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Ozzie Newsome Jr. (born March 16, 1956) is an American professional football executive and former player who is the executive vice president of player personnel of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).
Known throughout all of sports as a premier leader, Newsome is a Hall of Fame player, the architect of Baltimore's Super Bowl XXXV and Super Bowl XLVII championship teams and an elite...
Throughout his 13-season, 198-game NFL career with the Cleveland Browns from 1978 to 1990, Ozzie Newsome was a fixture at tight end, a true team leader in every respect, and one of only five players in Browns history to play in parts of three decades.
Jan 8, 2019 · Longtime Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, the only head personnel decision-maker the Ravens have ever had and the first black general manager in NFL history, announced last year he...
Apr 25, 2018 · Ozzie Newsome #82 wide receiver of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide runs the ball upfield in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, circa 1974-77. Ozzie Newsome Jr. was born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 1956 during the Montgomery Bus Boycott sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks.
Oct 29, 2023 · Newsome received his nickname ‘The Wizard of Oz’ from legendary University of Alabama head coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant, under whom Newsome shined in the mid-1970s due to his wizardry on the playing field - as a wide receiver. Like the all-powerful Wizard in the mythical Land of Oz, Newsome, Bryant once said, "made things happen" on a football field.
Hall of Fame tight end Ozzie Newsome (82) of the Cleveland Browns during the Browns 27-16 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on October 4, 1981 at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
