Joe Cribbs
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| Joe Cribbs | |
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| Date of birth: | January 5, 1958 |
| Place of birth: |  Sulligent, Alabama |
| Career information | |
| Position(s): | Running back |
| College: | Auburn |
| NFL Draft: | 1980 / Round: 2 / Pick 29 |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 1980-1983, 1985 1984 1986-1987 1988 1988 |
Buffalo Bills Birmingham Stallions (USFL) San Francisco 49ers Indianapolis Colts Miami Dolphins |
| Career highlights and Awards | |
| Pro Bowls: | 1980, 1981, 1983 |
| Stats at DatabaseFootball.com | |
Joe Stanier Cribbs (born January 5, 1958 in Sulligent, Alabama) is a retired National Football League and United States Football League football running back. He played collegiately at Auburn University along with future NFL backs William Andrews and James Brooks. He began his professional career in 1980 with the Buffalo Bills.
After being drafted in the second round of the 1980 NFL Draft, Cribbs went on to start all 16 games of his rookie year with Buffalo, finishing with 1185 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns. His performance earned him consensus UPI AFL-AFC Rookie of the Year honors and a spot in the Pro Bowl, the only rookie chosen as a starter that year. In five seasons with the team, split around a detour with the USFL, Cribbs had 13 100-yard games and ran for 1,000 yards in a season three times.
In the spring of 1984, Cribbs left the Bills in a contract dispute and signed on as a member of the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League (USFL).
Today, Cribbs is living in Alabama with his wife, Vernessa; and son Nigel, 14. Their daughter Ajai lives in Orlando, Florida but their son's ,Omar, whereabouts is unknown. His favorite nephew Tony Stewart lives in Caledonia Mississippi. For the past six years, he has run Joe Cribbs Associates, an advisory company. "I do a lot of work with some current NFL players, helping them with investments and different things. Just basically helping them understand the game and get prepared for life after the game. Some I may assist with disability insurance or help get an annuity. Just various degrees of work. So it just depends on the guy."
In April 2008, after a short stint as President of Team Alabama of the AAFL, a proposed football league that never played a game, Cribbs was named Commissioner of another fledgling spring professional football league, the UNFL.[1]
[edit] References
- About.com. "AFL/AFC Rookie of the Year". Retrieved 19 June 2005.
- databaseFootball.com. "Joe Cribbs Past Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards". Retrieved 19 June 2005.
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