91 tackles and 7 sacks. Alzado took a step backward as did the Broncos with a 6–8 record. On the first play of the 1976 season, Alzado blew out a knee and missed that campaign. The Broncos were 9–5 but [[SPORT magazine]] reported that 12 players, including Alzado, did not think the team could reach the playoffs with coach [[John Ralston (coach)|John Ralston]]. Ralston was replaced as coach by [[Red Miller]] for the 1977 season.

He played well with the Browns, leading the team in sacks in 1980 and 1981, but the Browns traded him to the [[Oakland Raiders|Los Angeles Raiders]] in 1982 to reduce their salary burden. He continued to perform well for the Raiders in the 1983 and 1984 seasons, but was injured part way through 1985 and retired at the end of the year. He attempted a comeback in 1990, but injured a knee during training camp and was released.

The 1977 season was the most successful in franchise history to that point; the Broncos had one of the NFL's best defenses, went 12–2 and then beat the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] and [[Oakland Raiders]] - the team for which he later starred upon their move to Los Angeles in 1982 - in the playoffs to reach [[Super Bowl XII]]. In that game, played in [[New Orleans]], they were beaten soundly 27–10 by the [[Dallas Cowboys]]. Still the year was a big success for Alzado, who was voted consensus All-Pro and consensus All-AFC as well as winning the [[UPI AFL-AFC Player of the Year|UPI AFC Defensive Player of the Year.]] He also led the Broncos in sacks with 8, while making 80 tackles.<ref name="google1"/>

==Outside of football==

Alzado pursued an acting career in both movies and television, appearing mostly in youth-oriented comedy and adventure roles. He was one of several famous musicians, actors and athletes who appeared in "[[Stop the Madness]]," a 1985 anti-drug music video sponsored by the Reagan administration.

In 1978, the Broncos again went to the AFC playoffs, but lost the rematch in the first round to the eventual champion [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]. Alzado had 77 tackles and 9 sacks and recorded his first NFL [[Safety (American football score)|safety]]. (Alzado recorded two more in his career, which ties him for second place all-time). He was 2nd team All-Pro and a consensus All-AFC pick. In 1979, he had a contract dispute, and the Broncos traded him to the [[Cleveland Browns]].<ref name="google1"/>

He was an amateur boxer, and once fought an exhibition match against [[Muhammad Ali]].

==Learning=Cleveland the RopesBrowns===

Alzado made the second-team All-AFC in 1979 playing defensive end. He had 80 tackles that year as well as seven sacks.<ref name="google1"/> The following year, the Browns won the AFC Central division, losing to the Raiders in the Divisional round. Alzado led the Browns in sacks with nine, and was All-Pro and All-AFC. In 1981 he recorded 83 tackles and led the Browns in sacks with 8½. However, the Browns, falling from 11–5 in 1980 to 5–11 in 1981, traded him to the [[Oakland Raiders]] in 1982.<ref name="google3"/><ref name="google4">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHJrkIxwhMcC&q=alzado+%22raiders%22&pg=PA366 |title=Biographical dictionary of American sports: 1992-1995 supplement for baseball, football, basketball, and other sports|year=1995 |isbn=9780313284311|access-date=January 13, 2011|last1=Porter|first1=David L.|publisher=Greenwood Publishing }}</ref>

Alzado gained some much deserved recognition for his acting skills in his breakthrough role on the critically acclaimed television series "Learning the Ropes" where he played a high school principal moonlighting as a professional wrestler known as "The Masked Menace". The show's premise was that Alzado's wrestler lifestyle was a secret alter ego, and upon discovery of his identity by his children, much hilarity ensued. Famed film critic [[Leonard Maltin]] said in a September 1984 review "The runaway popularity of 'Learning The Ropes' is a testament to the popularity, charisma, and on screen presence of Lyle Alzado".

===Los Angeles Raiders===

Being discarded by the Browns rekindled a fire in Alzado, and he worked out with a vengeance. By the time Alzado joined the Raiders, the team had relocated to [[Los Angeles]]. After demonstrating dominant play throughout the strike-shortened 9-game season of 1982, he was voted the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.<ref name="google4"/> He also recorded 7 sacks and 30 tackles while being voted All-AFC.<ref name="google4"/> That was the sixth season out of his first 12 campaigns that he received a post-season honor.

Alzado helped lead them to a [[Super Bowl XVIII|Super Bowl]] victory in the 1983 season while recording 50 tackles and 7½ sacks. He started at right end opposite future Hall of Fame inductee [[Howie Long]]. Alzado also had an outstanding 1984 season with 63 tackles and 6 sacks, but the next year his tackle and sack totals dipped to 31 and 3 following a mid-season injury.<ref name="google4" />

Alzado retired at the end of the 1985 season.<ref name="google4" /> He attempted a comeback in 1990,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-11-sp-1215-story.html |title=Alzado, Who Misses the Violence, to Try Comeback |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 11, 1990 |access-date=April 2, 2010 | first=Steve | last=Springer}}</ref> but injured a knee during training camp and was released. In 196 career games, he racked up 112 sacks, 24 forced fumbles, and nearly 1,000 tackles, while earning [[Pro Bowl]] honors in 1977 and 1978. After his retirement from playing, Alzado worked as a part-time [[color analyst]] for [[NFL on NBC|NBC]]'s NFL coverage in 1988–89.

In 2018, the [[Professional Football Researchers Association]] named Alzado to the PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.profootballresearchers.org/hall-of-very-good-2018.html |title=PFRA Hall of Very Good Class of 2018 | access-date=September 20, 2019}}</ref>

==Style of play==

The man [[ESPN]] later labeled a "...violent, combative player known for his short temper", inspired the league rule against throwing a helmet after having done so to an opponent's helmet.<ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado"/> Peter Alzado, Lyle's brother, later identified the years of their youth – marked by an absent, alcoholic father and an overworked mother - as the crucible for Alzado's unremittingly fierce style of play. "That violence that you saw on the field was not real stuff," his brother held. "Lyle used football as a way of expressing his anger at the world and at the way he grew up."<ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado"/> [[Defensive end]] [[Greg Townsend]], a teammate on the Raiders said that the savagery for which Alzado became noted represented part of a "split personality." "Off the field," remembered Townsend, "he was the gentle giant: so caring, so warm, so giving."<ref name="ESPN Classic bio of Alzado"/>

==Outside football==

Alzado was an amateur boxer and, in 1979, fought an [[Exhibition fight|exhibition match]] against [[Muhammad Ali]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Vaughan |first=Kevin |title=Goodbye, Mile High |publisher=Denver Rocky Mountain News |url=http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/milehigh/1223mile0.shtml |access-date=March 26, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611093646/http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/milehigh/1223mile0.shtml |archive-date=June 11, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=George |first=Justin |date=2024-09-09 |title=Did Muhammad Ali fight in Colorado? |url=https://coloradosun.com/2024/09/09/muhammad-ali-in-colorado/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=[[The Colorado Sun]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

He was involved in "countless youth organizations", receiving the Byron "Whizzer" White award for community service in 1977.<ref>Orange Madness, Woodrow Paige, Jr., Thomas Crowwell Publishers, 1978, pg. 99.</ref> He appeared in ''[[Stop the Madness]]'', a 1985 anti-drug music video sponsored by the [[Reagan administration]].

==Acting==

Alzado pursued an acting career in both movies and television, appearing mostly in youth-oriented comedy and adventure roles. His most notable film roles include the bully construction worker in ''[[Ernest Goes to Camp]]'' and the unstoppable killer in ''[[Destroyer (1988 motion picture)|Destroyer]]''. He appeared in ''[[Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All]]'' as a notorious bodyguard and rifleman. He played prison staff member Brawn in the 1990 film ''[[Club Fed (film)|Club Fed]]'' and co-starred in the films ''[[Neon City]]'' and ''[[Oceans of Fire]]''.

On television, Alzado appeared in a number of mid-1980s commercials for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' with "Jack", who tries to help him perform the commercial correctly. He played himself, wearing his Raiders uniform, in the ''[[Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'' episode "Remote Control Man"<ref>{{cite web|title=Internet Movie Data Base|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511113/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast|publisher=IMDB|access-date=May 14, 2013}}</ref> He also played himself in a 1988 episode of ''[[Small Wonder (TV series)|Small Wonder]]''; he made a guest appearance on ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show]]'' in 1989. He starred in the sitcom ''[[Learning the Ropes]]'' as a high school teacher whose secret alter ego is a professional wrestler known as "the Masked Maniac," alongside numerous [[National Wrestling Alliance|NWA Wrestling]] stars. Alzado appeared in the series premiere of the short-lived 1991 sitcom ''[[Good Sports]]'' with [[Ryan O'Neal]] and [[Farrah Fawcett]], and in episodes of ''[[It's Garry Shandling's Show]]'' and ''[[MacGyver (1985 TV series)|MacGyver]]''.

==Steroid use and death==

Alzado was one of the first major US sports figures to admit to using [[anabolic steroid]]s. In the last year of his life, as he battled against the [[brain tumor]] which eventually caused his death, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led to his fatal illness.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5oVkn206pJkC&q=alzado+%22physical+education%22&pg=PA464 |title=Foundations of sport and exercise psychology|year= 2007|isbn=9780736086417|access-date=January 13, 2011|last1=Weinberg|first1=Robert Stephen|publisher=Human Kinetics }}</ref> Alzado recounted his steroid abuse in an article in ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'',

{{blockquote|I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped... Now I'm sick, and I'm scared... It was addicting, mentally addicting. Ninety percent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We're not born to be...{{convert|300|lb|disp=sqbr}} or jump {{convert|30|ft|m|disp=sqbr}}... I became very violent on the field. Off it, too. I did things only crazy people do. Once in 1979, in Denver, a guy side-swiped my car, and I chased him up and down hills through the neighborhoods. I did that a lot. I'd chase a guy, pull him out of his car, beat the hell out of him... But look at me now. I wobble when I walk and sometimes have to hold on to somebody. You have to give me time to answer questions, because I have trouble remembering things.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Lyle|last=Alzado|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1991/07/08/im-sick-and-im-scared-the-author-a-former-nfl-star-has-a-dread-disease-that-he-blames-on-his-use-of-performance-enhancing-drugs|title=I'm Sick and I'm Scared |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=July 8, 1991|access-date=January 4, 2023}}</ref>}}<!-- Deleted portions of quote may be from accompanying First Person with Maria Shriver interview from roughly the same time, per Denham 1999 bearworks.missouristate.edu/articles-coal/371/ -->

Alzado died on May 14, 1992, at age 43 from [[brain cancer]]. He was buried at [[River View Cemetery (Portland, Oregon)|River View Cemetery]] in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.riverviewcemetery.org/_mgxroot/page_10718.php|title=River View Cemetery|access-date=May 18, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611084333/http://www.riverviewcemetery.org/_mgxroot/page_10718.php|archive-date=June 11, 2011}}</ref>

==Hall of Fame==

Alzado was inducted into the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/LyleAlzado.htm |title=Lyle Alzado |publisher=Jewishsports.net |access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref>

==Exhibition boxing record==

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==See also==

{{Portal|Biography}}

* [[List of notable brain tumor patients]]

* [[List of doping cases in sport]]

*[[List of Jews in sports#Football (American)|List of select Jewish football players]]

==References==

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==External links==

*[https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Alzado_Lyle.html ESPN Classic bio]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090202040245/http://raidersonline.org/lyle-alzado.php Lyle Alzado] at Raiders Online.Com

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*[http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Alzado_Lyle.html ESPN Classic bio]

*[http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42662 Article about Alzado's exhibition boxing match against Muhammad Ali]

*[http://www.dolfzine.com/page609.htm Article about Alzado's strong man performance and steroid use]

*{{imdb name|id=0023668|name=Lyle Alzado}}

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zJvX3pIY4 "Stop the Madness" music video]

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4672 Lyle Alzado's Gravesite]

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