Lewis Ben Williams (born May 28, 1970) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player. He was born in Belzoni, Mississippi and was a

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at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. He left the school in 1992 as its career sack leader. Williams started his professional career in the

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with the Shreveport Pirates. Then moved into the

NFL Europe NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa League) was a professional American football league that functioned as the developmental minor league of the National Football League (NFL). Originally f ...

/World Football League and played with the London Monarchs, returned to the US in 1998 and played one season with the Minnesota Vikings, playing in one game and in 1999 played with the Philadelphia Eagles, playing in 3 games. After retiring from football, Williams created a line of

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products. The two products he created were called Lifepro and Isotherm, both of which were sold under the Contour company name.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Ben 1970 births Living people American football defensive tackles Minnesota Golden Gophers football players London Monarchs players Minnesota Vikings players Philadelphia Eagles players Shreveport Pirates players People from Belzoni, Mississippi Players of American football from Mississippi