William Raymond "Chip" Healy Jr. (August 16, 1947 – October 8, 2019) was a professional
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, who played
linebacker
Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, p ...
for the
St. Louis Cardinals
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.
After retiring from football in 1970, Healy moved around Tennessee working for his father's brokerage business, before retiring in 1987. Since 2001, he operated Transitional Living in Nashville, Tennessee, known as "Chip's Place", a treatment and living facility for men struggling with alcoholism, which initially included Healy himself.
A devout Christian, Healy lived in Nashville and had two children. His nephew
Will Healy
William Livingston Healy (born January 16, 1985) is an American football coach. He was the head coach at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2019 to 2022. At the time of hire on December 4, 2018, he wa ...
was the head football coach at
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colle ...
.
Chip Healy died in Nashville on October 8, 2019, at the age of 72.
References
External links
Transitional Living website
1947 births
2019 deaths
Alcohol abuse counselors
American football linebackers
Players of American football from Atlanta
St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
Vanderbilt Commodores football players
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